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<Show: BECK>
<Date: March 15, 2010>
<Time: 17:00>
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<Type: Show>
<Head: BECK for March 15, 2010 - Part 1>
<Sect: News; Domestic>
<Byline: Glenn Beck>
<Spec: Politics; Policies>
GLENN BECK, HOST: Welcome to THE GLENN BECK PROGRAM.
The attack-o-meter was off the charts this weekend. I found out from
TIME magazine that I hate Jesus. That was the headline: Why does Glenn Beck hate Jesus? Excuse me? But that was only the beginning of the attacks.
I was going to respond today, and then I saw Press Secretary Robert Gibbs pull a Joe Namath and guarantee health care and education by next week. And one phrase that I've said over and over jumped out at me, and that is -- what's the other hand doing?
Tonight, we watch the other hand. Remember, these guys are always smoke and mirrors. White House, Washington, all your little buddies -- just know we're staying focused on health care until there is a stake in its heart.
These three words right here: faith, hope and charity -- they are falsely being used against us. But the proper understanding, these three words will save us.
Come on. Let's go!
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BECK: Hello, America.
Faith, hope and charity. These are -- these are three paintings that I did and a friend of mine Paula Hawkins did over the Christmas vacation last fall.
I sketched these out. And I knew they would play a role. I didn't know exactly why. I unveiled them officially for the studio here last Friday and I knew they would play a big role this year, but I wasn't sure exactly how until this weekend.
Faith, hope and charity.
If you are going to destroy America, if you are going to heal something, how the do you do it? If you are going to destroy something?
This administration is saddling our country with more debt, more entitlement programs, more spending than you can imagine. It's clear we are becoming something that we are not. We have never been a nation that just jams it through no matter what public says. We've never been a nation that believes in a free lunch. We've never been a nation that asked for a hand-out instead of a hand up.
These posters and these men -- Samuel Adams, George Washington, and Ben Franklin -- this is who we are.
Hope. Hope. What other country on the planet -- better yet, what other country in the history of the planet has inspired so many people to risk their life and limb just to get here? Remember the -- do we have the video of the people coming off the boats?
Just a chance to have a better life. There is not even a guarantee of anything. It's just a chance. People don't take their families through shark-infested waters on a raft because they're searching for a hand-out. They just want a chance.
You've heard it a million times. These people came for the hope of better life. They know, in America, all you need is a dream and some elbow grease. Anything is possible in this country.
Last I checked no one is floating on their way just to get a chance to get to Cuba, or to China, or to Venezuela. No. Hope -hope has always come from America.
Now, how do we provide hope? Well, the cornerstone of our hope has always been here.
Faith. This is Samuel Adams. Read the book A Life: Samuel Adams. My gosh! This is incredible.
Adams felt America was put together by Divine Providence. All of them did -- all of them. They relied on Divine Providence. And with a firm reliance on Divine Providence, we mutually pledge to each other the lives, our fortunes and our sacred honor. God played an instrumental role.
He was the one to have faith in. Not any of these guys. It's not George Washington.
In fact, George Washington said, It is the duty of all nations to acknowledge the Providence of Almighty God, to obey his will, to be grateful for his benefits, and to humbly implore his protection and his favor. Have we humbly implored God for his protection and favor?
And then there is charity. Charity. Ben Franklin invented the potbelly stove and he gave it away so everyone could have it. But it was his choice. This guy didn't say let's set the government up so we could take his invention away. He gave it of his own free will.
And that tradition has continued. When there was an earthquake or a tsunami, when there is hunger and poverty, who comes? There is no other country in the history of the world that has been more charitable than America.
Name the country that giving is such a way of life, that we are --name a country that's more generous than America. Is it France? Is it Spain? Is it Germany? China?
Faith, hope and charity. They're not just the essential teachings of Christ, but they are the essential teachings of our founders.
I said something a long time ago -- way back when I was still living in the world, you know, where Marxism has been discredited. There's no one left that believes in that fantasy land, you know, that period of your life.
I was -- way back then, I said that America could never be destroyed from the outside. I remember the day I said it because it was September 11th and people were freaking out. And I was on my radio program and I said, militarily, there is no equal. Don't worry. If the world tries to attack us, we decided we're not going to bother with smart bombs we'd control the world in a heartbeat. But that's not who we are. Don't worry.
The only way to destroy America is to rot it from the inside, collapse our system from the inside. It's got to be one of us that brings us to our knees.
When I said that, I was trying to give hope to people. But I didn't have the full truth because little did I know that there were people, our own countrymen, who are already here on the inside who actually want to do that, bring our country to its knees. That is insanity. And they're doing it with these three things: faith, hope, charity.
That sounds crazy, too. I mean, who can possibly attack hope? Or charity? Who can attack faith?
Well, actually, faith they've been doing for a while and you know that. You can't sing Christmas carols anymore. Instead, the kids learn about the wonders of the winter solstice and Al Gore is the new pope. You can't have those evil Ten Commandments at the courthouse step. No, no -- thou shall not lie or covet. That's too controversial.
Thou shall not lie or covet somebody else's goods. No, that's crazy talk. And, of course, we can't have that offensive God word on our money anymore.
Who would spend time attacking faith? The overwhelming majority, religious or not, are not offended by God. I'm not offended by your religion. I hope you're not offended by mine. Is it teaching you to kill somebody? Well then I got a problem with it.
The progressive left, however, has a problem with this man's religion -- Christianity. He's had a problem -- they have a real problem with that. Rosie O'Donnell thinks Christians are evil.
It's funny, the same people who are attacking me right now --remember, TIME magazine, Glenn beck hates Jesus.
Progressives -- progressives are the ones that say, you got to rot America from the inside. You have to be inside in order to bring her down. It has been the plan the whole time -- make progress, baby steps. Well, progress from where to what? From the Constitution to a democracy. We're not a democracy.
So now that it's happening, why is America surprised? They've been clear for 100 years. Radical progressives are infecting America --by deceiving unsuspecting people on their true intentions. We saw it last week on the defend education rallies.
Now, here they are rallying, defend education. Well, who wants to -- you're attacking education? Yes, I want everybody to be dummies. Really?
But if you go to their Web site and you start looking -- just browse their Web site, you're suddenly in a Marxist hot zone. They can't win people over with Marxism so they have to resort to deception.
This is all about education. No, it's not! No, it's not.
Why did I put George Washington here as hope? I put him here because without the truth, there is no hope. It's false hope.
The president says that the worst is behind us right now.
(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)
BARACK OBAMA, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES: Experts from across the political spectrum warned that if we did not act, we might face a second depression. So we acted -- immediately and aggressively. And one year later, the worst of the storm has passed.
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BECK: I hope to God he's right. I really do. But I was reading today in the newspaper something that the left has mocked me for, because I said we're going to lose our AAA status, which means our interest rate on our loans is going to go through the roof.
Here's the article here. U.K., U.S. Move Closer to Losing Rating, Moody's Says. Those are the people that give us the credit rating. They say also that things are going to further deteriorate before things start to stabilize.
Mr. President, I thought you said the worst was behind us?
Everyone in their gut knows the worst is not behind us. You know that. It's not difficult to see the current spending is unsustainable. At some point, there is a brick wall in front of us. We're on the brink and the president has already taken bloated government that was out-of-control before he got into office, and he's making it bigger.
It's like the fat lady that I read about today. I don't know if you read -- there she is. She is 700 pounds. She is trying to get to 1,000 pounds. That's her goal.
I mean, boy that's a -- that kind of -- I wish I could do that. But that's destroying yourself. Why would you want to do that? It makes no sense.
But that's America right now. Except, the radicals aren't admitting it's the goal. We don't want to be a big, fat, fatty, 1,000 pounds. They're not saying that.
We want to be svelte. Then why don't you put the cake down?
What happens when everything comes crumbling down? Where does the hope come from?
Do you remember -- do you remember when they were promising the worst is behind us, and I told you at that time, look out, an emergency. An emergency will come. Well, can you trust the guy who is currently offering you hope?
Let me ask you this: name the institution besides the military that you trust, that you feel they have honor, they have integrity. Is it the media? Is it the Senate? The House? The Republicans? The Democrats? The EPA?
Who? Park police? Is there anything that you really believe in?
For me, the only thing that I really think really has integrity: police and military.
Hope you see comes from a belief in something. How can you have hope in things that are rotting from the inside? You can't. The truth must be restored before you can have hope.
And finally, charity. What was one of the first things that Barack Obama did when he took office? Do you remember? We talked about it and we said, this doesn't make any sense.
He tried to take away tax incentives on charity. Why? Because he wanted to teach Americans how to be charitable.
Excuse me? Americans don't need a lesson on charity. We're the most taxed, or one of the most taxed nations on Planet Earth. We also -- bar none -- are the most giving country that has ever existed in the history of mankind.
We don't need to be taught charity. We get it instinctively.
We got it down. Thank you very much, Mr. President. Although Joe Biden, you might want to talk to him, give him a little lesson. He's only donated .003 percent of his income in 2007.
I'll put the progressive George Soros against the conservative philanthropist John Huntsman any day of the week. One will die powerful. The other will die penniless. Because that's what he chooses to do, to give his money away.
They are taking charity and jamming it through into the government and rotting it from the inside. In the end, this is the answer.
But it is also the disease. If you take these faces out, and turn them into these faces: faith with Al Gore, hope with Barack Obama, and charity through health care with Nancy Pelosi.
You're against healthcare? Well, you must be against Sally Jerkensonberg (ph) who was born with no kneecaps. And I just got a letter from her. She also has no eyelids. She's constantly falling down and then the dust goes right into her eyes.
Why does she have no eyelids? Well, because they took them when she went in for tonsils and they decided that they took her eyelids they could get more money. We have to give her the right to health care.
Don't let that one word get lost on you. They are asking to give her the right to health care. You have to have faith in them. Not in God. Faith in the government -- faith in the government to give you charity. Government to be the grantor of rights.
Two days before Christmas, we celebrated real savior's birth and Tom Harkin said this. And I want you to watch and listen to this carefully on what he said about rights. Here it is.
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SEN. TOM HARKIN (D), IOWA: What this bill does is we finally take that step. As our leader said earlier, we take that step from health care as a privilege to health care as an inalienable right of every single American citizen.
As I said before, this bill is not complete. I've used the analogy of a starter home in which we can add additions and enhancements as we go into the future. But like every right that we've ever passed for the American people, we revisit it later on to enhance and build on those rights.
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BECK: Listen, here's the thing. Can you just bring up the part where he is saying about, you know, what we do with rights? Here it is.
Like every right that we've ever passed for the American people --every right? Tom, I don't know if you've read the Declaration of Independence, but you don't have the power to grant people rights. You don't create them. You don't enhance them. They are not yours.
In case you missed it, let me show you the Declaration of Independence. Bring it up. We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, and endowed by their Creator.
Endowed by their creator. with certain inalienable rights. Who the hell do you think you are, Congress? You're not God! Last time I checked, I am imperfect so you could have created me, but I don't think you did.
America, if you start depending on the government to grant you rights, what they grant, they can take away. If you depend on them to grant you your rights, you've done two things: A, you've turned the republic upside down. And then you've built handcuffs and a cage for you to live in. You will be a slave to whatever the creator deems is best for the collective.
What they are about to pass -- show me a -- give me the scan here. It's an X-ray.
This is a tumor. There's lots of tumors. There's one here, this is all a tumor. This is part of the tumor.
OK. What they're about to pass is not a tumor because the doctor could come over here and say, you got the tumor here, we got to go in and cut this out. I don't know if you can cut this tumor out --maybe not. But you can at least try.
But what they're about to pass is a bloodstream disease. It will be injected into our system and it will be incurable. It will be in every cell of our bodies. That's why it's 2,300 pages, filled with things like this little gem on page 1557 -- a provision for comparative effectiveness research. This is great. This is where panelists get together and they'll have experience in a wide variety of areas, including economics.
Economics? Wait a minute. I thought the problem with health care in America was that it was all about money and we weren't going to have bean counters anymore. Right! This bean counter no longer will be with your insurance company. This one will be a benevolent grant-writing bean counter from Washington.
You'll be powerless over this guy. You can't leave his company. No, no. They'll tell you what treatment you can and cannot have.
America, this is the moment. The fundamental transformation of America is here. I know you are busy. I know you have other things going on in your life. But I also know that this is still America. When things get tough, that's when we get going.
This scene -- this scene happened right before Christmas, 1776. We were losing the war like crazy. Washington lost two-thirds of his Army. They were about to face the -- was it the Haitians or the Prussians? They were about they were like the Navy SEALs of the day. They were Navy SEALs of the day.
And we had these guys, farmers with nothing -- they wanted to go home. Congress, they were chicken. Congress was on this side of the river. Congress got out, left Philadelphia and they went to Baltimore.
Washington knew he was going -- it was over, unless he came up with a plan. And here's was his plan: Get 'em! That was pretty much it. Get in the boats, get 'em. Or when that river freezes, they're going to come over and they're going to slaughter every one of us.
Well, everyone in these boats was freaked out because they were fighting Navy SEALs.
That's when Thomas Paine wrote the follow-up to Common Sense. And he wrote this: These are the times that try men's souls. The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in this crisis, shrink from the service of their country; but he that stands it now deserves the love and thanks of man and woman.
Tyranny, like hell, is not easily conquered; yet we have this consolation, that the harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph. What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly; it is dearness only that gives a thing its value. Heaven knows how to put a proper price upon its goods; and it would be strange indeed if so celestial an article as freedom should not be highly rated.
We may be tired. But we're Americans. America, now is the time to keep fighting this thing, I know you're tired of hearing it. This bill is going to fundamentally transform America.
And, Mr. President, you're not fighting any other army, you're fighting Americans. And we're going to get up and not with bullets, not with guns, but with ideas. With faith, hope, and charity, we shall overcome.
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BECK: Thank you for watching today.
Apparently, the health care reform debate is going to reach its zenith this week. Is it ever going to end?
The progressives are pulling out all of the stops. But what they're playing now is if you don't want this health care bill, you just must hate the poor. You must have absolutely no charity in your heart whatsoever.
You see, they know that you do have compassion for those who are less fortunate because you're Americans. Americans are the most charitable people in the history of the planet by far. They know that. And that leads them to this understanding -- the way to get their power is to play on that compassion. They will stop at nothing to get what they want.
Let me show you something that should disturb you on what was trotted out on Friday. Now, let me make this clear, this is a terribly sad story. This little guy who stepped up to the microphone, how do you not ache for him? What he's gone through.
But what he's being put through now knowingly by adults is obscene. The senators are exploiting him and it's absolutely despicable.
Watch.
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MARCELAS OWENS, 11-YEAR-OLD: My mom was diagnosed with pulmonary hypertension in 2006. She missed so much work that she lost her job. And along with her job, she lost her health care. And losing her health care ended up causing her her life. And I wanted to finish her fight for health care.
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BECK: Dick Durbin, Chuck Schumer, they just dripped with oh, so heartfelt compassion.
(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)
SEN. DICK DURBIN (D), ILLINOIS: Today, 70 Americans will die for lack of health insurance.
SEN. CHARLES SCHUMER (D), NEW YORK: We're asking for an up-or-down vote. And that sounds abstract. It's about Marcelas' mom.
(END VIDEO CLIP)
BECK: Oh, that's what it is. Unfortunately, Chuck, knowingly, is missing the facts. First of all, yes, Marcelas' mom worked at Jack in the Box and got very sick. She lost her job and her health care. That part of the story is true.
But even without health care, she went to the hospital and received treatment, at least two times. The second time was for eight days in the hospital. Now, how is that not having access to health care?
For whatever reason between the visits to the emergency room, she refused to go back to the doctor, despite the fact that she was vomiting blood. Was no one saying Please go back to the doctor ?
I grew up in Washington State. Believe me, they offer a plethora of existing government assistance programs to anybody who's laid off or unemployed. If you're worker and you're unemployed, they got assistance for you. Just like Marcelas' mom.
Why didn't she enroll? Did she enroll? These are the questions that were never answered with these stories, because the answer too often doesn't fit the agenda.
Marcelas' grandmother now says that they applied for Medicaid for Marcelas' mom in the eight months between losing her job and when she died. Well, did they wait too long? If they did, can't we hurry that process up? There is something wrong with the process if that is true. But I don't know if it's true.
What I do know is: if an unemployed single mother of three can't get Medicaid, who can? Maybe that's where we should start looking to fix the system, because that's a change we can all agree on and we can change it today.
Speaking of Marcelas' grandmother, she worked for a place called the Washington Community Action Network. From their Web site, here's what they're all about -- economic, racial gender and social justice for all; decent quality of life for all; change relations of power, so all individuals can significantly impact decisions that affect their lives; shared community and collective responsibility; respect for diversity and building strong communities; truly democratic society with open, honest participation by all.
Boy, there are pesky phrases in that one that we should point out -- social justice, shared community, and collective responsibility. And let's not forget truly democratic society. Well, we're not a democratic society. I think that was the Soviet Union. I believe it's a democratic socialist republic in China as well.
Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, everybody, all of the founders, repeatedly said because they knew democracies do not work. They never have. But progressives, Marxists, really led by the communist at the turn of the 1900s, they knew democracy was a way to get people to vote for dictators. And you hear it all the time, how democratically-elected Hugo Chavez, the democratically-elected Saddam Hussein, Vladimir Putin, the democratically-elected leadership in Iran.
How did young Marcelas and his grandma get to Washington to talk to these powerful, compassionate senators? How did they do it --one of the senators find about it himself and bring them? No. No.The trip was paid for by Health Care for America NOW. That's the George Soros-funded, Barack Obama-approved group fighting for health care. Since all of these groups are so concerned and so involved now, may I ask where were you when Marcelas' mother was vomiting blood?
Wasn't this the perfect opportunity to help her buy a decent quality of life for all? Or at least for one? You had somebody in your own ranks that knew - her mother knew. Dare I ask, where was grandma?
We are expected to believe that after this government takeover of the health care system, these kinds of tragic, tragic stories will never ever happen again. That defies all logic and all reason.
Not only will the government cause these types of tragedies, but I think we can expect they'll happen even more often. After all, every bit of care was available under Medicaid, created specifically for people exactly like Tiffany Owens.
Why is she dead today? The government program existed. Let's fix that one. The bottom line question in all of this sad tale of Marcelas Owens is, what is the real motivation of these U.S. senators? Is it compassion and charity? Or power and control?
(COMMERCIAL BREAK)
(NEWS BREAK)
BECK: Have you noticed the new approach to jamming healthcare down our throats? They're apparently all out of explanations as to why we should pass a multi-trillion dollar boondoggle during one of the most tumultuous economic periods in our nation's history. I know because this is how Nancy Pelosi is currently selling it now to the American people.
(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)
REP. NANCY PELOSI (D-CA), SPEAKER OF THE UNITED STATES HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES: But we have to pass the bill so that you can find out what is in it away from the fog of the controversy.
(END VIDEO CLIP)
BECK: That's about as tempting as Michael Moore in a bikini. I'm going to say no to the one. As much as I trust Nancy Pelosi, I am going to have to pass on the You'll love it. Here, open it, approach. After all, she is a woman who led Congress to a 14 percent approval rating.
And yet, she wants you to give her carte blanche on the biggest government program of all time based on trust. Congressman Bart Stupak - he is the pro-life Democrat. He's not supporting the bill because it would federally fund abortions.
Stupak says he's getting all kinds of pressure from unions to support the bill. And President Obama is persuading him by saying, Trust me. I'm the hope guy. Trust me. Don't worry. We'll just let it pass and we'll fix it later.
How can you trust - how can you trust when he is also hearing from Democrats the argument that, quote, If you pass the Stupak amendment, more children will be born and therefore it will cost us millions more, end quote.
Wow, that's disturbing. And yet it sounds strangely reminiscent, almost like John Holdren, the science czar who says, You know, we can put sterilants in the drinking water and do forced abortions if that's what we have to do if there is some sort of a population explosion.
At what point do we say no to trust approach? How many concrete examples of big government failures do you need to see before we start asking the right questions? Like you keep - you keep saying we're going to pass this. Everybody is against it. What is your real agenda here?
Hey, who is involved? How are the unions involved? Providing better health care truly cannot be one of their reasons for passing it because they have never provided better health care. The systems the government provides, as we saw in the last break, don't work.
If you want to care for the elderly, social security is projected to pay out this year more in benefits than it collects in taxes -nearly $29 billion more. People are going to be retiring and asking for their money.
