RADIOSeptember 01, 2022

’Not even CLOSE to true’: Exposing Biden’s gun speech FAILS

President Biden called out the GOP — and its respect for the 2nd Amendment — on Tuesday, during a speech from Pennsylvania. Joe said he’s ‘determined’ to ban assault weapons, but unfortunately he expressed little actual knowledge for the guns he seemingly so vehemently hates. Glenn and Stu dissect Biden’s speech — from the ‘not even CLOSE to true’ statements, to the awful ‘jokes’ he made as well…

Transcript

Below is a rush transcript that may contain errors

GLENN: Let's look into the president.

What did he say yesterday? Cut five. Six, please.

BIDEN: I'm determined to ban assault weapons in this country. Determined.

GLENN: Yeah. Yeah.

BIDEN: I did it once before. And I'll do it again.

GLENN: It makes no difference. And he'll do it again.

BIDEN: For many of you home, I want to be clear. It's not about taking away anybody's guns. In fact, we should be treating responsible gun owners as examples, of how every gun owner should behave. I have two shotguns at home. Okay. It's a long story. But I'm not opposed to guns.

And I support the Second Amendment. The Second Amendment is one of the most conservative justices in history. Justice Scalia once wrote, like most rights well, the rights by the Second Amendment, are not unlimited.

GLENN: Right. By the way, if he would like to treat gun owners -- legal gun owners with respect, and point us out as examples, you could start with me, Stu, almost all of our friends. And we voted for Trump. Isn't that weird?

What happened there?

Hold on just a second. Because let's say I have two AR-15s. Now, I lost them in a boating accident.

STU: No one needs an AR-15, first of all. But you might need to. They always lead one off the end.

GLENN: Yes. Yes. Well, I want one for every member of the family, but they're so dangerous. I only have two.

STU: Well, you had two.

GLENN: Yes. So, anyway, I'm a legal gun owner. I have weapons of war. I've never shot anybody. Shot myself. My children haven't done anything. They're locked up in a safe. We know exactly where they are. No one except my wife and I, have the combination of the safe.

What -- are you going to say something nice about me, Joe?

Come on!

No joke, I'm not kidding, folks. Really. I mean it.

Now, he did say something that I thought was -- I mean, oh, I -- I just found -- I find this funny. He tried a new joke out, last night. Here it is, cut nine.

BIDEN: By the way, how many -- my dad used to love to hunt the Poconos when we lived in Scranton. How many deer, bear, wearing Kevlar vests?

STU: He's never said that before.

GLENN: Wait. Play it again. Because you have to hear the audience roar. It's --

BIDEN: By the way, how many -- my dad used to love to hunt, the Poconos, when we lived in Scranton. How many deer, bear, wearing Kevlar vests? Huh. No joke.

GLENN: Listen to that roar. No joke. No. We know.

STU: Wait. It was so funny. I thought it was a joke. But he's serious.

GLENN: There weren't any. There's no joke here. There weren't any deer wearing Kevlar vests. His dad saw it, and he saw it.

STU: Wow. What an incredible speaker he is.

GLENN: And I have to tell you, the Second Amendment is all about hunting. Okay? Because that's a sport. And I should be able to have a sporting rifle, you know what I mean? I should be able to have my sport.

Now, I don't know why they didn't put croquet or cards. You know, I don't know what they played back then.

You know, Spittles and Dicks (phonetic). I don't know what they used to play. But maybe that's one they used to play. A parlor game. Do you have any more Spittles and Dicks? And they're like, I don't know what that is.

It's a game, a card game. Okay. All right.

STU: I didn't know it was a card game. There you go.

GLENN: I'm pretty sure.

STU: I'm going to take your word for it. Not going to look it up on the internet, that's for sure.

GLENN: You have to look it up. Just look up spittle.
(laughter)
All right. I think it's a card game. Maybe somebody in the audience knows what spittles and is. Anyway, that's what they would be playing, but that's nowhere to be found in the bill of rights. Isn't that weird?

STU: Wait. No joke? No joke, it's not there.

GLENN: No joke. Spittles and dicks is not in there.

It's weird. It's weird.

Now, he thinks it's extreme, if you think the Second Amendment is there, for the reason they put it in there. Listen. This is cut seven.

BIDEN: And for those brave right-wing Americans who say, it's all about keeping America -- keeping America's independent and safe. If you want to fight against the country. You need an F15. You need something a little more than a gun.

STU: Oh, no. Don't do it.

GLENN: It's funny that he would say this on the anniversary of the pulling out of Afghanistan.

STU: They have F15s?

GLENN: Well, they do now. They do now. Yeah, no joke. No joke.

STU: No joke? I thought you might be joking there. Because how would the people in Afghanistan get F15s. But that's right. We just left them there.

GLENN: We just left them. So if you want to fight the United States, you need an F15. Well, that explains why I guess you left all of those planes and everything there. But the second thing is, they lived in caves.

STU: Yeah.

GLENN: They had guns and homemade bombs. They seemed to do pretty well. Because I don't know about you. You surrendered to them.

STU: Explain the fall of, you know, every empire with this analysis.

GLENN: Well, but we're different. We have F15s. And Rome didn't have those.

STU: Yeah. I suppose that's the way -- think of every modern empire that has gone into -- that has gone into Afghanistan.

GLENN: Yeah. They had -- Rome had gladiators. They had all of these Roman legions. Nothing. What. You're going to have a legion. Well, he kind of fell for --

STU: I hate this point -- it's so stupid. And it's supposed to give you this mental picture of, you walk out on your front stoop. And down the driveway, believes a tank or an F15 coming at you. And what are you going to do, all you have is a gun. It's like, guys. That's not how this works. They don't go door to door, with F15s. Now, this situation, we hope they never face. However, look at Afghanistan. Look at Iraq.

GLENN: It's called asymmetrical warfare.

STU: How did we do with the helicopters we had when Jimmy Carter was president?

GLENN: How did we do in the jungles of Vietnam?

STU: Yes. Against people who were hiding behind trees. Door-to-door warfare, against a country with 450 million guns is a lot harder than you're making it seem.

GLENN: Especially when probably more than half of the armed forces are from red states. I mean, if you say, hey, by the way, I want you to go kill mom and dad. They're in Kansas. I think a lot of them are going to be like, no. I don't think they're the extremists we should be worried about. You know what I mean?

STU: And, by the way, this is why, unlike the rest of the world, we don't have a new weekly Constitution.

GLENN: What?

STU: We seem to keep the one we have, for hundreds of years. Why? Because there's a way to protect those rights. We hope we never have to do those things. Right?

We hope it never comes to that. But having 450 million weapons, pretty much guarantees it never comes to that.

GLENN: Oh, my gosh.

You are -- you're an extremist. You're an absolute extremist.

STU: No joke?

GLENN: No joke.

STU: Not a joke?

GLENN: You are pushing for spittle and Dicks to be put into --

STU: Why -- why is it happening?

GLENN: Just saying, no joke, man.

STU: No joke?

GLENN: No joke. Do we have the clip of him talking about the speed of bullets. Because this is scientific fact.

VOICE: Do you realize the bullet out of an AR-15 travels.

GLENN: Yeah.

BIDEN: Five times as rapidly as a bullet shot out of any other gun.

GLENN: Out of any other gun. That is weird. That is -- that's not even close to true.

Not even close to true. Like, they just did a deal on the velocity of -- of bullets.

And, by the way, it's pretty much bullets. Guns just do the same thing. They hit the back of the bullet. Then it explodes the powder. And then it shoots out.

GLENN: So it's the bullet not the gun. That makes --

STU: No joke.

GLENN: No joke. No joke.

So, anyway, they just did a study of the fastest guns. Fastest ammunition. And AR-15s are not even in the top ten or top 20.

STU: You're acting as if he's trying to say something true. You're acting as if he's trying to say something that has been a factual basis behind it. You know he's not.

GLENN: So you know he's not even trying.

STU: He's just trying to scare people.

GLENN: Well, no. He owns two shotguns. You want to scare somebody off, you go to the back porch, and fire off your shotguns.

STU: Why does he have shotguns? What is he going to do with an F15?

GLENN: I don't know. It is no joke.

STU: He is a joke. But that was not a joke.

GLENN: We should call him, because I bet he played --

STU: I'm sure he played that it became. Yes. I'm sure he did.

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Unveiling the secret to transforming angry boys into real men

The world has a plentiful, seemingly endless supply of angry boys. What it's lacking is real MEN. Glenn Beck shares the secret that our young men must learn if they truly want to protect and perfect our country.

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GLENN: There's a difference between a revival and an awakening. We are in a revival right now, but that doesn't necessarily lead to anything. Except, oh, I have to re-learn those principles. But that doesn't mean you apply them in your life. Okay?

That's an awakening. There's been two great awakenings in American history. One brought us the American Revolution. The second one brought us the Civil War and the freedom of slaves.

We have the possibility of going into a third great awakening. That's the only thing that will save us. If you don't know the difference between a revival and an awakening. Let me give you the negative print of a godly awakening. Our kids right now, they don't have any purpose. They don't have any meaning.

They look at everything, and it doesn't -- it's not real. None of it is real. It's money. It's fame.

It's -- you know, it's ever changing truths and definitions. And they have no purpose in their life. Okay?

So they're looking for that. Because man has to have purpose in his life. Man has to search for meaning.

So they're searching for meaning. And they found a group of people that actually mean something. And they're willing to die for it. And it's ISIS.

And so they're like, at least these people believe in something. They believe it. And they're willing to die for it. I'm going to stand with them. And they put that twisted understanding into action. That's the -- that is -- that's an awakening. It's just an awakening to the dark side. And that one is already happening. It has to happen on the good side. And let me speak directly to young men: Look, you are inheriting a very loud, angry, cynical and worst of all spiritually starving and malnourished society. And you are being sold a future of cheap pleasures and hollow heroes and screens with blue light that just rob you of your strength, one distracted second after another.

And in the middle of all that noise, may I just give you one piece of instruction. If there is anything virtuous, lovely, of good report or praise-worthy, seek those things.

Don't admire them. Don't nod at them. Seek them!

Hunt them. Chase them. Build your life around those things. A man who will do that. A boy. A young man who will do that, will become different. Noticeably different.

He will stop letting the culture feed him garbage. He stops applauding the trivial. He stops laughing at the obscene or cheering for the cruel.

He will become a curator of -- of real, lasting beauty in an age that has forgotten what beauty even looks like.

When other men are chasing down or holding up cynicism, this man holds up hope!

When everyone around him is chasing dopamine, he chooses discipline. When others will blame their circumstance, he'll take responsibility for his own action. When the world worships the shallow, he goes and searches for the deep!

You want to know what the secret of becoming strong is, or becoming trusted, or becoming the kind of man that your future wife, your future children, your future nation can depend on?

Here it is!

You become what you seek. If you seek trash, you become trash. If you seek virtue, you become a man of virtue. You seek excellence, and your life will begin to shine, not loudly, but steadily. Like the steel glow of a blade being forged.

That's who you'll be.

The world has a plentiful, seemingly never-ending supply of angry boys. We don't need any more addicted boys.

We don't need any more distracted boys. The world needs men. Whole men. Clear-eyed men.

Men whose souls are anchored to something higher than the algorithms, trying to own them!

Build a life worthy of admiration. Forget about the applause. Fill your mind with words that make you wiser. Fill your days with work, hard work, that makes you stronger. Fill your home with beauty that lifts every soul who walks into it.

Have your home a place where people walk in and go, man, I say so great here. I just love it here. I don't know what it is about your house. I just love it. It's the spirit that's there! Because you built it! You protect it.

Protect your integrity like a watchman on the wall. Don't lie. Don't cheat. Don't steal. And when you fail, and you will, stand back up again.

Because a man who seeks the virtuous, is not a man who never fails. He just -- he just becomes a man who refuses to stay on the ground.

If you seek things that are lovely and pure, trustworthy, praiseworthy, you'll become a kind of man this age almost never produces. A man whose very existence is a rebuke to the darkness.

That's your calling. That's why you were born.

Not to be lost. Not to play video games. Not to give up. Not to say, there's no hope. Not to end up in the trash bin of human history because you've -- you've taken so many drugs, you can't stand up straight anymore.

You're not destined to be alone.

You were destined for great things. You are destined to find an amazing woman!

Believe me. I didn't think I would ever find an amazing woman. Because I didn't think I was worth it. I didn't think I was worth it.

And until I started understanding how God works. That, yeah. I'm not worth any of the stuff that I have.

When you realize, it's all a gift. It's all a gift. And even if you work your brains out, you may not ever get all the things that you want. But you're going to have everything you need. Once you realize, carefully selecting friends makes a difference. My mother used to always say, show me your friends. I will show you your future.

It's true. Be careful who you select as friends. Watch your language. Watch what you're putting into your brain and what's coming out of your mouth. Because the brain is so amazing. It's being turned to mush. Did you know that there is a new study that just came out. I have to tell you about it next week, maybe.

New study going out. It is -- it's AI. And it has access to social media, and they have found that the AI -- the AI that is scrolling through social media all day, just to keep updated on everything that's going on in social media. It's getting brain mush. It's actually becoming dumber. It's become less effective!

It's a machine. What do you think this, flesh and blood, this thing is going to do?

We say life is meaningless. And life is the only thing that has any value. And yet, we spend all of our time, on things like social media. And that has absolutely no value.

But we think that's life.

I'm not that smart. I've just lived a long time. And I've made so many mistakes.

And I decided at one point, I'm going to stop saying, it's somebody else's fault. I'm going to start saying. Maybe -- what did I do to create that?

What did I do to attract that?

Why does this thing keep happening to me?

Why is it that I always find myself involved with these same kind of people?

Because, Glenn, dummy, it's you!

What you think, it's like -- it's like think of yourself as a -- as a beacon. It's just -- you're a beacon. Your GPS pin, that is constantly saying, here I am. Here I am. Here I am.

Except, it's transmitting more than just your location. It's -- it's transmitting what you're looking for, who you are. And it's attracting other dropped pins to you. It's saying, "I like this. I think this way. I believe these things. I am afraid of these things."

Whatever it is, you're thinking. It's constantly putting that out.

And saying, here I am. Is there anything else like that?

Anything else that can reinforce that? Anything else that can live like this?

Because that's me. Here I am. Here I am. Here I am.

That's why you keep finding yourself in exactly the same situations. Nothing will change, if nothing changes!

And the only thing that you can change, is you!

Seek the things, that have virtue.

Seek the things, that have beauty in music, in -- in art, in life, in architecture, in clothing! Whatever it is. Look for real, lasting beauty and value.

Find the things that are true! Truly true.

Universally true. Find the things that uplift. Seek those things!

And you will change your life and your world!