Glenn Beck on The O’Reilly Factor Update: June 30, 2009
Beck finally did mention Franken on The Factor. He said that having Al Franken as a Senator is like having Glenn Beck as a Senator … it’s insane. I actually agree with him. Now that I think about it, they are sort of similar in the way they do comedy, haha!
Monica Crowley (who is also an author) stood in for O’Reilly, and had him stick around for two segments, which doesn’t usually happen. Although, when she asked him to stick around, she said that he “sticks around like a fungus.” I’m not sure if “fungus” is really a term you would playfully call a friend, but maybe she’s just weird that way.
Beck also talked a bit about how we are pulling the troops out of Iraq, but that nobody is making a big deal of it even after we asked troops to risk their lives and kill in our name. He said that there is no statesmanship anymore, and Obama has not raised himself to the standard of the office of the President. He pleaded with the viewers not let the troops come back and feel like they haven’t done anything important.
I totally agree with him on this one. Obama does not seem to be really connected with the troops, even when he thanks them. It’s like he just gives a speech and thanks them because he has to, but doesn’t seem to really understand what they have sacrificed. Obama has a sort of arrogance about him, where he seems to put himself at a higher level, and speak down to people as if they’re little worker bees doing a job that he needs done, but not really caring about what happens to them.
He also talked a bit more about the Cap and Trade Bill, and what will happen if it passes. He said that we will have to have a team of government officials come in and check that homes are energy efficient before they can be bought or sold, even though it’s already hard to sell homes right now. In addition, Crowley pointed out that the bill will cause all prices for all products to go up, and therefore jobs to be lost, in order to meet the new standards.
Beck then made an interesting point. He said that someone in congress actually told him that the House had to pass the bill or the EPA would pass something worse. Does this mean Congress now answers to the EPA? It certainly seems as though this is becoming the case, even if they are not directly taking orders from the EPA. They are definitely trying to do everything they can to pass bills that will cause all Americans to answer to the EPA, even when it will hurt us all financially.
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June 30, 2009 Episode of The Glenn Beck Program
I was surprised that Beck basically ignored one of the largest news items of the day. He made just one remark about Al Franken winning the Senate race against Coleman to give the Democrats the magic 60, filibuster-proof majority. This means that the Democrats have full control of almost all aspects of the government. Even if there are some Democrats who are moderate and will not always vote along party lines, it is still a huge psychological victory for the Democrats. We definitely need some checks and balances somewhere, anywhere, in the government. I say we vote them ALL out and vote in some people who make sense.
Beck’s first topic was about plans in California to issue IOUs. He said the government continues to expand services even though it is far in debt, and that entitlement programs are becoming “too big to fail.” He also talked about the Federal Reserve (the Fed) flooding the market with money, even though nobody has the power to audit any of it, giving the Fed even more control. I think these issues are things most Americans can agree with.
But then Beck started talking about the fact that Obama took only 2 weeks to respond to the Honduran coup, but doesn’t want to take a side in Iran because that would be “meddling.” He also continued to compare Obama to Hugo Chavez because he is taking the same side on the Honduran coup. I think he’s stretching it on this point.
Beside the fact that many countries are on the same side as Obama on the issue (not just the dictatorial ones), President Manuel Zelaya was Democratically elected, but was exiled because he supported a referendum that would allow him to run again. This would violate his term limit, and they say would be treasonous. The problem is that he was arrested and exiled before the vote even happened, so I don’t see how that is treason. Even if he’s a bad guy in other respects, I don’t see how any government would side with the coup, since the guy was elected by the people.
Ben Stein (former presidential speech writer, author and actor) was the first guest. Beck asked him if he had ever known another time when the news didn’t “make sense.” He said that it was under Carter. He said the Carter administration, like the Obama administration, also had a fundamental distrust of the people, and of capitalism.
Stein and Beck also discussed the fact that the SEC will soon have more power, even though they are the ones who turned a blind eye to Bernie Madoff. They listed three SEC employees (Simona Suh, Meaghan Cheung, and Doria Bachenheimer) who were all warned multiple times about Madoff and did nothing. When Harry Markopolos warned them about Madoff in 1999, they not only did absolutely nothing about it, but they were also very arrogant and rude to him. So why in the hell would we want to give these clowns more power? This truly does not make sense.
Stein mentioned a final interesting fact about the Cap and Trade Bill and California. He said that they are planning on lowering pollution in California even more (we already lead the nation on energy standards), even though we can’t afford it, and are already broke. One problem is that they are not even considering the fact that around 1 million tons of pollution blows into the state from China.
Dr. Alan Carlin, senior operations research analyst at the EPA was the next guest. Before showing his findings, he said that he speaks for himself in the report, not for the EPA. He supposedly put out a report that was ’surpressed’ by the government showing current CO2 and global temperatures.
The chart shows that the actual temperatures are going down while projections still show that the temperatures are going way up. Even the official government projections showing what would happen if we started cutting out emissions right now showed higher than the actual current temperatures.
Beck took the chart as “proof” that the Earth will continue to cool, and that warming or cooling is in no way caused by CO2 emissions. The real truth is that we just don’t know. There are so many variables, and the Earth is so huge. Who knows what’s really happening? It’s simply impossible for anyone to predict everything that is going to happen in nature. I think the common sense thing to do is conserve and keep our environment as clean as possible so we have a nice place to live. The stupid “Cap and Tax” schemes, however, are not the way to do it, and really just a way for politicians to get more money and power.
Jim DeMint (author of Saving Freedom and South Carolina Senator) was the next guest. DeMint protests the last minute amendments added to the Cap and Trade Bill. He believes that the real battle in Congress is for freedom and against Socialism. He said that if the Cap and Trade Bill passes in the Senate, about half the country will be under government control.
The next guest was Michael Scheuer (former CIA counter-terrorism analyst and Marching Toward Hell author). They talked about how the most dangerous place in world is U.S. – Mexican border, and Obama is sending 1,500 unarmed National Guard volunteers. Scheuer said that a sovereign country has the right to control its borders (for security not racism).
Then he made a scary claim that nobody in our government cares about our safety, only about their own power. One of his examples was that Hillary Clinton blamed the violence on the border on US, and tried to push the idea that gun control will fix the problem. He said that minorities are rightly protected by the constitution, but now minorities are the ones in power, and the majority is being neglected, and is not being protected. He then made another scary statement, saying that the government won’t ever see error of its ways unless there is another attack by Osama bin Laden. He says the government prizes the praise of the media and power more than our safety.
I believe that Scheuer really believes in what he is saying, but I don’t totally agree with it. I think some politicians may be this way, but not all of them. I think they really do care about our safety, because they also care about their own safety. I just think they are ambivalent, and like most people, don’t think anything horrible will actually happen. When it does, they will be surprised, then forget about it again in several years, and so on.
Brad Thor (author of The Apostle and The Last Patriot) was the final guest. They talked about the US troops coming home from Iraq, but that we also have the largest and most expensive embassy in world in Iraq. It takes $1 billion to operate it each year, which means we are either never actually leaving, or we simply thought we would never leave, and the embassy will become mostly useless.
Thor also went to Afghanistan and shadowed the black ops team that saved a New York Times reporter when he was with them. He says that the culture has to change enough in Afghanistan for them to come to hate Al Qaeda, but said that we can’t give them an American-style Democracy, because that is not what they want. He is definitely a cool guy.
The end of the show gave us a brand new Twitter account to follow. Send your “Twips” to twitter.com/becktips.
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June 29, 2009 Episode of the Glenn Beck Program
I’m going to call this the “Michael Jackson is still dead” episode. While I understand the reason why he kept saying that phrase over and over, I do wish he had stuck with just a single time. I was sad to find out about it, and the media is already doing a good job of keeping it fresh in my memory. I’d rather he’d just said it once at the beginning.
Anyway, the reason he said it was because of the passing of the climate change Cap and Trade Bill, which passed while everyone was focused on the Michael Jackson story. He showed a clip of a pissed off John Boehner going over a list of all the agencies that would be involved, with the EPA at the center (clip bellow). It’s truly an impressive list, and the House is officially nuts for passing this enormous concoction without even reading it.
(Boener at about 2:15):
Beck also talked about many of the other things involved with the bill, including “green banking centers” (nobody, including Beck, knows what this is, so I’ve included a link), and almost $1 Trillion in “grants,” which Beck said were actually bribes. They went through with this enormous bill, even after a 98 page study by the EPA itself, stating that temperatures will be cooling until about 2030.
In my opinion, nobody really knows how the climate is changing or what effect humans are having on it. As I said in a previous post, however, I do believe we should clean up the environment just for the simple reason that nobody wants to live under a brown sky with oxygen masks or lung cancer. Having said that, the Cap and Trade Bill is definitely not the right way to go about it.
Steve Milloy (author of Green Hell) was on to talk more about the issue. He also said that we need to start focusing on stopping the Cap and Trade Bill from passing in the Senate rather than on the death of Michael Jackson. The most notable part of the discussion was when he said they are trying to bring housing standards up to California’s standards… the state that is about to go bankrupt because they can’t afford things like this (I live in Cali, btw). He also mentioned government help for things like the “shower Nazi,” which we can agree is a fitting name for such a thing.
Kevin Mooney (from the Washington Examiner) and Nancy Thorner (former supporter of Republican representative Mark Kirk from IL) were guests. Mooney talked about the eight Republican “cap and traitors” who voted for the Cap and Trade Bill, and said they are using the bill to push us into an unsustainable European type situation that will cause job loss and more debt. Thorner is angry at Mark Kirk, and is pushing for people to vote out all “cap and traitors” in the next election. That is definitely the only way to pull back out of this mess. Vote all these people out, and vote in Libertarians, yeah! 
Arthur Laffer came on to talk about Barney Frank’s idea to use TARP money that banks are beginning to pay back to bail out California. He said a bailout would be wrong, but would also be the demise of all who vote for it, as other states will see the unfairness in taking money from profitable states and giving it to $0-income states who got themselves into this mess in the first place by spending more than they receive.
I hate to say it because I live in Cali, but I agree that maybe California should just go bankrupt and start over the right way. Maybe people will vote more intelligently next time (although I doubt many of them are smart enough to even know that Democrats are in control of Cali since the governor is a Republican).
I don’t usually go over the Hot List, but there were some big stories in it, so here they are:
- The transnationalist (another take on it) Harold Koh was confirmed last week, and nobody but a few are talking about it.
- The government will probably be paying off student loans. This was a program started under George W. Bush. In my opinion, if we are going to have bigger government in any area, it should probably be in education. Unfortunately, we are looking at bigger government in all areas.
- Research shows that the average income for a government worker next year will be $75,000 as opposed to $61,000 for all other workers. No wonder most younger people are looking for government jobs straight out of college. This is horrible. How can people making less money pay for all the people making more money, especially if more of them move to the higher-paying jobs, paid for by the lower-paying tax payers? I have a headache now.
- We should learn from Michael Jackson’s buying of the Beatles catalog of music. Why was it for sale in the first place? Beck explained how the Beatles lost the rights to their own music because of enormous tax burdens.
- Biggest Hot List item: the coup in Honduras. Beck took this news item as a chance to compare Chavez and Obama, which I thought was weird. The coup was a big deal, but this was his only mention of it the whole hour. He could have been a little more “fair and balanced” here.
After the Hot List, Beck talked about the upcoming 4th of July tea parties. He compared the Janeane Garofalo clip to a video created by DallasTeaParty.org (below), and talked about their invitation to Garofalo to witness a tea party for herself. I thought this was a pretty good segment. That crap that came out of Garofalo’s mouth, trying to sound like she was more informed and holier-than-thou just sounded ignorant and stupid, especially when compared to the DallasTeaParty.org clip.
Full Garofalo and Keith Olbermann clip:
DallasTeaParty clip:
John Tamny was the final guest. Beck and Tamny discussed the Federal Reserve, and Ben Bernanke’s (Fed Chairman) angry response to the possibility of the Federal Reserve Transparency Act. Bernanke acted like the Fed is a fourth arm of the government, and said the transparency called for in the bill would hurt the dollar.
Tamny rightly explained that because the Fed now has more power than it has ever had in history, now is the time for more oversight than ever not less. He also made several other very good points that I agree with completely:
- The government seems to be rewarding extraordinary failure with more power
- Tim Geitner should have been disqualified as Treasury Secretary because he oversaw TARP
- Debasing our currency the way we are currently gives the government more control. This is something people such as Marx and Lenin understood very well, and should be a lesson to us that we should not be heading down this road
- We don’t even know what’s happening in the Fed, and they will be able to do whatever they want, even if the Transparency Act passes. The Act amounts to a joke because it won’t really have any effect.
- The Fed is a private organization. It is not federal as many people assume. I don’t think many people realize that the IRS is not a federal organization either. The IRS and the Federal Reserve are both PRIVATE organizations, and neither of them are actually federal organizations! There is basically no government oversight or transparency of either of these organizations, which is one of the many reasons they both SUCK!
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