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<Show: BECK>
<Date: September 2, 2009>
<Time: 17:00>
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<Type: Show>
<Head: BECK for September 2, 2009 - Part 1>
<Sect: News; Domestic>
<Byline: Glenn Beck>
<Guest: David Martosko>
<Spec: Politics; Policies; Government>
GLENN BECK, HOST: Welcome to THE GLENN BECK PROGRAM.
Tonight, we got to cover these questions -- why is the world's bread basket running low on bread and you haven't heard anything about it? How about this one? Why are environmentalist groups overwhelming the Fish and Wildlife Services? Wait until you hear what's going on. These two are connected.
Then, we're going to take a turn. The early 20th century progressives that everybody loves so much -- do they love freedom or fascism? And what does it have to do with today and the progressives that are in the White House and all around us seemingly?
We'll answer these questions tonight, better yet, you will.
If you believe this country is great but the government is trying to silence dissent? You stand up, and come, follow me.
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BECK: It is a -- it is amazing. We have an update from the White House on Van Jones, and you won't believe what is coming your way.
Hello, America. Your food -- I'm sorry to say -- is going to cost more. And some products are going to be harder to get. Why haven't you heard this anywhere? I'll tell you why.
California right now is on fire, and everybody is focused on the fire, but you should be focused on something else that starts with an F in California and that's farmers. They are suffering through an environmental crisis and the government is there to make it so much worse.
Central Valley, a 400-mile long area spanning 18 counties in California is responsible for 57 percent of the state's total farming. Now, when you consider that California represents about 13 percent of the farm receipts in the entire country -- wow, that's going to make almonds, artichokes, and olives and nectarines and graves and strawberries and peaches and plums and lettuce and everything else a lot harder to get. Why?
The media will tell you -- well, Central Valley has already been hit with a severe drought. Uh-huh, and? Washington has managed to make this much, much worse. Listen to this.
The Wall Street Journal is now reporting that federal environmental rulings designed to protect the delta smelt -- in case you don't know, that's a little fish. They have reduced water shipments to the local farmers to just 10 percent of what they had been getting. So, in other words, that's a reduction of 90 percent of the water.
Well, common sense will tell you the effects of keeping water from a drought-stricken area, but for the lawmakers, and the left-wing bloggers who are, right now, you know, watching us in the basements of their mom's house, here's what happened -- farmers stand to lose $1.2 billion in revenue this year -- this according to the study by the University of California, Davis. That means less food.
In a sick twist of irony, the government is actually starving the farmers, which is weird, because I know a little something about history. This is exactly what happened with FDR. It's like Obama is the new Roosevelt.
In the year that ended June 30th, the Fresno Community Food Bank distributed about 14.5 million pounds of food. That was a record to the residents in three counties, twice as much as they gave out last year. Governor Schwarzenegger even called for a state of emergency in half of the Central Valley's counties, as well as asking President Obama to declare Fresno as disaster area to help pay for food shipments to the area known as California's agricultural heart.
But FEMA turned them down. Gee, FEMA turned them down? You'd think we'd learn our lesson with the FEMA mistakes, huh? Claiming the states and localities, they had enough money.
While as they continued to wait for the appeals, Schwarzenegger's office was forced to set aside $4 million, enough to buy enough food to hold them out until next week.
Well, I got a couple of tough questions here. How many times do progressives, environmentalists, equal nutjobs, have to be proven wrong before we finally say shut up? You know what? I'm sorry. At my house, my son Raphe told me, he's pointing this out the other day, he said, Dad, we don't say shut up in our house. You're right, Raphe. Shut your pie hole. No, I don't think we say that either.
Any way, green jobs czar -- which is we hear (ph) because that's something they don't say at Barack Obama's house right now. They say, what is it -- oh, yes, the special advisor to the White House counsel on environmental quality, Van Jones, made a comment when he was the head of the Ella Baker Center. He said, We're now in the third wave of environmentalism.
Listen.
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VAN JONES, SPECIAL ADVISOR FOR GREEN JOBS: We began to realize that we're really entering a third wave of environmentalism in the United States. The first wave is sort of, you know, the Teddy Roosevelt, you know, conservation era, which had its day. And then in 1963, Rachel Carson writes the book, Silent Spring, and she's talking about toxics in the environment, and that really kind of opens up a whole new way. So, it's no longer just conservation, but it's conservation plus regulation.
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BECK: Conservation plus regulation -- that's great. He goes on to talk about the upgrade from the second wave received from the environmental justice community. That's the wave that we're in right now, the third wave -- the environmental justice community? What -- huh? What is that all about? Those who, according to Van Jones, decided that.
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JONES: The white polluters and the white environmentalists are essentially steering poison into the people of color communities.
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BECK: White people killing people of color intentionally. Wow. Quoting, White polluters have been steering poison into minority communities. That -- that should be discussed someplace -- oh, I don't know, like in every home in America.
But let's move on from there. Today, I'm so glad that the special advisor to the White House counsel on environmental quality president on the White House quality brought up the Rachel Carlson book, Silent Spring. Indeed, as Van Jones points out, she talked about toxics and the environment. And that did open up a whole new wave for the environmental movement.
One of those things that it did was make a villain out of the pesticide DDT. Wait, I'm going to give a little history lesson, oh, but you're going to like it in the end. DDT had been amazingly effective at killing mosquitoes, fleece, lice, spread malaria, yellow fever, sleeping sickness, plague, encephalitis, West Nile virus, all these things, so much so that before the discovery of DDT in World War I, typhus killed more servicemen than bullets. After DDT in World War II, typhus wasn't a problem at all. By the '60s, DDT had all but eradicated malaria.
Then came Rachel Carlson's Silent Spring book that Van was just talking about. Oh, it kicked off a firestorm over the safety of DDT. By 1970, hippie Joni Mitchell included the controversy in the lyrics of her song Big Yellow Taxi.
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BECK: Just give the spots on the apples -- that's all she wanted -- just leave me the birds and the bees and the spots on the apple have to -- you know, we can handle that. Really? I wish the spots on the apples had turned out to be the nastiest effects of banning DDT, but it wasn't. The U.S. banned DDT in 1972. Stockholm Convention later made the ban worldwide on agricultural use.
The academy, the National Academy of Science credits DDT with having prevented 500 million deaths worldwide -- 500 million, and that was just in two decades. Now, tragically, up to 2.7 million people in Africa alone die every single year; 90 percent of those are children under five. Hmm. Some spots on the apples -- oh, that's the worst thing that could happen.
By the way, any harmful link to humans from DDT has never been found. Evidence: Bruce N. Ames, he's a world renowned biochemist and professor of molecular biology and Thomas H. Jukes, professor of biophysics and foremost expert on DDT. Oh, really, what university are they from? I know, the University of California at Berkeley. Yes, that right wing kook tank, U.C. Berkeley. These two men there said of the attack on DDT, This is nonsense.
Wayland Hayes, U.S. public health service scientist for 18 months fed to human volunteers daily three times the quantity of DDT that Americans were ingesting annually -- each day, three times the amount -- none of the volunteers experienced any adverse effect, then, or six to 10 years later.
I want to make this clear. I'm not saying, hey, let's use DDT for topping on ice cream, but shouldn't we be killing mosquitoes with DDT? If you want to care -- if you care about the people in Africa, the answer is yes! But the progressive nut balls had it wrong, as usual. Or did they?
In this case, it is costing lives, millions of lives. Now, the last thing you'd ever want to do with these nutjobs is connect any of the dots. Oh, no, don't look at the progressive movement or any of the ramifications -- no, no, no, just move on.
Around this time in the early 1970s, our new science czar to Barack Obama, John Holdren, was writing a book called Ecoscience, in which he discussed population control possibilities. He wrote, A program of sterilizing women after their second or third child despite the relatively greater difficulty of that operation on man -- operation than a vasectomy, might be easier to implement than trying to sterilize men. Hmm.
He also wrote, Indeed, it has been concluded that compulsory population control laws even laws requiring compulsory abortion could be sustained under the existing Constitution if the population crisis became sufficiently sever to endanger the society.
What was happening with DDT at the same time? Oh, that's right, the population bomb. The explosion, everybody -- oh, we got too many people.
There's more. We could spend an entire hour with his quotes, each one more shocking than the last.
Then, let's move to another office in the White House, another advisor of the president, a regulatory czar, Cass Sunstein. He didn't want to control pet populations. He wanted your pet to have an attorney.
Animals should be -- I'm quoting -- Animals should be permitted to bring suit with human beings as their representatives to prevent violations of current law. What kind of animals would be included in that? Well, if they could find out if rats suffer, and you're trying to trap rats or kick them out of your house, a rat could sue you.
Is it that much of a stretch to believe that people who put animals and Earth over humans don't really think it's a problem to allow disease to run its course to reduce the threatening population? Remember, John Holdren said, The problem with sterilants in the drinking water was getting the public to go along with the plan. Oh, with disease, you don't have a choice.
Banning DDT doesn't require you to take a stand against humans. You're taking a stand for the Earth. And don't we all love the Earth?
Let me give you an example here. It's the progressive way of thinking. People are secondary to the Earth and animals.
There is something most likely happening in your child's school. I know everybody is talking today about Barack Obama going to give an address to your kids if they're in kindergarten to sixth grade.
Isn't that great? The teachers have a little plan on what they can talk about. How much do you love the president? How can you help the president accomplish his goals? This is fantastic. It doesn't sound like propaganda to me at all.
Well, how about this one? This was sent in by a listener of radio program. This is a poster that was in their child's classroom. Look at this. I pledge allegiance to the Earth.
We have people that want to ban the pledge of allegiance to the flag, but now, the teachers are trying to get the kids to pledge allegiance to the Earth? The Earth and the environment are the progressive replacement for God. This is not my opinion. Read about the early 20th century progressives.
You will bow. You will obey, and you will worship it. It is above you.
Just a few years later, in 1975, Newsweek carried this story of the coming planetary ice age due to global cooling. Remember that? Now, because of our bad SUVs, according to Al Gore, the earth has a temperature -- uh-oh.
Unless you woke up today or yesterday in the greater New York area, where I believe the temperature was right around 48 degrees here in New York in late summer, there have been maybe, I don't know, what, a week about typical summer days here in New York this year, period.
But it still isn't Al Gore who needs to backtrack on anything --no, no, no -- the crazy ones are anyone who doubts their science.
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AL GORE, FMR. U.S. VICE PRESIDENT: I think that those people are in such a tiny, tiny minority now with their point of view. They are almost like the ones that believe that the moon landing was staged in a movie lot in Arizona, and those that believe the Earth is flat. That demeans them a little bit. It's not that far off.
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BECK: A little bit, just a little bit. Just -- demeaning just a little bit, flat-earthers.
Because we have listened to their scare tactics, their fearmongering for so long, they are now promising to shut down the biggest most important source of energy. We'll get back to the farms here in a second, but the biggest source of energy that we have in this country, without an alternative solution to replace it with.
What are we going to do? We're going to get rid of coal because it's bad for the environment, clean and otherwise. They provide --coal provides nearly half of all of our energy here in the United States, yet Barack Obama promised to bankrupt the coal industry.
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BARACK OBAMA, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES: If somebody wants to build a coal-fired plant, they can. It's just that it will bankrupt them because they're going to be charged a huge sum for all that greenhouse gas that's being admitted.
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BECK: Oh, it's terrible. How about Joe Biden? He promised no coal in America.
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JOE BIDEN, VICE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES: No coal plants here in America. Build them, if they're going to build them over there, make them clean, because they're killing you.
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BECK: How about the special advisor to the president for green jobs, Van Jones, here's what he said.
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JONES: We could have clean coal. I'm for clean coal. But I tell you what -- if we're going to have clean coal, let's have a couple of other things. We could have clean coal, or we could power the country with clean coal, or we could have unicorns pull our cars for us, you know, all day. We could have that, too. Equally fictitious, equally fantastical, equally ludicrous. You know? So, you know, we could have the tooth fairy bring us our energy at night, I mean, equally ludicrous.
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BECK: Wow! Or we could have a self-proclaimed communist create jobs. Isn't that fantastical? It is.
Speaking of unicorns and fairies, what do they have in mind to replace 48 percent of our national energy source once they bankrupt it? Will Van Jones sprinkle pixie dust on giant windmills to make up the difference? I mean, that's what they have to do, because we're nowhere near being able to convert our wind or solar power. Will progressive pigs fly right out of Van Jones' butt and pedal bicycles to power the turbines attached to our power grid?
For the most part, the turbines -- the pigs can't fly out of his butt and pedal the turbines -- because there is nothing attached to the power grid. Even T. Boone Pickens after his massive ad campaign dropped his plan for the wind farm, with wind turbines, west Texas, bringing up power lines all the way to Dallas where the people live, why was it scrapped? Ten billion dollars price tag might have something to do with it.
With a track record like these progressives have, why would you listen to them on anything? We're destroying the farms. We're destroying energy. We're destroying jobs. We're destroying industry.
It's like letting your friend, who has been wrong on every single Super Bowl predictions since 1967 bet your mortgage that you'll win this year. Yes, yes, I got it this year! Are you willing to roll the dice on that one? Oh, by the way, is anybody thinking that if your friend has -- he's have a 50/50 chance the whole time, if your friend has been wrong every single time, shouldn't someone at least ask the question, if your friend is just the most unlucky person in the world -- or if they have another agenda that they're not telling you?
But let me take you back to the farmers who can't get any water because it would affect the delta smelt. Something weird is going on right now, and nobody is talking about it, but the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, they're being overwhelmed. All of these new species have to be saved right away. The system is breaking down.
I'm going to show this to you next, and then who's our hero that rides in? Our regulatory czar, Cass Sunstein -- he's going to be the guy who's going to be able to make this all work. Isn't he the guy that wants pets to have attorneys?
I'll tell you how he's going to make things much, much better, or much, much worse -- next.
ANNOUNCER: Why officials are handing out tons of food in one of the most productive agriculture areas in the country, overwhelming the system environmentally -- next.
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BECK: You know, this is probably the only show in television, and all I'm doing is asking questions. I am bringing you the facts. I'm bringing you a little bit of history. Every night, I'm just trying to paint a picture here of what could possibly be going on -- what could possibly answer the questions that nobody seems to be asking themselves or the answers that they give us just don't seem right.
I told you before how the czars, particularly Cass Sunstein, will make things even worse for many things, particularly now, starving farmers.
David Martosko, he is the director of the research for the Center of Consumer Freedom.
Let's -- I don't even know where to start on this one.
DAVID MARTOSKO, CENTER FOR CONSUMER FREEDOM: Me either.
BECK: Let's start with all of these new endangered species that are being introduced. The system is being overwhelmed by these environmental groups.
MARTOSKO: Absolutely. The Center for Biological Diversity and some other eco-green groups have really overloaded the species that are now going to be listed.
I'll tell you, who's going to wind up really hurting is Americans who like to eat meat. I'll tell you what -- because cattlemen in this country own and manage most of the lands that are covered by the Endangered Species Act, that are subject to control. So, you know, you ask why is Cass Sunstein's hatred and animus toward meat-eating such a big deal? It's because he'll be in a position to use the Endangered Species Act to put cattlemen out of business.
BECK: Right.
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MARTOSKO: And then the price of your steak goes up, the price of your cheeseburger goes up.
BECK: That's exactly the way he does things, too. He believes in nudging people.
MARTOSKO: Yes. Well, I call it a shove.
BECK: Oh, yes. It's a slap in the face. He pushes you into the direction through regulation or through pricing or whatever. So, cattlemen -- the price of beef is going to through the roof. They are now protecting, you know, all these new species, et cetera, et cetera, and more are on the way, to be able to do what to your --to your farms?
MARTOSKO: Well, the ostensible reason they're giving?
BECK: Yes.
MARTOSKO: I mean, the reason has nothing to do with farming. The reason is to protect the three-inch little bait fish. But what's happening -- as you mentioned before, Glenn -- is you got farmers who are just craving water to irrigate their crops, they can't get it.
BECK: OK.
MARTOSKO: And so the price of everything is going up.
BECK: So, if we have this crisis, then there's -- then as Van Jones says -- do we have a copy of what Van Jones said yesterday, the audio of him, what we have him saying about the farms are broken? We have -- can we play this, please? This is Van Jones?
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JONES: What about our immigrant sisters and brothers? What about our immigrant sisters and brothers? What about people who come here from all around the world, who were willing to have out in the fields with poison being sprayed on them, poison being sprayed on them because we have the wrong agricultural system, and then we're -- and we're willing to poison them and poison the Earth to put food on our table, but we don't want to give them rights and we don't want to give them dignity and we don't want to give them respect?
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BECK: OK. We have the wrong agricultural system.
MARTOSKO: I have to tell you -- let me tell, Glenn, about a woman you will hear more about. If there is a thing as a food czar coming into this country, her name is Marion Nestle.
BECK: OK.
MARTOSKO: She's a nutrition professor at New York University.
BECK: NYU.
MARTOSKO: Yes. She is America's foremost socialist food scholar. I mean, she lectured the Socialist Scholars Conference not long ago, and she wants to completely remake the way America grows food.
Here's is what she told McClatchy news wire a couple of months ago, in July. She said and I quote, she says, You can view food as an entry point into the most important issues of society. Food and agriculture are connected to climate change, to employment, to the economy, to people's health, even to immigration.
Now, she blames the usual suspects, the corporate control of food and an under-funded FDA. She wants to tear it all down and remake the food economy in a -- frankly, in the model of the 19th century or the model of 1950's India when half the people were starving.
BECK: Yes. Well, socialists and communists usually have a way of starving populations to death.
The way to get to this is through a crisis. We have a broken system, through crisis and then, of course, they will ride in with a solution. Rosa DeLauro is on top for us, is she not?
MARTOSKO: Well, Rosa DeLauro, the congresswoman, wants to basically split the FDA in two and create a, you know, a drug department and then something they're calling the department of food, which to me sounds kind of Orwellian. And that's going to give her and people like Marion Nestle, who, for my mind, will probably be the next food czar and run that department.
BECK: Hang on just a second. NYU professor -- socialist?
MARTOSKO: She spoke to the Socialist Scholars Conference not too long ago. I wouldn't put words in her mouth and say she is a socialist, but I think she makes a.
BECK: She's very popular now.
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MARTOSKO: She's very popular among the socialists. Absolutely.
Now, I have to tell you, I dispute the idea that there is a crisis. Look at -- look at this: In the United States, we spend 9.8 p percent of our disposable income on food. That is a tiny, tiny amount. Venezuela, 29.5 percent of disposable income is spent on food. China, 34.9 percent.
If that's where they want to take us, I want off the bus.
BECK: OK. A lot of people want off the bus.
America, I want to show you one for thing, I have been waiting to show this to you for a while, and we'll come back to it on a later show. But I want to you show you -- Cass Sunstein is a guy who's just flipping switches, and they're doing all kinds of things to nudge you in the right direction.
Remember, we want to get off coal. We want to get off natural resources. We just have to be sun and wind energy. That's what they keep telling us.
Do you remember that big story that just didn't make any sense at all, the big story about the horses? What was it, $700 million for the horse farm?
We did some research on where those horse wildlife preserves are, and then we did -- and we superimposed them on where the shale is. You'll see the oil shale perspective areas and then you see the wild horse areas. Gee, it looks like some of them intersect here. Is it a coincidence? It very well may be. But this is the kind of stuff that they nudge you into - - Cass Sunstein.
Now, the National Endowment of the Arts, if you're going to nudge, like Sunstein says, you're going to nudge people, move them slowly until you got to make them feel good about it. How is the National Endowment for the Arts becoming a propaganda service? Next.
(COMMERCIAL BREAK)BECK: All right. So here, I'm citing some reasonable questions for you. We say we're going to try to answer these today or you should answer them. Why is the world's bread basket running low on bread? Crisis in California. Environmental agenda possibly, coupled with a crisis, an emergency. Oh, they hate those.
Two, why are the environmental groups overwhelming the Fish and Wildlife Service? Maybe it's Cass Sunstein's theory of nudging. And the last question we have is, do 20th century progressives love freedom or fascism? Oh, you're going to love this one.
First, before I get to this, I just want to talk to you about one thing. People are yanking their kids out of school for Obama's unprecedented speech addressing pre-K-through-sixth-grade children. The Department of Education gave some suggestions as to what teachers and students could do to prepare to talk about after the speech - you know, read books about the president and write letters about what they can do to help the president. Gee, why would anybody want to have their kids skip that day?
Next Tuesday, don't miss our full hour on education indoctrination, another indoctrination that is happening, again. And we've got another one we told you about last night. This one began to happen last Thursday, August 6. It was an invitation from the National Endowment for the Arts.
This is your tax dollars going - do you remember the crucifix in a jar of urine? These people. Now, they sent out a memo to a select group of prescreened artists. And it said, quote, Artists, producers, promoters, organizers, leaders, just plain cool people -the E-mail encouraged them to, quote, heed the president's call to action this summer. United we serve.
Wow, it sounds so warm and cuddly and stupid, doesn't it? The NEA described the call to action this way, A call has come in to our generation, a call from the top, a call from a house that is white. I wonder what that one is, A call that we must answer. That is so artsy of them. Instead of saying the White House, do you get it?