RADIOOctober 09, 2023

Alan Dershowitz SLAMS Obama, Harvard for reaction to Hamas, Iran war on Israel

Harvard Law School professor Alan Dershowitz is furious at what he is seeing not only out of Israel, but here in America: "Nobody could have imagined this: raping Jewish women, killing Jewish babies, and Harvard law students are supporting it!...These are our future leaders!" Dershowitz joins Glenn to explain what he believes the US and Israel must do next in order to make sure an attack like this never happens again: "This will never end unless there is regime change in Iran." Dershowitz also calls out former president Barack Obama for not speaking out in support of Israel and explains why he believes that "this is a direct attack on the United States."

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GLENN: Alan, I thought of you all weekend.

And every Jew, on the planet, this weekend. Especially those directly in the line of fire, in Israel.

Welcome to the program.

ALAN: Well, thanks, it was just ten days ago, or so. That I had a three-hour dinner with Benjamin Netanyahu. And we talked about all of the threats that Israel was facing.

But nobody could imagine this. Raping. Raping Jewish children. Killing Jewish babies. And Harvard Law students are supporting it. Harvard Law students are supporting it.

A group of about 30 Harvard organizations have supported Hamas and said, this is all the blame of Israel.

We're being raped, is the fault of Israel.

Barack Obama hasn't said, an F-ing word about this.

You can imagine if -- if this were directed against any other minority. The president of Harvard hasn't said a word about this.

The president of Yale. There's a demonstration today of Yale students.

University of New York, law school students.

Put all the blame for this on Israel.

These are our future leaders. These are the people today, who are being educated to become the heads of our legislative, executive, and judicial branch.

The heads of the New York Times. We are in a country in moral crisis. When you get our future leaders, defending rapists and murderers, and putting the blame on innocent people who just went to a concert. But let's remember where the real focus is.

The real villain here is Iran.

Iran put them up to it. We all know from Wall Street Journal reporting, that there were meetings in a Lebanon. In which Iran gave them the green light. Told them to go forward.

And this will never end, unless this regime changes in Iran.

And the first step they should take. It's for the United States and Israel, together, with the fleet that is now approaching. The east and Mediterranean.

To destroy Iran's nuclear reactor. They cannot come out of this thing.

Iran. Must come out of this thing, losing its most valuable weapon. The numerics.

The United States and Israel. And Saudi Arabia, all would like to see Iran's nuclear arsenal destroyed.

This is the time to do it. Because the world will finally understand, that Iran is behind all this.

And that, you know, Hamas and Hezbollah are puppets.

Mere surrogates that just do the bidding of this horrible, horrible Nazi regime. In Iran.

That will never be satisfied with the two-state solution. With the end of the occupation.

They want Israel wiped off the map. And every single Israeli Jew murdered. And if there was ever, ever proof of that.

It's this horrible genocide. More people who killed this weekend. More Jews were killed than during Kristallnacht.

And we keep forgetting that Harvard. Places like Harvard were a center of Nazi support during the 1930s.

Harvard university welcomed Nazis. Gave them honorary degrees.

GLENN: Columbia university did the same.

ALAN: Same. And Italian fascists too. Named the Italian center in support of Mussolini. So do not count on American academic institutions.

They produce our leaders. That's a problem, not a solution.

GLENN: So Alan, I -- I -- I -- I hate to say it.

But I think that America is -- you're right. We're in a moral crisis right now. How you can watch this, and not be pissed, horrified at what you saw.

But I believe -- now, Stu said it would take a few days or maybe even a week or so. But I believe as soon as that number becomes more. People killed in Palestine than they slaughtered in Israel, I think people are going to immediately say, okay. Okay.

That's enough.

Now you're being a bully. No. I mean, I don't know what the number is, or how you're going to wipe this out.

But Hamas, Hezbollah, Iran, those regimes have got to go. They've got to go.

Or you're never going to have any kind of peace.

ALAN: You're right. But already, there are people calling for a cease-fire.

With almost a thousand Israelis, maybe even more murdered. And perhaps as many as 100 holding hostage. They're calling for a cease-fire.

Let them first arrange for all the hostages to be sent back. Then call for a cease-fire. But don't call for a cease-fire, while there are 100 Israelis. And some Americans.

And some people from other countries. Brits and other countries, that are being held hostage. And these are not soldiers. These are young women, babies. Holocaust survivors.

People my age. I wish I were young enough to go to Israel and fight for them.

Because this is an existential battle, not only for the survival of the nation state of the Jewish people. But for the survival of democratic western Judeo Christian values. Which are -- which are at stake here.

You know, the head mullah recently said, Israel is first. But they're not the last. Christianity is being attacked.

All over the Middle East, by radical Muslims, who will not rest until every Jew and every Christian did. Were converted.

So, you know, this is -- this is a fight for -- for the survival of everything that we believe in.

And America and Israel, not only must they stand together. But all Americans must stand together. Barack Obama has to get and up make a statement. He has to lose some friends among the Hamas people.

The squad. The evil squad must stand up in support of American and Israeli guys, but they won't. The Harvard students, the Yale students. Cities and universities there. I went to that university. I went to Brooklyn College.

It was a great place. It was a free school for children and Democrats.

Today, it's a radical hotbed of progressive woke and even communist involvement. Where everything is the fault of -- and, by the way, they don't care about Israel.

Everything is the fault of America.

We're the villains.

You know, we're the big Satan. According to the students, at the -- at the -- at the city of university of New York. Paid for by you and me.

Taxpayer. Federal and state. These are students. And faculty. And teens, that are calling for the destruction of Israel.

And, you know, the faculty, the city of the University of New York.

The faculty of the law school, unanimously voted for boycotting against Israel. That's the faculty of a major law school in New York City.

I mean, we are in a crisis of unknown dimensions.

And we have to -- we have to fight back with all of our -- we have the majority. But we are an island.

It's the hundreds of students at these major universities. That are speaking out.

The thousands and tens of thousands, who support the United States. And support Israel.

Let's remember here, this was as much an attack on the United States, as it was in Israel. The Israelis are the victims directly. But this was an attempt to try to destroy Everest. By the United States to bring about peace between the Saudis. And the United States. And Israel.

And so this is a direct attack on the United States.

GLENN: I will tell you, Alan, I am -- I am -- I am with you on everything you say on this. Israel is our closest and our best ally, I believe.

The -- there's all kinds of Biblical reasons to support Israel and stand on their side.

But I am so concerned, that our military has been so degraded. We are out of cash.

We are -- we've used seven years of our missiles. And sent them over to Ukraine.

It will take us seven years to be able to manufacture them. And get them back online.

And --

ALAN: Now we're sending billions of dollars to the terrorist regime of Tehran.

First of all, there should immediately be a lawsuit brought by relatives of the victims, of this terror.

Particularly Americans.

And Americans who were killed and captured.

Lawsuits brought to freeze the $6 billion, and use it to compensate the victims of the Iranian hostilities. There's no reason why they should be able to get 1 penny. And Secretary of State Blinken, who does he think he's fooling?

When he says, oh, this money is not going to weapons.

It's going to food.

Iran is a rich country. They don't need money to get them food and medicine.

They can afford that. A little bit away from their terrorism. And to a really humanitarian issue.

So not a single penny should be allowed to be unfrozen. And given to Iran. And we have to stop that.

Lawsuits should be brought. And I would be happy to cooperate, any such lawsuit. To freeze that money.

And to make sure that not a penny of it goes to support further terrorist attacks. When you pay $6 billion to release an American hostage, what you're simply doing is raising the price for hostage taking.

And that's been the history. I wrote a book many years ago, called why terrorism works. And the answer is very simple. Because we pay for it. We reward it. And Iran is the winner here.

They're sitting there in Tehran. And they're gloating. And they're laughing. While the Israelis and Palestinians. Mothers and children are suffering.

They don't care. Not a single Iranian has been killed in this. They're the winners. And we can't allow them to be the winners. I have an article on today's New York Post, saying that the only answer is to hold Iran completely responsible for this. And treat them, as if they were the ones who came to that art festival. And raped and murdered innocent people.

GLENN: This is one of the reasons though, why I have been voted for a Democrat.

Especially recently. The whole Iranian bill that they passed. And that Donald Trump brought back. I mean, they have -- they have lost their mind on Middle East politics in my opinion. And I know that you --

ALAN: I agree with you. No, I agree with you. But, look, I want to commend President Biden for the statement he made yesterday. It was a whole-hearted, full-throated statement in support, sending the Gerald Ford Group, an aircraft carrier, into the Middle East is a good thing. So I don't want to make this into a partisan issue.

I want Americans of all political stripes to support it, and marginalize the Barack Obamas who won't say anything.

I'll bet you Barack Obama will say something.

I mean, his people will call and say, look, you're being attacked. You're being criticized.

He'll probably make some mealy mouthed statement. But Barack Obama is one of the great villains of this peace. He called me into the Oval Office, just before his second election.

And he said, Alan, you've known me for a long time.

I was teaching students of Harvard. He said, you know I have Israel's back.

What I didn't realize, is that he was painting a target on it. And allowing Israel to be used as the scapegoat.

As he was leaving office, he gave one last present to Israel. He allowed the United Nations to declare the security counsel, with the United States vote, to declare the western wall. Holiest place of Judaism. It's something that's been part of Judaism for thousands of years, to declare that legally occupied territory. The Hadassah Hospital. The Hebrew University.

All of which, he, Barack Obama allowed to be called illegally occupied territory. Shame on them.

GLENN: Alan, best of luck.

So you know, our -- our charity. My charity is kicked into high gear. And we're doing everything we can.

And if there's anything that we can help.

ALAN: There's no better group supporting Israel today, than evangelical Christians. I don't speak on behalf of Jews or behalf of Israel. I only speak on behalf of myself.

But thank you. Thank you, evangelical Christians. Thank you, Christians of every stripe, every dimension for being so supportive of -- of Israel.

And I hope. I know you will continue to show that kind of support.

GLENN: I know I took my family, almost ten years ago, to Auschwitz.

And I told my kids to read up. They could pick anybody they wanted to pick.

They had to be one of the Righteous Among the Nations. I told them then, now is the time to tell us who we are. And we stand proudly with Israel.

And the Jewish people.

Thank you.

Has THIS Islamist organization BROKEN state laws for YEARS?!

A new report accuses CAIR Action, the political arm of the Council on American-Islamic Relations, of breaking state laws with its political activism. Glenn Beck reviews this story...

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GLENN: So let me go over what is -- what's happening with -- with CAIR.

You know, the Founding Fathers were obsessed over accountability.

Because they knew one thing. You know, they did. They must get suggestions from people on, you know, through tweets. They studied every single system of government.

Every single republic that survived. That didn't survive.

Why didn't it survive?

They studied all forms of government. They were trying to come up with something that could -- could set people free.

And they -- they worked really hard on putting our checks and balances in place, because they knew, once power slips into the shadows. They knew, once power slips into the shadows, once influence becomes unmoored from law, what rises is not a republic.

It's a machine. And that's what you're seeing right now. We're not living in a republic. We're living in a machine.

We -- I think we're staring at one of the largest unregulated political machines operating in the United States ever! Okay.

There have been a couple of groups that are doing sweeping investigations, two watchdog groups. One of them is NCRI and the Intelligent Advocacy Network.

And they have concluded now that the political arm of CAIR, he known as CAIR action, has been operating nationwide with no legal authority, to do the things it has been doing for years now.

They're not allowed to raise money. They've been raising money. Coordinating political campaigns.

Not allowed to do it. Endorsing candidates. Not allowed to do it, they're doing it. Mobilizing voters, shaping policy, functioning as a national advocacy network.

They don't have the legal authority to do any of it. And no one has said anything.

Now, according to the report, CAIR action doesn't just have a paperwork problem.

Investigators found, state by state, that it lacks the license, the registrations. The charitable authorizations, required to legally solicit money.

Excuse me. Or conduct political activity, in any of the 22 states in which it operates. Think of that!

I know how serious this is, because I remember what it took to get the license in each and every state, for Mercury One.

So we could operate. We could raise money. We could do things in those states. It's a lot of work. And if you don't do it, you go to jail. And they find out pretty quickly.

Okay?

22 states, they operate not one, zero legal authorization.

In Washington, DC, the city where CAIR action is incorporated, the department of licensing and consumer protection told investigators, they have no record of CAIR action ever obtaining the basic business license required to solicit funds or to operate.

Imagine how long would you last in business, especially if you were controversial.

How long would you remain in business, if you never had a business license?

You think somebody would figure that out?

In a sooner time than I don't know. A couple of decades!

This report means, that the organization if true, is engaging in unlicensed inner state solicitation.

It has exposed itself to allegations as serious as deceptive solicitation. Wire fraud and false statements to the IRS. These are big things.

And this is not political rhetoric.

Are these phrases written in black and white. In the law.

And by investigators. In California, one of CAIR's most active hubs. The state attorney general has said, the state attorney general of California has said, same pattern here!

The state of California, to say, yep. That's what's happening here.

CAIR action has never registered with California's charitable registry.

Never filed the required CT1 form. And has no authorization whatsoever to request donations. But they've been doing it in California anyway.

Fundraising, selling memberships. Issuing endorsements. Mobilizing voters. All of that has been done by CAIR action. There's no record of any license. Any permission, ever. Going to CAIR. From California. That's according to their attorney general.

Wow!

That's pretty remarkable, huh? How does that happen?

It's not just the coast. It is also happening to the Midwest, the South, the Mountain West. Every state hosting its own CAIR action fundraising page, complete with the donate now and become a member portal, despite no trace of the legal filings required to operate. That's bad!

Now, here's where the stakes rise.

Because CAIR action presents itself openly, as the political arm of CAIR National.

Investigators are now warning that any unauthorized fundraising or political activity.

Could become CAIR's national responsibility as well.

So, in other words, the parent, CAIR itself, might be held responsible.

Meaning, this is want just a rogue subdivision.

This could implicate the entire National Organization of CAIR.

Now, this is happening at the same time it's coming under national scrutiny. It's also Texas.

And I think Florida have designated the group a foreign terrorist organization. Members of Congress are now asking the IRS, the Treasury, the Department of Education to investigate all of its partnerships, all of its financing, all of its influence operations. I mean, I think they're going to be in trouble.

How long have we been saying this?

But every time, I have pointed out anything about CAIR, I have been called an Islamophobe, which shuts everything down. That is a word, developed by people like CAIR, to shut people down, so you'll never look into them.

So what happens next?

First of all, the reports have to hold up.

Regulators now have an obligation. Not a choice. An obligation to act!

State attorneys general in these 22 states, they might pursue fines, injunctions, criminal referrals.

All of them need to take action!

The IRS, needs to take action. Investigate tax exempt fraud. Treasury Department may review foreign influence or money flow violations.

Anything coming from overseas.

Oh, I can't imagine it. They're so buttoned up, right now.

DC regulators may determine whether CAIR actions entire fundraising operation has been unlawful from the beginning.

But here's the deeper question. And it's not bureaucratic. This one is constitutional.

Can the United States tolerate an influence machine, that operates outside of the legal framework, designed to prevent corruption, foreign leverage, and untraceable money?

If I hear one more time, talking about how AIPAC has just got to be investigated. Fine. Investigate.

I'm not against it.

Investigate.

Why aren't you saying anything about CAIR?

It feels like it might be a tool in the hands of a foreign operation.

Why aren't you saying anything about this?

Because here it is! It's not like, hey. I wonder why.

This is it! This is it! This isn't about silencing CAIR. Muslim Americans are -- that are full citizens, they have every right to speak. Every right to vote. Every right to organize. Participate in public life. No question! They can disagree with me, all they want.

But no organization. None! Not mine. Not yours. Not theirs. None. Should operate a nationwide political network, in the shadows and be immune from all of the guardrails that every other group must follow!

That's called a fourth branch of government!

That's how a fourth branch goes.

By the way, CAIR has placed all kinds of people in our Department of Homeland Security. Et cetera, et cetera. This organization has done it!

This is -- you cannot have a fourth branch of government.

They must abide by the laws.

No -- you can't have a branch that nobody elected. Nobody oversees.

Nobody holds accountable.

We talked about this yesterday, on yesterday's podcast. So what needs to happen is total transparency. CAIR action has to release its filings. Its donor structure. Its compliance records, if they exist. Equal enforcement under the law. I don't want them prosecuted in special ways.

Look, if AIPAC is doing the same thing. AIPAC should be prosecuted exactly the same way.
I want it equal. I want constitutional rule.

If conservatives, if Catholics, pro-Israel, environmental, Second Amendment groups, if they have to comply by the state law, so does CAIR action.

And if CAIR action has to do it, so do the Second Amendment groups and environmentalists, and pro-Israel and conservative groups. The law cannot be selective. It can't be!

I don't know how that's controversial in today's world. But somehow or another, they will find a way.

The Feds have to review all of this. If the report is accurate, the IRS and the Treasury have to determine whether false statements or unlicensed interstate solicitations have occurred.

Americans deserve to know what exactly, who is influencing our elections. Who is shaping our policy? Who is raising money in their state?

Especially physical the organization claims political authority, that it doesn't legally possess.

Because history will teach us one unchanging lesson. When a republic stops enforcing its own laws, someone else will always step in to fill that vacuum because power abhors a vacuum!

Unregulated, political power abhors a free people. So while it's about CAIR, it's not about Muslim Americans. It's not about religion.

As always, at least on this program, we try to make it about the rule of law.

One standard for everyone or no standard at all!

And that more than anything, will determine whether or not our institutions remain worthy of the freedom and responsibility that we have entrusted to them.

Glenn Beck WARNS Democrats Will Return with VENGEANCE in 2026 | Glenn TV | Ep 473

America is entering a year of historic upheaval from Charlie Kirk’s assassination and the spiritual shock that followed, to Trump’s tariff revolution, China’s rare-earth war, collapsing energy grids, AI displacement, and the looming fights over Taiwan and Venezuela. Glenn sits down with BlazeTV hosts ‪@deaceshow‬ and ‪@lizwheeler‬ along with his head researcher Jason Buttrill, to break down the biggest stories of 2025. Plus, they each give their most explosive prediction for 2026 that could shape our politics, economy, national security, and civil rights in ways Americans have never experienced before.

Trump Just SHATTERED the “Expert Class” - And the Deep State is in Total Panic

For nearly a century, Washington DC has been ruled by an unelected “expert class” operating as an unconstitutional fourth branch of government — accountable to no one, removable by no president, and shielded from all consequences. Glenn breaks down why Trump’s firing of the Federal Trade Commissioner could finally dismantle the 1935 precedent that empowered technocrats, how Ketanji Brown Jackson exposed the Supreme Court’s embrace of expert rule, and why America cannot survive a government run by people who never face the voters and never pay for their failures.

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GLENN: Okay. So President Donald Trump fired the federal trade commissioner Rebecca Slaughter. Federal Trade Commission is an administrative position. I mean, this is under -- the head of the federal trade commission is a cabinet member.

And if the justices uphold Trump's firing of Slaughter, that will overturn a precedent that was horrible, that was set in 1935. Remember, 1935, we're flirting with fascism. You know, everybody thinks. Because they haven't seen the horrors of fascism yet.

Everybody thinks fascism is neat, blah, blah. So what they do is they say that this is an independent person. And the president can't fire them. Because they're, you know, an independent agency.

Well, wait. That would make a fourth branch of government. Our Constitution is really clear.

There is no such thing as a fourth branch of government. Right?

So that's what they're deciding. Now, here is Ketanji Brown Jackson, who is talking about how we really need to listen to the experts. Cut four.

VOICE: Because presidents have accepted that there could be both an understanding of Congress and the presidency. That it is in the best interest of the American people to have certain kinds of issues, handled by experts. Who, and I think you -- in your colloquy, Justice Kagan, have identified the fact that these boards are not only experts, but they're also nonpartisan. So the -- the seats are actually distributed in such a way, that we are presumably eliminating political influence because we're trying to get to science and data and actual facts, related to how these decisions are made.

And so the real risk, I think, of allowing non- -- of allowing these kinds of decisions to be made by the president, of saying, everybody can just be removed when I come in, is that we will get away from those very important policy considerations.

VOICE: We will get away from US policy considerations, and it will create opportunities for all kinds of problems that Congress and prior presidents wanted to avoid, risks that flow inevitably, just given human nature, the realities of the world that we live in.

GLENN: Okay.

Now, remember, what she's saying here is, we have to have experts.

We have to have experts. We have to have experts that don't really answer to anybody. Okay?

They're appointed. And then they're just there. This from a, quote, judicial expert, who cannot define a woman, because she's not a doctor.
She's not a scientist.

She needs an expert to define a woman.
That's how insane her thinking is. Okay?

Now, I would just like to ask the Supreme Court, when you want things run by experts, do you mean things like the State Department, or the counsel of foreign relations, that have gotten us into these endless war wars for 100 years?

Because these are the things that Woodrow Wilson wanted. He wanted the country run by experts.

Okay. So is it like the Council of Foreign Relations, that keep getting us into these endless wars.

Or is it more like the Fed, that directs our fiscal policy, that has driven us into $38 trillion of at the time. We have all powerful banks. That strangely all belong to the fed. And endless bailouts for those banks. Are those the experts that you're talking about?

Or are you talking about the experts that are doctors, that gave the country sterilizations, lobotomies, transgender surgeries. You know, or should we listen to the experts, like the ones that are now speaking in Illinois, to get us death on demand like Canada has, with their MAID assisted suicide, which is now the third largest killer in Canada. MAID, assisted suicide, third largest killer in Canada. Experts are saying, we now need it here, and they're pushing for it in Illinois. Or should we listen to the experts? And I think many of them are the same experts strangely, that brought us COVID. Yeah. That was an expert thing. They were trying to protect us. Because they need to do this for our protection. So direct from the labs in China with the help of the American experts like Fauci. We almost put the world out.

Should we listen to those guys?

Or the experts that brought us masking, and Home Depot is absolutely safe. But Ace Hardware wants to kill grandma. Which are the experts that we want? That we want to make sure that we have in our lives? That they don't answer, or can't be fired by anybody. Because I'm pretty full up on the experts, myself. I don't know.

But you're right. These experts would keep the president in check, and they would keep Congress in check. And you in check!

And the Supreme Court, which would be really great. You know, and you know who else they would keep in check? The people.

So, wow, it seems like we would just be a nation run by experts, and our Constitution would be out the window, because that's a fourth branch!

And if you don't believe me, that, you know, these experts never pay a price. Can you name a single expert?

Give me a name of an expert, that gave us any of the things that I just told you about.

Give me the name. I mean, give me the name of one of them. Give me the name of one of them that went to jail. Give me the name of one expert that has been discredited.

You know, where your name will be mud in this town. Do you know where that came from?

Your name is going to be mud. It's not M-U-D. It's M-U-D-D, that comes from Dr. Samuel Mudd. Okay? He was a docks man. He was an expert. He was that set John Wilkes Booth' broken leg. He made crutches. He let him stay there for a while. He claimed he didn't know him, but he did know him.

In fact, one of the reasons they proved it.

Is because when he pulled the boots off -- when he pulled both of his boots off, right there, in the back, you couldn't have missed it. It said "John Wilkes Booth."

He's like, I have no idea who he was.

Yeah. Well, you knew him in advance. This was a predetermined outpost where he could stay. It's clear you could know him.

The guy was still discredited, we still use his name today. Your name will be mud in this town.

And we think that it's like dirt, mixed with water kind of mud. No, it's M-U-D-D, Dr. Mudd. The expert that was so discredited, went to jail, paid for his part of the assassination of -- of Lincoln.

Give me the name of one of the experts in the last 100 years, that has brought us any of the trials and the tribulations. The things that have almost brought us to our knees. Give me the name of one of them. Can't!

Because once an expert class, they don't answer to anyone. So they never go to jail.

Wow! Doesn't that sound familiar. People never going to jail!

There's a rant that's going around right now, that I did in 2020. And everybody is like, see. He's talking about Pam Bondi.

No, no. I got to play this for you, a little later on in the program. But I want to get to the experts and what the Constitution actually says about that. Because you don't need my opinion. What you need are the actual facts. So you can stand up and say, yeah. I think Ketanji Brown Jackson is an idiot. Okay?

And she's really not an expert on anything. Especially the Constitution. You need the facts, on what the Founders said. Because the Founders would be absolutely against what they did in 1935.

Because that just -- what does it do?

It just sets up a fourth branch of government.

EXPLAINED: Why the Warner-Netflix/Paramount Merger is DANGEROUS for All of Us

The biggest media merger in modern history is unfolding, and Glenn Beck warns it’s the most dangerous consolidation of power America has faced in decades. With six corporations already controlling 90% of the nation’s news and entertainment, a Warner-Netflix or Warner-Paramount megacorporation would create an unstoppable information cartel. Glenn exposes how “too big to fail” thinking is repeating itself, how global elites and “experts” are tightening their grip, and why handing our entire cultural narrative to a handful of companies is a direct threat to freedom. The hour is late — and the stakes couldn’t be higher.

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GLENN: By the way, it's never good when you consolidate power. It's never good.

And what is going on now, with this Netflix Warner Brothers paramount stuff, I don't care if Larry Ellison is a conservative or not.

No one should have that much power.

I did a show, gosh, four years ago. I don't even remember when I did it.

We looked it up. In the 1980s. 19 percent of American media was owned by over 50 companies.

Forty years later, 90 percent of the media is watched and controlled by six companies.

National Amusements, the Red Stone Family controls CBS, CMT, MTV, Nickelodeon, gaming and internet. Simon & Schuster Books. That's all one.

Disney, ABC, ESPN, History Channel, Marvel, Star Wars, video games and print.

TimeWarner controls CNN, Warner Brothers, HBO, Turner, video games, internet, and print media like TIME. Comcast, MSNBC, NBC.

CNBC, Telemundo, the Internet.

New Corp. Fox. National Geographic. Ton of others. Sony, with a ton of movies, music and more. The big six. They're valued at nearly $500 billion.

Now, this is something I put together five years ago. So I don't even know. This is probably not even valid even today.

And now we're talking about Netflix, Warner Brothers. Paramount, into all of these one giant corporation. It's wrong! It's wrong!

We can't keep putting all -- everything into the hands of just a few! It's what's killing us!

We've got to spread this around. We can't -- the government cannot okay mergers like this.

They're big enough he has

What happened -- what happened when the banks went under, or almost went under in '08. What did they say the problem was?

They said the banks are too big to fail.

Too big to fail.

Because they were providing all of the services, everybody needs. All the time. And there's only a handful of them.

So if they fall, then everything falls.

Right?

That was the problem. So what did we do to fix it?

We made them bigger!

We let them merge with other banks, and gobble up other things!

And started taking on the local banks.

And so now, your banks that were too big to fail. Are now even bigger. And their failure would be even worse!

What is wrong with us?

Seriously, we're not this stupid.

We're not this stupid.

I think we're just this comfortable.

We just think the experts have a plan. No. The experts don't have a plan.

Their plan is stupid. Their plan is to make it bigger.

Every time it fails. Make it bigger. Push it up.

Make it more global.

No. Haven't you seen what the entire world is like?

The entire world is over-leveraged. The entire world is on the edge.

The entire world is being redesigned.
So what do we do? We don't allow them to make things bigger! We need to start taking more individual and local control of things. They're making it bigger. Which will make the problem bigger. And make the problem so big, you won't be able to do anything about it, because all the experts. All of the heads. They'll all -- there will be six of them. And they will all be sitting in one room.

And they will all be making the instigations. And with them, making those decisions will be all the heads of all the countries around the world, that you're not going to have a say in any of that. They're already trying to do it with the WEF.

But if -- if the Supreme Court says, no, experts matter. And the president can't fire them. You will not have any control over anything!

We're at this place, where we can back out. We can turn around.

We can do it.

It's not too late. But the hour is growing very late.

I don't know about you, I don't like being this.

Up to the edge, you know what I mean?

I would rather have lots of breathing room, between me and the edge of the cliff.

But we don't have that anymore.

Everything has to be done right.

And we have to pay attention.

And the worst thing we can do is make things bigger.

Dream big, think small.