Glenn Beck Program, January 19, 2011

Glenn started his program by complimenting Neil Cavuto on his interview with Congresswoman Sheila Jackson-Lee.  During the interview she condemns Cavuto for not being able to grasp the logic of her argument (on Obamacare).

Rhetoric

• With all the real problems in America today, we are obsessed with rhetoric. 
• Glenn showed a clip of a CNN anchor apologizing for a guest’s use of the word “crosshairs”. 
• Glenn said that carried forward CNN’s logic would have to exclude other items as well and showed a number of clips of candidate Obama saying “violent” things.
• Other Clips
• Old Disney cartoons of roadrunner and bugs bunny characters blowing stuff and other characters up.
• Glenn commented that it is insane to think that it is okay to have violent video games for kids where they can shoot cops in the head, but adults are too impressionable to hear the word “bullet point”.
• He showed various clips of prominent Leftists using newly verboten words.
• Glenn said that it was important to allow people to speak their minds, for at least two reasons…
• To allow the evolution of their thinking about a subject, and,
• To understand exactly who they are.  If they feel a certain way about something and are never allowed to verbalize it, you cannot know those people really.

People’s Motivation

Glenn reviewed the beliefs of Edward Béarnaise’s understanding of what, actually motivates people.  There are four…

1. Aggression
2. Self-preservation
3. Sex
4. Security

He showed a quote of Francis Fox-Piven wherein she attempts to explain the causality of the Tea Party.  Each of the above four motivations were attributed to the Tea Partiers, even sex.  However, she said she did not really have any evidence for the sex motivation part, but was sure it was in there somewhere.

Ranchers and Cows

For clarity, he characterized progressives as ranchers overseeing and protecting “the people” as a herd of cows so they could milk them every April 15^th.

• Progressive ranchers use the above four motivations to control the “herd”.
• When he or Sara Palin or others started acting like ranchers, progressives see Glenn and/or Sara as using those four motivations to move the herd in a direction other than that desired by the progressive type ranchers.
• This is obviously unacceptable, so the non-progressive rancher types must be controlled, contained or eliminated so as to not distract the herd.
• Glenn then showed a quote from Edward Bernaise
• “ Ours must be a leadership democracy administered by the intelligent minority who know how to regiment and guide the masses.”
• Glenn showed other, similar clips from other progressives, e.g., Walter Lippmann, Cass Sunsteen
• Time magazine’s columnist Joe Klein wrote…
• “It is very difficult to thrive in an increasingly competitive world when you are a nation of dodos.”
• Congressman Dingle was shown saying how it was necessary to enact legislation to “control people” to enact Obamacare.

The Federalist Papers were a way for the Founders to get the concepts and debates out to the people.

The Use of a University

We use to think that there was no “stupid question”.  No longer.  Glenn showed a quote from Woodrow Wilson from the time that he was the President of Princeton.

• “…The use of a university is to make young gentlemen as unlike their fathers as possible.”
• When you go to Princeton, you have left the herd and are becoming a rancher.

Regulation

Progressives see government regulation as a way to protect the herd, sort of a corral. 

• Yesterday, President Obama signed an Executive Order to review all existing federal regulations for effectiveness. 
• That was reported in the media.  What was not reported, was the following portion of that Executive Order.

• “In weighing costs and benefits, for instance agencies may now consider ‘equity’, human dignity, fairness and distributive impacts.”  This will make the progressive corral more efficient and effective.

Glenn Beck Program, January 18, 2011

The President of China is arriving for a meeting with our President Obama.  One topic will probably be the state of the U.S. dollar.  Previously he said that the dollar is a product of the past.

Because of our debt, we are in a world of hurt.  They are coming to shape, to nudge us.  They view Western dominance as an error in history.  The Western life style is seen as a catalyst for a lot of problems around the globe.  They must become the Number 1 economy or there is political unrest coming – and they know it.

Glenn showed a clip from the Financial Times that reported that China wants to “…accelerate the integration of the global economy, but on its own terms.”

We allowed them to buy us.  And, with that, comes control.  We now owe them more than anyone in history has owed someone else.

Per the Financial Times, “…it (China) is trying to force post-American globalization.”  Jan 19^th.

China Factoids

• 1.3 billion people.
• 800 million-person work force.
• 2.8% live under the poverty line.

Glenn showed pictures of a Foxconn Chinese high-rise work campus.  In this campus, factories are on the bottom level, stores above them and apartments on top.  It looked like thousands of people lived there in very crowded conditions.  One person wrote that he slept in a dormitory, ate in a mess hall and did as ordered at work.

Glenn discussed that, like the Borg, the Chinese can move “as one”.  In contrast, in America that doesn’t happen.  People here have to be convinced.  But the Left thinks this “move as one” approach is desirable.  In the 1930s they loved Mussolini’s country and its ability to move as one.  He invited everyone to google Time Magazine and Mussolini and the New York Times and Mussolini. 

The Chinese leaders are afraid of instability.  He showed quotes from Chinese officials commenting about strikes and that the people were showing no fear.

They have even closed some cities.  No one else can come in.

Glenn showed pictures of the Three Gorges Dam in China.  It’s output is equal to 10 Hoover Dams, which was a wonder of the world when it was built.  Its output is equal to 18 nuclear power plants.  So much water will be held there, it will affect the earth’s rotation by a fraction of a second.

Several years ago, they were building two coal-powered power plants each week.  And that was still not enough.

The have invested in oil infrastructure and development projects in more than 26 countries.  Have we done that?

The annual trade between China and Africa is more than $100 billion.

Glenn then showed a quote from 2009 by a high-ranking Chinese economic official saying he is worried about America and hopes it “…maintains its good credit to honor its promise and to guarantee the safety of China’s assets.”

He went on to say you know how they treat their people, their women and children.  Do you think they will treat us any better if we become a deadbeat borrower?

Soon their economy will become self-sufficient.  But they will still need the rest of the world’s resources.  They must continue development or face revolution.  If we default, they will come for our resources in payment.

We gave them a supercomputer back in the 90s.  Now their supercomputer is twice as fast as anyone else’s on the planet.

Their stealth fighter has arrived five years early.

Glenn noted that President Obama has ordered a government-wide review of regulations.  He is concerned that this is Cass Sunsteen’s territory and wants help monitoring this activity.

He then showed a picture of an old cottonwood tree.  He told a story of how that tree was watered and cared for by the family in whose back yard the tree was located.  One night a powerful storm came along and uprooted the tree.  Because the people had watered it so well, the tree did not need to develop deep roots and they were all just under the surface.

Camden, NJ

• Is the second most dangerous city in the U.S. 
• They just started making layoffs there to reduce the city’s deficit. 
• They are laying off 1/6 of all government employees. 
• Of them, ½ of the police force and 1/3 of the firefighters.
• They have 2,800 violent crimes per 100,000 residents.
• That is more than five times the national average.
• More than half of the residents live in poverty.

Detroit has a $327 million deficit.  They are closing one half their schools.  This will increase class sizes to 62 students per class.

Nationwide $2.5 trillion in pensions is owed.

Illinois is raising its business taxes by 60%.

Glenn will lay out his solution to these financial problems tomorrow.  He says it is simple, but it will not be easy.

Glenn Beck Program, January 17, 2011

Glenn started off by playing an audio clip of John Dean on liberal talk radio claiming that studies show that 25% of people want to be told what to think, what to do, etc.  Dean further claims that Beck, Palin, Limbaugh, etc., tap into that segment of the population.

Tonight’s theme:  Looking evil in the eye.

What we saw after the AZ shooting is a little off from reality.  It is like a biography of an older person that dies.  Within minutes of their death, the media is able to present that information because that person’s death was anticipated and the material had been previously been prepared. 

Reality does not always match the script.  For example…

• Glenn showed a portion of a newspaper printed at the time of Martin Luther King, MLK (early 1960s).  The media reported that MLK “helped pave the way for violence by preaching civil disobedience.”
• Another portion of a newspaper was shown that claimed, “Responsible people in Chicago have accused MLK and-or his staff members of stimulating violence of the type which led to rioting.  The charge is a valid one.”

At that time, William Ayres was doing violence, but not MLK.  The Black Panthers were doing violence, but not MLK.  But the elites had their story and the media stuck with what was previously written.  Just like today, with Rush Limbaugh or Sara Palin or Fox News.  We are being held responsible for things we are not doing, even things we despise.

On this program we tell people to Question With Boldness.  Is that something you tell to sheep?

Glenn then showed a photograph from December 10, 1964 of a Mr. Morris, a black man who owned a shoe store.  Three white men burned down the store with him inside.  Mr. Morris finally was able to escape the burning building and was treated at a local hospital, but died four days later.  The police at the time didn’t work the problem and the media dropped the story.  In 2007, the case was reopened and previously identified witnesses were interviewed and a suspect named.  If only the media had done their job at that time.

Glenn showed a clip of a segment of an ABC special program “Having an American Conversation”. The meeting and the video of it was taken after the AZ shooting incident.  It showed a Mr. Humphrey, a Tea Party person and member of the audience, calling for introspection about the incident.  Another audience member and shooting victim, a Mr. Fuller was heard from off camera calling out “You’re dead!”.  Later Fuller was arrested for mental evaluation and Mr. Humphrey was advised to not go out into public.  This last was taped by ABC, but not shown when the program was televised.

George Soros funded Media Matters bought into Fuller because he was a survivor of the incident and criticized Fox News.  Glenn showed a screen shot of an article on their web site.  Their article says, in part, about Beck and Palin, “I would stand up and just scream ‘whores’ at them…” And that Sara Palin should be incarcerated for treason.

ABC’s program “Having an American Conversation” filmed the event and, because it did not show Fuller’s threat and “swept it under the rug” they were ignoring potential violence, the very subject the program was intending to highlight.  Glenn discussed ABC’s lack of credibility as they continue to present half-truths.

Paraphrasing MLK, we are all brothers (Americans) and if we don’t wake up and understand what’s going on, the problem is not going away.

He reviewed the Progressive’s game plan for governmental overthrow…

1. Have a solution.
2. Have people in power in government.
3. Create (or exploit) problems.
4. Overwhelm and collapse the system.
5. Get people to rise up.
6. Top down imposition of predetermined solution.

And the motivations that control Man…

• Sex
• Aggression
• Security
• Self-preservation

Edward Bernaise (see episode from Jan 13^th  here for complete details -  http://beck-cliff-notes.blogspot.com/2011/01/glenn-beck-program-january-13-2011.html ) believed people were like “cattle”.  Joseph Gobbles studied Béarnaise’s book “Propaganda” and applied its principles in Germany.  Bernaise and his uncle Sigmund Freud believed people couldn’t be trusted because deep down inside they were animals and responded only to the basic instincts listed above.  His ideas have lived on with the Left.

Glenn noted that all research materials for all his shows are listed at his web site http://www.glennbeck.com/.

Progressives believe people a stupid and businessmen are greedy.  Their view is that the Constitution is outdated and that people need to be shepparded.

Progressives not only believe this as a way forward, they actually believe that 25% of people want to be told what to do, people are stupid and progressives are superior.  People have to be controlled.  Glenn then showed clips of several high profile progressives saying that people are dumb and/or stupid.

They think that if Sara Palin can rise to the top of the pack, she must be as smart as a progressive and she too must see people as being stupid and dumb and must be controlled.  If she then calls for liberty, responsibility and other non-progressive beliefs, she must be evil.

Glenn then showed a clip of Béarnaise’s daughter discussing her father’s views of democracy and how people had to be guided so they didn’t want the wrong thing or vote for the wrong man; sort of an enlightened despotism.

Glenn talked about do we bury our heads in the sand or do we wake up and understand that there are people who want to do away with the Constitution.

He showed on screen the dictionary definition of the word enemy – “One that is antagonistic to another: especially: one seeking to injure, overthrow, or confound an opponent.”  Glenn proposed that progressives are enemies of the Constitution. 

The Constitution allows for updates and changes through the amendment process.  If you are an enemy of the Constitution, it can’t be because you want to change it, because that is allowed (via amendments).  You are an enemy of the Constitution if you want to overthrow it or obliterate it, which progressives do.

Who is an enemy of the Constitution? 

Francis Fox-Piven:  Glenn read from an article of hers recently published in “The Nation” magazine.  She notes that recently 7 Georgia prisons coordinated an uprising using cell phones they bought from the guards.  She suggests that the unemployed could organize similarly to stage protests as seen in Europe.

No one is calling for violence from the Right.  And the media is not listening.

He showed a CAIR (Council on American Islamic Relations) poster from their Oakland, CA chapter web site.  It read, “Build a Wall of Resistance – Don’t Talk to the FBI”.  He invited viewers to tune into the O’Reilly program at 8:00 PM as Bill O’Reilly was interviewing a CAIR spokesperson about this poster.

Glenn showed a promo for Friday’s program about an update on Wilmington, OH.

Glenn suggests reading MLK’s non-violence pledge that he has on his web site, http://www.glennbeck.com/.

He then showed pictures of Gandhi, MLK and Jesus together with the people that killed them.  Jesus, Gandhi and MLK preached love and peace.  People remember them.  They were all killed and no one really remembers the people using deadly violence against them.

He closed the program with the phrase “The Truth has no Agenda”.

Glenn Beck Program, January 14, 2011

The theme for today is China.

The genesis for the program today was two things…

1. Toy – Glenn held up a small animal-like toy. 
1. He got this when he took his son to Burger King. 
2. It is a Zhu Zhu (Sp?) pet. 
3. Not only was it manufactured in China, it is a part of China’s culture, not ours. 
4. Not only are we getting “stuff” from China, we are now starting to see part of their culture show up in ours. 
5. This is something that historically we were used to doing to the rest of the world, e.g., Coca Cola, Mc Donald’s, Starbucks, etc.
2. A headline in a newspaper “China Holds Line, Won’t Commit to Strategic Talks with the U.S.”

Other headlines during the last few weeks…

• China Passes U.S. as World’s Top Car Market. 
• To Glenn, this means that China gets it’s choice of the cars and we get second choice.
• Germany No Longer World’s Largest Exporter…China is
• Education Survey:  China Scores Top Marks; U.S., France Lag.
• U.S. Teams Lag as China Scores on International Tests
• China Leads Asia-wide Acceleration in Manufacturing
• Oil Prices Rise as U.S. Supply Declines
• China Overtakes U.S. as Biggest Entergy Consumer
• China is Pushing Up Cost of Gas Production in U.S.
• Previously, we got the oil that was easiest to refine because we were the largest buyer.  Now, China is and we are getting lesser quality crude, which is more expensive to refine, pushing up our gas prices.
• 2.4 Million U.S. Jobs Lost to China
• Shanghais Now World’s Busiest Container Port
• China Now Has World’s Fastest Supercomputer
• China Military Making Quick Advances
• China Has a New Steal Fighter Waiting in the Wings
• U.S. Sounds Alarm at China’s Military Buildup
• Chinese Mothers are Superior

Empires over history came and went. 

China is expected to pass the U.S. economy in 9 years.

5 Factors of Economic Growth

1. Entrepreneurship
2. Innovation
3. Capital
4. Labor
5. Technology and Raw Materials

China has been buying minerals and oil all over the world.  China’s leader has been to the U.S. twice in the last two years.  He has been to Africa 4 – 6 times in the last six months.

Glenn discussed how China and the U.S. compare on the above 5 economic growth factors.  Of them, the U.S. leads only in Entrepreneurship and Innovation – barely.  One study he saw reported that the ability of U.S. kids to think “out of the box” is in decline.

Today in the U.S., many government policies are restricting Entrepreneurship and Innovation.  It’s been said that Bill Gates could not start Microsoft today given current governmental restrictions.

He held up 2 books

1. 1421 – The Year China Discovered America
2. 1424 – The Year a Chinese Fleet Sailed to Italy and Ignited the Renaissance.

The Chinese have always felt that America was a blip that will be corrected over time.

China is soon to become a superpower.

Glenn spoke to a billionaire who met with the Chinese.  Their message to him was that we were screwed, but stated it more politely.  They told him that the one area that we were superior was in the ability to think outside of the box.

Guests

• Jim Rogers – A global investor and self made millionaire.
• Author of “A Bull in China: Investing Profitably in the World's Greatest Market”  http://www.amazon.com/Bull-China-Investing-Profitably-Greatest/dp/0812977483/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1295065722&sr=8-1
• His best advice to Americans is to have your children and grandchildren to learn Mandarin.
• He moved his family to Asia so they would understand the culture.
• Started Quantum Fund with George Soros 41 years ago.
• David Bruckner – Professor at Columbia
• Goes to China 4 – 5 times per year.

Jim – Two things make up an economy – labor and money.

• He claims money is leaving America for China and Asia.
• He spends most of his time helping American companies get set up in China, teaching the Chinese how we run our companies.

David – What we inspired here over the last 100 years is now being internalized in China.

Jim – America is the largest consumer in the world.  China is the largest creditor in the world.

• America has been spending on consumption.  China has been saving and investing for the future.
• Japan and Germany both have higher labor costs than in the U.S. and they can still compete.  However, there are other factors that increase costs in America, e.g., health care, litigation costs, American children do poorly on international tests, etc.

Glenn compared the U.S. decline with the decline of the British Empire at the turn of the 20^th Century.  He asks his guests “If you don’t want to repeat history, what do we have to do?”  What does the average American do?

Jim – It has to start with education for their children and grandchildren.

• He has a daughter in second grade and they push the kids. 
• She has more homework that he got in any grade here in the U.S.
• The Singapore school system is very vigorous and very demanding.
• These kids are working their heads off.
• China produces 20 or 30 times as many engineers as we do every year.
• In America, we don’t teach math and science.
• We teach self-esteem.
• In Singapore where he lives, you have to earn your self-esteem.

David – The average individual has to inspire innovation.  Make sure government policies allow for entrepreneurship.

Glenn – If Americans were told the truth and left to solve their own problems and the government reduced the spending dramatically and the bureaucracy and the cost of getting stuff done, would that make a difference.

Jim – Of course. 

• We have to stop spending all this money and running up all this debt.

• You have to change the tax code to encourage savings and investment, instead of huge consumption
• No one got rich by spending.  You get rich by saving and investing.

David – He has confidence in two things: hunger and knowledge.

• If people knew spending without innovating and growing is debt – worse if it someone else’s money.
• With hunger comes innovation.
• If something is in decline, people will become hungry and this will drive innovation.
• Historically, after each of our recessions has come a great boom.

Glenn – Is “State Capitalism”, the system China now uses, is that the right way to go?

Jim – No.  Massachusetts is more communist than is China today.

• What will work is innovation and capitalism.
• They are moving away from socialism.

David – Culturally, the Chinese start with the “Greater Good” and work down to the individual.  In America, we start with the individual and work up to the “Greater Good”.

Glenn – China has it’s own problems as well.  They are sitting on a powder keg.

Jim – America is sitting on a powder keg.

Glenn – The only way forward for America is entrepreneurship.

Glenn Beck Program, January 13, 2011

The Tucson Memorial.  Glenn has never seen a memorial with complementary T-shirts with a slogan printed on it.

The most important thing to takeaway from tonight’s program is that “The truth has no agenda”.

Two possible views of people…

1. People are good and intelligent individuals.  Sometimes they can make mistakes, but once they recognize that, they can correct themselves.
2. People deep down are animals with urges that move as a pack or a herd.  If you believe this view, you can understand why the individual is not important and it is the collective that is important.  Talk radio or Fox News has an impact because it is affecting the herd.  Since people are just animals with urges, they are influenced by the herd.  Thus the Left is convinced that Fox News and talk radio is bad for America.  Where did this idea come from?

Also, how is it that we learn the things that we take for granted that this is the way things should be?

Edward Bernaise

• Born in Vienna in 1891.
• Family moved to New York City in 1892.
• He graduated from Cornell.
• Journalism was his first career.  Then he became an ad man.
• Hired by Beechnut to increase the sale of their bacon product.  At that time, breakfast in America was coffee and toast.  Bacon was a lunch and dinner item.
• He commissioned a study of American eating habits and found a doctor who claimed that the body lost energy overnight.  Therefore, you needed a substantial breakfast to replenish that energy.  He sent some pro-breakfast literature to 5,000 doctors (including the desireable combination of bacon with eggs for breakfast.  Those doctors, in turn, began recommending it to their patients.  That morphed into “Breakfast is the most important meal of the day.”

Cigarettes

• In the early part of the 20^th century, it was taboo for women to smoke in public. 
• During the 1920s, the American Tobacco Company hired Bernaise to increase the sale of their cigarettes.

• He commissioned a study on why people smoked.  The study concluded women have an “oral fixation”.
• Women smoking in public in New York City was illegal.
• He paid women to smoke during a parade in New York City. 
• Glenn showed pictures from that parade.
• He linked women smoking with liberty. Cigarettes were “torches of freedom”.
• The campaign was a success.

Pianos

• Bernaise came up with the concept that pianos meant that if you have a piano, you are cultured and upscale.
• That attitude persists to today.
• Glenn admitted he has a piano in his house, even though neither he nor any family member can play it.

Bernaise’s interest was in changing the public and their thinking.

Glenn showed a clip of Bernaise late in his life saying that it occurred to him that if propaganda was useful during wartime, it could also be useful during peacetime.  The Germans gave the word “Propaganda” a bad connotation, so Bernaise looked for a different word for the same thing and came up with “Public Relations”.

Bernaise believed people had base, dangerous and irrational desires because of their animal origins.  They needed to be suppressed or guided.  He felt there were four main motivations…

1. Self Preservation
2. Aggression
3. Security
4. Sex

His uncle was Sigmund Freud.  They collaborated on several projects.

In America, the powers-that-be saw how propaganda had been used in Europe for evil purposes.  They wanted to control those base desires in the citizenry here so in the 1950s they opened Community Health Clinics.

Today’s Health Care Bill includes visitations by health care professionals to provide counseling, a modern form of Community Health Clinics.

Glenn sees Cass Sunsteen, the regulatory czar, as a modern day Edward Bernaise.  One key difference is that Cass Sunsteen is not selling bacon or cigarettes; he will be trying to change society in fundamental ways.

Glenn held up the book “Animal Spirits: How Human Psychology Drives the Economy, and Why It Matters for Global Capitalism”   http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_noss?url=search-alias%3Daps&field-keywords=animal+spirits

He commented that it makes more sense as to why many members of the administration were reading that book.

Studying Edward Bernaise is part of his e4 Project, Education.  This will help you understand what is going on in our society today.

Edward Bernaise believed that people were animals and only the four primary drives counted.

1. Self Preservation
2. Aggression
3. Security
4. Sex

Glenn then showed a clip of Bernaise’s daughter discussing her father’s philosophy.  She explained that her father felt that democracy was nice, but people needed to be guided from above to prevent them from voting for the wrong man.  Sort of an enlightened despotism.

For Bernaise, if people were animals…

• How can you keep them from rising up?
• How can you control them?
• If individuals are only part of a bewildered herd, then the Declaration of Independence is wrong.
• He and, at the time, Walter Lippmann looked at our government as a way to control people, not as a way to govern them.

Bernaise’s book “Propaganda” http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_noss?url=search-alias%3Daps&field-keywords=animal+spirits#/ref=nb_sb_noss?url=search-alias%3Daps&field-keywords=propaganda&rh=i%3Aaps%2Ck%3Apropaganda

Talks about “regimenting and guiding the masses” by an educated minority.

His daughter further discussed how her father thought that the masses were “stupid”.  His children were “stupid”.  His employees were “stupid”.  In effect, anyone who did not do things as he would have done them was “stupid”.  “Stupid” and “dope” were commonly used terms.  Cass Sunsteen has said pretty much the same thing.

Glenn commented that occasionally this bleeds through from one of the governing elites.  He showed a video clip of Leslie Stahl interviewing Governor Edward Rendell (D-PA).  During this segment of the interview, he calls Leslie and other people behind the camera “Idiots” and “you are simpletons” if you don’t get his concept.

Glenn then showed a quote from Francis Fox-Piven discussing the unemployed coming together as a collective (herd) and how they would turn their anger (Aggression) against the bosses, the bureaucrats to express their anger.  This is a version of Bernaise’s thinking. 

Glenn feels that if we do not recognize history, we will keep repeating it.

When government, science and media collaborate, there are problems ahead.

The Left thinks that they are using Saul Alinsky’s methods, but it is basically Bernaise’s.

Glenn suggests that you do your own homework.

Go to http://www.glennbeck.com/ for more information.

He suggests reading “Propaganda”.  It will blow your mind.

Glenn Beck Program, January 12, 2011

While people in AZ are still grieving from Saturday’s shooting, others are using this event to push an agenda.  And, it is getting worse.  The truth will set you free because the truth has no agenda.

He then played part of a video clip of the shooter’s friend being interviewed saying that the shooter was not on the Left, not on the Right, he didn’t watch the news and did not listen to political radio.

On Day 1, the story was about the shooter and the victims.

On Day 2, the story was about the media and politicians and how they were using this to advance their agendas. 

On Day 3, the story will be about you.

On Monday, Glenn issued a challenge to politicians and the media to sign a pledge denouncing violence.  They have contacted all 100 senators and all 435 House members.  Only 14 have agreed to sign.  Glenn wanted to make sure you knew and understood how these politicians reacted to a non-violent pledge. 

He then showed an entry on the Media Matters web site, “Glenn Beck’s Anti-violence Pledge A Transparent Trap for Democrats.”  Glenn’s pledge is as follows:

I challenge all Americans, left or right, regardless if you’re a politician, pundit, painter, priest, parishioner, poet or porn star to agree with all of the following.

• I denounce violence, regardless of ideological motivation.
• I denounce anyone, from the Left, the Right or middle, who believes physical violence is the answer to whatever they feel is wrong with our country.
• I denounce those who wish to tear down our system and rebuild it in their own image, whatever that image may be.
• I denounce those from the Left, the Right or middle, who call for riots and violence as an opportunity to bring down and reconstruct our system.
• I denounce violent threats and calls for the destruction of our system – regardless of their underlying ideology – whether they come from the Hutaree Militia or Frances Fox Piven.
• I hold those responsible for the violence, responsible for the violence.  I denounce those who attempt to blame political opponents for the acts of madmen.
• I denounce those from the Left, the Right or middle that sees violence as a viable alternative to our long established system of change made within the constraints of our constitutional Republic.

Most members of Congress say the need more time, they are still looking at it.  Glenn said he had no problem with that because he wouldn’t want them to sign something they had not read.  He then walked over to piles of paper representing the Health Care Bill, the Tarp Bill, the Financial Regulatory Bill and pointed out that they had no problem signing bills more than 2,000 pages without reading.

The other reason given was “the trap”.  They perhaps had a problem with the two names mentioned in the Pledge. 

1. The Hutaree Malitia
1. The name means Christain warrior.
2. Founded in 2008.
3. The DOJ considers them a radical, extremist group.
4. Their enemies are government and law enforcement.
5. Their tactics include…

                                                               i.      Ambushes of police

                                                             ii.      Attacking their funeral processions with weapons of mass destruction.

6. Glenn asks facisionsly, “Who can go out on a limb and condem them?”
1. Francis Fox_Piven
1. She is 78 years old.
2. She has had a history of 50 years of advocating the violent overthrow of our government.
3. Piven has called for riots as long ago as three weeks.

Glenn then  imagined the staffs of these politicians as they weighed the reactions of focus groups, contributors, supporters, etc., as they try to decide.

He then listed several problems on the blackboard and listed the major players – Republicans, Democrats, You and whether they were F-for or A-against.

            Problem                                            Repub           Dem          You

1. Spending/Deficit                                       A               A               A
2. Terror                                                      A               A               A
3. Social Security Going Broke                     A               A               A
4. Oil/Gas Price Increase                              A               A               A

Even with all that agreement, these problems have not been solved.  Why?  It seems that Washington is the problem.  The real solution is you, the people.  He referred to his e4 list and focused on Entrepreneurship of the people as being the traditional way things got done in America.

Glenn then said that politicians use problems for political gain.

He then showd the phrase on the screen “The truth has no agenda”.  He said that he felt that Americans understood that, but politicians did not.

He discussed briefly how you can use his e4 model to affect a solution…

• Enlightenment
• Education
• Empowerment
• Entrepreneurship

Tomorrow’s show – Edward Bernaise.

Glenn Beck Program, January 11, 2011

Washington’s response to Saturday’s shooting seems to be control over words, symbols, talk radio and guns – all in the name of reducing violence.

Speaking of gun control, Glenn noted that in 1982 Chicago passed a very restrictive gun ban.  After the ban was instituted, the rate of handgun murders showed a 56% increase.  This increase in handgun murders was cited by the U.S. Supreme Court as one factor in ruling against that city’s handgun ban.

Representative Bob Brady announced he will introduce a bill to control violent speech and symbols.  Glenn then parodied a description of a church service ending with a “violent” image of Christ on the cross.

Glenn also parodied other words and phrases that may be controlled: “shotgun weddings”, and a commercial showing a cartoon tank in a cupcake war.  In contrast, popular Rap songs routinely include the N-word and some video games allow kids to shoot cops in the head.  But this, we are told, is okay because the kids know the difference between games and real life.

He then showed an image of Cupid with his bow and arrow.  And went on about how despicable Cupid’s behavior was on a day that was supposed to be about peace and love.  A picture of the Target Corporation’s logo was shown and Glenn advised everyone not to use that for target practice and that it was just a sign.

Glenn then showed a picture of Major Assan, the Ft Hood shooter.  He then spoke about how, at the time, the President, other public figures and the media called for everyone to not rush to judgment and to wait until all the facts are in.  He then compared the New York Time’ response to the Ft Hood incident with that of the one on Saturday wherein they editorialized about the rhetoric of the Republicans and the TEA Party to be at fault.  He pointed out that the government and the media were in collusion twice while American citizens were rounded up and put into internment camps.  German-Americans were interned during WWI and German, Italian and Japanese-Americans were interned during WWII.  In both of these incidents, the media was complicit with these government actions.

He then showed pictures of the 19 highjackers of 9/11 and how the President’s and the media’s response to the attacks wherein they cautioned people not to generalize from these individuals to larger groups.  That was because that could lead to violence.  Other reactions by the elite’s politically correct rules and restrictions are not making much sense.

Glenn projects that the country will be unrecognizable in ten years if we don’t stop with the politics.

He feels that he has changed over the last 6 months and this has led to his e4 project.

One congressman is already calling for a return of the Fairness Doctrine.  Presumably, this is because the period during which the Fairness Doctrine was in place, the 60s, 70s and 80s was so peaceful.  Except Martin Luther King, President John Kennedy and Presidential Candidate Bobby Kennedy were all assassinated, President Reagan was shot and two attempts were made to shoot President Gerald Ford.  If the Fairness Doctrine does return, Glenn does not feel it will come through legislation, but through the regulatory bureaucracy via the FCC.

Glenn feels that the Left thinks that there is too much free speech.  He encourages them to be up front about that and have a debate on the merits of controlling speech and amending the Constitution as appropriate.  Unfortunately, they do not feel that they can win in the arena of ideas, so they try to move their agenda along by deceiving people and tricking them.  He wants them to be straight with the American people.

Glenn’s staff has contacted almost all members of the Senate and the House to have them take his pledge against violence.  So far, 5 senators and 3 House members out of 435 have agreed.