Some in the mainstream media are claiming that Donald Trump (who survived 2 assassination attempts) called for the execution of former Rep. Liz Cheney by firing squad. But Glenn and Stu review the clip and explain why that’s an outright LIE. Trump was clearly suggesting that Cheney wouldn’t be a “warmonger” if she actually experienced war herself. But the media has become a propaganda arm for the Democratic Party, so it will keep on lying its way to the election …
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GLENN: I was thinking about the Liz Cheney thing you talked about earlier.
Where Donald Trump -- who would have thought, Glenn. That, by the way, the source of all violent rhetoric was the person shot on stage?
It's odd!
Really, Shyamalan-esque, with that twist.
GLENN: Really weird. That's the only reason they're making a big deal out of this.
That and -- that and they want to say, he's a fascist, that will shoot everybody who disagrees with him.
STU: Right. It just seems like a strange approach, to say, well, you know, our closing argument is? He is going to shoot Liz Cheney!
He's almost been shot multiple times in front of our eyes. It doesn't seem like the right approach.
GLENN: And he wasn't given a gun, by the way. He was recommending -- he was talking about war.
Give her a gun. And have nine rifles, you know, target her.
Let's see how she feels then.
He's talking about war.
STU: It's a very standard. Honestly, liberal talking point about war.
And Trump has been this way consistently for a very long time.
He probably made that same point about Bush and Cheney in 2004.
Right?
I mean -- but I was thinking about this, as everyone was doing the Liz Cheney thing. And she's on stage, campaigning with Kamala Harris everywhere.
Can you imagine. We all have a use for a time machine.
Okay?
Sure, going back and killing Baby Hitler is something you might do from it.
But one thing I have to put in the rotation. If I had the time machine. Go back to 2004, 2005, and just tell Dick Cheney, what is going to happen in 2024. That he and his daughter are going to be the heroes of the left. What a freaking bizarre thing!
GLENN: Oh, he was Darth Vader.
STU: He was the most hated person in the world.
GLENN: He still is Darth Vader to them.
STU: Now that he's endorsed Kamala Harris. I don't think that is --
GLENN: You think he's going over to dinner at people's houses? You think they fully embraced him? No way.
STU: I don't know. Maybe. I kind of feel like --
GLENN: Of course. They're for -- they're for big business now. I mean, they are everything they ever said they were against.
STU: And I feel like, you know, the -- Dick Cheney's comments have been. He did endorse Harris.
Which is incredible.
GLENN: Incredible.
STU: But, you know, his comments weren't -- haven't been as egregious as Liz Cheney's. Who, again, we should remind everybody.
It's not like a Never Trumper. It's not like the person who is like, I don't know about this.
Liz Cheney voted for Donald Trump in 2020! This is a person who wanted Donald Trump to be president right now!
That was her vote. And here she is, as the most -- she's gone completely off the reservation. And I was thinking, how many -- how many of these stories can we tell like this?
Roseanne Barr would be one of them. Roseanne Barr couldn't stand you at one point.
GLENN: I don't think we need to --
STU: She's not on the phone yet. I can talk about this. She's probably asleep.
No. But she -- is it Arguing with Idiots.
GLENN: Yeah. Here it is. Here it is. Glenn Beck, he's a vampire and a death lover. That's what Roseanne Barr said about me.
STU: Right. It was used about, we always put quotes on the back of these books. Keith Olbermann. You know, many of these people still hate you.
GLENN: I'm proud.
STU: Whoopi Goldberg. Which, by the way, called you a lying sack of dog mess.
GLENN: Yeah, she's a piece of --
STU: Keith Olbermann.
Only in his wildest dreams could an actual suicide bomber hope to do as much damage to this country.
There's all sorts of great stuff like this. And we do this for several books in a row.
Roseanne was one of them. I want to say, RFK Jr. was another one, on one of the backs of the books.
GLENN: Oh, yeah. No. Yeah, I think he called for my execution.
STU: Well, he did want you dead at one point. I don't think he does anymore, though.
GLENN: No, he doesn't, and I kind of liked him!
STU: Yeah, it's just -- it's weird how this stuff happens. It really is.
GLENN: It is. That's what we were texting back and forth, yesterday, Roseanne and I. And I was like, weren't you a Communist at some point?
Didn't you -- weren't you, hey, go Marx!
And she was like, no, I went to the Occupy Wall Street thing, to see what they were doing.
STU: Yeah.
GLENN: And she said, and everybody roped me in to that movement.
She said, I saw them as rich kids, protesting daddy, who worked on Wall Street. She said, I hate the corruption in the big businesses.
She's like no commies, man. I want a return, right?
STU: I don't think that's right.
GLENN: I know!
I think that's revisionist.
STU: We will have to ask her about this. If my remembrance is correct here. She ran for the green party nomination, and did not win it. And actually did wind up being the nominee at the peace and freedom party, which is legitimately to the left of the Green Party.
It is an outward Socialist Party!
Now, a lot of people, sometimes you take a nomination because it's convenient. They've got a ballot and a line somewhere.
That stuff could happen, so it could be something like that. I don't know. But that's what I remember from the situation. You know, but who knows?
GLENN: Now she's the queen of the garbage people.
STU: That's crazy!
GLENN: I know. Crazy!
STU: Tulsi Gabbard.
Tulsi Gabbard was running Bernie Sanders' campaign in 2016 in Hawaii.
GLENN: By the way, I will take -- I will take one Tulsi for the entire Cheney family. That's a good trade.
STU: I like that.
I will -- some of these figures, that we've been embraced, I'm not a big fan of. Tulsi I like though. She's just really -- she's smart. I like how calm and balanced she is.
GLENN: Yeah.
STU: Even though, I don't think I agree with her on a lot of things.
And I am, I will say, concerned if Trump wins. That some of these people will have roles that are a little bit too large about --
GLENN: You know what he said about RFK?
STU: Yes.
GLENN: His people came out and said, he's not talking about a cabinet position. And he said RFK doesn't want one. He will put him in charge of studies and coming back, show us what the problem is.
STU: But what I liked about Trump's comments on this. Is I don't want him anywhere near the environment. Good. As long as --
GLENN: Good. And he's openly saying it. He's not trying to convince anybody -- which I absolutely love.
Let me ask you.
Who is the brain trust around Kamala Harris?
STU: I mean, it's --
GLENN: Right. You don't even know. You have no idea.
STU: Because all the people in the Biden administration hate her. Now, some of them I'm sure are trying to latch on to her now. But they've been leaking bad stuff about her for years. She has a couple of people around her. Her sister is a big one.
GLENN: Right.
STU: I don't know. Tim Walz?
GLENN: Right.
STU: He was a football coach once, sort of.
GLENN: You have Tulsi, you have RFK. You have Elon Musk.
STU: Uh-huh. Yeah. That's one. Another one. Like Elon Musk is a guy who is -- who has the biggest electric car company in the world.
Why?
Because he wants to stop global warming, so much.
GLENN: Right.
STU: He's building spaceships, so he can go to Mars one day, to avoid the potential output of global warming. And like, that's probably the one I'm most excited about it.
You know I can't stand the global warming stuff. But like, him with the idea of him just taking a butcher's knife to the size of the government.
And just going after waste, and all that. I think is legitimately really exciting. I mean, we can see a major, major change.
GLENN: Oh, I think, especially if you get the Congress. If they have the Senate and the Congress, massive change is coming.
Massive change. And change that honestly, the left used to say, they wanted.
You know, all that -- let's end the wars. Let's audit the Pentagon.
Let's make sure that big corporations aren't in bed with the government. I mean, this is all stuff.
Let's restore the Bill of Rights.
STU: Oh. That would be nice.
GLENN: I mean, that's all the stuff the Democrats used to be for.
I think most Democrats in the country, are still for that.
You know, they were talking about this suppressed voter that -- did you see the story?
Where is this? Yeah. AOC. AOC is encouraging female voters, who are decidedly siding with Harris. While more men are voting for Trump than previously.
She said, you should leave Post-It notes in bathrooms for these fearful women in red states.
This is real. Your vote is anonymous and confidential. Who you vote for, is your secret. No one knows, unless you tell them.
Like, really? You really think that women. This pisses me off.
STU: It would piss you off more if you were a woman.
Oh, they don't think I have enough pride in myself, to tell people who I voted for, honestly.
GLENN: And honestly, what they're trying to say is we know your husband is oppressive.
STU: Bad. What a surprising message from the left.
GLENN: He will beat you if you vote for Kamala Harris.
That's what she's saying.
STU: It's pathetic. It's the same type of message of, we will make sure black people can't -- don't need IDs to vote.
Right?
It's the same nonsense. It's just demeaning and disgusting.
You know, what -- they're like, where are the strong women on the right?
What women are you talking to?
What women are you talking to? That are terrified to tell their husband to vote.
What person is this? I don't know anybody like that. I don't know anyone like that.
GLENN: I know a woman who is afraid --
STU: There's more to this story?
GLENN: Yeah, who is afraid now, afraid to express who they're voting for. Broadway actress -- and I think I'm getting this name right.
Kari Melacos (phonetic), avid supporter of RFK.
She just pointed on -- posted on Instagram, that she's voting for Trump.
So all of her friends in show business, all of them saying, it's a no for me.
I'm so deeply disappointed in you. What a loss!
I met you performing at a fundraiser for Hillary. Was that just a show to further your career?
Wow, this deeply satisfies me.
STU: Oh, the career progress of being a Trump supporter on Broadway.
Oh, my gosh! The glory that comes in from that decision.
What kind of idiot even writes that?
GLENN: I'm not sure how you've reached this decision, or what brought you to this place.
But I'm sending you love and hope, that you will think of the rights of me, my husband, our daughter, and reconsider your position. You sold out your friends for a gig?
I'm completely shocked in reading this. Thank you for showing us who you really are.
What it is you value publicly! There's nothing worse than a wolf in sheep's clothing.
STU: None of these people are married to this woman, right? I don't think.
GLENN: Right.
STU: I'm not saying you don't get pushback, by saying who you vote for. Of course, you do. But like, if you're in a marriage, where that's going on. Probably not a good decision at the very least.
GLENN: Well, if you're in a marriage where you don't feel comfortable in saying who you are voting for.
STU: You're probably in an abusive marriage, or something close to it.
GLENN: Yeah, close to it, if not an abusive marriage. Or you're in a marriage that you won't work.
If you're afraid to tell your spouse anything, you're in a marriage that's not going to last.
STU: I don't tell her about my heroin habit.
Does that mean we're in a bad marriage?
GLENN: No, heroin is completely -- because that does good in the long-run. Really.
STU: It's a troubling sign, let's put it that way. It's a troubling sign, though.
GLENN: Troubling sing, yeah.
STU: By the way, I love this headline.
Because you mentioned, you know, to Congress. Can control Republicans.
This shocked me. This is from the New York Times. It's an eight-minute 41-second read, if you want to go through it. So A couple thousand words. Right?
Not a short story. Here's a headline: A unified Republican Congress would give Trump broad power for his agenda.
GLENN: Oh.
STU: Now, that's just describing our system of government. That's all that is.
That's all that headline says. Now, I find it fascinating for that reason. Because it doesn't tell you anything.
GLENN: Right.
STU: Of course, if Donald Trump wins and Republicans win back the Congress, he's going to have power, to implement his agenda.
That's literally how this works.
GLENN: Assuming the G.O.P. is not the G.O.P. of the past.
STU: Right. Right.
But they should, in theory, like tax cuts. That was part of his agenda. They got control of Congress.
What happened? They passed tax cuts. Yes, that's how this works.
But like, you could write this article, very easily the opposite way. A unified Democrat Congress would give Kamala Harris broad support for her agenda.
But that's not scary to New York Times readers.
GLENN: Right.
STU: Right stop they write it this way. Even though, it's obviously true both ways.
It's scary to the New York Times readers. So they write it this way, to terrify you for a victory for Trump.
GLENN: When was the last time you picked up a New York Times?
STU: Like a physical copy. It had to be at a hotel.
GLENN: Yeah. I was at a hotel yesterday.
And I picked up a physical copy. Oh, my gosh, it's worse. It's worse when you're actually reading -- sitting there.
You pick it up, and you read it. And the whole front page is like, clown country.
It is just crazy!
