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Friday, July 3, 2009 Update

Glenn Beck was not on today. They instead showed continual coverage of the “Fox News Alert” of the resignation announcement by Alaskan Governor Sarah Palin:

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July 2, 2009 Episode of The Glenn Beck Program

Eric Bolling stood in for Beck on this episode. Eric Bolling is great, and there was some good stuff there, but I wasn’t really inspired to do a full post about the whole show. Instead, I’ll list the great guests:

Guests:

• Lynn Tilton, President and CEO of Patriarch Partners
• Steve Milloy, author of Green Hell
• Chris Horner, author of Red Hot Lies
• Jonathan Hoenig from Capitalist Pig Asset Management, and one of my favorite regular guests on my favorite Fox News business block show on Saturdays, “Cashin’ In.” He’s also the author of the book Green is Good.
• Kurt Warner (NFL Quarterback and two-time NFL MVP) and his wife Brenda. The two of them wrote a new book together called First Things First
• Aaron McLear, Press Secretary for Governor Arnold Schwartzenegger
• Andrew Breitbart, Columnist for The Washington Times and publisher at Big Hollywood. He also co-wrote Hollywood Interrupted.

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July 1, 2009 Episode of The Glenn Beck Program

The beginning of this episode was a bit boring and over-the-top for my taste. He started with a Fox News Alert about Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger declaring an “economic state of emergency.” Louise Pennell from Fox Business Network said that this gives the governor more power to do certain things like closing state government offices (not including police and firefighters) for three days a month. They will also be issuing IOUs tomorrow (or, as the time of this posting, today). So, it’s official! My state is screwed. Oh goodie.

Here’s the over-the-top part: Beck talked at length about a book called The Coming Insurrection, which was created in France. It talks about using force to take down capitalism. He called it the anti-Common Sense, and says we should all read it. He seems to think that the book may spread in the United States because of the current state of the economy and sense of fear some people have, especially now that it was just released in English.

I completely disagree on this one. I think he could have spent about two minutes mentioning it just to warn us about the crazies out there, and so we know what some people are thinking, but he spent way too much time on it. Was that a little fear-mongering you had goin’ on there Glenn? Well, please don’t spend much time on that because fear mongering really does get boring. I want to know about the actual, real dangers, not this sort of thing.

Tom Borelli from the National Center for Public Policy Research (that is one of the longest names ever) and David Kreutzer from The Heritage Foundation were the first guests. They talked about some of the pork added to the Cap and Trade Bill at the last minute (at 3 am the morning they voted on it).

They talked about House Representative Marcy Kaptur (Democrat from Ohio) who was in favor of the pork, which will lend $3.5 billion to renewable energy programs, just to the Great Lakes States. Beck called it money laundering, and said the middle class winds up supporting both the poorest of the poor and richest of the rich Americans and corporations. They also said that Congress is basically auctioning off our country to buy votes for the bill from people like Kaptur. They also discussed the site ceres.com, which basically lobbies big companies with a stick to get their support as well.

This part of the show I agree with. I pretty much believe anything bad said about people in Congress (or any other politician for that matter). I don’t trust any of them to do the right thing. Congress is such a mess now because of all the raises and perks they’ve voted for themselves, that it’s not about serving the country anymore. It’s all about money, power, and buying off votes so they can stay in power forever. Man, we really need term limits! Congress was never meant to be like this!

David Norcross (NRLA Chairman) was the next guest. They talked at length about something called the “Secretaries of State” program supported by George Sorros and ACORN. The idea is to put all their money and power behind putting Secretaries of State in place around the country, which would then give them more power to get the Senators they want elected. Al Franken is supposedly one of the results of this. I’m not sure I really understand or agree, but like I said, anything is possible when corrupt politicians and ACORN voter fraud are involved. I wonder how many votes Franken got from Mickey Mouse?

I don’t understand why some of these people have so little regard for checks and balances. Sure, everyone wants their own party to be in power so they can push the agendas they want. The problem is that when one party has complete and total power, even if you generally like that party and what they believe in, it is never a good thing. It starts to become about keeping themselves in power, buying votes, and making more money and having more power. It’s no longer about pushing ideals and principles you believe in.

Toward the end, Beck played another of his “in a nutshell” clips. This time, it was about SEIU, which you can see below.

The final guest was Michael Cannon, who is an author and the Director of Health Policy Studies at The CATO Institute. Beck said he used to stick up for Walmart, but now it seems to be on the same side as the SEIU in favor of universal health care, and now belongs on the tree shown in the clip (above). He asked Cannon why they are doing this all of a sudden. Cannon replied that Walmart has actually supported universal health care for some time for a rather lame reason: it would cripple competitors like Target. Well, if that’s true, then that is a truly stupid reason to support it. They should be pushing for their own well-being and the good of all Americans. Plus, I like Target.

They also talked about how this type of health care system has already been tested in Massachusetts. They taxed their residents with a slew of hidden taxes to pump money into their health care system without fixing any of its real problems. The new system is disliked by over 60% of the citizens of Massachusetts, especially the poor, because it was more difficult for them to get help. The system is so expensive, they are now discussing the possibility of rationing care the way they do in Canada (which is why many Canadians come to the U.S. for certain procedures).

I sure hope the Federal government plan is better than the one in Massachusetts. If foreigners come here to get the procedures they can’t get in their own countries because of rationing and poor care, where are they going to go when we have the same problem? Where are any of us going to go?

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