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What are Iran`s Real Plans?; Women Mistreated in Iran; Psychic Weighs in on Anna Nicole Smith Paternity Question

Aired April 03, 2007 - 19:00   ET

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GLENN BECK, HOST (voice-over): Tonight, Iran hostage crisis day 12. As tensions reach a boiling point, just how close is Iran to getting their hands on a nuke?

And Rosie the Reveler.

ROSIE O`DONNELL, CO-HOST, ABC`S "THE VIEW": Have governments ever faked incidents or incited incidents in order to get them into wars?

BECK: Can anything stop the Rosie O`Donnell train wreck?

Plus, who`s the father of Anna Nicole`s baby? Forget about the DNA results. I`ve got psychics.

All this and more next.

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BECK: Remember when you were a kid and you watched "The Wizard of Oz" and Dorothy and the gang are told, "Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain"? Well, let me say the same thing to you. Don`t be fooled for the last few days of what`s been happening in the British hostage crisis. This has been nothing but Iran`s leadership seeing if the allies would not just talk but act.

Whether or not the sailors drifted into Iranian waters doesn`t really matter. Iran`s President Ahmadinejad has bigger plans in mind, but he first needed to test the resolve of the west. So here`s the point tonight.

Sorry to say, but Britain has failed that test. Iran knows now that Britain will not act, and the world is much less safe because of it. Here`s how I got there.

This is the latest statement from British Prime Minister Tony Blair.

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TONY BLAIR, BRITISH PRIME MINISTER: All the way through, we had, if you like, two very clear tracks on this. One is to try and settle this by way of peaceful and calm negotiations, and get our people back as quickly as possible. The other is to make it clear that if that`s not possible, then we have to take an increasingly tougher position.

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BECK: I`ve got to believe it`s pretty hard to talk tough with that cool accent, but England, you are showing the kind of weakness that really we usually only see from France.

Remember, Iran is not a nation of fools. That regime is already thinking many steps ahead in their master plan. Take a look at how the Iranian spokesperson reacted to Tony Blair`s willingness to compromise.

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ALI LARIJANI, IRAN`S SUPREME NATIONAL SECURITY COUNCIL (through translator): First of all, we have to put aside the irrational moves and resulting to language of force. Secondly, there is an incident. There is a difference of view between the U.K. government and the Iranian government. And this issue should be resolved bilaterally.

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BECK: All right. Let me lay all this out for you. Grab a pen and paper and keep your minds open and ready to be blown here. It is not about anything but the nukes. It`s not about the water; it`s not about the sailors. Iran has always wanted nukes. But when they tried to get the nukes, they got nothing but static from the rest of the civilized world. You know, because they`re evil.

So what did they do? They grab British hostages. Not only is that, you know, what David Copperfield does, misdirection. It`s distracting attention from what`s really going on. They want the bomb. But it also takes the west`s temperature. And that`s what you`re missing in the rest of the media.

We`re big on tensions and talking the talk. But will we man up and stand up? Tony Blair and the Brits, unfortunately, said no thank you, sir.

Iran did the same thing last year, when the sanctions were looming. Only then, they had Hezbollah take some Israeli soldiers hostage. They tested Israel`s resolve. But Israel fought back. Granted, they did it poorly, but at least they fought. This time around, Britain sat on their hands.

The bonus now is the British newspapers. There`s a British newspaper, "The Independent". They`re now blaming us, America, for their hostages being taken in the first place. They`re now saying that we provoked the kidnapping by snatching up some low level Iranian operatives acting up in Iraq. Now remember, these Iranian operatives were killing Americans. Not in Iraq -- I`m sorry, in Iraq, not in Iran.

If you don`t have the balls to do the heavy lifting in this war, England -- and yes, I did say war, war with Iran -- then get the hell out of the way and stop whining. Great Britain, you`ve either got to man up or learn to speak French. Your very survival depends on it.

Now, that`s the nukes. Remember, with Iran, always about the nukes. This is a country that has said that the nonbelievers will burn in the fires of the Islamic fury. Gee, that doesn`t sound like they`re real flexible, does it?

Iran is now claiming that they have to develop their own nuclear capabilities because no one will sell it to them. Remember, nobody wanted to sell it to them in the first place. They didn`t want to buy it. Now they can`t even get it from the greedy Russians, with plenty of Cold War uranium priced to move.

So at the end of the day, here`s what I know. When the British hostages finally come home, and Tony Blair gets off his knees and starts patting himself on the back as the great peace maker, the world will be much less safe. America will be the only country doing anything to change that, and we`re doing a pretty lousy job at it. According to the experts, Iran will only be two years away from being the newest and scariest member of the nuclear club.

What I don`t know, if Iran is this much of a threat without a bomb, what happens when they finally get it?

Joseph Cirincione, he is the author of "Bomb Scare: The History and Future of Nuclear Weapons".

Joseph, is it fair to say that the crisis and Iran`s nuclear ambitions are related? Is this related to the hostages? Am I right?

JOSEPH CIRINCIONE, AUTHOR, "BOMB SCARE": Yes, they`re related, but I have to say I don`t agree with the way you`ve linked them. I think there`s much more a domestic political struggle between the Revolutionary Guard, who remember, seized the hostages, and the more pragmatic elements in the Iranian government. This is Ahmadinejad`s power play. He`s trying to grab control back with the foreign policy agenda. That`s why the hostages were seized, in my view.

BECK: OK, so wait a minute. The Revolutionary Guard, it has been speculated that the Revolutionary Guard is much more hard line...

CIRINCIONE: Yes.

BECK: ... and they don`t like -- they don`t -- they really do want the return of the 12th imam. They really do want to not negotiate, because it is a sign of weakness. You`re saying that they are going against the mullahs?

CIRINCIONE: There is a power struggle taking place in Iran now, and you have to understand this is not Kim Jong-Il`s North Korea. It`s not Saddam Hussein`s Iraq. This is a complex and volatile situation.

And the kinds of sanctions that the United States has led the U.N. to impose are really causing some pain now on the Iranian economy. And you`re seeing these political fissures open up. You`re starting to see some Iranians talk about a compromise on the nuclear issue.

This is the connection. Ahmadinejad doesn`t want to compromise. He wants a conflict with the west. So he has used this issue of the hostages to try to reclaim the nationalist flag from the mullahs who control the country. And to assert his power inside the Iranian government.

And as I think you do a point here, with a cover for the acceleration of the Iranian nuclear program. While the hostage crisis has been going on, the Iranians have been busy assembling centrifuges. We`ve just learned that they`ve secretly put together about a thousand more centrifuges in their underground facility at Natanz. They`re trying to establish facts on the ground, get as much done as soon as possible before the west can stop them.

BECK: We`re getting into this here in just a few minutes. But in our "Real Story" tonight, we have a story that a lot of people are saying that we`re going to attack and Ahmadinejad is actually preparing people for an attack by summer. Do you think we attack? Do we stop them? Who wins here?

CIRINCIONE: If we attack, that consolidates Ahmadinejad`s power. That plays into his hands. And it would really be the beginning of a conflict, not the end of one. If you like the Iraq war, wait until you see the Iran war. This would be a truly major conflict in the Middle East with global repercussions.

BECK: Joseph, I fear you`re exactly right.

Yesterday, joined by a body language expert. His name is Robert Phipps. He`s over in London. He helped to put aside the official statements of what the British hostages are saying and actually started to read their bodies and find out what they were actually saying.

We asked him to look at some of the footage of Iranian President Ahmadinejad to give us the same kind of insight. He`s back with us now.

Robert, what did you watch and what did you learn?

ROBERT PHIPPS, BODY LANGUAGE EXPERT: Hi, good evening, Glenn. Hi.

Well, in the first bit, we saw Ahmadinejad just entering a big auditorium. And what you see there is that he`s quite humble in his body language when he`s on his home territory. He`s nodding to the crowd. He even sort of tilts his head to acknowledge them. Now, it`s not the sort of gesture you would normally see from a leader. Most gestures like that are meant for leadership gestures. They don`t nod their head in subordination to people around them.

BECK: OK, so he`s humble at the United Nations when he`s walking in. Are you saying that you believe he`s a humble man?

PHIPPS: No, what I`m saying is that this is a man who knows exactly the right body language signals to send at exactly the right time so he can hone his message to his home audience.

BECK: All right. Have you seen any other body language? Did you watch the speech that he gave?.

PHIPPS: Yes, I watched him speak. And again, he comes across, although he uses a lot of -- a lot more hand gestures. What he does do is he still comes across very humble in that circumstance.

However, when you look at him when he`s in the presence of the ayatollah, he`s a completely different character. He melts like a schoolboy. And it shows where the power struggle really is there. It`s almost as though he`s seeking the approval of the ayatollah.

BECK: Right. He needs it to stay alive. What does the ayatollah`s body language tell you?

PHIPPS: The ayatollah`s body language is much more aggressive, much more authoritative. He uses a lot of pointing fingers and jabs it forwards to emphasize his point. He also uses a lot of eyebrow flashes, like this as he`s talking. He`s emphasizing his point and jabbing that finger home.

So what I would say is looking at the clips that I`ve looked at, Ahmadinejad is seeking the approval of the ayatollah. Once he has the ayatollah`s approval, he will get the approval of the rest of Iran.

BECK: And Tony Blair, we saw some videotape just a couple of minutes ago. What`s Tony Blair`s body telling you right now?

PHIPPS: I think Tony Blair`s body language is saying that he`s in a state of flux, because they`re caught in a catch-22. Do they go in all guns blazing or do they take their time and go through the diplomatic channels?

BECK: He seems to have been the guy who was guns blazing for a while and now he kind of seems defeated. Has he changed?

PHIPPS: Well, his body language has certainly changed. If we looked at the two clips when he first spoke about the marines being captive, he looked down and to his right, which shows he`s using his emotional channel.

However, when we look at him talking about, you know, being more cautious and maybe using other means to get our marines back, he looks down and to the left, which tells me that he`s choosing his words carefully and very cautiously.

BECK: Robert, thank you very much.

Now, protests on the streets of Iran show outrage towards the British and the U.S., but does that anger really reflect the mood of the people? We`re going to talk to a woman who grew up with the ayatollahs. She called it living in hell. That`s next.

Plus, while everybody else is waiting for Anna Nicole`s paternity tests, we`ve got -- I mean, if we`re going to do trash TV, let`s go all the way. We`ve got a psychic on tonight.

Plus, Rosie O`Donnell continues to make headlines with her outrageous comments. Has she gone too far? Maybe not. Her big fat mouth may actually be helping her career. Don`t miss it.

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BECK: From the beginning, I believe we as a nation have screwed this war up six ways to Sunday. George Bush framed it wrong in the first place. This was never about Saddam Hussein or weapons of mass destruction. I mean, that was a bonus. It was always about getting to Iran, the head of the snake and the center of evil in the modern world.

If he had been more upfront at that point about that, we wouldn`t be facing the degree of opposition that we currently are and that he currently is.

Britain is having problems of their own, because they`re mired down in political correctness. They are afraid to react and even take a small step of calling evil by its name because they are too afraid to offend even those who have offended them. Wait until you see "The Real Story" tonight about what they`re not teaching in school now. It will blow your mind and should just shake you to the core.

Now, we have the same problems here in our country. Where is the National Organization of Women? The oppression of women in Iran is outrageous, throughout the entire Middle East. Where are the labor unions speaking up for the Iranian union organizer who had his tongue filleted out of his mouth two weeks ago in Iran? I`ll tell you where they are: they`re in Washington playing politics right now.

We`re so terrified of being perceived as intolerant that we`ve tied our own hands and lost sight of one simple fact: calling the leaders of Iran evil is not the same as calling everybody in Iran evil.

Over the weekend, 200 men and women gathered outside the British embassy in what some have suggested was a government organized protest against Britain and the west, a protest where people were paid to attend.

So which is it? Do the people of Iran really hate us as much as their leaders want us to believe? Or are they just as sick and tired and frustrated as we are?

Ghazal Omid, she is -- she was born there. She`s the author of "Living in Hell".

Ghazal, we saw the protests this weekend. You`ve got a book, "Living in Hell". Tell me about the hell that the women in this country are going through. Just a couple of weeks ago, a group of women were arrested for trying to protest about other women that were arrested and what happened to them?

GHAZAL OMID, AUTHOR, "LIVING IN HELL": Right. I would like to start with, first of all, thank you for having me on the show.

BECK: Sure.

OMID: And then saying that, Asu Zaladida (ph) is one of those women. She`s 22 years old. She`s attending a gathering supporting those women, also a gathering supporting teachers who are not getting paid. And about 8,000 of them later on came on the streets, which you didn`t hear about that, because there was more important stories on your networks.

And then she`s getting arrested. She`s taken to jail, to Evans Prison. She`s been brutally raped multiple times.

BECK: You can say it. Go ahead. You can say it.

OMID: She was raped multiple times, back and forth and then she was released because she had body injuries.

BECK: Hang on, hang on. I want YOU to be clear on this. I think this is important to say. I`m sorry, America, this is shocking. She was anally raped with a baseball bat. That`s who these people are.

OMID: And then she had body injuries. She was released on $7,500 money, guarantors in the United States and in Iran. After she was taken to hospital, she was released again for two days, and internal injuries took over and she`s dead since the other day.

Now, the government of Iran is not even giving her body back to the parents and telling them that if you`re speaking up against us, if you`re telling anyone, we`re going to arrest you. We`re going to arrest her brother, which is already in hiding, with her entire family. We`re going to take you to jail. We`re going to kill you.

This is how women in Iran stand up to their abusers. And you guys don`t hear about them because apparently they`re not important. And everybody in the United States thinks that...

BECK: No. You know, Ghazal, I got to tell you something, they are important. There are just not enough people that are in media that...

OMID: Glenn, I don`t agree. There were 8,000 people on the streets of Iran shouting two weeks ago against the government. We send so many pictures out, we send so many tapes out, but nobody listens because they`re not the mainstream media sort of stories.

BECK: Yes, you`re right on that. I`m telling you, there are a lot of people in this country that care, but they are not getting the truth. The mainstream media will not cover any of this stuff. I`m on the edge of the lunatic fringe in the mainstream media, and they won`t cover it. And it`s going to be the death of all of us.

OMID: Glenn, we need -- we need five minutes of your time per day to show what`s going on inside Iran. Because we don`t have podiums. And if we don`t, this government will not go anywhere. If you really want to get rid of this Iranian regime, help us to help you.

BECK: Ghazal, you and I will have a conversation off the air. I will give you -- you give me the footage, you give me the stories, I will expose it.

OMID: Absolutely. Absolutely.

BECK: You got it. Thank you. The book is "Living in Hell". We will see you again.

Coming up, lawyers, doctors and all other sorts of experts are arguing over the identity of Anna Nicole`s baby daddy. But in tonight`s program, we`re going to solve it once and for all, because I`m tired of this story. We`ve got a psychic on. Let`s just get it all out.

And Rosie O`Donnell just can`t keep -- seem to keep her big mouth shut. Why her outrageous comments may actually put her in a league of her own.

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BECK: Just so you know, I was speaking to Ghazal Omid -- she was our guest in the last break -- during the commercial, and we are going to have her back, hope to have her back on tomorrow`s program. It is a horrific situation, and she has video. And as soon as we get it, we will have her on. I promise you that.

I`ve been doing a lot of hard thinking about President Ahmadinejad and the whole releasing of the hostages and what is he waiting for. I think I understand it. It just came to me. I believe it`s Larry Birkhead`s paternity test.

I mean, only because it seems like that`s all we seem to see on television is Anna Nicole Smith, and I figure we`re just going to get it all out of the way. Let`s just stop, you know. Let`s just get it out of the way. We`ve brought a psychic in. Her name is Judy Hoffman.

Hi, Judy. How are you?

JUDY HOFFMAN, PSYCHIC: Thank you for having me, Glenn.

I`m so sick of it also.

BECK: Yes.

HOFFMAN: It`s going to end in the next couple of weeks and no later than Memorial Day. We`re going to finally get some answers.

BECK: Really?

HOFFMAN: Yes. And it`s about time.

BECK: OK, because I`ve been watching this, and I thought, why not? I mean, the only thing we haven`t done is just predict the end of the story and then we can be done with it.

HOFFMAN: Well, the end of the story is going to be a little more complicated than just predict the way it would be linear. Because there`s still going to be a third death involved with everything here.

BECK: Really?

HOFFMAN: Two of them have died, Anna Nicole and her son. Another family member is going to pass. They come in threes.

The baby looks like Larry Birkhead. Psychically, I feel that it`s likely to be his. However, she was inseminated. She was inseminated...

BECK: You mean artificially?

HOFFMAN: Artificially inseminated. I am not convinced she ever, ever had intercourse with that man.

BECK: So she never had -- so who...

HOFFMAN: And Howard K. Stern, not a chance. Not a chance in the world that he`s the father.

BECK: OK. And you`re getting this psychically?

HOFFMAN: Yes.

BECK: Did you talk to her? How is she?

HOFFMAN: I can`t communicate with the dead, that`s not really my thing unless I have a dream about the person.

BECK: So you`re getting this from Larry?

HOFFMAN: I`ve never met Larry before.

BECK: OK.

HOFFMAN: It`s just been a feeling. I have clients who called me. Believe it or not, there is such an obsession with this woman to do readings about Anna since she`s been passed to see what the real story has been.

BECK: Do you ever think to yourself, just saying you should get a life?

HOFFMAN: I think that to myself about the entire story. I mean, she definitely -- somebody allowed the murder to take place. It wasn`t really a murder. They allowed a death to take place. But it wasn`t -- nobody is going to be charged with anything.

BECK: So do you know who`s going to die?

HOFFMAN: I feel it`s a family member. I feel it`s somebody that`s very close to her. And the person is older.

BECK: Well, who do you think?

HOFFMAN: My hunch? The mother.

BECK: Really?

HOFFMAN: Yes.

BECK: Well, she`s kind of old.

HOFFMAN: There`s a lot of old people who aren`t dead yet.

BECK: She`s heavy.

HOFFMAN: She`s heavy, she could have a heart attack. It will be all over. The other thought I had was potentially it was Stern, that he was...

BECK: Let we just ask our producer, Conway. By the way, can we start making up banners that just say that, you know, Anna Nicole`s mom has passed away or something? Can we just get it done?

HOFFMAN: It`s not like predicting the outcome of the Super Bowl, or the outcome -- which I got correct, that Florida was going to win.

BECK: Did you predict anything hard, like did you do, like, the Britney Spears marriage?

HOFFMAN: Yes, that was really hard. The Britney Spears divorce you`re talking about.

BECK: Yes, that`s what I mean.

HOFFMAN: That was really, really a difficult call.

BECK: It was. That was very difficult.

HOFFMAN: You didn`t need to be a psychic for that. I don`t think you need to be a psychic for this one, to tell you the truth.

BECK: All right.

HOFFMAN: There are people hypothesizing about it and so forth.

BECK: So you`re saying it will be over by Memorial Day?

HOFFMAN: Between now and Memorial Day. They`re going to delay it today.

BECK: I`m holding you to that.

HOFFMAN: You`re going to hold me to that. But they`re not going to let this out within the next day or so.

BECK: All right. Judy, thanks a lot.

HOFFMAN: Thanks for having me.

BECK: Bye-bye.

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BECK: All right, welcome to "The Real Story." This is -- oh, hang on just a second. Now, see, this whole thing tonight is about political correctness, and I probably just offended a bunch of people. Can we start again, please?

All right, welcome to "The Story That Some Think is Authentic But Other Smart People Disagree With It, Occasionally." Much better, isn`t it?

All right, everybody is talking about these British hostages in Iran, but we`re all missing the bigger picture here, the lesson that this whole episode should be teaching us. The story that some people think is authentic but other smart people disagree with from time to time is the concept that Great Britain, as an ally, may be dead, and once again political correctness is the killer.

Sure, the hostages are part of why I say this. I mean, when only 7 percent of your country supports planning military action to free your soldiers who are being held against their will by an enemy, then you start to question your spine as an ally. But, honestly, it`s much more of a fundamental problem than that.

A study funded by the British government has found that some schools now in Great Britain are actually dropping topics like the Holocaust from their curriculum because -- are you ready? -- they have a fear of upsetting students. Let me run this through the bull crap-to-English dictionary for you, OK? They`re scared of inciting the small number of Muslim students that hate Jews and believe the Holocaust never happened.

Hey, geniuses, this is history class. There is no controversy here. It happened; teach it. This is exactly what I was talking about yesterday when I said political correctness will be the death of us. If those who forget history are doomed to repeat it, then those who never learn history will absolutely repeat it. You just don`t deny the truth and expect that there won`t be any consequences.

Great Britain, been fun, but a country worried this much about political correctness isn`t one really I want watching my back in the trenches. Thanks.

Dr. David Cook is a professor from Oxford University. David, please, tell me there are those in Great Britain that are as concerned about this as I am.

DAVID COOK, OXFORD UNIVERSITY: Absolutely. We`re terrified that political correctness has gone absolutely crazy. And young people, you know, will be become the suicide bombers of tomorrow. If they don`t learn the truth, how can they learn to think for themselves?

BECK: David, we`re worried about -- we`re not teaching the Holocaust. And you`re worried over there about offending some Muslims. How about the Jews? How about the Jews that might be offended?

COOK: Well, exactly. And we shouldn`t be teaching about Pilgrim fathers because, you know, we`re going to offend the Native Americans. I mean, where does this end? It`s absolutely crazy.

History is not just teaching people facts; it`s helping them to interpret and make sense of facts and then to develop the kind of values that are part of what it means to live in a democracy and be part of a free world.

BECK: OK. It is my understanding -- please tell me this is not true --that the Crusades are now not covered because it might be offensive to Muslims, as well.

COOK: This is true in some schools, because as part of the curriculum in the high schools, people are allowed to choose for themselves which topics they will take. You have to remember that -- yes, because you have remember this is a reaction on the part of teachers to hate letters being put through their door, excrement being put through their letter box, violence, spitting, all kinds of harassment of teachers.

And you can understand -- we saw what happened with the Muslim cartoons -- how people, you know, were even killed in some parts of Europe. So this is a proper fear.

BECK: Doesn`t this make this more important to stand up and say, "This is the truth"? If our system, especially our educational system, in Great Britain, our greatest ally, starts to fall, and we`re not teaching people the truth because we`re afraid, there`s no way to stop Muslim extremism. None.

COOK: You`re absolutely correct, except that it`s not just about education. It`s about teaching content, but it`s also how it`s taught. And we need to help teachers deal with sensitive issues, but at the same time we need to be working with families, because the problem isn`t the family. That`s why some schools are saying, "Well, families are teaching one thing about the crusades, about the Holocaust. They`re denying it, so we mustn`t offend them." The trouble is, we need to educate in the families, and for that we need to be working with the religious leaders.

BECK: You know, I`ve got to tell you. Merkel said in Germany just -- I think it was about two or three weeks ago -- she said -- because they`re starting to legislate Sharia law in Germany and trumping the German constitution. And she said, good night, Germany. And, Doctor, I`ve got to tell you, good night, England, if you don`t turn this around.

COOK: That`s the danger.

BECK: Thanks. Yes. Thank you.

Coming up next, politically correct authentic tale tonight. It used to be called the real story, but that might be offensive. It continues with America`s own first step towards this nut job idea of not each teaching the Holocaust in schools.

Here in New York City, when you get onto a subway, there`s signs everywhere that says, "If you see something, say something." Catch, right? That`s the theory. The theory is you`ll remember that, and then the passengers are the first line of defense toward stopping any terrorist plot.

But you`ve got to ask yourself, how exactly does that reconcile with the fact that all of the passengers who are on that plane with the flying imams -- sorry, sorry, let`s be P.C., airborne spiritual leaders -- are now being sued for noticing something suspicious about them.

The answer is, it doesn`t match up. You can`t have it both ways. Fortunately, U.S. Congressman Peter King realized this, proposed an amendment last week in Congress that would protect any whistleblowers who make a reasonable, good-faith report of suspicious activity from being sued. Holy cow, common sense in Washington, huh? Can`t believe it.

Well, don`t get excited. Sit down, America. Because the real story is, this amendment will probably never even become law. Why? Prepare to have blood shoot out of your eyes: Because it won`t help the Democrats win elections. I`m not kidding. And I`m not spinning. I`m a conservative, but listen to the facts.

When Congressman King first took to the House floor to propose this amendment, reports now say that Democrats like Nancy Pelosi and Rahm Emanuel were absolutely mortified. They knew they couldn`t publicly speak out against this bill, but they also knew they could never allow it to become law.

Between the domestic Muslim lobbying groups that fund political campaigns and wield massive amounts of power in America, to the ultimate killer of anything good, political correctness, this amendment will probably never reach the president`s desk.

Like I said yesterday, when you cater to political correctness, and worse, the special interest groups and their blood money, you put another nail in our children`s coffin.

New York Congressman Peter King, Congressman, how mortified were you when you saw Rahm Emanuel -- this is what I read; please tell me if it`s true or not -- saying to one of the Democratic speakers, "Shut up, shut up, don`t talk for or against this"? How mortified were you?

REP. PETER KING (R), NEW YORK: Yes, I was actually involved in the debate. I was told that by a number of people on the floor who saw him. I did see the chaos on the Democratic side. They were all gathered around the leadership table, all of their majority leaders, and whips, and everyone else was there trying to figure out what to do.

And Benny Thompson, who`s the chairman of the Homeland Security Committee, he started speaking against the amendment. And then, for whatever reason -- and I was told because it was Rahm Emanuel gave him the signal -- said, however, I will accept the amendment, after speaking against it, saying it was going to result in racial profiling.

BECK: Oh, my god.

KING: But then I demanded an actual recorded vote on it, and, unfortunately, a majority of Democrats voted against it. It passed 299- 121, I believe, but all the 121 votes were all Democrats: 105 voted for it, 121 against it.

BECK: How is that even possible? Because I`ve heard that the representative from Ground Zero, right down the street, was voting against this. How could you possibly -- I remember what we said right after 9/11, the president got on and said, "You`ve got to report anything suspicious; you`ve got to stay awake; you are the first line of defense." How can we possibly forget that?

KING: Glenn, I don`t know. In fact, on the House floor that night, as I finished my speech, I said, "I don`t know how anyone can possibly vote against this," expecting maybe one or two or three for some reason that would vote against it.

But to find 121, including many of them from downstate New York and New Jersey, who suffered large number of casualties on September 11th, Glenn, listen, I can`t talk about individual members of Congress. But I will say this: On balance, the Democratic Party is controlled by a George Soros left-wing base. They`re petrified of any type of political incorrectness.

When it comes to groups like CAIR, they bend over backwards for them. And this, to me, is absolutely devastating to our country. We have to stand up and say: CARE is wrong. CARE is a Muslim extremist group. It`s as simple as that.

And we`re not in a war against international terrorism. We`re engaged in a war against international Islamic terrorism. And its enemy is overseas and it`s right here in our own country. And if we`re going to allow lawsuits against public-spirited citizens who come forward and report suspicious activity, then, you`re right, we`re putting a nail in our own coffin.

BECK: So who benefits from this? If this fails, who benefits?

KING: Terrorists, trial lawyers, and terrorist sympathizers are the only ones who can possibly benefit from this.

BECK: You go back, and, you know, everybody always says, "Follow the money." Where does the money lead to?

KING: Well, I know that CAIR is involved in financing this. Some lawyers groups have come forward to finance it. And then there`s always a question of who actually is funding CAIR. So, yes, CARE, you know, Committee on American-Islamic Relations, which has just been a mouthpiece for Islamic extremism.

BECK: Peter, please, keep fighting the fight. Congressman, we you`re your voice.

KING: Thank you, Glenn.

BECK: That`s "The Real Story" tonight.

Up next, we`ll have the latest on Rosie O`Donnell and her out-of-her- mind voice.

But first, we have an update on the men I believe are America`s first political prisoners, Gilmer Hernandez, Jose Compean and Ignacio Ramos, U.S. border agents serving time for doing their jobs. They`re victims of our government`s inaction, and I believe, worse, they are political prisoners. It`s time they stopped paying the price. Stand up, America!

Back in a minute.

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BECK: I was driving in SoHo this weekend with the big black SUVs. And I just felt -- I thought they were going to come and club me to death, pull me out of the car and club me to death.

We`ve got to come up with something like hydro-carbonized SUVs, and we`ll put a little Earth sign next to it, you know what I mean, and maybe a polar bear. And that way people will think that, oh, my gosh, that`s a clean vehicle.

I`d like to develop this bumper sticker and then sell them, but I would like to take half of the proceeds go to pay some of the jet bills for the tour. The other half, I just want deposited right into my bank, but the first half I want it to go right to jet costs.

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BECK: Isn`t that great? Hydro-carbonized. It means oil. Love it.

Have to be honest with you, every time I consider talking about Rosie O`Donnell, I`m really torn. I have arguments in my head all the time. Part of me thinks it`s a good idea, because I can expose the psychopathic, conspiratorial nut job that she`s turned into.

But the other half says, don`t give her more publicity. That`s what she wants. Today, evil Glenn wins. Honestly, blood shoots out of my eyes when I hear her speak. At least from what she`s been saying lately, here you have a woman who`s reportedly looking for a $40-million-a-year contract.

Conway, is that right, $40 million a year? I`d be lucky to get $40 a year. She wants to do this when her "View" contract is up in June, yet all she`s done on the show is, well, granted, driven the ratings up, but she`s done it by spouting the radical left-wing hate and, honestly, ridiculous conspiracy theories.

I want you to watch these clips. And, remember, this is daytime, mainstream network television. Does America really identify with this?

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ROSIE O`DONNELL, HOST, "THE VIEW": I do believe that it defies physics for the World Trade Center tower 7, building 7, which collapsed in on itself, it is impossible for a building to fall the way it fell without explosives being involved.

Radical Christianity is just as threatening as radical Islam in a country like America.

They finally found the guy. It`s not that guy, bin Laden; it`s this guy they`ve had since `93, and look it, this is the picture they released of him. Doesn`t he look healthy?

In America, we are fed propaganda. And if you want to know what`s happening in the world, go outside of the U.S. media, because it`s owned by four corporations. One of them is this one.

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BECK: Adam Buckman, TV columnist with "The New York Post," Adam, $40 million a year?

ADAM BUCKMAN, TV COLUMNIST, "NEW YORK POST": That was just to be on "The View," Glenn?

BECK: That`s what I got, $40 million a year. Do you have something different? Because I`m finding it hard to believe.

BUCKMAN: Well, actually, that`s not out of the question if she was going to go off and do her own talk show. That is kind of what they get paid to do their solo talk shows on afternoon TV. That`s the gig you have to get.

BECK: You ain`t kidding. Have you read, like, her blog? She writes like a 12-year-old.

BUCKMAN: Well, some of it`s like a 12-year-old. And some of it is -- there`s a poem there about a squirrel. And there`s also some stuff that we`re going to probably be talking about, her ideas that one of the World Trade Center buildings -- and not the Twin Towers, but another lower building -- had collapsed because the government imploded it on 9/11.

BECK: She`s not only talking about how somehow or another we got, you know, a bunch of people to go wire World Trade Center number 7 in one day, wire it to implode it, bring it down, keep everybody quiet about it, so there`s, you know, some giant conspiracy, but we apparently did it just to cover the tracks for Enron.

BUCKMAN: Well, we used to call people like this crackpots, and we used to dismiss their opinions. But today, it seems like crackpots have a lot of credence and a lot more influence than they used to.

And she`s ascribing to the government a level of genius in covering up and in conspiring to implode buildings to destroy records about the Enron case and other cases that she would not ascribe to the administration or the government in any other area. In any other area, they`re morons, and George Bush is the world`s biggest idiot.

BECK: But somehow or another, we can scuba dive underneath the water in the middle of a hurricane and blow up levees.

BUCKMAN: Exactly. They`ve suddenly become the smartest people in the world when it comes to blowing up the 7 World Trade Center.

BECK: So why are we consuming it? You know what scares me? More than Rosie -- because, you know, look, I`m a capitalist. If you want to have that opinion, great, she`s doing her job. She`s driving the ratings up. What scares me more is the audience. You watch them, and they applaud like little zombies.

BUCKMAN: Well, it`s true. And I think that the kind of audience that`s watching daytime TV -- and really, it`s terrible to paint millions of people with the same brush -- but there is sort of a gullibility factor in this country and, indeed, probably anywhere. You know, you hear a celebrity on television talk about something -- look, people are going to watch me talk about this and think that I know what I`m talking about. I mean, hopefully I do, but when people...

BECK: No, you`re on my show, so...

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BUCKMAN: When people are on TV and when they`re famous, you know, it gives them some kind of license to spout off about things they don`t really know about. And it sort of enables the, you know, viewers, listeners, the audience to accept what they say as true without really examining it.

BECK: How does Barbara Walters not destroy her own credibility? I mean, well, first of all, let me ask you, do you think Rosie O`Donnell survives, you know, a long period of time of just being a conspiracy nut?

BUCKMAN: It`s hard to predict. I mean, as your montage just showed, she does raise some of these issues actually on "The View." They`re not only restricted to her blog. And if they were restricted to her blog, I suppose ABC could say, well, that`s Rosie doing her own thing in private on her own blog.

I think it remains to be seen. I mean, as long as the ratings are up, attention is being paid to "The View" in a way that had not been paid in a long time, and the ratings are up, that Rosie will continue to have this job. But it`s a very fine line.

There could come this point where she does it too much or says something that`s offensive even to her bosses at ABC, and they say, "Wait a minute, sponsors are going to start getting driven away." And when that happens, that`s kind of the tipping point where Rosie becomes a detriment to "The View" instead of an advantage for the show.

BECK: Adam, quickly, do you think that Barbara Walters ever sits on the set and thinks, "Oh, dear god, what have I done"?

BUCKMAN: I think she does. And I know she`ll ever admit it, but I know she must be backstage shaking her head sometimes.

On the other hand, she`s a businesswoman. It`s her production. It`s produced out of her own production company. She knows the ratings are up, and she knows how to survive in TV is to keep the ratings up. And so I think, while she worries about it, she`s also glad to see what`s happened to the show.

BECK: Adam, thanks.

We`ll be back in just a minute.

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BECK: All right, let`s get right to the e-mail.

From Chicago, home of our new radio affiliate, 105.9 WCKG, Stan writes in, "Glenn, I heard the Supreme Court said the government can regulate carbon dioxide. I`m currently holding my breath so I don`t exhale that horrible pollutant."

Yes, yes, the Supreme Court did rule, 5-4, that carbon dioxide can be regulated under a pollutant under the Clean Air Act, which is great. Now all we have to do is imagine all the cool ways our government can make cash from this.

When you exercise, you breathe more. How about a no-athletic-event tax or an inflatable goods tax? You know, you have a whole new line to fill out on H&R Block for how many balloons that you`ve blown up in a calendar year. Hopefully, someday, we`ll equate blowing a kiss to someone with firebombing a rain forest. Won`t that be sweet?

Then a few years after that, when we`re all dead, our great, great, great, great, great, great grandchildren can read stories about how stupid we were for spending trillions of dollars trying to control the climate, while millions of people died of preventable diseases and Islamic extremists told us over and over again they were going to kill us, and they did, and we did nothing.

It`s going to look brilliant in the history books, won`t it? Well, actually, no, I take that back. It won`t look like that, because people like Al Gore will write the history books.

This e-mail comes in from a Frenchie Frenchman in France named Jean- Louis. He writes, "Sir, it is always surprising how people so proud of their democracy can be so poor-minded, using the French-bashing as a game. And the hate against the French has an audience, too."

The only feeling it gives is sadness. Then the sad little man comes out from behind the baguette cart, he frowns, and sheds a solitary tear, and then the word, "Fin," comes up on the screen. I saw that movie. It was good.

Look, the only thing that makes me rip, you know, the French from time to time, the actions of their government. Well, that and the quality of their automobiles, and about 13,000 other things. But who`s counting?

There are positives in France. There was the Statue of Liberty. That was cool. You had a good stretch there in the 1700s. Huh? And you got that cool train, that new train. That`s neat. The V-150 set a new record today, traveling at 357 miles per hour. You can get from Philadelphia to New York in 16 minutes. Of course, if it was here, it would probably be run by, you know, some arm of the government, like Amtrak, so it would actually only go 45 miles an hour, would cost $12,000 a ticket, and it would have an on-time rating of 0 percent, which is great.

Au revoir, Mr. Frenchie Frenchman.

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