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Glenn: America Has Done ‘Really Bad Things’ and ‘Glorious Things’ — Let’s Be Honest About Both

Confederate statues have been coming down around the country, with the removal of a statue of Gen. Robert E. Lee sparking a white nationalist rally in Charlottesville last weekend.

America has Nazis “in growing numbers,” but we can’t address the modern problem without looking at the big picture, Glenn Beck noted on Thursday’s “The Glenn Beck Radio Program.”

The Confederacy was founded to protect and promote slavery, but racism goes beyond Confederate ideals. Progressive figures like Woodrow Wilson and Margaret Sanger have also contributed to America’s history of racism.

More than ever, we need to teach the next generation the uncensored version of American history, with both the “really bad things” and the “glorious things,” Glenn said. While we live in a great country with an incredible history, it’s important not to whitewash the terrible moments. If you don’t teach your children the bad along with the good, they won’t understand America in context.

“I want to recognize the past, and I want to recognize both the good and the bad,” Glenn said. “You cannot raise your children to believe that America is just this sunshine-and-lollipops country, because it’s not.”

GLENN: Yesterday, I started this program with much -- many of the same words that I'm going to start this one with: This is not a program for babies. This is not a program for snowflakes. And it is not a program today for people who are just playing team sports.

I am -- I am an American because I believe in the Constitution of the United States of America. I believe in the Bill of Rights. And I believe that there are millions of Americans who are afraid of their own side right now. They are afraid of the people who are in Berkeley, California, who are trying to silence free speech all across the universities. And I know this because I have many liberal friends, who will tell me silently -- and those days really have to come to an end soon, guys -- who will tell me silently, they are -- and this is a quote from one of them -- they are more afraid of my side than I am yours.

They know they've unleashed a monster. And right now, the left might be celebrating the taking down of Confederate statues. Now, me personally -- and I grew up in Seattle, Washington, so I have no heritage from the South. In fact, my heritage is from two forefathers that were killed by the South. One of them died in a really note other side concentration camp where pretty much they all starved to death. Died of disease in the South.

So any heritage that I do have is on the North. So I approach this with that. But I also believe that I'm a pretty fair person. I look into history, and I don't want to whitewash our history. I want to recognize the past, and I want to recognize both the good and the bad. You cannot raise your children to believe that America is just this sun shine and lollipops country because it's not. We have some really bad things.

With that being said, we also have some really glorious things about this nation. But if you don't teach your children the bad things -- if they don't hear it from you and then hear, "But this is why America is so great anyway. Name the countries that haven't done this kind of stuff" -- we have to teach history and keep it in context and look for the advancement of man.

Are there racists? Yeah, yeah. Boy. Are there Nazis? Yeah, in growing numbers.

These -- these have been seen -- exactly what's going on in the world has been seen before. And what's happening right now was played out in the -- the late 19s and the early 1920s.

This progressive movement that glorified racism -- from Woodrow Wilson to Margaret Sanger, they glorified racism. They beefed up the Klan. The Klan was almost dead, and they brought it back to life. Because they were -- they had a deep hatred for black people. And that is the truth. Look it up.

If you want to tear down a memorial because people had a real, true hatred for people of color, then you need to take the one living memorial and discard it. And that's Planned Parenthood. If you want to have a real discussion, I will stand with you.

Bedford Forrest, horrible human being. Horrible human being. A general in the South. Founder of the Klan.

He skinned people alive, if you stood up for the slaves and you were white. And then he would hang your skin on the sides of barns, along with black skins, to let everybody know, "You come into this area and you stand for the North, this is what's going to happen to you."

There's no way you can stand with those from the early 20th century progressive movement, and there's no way you can stand with the Klan, the Nazis, or Antifa. Can't.

And I want to warn you that right now, the left might be feeling pretty good because we're getting rid of the Confederate symbols. I've always wondered why we have these people in our cities. "Well, because of heritage."

Yeah, but the heritage is a lie. The one that you have been taught and held on to is a lie. I'm sorry, it is. If you read the Confederate constitution, it was not for state's rights.

If you wanted to break away from the United States, then you take the Constitution of the United States, and you say, "This Constitution is right. The Bill of Rights is right. We just don't interpret it for black people because we don't think black people are people."

You have a hard time defending that. But at least you can say, "No, it was for state's rights. And it was for the constitution in my perverted sort of way." Okay. That's not what they did.

They betrayed the country. They claimed that it was about state's rights. But then when they wrote their new constitution, they made it impossible for you to join the Confederate states if you didn't also support slavery in your state and believe that slavery should be furthered in every state. That's not state's rights. That's a cramdown. That's really, really early progressivism.

I want to lay something out for you today. And yesterday on the program, I said, I want you to write a few things down. But honestly, I didn't leave here last night until 9:30. And I was so busy last night that I didn't have time to do anything other than notes. And this warning is too important, and I'm -- I'm not going on the air until this is exactly right. Because what I feel in my gut is what I told you a few years ago. And that is, there's going to believe a time when you're not going to recognize your country. There's going to come a time when everything you thought was solid is liquid, and everything that was liquid is solid. There's going to come a time where everything is turned inside out and upside down. And you're just not going to know which direction to go in. And you won't believe in any anything. But you're going to get up and you're going to wake up, and you won't recognize your country.

Well, guys, if this isn't the final nail in that coffin, I don't know what is.

When we are actually having a conversation and an argument over, "Are you going to stand with the communists or the Nazis," the country has gone insane. It is over the cliff. And I draw a line in the sand for me and my family. I'm not telling you what to do. But for me and my family, we go no further. I am not going to play that game because those are false options. That is not true.

And I will not join a mob on either side. When you're pulling down statues and you're doing it with mob justice, you're no better than the Wild West. You're no better than the savages that we crawled and fought so many thousands of years to -- to get away from.

Man has a savage nation -- nature to him. We are animals. And it takes hard work to stop acting like an animal. Great, profound sacrifices have been made to be able to quiet the savage beast that is in all of us, no matter what color you are.

And this was a grand experiment. And, you know what, the world has never been like this ever, ever. Not even close to this.

And everybody thinks it's just going to go on forever. And, well, you're not going to -- it's not going to get really bad.

If I would have told you that the world would be at this point ten years ago and said, "Within ten years," you would have said -- even if you followed me and believed me, you would have said, "Oh, Glenn, he's going too far." And here's what I want you to hear: Saturday started not a new chapter, perhaps a new section. But I feel like it's a new book, or it's about to be.

We've -- we've started to write, as of Saturday, a new section of the story of America. We ended the beginning. The beginning has been going on for a while. The beginning of whatever is going to happen to America, that has ended. And we are now beginning the middle.

Does that make sense? The middle is not going to be a long section. But the middle will chart the ending.

And so it's, choose your own story. But every choice we make today, every choice we make is going to flip to Page 96 or flip to Page 71. Every choice is going to take us on a different adventure. And this isn't a storybook.

We are either going to pull ourselves out of the tar pit that we're in right now, or we're going under. And when we go under, it's Game of Thrones. For a while, the world will go into Game of Thrones. Do we pull ourselves out? How do you silence half a population?

I want to show you why I believe the last four days have forever changed the country. It has -- the last four days is either the beginning of a new party or the absolute end of any conservative party.

Conservatives and really, truly, I believe, the Constitution, are on the ropes. And the next few months are going to decide our fate.

And when I say the next few months are going to decide our fate, it's not time. It's what we do with that time that will decide our fate. And I want to show you, in a real quick recap, why I believe everything has changed on Saturday, when we come back.

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Meet the pro-Intifada candidate NYC Democrats just elected

New York City Democrats just elected 33-year-old Zohran Mamdani, a "socialist Muslim", as the Party's candidate for mayor. But Glenn Beck argues that his radical beliefs are actually communist and Islamist.

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VOICE: Z10852. Something weird is going on. The World Trade Center is on fire.

VOICE: Seriously the top of the building. We're trying to get information.

VOICE: Top level of one of the --

VOICE: To unfold from New York City.

VOICE: A plane crashed just --

VOICE: My sister is in that believe. I hope she's okay. I have to come to New York.

VOICE: It's pandemonium.

VOICE: It's raining papers.

VOICE: Wait a minute! Stop just a second. Why are we -- why are we -- I've got breaking news. Breaking news, yesterday. New York City just elected as their mayoral candidate for the left. And the Democrats, a -- a Muslim radical, who is also a communist!

So, you know, it only took you 25 years. It only took you 25 years, New York, to go completely insane.

Somebody who is -- well, I mean, if I might quote Michael malice today. I am old enough to remember when New Yorkers endured 9/11 instead of voting for it.

But you've got a -- you've got a communist jihadist apologist now.

Who was -- you know, well, CAIR put $100,000 behind his bid for New York City mayor.

So you have somebody who is endorsed by CAIR. That's really good.

He also was somebody who said, you know, he was -- he was for the shooting of the United Health Care CEO.

Said he was looking forward to driving down magnum Joan avenue. I don't know. Sounds like supporting people in the streets. Maybe it's just me.

Then he also said that he was going to globalize the intifada, which I think that's -- maybe -- maybe that's just me.

I mean, what do I know?

Tim Miller who is a podcaster. Asked him a few weeks ago. Asked him about his pro Palestinian slogan. Globalized the intifada. And he said, for me, ultimately, what I hear in so many, is a desperate desire for equality and equal rights, in standing up for Palistinian human rights. Oh, is that what you hear, Mr. CAIR?

Really? Huh, that's interesting.

Right. So globalize the intifada.

I mean, I mean, sure, that's -- I mean well, let me go on.

Because I don't want to take him out of context.

He then delved into the semantics of the intifada, citing the United States Holocaust memorial museum's use of a word for a translation for uprising, in an Arabic version of an article, a museum published about the Warsaw ghetto.

Oh!

So this is just a comparison, about the -- the armed rebellion against the Nazis!

I don't know if that makes me feel better!

I mean, if we're globalizing that.

We're the Nazis in this scenario.

Because I don't think it's the Palestinians.

I certainly don't think it's anybody who is like, hey.

Global jihad. I don't think it's those guys.

Or the Nazis. Who are the Nazis in that?

And it seems, if that's what you mean, then it's not just a harmless kind of slogan about human rights. It is a call for violence on the streets.

Because I don't know if you know, that's what happened when the Jews had their uprising against the Nazis.

I'm just saying!

But, hey, hey, free Palestine.

Oh, that's not what that means, gang. That is not what that means, but don't worry about it. He's just going to be possibly the new mayor.

And that's great. By the way, the Columbia faculty members signed a letter defending Hamas.

They were also among the donors to his mayoral campaign.

So, you know, you don't have anything to worry about.

And his father, who used to work at Columbia. Do you know, Stu?

Is his Dad -- is he still a professor at Columbia University?

He said that -- this violent terror thing of Islam, is not a part of Islam. Now, I've read the Koran, and much of the hadith.

And I'm pretty sure the violence is a part of that. But no.

No. This is something entirely new.

And his father while at Columbia university, wanted everybody to know, that this is actually -- this is something that came out of America!

America is really responsible for this.

And, you know, it really started with the Reagan administration, you know, when he started -- when he started with his very religious terms, to finish the war against the evil empire.

So, you know, that's where -- that's where 9/11 came from.

Is what -- don't worry about it! Don't worry about it!

Because who am I? I'm clearly just -- am I an anti-Semite today, or am I an Islamophobic? I can't remember which one.

Oh, it's probably both. Anyway, Islamophobia. Let me just explain Islamophobia. I haven't even gotten to the Communist part of it. Which is really, really -- New York, you're in one for hell of a ride. Buckle up.

It will be a fun rollercoaster for you. My gosh, I've never been happier that I've been away are if New York.

Anyway, I just want I to know, there is Islam. And then there is Islamists. Now, an Islamist is somebody who really wants Sharia law.

That's political Islam!

That's not a faith. That's political Islam.

Now, let me make really -- something really clear. Criticizing Islamism, is not Islamophobia. Pointing out the dangers of, oh. I don't know.

Political Islam. The ideology that seeks to use the tools of democracy, ultimately to destroy democracy, is not an attack on Muslims.

No. Uh-uh.

You know why?

Because Muslims are often the first people in line.

The first victims of the ideology.

So let's draw a bright, bright line between Islam as a faith, millions of people can practice that faithfully and peacefully.

It's mostly peaceful, okay?

Then there's the Islamism.

Islamism is something entirely -- that's a political project.

A theocratic political -- oh. Left loves theocracies. They love it.

Of course, you never see a problem with it.

See it when an Islamist is touting it. Anyway, it's not about prayer. It's not about fasting. It's not about spiritual life.

It's all about power. It's about merging of mosque and state. It's about implementing Sharia, not as a personal code of conduct. But as a governing legal system.

And it's -- it's supremacy.

Absolutely. Faith.

Religion.

It's -- there's one thing that's supreme.

It's misogynistic.

Deeply intolerant of all kinds of things.

Descent. Secularism. Other faiths. Even competing interpretations from inside the faith itself.

It will behead them too.

So let's -- let's be honest here for a second.

You know, CAIR should be labeled an international terror organization.

In my opinion. In my opinion.

Oh, does that make me -- that makes me an Islamophobe. I'm sure. I'm sure they will start a campaign against me on being an Islamophobe.

Stand in line, guys. You've been doing it since 2001, okay?

I don't really care. And I don't think the American people. I think that record, all the grooves are worn-out on that one, okay?

This is not a religion we're talking about. When we're talking about Sharia law. And we're talking about globalize the intifada. What does that mean, actually, to globalize it?

Does that mean we now want to do what is happening to Israel? All over the world?

Has the Palestinian plight become our plight you now, as Americans?

That there has to be an intifada here!

Because it's the kind of the same. You know. It's kind of the same over, you know, with what the Palestinians are going through.

Well, it's very much like what the Jews went through with the Nazis.

That's a weird one. That one makes my head hurt. It's very much the same as that. And very much the same as the fight against Donald Trump.

Oh, this is going to be fun. It's fun!

Really fun. You know, the irony here is, the ones that will scream Islamophobia the most, are the ones in the progressive left, the champions of feminism, LGBTQ rights. And secularism.

They're going to -- no. You want -- they're going to stand with the people, who want to kill them first.

See, this is how smart they are!

This is why it's going to work out well, in New York City.

Let me just say. If you have an ounce of common sense, you run a business, you have an ounce of wealth. And I don't mean wealth like, you know, hey, Lovey.

Let's get on the boat for a three-hour tour with a suitcase full of cash. I mean you saved anything, anything, get the hell out of New York City.

I mean, this is about survival. This is about free speech. This is about women's rights.
Religious pluralism. Secular legal systems. Liberal democracy.

But it's also about failed principles of Communism. Okay?

First, you have to call out political Islam for what it is. Okay?

And we have to do it with the clarity that we call out white nationalism.

Got to do it with that. Got to -- you know, the Klan. Really bad people.

Really bad people.

Anybody who is shouting for globalized intifada?

Pretty bad. Pretty bad people.

Okay?

Now, let's get to communism.

Because that's another cool, cool angle of the new Democratic candidate for -- for mayor of New York City.

That I just -- I think is cuddly and cute. Sure, it led to 100 million deaths. But this time, New York is going to be radically different. Oh, did I use the word radical?

I didn't mean to use that. What's radical about this guy?

Nothing. He's just like you!

Well, not exactly.

But let's talk about communism, next!

Now, the new mayoral candidate that's running there in New York City. That so many young people rushed to defend and vote for. He's promising free buses.

That's going to work out.

Where are you going to get the money for free buses.

It's free!

City-run grocery stores.

Oh, rent freezes. And finally somebody has done it. A 30-dollar minimum wage.

So under the banner of equity. And, you know, we will tax the wealthy. And the corporations. You know, we're going to squeeze another $10 billion out of them.

Really?

Because they're going to call a U-Haul.

You know, they will call something like U-Haul. There will be a lot of -- there will be a lot of movers that are like, how do I get the truck back from Texas or Florida back up to New York? Nobody is moving up there.

But he's going to do it.

Now, his vision isn't really new. You know, just -- just tax people, so we could have city-run grocery stores. You know, I remember -- I'm old enough to remember those city-run grocery stores in Moscow.

They were great.

The shelves were empty.

But that's just Moscow.

It worked out completely different in Venezuela.

Where, oh, no.

It didn't. That's right. The grocery store.

They were eating the zoo animals.

But it will be different in New York.

Because they have rent controls too.

And that will just choke the housing supply, but don't worry. As a young family.

You know, you voted for it.

You know better.

It will work this time.

So, you know, I like building ideas, I just don't like usually building on the graves of 100 million people.

But, you know, why not? Why not?

You know, use this dogma.

And this time, it will be different. It's not like it was in China. Where the great leap forward, was a gross -- a gross parody of progress. Venezuela, which was oil rich. One of the richest nations in the hemisphere now sees 90 percent of its population in poverty!

Yeah. Darn it. You know what they did?

They decided to take state control of things.

You know, like grocery stores. And it worked out well. How is that free busing working out in Venezuela?

I just want to -- I just want to know.

Anyway, then you've got the globalize the intifada. Which is going to drop a little violence in, and anti-Semitism in with your communism.

Which is weird!

Because violence and anti-Semitism, always happen. When it -- when it comes to -- when it comes to communism.

This is weird!

I've got to play something for you. Because this has talked about on me earlier this morning.

Oh, wow.

Wait a minute. This is -- this is the whole coalition coming together here.

So this is going to be good. New York, this is going to be great.

It's going to be great for you.

No. He's going to uplift you. Then the social fabric of New York City is just going to be -- just one.

It's going to be fantastic. Don't worry about your 120 billion dollars in debt. Or your 10 billion-dollar deficit that you have right now.

You are going to charge the rich more taxes, and they will stay right there.

They will be like, you know what, that 46 percent in taxes that I'm paying, this is just not enough. It's just not enough.

I need to pay 60 or 70 percent to be able to pay my fair share. So that's good. That's good. That's good.

You know, they're not risking 100 million people. It's just 8 million people.

This time, it's just 8 million people.

But, hey. For those of you in upstate New York. That aren't going to be part of this experiment.

Don't worry, you get to pay for it. Because they'll kick it up to the state. The state will have to subsidize everything. And don't you love it?

Really, don't you want to subsidize the really crazy ideas of New York City?

I mean, why don't you have a -- why don't you have a democratic socialist. A/k/a communist mayor.

Why haven't you done that? Are you not progressive enough? Are you not looking into the future?

Are you stuck in the past?

I don't know. I don't know. The graveyard is pretty big. I have a hard time getting past that one. You know, yeah, so I'm stuck in the past. Because I can't seem to pass that graveyard, and get to be down the path with you. But it's going to be a paradise.

Forget arithmetic. You know, or human nature. This time, it's going to work. It's going to work. So all right!

Wish I lived in this morning.

No wait. Nope. I don't. Nope, I don't.

And Ted Cruz, stop it. Stop writing, hey, come to Texas. No. No. Don't come to Texas. Don't come to Florida. Go to California. It's beautiful this time of year. Go there. Go there.