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Glenn Beck

War in the Middle East

Aired August 04, 2006 - 19:00   ET

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UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Hello. I am Ayman al-Zawahiri from Al Qaeda. Whenever I`m in America, I like to watch GLENN BECK. He`s on feisty and opinionated, and pretty easy on the eyes, too, I must admit. So watch GLENN BECK before I try to blow him up. Death to the infidels!

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GLENN BECK, HOST: I mean, you`ve got to laugh occasionally, don`t you? Let`s begin right here with our World War III update today.

Two days ago, Kofi Annan said that Israel deliberately targeted and killed U.N. soldiers in Lebanon. Wow, what an outrageous charge. He was outraged and demanded action from Israel and the rest of the world.

You know, Kofi, where was this outrage when people were crying out that U.N. soldiers were raping women and children in Africa, or when corrupt officials were stealing aid money from the children of Iraq directly out of their mouth to line their own pockets?

Kofi`s only seeming outrage was all over the front pages all across America in the last couple of days. But today, the story you won`t find on the front page for some unknown reason was this: According to an e-mail from one of the U.N. peacekeepers -- listen carefully -- quote, "We had numerous occasions where our position has come under direct or indirect fire from artillery and aerial bombing. This has not been deliberate targeting, but has rather been due to tactical necessity."

This was written in the battlefield by one of those U.N. soldiers. And by the way, was not from just any U.N. peacekeeper. It was from one of the U.N. soldiers that was killed in the attack. He himself before the attack said this is happening, and it`s not deliberate.

The U.N. is not just incompetent. I have to tell you, I`m beginning to believe that they are a very dark force that answers to no one.

How about this story? A U.N. employee who used a U.N. diplomatic pouch to smuggle illegal drugs as part of a ring that brought 25 tons of drugs into New York in the past year and a half. Where`s the outrage, Kofi? Where is it? Media, where was that story today?

Why do we want the U.N. involved in anything? Really. Seriously. The U.N. has had a presence in the Middle East for decades, but they`re not allowed to fire a gun. No, no, they`re merely "observers." Well, guess what? I`m an observer, too. I`ve been watching the whole thing spill out into my living room on the television set, and I`m observing how useless the U.N. really is.

Now, I understand why some people want the U.N. to be in the Middle East. I mean, I get it. I`m with you. I don`t want to be the only policeman in the world. I`d like the rest of the world to help out from time to time. But to act merely as an observer is not only pointless, it`s totally delusional.

This isn`t just another skirmish. It`s not Vietnam. Oh, how I wish it were going to be something that could turn into Vietnam and be that happy. It`s not Korea.

I think to think that this is Vietnam or Korea is to be in a complete state of denial. We are on the precipice of one of the biggest battles our country has ever faced. Its outcome is going to decide whether we go back to that life we were -- where we were fighting over the manger scene in our town square with the ACLU, or we go to a place where our children can wear anything they want as long as it`s black.

The U.N. and all our so-called allies need to be told, and need to be told now, you either fight or get the hell out of the way, because we will.

Here`s what I know tonight. Condi Rice failed in her mission to the Middle East. That`s important, and I have more on that later on the show. I also know that Al Qaeda and Hezbollah are now teaming up to form a super group of nut jobs. And now things are going to get a whole lot worse.

I also know this is not about the Israelis and the Palestinians. That is a diversion. Both sides are being used by Iran. This is a religious war that directly affects me and directly affects you, because you`re the one they want to vaporize.

We can`t do what Chamberlain did with Hitler in 1938 and believe that peace and coexistence is possible. It`s not possible. They know that, and you need to know that, as well.

And just like you, just like you, you know, I just want to watch "American Idol," you know? I just want to hang out with my family and friends and, you know, eat Doritos until I have to unloosen my belt. You know, I wish my biggest worry was my pinhead boss at work. I do.

But we don`t have the luxury of that mundane lifestyle anymore, at least for a while. This war is real. It`s huge. And we need to start thinking and preparing for it right now.

Here`s what I don`t know. I don`t know why more people aren`t ringing the alarm bell. I mean, you ask people on the street. They can feel it. What is it going to take? I also have no idea how the media can be so blind to the real story here. I mean, I have my theories, but we`ll get into those maybe later.

People like me are painted in the media all the time as warmongers. Believe me: I pray that I`m wrong. Please, please, dear Lord, make me wrong. But this is a real possibility, and the media and you need to wake up to it now and prepare.

And what I really don`t know is how people who have witnessed history, time and time again, can be so foolish to think that this is about anything other than extreme Islamists believing that Allah has commanded them to dominate the entire planet.

And speaking of denial, Rabbi Weiss, he is an orthodox Jew who is from New York. He believes that the state of Israel and Zionism are responsible for everything that`s going on right now.

Rabbi, I have to tell you, with all due respect, what color is the sky in your world?

RABBI YISROEL DOVID WEISS, JEWS AGAINST ZIONISM: With all due respect, first I appreciate and I thank you for giving me the opportunity to be here.

BECK: Sure.

WEISS: And with God`s help, I`ll try to convey to you the view of not Rabbi Weiss, but the view of Judaism. Judaism is something which has been given to us for thousands of years and was upheld by the religious leaders throughout the centuries, and Zionism started simply 100 years ago by nonreligious Jews...

BECK: OK. But your point, sir, is that, if it wasn`t for the state of Israel, everything would be fine.

WEISS: The fact is that this is not a religious conflict, because Jews were living amongst the Muslim countries, and we had the same difference of religion, and there wasn`t this deep rift between the two of us, the strife. And the rift was started when the state of Israel, of Zionist philosophy, came up to Palestine and created this mistrust and drove a rift between the Jews and their neighbors, the Muslim people. And if you would like to check the history, that`s your issue.

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BECK: Right. So was it -- was the state of Israel, the thought of it what drove the Germans to the Holocaust?

WEISS: By trying to blend together all the traditions and...

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BECK: No, no, sir. Here`s what -- here`s what I`m trying to say to you. You are living in an absolute dream world. The Jews have been -- they have tried to be destroyed by almost everybody on the planet, driven out of almost every corner of this planet.

WEISS: We have to step back and understand again. Are you trying to philosophize or use your theories? Or are you trying to look at what God conveyed to us in the Torah, in the Jewish teachings, where he told us that we should not transform Judaism from religion to a materialistic, nationalistic goal and also, that we are forbidden to attempt to leave exile by creating a state and there would be catastrophic results.

BECK: OK, great, all right.

WEISS: Just add on to that, mind you, that the Palestinian people living in -- the Muslim people living in Palestine, and as soon as the idea of banishing them and oppressing them, that is when the problem started. It`s a very clear fact.

BECK: Let me ask you this, sir, because if I understand you right, you believe you could live side by side. Just so you know, last week in Tehran they executed a 16-year-old handicapped girl for not being able to say no to a married man. They hung her while she was -- crying out repentance, people in Tehran sobbing. The mullahs there in Iran execute a handicapped girl for this. You believe you could live side by side with that evil, sir?

WEISS: Again, you`re theorizing.

BECK: No, sir, I`m asking you a question. Do you believe you could live side by side?

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WEISS: The fact is that we have been living without a U.N., without any watch groups. The Jewish people, being God fearing and practicing their religion, were living in Palestine, in all the Muslim countries, side by side, under the protection of the Muslims, and Zionism came and wants to transform this history and in order to legitimize their political movement and to put the blame on somebody else. They`re blaming it on religion. That`s wrong. That`s wrong.

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BECK: Sir, I have to -- I have to tell you about it, sir. I have to tell you, you would have been, in Germany, the man who said, "No, really, go on in the train. You`re going to be absolutely fine." You cannot coexist with evil. I appreciate your time.

Back in a second with a sex offender on TV. Wait until you see this. But I -- first, I have to leave you with this. For people like Rabbi Weiss, and if you don`t know that`s what really going on, maybe a good dose of reality is what you need.

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BECK: If we`re a society where we think that air conditioning is a God-given right, where we think air conditioning is something that I`ve got to have or I cannot survive, we`re doomed. We are so unbelievably doomed, you know?

It`s just basically, I can`t live unless it`s 72 degrees in my house! Jesus, come take me now! The apocalypse is right around the corner, if we think that air conditioning is a right.

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BECK: You know, the Reverend Al Sharpton and I, I`m pretty sure we probably disagree on just about everything, but I have a feeling that we are going to become fast buddies. Just a hunch.

Reverend Al Sharpton was in St. Louis Tuesday voicing his concern over power outages and energy rates that customers are paying. Sharpton also voiced his concern over reports that there hasn`t been an equal response to restoring service, particularly in the working-class neighborhoods. Biggest request: for the company to roll back prices 10 percent for all customers.

Reverend Al Sharpton, I`ll tell you what. If you go with me and say, "Let`s start building nuke plants or other oil refineries or whatever we`ve got to do to find new energy," I`ll join you on the roll it back 10 percent.

REVEREND AL SHARPTON, CIVIL RIGHTS ACTIVIST: Well, I`ll join you on that. I mean, I think we`ve got to find (INAUDIBLE) but I definitely think -- I think it`s a very serious thing that people in St. Louis and, for that matter, New York and other places have suffered. And the utility companies, especially Ameren in St. Louis, actually have not taken off the table an increase in service rates, lest not roll back until we consider those that lost money during this blackout.

BECK: Let me give you a choice. We could continue to talk about this, which I`ve got plenty of time -- you know, we could talk about this - - or, you know, as I sat down and tried to come up with what I wanted to talk to you about, I have so many real questions that I would like to ask you that I don`t think -- I don`t think anybody`s stupid enough to ask you. May I go that route?

SHARPTON: Well, I would not deny you being stupid, if that`s what you choose to be, but I have a funny feeling that you used the term "stupid" as your way of asking some very good questions.

BECK: No, asking pointed questions in today`s politically correct society are so charged, nobody says this stuff.

SHARPTON: Well, I think that would be good. Let`s do it.

BECK: Have you ever gotten up in the morning, and turned on the television, and saw a story, and said, "Come on, race played no role in that story"?

SHARPTON: Sure.

BECK: You have?

SHARPTON: Oh, yes.

BECK: Can you give me an example?

SHARPTON: I have gotten up many mornings and have seen -- let`s put it this way -- celebrities that have gotten in trouble that I wouldn`t even attend the trials because I didn`t think it had anything to do with race.

BECK: Can you give me an example?

SHARPTON: I didn`t go to O.J. Simpson`s trial.

BECK: You didn`t think race played a role in that?

SHARPTON: I think that the reaction to the verdict was very racial. But if you noticed, I had nothing to say -- and Johnny Cochran and I were good friends -- at all during the trial. And it had nothing to do with whether I felt O.J. was guilty or not. I did not think the trial itself was based on racism.

BECK: Do you believe -- because I...

SHARPTON: I think the reaction was.

BECK: Well...

SHARPTON: Oh, yes, the reaction, I think, was very much based on racial lines.

BECK: Well, you and I could probably do 10 minutes just on that.

SHARPTON: All right.

BECK: Let me ask you this question. I believe that many people no longer listen to people like you because they associate you with coming out and playing a race card. And so...

SHARPTON: Well -- go ahead.

BECK: This is the question. I believe that the charge of racist is becoming today`s charge of communist, where Joe McCarthy played that card so hard that it became a joke. And now racist -- I mean, who`s not a racist now? It seems like everybody is a racist.

SHARPTON: But I think, Glenn, that if you really look back, they said that 50 years ago. People told Martin Luther King, "You just bring it up too much."

BECK: No...

SHARPTON: Same thing. King had to write a book...

BECK: You know, you know, hang on just a second.

SHARPTON: ... why we can`t wait to answer exactly what you said. You know why? Because America never wanted to deal with race.

BECK: No, no, no, I have no problem dealing with race. Look, I grew up in Seattle. I`m as white as you can get. I don`t know what real racism is.

But I went down to Memphis, Tennessee. This is about two years. And I had one of the most remarkable experiences with a group of white people in Memphis, Tennessee, where I heard phrases and words come out of people`s mouth I`d never heard before. It was like walking into a time tunnel, 1950, and that was racist. That was real racism.

SHARPTON: And when was this?

BECK: Two years ago.

SHARPTON: Which is why you still have to have people like me that will deal with that.

BECK: No, but wait a minute. Hang on. I believe that when you`re playing -- and I`m not saying you in particular, but when people in your position play the race card over, and over, and over again, people like me no longer listen to real charges of racism, and it becomes the little boy who cries wolf.

SHARPTON: I think that that is a risk we take, but I think the problem becomes that a lot of times people like you may not think about that, maybe if when I heard wolf, I had responded, that people wouldn`t may become in situations that I have found questionable.

The fact is, if you are a victim of what is unfair in America, you have no choice but to deal with racism. You think we like to get up every morning and have to race hell and have to march? We do it because there`s no other way to bring attention to these problems.

BECK: Right. But what I don`t hear enough from is responsibility. I don`t hear enough of Bill Cosby coming from the message.

SHARPTON: I have been -- and so do most of the (INAUDIBLE) I know -- supportive of -- Cosby does my radio show all the time. It doesn`t get coverage on shows like this.

BECK: Oh, oh. Sir, I will have Bill Cosby on at any time saying the things that he says.

SHARPTON: No, I`m saying that people do not cover that we support Cosby. People call us about race. I preach every week, wherever I`m preaching in America, about social responsibility, about what kids ought to do. That`s not covered.

BECK: All right. Sir, would you come back? I`d love to continue this conversation.

SHARPTON: Any time, Glenn.

BECK: Thank you very much.

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BECK: All right. Let`s try to have some sort of glimmer at the end of the tunnel, man. I swear to you I`m going to drink if we just continue this pace going. Let`s go to Brian Whitman and find out is there any sanity in Los Angeles? Brian`s with KLXS in L.A. and also WABC in New York.

Hi, Brian.

BRIAN WHITMAN, RADIO TALK SHOW HOST: Hi, Glenn, how are you?

BECK: Very good. The insanity in Los Angeles, what is it?

WHITMAN: What is it today?

BECK: Yes, what is it today?

WHITMAN: Well, on top of the heat, on top of the -- I mean, I`ve been schvitzing all weekend. This heat is oppressive.

BECK: Oh, please. Pipe down. You don`t have humidity.

WHITMAN: But you know what? It`s a dry heat. That`s like people say. It`s a dry heat. It`s 126. But, you know, there`s no humidity.

BECK: Right. Right. It isn`t the heat; it`s the humidity. No, it`s the combination of the two. It really is.

WHITMAN: And the haze as well, the triple H`s. It`s very oppressive.

BECK: All right. So you have something going on in L.A. County schools where they`re giving 11-year-olds -- what is it, medication for STDs?

WHITMAN: It`s a vaccination, Glenn. It`s a vaccination for one particular sexually transmitted disease. The problem with the program...

BECK: My head hurts. My head hurts after the news today. It really does.

WHITMAN: Well, the market`s up. That`s good news.

BECK: Yes, good.

WHITMAN: Look, what they`re doing is this. They are giving this vaccination to students unless the parents opt their kid out of the program. Now, the policy, it`s not bad to try to improve the health of children in Los Angeles Unified School District. However, I think it would probably be appropriate to have the parents opt their kids in instead of just giving the vaccine unless parents opt their kids out.

BECK: Well, but the problem with that is that, you know, kids that are having sex have to go to Mom and Dad at 11 and say, "Dad, I`d really like" -- I mean, they`re not going to do that.

WHITMAN: Well, kids at 11 who are having sex, I have to say to you, Glenn, I don`t blame that on the school. I mean, if your kid`s having sex at 11, maybe there`s a problem at the house. Maybe Mom and Dad have not been the most effective parents.

BECK: Right.

WHITMAN: So let`s not blame the school for everything.

BECK: Right, right. So were you at the big rallies for Jews and Muslims? I don`t think they -- they didn`t hold it at the same place this weekend, did they?

WHITMAN: No, I hit both of them.

BECK: You did?

WHITMAN: I don`t miss a rally, Glenn, you know me.

BECK: Yes, I do.

WHITMAN: But our governor, Arnold Schwarzenegger, our mayor, Antonio Villaraigosa, out there at the pro-Israeli rally, and people say, "Hold on a second. There appears to be in this country a pro-Israeli slant." Well, yes, they`re our friends. We kind of like them. And we...

BECK: You know what we need? We needed to just ship over a bunch of cowboy hats, white cowboy hats and black cowboy hats over to the Middle East and just say, "OK, you guys wear those. You guys wear the white ones."

WHITMAN: Yes, it would be very effective.

BECK: It would be a lot easier.

WHITMAN: It would be. It would be.

BECK: Yes.

WHITMAN: But these rallies are interesting. The pro-Palestinian rally, for lack of a better term, had, you know, about a hundred people where there were thousands at the pro-Israeli rally.

But the mayor said the right thing here in Los Angeles. He said you don`t have peace without security, Glenn. And I think you and I understand that. Americans understand that. And we understand the situation in Israel is in. We appreciate their situation.

BECK: Sure. So they didn`t make it to the Muslim. It`s almost as if they were choosing sides.

WHITMAN: Well, again, very pro-Israeli. You know, these Muslims were out there this weekend schvitzing in that heat.

BECK: Yes.

WHITMAN: Saying where is everybody? Where are our supporters this weekend?

BECK: Right. In the air-conditioning. Brian, thanks a lot. Best of luck. We`ll talk to you next week in Los Angeles.

WHITMAN: Thank you. Thank you, Glenn.

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BECK: Israel believes that they have a Chinese spy in their midst. This Chinese spy is reverse-engineering some of the technology that we have given to Israel, shipping that off to China. China then reverse-engineers and takes that information and they make those missiles.

Those missiles are then sold to the Iranians. The Iranians then give them to Hezbollah and Syria. They take them across the border into Lebanon. And so, actually, these are American weapons being used against the Israelis.

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BECK: All right, Chinese spies, reverse-engineers, and high-tech weaponry. Pretty much the storyline of "You, Me and Dupree," I think. I`m not really sure. There is nothing like that crazy little hi-jinks in the Middle East to get the fire and brimstone crowd chatting about the apocalypse. This past Wednesday, I had a chance to talk to an evangelical leader, Mike Evans, who not only believes the end is near, he also has a sexy mustache. Watch.

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BECK: You know, Mike, when I talk to people about World War III, it`s a gut check. And people all say, "Yes, it feels like something bad is about to happen." Do you believe we`re in the end times?

MIKE EVANS, MIDDLE EAST ANALYST: I do. I believe we`re in World War III. We got 100 million Islamic fascists that want to kill us.

BECK: Right. But do you believe that we`re in the end times? Do you believe Jesus is coming?

EVANS: I certainly do.

BECK: You`ll see him in your lifetime?

EVANS: Well, I`d like to. I can`t guarantee it.

BECK: You know what? I`m a Christian. I can wait. Jesus, if you`re listening, you don`t have to come right now. I`m not looking forward to getting to see him, you know, if he`s coming to meet me. If I`m going to see him, I`m cool, but him coming down here? I can wait for a while, Mike.

EVANS: No, I kind of like that, too.

BECK: What amazes me -- and I don`t think a lot of people are paying attention to this -- all of the religions are preparing for kind of the same thing, but in different ways, aren`t they?

EVANS: Yes, right. Like the Islamic fascists that are basically behind -- listen, the majority of Muslims are peaceful. You have about 1.2 billion Muslims that don`t give anybody any problems. But you got about 100 million Islamic fascists, and most of them are Shiite coming out of Iran, and these people believe in the second coming of the 12th imam.

They believe the 12th descendant of Muhammad disappeared in a well and an apocalypse is going to resurrect him. And when it happens, the whole world will submit to Islam.

BECK: Right.

EVANS: Now, Ahmadinejad told that to Bush and the United Nations, so it`s serious stuff.

BECK: When did he say this to Bush?

EVANS: Eighteen-page letter to the president of the United States. He invited them to convert to Islam, and he said, "I hear the glass shattering and the towers falling of your liberal democracy."

BECK: But that`s not the same, is it, as "prepare for Jesus coming"?

EVANS: Well, he was telling him, "Get right with Allah or else."

BECK: Right. Well, you know, we could kind of say that to him, too, get right with Allah or else. You believe that Iran is going to bring on - - they want a nuclear holocaust?

EVANS: Oh, 100 percent! Listen, the Russians want it, too. The Russians are building Iran`s nuclear reactor sites because they believe that, once a Shia state has a nuclear bomb, that there`ll be a nuclear arms race among the Sunni states, which would be a trillion-dollar windfall profit for the Soviet Union.

And, by the way, the generals in Israel -- I was with them last week - - and a couple of Joint Chiefs of Staff are telling me that they`re within six to 12 months of an enrichment process of no return. And they say, once that starts, they`re a screwdriver away.

BECK: OK. So we now have the Iranians preparing for the apocalypse - - I mean, they want it to happen. We have Christians -- I mean, you know, a lot of Christian faiths are saying, "Buckle up, because here it comes." The Jews are also ready to rebuild the temple on the Temple Mount. Is that not accurate?

EVANS: I don`t, I don`t -- I think somebody`s smoking a little dope on that Temple Mount thing.

BECK: Really?

EVANS: I`m in Jerusalem. I`m in Jerusalem all the time, and I see people kicking stones, but I don`t see no temples going up.

BECK: No, no, no, I`m not saying that they`re building it. If you go right around by the Wailing Wall, you will go to the museum where they show the temple and what it would look like if it was rebuilt, et cetera, et cetera.

EVANS: Sure.

BECK: No, no, no, but I have read that everything has been -- that it`s kept in some warehouse some place ready to go when the moment comes.

EVANS: No, that`s a shuck and jive, smoke and mirrors. The temple deal is not really the real deal. But the real deal is, in fact, what`s going on with Islamic fascists. And they`re the ones that are -- listen, they want an apocalypse. They want a mushroom cloud among the little sites in Israel, and the great Satan, America, and they think that`s going to bring the whole world to Islam and that`s the end of the story, and we live happily ever after.

BECK: Mike, quickly, I`ve only got 10 seconds. Is the anti-Christ alive?

EVANS: Is the anti-Christ alive? I don`t have any idea, but I can tell you one thing: If I was going to predict one, I`d say it`s Ahmadinejad, the president of Iran.

BECK: Great, thanks a lot.

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BECK: All right. Now we go to Brian Sack, our public viewer and general nuisance. He`s the guy who is supposed to critique me. He takes your e-mail, and then he yells at me every Thursday.

BRIAN SACK, PUBLIC VIEWER: It`s not yelling. I`m not yelling.

BECK: That`s what it is.

SACK: It`s constructive criticism.

BECK: All right.

SACK: I`m your friend, your constructive friend.

BECK: Yes, what`s the constructive criticism?

SACK: Well, watching the show this week -- and you got me all excited -- because I`ll play the clip.

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BECK: And don`t miss tomorrow`s program. We have a series starting tomorrow on the coming of the Messiah. We`ll do that tomorrow.

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BECK: Don`t blame me. Do not blame me.

SACK: Where is he?

BECK: Do not blame me on this one, Brian.

SACK: Where is he? Where`s the messiah?

BECK: I don`t know.

SACK: OK.

BECK: No man knows when he`ll come.

SACK: All righty then.

BECK: Just saying.

SACK: He`s not calling ahead?

BECK: No.

SACK: And Erica Hill, don`t we love her?

BECK: Uh-huh.

SACK: Oh, she`s so nice.

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HILL: My husband would be the number one -- but I actually went home and I discussed this actual case with my husband -- you know, I`m just going to relax a little, hang out with the hubby and the pets.

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SACK: I think she`s sending you a message: She`s off the market.

BECK: What does that mean? I know she`s off the market.

SACK: Slipping that husband thing in there almost every time.

BECK: Let me tell you something. Let me tell you something. It`s a cross I bear, and let me apologize to all the men in the audience. I am so sorry for how much your wife thinks of me all the time. It`s a cross I bear: Chicks dig me.

SACK: My wife likes you.

BECK: Really?

SACK: My dad thinks you talk over me too much. He just wants me to keep talking.

BECK: Yes, right. Your wife likes me because the choice is me or you.

SACK: Wow. Ouch. Moving onward, sir, I noticed something that when you signed off the other day, a little catchy.

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BECK: Au revoir for now.

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SACK: Hey, we`re speaking French.

BECK: You know, let me ask you this...

SACK: Rubs off on you, doesn`t it?

BECK: Let me ask -- I noticed the lapel pin here.

SACK: This is a different one. This is Poland and the United States.

BECK: Poland and the United States? Why all of the sudden Poland?

SACK: Well, my wife`s Polish, and she`s in Poland. And I`m in the United States. So it`s a 50-50 -- and I`m also in mourning...

BECK: Please tell me that somebody is stopping you from having children.

SACK: I`ve already got one. He`ll be 2 in a couple of weeks.

BECK: Oh, I am so sorry. Is there a way -- can I call the state on you? What state do you live in, Brian?

SACK: I live in New York, ironically.

BECK: Really?

SACK: Yes.

BECK: I`m calling the state as soon as we finish. Next.

SACK: All right. Well, I wanted -- I gave you that snow globe, and I wanted to see...

BECK: I have it. It`s beautiful. I have it on my desk. Oh, come on.

SACK: Oh, what did you do, Glenn?

BECK: Who took a picture of it?

SACK: How could you do that?

BECK: It was a mistake.

SACK: Do you hate France that much?

BECK: Yes, I do.

SACK: I bring you a beautiful snow globe.

BECK: Yes, all the way across the ocean from France. I had it for five minutes. It slipped out of my hand.

SACK: All right. I don`t believe it for a minute.

BECK: Yes.

SACK: OK, another thing, you`re talking about some school there, and here`s a clip we have of that.

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BECK: I can`t have Jesus in a manger, but my children are getting condoms handed to them by the math teacher.

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SACK: First of all, what kind of math, algebra, trigonometry? And second of all, what kind of high school is that? I want to go.

BECK: One plus one equals many, many more. Yes.

SACK: Oh, yes, multiplication. OK. And another thing, Michael Gross, I love him.

BECK: I do, too.

SACK: He`s hilarious.

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MICHAEL GROSS, CIVIL RIGHTS ATTORNEY: This is about funerals of fallen soldiers...

BECK: No.

GROSS: Yes, it is. Don`t mistake this. We`re not playing games here with these crazy "God hates fags."

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SACK: He just yells, I love him.

BECK: I`ve got to tell you, I want to have him over for like my Christmas party just for entertainment. I mean, you don`t need a band. You invite him over and just go, "Hey, the `God hates fags` people," and he`ll just come at you. "I`ll kill you!" That`s right.

Brian Sack, the public viewer. Thank you so much.

SACK: PublicViewer@GlennBeck.com.

BECK: Yes.

SACK: Yes.

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BECK: You know, if there is such a thing as Bizarro World, where up is down and day is night, I think that`s probably where they have built the headquarters for the ACLU. Check out who they`re defending now.

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BECK: Now, there`s a church group in Kansas that likes to go to soldiers` funerals and protest, holding up signs that say "God hates fags." I love these guys.

A spokesman for the church, Reverend Fred Phelps, say they do this because they think America`s tolerance towards homosexuals is making God kill soldiers. Now, guess who`s defending the nut job church? Yes, ACLU, of course. It`s our good friends at the ACLU, the people who never fail to make my head explode.

Before we have Michael Gross on the ACLU, I just have got to get this out in the open. I get it. I understand freedom of speech. It`s only free when the worst possible speech is allowed. I get it. I understand.

But two things come to mind. You can`t scream "fire" in a theater. Can we decide not to scream "God hates fags" at a funeral? Could we do that? Protest wherever you want. Say whatever garbage spills out of your mouth, but show some respect at a funeral. Can you do that?

And the other thing is, can the ACLU humor me just a bit? Throw me a curve ball. Defend at least one decent human being from time to time. What? I agree with that one. Try it out. They`re chasing a plastic baby Jesus out of town squares all over the country, but they choose to represent the "God hates fags" church? Hello?

Michael Gross, former ACLU attorney.

Michael, I got to tell you, I don`t get it.

MICHAEL GROSS, CIVIL RIGHTS ATTORNEY: Glenn, who gets what you just said about treating a child with cancer by giving him urine from frogs, because his parents think that chemotherapy is out of place? But I`ll defend to the death your right to say that poppycock.

BECK: Right. OK. Michael, you and I are never going to agree, and you are -- you, sir, it is my goal in life to have you come on with a smile on your face and keep smiling the whole time. Don`t think we`re ever going to make it.

GROSS: Thank you. Thank you, I`ll try. It`s not etiquette show, is it? We`re talking about justice here.

BECK: Well, we don`t -- Michael, we don`t have to hate each other, do we?

GROSS: No, no. I don`t think.

BECK: We don`t have to yell at each other.

GROSS: I have great respect for you. What I also respect is the First Amendment. This is serious stuff. The world is in turmoil over it. Don`t suppress free speech.

BECK: Wait a minute. I`m not suppressing it. What I`m saying is, can we not have a little civil responsibility with our civil rights? Let`s not shout "God hates fags" at funerals.

GROSS: Look, you never have to protect sane people.

BECK: Here he goes.

GROSS: I`m serious.

BECK: No, here he goes. He`s going to go with the "it`s only free when you have to -- when you have to protect it."

GROSS: It`s easy when you`re saying the sorts of babble that nobody disagrees with.

BECK: Right.

GROSS: It`s hard, but they need to be protected, people who say things which are not popular. They are the ones...

BECK: OK. How about this one? How about this one? You guys -- I can`t have a "Choose Life" license plate because of the ACLU. God forbid I have a "Choose Life," not "Kill all Abortion Doctors." "Choose Life." You guys, against that, but "God hates fags" you`re for?

GROSS: The ACLU has never done anything that harmed anybody. Everything they`ve ever done is to...

BECK: You`re getting angry.

GROSS: If this -- if you think this is anger, it`s only because you`re such a nice guy. This is...

BECK: I`m afraid of you. I really am.

GROSS: This is advocacy. This is what we do when we`re fighting for our rights.

BECK: Right. Come on.

GROSS: Give me a break.

BECK: Michael, do you really? I mean, this is -- when you grew up, you thought to yourself if I could just defend those "God hates fags" guys?

GROSS: I`ll tell you who I defended. I defended young men who went off to jail because they didn`t want to fight in wars, and this is a war issue. This is about funerals of fallen soldiers and people...

BECK: No.

GROSS: Yes, it is. Don`t mistake this. We`re not playing games here with these crazy "God hates fags." I mean, they`re obviously insane, and what they need is an education. There`s plenty of criminal laws that will stop them from disturbing the peace, but what we don`t need is to be protected from what`s really happening in the world.

BECK: OK.

GROSS: Soldiers are dying, and we`re not allowed to know about it.

BECK: OK. So I want to make sure you are on the record -- I understand what you`re saying here. I can`t believe you`re admitting it, and I appreciate your honesty. That this is taken on by you because of the political agenda.

GROSS: No, no. You misunderstood me.

BECK: Wow.

GROSS: No. Here`s what I`m trying to say. When the president hides the body bags, when the president doesn`t want people showing up at funerals of soldiers, he calls an act, and this is the name of this act, Fallen Heroes. That is a way of polishing the Bush doctrine in Iraq. Now, what we need is a fair and open discussion of that policy.

BECK: How did we -- how did we -- sir, how did we go from your "God hates fags" to the anger over the war? Let`s just say this has nothing to do with the war, and I know you`re going to go off on that.

GROSS: It`s about soldiers who died in Iraq.

BECK: Wait a minute, sir. Let`s say...

GROSS: How do you say it has nothing to do with the war? That`s what they`re protesting.

BECK: These people have protested at the funerals of AIDS victims.

GROSS: Yes.

BECK: They have protested at the victims of funerals where people were involved in hate crimes and beaten to death because they were homosexual. Would you defend that?

GROSS: Yes, of course.

BECK: Wait a minute.

GROSS: Of course.

BECK: Hang on. You would? That`s OK to engage in hate speech at someone`s funeral?

GROSS: Look, they`re not at the funeral.

BECK: They are right there at the funeral.

GROSS: No, no, no, no. No, no, no. They`re not at the funeral. What this prohibits...

BECK: Across the street. I`m sorry.

GROSS: All right. That`s a big difference.

BECK: Oh, come on. It`s not -- as I`m coming down with my family and I`ve got the coffin, I have to hear these bozos screaming "God hates fags"? How dare you? Give me a second.

GROSS: That`s what those soldiers died for. This is America.

BECK: No, sir.

GROSS: This is not Afghanistan, Iraq, or Lebanon.

BECK: I love you. I don`t ever want to spend time with you because you scare me, and honestly, I -- but I love you. You`re great.

GROSS: Thank you.

BECK: God bless you. I completely disagree with you, and luckily, most of America does, too.

GROSS: And I defend your right to disagree.

BECK: Thanks a lot, Michael.

GROSS: Bye.

BECK: Bye-bye.

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BECK: All right, it`s been a few days since we`ve unleashed the hate mail. It`s starting to back up on us a bit, so let`s delve in together, shall we?

Malcolm writes in, "Glenn, here`s my shot at your `What I Know and What I Don`t Know` segment. Enjoy."

All right. This is kind of exciting. The production people have put together graphics for Malcolm from Austin, Texas. TV debut. Here it is. Here`s what Malcolm knows.

Apparently, I`m an idiot. Here`s what Glenn doesn`t know: anything. OK. Thanks, Malcolm. I`ll give you a C-plus. I mean, I liked how direct it was, but it lacked that piece of flair that might have brought it all together. It was just all right for me, dog, you know?

John from North Carolina writes, "For a goofball conservative freak piece of work, I shudder at the thought that you sometimes make sense of the world headlines. I can`t believe I said that."

Honestly, I can`t believe you said that either. You must be one of them right-wing zealots like me.

Answer some of these questions: Do you have the desire to hurt innocent trees? Have you felt the need to lead an unjust invasion on your local Pep Boys to steal oil? Have you ever intentionally and repeatedly kicked a puggle in the last three weeks? If so, you might be becoming a hatemonger. Check your doctor. Get something to help before it`s too late.

Carrie in California writes this: "I`m appalled that your station would air such garbage. Glenn Beck has trivialized the horrible war going on in the Middle East." Yes, that`s what it`s been happening. It`s what I`ve been doing, I`ve been ringing the bell on World War III. "There are innocent children being killed each and every day, and I`ll no longer watch this channel for my news and information until this poor excuse for entertainment is given his pink slip."

Hey, Carrie, I get it. You know, the show isn`t for everybody. First, let me just tell you this: You`re a new viewer. You`re going to hate this show for about six or eight weeks. Then you`re going to go into a period of white-hot hate, where it just drives you insane. But then eventually we`ve found it just kind of simmers down to a sort of a numbness where you can`t find yourself changing the channel. We`re hoping we keep you until then.

Secondly, I know when I get home from work, I want the information I need to know, but I also would like to laugh a little and watch it with somebody with at least a little sense of humor. Otherwise, I`m killing myself.

If that`s not what you want, you can get the other approach on about 2.5 billion radio and TV stations all around the dial. I just can`t make it throughout the day without, you know, pointing out how ridiculous the world really is, but maybe that`s just me.

Don`t worry. If you won`t watch, hey, you can still e-mail me. I love your hate mail, GlennBeck@CNN.com. See you tomorrow on the radio, you sick freak.

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