GLENNApril 06, 2017

Can We Please STOP the Revisionist History on Syria?

The repulsive chemical attack on the Syrian people has people pointing the finger, trying to find someone to blame. But the blame game won't change what happened. What will change it is rewriting history.

"I don't really care whose fault it is. It doesn't matter. It doesn't matter to my children or your children or the children in Syria whose fault it is. But I will tell you, the revisionist history does matter," Glenn said Thursday on radio.

Ignoring the Obama administration's "red line" in the sand and failure to respond when that line was crossed is a fabrication and a blatant rewriting of history.

"Oh, and, by the way, I could also throw a bone to the media for covering for them, for not holding [President Obama's] feet to the fire," Glenn said.

Enjoy the complimentary clip or read the transcript for details.

GLENN: First of all, if we could go down memory lane a little bit with the Obama administration. Samantha Power, who is Cass Sunstein's wife -- and she was the architect of this whole Middle Eastern policy. She was the architect for Obama with the Middle East and Israel. The Arab spring. She was all on board with that.

She also was the architect on, let's get rid of Assad. Because Assad is just a really bad guy. So if we could have an Arab spring in Syria, it will work out really well.

And then it was the Obama administration that also said, "Oh, yeah, and we're getting rid of all of the chemical weapons. We're going to get rid of all of them." Let me just take you down memory lane.

OBAMA: -- Syria, without having initiated the strikes. So what else are you talking about?

VOICE: We've got the chemical weapons -- we've got -- we're getting the chemical weapons out of Syria.

VOICE: Well, Chris, all you have to do is look at the fact that today, the final 8 percent of chemical weapons were taken out of Syria.

VOICE: We should commend the administration for the result they got. The removal of chemical weapons out of Syria is a substantial accomplishment.

VOICE: We certainly worked with them in Syria. To bring all of the chemical weapons in Syria.

VOICE: We struck a deal where wedding 100 percent of the chemicals out.

VOICE: 100 percent of the declared chemical weapons out of Syria.

VOICE: We kept chemical weapons -- or got chemical weapons out of the area.

VOICE: We, got, as you know, all of the chemical weapons out of Syria.

PAT: As you know.

VOICE: No small feat.

OBAMA: Syria eliminating its weapons and ultimately having them destroyed by the international community.

VOICE: Syria would still have a declared chemical weapons stockpile. Right now they don't. Right now Bashar al-Assad does not have declared chemical weapons stockpile. And we removed that declared chemical weapons stockpile. And we destroyed that declared chemical weapons stockpile, which means that Bashar al-Assad can't use those chemical weapons against his own people.

GLENN: Except he just did. That's the only problem with that.

PAT: Yeah.

STU: Washington Free Beacon putting that together. That's great.

GLENN: By the way -- Washington Free Beacon is good. By the way, the reason why the White House went on that, hey, there's no more chemical weapons press junket is because this is the country he drew the line in the sand. And he said, "There's a red line. And you don't cross that red line." And then they crossed that red line. And we did nothing.

PAT: Well, we drew another red line. And if they cross that one, we'll draw a third red line. And then if that -- if they cross that line, we'll draw another one. As many as it takes.

STU: The plan is to draw more red lines when they cross the previous red lines?

PAT: That's the current plan right now. And to get them to remove all the chemical weapons.

GLENN: So here's the thing. The reason why I'm bringing this up is -- I don't really care whose fault it is. It doesn't matter. It doesn't matter to my children or your children or the children in Syria whose fault it is. But I will tell you, the revisionist history does matter.

I'm not looked to place blame because it doesn't matter. It's what we're dealing with today. But the revisionist history has got to stop. This is not Donald Trump -- I am not a fan of Donald Trump. I don't know if you've caught that. This is not Donald Trump's fault.

PAT: My gosh. He just got into office.

GLENN: Right. This is the fault of the past administration, saying we draw a bright red line and then doing nothing about it. And then lying about the chemical weapons, period. That's what it is.

Oh, and, by the way, I could also throw a bone to the media for covering for them. For not holding the president's feet to the fire. You would have never done that -- where -- where are the investigations going to go? Where are we going for to hear -- when are we going to hear from the media and the left about chemical weapons in Syria? Because the exact opposite happened. We went to war because of chemical weapons in Iraq. And there were no chemical weapons. Uh-huh.

How about this one? The administration said there were no chemical -- we got rid of them all. And you all carried water for them. We got rid of them all. And we got to pat ourselves on the back, and you did the patting. And now people died.

Bush lied, people died. Obama lied, people died. Are we going to hear that? No. Why? Because the media has no intellectual honesty. And don't pat yourself on the back, people on the right, because, quite honestly, the right has no intellectual honesty either. It's the same story, different side.

Now, what are we going to do about it? Right now, they're deciding what we're going to do about it. And higher on that scale is North Korea.

President -- is it Xi? Is that how you say his name?

STU: Xi.

GLENN: Xi. I like to call him -- President Xi. I like to call him President 11, from China is meeting in the White House today. And this is their number one priority, to talk about what's going to happen with North Korea. I am not one to say, hey, we just sit around and see what happens with a guy who is crazy and has nuclear missiles. He now has solid fuel boosters. So we can no longer tell when they're fueling up for a missile. It's solid fuel. The door opens, and it's launched.

Now, I don't think he can make it to the United States, but he might. He could at least make it to Hawaii. I know. But why would an Asian nation ever attack Hawaii?

GLENN: Ever attack Hawaii.

STU: Why would they do that?

PAT: It's ridiculous.

STU: It's just a beautiful vacation location.

GLENN: It's not like a world war would ever really just start --

PAT: It's paradise. You never attack paradise.

STU: Well, that's what we were saying, if you want to make everybody safe, let's put like a bunch of our resources like in one harbor there.

PAT: Like all the ships we have in the Pacific. Put them in Hawaii.

STU: Yes! We'll store them all there where they're going to attack, and everything will be fine.

GLENN: Right. Right. So if they could at least hit Hawaii, they could hit Japan. They could hit South Korea.

PAT: South Korea for sure.

GLENN: And that starts a global war. Now, what are we going to do about it? I had a briefing from a guy who just left the CIA, I don't know, about six months ago.

And -- and he tried to convince me that things were far worse in the world than even I think, and he's a fan of the show. And I'm like, no, I don't think -- and he said, no, I listen to you, Glenn. It's much worse than you think. And I said, that's not good. That's not good. And I brought up North Korea. And I said, "What do we do?" And he said, "We're out of options. We're completely out of options." He said, "The problem is, is this guy is truly crazy."

PAT: Yeah, that's what that defector just said. High-level defector.

GLENN: It's not like, oh, Osama bin Laden, he's crazy. No, he wasn't crazy. He was very, very smart and well thought out. We just disagreed with him.

PAT: Uh-huh.

GLENN: He was just on the dark side, if you will.

PAT: Uh-huh.

GLENN: This guy is crazy. He believes that he can actually win a war against the United States of America. And he will launch. And he said, so that leaves us with what option? He said, "We can't negotiate anymore. There's no negotiation." He said, "There's nobody that we can reach out to because he kills everybody who disagrees with him."

PAT: I've been saying preemptive strike for a while. And maybe that's what you have to do.

GLENN: I don't know. I don't know.

PAT: You can't allow the guy to just continue to threaten us and do nothing.

GLENN: Do we we not have a patriot missile system that we could put for a -- I know rockets, you know, ICBMs. You don't want to miss.

PAT: I don't know that we have anything in place on the mainland, do we? We certainly give them to Israel. I don't know if we --

GLENN: Don't we have something in South Korea? Don't we have something that we can put on a ship that can intercept a missile?

I don't want to do a first strike. I just don't want to do a first strike. I don't -- quite honestly, congratulations, I don't want to put this president in charge of war.

PAT: I know. That's hard.

GLENN: I don't want him in charge of war. If it comes, it comes. Let's not hasten anything.

STU: We saw this in the documentary, Superman: For The Quest For Peace, where we do obviously have at least that one weapon. Superman, to stop any nuclear launch. If he doesn't show up at the right time --

GLENN: Can you write this down, meeting today --

STU: For example, there's this reporter that they're never at the same place at the same time. And if he's in the middle of a story, can we get Superman to stop these missiles? We don't know. I mean, has Bannon addressed that? No.

PAT: No.

GLENN: Could we just -- do me a favor, write this down for a meeting today. I think you guys misunderstand the difference between -- just put, define documentary. And I'll remember that.

STU: Okay.

RADIO

Shocking train video: Passengers wait while woman bleeds out

Surveillance footage of the murder of Ukrainian refugee Iryna Zarutska in Charlotte, NC, reveals that the other passengers on the train took a long time to help her. Glenn, Stu, and Jason debate whether they were right or wrong to do so.

Transcript

Below is a rush transcript that may contain errors

GLENN: You know, I'm -- I'm torn on how I feel about the people on the train.

Because my first instinct is, they did nothing! They did nothing! Then my -- well, sit down and, you know -- you know, you're going to be judged. So be careful on judging others.

What would I have done? What would I want my wife to do in that situation?

STU: Yeah. Are those two different questions, by the way.

GLENN: Yeah, they are.

STU: I think they go far apart from each other. What would I want myself to do. I mean, it's tough to put yourself in a situation. It's very easy to watch a video on the internet and talk about your heroism. Everybody can do that very easily on Twitter. And everybody is.

You know, when you're in a vehicle that doesn't have an exit with a guy who just murdered somebody in front of you, and has a dripping blood off of a knife that's standing 10 feet away from you, 15 feet away from you.

There's probably a different standard there, that we should all kind of consider. And maybe give a little grace to what I saw at least was a woman, sitting across the -- the -- the aisle.

I think there is a difference there. But when you talk about that question. Those two questions are definitive.

You know, I know what I would want myself to do. I would hope I would act in a way that didn't completely embarrass myself afterward.

But I also think, when I'm thinking of my wife. My advice to my wife would not be to jump into the middle of that situation at all costs. She might do that anyway. She actually is a heck of a lot stronger than I am.

But she might do it anyway.

GLENN: How pathetic, but how true.

STU: Yes. But that would not be my advice to her.

GLENN: Uh-huh.

STU: Now, maybe once the guy has certainly -- is out of the area. And you don't think the moment you step into that situation. He will turn around and kill you too. Then, of course, obviously. Anything you can do to step in.

Not that there was much anyone on the train could do.

I mean, I don't think there was an outcome change, no matter what anyone on that train did.

Unfortunately.

But would I want her to step in?

Of course. If she felt she was safe, yes.

Think about, you said, your wife. Think about your daughter. Your daughter is on that train, just watching someone else getting murdered like that. Would you advise your daughter to jump into a situation like that?

That girl sitting across the aisle was somebody's daughter. I don't know, man.

JASON: I would. You know, as a dad, would I advise.

Hmm. No.

As a human being, would I hope that my daughter or my wife or that I would get up and at least comfort that woman while she's dying on the floor of a train?

Yeah.

I would hope that my daughter, my son, that I would -- and, you know, I have more confidence in my son or daughter or my wife doing something courageous more than I would.

But, you know, I think I have a more realistic picture of myself than anybody else.

And I'm not sure that -- I'm not sure what I would do in that situation. I know what I would hope I would do. But I also know what I fear I would do. But I would have hoped that I would have gotten up and at least tried to help her. You know, help her up off the floor. At least be there with her, as she's seeing her life, you know, spill out in under a minute.

And that's it other thing we have to keep in mind. This all happened so rapidly.

A minute is -- will seem like a very long period of time in that situation. But it's a very short period of time in real life.

STU: Yeah. You watch the video, Glenn. You know, I don't need the video to -- to change my -- my position on this.

But at his seem like there was a -- someone who did get there, eventually, to help, right? I saw someone seemingly trying to put pressure on her neck.

GLENN: Yeah. And tried to give her CPR.

STU: You know, no hope at that point. How long of a time period would you say that was?

Do you know off the top of your head?

GLENN: I don't know. I don't know. I know that we watched the video that I saw. I haven't seen past 30 seconds after she --

STU: Yeah.

GLENN: -- is down. And, you know, for 30 seconds nothing is happening. You know, that is -- that is not a very long period of time.

STU: Right.

GLENN: In reality.

STU: And especially, I saw the pace he was walking. He certainly can't be -- you know, he may have left the actual train car by 30 seconds to a minute. But he wasn't that far away. Like he was still in visual.

He could still turn around and look and see what's going on at that point. So certainly still a threat is my point. He has not, like, left the area. This is not that type of situation.

You know, I -- look, as you point out, I think if I could be super duper sexist for a moment here, sort of my dividing line might just be men and women.

You know, I don't know if it's that a -- you're not supposed to say that, I suppose these days. But, like, there is a difference there. If I'm a man, you know, I would be -- I would want my son to jump in on that, I suppose. I don't know if he could do anything about it. But you would expect at least a grown man to be able to go in there and do something about it. A woman, you know, I don't know.

Maybe I'm -- I hope --

GLENN: Here's the thing I -- here's the thing that I -- that causes me to say, no. You should have jumped in.

And that is, you know, you've already killed one person on the train. So you've proven that you're a killer. And anybody who would have screamed and got up and was with her, she's dying. She's dying. Get him. Get him.

Then the whole train is responsible for stopping that guy. You know. And if you don't stop him, after he's killed one person, if you're not all as members of that train, if you're not stopping him, you know, the person at the side of that girl would be the least likely to be killed. It would be the ones that are standing you up and trying to stop him from getting back to your daughter or your wife or you.

JASON: There was a -- speaking of men and women and their roles in this. There was a video circling social media yesterday. In Sweden. There was a group of officials up on a stage. And one of the main. I think it was health official woman collapses on stage. Completely passes out.

All the men kind of look away. Or I don't know if they're looking away. Or pretending that they didn't know what was going on. There was another woman standing directly behind the woman passed out.

Immediately springs into action. Jumps on top. Grabs her pant leg. Grabs her shoulder. Spins her over and starts providing care.

What did she have that the other guys did not? Or women?

She was a sheepdog. There is a -- this is my issue. And I completely agree with Stu. I completely agree with you. There's some people that do not respond this way. My issue is the proportion of sheepdogs versus people that don't really know how to act. That is diminishing in western society. And American society.

We see it all the time in these critical actions. I mean, circumstances.

There are men and women, and it's actually a meme. That fantasize about hoards of people coming to attack their home and family. And they sit there and say, I've got it. You guys go. I'm staying behind, while I smoke my cigarette and wait for the hoards to come, because I will sacrifice myself. There are men and women that fantasize of block my highway. Go ahead. Block my highway. I'm going to do something about it. They fantasize about someone holding up -- not a liquor store. A convenience store or something. Because they will step in and do something. My issue now is that proportion of sheepdogs in society is disappearing. Just on statistical fact, there should be one within that train car, and there were none.

STU: Yeah. I mean --

JASON: They did not respond.

STU: We see what happens when they do, with Daniel Penny. Our society tries to vilify them and crush their existence. Now, there weren't that many people on that train. Right?

At least on that car. At least it's limited. I only saw three or four people there, there may have been more. I agree with you, though. Like, you see what happens when we actually do have a really recent example of someone doing exactly what Jason wants and what I would want a guy to do. Especially a marine to step up and stop this from happening. And the man was dragged by our legal system to a position where he nearly had to spend the rest of his life in prison.

I mean, I -- it's insanity. Thankfully, they came to their senses on that one.

GLENN: Well, the difference between that one and this one though is that the guy was threatening. This one, he killed somebody.

STU: Yeah. Right. Well, but -- I think -- but it's the opposite way. The debate with Penny, was should he have recognize that had this person might have just been crazy and not done anything?

Maybe. He hadn't actually acted yet. He was just saying things.

GLENN: Yeah. Well --

STU: He didn't wind up stabbing someone. This is a situation where these people have already seen what this man will do to you, even when you don't do anything to try to stop him. So if this woman, who is, again, looks to be an average American woman.

Across the aisle. Steps in and tries to do something. This guy could easily turn around and just make another pile of dead bodies next to the one that already exists.

And, you know, whether that is an optimal solution for our society, I don't know that that's helpful.

In that situation.

THE GLENN BECK PODCAST

Max Lucado on Overcoming Grief in Dark Times | The Glenn Beck Podcast | Ep 266

Disclaimer: This episode was filmed prior to the assassination of Charlie Kirk. But Glenn believes Max's message is needed now more than ever.
The political world is divided, constantly at war with itself. In many ways, our own lives are not much different. Why do we constantly focus on the negative? Why are we in pain? Where is God amid our anxiety and fear? Why can’t we ever seem to change? Pastor Max Lucado has found the solution: Stop thinking like that! It may seem easier said than done, but Max joins Glenn Beck to unpack the three tools he describes in his new book, “Tame Your Thoughts,” that make it easy for us to reset the way we think back to God’s factory settings. In this much-needed conversation, Max and Glenn tackle everything from feeling doubt as a parent to facing unfair hardships to ... UFOs?! Plus, Max shares what he recently got tattooed on his arm.

THE GLENN BECK PODCAST

Are Demonic Forces to Blame for Charlie Kirk, Minnesota & Charlotte Killings?

This week has seen some of the most heinous actions in recent memory. Glenn has been discussing the growth of evil in our society, and with the assassination of civil rights leader Charlie Kirk, the recent transgender shooter who took the lives of two children at a Catholic school, and the murder of Ukrainian refugee Iryna Zarutska, how can we make sense of all this evil? On today's Friday Exclusive, Glenn speaks with BlazeTV host of "Strange Encounters" Rick Burgess to discuss the demon-possessed transgender shooter and the horrific assassination of Charlie Kirk. Rick breaks down the reality of demon possession and how individuals wind up possessed. Rick and Glenn also discuss the dangers of the grotesque things we see online and in movies, TV shows, and video games on a daily basis. Rick warns that when we allow our minds to be altered by substances like drugs or alcohol, it opens a door for the enemy to take control. A supernatural war is waging in our society, and it’s a Christian’s job to fight this war. Glenn and Rick remind Christians of what their first citizenship is.

Glenn's Show Prep

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Shocking train video: Passengers wait while woman bleeds out

Transcript

Max Lucado on Overcoming Grief in Dark Times | The Glenn Beck Podcast | Ep 266

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