RADIONovember 02, 2022

Reporter finds 'DISTURBING' trend while covering Paul Pelosi attack in San Francisco

Michael Shellenberger is doing what all reporters SHOULD DO when covering the attack on Nancy Pelosi’s husband, Paul: He is on the ground in San Francisco, knocking on as many doors as possible, and interviewing as many people as possible to try and piece together all the details. But Shellenberger, author of ‘San Fransicko,’ tells Glenn he’s witnessed reporters from mainstream media outlets being ‘lazy’ with their coverage, which by default suggests either bad journalism or political motivation. He exposes the ‘DISTURBING’ way some news reporters have covered the attack, and he explains how some have essentially swapped this story with the one about Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh’s near attack just months ago…

Transcript

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GLENN: Michael, how are you, sir?

MICHAEL: Great. Good to be back, Glenn.

GLENN: Yeah. Thank you so much for all your hard work on this.

MICHAEL: Well, thank you for having me on. I'm excited to talk about it.

GLENN: Okay. So tell me what you've found. What's true? What's not true?

MICHAEL: Well, look, what we know, this is somebody who, according to multiple witnesses, including the mother of his children. Was struggling with mental illness for over a decade. We know he was homeless for a while. We know there was extensive drug use. You know, we -- mental illness. Serious mental illness, like schizophrenia and bipolar disorder, are pretty rare. But we do see a lot of drug-induced mental illness, particularly from methamphetamine use, but certainly other drugs over time can cause psychosis, which is of course the classic, you know, insanity of not being able to tell the difference between reality and your imagination.

And so what's obvious here is the alleged suspect in the attack on Nancy Pelosi's husband was in the grip of psychosis. And to blame political ideology is just what you said, it's the equivalent of blaming Martin Scorsese for making the movie Taxi Driver, on John Hinckley Jr's attack on Ronald Reagan.

It's -- the crazy ideas expressed in the blog posts of the alleged attack of Pelosi, are themselves symptoms of the underlying psychosis. It's incorrect to point to them as the cause.

GLENN: So I heard this morning, that he was in the hospital, or was this weekend.

Was those for injuries, or was he in a psych word?

MICHAEL: I don't know. It could be both. It wouldn't -- he wouldn't be hospitalized long-term, if he was in the hospital. He'll be held. He'll be diagnosed by a psychiatrist. And we'll find out soon. I mean, I think that, the good news is that the truth gets out. It was obvious to me. Because, of course, I'm very close to this. I wrote a book about this. Came out last year. It was obvious to me, as soon as I heard about who it was, and I talked to his neighbors and family members.

That this was somebody who was unwell. And this was the result of a sickness.

I was disturbed by how quickly, even so-called mainstream journalists were to even blame conservatives. Blame Republicans. Blame Trump.

You know if somebody were to be, I read Michael Shellenberger's book, and that's why I committed this crime.

It would be inappropriate to blame me for that the crime. And I think everybody knows that. But in this toxic political environment, I think it's important to remind people of that.

GLENN: We never blamed Bernie Sanders, ever. In fact, we were clear on day one. That it wasn't Bernie Sanders's fault that one of his supporters went and tried to kill all the Republicans in Congress. That's ridiculous.

MICHAEL: Right. Of course. Of course. Yeah. I'm sorry to see. Basically, I had one episode in particular. There was a reporter, who supposedly focused on disinformation at NBC News. Who came out and he tweeted at my -- my reporting, and said, oh.

My reporting had been debunked because there are all these blog posts, showing that the suspect in the attack, had written crazy things. Including their right-wing things.

But also, things about fairies. And demons.

It was very disturbing.

I have a hard time believing that that journalist didn't know that -- what was driving the suspect was -- was mental illness or psychosis. It really appeared that he was deliberately misleading people, in order to engage in partisan political behavior, just ten days before the election. And just think, it's not just on Twitter. I mean, if you watch Meet The Press yesterday, the whole program was basically dedicated to this topic. And at no point, in any of the program, did they even discuss the fact that the suspect was clearly in a psychotic state, suffering from delusions, under long-term drug use.

Instead, Chuck Todd made the whole show, about political radicalization and ideas.

And I just think, that's terrible reporting. I think it's very partisan. I won't speculate as to the motives of the journalist, but it's either bad journalism, or it's motivated by politics.

GLENN: Is it worse that they did that, or that when Kavanaugh, the guy from California, came to kill Kavanaugh, they didn't even report it on any of the Sunday night shows.

MICHAEL: Well, that's the other thing. And I wrote a post about this yesterday, Glenn. And you're absolutely right. I mean, it's disturbing.

When the Kavanaugh assassination happened, of course, I paid attention to it. But I will say this, there are many progressive and liberal people in my life, who still do not know that there was a serious fascination plot against Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh. Because it was not covered. In anything close to this. Just as you said, three days after that assassination plot was revealed. None of the Sunday talk shows wrote about it.

The New York Times varied the story on page A20. The Pelosi assassination. Alleged assassination attempts was on the front page of the New York Times two days in a row.

You know, I'll tell you the other thing about it, is that the suspect in the Kavanaugh killing was clearly motivated by his pro-choice and his pro-gun control views. And his own lawyers, last week, said he was mentally fit to stand trial.

In other words, it appears -- again, there's more information to come. And I don't want to get ahead of it.

It appears as though the suspect of the Kavanaugh plot, was genuinely motivated by political fanaticism, not by mental illness.

Whereas, in the Pelosi case, he clearly was driven by psychosis, mental illness, drug induced, or underlying. We don't know. The media basically reversed those two stories.

And did not -- and covered the Pelosi plot attempt, as though it was driven by political fanaticism, rather than by psychosis.

STU: It really is incredible. You are from the area, Michael. And you were down there. Some of these interviews you were -- you were there, right?

MICHAEL: I was. I was. I mean, I think it's -- you know I'm a journalist at heart. And you know it's not that far from my heart. And I went down there. And I interviewed all the neighbors. I'll tell you a couple of shocking things. I won't name names, but I was not impressed by the reporting of the other journalists. Good journalism is you go and knock on all the doors, and you interview as many people as you can. I was the only one doing that.

There was a lot of laziness here. And that's also, the partisanship and the laziness are related, because if you have the idea that this was a Trump supporter, who went after Pelosi, then you don't want to go to get to the bottom of this stuff. You don't want to go through these interviews. You want to stick to your story.

So that was part of it. You know it's just -- you know when you get into it, Glenn. As you might imagine. It's a tragic story.

It's drug use. It's pedophilia. The mother of his two kids is in prison for basically child molestation. She was a crazy person. She herself is something -- I think she probably has a personality disorder and long-term drug use. The kids were in that house. They apparently weren't going to school. I mean, this is a real -- it's basically a symptom of exactly the problems I describe in San Fransicko, which is that we stop enforcing basic laws. And when you stop enforcing laws against people that are suffering mental illness or are addicted to hard drugs, they don't get that help they need.

And I think that's part of the lesson here. Is that this tragedy could have been averted if we enforce basic laws and mandated drug treatment. And psychiatric care for the people who need it.

It's not that every time someone -- you arrest somebody for breaking a law, that they have to go to prison or be punished. Certainly, some people do. But other people are just sick. And I think what we'll discover, as time goes on. The suspect in the Pelosi attack was somebody who was very ill. And needed to get treatment mandated. Many, many years ago. But didn't get it. Because we're in the grip of frankly some radical left political ideas.

GLENN: Did you see the op-ed by -- gosh, who was it?

Shoot. Lost his name. The guy who -- who just wrote this weekend, about the you know op-ed about Tom Cotton at the New York Times.

And how -- yeah. He's an op-ed columnist. And he even didn't say anything about it. He said, because we were afraid to.

When you said a minute ago, that you know they don't want to find it. How many are afraid to do their job in -- in journalism?

MICHAEL: Well, I was afraid. You know, my story. I came from the radical left. I considered myself a moderate. I'm politically independent.

But, yeah. I was afraid on everything. And you know partly you worry about losing your friends.

You worry about upsetting your family. You worry about not making a living. What you're describing is a column from Washington Post reporter, Eric Wimple who writes a media column. And to his credit, there was an ambivalent reaction to it, interestingly enough. But basically to his credit, he came out and said it was wrong for the New York Times to fire its op-ed page editor, who ran, of course, this op-ed by Senator Cotton, arguing for the use of the National Guard and US troops to put down the riots.

Well, he was not only -- the New York Times, because of the outrage, by its woke journalist staff. They basically denounced the op-ed. Fired the op-ed editor.

Everybody watched it happen. Knew it was wrong. To his credit. Whatever it was, like two years new. This columnist, at the Washington Post, said that that was wrong.

You know I think it's good. You know it's better late than never.

And he's one of the first people to say it.

Yeah. It's kind of -- it's social fear. You worry about your friends and family. It's also a financial fear. Like, am I getting fired from my job?

This is really serious stuff.

And I think that the partisanship. And you always emphasize this.

I think it's so important. We need to allow disagreements in our society. We need to appreciate and reward it.

I'm always shocked by how many people -- instead of being like, oh. I disagree with you. They're like, you should stop saying that. They want people to stay quiet.

GLENN: Right. Right. We're with Michael Shellenberger. We'll get more facts on -- I have a few more facts on what's true, what's not true. Then, I want to also talk to him about this push from the Democrats, to nationalize our gas and oil.

Hello, Venezuela. We'll go there, in 60 seconds.
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GLENN: So I think, Michael, because you have experience in your family with schizophrenia. I think it was your aunt.

MICHAEL: Yes.

GLENN: So you've seen it firsthand.

MICHAEL: Yeah. So it's interesting. Of course, when you're a child, and you know she -- she would say crazy things. So your parents have to explain to you, what's going on. And it is a little scary. Of course, it helps to have your parents there to kind of talk you through it. But, yeah. She thought the president of the United States.

I think it was Ford. Yeah. I think it was Ford or Nixon. They were communicating with her.

So I think -- there's a reaction, that they'll have in this case. That okay. Maybe he was like psychotic. But there's all these terrible conspiracy theories out there. And those need to stop.

Well, no. First of all, we have freedom of speech. And that means we actually have people have conspiracy theories. We let people believe all sorts of things. That's the point of a free society. So the idea that we'll get rid of certain ideas, is a very bad road to go down. The other thing is just that psychotic people will always find some justification for their behaviors. That's different than suggesting that those are the motivations. I do think that this is something that people can get. But you have to think about it for a minute. Which is that -- and we know this is true for everybody. Is that you have a motivation to do something. But you might give a different reason for why you did it. Well, people who are psychotic, they give crazier reasons often. But in many cases, I look at this, and I suspect that what we'll discover is that this was somebody who was lost. You know he lost his wife and kids.

GLENN: Right.

MICHAEL: He wasn't able to hold down a good job. He was using heavy drugs. His motivation was probably to somehow make his life better. As crazy as that sounds. To be a hero, or something like that. He had some story in his head, about how he was going to become a hero. This is how often these guys think, by making this attack. And that's ultimately what was driving it.

Not some political radicalization.

GLENN: Yeah. But there are few things about the story, that I don't know if they're true or not.

You know I -- I look at these things. And the reason why we have a plethora of conspiracy theories, is because we no longer trust the media. We no longer trust the government, to tell us anything close to the truth.

And then there are arming things that just kind of hang out in the air. And nobody explains them. And it doesn't fit in with the -- with the story line, that the media is going for.

First of all, is it that make sense to you? You think that's right?

MICHAEL: Yeah. Sure. The media, they're partisan now. Maybe they've always been. Although, I think there's no doubt, that it's gotten worse. So when this happened, they rushed to make this a story about why you should not vote for Republicans.

I mean, it's just sort of tragic.

Why Peanut the Squirrel PERFECTLY summarizes the 2024 election

The internet was outraged after the euthanization of social media star Peanut the Squirrel by New York authorities, along with his housemate Fred the Raccoon. The pet squirrel was forcibly taken from his home in an all-out raid after a neighbor reported that he might have rabies. And somehow, it quickly turned into a rallying cry for the MAGA crowd against government tyranny. Glenn and Stu review the story, which proves we’re living in “Clown World,” as Glenn’s new book, “Propaganda Wars,” describes. Is this just a distraction, or is there a legitimate reason why this is the top story a day before the 2024 election? The truth is more shocking than Glenn and Stu expected …

Transcript

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GLENN: Do I think this is the weaponization of government?

Yes. Some anonymous person made a complaint. Apparently said, he might have rabies. The person came in without the permission of the people, and grabbed him, and he bit him.

Of course he did! My dog might bite you too if you are aggressive to my family.

What the hell is this? Now, I don't know about you. But I suspect Karen.

STU: Uh-huh.

GLENN: That's what I -- that's who I suspect.

All Karens should be investigated today. And let me make this promise. If Donald Trump is elected, oh, all the Karens will be investigated. And probably, probably put in a camp someplace.

They're already building it, you know they are.

STU: This is an insane story.

GLENN: Insane.

STU: And it is so bizarre, when you're talking about the actual content of what occurred here.

You're talking about a squirrel and a raccoon, living as a pet. All of that. It is also one of the most egregious abuses of government power, I can ever remember.

It's like one of those things similar to -- like women's sports, where we talk about the transgender issue. There's a million different things that are really important about the transgender issue. Women's sports is not probably number one. The fact that a lot of medals get taken away.

It's dramatic. I have a girl, this might happen to. It's concerning. It's not the most serious part. It's the part that brings it home. Like the most. Right?

Moms and dads are like, wait a minute, my daughter will get hit in the face with a volleyball at 120 miles an hour. What are we talking about here? Right?

GLENN: Right.

STU: This is kind of in a weird way, sort of the same.

GLENN: It is! It is.

STU: You don't think about, it's a squirrel being killed. They get run over 9 trillion times a day.

GLENN: You know, can you stop just holding up the squirrel while you forget Fred the raccoon?

STU: I know, he's getting the shaft. Poor Fred.

GLENN: Poor Fred.

STU: But, I mean, if they will do this to a family, that is -- has documented all of this millions of millions of people. Followed this.

They see the squirrel is the little most adorable thing, jumping around. And the fact that they would do this.

GLENN: It's crazy.

STU: Knowing how visible it was. Just shows that they don't care. You think they care about you?

These people have millions and millions of people watching their daily life with this.

They took the squirrel and murdered it!

For no reason at all! In the most visible way possible.

They will not care about what your little complaint is.

Let me just point out, for no reason possible?

STU: No reason.

GLENN: Really? Okay.

Let me just quote Jen, early voter, Reuben from the Washington Post.

STU: Oh, God.

GLENN: Quote, the MAGA squirrel deserved to die. Now, I think this is both an absolutely ridiculous clown world story.

But I also think, it is a microcosm of everything this election is about.

Everything!

You know, they called Donald Trump vengeful.

They're going to get the MAGA squirrel, and kill him!

These people with peace in their hearts.

These animal lovers. The ones who just love the planet. Take an innocent squirrel.

That if he had a MAGA hat on, I can guarantee you, he didn't know what the hat was.

Not that he didn't know it was a MAGA hat!
He didn't even know it was a hat! And they kill him! This is nuts.

STU: Is that a squirrel joke?

GLENN: You've got a squirrel joke?

STU: You just said, it's nuts. You said, this is nuts. That's the ultimate squirrel joke. You made it, and didn't even realize it.
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STU: I am really shocked by this, though.

I don't know -- I don't know, it's funny. Because I don't -- did the -- did the people who the parents -- did the parents of the squirrel, are their politics known at all?

Like, are they?

GLENN: I don't know. Apparently, she deleted this post, because she started to get hammered for it.

STU: Okay.

GLENN: But Jen Reuben, Washington Post. She seems to know, it was a MAGA squirrel. I haven't asked the squirrels in my area, who they're for.

So there's no little teeny squirrel signs that I've seen for Trump, around any of the trees that I have in my house.

STU: I have heard that particular squirrel, peanut, supports lower corporate taxes.

So I'm concerned.

But it became a political issue. Not because --

GLENN: Everything is political!

STU: But not because -- as far as I know, these were like big MAGA people, who had a squirrel.

It's because the people who want your squirrel to live, are conservatives!

The people who don't want the government to have the power, to invade your home. And take your pets.

And murder them, for no reason, that's now a political issue!

Because the left wants the government to have that power!

They do. They want them to be able to do that. And they might say, well, I love my pet.

What are you talking about?

I love my pet, and I'm voting for Kamala Harris.

It doesn't matter, what you're advocating for is the power of the government to be able to do this stuff to you.

GLENN: And you believe that it will never do it to you!

STU: Uh-huh, which is selfish, by the way. Incredibly selfish.

That you don't care about anybody else, because you don't think it might happen to you.

That's not -- that's an incredibly selfish, instinct. You have that already.

STU: Hmm.

GLENN: Who did I see over the weekend, talk about, you know, people wonder how -- people just in Germany, just went full-fledged Nazi. And he said, look, what happened with COVID.

He's like, I'll bet you, at least 30 percent of our population, couldn't wait to turn a neighbor in!

Because it signaled their virtue.

STU: First among them, Tim Walz, by the way.

GLENN: Yeah. Put a hotline up. A hotline up.

STU: Report your neighbors.

If they're not handling an illness the way you want them to.

GLENN: That's unbelievable.

STU: This man, might be vice president, after he did that. Just that.

Forget the fact that he allowed cities to burn to the ground. And the other crap that he's been doing.

GLENN: Well, this time. This time, they're not taking any chances.

They have put the National Guard on standby, in Seattle, Washington.

Portland. And Washington, DC.

You know, all those deeply red areas.
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A lot of tiki torchers, parades going on.

GLENN: Yeah. Yeah. They're worried about all the Trump supporters there.

STU: Well, Jussie Smollett is one of the first, that let us know, that MAGA country is not exactly where we think it is.

Sometimes it's downtown Chicago, sometimes it's Portland, Oregon. Right. That's MAGA country, for you.

GLENN: Yeah. Well, we have infiltrated all those areas with the squirrels.

So and they are pissed.

6 things Trump WILL FIX in a second presidential term

If Donald Trump is elected to a second term as president, many things will change. Glenn predicts that we will no longer be on a direct path to global war, the bureaucracy will be cleaned up, many illegal immigrants will be deported, the nonstop lies will end, migrant crime will go down, and the government will stop persecuting pro-life protesters. Even Californians are starting to wake up to the reality of leftist policies. But has America really had enough?

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GLENN: I think Trump is doing an amazing job. He's giving us the campaign I hoped he was going to give us. But I really didn't think he would. You know, everybody bought into, including me, that he was going to be, you know. I lost the election. They're after me.

And kind of a -- you know, a grudge tour. Because I think I would have been tempted to do that. But he hasn't. He has been fun, funny. Relatable.

He's -- he's not doing any grudge stuff.

In fact, this week, he said, and I disagree with this. But he said, I even consider pardoning Hunter Biden.

You know, I hope not.

But, I mean, he's not holding grudges. He's just doing the work for the American people.

And I think that's because he's been out on the road, every day, for what? A year and a half?

He said, last night. Remember, he will become a dictator. He will never leave office.

He said, last night, this is kind of sad. We're six days away from the election.

And I won't be doing this stuff anymore.

I won't be traveling around. This has really been fun, to do this. Since 2016.

And last six days of doing it. So he's not going to be doing rallies anymore. I guess that's just because he -- he becomes a dictator, and a Nazi. And then he doesn't do rallies anymore. Because Hitler never did rallies.

Anyway, some of the things that this election is about, that it's really, really important. Because this will decide which way we turn.

For instance, war.

One vote, I truly believe is a vote for global war.

And not that Kamala wants it. Although, I actually think the people around her, do.

If you listen to her acceptance speech, it was like neocon central. I mean, I've never heard anything like it, from a Democrat. They were saying, we've got to go get them!

Scary. Really scary.

If you choose Kamala, I think not only do some of the people around her, want war. The machine wants war.

But also, she's so incompetent, that all of our enemies are going to come out of the woodwork.

Donald Trump, if he's elected on the other hand, I mean, he said, just yesterday, he is telling Benjamin Netanyahu, this war, you've got to be finished before I get into office because it's got to be finished.

We're done. We're done. He also said that with the Ukrainian conflict, that that will be done, as well. I believe both of those. And we have two people, on record. We have Barack Obama, and Joe Biden, who said they were going to end all the wars. He increased the wars.

He killed more people. Donald Trump, first president in probably my lifetime, that didn't start any new wars.

In fact, was ending them.

And that's just coming from strength. Now there's a story in the New York Times today, the U.S. Army prepares for war with China!

New vehicles. Face paint. And a 1200-foot fall. From the New York Times. A big and cumbersome army is trying to transform itself to deploy quickly to Asia, if needed.

Early one morning this month, 864 Army paratroopers bundled into a C-17 transport plane, and from a base in Alaska.

And took off for the great power war, exercise between three volcanic mountains on Hawaii's Big Island.

Only 492 made it. Some of the C-17s had trouble with their doors, while others were forced to land early.

A few of the parachutes, who did make it, or parachutist that did make it landed with sprained ankles or suffered head trauma.

And one 19-year-old private began to fall quickly when his chute didn't open. Good heavens!

So we're preparing for war, and we're telling everybody, how incompetent we are!

We're becoming the former Soviet Union.

That will end! Under Donald Trump.

Let's see. There's another story today. House COVID panel, refers Andrew Cuomo for potential prosecution.

Why? Stu, I know you -- hey. I know you love Andrew Cuomo, huh?

STU: I do. Oh, yes.

GLENN: What did he do that was so wrong?

STU: How many people do you have to kill, to be classified as wrong? What's the number on that?

I know Jeffrey Dahmer got a special. Maybe it has to be more than him.

The Menendez brothers seem to be under that line. Whatever the line is, he's above it, though.

The fact that when you take COVID positive patients. And shove them into nursing homes with the most vulnerable people.

You should be prosecuted for all sorts of things.

GLENN: Yeah. And what they're talking about here is not just, you know, killing people.

Cuomo was accused of engaging in conscious, calculated effort to avoid accountability for his handling of nursing homes. Where thousands of people died of COVID.

STU: Yeah.

GLENN: So they will go after him, for really, basically, the cover-up.

So that ends.

By the way, colleges, must pay up for COVID-19 vaccine mandate injuries.

That's from the G.O.P.

That's going to end!

This whole -- this whole mandate crap?

It's over if Donald Trump comes in. In fact, I think Fauci and the entire CDC and the FDA, all of this stuff. Donald Trump said last night. That's what he's giving to -- to RFK.

To clean house!

Go in, and clean this up.

That is a huge, massive, massive change.

By the way, something else that will change. Probably the immigration status of a lot of people.

Those who came here illegally, are going to be removed, under Donald Trump can.

Now, so you know, the left pretends this is impossible.

The guy who exported more illegals, than any other president in history, was Bill Clinton! He -- he removed 11 million illegals from our country. And I didn't even know that fact. Did you? I had no idea!

So it has been done in the past. And it can be done again.

And, by the way, that was, you know, 25 years ago, with a smaller population, than we have now.

And nobody really noticed it.

So what's the problem this time?

Also, do you remember the German family. Their immigrants, they came here.

In exile.

Because Germany was banning homeschooling.

And they were going to take their children away. Because they were teaching them about God, and everything else.

And so they came here.

For exile. And Barack Obama wanted to kick them out.

Joe Biden has wanted to kick them out. And they live year to year. And they are doing really, really well.

Everybody in their community, they love these guys.

I think that will change. Their status, Joe Biden just gave them another year to stay here, before he kicks them out.

I think possibly, Donald Trump will give them the freedom to stay here, and maybe citizenship, if they want it.

I think they do, quite badly. The other thing that will end, the non-stop lies. Do you remember the gunman that shot the Jewish man, walking to a synagogue.

He was in Chicago's West Rogers Park neighborhood. He shot a guy walking in to the synagogue. The police arrest him. After there's a shoot-out. Okay?

With him.

The police say, well, we're not sure what the motive was.

Okay. It was a Jewish guy going into the synagogue, and his name is Sidi Mohamed Abdallahi.

Okay. I'm pretty sure -- I've got a guess on what the motive might be. A shooting of somebody going into the synagogue.

Might. Might. Could be wrong.

But, of course, police don't know at this point. So they won't say anything.

Even though, witnesses have said, he screamed, Allahu Akbar! We don't know what that means. He just was like looking at the trees going, God is great! That could be it. Oh, and also, another quick little fact, that has just come out.

He's an illegal alien. He came across our border illegally. So yet another shooting, that didn't need to happen, and won't, under Donald Trump.

There is a huge sea tile change in this country, that is happening. People have had enough. Even people in California, according to new statewide polling, Californians are posed to pass billions in new spending, and approve new spending powers, while also cracking down on crime!

This is a part that you need to hear. Statewide Public Policy Institute of California poll, found 73 percent of voters support Proposition 36. Which -- now, this is crazy. I want you to know.

This would allow for felony charges, for serial thieves and major drug crimes. Now, this is the opposite of what passed in 2014.

Proposition 47, that turned the drug crimes and the theft crimes into misdemeanors.

And it would also create a treatment mandated felony, crime class, that would allow individuals to complete mental health or substance abuse treatment, instead of going to prison.

But this proposition 47 was -- was sold to the voters of California. It's going to save us money.

Uh-huh.

It's going to reduce prison populations.

It did that. And we're going to invest the money in social programs, that will reduce future crime.

Yeah. Those things didn't happen. Increased crime?

Trial no-shows. People are just like, I'm not going to show up.

What are they going to do? And people committing the same crime, over and over and over again.

Once they are caught. Californians have had enough of this BS.

What do you think the rest of the country is going to say?

Also, I just want to throw this in. Stop drinking the poison that the rest of the Western world is -- is drinking right now.

Do you remember the guy, who in England, he went in to some dance recital class. And it was a Taylor Swift-themed dance class. He killed three children. Six, seven, and nine years old.

Six other girls and two adults were also injured. This is what caused all of the uprisings. Now, what was the government saying? What were the people saying?

The people were saying that this guy is a -- an immigrant that came in, and is not loyal to the crown. They're not loyal to the ideas of the West.

He's an Islamic terrorist. Well, everyone went crazy. You can't say that!

What are you talking about? He was just a good UK citizen, just gone wrong.

Uh-huh. And remember what they said, about the people.

The people who were marching in the streets, saying, this has got to stop.

They called them extremists, and Nazis, and everything else.

They said for months, that this was not a terrorist institute. Well, now that everybody has forgotten, they have decided to charge him with terror.

Not only was he found in cahoots with al-Qaeda and having al-Qaeda documents in his room, but they also found that he was making ricin for a bigger attack.

Now, this is something, the government knew, had to have known, at the time. But they allowed the press and government officials, to take their own citizens who were -- who were concerned about terrorists being in their neighborhoods.

And being swept off as heroes. They called them garbage.

There is a sea change coming. There is a sea change coming.

So those things are going to stop, immediately, under Donald Trump.

Now, if Harris wins, what gets worse?

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Do you know why a cowboy takes his hat off before dinner? Forrie J. Smith from "Yellowstone" says it’s all part of the “cowboy culture.” In this episode of "The Glenn Beck Podcast," Forrie recounts his career — from cowboy to stuntman to beloved actor — and that one time he had to track down “illegals” wreaking havoc on his ranch at the U.S.-Mexico border. He and Glenn discuss the decline in American beef, how social media has created political silos, and the transgender agenda being pushed on America’s youth in public schools. “When you start messing with my children ... with my animals, you crossed a line,” Forrie says, which is why he isn’t afraid to ask the questions that make most actors' knees buckle. Will the 2024 election be secure? What will be done with all the fentanyl flowing across our open border? Forrie isn’t worried about what the rich and powerful think. As he says, they’ll come looking for him when disaster strikes because he can “survive with a knife.” With all his success, he’s most proud that everywhere he’s lived he’s been called a “good neighbor,” even by that one neighbor with “different politics,” who wants to relocate the rattlesnakes in the front yard when Forrie would rather just shoot them.

What everyone's MISSING about the New York Times/Media Matters THREAT against YouTube

The New York Times recently released something that Glenn describes as "nothing other than a threat to Google and YouTube to silence anyone who is disagreeing." The piece, titled "Election Falsehoods Take Off on YouTube as It Looks the Other Way", was based on research done by the leftist "watchdog" Media Matters, which Glenn has exposed over and over again as a propaganda arm of the uber-Left used to destroy conservative voices. Glenn reviews the article, which insists that YouTube must crack down on election "misinformation" about the 2020 election and prepare to do the same for the 2024 election. But there's one part of this story that Glenn says everyone is missing: The Times had to make a correction at the end of the article that turns this whole story into "nothing" ...

Transcript

Below is a rush transcript that may contain errors

GLENN: Okay. So while they are doing this with Liz Cheney, you have the New York Times. Election falsehoods, take off on YouTube. As it looks the other way.

Now, this story, we've known has been coming now for about a week. And they finally published it today.

This is nothing other than a threat to Google and YouTube, to silence anyone who is disagreeing.

And I will give you -- I will give you the -- the one thing that everybody has missed on this. At the end of this story. Okay. So the YouTube -- this story from the New York Times is this: In June 2023, YouTube decided to stop fighting the most persistent strain of election misinformation in the United States, the falsehood that President Biden stole the 2020 election from Donald J. Trump. Now, I ask you first, if you just want to be a fair arbiter. Are they stopping all of the videos of Hillary Clinton saying in 2016, that he's an illegitimate president? That he knew he was an illegitimate president, that Russia had aided him in winning it?

Are they limiting those? Or demonetizing any of those videos?

The answer is no. It's just the 2020.

Within months, the largest video platform, became a home for election conspiracy theories.

Half-truths, and lies.

They in turn, became the source of revenue for YouTube. Which announced growing quarterly ad sales on Tuesday.

Now, what is that?

Why is that there?

Because that is the New York Times, through Media Matters, telling YouTube, we could boycott you, and your advertisers. We'll cause hell to rain down on you.

That's a threat, believe it or not, to Google. While Media Matters.

Based this entire story on Media Matters. You know who Media Matters is. Media Matters was started, with Hillary Clinton and George Soros.

It is nothing, but a -- a tool, used by the uber left, to destroy anyone who can make any kind of impact with conservative arguments.

That's all it is.

STU: Uh-huh.

GLENN: While Media Matters is a progressive organization, that regularly criticizes conservatives, reporters and academics, frequently cite it as a source of YouTube misinformation, because it devotes significant resources to tracking the vast platform. They're not tracking the vast platform. They're tracking conservatives. Okay?

STU: No. They're coming up -- they start and reverse-engineer.

GLENN: Yes!

STU: Who do we want to destroy?

Find a way to destroy them. That's what they do.

GLENN: Right! And this is well-documented.

And at first, I really thought. When I was at CNN. And Media Matters was just starting. I really thought, okay. They don't know.

The media doesn't know. They get used to. In the old days, they get faxes. Now they get emails.

All of the reporters. All the networks. Even Fox.

They get something from Media Matters, every day. Says, these are the targets.

This is what's going on.

And they run with them. Now, back in 2004, maybe, you could understand that. Because they were new.

Now, everyone knows what they are. And here's the New York Times.

Kowtowing.

30 conservative channels are on YouTube, posted 286 videos, containing election misinformation.

Which racked up more than 47 million views.

YouTube generated revenue for more than a third of those videos, by placing ads before and during them.

Researchers found. Researchers, meaning Media Matters.

Some commentators also made money from those videos, and other monetized features available to members of the YouTube Member Partner Program.

Commentators included former elected officials such as Rudolph W. Giuliani.

Journalists like Tucker Carlson, who said the last presidential election was stolen. And popular pundits like Ben Shapiro, who said Democrats rigged the voting rules in 2020.

Now --

STU: I've heard him talk about that before. Ben Shapiro. In particular.

GLENN: Who you know he quoted?

This is an actual quote. Okay? The New York Times.

He was quoting the New York Times. That led him to that conclusion. The way they had -- you know, Marc Elias. And everybody, all the engineering because of COVID. And all of the lawsuits and getting things changed.

STU: Yeah.

GLENN: That's what he was talking about.

STU: Right. He's not one that believes in Sidney Powell conspiracy theories. He's been very clear. That the technical rule changes, before the election, may very well have been the determining factor.

GLENN: Right. And he said, they rigged it. They legally rigged it.

They went in, and they did everything. And the Republicans were just asleep at the switch.

But he doesn't think that it was stolen. Now, that's very, very clear.

But notice the New York Times doesn't make that clear.

GLENN: Hmm. Shocking.

GLENN: Then he goes on, YouTube, which is owned by Google, has prided itself on connecting viewers with authoritative information about elections. But in this presidential context, it has acted as a megaphone for conspiracy theories.

A research director, at Media Matters, who led the analysis, said, YouTube is allowing these right-wing accounts and channels to undermine the 2024 results.

YouTube spokesperson said that the company reviewed eight videos, identified by the Times. And the ability to openly debate political ideas, even those that are controversial, is -- is appear important value. Especially in the midst of election season.

Most of the 30 channels are ineligible for advertising.

So they've already cut the money off.

Okay? You watch any of my videos. I don't make a dime on YouTube.

Don't make a dime on YouTube. Nothing. They have so suppressed our numbers. We haven't grown in I don't even know, five years. It's not even possible.

We're growing everywhere, by leaps and bounds. I am -- I am more -- the footprint, let's say it this way. That sounds very egotistical.

The footprint of this program is bigger than it ever has been. Okay?

We're growing in every metric, except for social media. Now, how does that happen?

How does that happen?

Most of the 30 channels are ineligible for advertising. Some had previously violated the company's content policies.

The spokesperson added this report, demonstrates our consistent approach to enforcing our policies.

But in June 2023, the platform reversed course, saying, creators were allowed to dispute the outcome of any past presidential race, as YouTube tried to offer a home for open discussion and debate during the ongoing election season.

Now, does that sound bad?

Does that sound bad? We can debate anything, in this nation. Anything.

And anyone who is trying to silence that debate. I don't even want to -- to silence Holocaust deniers.

Let them hang themselves with their own words. Okay?

You should be able to debate anything. It's the United States of America. So YouTube says, we're just trying to be a home for discussion, and debate!

Okay. YouTube declined to comment on how it would reimpose a ban on misinformation.

About the outcome of the race.

YouTube removed only three of the videos that Media Matters found and placed information labels on them.

To link to factual information, on 20 of them. Though most of the election labels were later removed.

Some of the commentators seized on the news of the events.

Mr. Trump's conviction on May 30th. On 34 felony counts. Cash Patel. Who served in the Trump administration.

Posted. On an independent television network. That the justice system was rigged against the former president, to interfere with the election.

Can you imagine this not being said by the Democrats, if the roles were reversed?

Of course. Of course they would say that.

The entire media would be saying that. That these are all rigged juries. They place them in Washington DC. Or New York.

You can't get a fair trial.

Blah, blah, blah. The New York Times goes on to say, well, no. That's true.

Mike Davis, a former Senate aid, who runs a judiciary advocacy group called the Article 3 project, claimed that Mr. Biden, his allies, and his aides, were behind Mr. Trump's convictions.

Mr. Davis said, Biden is behind the unprecedented indictments of Trump.

He responded to questions from the New York Times, with an attack on the Times reporting, on a post in X.

There is also a swell of misinformation. From 30 other YouTube creators in July, when republicans in the House passed the Save Act, which would require voters to provide proof of citizenship.

The bill did not become law. But it prompted inaccurate claims on YouTube.

That the undocumented immigrants voted en masse in 2020, and would do the same this fall.

In a Fox news appearance, Senator Ted Cruz, Republicans from Texas, said Democrats wanted more than 11 million undocumented immigrants to vote.

Democrat -- Democrat Party has decided that the voter fraud is good for them.

Okay. None of this is shocking at all.

What's shocking is the correction, at the end of the New York Times story.

They added this: A YouTube spokesperson said that the company reviewed eight videos identified by the Times. Ready?

Which was pointed out to the Times by Media Matters. Then the Times took those, and gave them to YouTube. And said, these are the ones we're talking about.

And those videos, according to YouTube, did not violate its community guide lines.

So this whole story is nothing!

Is nothing!

STU: Shocker.

GLENN: They came up with 30. They said, here are the eight worst, send these to the Times. The Times then took Media Matters at its word. Went to YouTube, with all these accusations and threats.

And YouTube watched them and said, well, they don't violate any of our guidelines. So what do we do?

STU: Hilarious.

GLENN: This is craziness.

STU: The failure. Imagine failing this often.

What kind of organization would ton exist with this level of failure.

GLENN: It's pathetic.

It's really embarrassing. It's really embarrassing.

It's not really failure. Even if your story is having an impact and you're embarrassing yourself, if you're getting hundreds of thousands of dollars coming into your bank account, I guess.

GLENN: I guess, if that's how you want to live your life. It just leads to misery.