Glenn Beck (19:32)
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The whole family's gonna break up and then everything is destroyed. But since we're having a fight now on social media, the worst place to have a fight now that we're having a fight on social media, we, for the kids sake and for the family's sake, Mommy and Daddy have to figure this out in front of the kids so they know we love each other and we can still stick together. So let me start here because there are so many sides to this argument. But let me get into it. This is all revolving around anti Semitism, what that even means, Zionism, what that means. Tucker Carlson, is he on our side or not on our side? Oh, God. So let me start here. I really do not like seeing people ripped apart like Tucker Carlson ripped apart for bringing a guy on who says, I love Stalin. Do you? You love Stalin? Okay, let me talk to you for an hour. I think that's ridiculous. But that's not my show. That's his show. He bring on whoever he wants to bring on. I do not like people trying to cancel people. You know, if you don't like it, don't watch it. That is the solution. I really despise the idea of people mounting campaigns to, quote, drive someone out of the movement. No, no, you don't do that. And the same thing could be said now on the other side with the Heritage foundation for saying they won't distance themselves from Tucker. So now they. Their funding all has to stop. And people are starting to say we should cancel our funding to the Heritage Foundation. I mean, I got to tell you, if I'm on the left, there is nothing that I would want more than to pour fuel on this fire. We're destroying ourselves. I also don't like it when people start ripping other. Invite them on the show. Give you the example. And I love Tucker, but, you know, inviting Ted Cruz on, I thought, I felt. And I could be wrong. I haven't talked to Tucker about this one, but I felt that that was setting him up. I never invite somebody on the show to then rip them apart. Okay? I just. I don't do that. I didn't like it when he did that. I wouldn't do it, and I wouldn't do it to Tucker, and I just don't like it. I also have a problem with anybody who says. Who say they despise Christian Zionists. And mainly because I don't even know what your definition of a Christian Zionist is. What is that? It's got to stop. We are mixing the stream, Remember, in Ghostbusters. Don't cross the streams. We're crossing the streams all the time. We're crossing them from political to personal to religious. Nobody even knows what the hell we're even talking about anymore. But something dark is happening in our country. So I want to try to take this apart piece by piece. Let's start with the rise of anti Semitism, because that's not the only dark thing that is rising in our country. That alone should be enough to chill everybody's blood. The other part of it is this loss of a moral compass and these stories all tied together. Debate over Tucker and his guests, the Heritage foundation, their refusal to cancel him. So now they're the enemy. And the condemnation of the Heritage Foundation. Does anybody notice that we find ourselves in exactly the same place, circling the same idea over and over and over again. Different views, different words, but the same problem circling the drain. Same problem, same solution. What do we do with speech we find reprehensible? It seems some people think it's really, really easy. You know, it seems to Be very easy on the left if. If it's a conservative that says something that you don't like or is politically, you know, advantageous to you to stand up against. You stand up against, and then you get them canceled. Okay? You do everything you can to cancel them. If it's somebody on your side that you like and they say exactly the same thing, you just make excuses or exceptions. You know, I mean, that. That. That it's easy on the left to do that. That's simple. But now we find ourselves split between these two camps. And here are the two camps. Those who believe silencing is the cure for evil ideas, and those who fear that silencing is a bigger issue, evil in itself. Okay, both sides are missing something here. So I just want to talk about freedom of speech here for a second. There's so many other things that are part of this, but freedom of speech. I think both sides are missing something. They're both staring at the same fire, but from opposite sides of the flame. So let's break it down into two parts. You should be able. And I learned this from Stu, you should be able to change the topic or the words of any statement. And the outcome you're feeling on it should be exactly the same. Okay? Because it should be. The principles that we're arguing here. Let me give you an example. The vaccine is dangerous, and you can't force me to take it. Should you be canceled on that Trump is a Nazi? Should you be canceled on that men cannot have babies? Should you be canceled I love Stalin. Should you be canceled? No matter what is said on either side, we can condemn. We can speak out and debate. But the best way to make bad ideas grow is to suppress them. If you're a parent, you might get this. You raise your kids, and once they hit teenage years, you'll start to understand this. The more mom and dad are against something, the more mom and dad hate something. Oh, the more likely it is that your kids just turn the knife in you. Because that's what teenagers do. They'll embrace it. But when your children are trying to provoke you for attention, the last thing you do is give them the win they're looking for. You just don't do that. You remember in Star Wars? Yes, Young Skywalker, Take it. Strike me down. Why did he say that? Because he knew the emperor knew you. Strike me down. I am more powerful than ever. So stop with Cancel Culture 2. Let me make something else really clear. Anti Semitism is evil. Now, how do you define that? How do you define Zionism I don't know, everybody seems to have their own definition here, being against Israel's policies, Israel's war. The way Israel or any country handles itself in foreign relations, that's not antisemitism. You know, let me take, let me take Great Britain, okay? I disagree with the British government the way they are silencing people. You know that 4,000 people last year have been arrested for speech crimes. I think Russia arrested less than 200 people last year. 4,000 in England. That's a problem. You want to talk about fascism, but if I'm against this, and vehemently against this, and if I say, you know, their politicians are destroying England, that the Islamification of Great Britain is almost complete and the silence, the official silence from the King and from all of the politicians is evil, does that make me anti British? No, no, I'm not anti British. I have a problem with their policies. I find their policies really stupid. Okay, Anti Semitism means I have an unreasonable view that all the Jews are in some global plot. So let me bring it about, just changing a couple of words and you'll see it quickly. All the Jews, you know, all the Jews, all the Jews, they control the whole world. Yeah, they do. They, they're all in on some evil plot. Okay, let me just change one word. Let me just change it from Jew to, I don't know, black, whites, blue eyed, blonde haired people, you know, all blue eyed people, they're all in a plot. They're all in on it together and they control the world. Okay, that's just stupid. That's just stupid. Anti Semitism is the ancient hatred that is burned through every civilization that ever thought it was enlightened. Every time. And it starts the same way. And in the last 200 years, it's always started with Marxism. What a surprise. Well, that's, you know, Marx was a Jewish, he hated the Jews. Oh my gosh. Starts the same way. Whispers, scapegoats. And the lie that one, one group of people, those blacks, all the whites, all the blue eyed people, all the Jews, they control the world. You know, how does that end? It always ends in blood. Always. And not just Jewish blood. I mean that's first. But it ends in the blood of any nation that embraces that kind of stuff. Every time it destroys the nation. Now clarity is what we need. So let's talk about clarity. You can disagree with a government, the government of Israel, without being an anti Semitist you can question, or an anti Semite you can question foreign aid, you can question military policy, you can Question the leadership without hatred for the Jews. The inability to distinguish between hatred of a people and criticism of a government is part of what is poisoning our national discourse. Okay, there's no problem. Question Israel all you want. I do. If America stands for anything, it stands for the right to speak freely and to question power and any power without being condemned. A heretic. That's what we do and do best. That's what we should do. Now, on that, seeing I brought the word heretic up, don't tell me that my support. Because I'm a Christian and I believe it and you don't have to be a Christian and you don't have to believe what I believe. But don't tell me that my support of the Jewish people to exist in their ancient homeland, which is how I define Zionism, is heresy. How dare you? I mean, we don't even agree probably on the definition of Zionism. Maybe we should do that. But stop calling my faith and my understanding of my faith heretical. Christianity. And that's a quote. But we could have that conversation. We should have that conversation between civilized people. Let's have that discussion. What does that mean? Here's what I mean. Me and everybody else, we must stop dealing in absolutes. You're either for us or against us. You know who thinks like that again? Let me go back to Star Wars. Sith. That's Sith thinking that first leads to the silencing of voices and then in extreme cases, the execution of those voices that just won't be silenced. Look, our founders were really, really clear on this. This is why the First Amendment. Our founders understood all of this. They knew that liberty doesn't die with a bang. It dies with a hush. When voices are silenced, even the ugly ones, we begin the descent. We circle the drain and then go down. Jefferson wrote, the error of opinion may be tolerated where reason is left free to combat it. What the hell is that? It means as long as there's a free man that is willing and able to say, that's a dumb idea. Leave it alone. Leave it alone. An error of opinion, your thinking. Let just free people have that debate and it will solve itself. They also knew that liberty without moral restraint curdles into chaos. Paul wrote, everything is permissible, but not everything is beneficial. Just because you have the right to say something doesn't mean it's morally right to say it. Have some restraint. Well, but that comes with responsibility, which we don't have. That comes with morality, which we're losing day by day. Comes with religion. I mean, that's what I'm sorry. George Washington said religion and morality are the twill, the twin pillars of political prosperity. You mean he wanted everybody to be religious? No, he didn't want everybody to be religious. He meant that a republic cannot survive without shared virtue, the moral foundation of our society, the idea that every man is created equal, that rights come from God, not government, that springs directly from, dare I say it, our Judeo Christian values. You don't have to be religious to understand that or to cherish it. But if that pillar falls, so does the republic. This is the best of the Glenn Beck program. Andrew, my man, how are you?
