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Glenn Beck

An Inconvenient Hour: Solutions to World Problems

Aired November 22, 2007 - 19:00   ET

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GLENN BECK, HOST: You know, we spend a lot of time on this program talking about our problems. But tonight`s show is all about solutions. If you are as sick and tired as I am about our open borders, our do-nothing politicians, and a sickening plague of political correctness that`s holding us all hostage, buckle up, because in the next 60 minutes we solve them all.
Hello, America. I believe there are really only two kinds of problems in this world. They`re the problems that we all want to solve, but we can`t because we haven`t figured out how to solve them yet. And then there are the problems that we can solve, but for some reason we don`t.

It`s that second group that is the most frustrating to me as an American. It`s also the reason why I wrote my book, "An Inconvenient Book." I wanted to take a look at some of the biggest, most controversial issues we face, things like global warming, illegal immigration, our dependence on foreign oil. I mean, why haven`t we solved these things? The minimum wage, even poverty.

I wanted to see how easy it would really be to solve these problems if we just took away all the politics and the bull crap. Well, the book is in bookstores right now, and for the last couple of weeks leading up to its release we`ve been doing Inconvenient Segments on television to give you a peek inside some of the issues that I talk about.

Tonight you`re going to see several of those segments, and it all starts with a discussion I recently had about poverty and homelessness and the American dream with Chris Gardner, whose rags to riches story was portrayed by Will Smith in the movie "Pursuit of Happyness."

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BECK: What a pleasure to have you, sir. How are you?

CHRIS GARDNER, AUTHOR, "THE PURSUIT OF HAPPYNESS": Good to be with you, Glenn. I`m absolutely fabulous.

BECK: You know, I just saw the -- I just saw "The Pursuit of Happyness" this weekend. And I know it`s old news for everybody else, but what an inspiring story. I can`t imagine.

I related to you so much as a dad, played by Will Smith, just trying to create a life for your kid that wasn`t a horror show. How tough was that for you?

GARDNER: Well, you know what? I cannot -- we don`t have enough time. But I will say this, Glenn. I could not be more proud of the work that Will Smith did, his son, Jayden did, and our director, Gabriel Muccino. I could not be more proud of the work they did.

But what I`ve learned, Glenn, it`s not about me. It`s the story of every father and every mother...

BECK: It is.

GARDNER: ... who ever had to do what no one else thought could be done.

BECK: Yes. It is the story -- it is the quintessential -- we were talking on the radio show today. The quintessential American story. That you just never give up. Would you share the story about the basketball scene?

GARDNER: Well, you know, as that scene is seen in the film, Glenn, it was not written that way. That scene was written very differently. When that little boy says, "I`m going pro. I`m going to do this."

The father, it was written, says, "Don`t ever say you`re going to do that. I was never any good at it, and that means you`ll never be any good at it."

I waited until that day of filming. I went to will Smith on the set, and I said, "You cannot tell the little boy what he cannot do because that`s not what my mother told me." I had one of those old-fashioned mothers, Glenn, who taught me that I could do or be anything I wanted to do or be. And I believed her.

BECK: That is really the secret, don`t you think? It`s -- the secret is believing in yourself, believing that nothing can stop you, believing that, if you work hard enough, if you live a decent life, you`re decent to other people, do the right things, you can accomplish anything. American - - the American dream is alive and well.

GARDNER: Let me tell you another part of the secret, Glenn.

BECK: Yes.

GARDNER: Passion. Find something that you care about to the point the sun can`t come up soon enough because you want to go do your thing. And then, Glenn, you`ve got to be bold enough to go and do it.

BECK: Yes. It is -- it is amazing if you`re not passionate how -- well, let me reverse that. It`s amazing how many people are attracted to passion. Just looking people in the eye and saying, "I believe it, come follow me." And they will.

GARDNER: And you know what? I`m so glad you made that comparison, or you mentioned passion and eyes. Passion is like the color of your eyes, Glenn. Somebody can look in your eyes, and they know. They can see it...

BECK: They do.

GARDNER: And it`s real.

BECK: Chris, it is a pleasure, sir. And I hope we can do more things together. We talked about some things off the air. And I think we can -- we can just really do some excite things.

GARDNER: We`ve got to get together, Glenn.

BECK: You got it.

GARDNER: Thank you for being here.

BECK: Thank you.

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BECK: An amazing man. And I urge you, if you haven`t seen "Pursuit of Happyness," I just saw it this past weekend. I know I`m really late. But it is the perfect movie to watch with your kids over the holidays.

Now, I apologize for this awkward transition here, but another problem that I talk about in "An Inconvenient Book" is the loss of values as a society. How can we expect to take on foreign enemies when our own house has a crumbling foundation?

For example, many hotel chains have now removed the Bible from their nightstands and instead have focused on filling their rooms with flat screen TVs, iPod docking stations, and mini-bars full of intimacy kits.

But if hotels are just reacting to what the traveling public wants, then what does it say about us?

I spoke to Jim Daly, president of Focus on the Family, about that.

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BECK: Marriott is a Mormon hotel chain, or always has been. The Marriott family are big in the Mormon faith. They have come out with a statement -- I want to quote it. Their new hotels will be "cutting edge, more urban, and less value-oriented."

What the heck does that even mean? What does it say about them, the hotels, or us?

JIM DALY, CEO, FOCUS ON THE FAMILY: Well, it says a lot about the culture, unfortunately. This is like replacing the Guttenberg Bible at the Library of Congress with "People" magazine. You know, it`s just -- it doesn`t make sense.

And just when the culture needs organizations, companies to be firm, to stand up for values in the culture, here we`re going to put these toys in the hotel which, you know, from what I understand, a lot of people that -- especially during the holidays when they go a hotel, they`re depressed. They`re lonely. And many, many people have found answers through the Bible being there at the bed-stand. So it`s just unfortunate all the way around that we can`t be a culture of hope.

BECK: Yes. I will tell you, I travel a lot, and I usually bring my own Bible with me, but I mean, I hate to sound like a complete zealot, but that`s just what I am. I have read the Gideon Bible. Now, when I was an alcoholic and would have known what sex dice were, I didn`t.

But they say that the reason why it`s changing is because hotels that are traditional for, you know, people traveling on business, it`s down 18 percent. But condom hotels, the ones that have the condoms and people are visiting, that business is up 23 percent, because they say people are using hotels differently now. It`s just for, you know, fun on the weekend with your wife or whatever.

DALY: Well, it`s an expensive way to buy a condom. But beside that, I mean, it`s just amazing that, again, I think that they may be misreading the American people. I don`t think that`s necessarily the trend.

I think what people are looking for -- I just went to Disneyland, and my wife and I stayed at a hotel nearby. I would have been horrified with my two boys, 5 and 7, to walk into that hotel room and have them open the drawer and say, "Daddy, what`s this?"

BECK: Yes.

DALY: You know, it`s just not where we`re at, and I think there might be a handful of people that might much rather have something encouraging in there for people that are desperate and lonely to be able to pick up and read and be hopeful again.

BECK: It really amazes me that we always seem to play to the bottom denominator. We don`t strive to be better than we are. We always just seem to reach down in the barrel.

DALY: Yes. Why do it?

BECK: Yes. Jim, thanks a lot. I appreciate it.

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BECK: Coming up, remember how the Democrats were going to change the way Washington works once they gained control of Congress? They were going to shake things up. Out with the old and in with the -- well, it turns out in with the old. When it comes to politics, the game has remained the same.

Also, the inconvenient truth about indoctrination on American college campuses. I`ll tell you how your kids are being brainwashed in the classroom. Ben Stein joins me in just a bit. Stick around.

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BECK: Today I want to take you inside two chapters that will make blood shoot right directly out of your eyes.

First one is Chapter 9, "Political Games." Believe me, once you finish this section, you will realize to those in Washington it is all just one giant game. And this American wants no more part of it.

One of my favorite parts in this chapter is the story about how Congressman John Murtha actually had the audacity to tell a fellow congressman right on the House floor that there would be major consequences if he tried to interfere with a $23 million pork project that Murtha was trying to push through.

I -- you know, I see some of this stuff and I wonder whatever happened to that ethic and earmark reform thing that the Democrats promised all of us when they took over?

Well, if you need more proof that all of those reforms are just nonsense, take a look at the $600 billion spending bill that President Bush vetoed yesterday. "Oh, he hates children getting an education." Really?

Maybe he vetoed it for the $10 billion worth of pork spread over 2,000 different projects, including -- take a deep breath -- a prison museum, the Clinton School of Public Service in Little Rock, a Portuguese-as-a-second- language program, and an educational program aboard a 65-foot catamaran.

David Williams is the vice president of policy for Citizens Against Government Waste.

David, I`ve got to tell you, I`m a -- I`m a citizen, and I think our government is a waste. Help me down off that tree.

DAVID WILLIAMS, VICE PRESIDENT OF POLICY, CITIZENS AGAINST GOVERNMENT WASTE: I can`t. I really can`t. Because the government is wasting a ton of money for ridiculous projects. The Democrats came in last year, into power, into office, and said we`re going to drain the swamp.

BECK: Yes.

WILLIAMS: We`re going to make these huge changes in Washington. Yet a year later, literally a year later, we`re back to zero. We`re right back to where we were before.

BECK: And here`s the frustration. You know, look, America, if you`re watching this show for the first time, know right out on the front, I`m a conservative. But I`m not a Republican.

And here`s what people don`t say on television. What the hell is wrong with the Republicans? Because the Republicans, this direction will point to all of this pork. And then they`ll get right back in, and they`ll do it, too. Am I wrong?

WILLIAMS: No, no. Absolutely. And that`s what happened, is the Republicans spent themselves into oblivion.

BECK: Yes.

WILLIAMS: Between 1994 and 2006, they spent so much money that the Congress, the president, no one was there to say no, because the president signed these spending bills. Congress passed them, and President Bush put his hands over his eyes and signed them.

BECK: Yes. Somebody -- a liberal called me up on the radio show the other day and they said, "You people who are all conservatives. You wanted President Bush`s tax cuts, and now look."

It`s not the tax cuts.

WILLIAMS: I know.

BECK: It`s the Republican spending and now the Democratic spending.

WILLIAMS: Well, and Glenn, if anything, the tax cuts is really what`s saving this country right now.

BECK: I know.

WILLIAMS: Because it`s bringing in the revenue. Believe it or not, tax cuts bring in revenue.

BECK: Yes.

WILLIAMS: It`s the spending that`s dragging us down.

BECK: Yes. So tell me -- because here`s a really scary thing. There was another spending bill that he didn`t veto yesterday.

WILLIAMS: Right.

BECK: It`s the war -- emergency war spending bill. But it doesn`t have -- it has tons of pork but no funding for Iraq. How is that even possible?

WILLIAMS: Well, this is amazing. This is the annual defense appropriations bill. There`s $3 million for the First Tee Program, not the tea you that drink but the tee that you play golf with. And this is in the defense bill. A golf program in the defense bill. Figure that one out.

BECK: OK. Thanks a lot. I -- I appreciate it.

I`m telling you, America, "Inconvenient Book." Wear it while wearing a tarp, because blood will shoot out of your eyes.

Now here`s another one. How about the chapter on "Minimum Wage, Maximum Politics"? By the end of this section, you`re going to realize that, while most politicians love to use the issue for grandstanding: "What a black-hearted person. What American doesn`t want to help the poor?" Uh- huh.

It`s actually just about helping themselves win elections. And I have proof. As I was researching this chapter -- before I get to the proof, I have to tell you that I found one of the greatest quotes from Idaho Congressman Bill Sali that I have ever read.

It so perfectly encapsulated this whole issue I had to publish it in the book word for word. It happened during a House debate on the minimum wage earlier this year.

The congressman is with us now. I want you to tell the American people exactly what you said and the point you were trying to make.

REP. BILL SALI (R), IDAHO: Well, the point I was trying to make, Glenn, was that, you know, government gets out of bounds and thinks that it can do things that it can`t.

And I will say this. Public policy is hard work. It takes a lot of study. It can`t be about, you know, standing in front of the cameras and playing to, you know, kind of the old FDR kind of notion that, you know, we`re going to make people dependent on us, you know. That will win us the next election.

Public policy is hard. And the problem with -- with minimum wage legislation is it`s an attempt to address the problem that`s created by the federal government and its spending in the first place.

BECK: OK. How do you mean that?

SALI: Well, because, you know, if you look at the amount that we spend on federal taxes, on state and local taxes, on all federal and state regulation, suddenly we get up to about 50 percent of the value of everything that we buy in government.

BECK: OK. All right. So now you -- you introduced a bill. It was about Americans should be lighter. Why don`t -- why don`t you tell America about this bill?

SALI: Well, this was hyperbole, and I didn`t actually introduce the bill, but I did have a draft. And it was to reduce gravity by 10 percent. I called it the Obesity Reduction and Health Promotion Act. So that you would -- you know, everyone would weigh less.

BECK: Right.

SALI: And we would reduce obesity and health promotion because, you know, our health care professionals tell us that we need to lose weight.

And you know, it was a jab at Congress for taking itself seriously in trying to enact minimum wage legislation when what we ought to be doing is addressing the problem of federal spending. That`s where the real trouble comes in.

BECK: I love this. By the way, America, it obviously didn`t pass. I mean, look at me. Do I look ten pounds lighter?

Congressman, the one thing I found as I was doing research on this -- on this particular part of the book is it became so very clear to me that, if this wasn`t about politics, Congress would index the minimum wage. You`d never hear about it again because it would just index. It would automatically go up with the cost of living.

The other thing that is remarkable to me is the average city, I think it takes about $61,000 to live in for a family of four. New York is 150 -- what is it -- $146,000 for a family of four to live in New York City. Isn`t this a state, or even better, a city issue, not a U.S. issue?

SALI: Actually, what you`ll find is this is a government spending issue. The more government you have, the higher income you have to have to be able to make ends meet. That`s the problem.

BECK: All right. I have to tell you, you look great. I don`t know if you`ve lost that ten pounds but...

SALI: I lost -- I lost five pounds just from drafting the legislation.

BECK: Right. That`s great. Congressman, thanks a lot.

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BECK: Coming up, as we continue "An Inconvenient Hour." Hold on, that sounds like a title of a new book. That sounds good. Doesn`t it? I`ll tell you why Hollywood keeps shooting itself in the foot with its weak anti-war movies.

Also, I keep telling you that one of the best ways to fight radical Islam is to get Muslim women involved. Well, now a horrific story out of Saudi Arabia may provide the spark if somebody without an agenda was listening.

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BECK: Oh, my gosh! This is my favorite part of the program. Shameless plug time. I love it! Now how much would you pay?

My new book comes out next week. It`s "An Inconvenient Book," and all this week I`ve kind of giving you "Inconvenient Segments," a preview of what`s in it.

Today talking about chapter ten -- chapter ten, called "Sleepy Time: The Weekend Movie Rental." And quite honestly, this is the most selfish chapter. I`m so sick of, you know, renting Jane Austen bonnet movies for my wife, only to have her fall asleep ten minutes in, that I was desperate for a solution.

The one I found, that I state in the book, however, I don`t think Hollywood will take me up on, because they`re too busy pumping out anti-war movies like "Lions for Lambs" that nobody is going watch.

Michael Medved now is with us, syndicated talk radio host and movie guru.

Michael, I read the most amazing article on "Lions and Lambs" this weekend. It was a Hollywood insider that said, "We`re not sure if it`s the anti-war message. It could be Tom Cruise." I`m thinking a scientologist, an alien scientologist could jump up and down on "Oprah" in the middle of the movie, and it couldn`t have made it worse.

MICHAEL MEDVED, SYNDICATED TALK RADIO HOST: No, it couldn`t have made it worse. And what they aren`t acknowledging is that the reason that "Lions for Lambs" was such a big flop is it`s a lousy movie.

There`s a Web site called Box Office Mojo, where they get literally hundreds of thousands of people who see the movie rating it, giving it a letter grade. This got 60 percent "F" rating.

BECK: Wow.

MEDVED: I mean, people hated this thing, because it`s like listening to a lecture. And you`re being lectured at by condescending, patronizing, supercilious, holier-than-thou losers.

BECK: You know, Michael, what is it going to take or will it ever -- will it ever change? Will Hollywood ever stop thinking that they have all of the answers and they`re right, and we`re just dumb as a box of rocks?

MEDVED: Well, that`s the problem, is people in Hollywood don`t make movies for the public. And I know that sounds anomalous, but they don`t. They make them for each other, because when you`re in a position of a Robert Redford or a Tom Cruise, you don`t have to worry about money. You don`t have to worry about box office success. You`ve already got money.

So what do you worry about? Peer respect.

BECK: Oh, my God.

MEDVED: You want people to look at you and treat you as more than an entertainer, as a serious artist who`s making a courageous statement.

And by the way, when a movie is rejected like this, now Tom Cruise can say, "Look how courageous I was."

BECK: That was very brave.

So what you`re saying is, if I may translate. It`s all about the chicks. It`s just guys still in high school trying to get chicks.

MEDVED: There is a great element of that, because in terms of producers, not the stars, but the producers who green-light a project. And this movie, "Lions for Lambs," was made in record time. But the people who green-light projects have one thing in common, which is they were all nerds in high school. It takes one to know one.

BECK: Michael, let me -- let me ask you this real quick, because I heard somebody say that no war movie would be successful right now. I don`t agree with that. I think something like "Lone Survivor," the story with Marcus Luttrell, I think that would make a great movie, and I think people would see it. Do you agree or disagree?

MEDVED: Without question. You`re right, Glenn. You`re a tremendous success in exposing the danger of Islamofascism, which you`ve done a great job on, by the way. Thank you for that.

That kind of movie that shows the terrorists as the bad guys.

BECK: Yes.

MEDVED: And shows some of the heroic work that our real-life military is doing every day to keep us safer. If people had a movie like that, where they could cheer and cheer the good and boo the bad, it would make money.

BECK: Maybe -- you know what? Maybe we can -- maybe we can get that film out of India or some place like that, but not from Hollywood.

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BECK: Coming up, we continue with "An Inconvenient Hour." Ben Stein joins me to talk about the indoctrination of our kids in school.

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BECK: Well, welcome to "An Inconvenient Segment." Tonight, I`m going to answer the question that I think everybody in America`s been asking for a while. Why the hell haven`t we sealed up our borders yet? Buckle up. The truth is not pretty. But if you want it, here it is.

Last fall at a luxury resort in Alberta, Canada, there was a meeting of a group called the North American Forum. It took place, and neither you or I was supposed to know much about it. Unfortunately for them and thanks to people like Mel Hurtig, who you`re going to meet here in just a second, we do know about it.

The topic that weekend was "Continental Prosperity in the New Security Environment." And on the agenda were carefully titled sessions like "A Vision for North America," "Issues and Options," "Demographic and Social Dimensions of North American Integration," and "Border Infrastructure and Continental Prosperity."

Well, for those that were invited to the meeting, included high-level executives, military personnel, government officials from the U.S., Canada, and Mexico. People like George Schultz or James Woolsey, the president of Lockheed Martin Americas, the admiral in charge of the U.S. Northern Command. Donald Rumsfeld was invited, although I heard he couldn`t make it.

The list really from all three countries was very impressive. So why should you care about a bunch of wealthy elitists getting together and drink cognac and smoke some Cubans? Well, you should care for three reasons.

First, North American Forum itself is highly secretive. Get this, there`s no Web site, there`s no mailing address, no phone numbers, which is odd for a group with that kind of VIP guest list.

In addition, all of the government employees who attended, paid their own way. You`d think that`s good. Not so much. Because no tax dollars being spent means no Freedom of Information Act.

Second, the forum has been referred to by officials as "a parallel structure" and "a sister organization to the Security and Prosperity Partnership of North America," otherwise known as the SPP, which is an official government program.

And finally, you should care because, gang, there are some in this country who believe that America will never be able to compete with the European Union or with China in the years to come and discussions about the future sovereignty of our country should not be held in secret meetings in fancy resorts. They should be held out in the open, where we the people still have a voice and a vote.

Mel Hurtig is best-selling Canadian author. He`s also one of the guys who helped get the word out about that secret NAF meeting last year.

Mel, first of all, I find this amazing. If you go -- everybody denies this is secret and the spp.gov actually has a Web site where they have myths and facts. The one that on this is the U.S. government officials -- the myth is U.S. government officials sponsored a secret SPP planning meeting in Alberta in September 2006, the fact is we didn`t sponsor it, we didn`t pay for it.

I mean, it`s this kind of word game that they`re playing to try to dispel all this stuff, but it`s real, isn`t it?

MEL HURTIG, AUTHOR, "THE VANISHING COUNTRY": Well, Glenn, the important thing to start off with is that nobody knows who paid for it. All the people who attended that meeting were given instructions not to talk to the press. And after I released to the press here in Canada the agenda and some of the things that were being talked about and, more importantly, this incredible list of high-powered Americans and Canadians from government and from business and the secretary of the treasurer from Mexico, nobody would admit who was paying for these meetings.

And some of the people who actually went, including some Canadian cabinet ministers, actually wouldn`t admit that they even attended the meeting. But heading the meetings from the United States was former Secretary of State George Schultz, from Canada Peter Lougheed, the former premier of the province of Alberta, and from Mexico, the former secretary of the treasury.

BECK: You know, they leave too many telltale signs. For instance, last year at the U.N. -- and I talk about this in the book, the ambassador to the U.N. from Mexico said, this integration, this, as I call it, MexAmeriCanada, the merging of these three countries, must happen in the next seven or eight years, before the Baby Boomers in America hit and retire. That`s a quote that I have from the ambassador to the U.N. from Mexico. And yet they`ll deny that anything is happening.

HURTIG: Well, look, Glenn, one of the interesting things that is happening is despite the lack of -- I guarantee you, 99 percent of Americans haven`t heard about this, and 95 percent of Canadians haven`t heard about it. And that`s because there has been almost nothing in the media and they`ve made huge efforts, very strenuous efforts to keep this a secret.

Now, let`s see now. Why would they want to keep it a secret? Well, pretty interesting. They want to keep it a secret because what they`re trying to do is go around government. They know that if you`re talking about integration of these countries that there`s no way this would ever pass in the U.S. Senate or in the House of Representatives.

As a matter of fact, the House of Representatives has already cut back some funding for anything to do with this. And Glenn, 15 American states have said, wait a minute, we can`t get involved in this because what this means is a loss of sovereignty.

BECK: Mel, thank you very much. And I`ll have you on again because this is so important for people to understand. And I`ve got to tell you, America, what you didn`t know is this language was put into the amnesty act. It was buried right in the center of it. And you can read all about it in chapter 22 of "An Inconvenient Book," called "Illegal Immigration: Behind the Lies."

It is a must read if you really want to understand the bigger picture of why none of the problems with our borders ever seem to get fixed. There is something else going on, and it`s all in the book.

I have been saying for months now something else about radical Islam. This is another one that`s got us up against the ropes. If we want to beat radical Islam, the secret is for women to join together, stand up, say enough is enough. Not only there in the Middle East but here in America as well.

Well, last week in Saudi Arabia a court ordered that a female rape victim, a girl who was just 19 when she was assaulted, raped, sodomized, was given 200 lashes and thrown in jail for six months. Her crime? Being alone in a car with her ex-boyfriend, just talking.

The lashings themselves are often so brutal, according to "The New York Times," the punishment is done in public usually, and it is "meted out in increments because the offenders couldn`t survive hundreds of lashes at once."

When I heard this story last week, I mean, this is the very definition of a strict Sharia law under Islamic law. This is a law that homosexuals can be imprisoned, lashed, or executed, adulterers can be stoned to death, and a man can hit their wives without any repercussions. You might remember. Remember I played that Dr. Phil of Saudi Arabia on the TV show a couple of weeks ago basically counseling men on how to beat their wives without leaving a mark?

Well, now you can imagine in a country like ours, a country that has led the women`s rights movement around the world, organizations like the National Organization of Women, would be outraged by a rape victim who was violently lashed and thrown into prison, right?

Well, I`m going to read all that they have had to say on this particular story, the National Organization of Women, I`m going to tell you exactly what they said, in 60 seconds.

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BECK: Well, women standing up against radical Islam is our best chance to defeat that movement without ever firing another bullet or putting another troop in harm`s way.

Before the break I promised you that I`d read the full statement of outrage from the National Organization of Women and organizations like that, about the case in Saudi Arabia where a rape victim was sentenced to 200 lashes and thrown in jail for being raped. So here they are.

No, I mean -- what? That would require the National Organization of Women to be consistent. They`ve said nothing on this. Taina Bien-Aime is our guest from -- she`s the executive director of Equality Now.

Taina, are you amazed at this story and the silence that is deafening in it?

TAINA BIEN-AIME, EQUALITY NOW: Well, unfortunately, this story, which is horrific, is a story that happens way too often. We`re just very grateful that this story came out and that the press is covering it, including press in Saudi Arabia.

But this violation against women`s rights is unfortunately pervasive and it`s severe, and rare are the countries where this sort of thing doesn`t happen, in particular countries that are governed by Sharia law.

BECK: Taina, I have said -- I have said to some very powerful women in America -- and most of them liberal, and I`ve said, really, just galvanize women against what`s happening in the Middle East and everything will change.

They laugh at me. They say that I`m crazy, that that wouldn`t change anything. It amazes me how women are the answer to everything in our society but not the answer apparently for one of the biggest issues we have faced at least since World War II, maybe in the history of the world.

BIEN-AIME: Well, I think what we need to do is really support the work that is being done on the ground. I mean, we work with grassroots organizations around the world, and there`s not one community where human rights violations don`t occur against women where you don`t have brave people like this woman`s lawyer who speak up and ask for international support.

The concern these days -- I mean, the difficulties that we`re finding in our work is now that they are shunning Western support, whether it`s in Iran or in Saudi Arabia because they get punished by it. So it becomes very difficult.

BECK: Well, what`s amazing to me is, A, the court made this sentence worse because her attorney spoke out against it. The attorney has been disbanded. The rapists got next to nothing when you really come down to what these guys did. And this -- what she violated basically was a segregation law.

Again, it`s like a whites-only water fountain, except it`s with women. The woman could not be in the car with her ex-boyfriend. And they were talking. She was trying to get a picture back from him. It`s an outrage.

BIEN-AIME: No, it is an outrage. And Saudi Arabia in particular has very, very strict segregation laws. And one law is called the kawa (ph), where a woman and an unrelated male cannot be in a private place together. In this instance she allegedly was in the car. She was in a public place with this man. So that`s one issue.

But also, when you -- when a woman is raped in countries that are governed by Islamic law, or governed by courts that have a very strict interpretation of Sharia law, you need the confession of a rapist or the eyewitness testimony of four male Muslim.

BECK: America, you`ve got to wake up to this stuff. Taina, thank you very much. That`s tonight`s "Inconvenient Segment." To read more about my solutions on illegal immigration and radical Islam, please check out my new book "An Inconvenient Book." It`s in the bookstores everywhere nationwide. You can buy your copy right now online at GlennBeck.com.

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BECK: You know, it used to be you could count on every family owning at least one book, the Holy Bible. Well, America, make room on the shelf for one more, yes, my brand new book "An Inconvenient Book" available now on GlennBeck.com. And while it may not be filled as quite as much wisdom as the good book, it`s this close.

Chapter 8 is called "Education Through Indoctrination." It tells the tale of how our kids in college aren`t being taught, they`re being force- fed one liberal, socialist anti-American point of view one right after another.

You don`t have to take my word for it, Ben Stein is also the author of a new book "Real Stars" and he has a brand new documentary coming out called "Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed" that shows attempts by the scientific and university communities to push their agenda down the throats of our children. Ben, nice to meet you.

BEN STEIN, AUTHOR: Nice to meet you. I`ve been watching you with great glee.

BECK: You know what he said to me right before we went on the air, you thought that I was doing the parody of a conservative for awhile.

STEIN: Right, because you`re so conservative. You`re awfully good, awfully good.

BECK: Thank you very much. OK, tell me about what you found about indoctrination when it comes to God in our schools.

STEIN: Well this was for a documentary which as you say is called "Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed." We were studying what our kids were taught about evolution, what they were taught about how life originated.

What we found is that if you question evolution, you have a good chance of losing tenure. You have a good chance of getting fired, losing a grant, you`re out of there.

And yet evolution and Darwinism do not explain an awful lot about life. Darwin said nothing about how life originated and Darwin had no idea how complicated the cell was. Darwin was never able to point to any clear evidence of any species that originated by evolution and there hasn`t been much progress in Darwinism since then. But we found that if you even question the established church of Darwinism, bang, you`re gone.

BECK: What about first cause or intelligent?

STEIN: Well, first cause is not -- it`s lightning striking a mud puddle. See, this is what the evolutionists say and by the way, they may be right. I`m not a scientist, they could be right. Evolutionists struck a mud puddle and out of that mud puddle came a fully-equipped Boeing 747.

Because a human cell, or plant cell or frog cell has hundreds of thousands of very complicated, moving parts all of which have to work together in exact synchronization with each other to build the cell, repair the cell and reproduce the cell.

Darwin thought it was just Jello inside the cell. No, very complicated. How that happened by lightning striking a mud puddle is a very good question. And if you ask that question, you better start looking for another job or have rich parents or something.

BECK: I have to tell you, a good friend of mine said because my daughter wants to go to Columbia University.

STEIN: I went to Columbia. It`s a great place.

BECK: I said you`ll never get on campus with me. Whatever you do, change your last name. Don`t ever say.

STEIN: There are plenty of people named Beck. She won`t have a problem.

BECK: She`ll have to go into the witness protection program.

STEIN: Right.

BECK: But a good friend of mine said you should send her, just make sure she`s armed against the professors so she knows she can hear both sides. I have no problem with hearing both sides. But they won`t ever present the other side.

STEIN: They won`t ever listen to other side and what I kept wondering when I was working on this documentary is if they`re so sure they`re right, what are they afraid of? If they`re so sure that their position is unassailable, let the other guy talk and then blow him out of the water and say, you fool, you didn`t know this, this and this.

BECK: Right.

STEIN: When I talk to people who are Darwinists or evolutionists and say, how did life begin, they don`t have an answer. They have an answer, but it`s a B.S. answer and it`s not an answer that would make sense to a small child. It`s not a real answer.

BECK: I know you were going to be on the radio program with me tomorrow and I want to talk about the economy tomorrow. I want to talk to you a little bit more about worst-case scenarios that you found in the video. But real quick, you also wrote a book about the real stars.

STEIN: Well the "Real Stars." I live in Malibu part of the week. People say to me all of the time, what`s it like living near Barbra Streisand and Nick Nolte and Martin Sheen. They`re stars.

I say I don`t live near the real stars. The real stars are in Baghdad, Ramadi, Kirkuk, Mosul, Fallujah wearing body armor in 130-degree heat. They`re patrolling all over Afghanistan and they`re risking their lives moment by moment. They`re buried in section 60 of Arlington National Cemetery. They`re in the amputee ward, ward 67 at Walter Reed Army Medical Center. They`re the real stars. The other ones that should have won the Nobel Peace Prize, they`re the ones who give up everything for us.

BECK: Ben, thank you very much.

STEIN: Thank you so much.

BECK: We`ll talk to you tomorrow.

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BECK: Well, our "Inconvenient Segment" ends with Boulder, Colorado tonight, where the Boulder Valley School District has decided in its infinite wisdom to get rid of the valedictorian honor, starting with the class of 2010. Why? Because their top students there are only separated by a few hundredths of a point and you wouldn`t want to hurt the feelings of a second place super genius by not giving them a fancy title as an award, would you? How do they do it?

This is the same school district that earlier abolished the class ranking to reduce unhealthy competition. Which former state of the Soviet Union do we live in?

In "An Inconvenient Book" I talk about this sort of trophy mentality that creates victims. We talked about it earlier on today`s show. The income gap. It`s unfair that some people live in luxury and others struggle to get by. How would your grandparents respond if you told them you couldn`t succeed because the world is unfair, I didn`t get a trophy?

I know what my grandfather would have said. We have to stop coddling our kids and attempting to remove every single struggle from their lives. We`re dooming them to a life of failure. When did we stop recognizing that struggle builds character? The best people on the planet became the best people by overcoming struggles.

If you finish second place by 1/100 of a point in your GPA, then guess what? You finished second. And that`s OK. Try harder next time. Our country didn`t get to be what it is because of whining. We didn`t complain ourselves across the Rocky Mountains to the Pacific Ocean. We believed it could be done. And because of that we did it.

And you know what? A lot of people didn`t make it. Oh, well. But you know what? Now we seem to turn everybody into a victim. Even worse, we convince them that there is no hope in America.

One of the most harmful quotes I have ever read came from Michael Moore. What a surprise. You can see it. I reprinted it on my book, page 86 of "An Inconvenient Book." He said, and I quote, "Listen, friends, you have to face the truth. You`re never going to get rich. The system is rigged in your favor and the favor of a few, and your name is not among those few. Not now, not ever."

This coming from a man who rose up armed with just an opinion and a hairy, fat back? And he`s a multimillionaire? The American dream is alive and well, my friend. And Michael Moore should know because he`s living it.

All right, that`s it for an inconvenient hour. Remember, my new book is in stores right now. I know, it`s totally shameless, isn`t it? Tomorrow, full hour with CNN`s Anderson Cooper. From New York, good night America.

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