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GLENN BECK for August 7, 2006

Aired August 07, 2006 - 19:00   ET

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GLENN BECK, HEADLINE NEWS HOST: Let me tell you something right off the bat. The media just does not understand us. TV and radio today has focused on how many missiles have been launched this weekend in the Middle East, and I`ve got to tell you I don`t really care. Really, it has little or no meaning to me, at least in the context that they continue to frame it in.

Last week I was on vacation. I was allowed the opportunity to focus on my family. You know what I mean? Rather than the news. That time gave me real clarity on what is happening in the Middle East and the context that you and I can relate to as people and as parents. Last week came the report that we now have confirmation that not only did Iran supply Hezbollah with the missiles that they`re shooting off, but Hezbollah needed the green light to fire them from the ayatollahs in Iran. I hate to say I told you so, but I told you so. I warned you weeks ago. Don`t pay attention to the tragic play that is being acted out on the people of Israel and Lebanon but look to the east behind the curtain to the men from Iran that are really calling the shots.

When it comes to today`s headlines, it`s truly all about Iran. Finally there is no denying it. It`s Israel and the Lebanese that are fighting, but Iran is getting its money`s worth from Hezbollah to the tune of $100 million a year. Now here`s the context. The world`s on the threshold of what could be World War III. We`re facing one of our biggest threats this nation has ever faced. The Iranian leaders have a messiah complex and are actively seeking world domination to usher in the messiah under an Islamic state.

We must prepare for the threat. People aren`t paying attention to this because the mainstream media has the context all wrong. Today the U.S. and France, oh, they`ve joined forces to try to negotiate with Hezbollah. I have to say negotiating with Hezbollah is like trying to get a better price on a new car from the salesman. If you want to get anything done, you need to speak to the manager, and when it comes to the Middle East, the guy in the corner office is Iran.

It also seems to me that alarm bells are ringing all over the place and nobody is connecting the dots. So let me try on this one. The other story that I believe is the lead story and it isn`t anywhere but this show, is BP`s little rusty pipeline in Prudhoe, Alaska. America`s largest oil field has been completely shut down with no indication as when it will resume operation. Everybody`s blaming BP. I don`t care who`s to blame. It means that we`re now taking an eight percent hit in our domestic oil supply.

That`s 400,000 barrels a day. We only suffered a four percent hit during the energy crisis of the 1970s, and you remember what a living nightmare that was. The very best we can hope for is an eight percent increase in gas prices. Here in New York City that means an increase of 35 cents bringing it a total to somewhere near $3.50 a gallon.

Experts say if there`s a disruption in the flow of oil in the Middle East due to the current conflict or some sort of strife in Nigeria this could mean a $2 to $3 spike in gas prices. Context? Do you need it? Five or $6 per gallon gasoline.

Hopefully we`ll dodge the bullet this time, but this is another gigantic wake-up call to remind us how vulnerable we are. We`ve got to get the foreign oil monkey off our back. How do you fight a war without oil?

Osama bin Laden has been very clear with us. He wants to collapse our economy. How would you do it? Would you do it by blowing up the New York Stock Exchange or would you cut off our oil supply? How do you fight that war? How do you power your diesel trains, your airlines, your trucks, how do you get the work every day with 6, 7, 8, $10 a gallon gasoline.

So my first day back after a week`s worth of thinking sitting by the pool, here`s what I do know. I know that we as a country need to snap out of our complacency. The five-year anniversary of 9/11 is right around the corner and the best way we can honor those who lost their lives is to make sure it never ever happens again and that means deal with Iran now.

More importantly I know our oil troubles, they`re not going away unless we can identify a reliable source of energy, and I don`t think anything in the Middle East is actually called reliable, we`re not prepared for an international crisis. World war III is dangerously close. Anybody else notice a story I think it was like on page 18 of your local paper about a month ago the military is beginning to convert some jets to natural gas. Why do you suppose?

What I don`t know today is what it will take for Mr. and Mrs. America to realize what a great, big giant deal the oil crisis really is. Four dollars a gallon? Will it be $5 or $6 a gallon. I don`t know when Washington will stop looking overseas and start investing in coal to oil technology that already exists right here at home. It could give us complete energy independence in just 10 years.

Finally, I don`t know what happened to the capitalist system that built this country. Where are the Gettys, where are the Rockefellers who should see the energy problem looming large and smell the money that could be made by solving it? Where are you? Someone who might know is Amy Myers Jaffe. She is an energy fellow at Rice University`s Baker Institute for Public Policy. Hi, Amy, how are you?

AMY MYERS JAFFE, ENERGY FELLOW, RICE UNIVERSITY: Hi, how are you, Glenn?

BECK: I`m very good. I`m really concerned because I really truly believe that we have an impending crisis of darn near biblical proportions, our enemies, no pun intended, have us over a barrel, and we`re not seemingly doing anything. How big of a problem, let`s start here, is the BP situation?

MYERS JAFFE: Well, the BP situation will resolve itself in the sense we know how to fix a pipeline, and once they drain it and fix it that oil will flow again, but it does really command up our concern. Which is these kind of things happen, not only here in the United States but around the world. We get temporary disruptions that are either technical or political and we`re not prepared. It`s exactly like you say. We`re not prepared. There are all kinds of interesting things we could do but we`re not doing any of them.

BECK: OK. Why aren`t we doing any of them? For instance, the coal to oil, I don`t even understand why we`re not considering this. It wasn`t profitable unless oil was at $35 a barrel. We`re way past that now. Why aren`t we thinking about this?

MYERS JAFFE: Well, a lot of times people in industry have trouble responding. Our car companies have certainly had trouble responding. We - - think about this. Reports just came out last week, China is embarking on an ambitious program soliciting American and Western companies to do coal to oil. They think they`ll be able to get to a million barrels a day of oil made from coal by about 2011.

So we have some small pilot programs here in the United States and Montana and other places, but people don`t believe we`re really going to have a crisis. Every time something happens in the Middle East or right here at home with a hurricane, we all go, oh, my, this could be a problem, and then we run right back into our Hummers and drive around.

BECK: So Amy, help me out on the -- Explain how close we are to real crisis. Give me the top three scenarios that could put us at $6 a gallon.

MYERS JAFFE: Well, you know, there are things that have already tried. We know that when al Qaeda sets a target, they keep their mind on it as we know from the World Trade Center where they started in the early `90s. The Saudi cell of al Qaeda attacked a major facility of Abcake (ph) just this past year in February. And they were unsuccessful and let`s hope they stay unsuccessful, but no question if that facility were harmed in a way that it couldn`t operate properly you and I would probably be getting rationing tickets for how much oil we could use.

BECK: Correct me if I`m wrong, if you look at 1973 prices or 19 -- the gas -- what was that 1973, the oil crisis that we had, no, `77, when we went through the oil crisis, right -- am I right? What year was that, Amy?

MYERS JAFFE: Well, `79. You`re thinking about `79 when Iran went into revolution, if you adjust that for inflation, we are almost to that price today.

BECK: And weren`t we -- I was a little young at the time. Weren`t rationing?

MYERS JAFFE: We did, we had all kinds of serious programs .

BECK: So how far are we from just rationing?

MYERS JAFFE: It could happen. We had a very bad hurricane season, we had a big catastrophe in the Middle East. We could be back to a system where we have to worry about it. We were almost in that situation under Rita and Katrina, we were very lucky that the companies were able to repair and get their refineries back on line in a short period of time. Had they not been able to do that, we borrowed gasoline from our European allies but if we`d have had to ask for more, if we had had to go back for seconds so to speak, we`d have all had to introduce some more demand dampening measures.

BECK: Amy, thank you so much. I`m telling you, America, this is a ticking time bomb, and we must pay attention to it now.

Up next we`ll take a closer look at Iran and the real muscle in the Middle East.

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(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)

BECK: It`s about Iran, period. They`re pulling the strings. Did you see the story that came out a couple days ago about how now we have confirmation that the missiles being launched are coming from Iran and beyond that, Hezbollah is not allowed to launch any of those without the express permission from the ayatollahs is Iran. If I, a former DJ can figure this stuff out what the hell is going on in Washington?

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BECK: Now let me frame this in the right context. Because I have a confession to make. And it`s not something that I really feel proud of, but it`s true, and I bet you feel the same way. Given all the things that are going on in the world right now, I`ve got to be honest I could care less about how many rockets and air strikes were launched in Israel and Lebanon. I mean it`s tragic. But it`s a horrible fact at least in my life, I`ve lost interest in it. I care about the war but not this part of it.

They`ve been fighting in that part of the world for centuries. Have you ever read a little thing called the Bible? This isn`t news because there`s nothing new about it. Now Iran and their godfather control of Hezbollah, that`s news at least it is now and it affects you and me.

Of course, I`ve been ranting on it for months. But the facts have become now too powerful to ignore. Iran I truly believe is the linchpin of World War III. They are the puppet masters, they have been the David Copperfield of the Middle East, illusionist masters of misdirection. While they`ve been waging an indirect war on Israel, calling the shots through Hezbollah, we`ve been teaming up with our French to plan our own little Hezbollah intervention when we really should just skip the middle man and deal directly with Iran.

Joining me now is a man who knows a little bit of what I`m talking about, he is Vali Nasr, he is a senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations, author of "Shia Revival, How Conflicts within Islam Will Shape the Future."

Vali, you believe the United States needs to engage with Iran, and I wonder if we`re saying the same thing because that kind of scares me.

VALI NASR, COUNCIL ON FOREIGN RELATIONS: Well, first of all, engagement does not mean recognition or acceptance. It means using diplomatic tools to achieve what is in the U.S.`s interest.

BECK: I saw a story in the paper this weekend that shows the great unrest within the population of Egypt and they are tying us right directly to their own leadership because we`ve gotten into bed with them, it`s my understanding that the people of Iran are our friends, it`s the leadership. How do you sit down at a negotiating table and keep your hands clean?

NASR: Well, we`ve done it before with the Soviet Union, Ronald Reagan called the Soviet Union the Evil Empire, was committed to changing it and fought a war in Afghanistan against the Soviet Union. But it never stopped him from meeting with Gorbachev and asking him to do things that the United States wanted them to do. It was a way of controlling the Soviet Union.

BECK: But there is something -- I mean our cultures are so different, and correct me, I`m sure I`m mispronouncing this, is it Taraf (ph)? It`s a way, as I understand it, it is a way that people in Iran communicate with each other. It`s like, for instance, if I said hey, I`d really like to have you over for dinner and I don`t really mean it, everybody kinds of understands it -- we perceive it as lies, how do you -- how do you negotiate -- how do you sit down at the table of people that you don`t really know what the heck they even mean?

NASR: Well, this is always the trick in diplomacy. You have to have a cultural understanding of the other side, you have to know what the other side wants, what`s the bottom line, and how can you get there and get from them what you need and negotiate. And that`s what we train our diplomats to do. And we have some experience with that, dealing with the Chinese. We still have problems with that from the Chinese as to what do they mean when they ask for certain things from us.

BECK: So what is it they would want from us?

NASR: Well, I think the very first thing they want, they`re in the business of insuring regime survival, so they want to insure that the U.S. is no longer committed to overthrowing that regime. And then .

BECK: Wait a minute. They`re committed to wiping Israel off the face of the earth and correct me if I`m wrong, you see it differently, they want Islamic rule worldwide. I mean they are -- you know, beckoning the messiah to come.

NASR: Well, you know, a lot of those kinds of things are posturing. Not every government means exactly what it says. I think the Iranians would like to have a lot more global influence if they could get it. But that`s the long range goal. I think their immediate goals are much more concrete. Around them they feel threatened by the U.S. being in the Persian Gulf, being in Iraq, being in Afghanistan and having to deal with the U.S. over the nuclear issue. They need to take care of those things first before they can get to anything bigger.

BECK: But you know what, here`s a problem that you always get into when you`re negotiating with people. Is we`re negotiating over nukes. You allow these people to get nukes, we`re toast in the Middle East, we`re absolutely toast, and I believe that`s what this whole crisis right now in the Middle East is all about is stalling for time for them to further their nuclear program and to be able to say to the rest of the Middle East see what happens, we have to have nukes, somebody has to be the protector. How do we move rapidly enough so they don`t get nukes?

NASR: Well, what we`ve been doing so far hasn`t worked, in other words, resolution, threatening them, trying to isolate them hasn`t worked, and we need to see what is our objective and what set of tools, carrots, sticks, threats, we can use in order to get to what we want.

BECK: Thank you very much. I appreciate your time. I`ve got to tell you, they are our enemy like the Soviet Union used to be, I at least will have somebody to root against at the Olympics. You know what I`m saying?

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BECK: My radio show can be heard on stations all across the country, and today we are excited to announce that KLAA-830 AM in Los Angeles is joining the family. So if you`re in the Los Angeles area, you can now hear the show from 7-9 every morning on 830 AM. Now lets go to Los Angeles and Brian Whitman, get the buzz from what`s happening in L.A. Hi, Brian.

BRIAN WHITMAN, KLSX-LA: Hello, my friend, how are you?

BECK: Very good. Very good. I`m a little, you know, this whole Cindy Sheehan thing parked out in front of the Texas White House is a little just tiring.

WHITMAN: She`s a Texan and she`s a landowner there now, and you think you have problems with your neighbors. Here`s the problem, Glenn, you`re the problem, my friend. If we would stop talking about Cindy Sheehan, who has been through a great tragedy, she would go away. The media continues .

BECK: She`s never going away.

WHITMAN: Sure, she is.

BECK: She`s never going away. The war will be all over, we`re all dead, I mean as long as there is a Bush wandering the earth, she`ll be protesting.

WHITMAN: Well, as long as there are cameras at Crawford filming Cindy Sheehan. she will stay there and, look, she is -- she has been through a great loss, suffered a great tragedy. She`s over the top, Glenn. I`ll give you what. But if we went through what she went through we might be over the top, too.

BECK: Brian, no, we wouldn`t. You know what? Stop with that B.S. This woman was this way before she lost her son. She`s using her son`s tragic death to further her own goals. We have a woman on in about 20 minutes on the program tonight that went through the same tragedy and wait until you see what this woman has done. I don`t even know if she`s against the war or for the war, but wait till you see what she`s done.

WHITMAN: I`ll wait to watch that. But I think, Glenn, you and I, we have political differences but we don`t know how as human beings we might react to what she`s been through. So I think .

BECK: She was doing this before her son died. She is using her son .

WHITMAN: Don`t we have bigger problems in the world than who`s buying property in Crawford? My gosh.

BECK: Yes, we do. Yes, we do. Yes, we do.

WHITMAN: We agree on that, right?

BECK: You and I also agree on Lieberman. Tomorrow could be the death of the Democratic Party if Lieberman loses.

WHITMAN: Glenn, you are right. This is a fight for the heart and soul of my party, I`m proud to be a Democrat and the people of Connecticut, the good Democrats in Connecticut, need to elect Joe Lieberman tomorrow. Because we`ve got to accommodate this man.

BECK: Give the people of Connecticut just a little taste of the excitement of Joe Lieberman.

WHITMAN: I am so very excited about this campaign.

BECK: Great stuff. Now Schwarzenegger in Los Angeles, he was just endorsed by Spielberg and everybody else. Does the L.A. -- do -- does Los Angeles respond to Hollywood types endorsing candidates?

WHITMAN: Unfortunately, yes, I think they do. Arnold Schwarzenegger has more Hollywood friends than say Mel Gibson, for example, and I think some Democrats and liberals, Glenn, you know this as well as anyone, you don`t win statewide office in California unless Democrats and liberals like you and Arnold Schwarzenegger has been kind of a divisive, partisan figure, he`s turned into that here in California, so I think this helps him oddly enough.

BECK: To have .

WHITMAN: Hollywood types.

BECK: That`s really bizarre, as a conservative as well. But is it really a surprise? Brian, thank you so much. We`ll talk to you again, my friend.

WHITMAN: Thank you, buddy.

(COMMERCIAL BREAK)

BECK: All right. By now you`ve heard that Fidel Castro had just a little health trouble last week. Story after story has reported how exciting it will be when Castro dies because Cuba will finally open its arms to America and see the light of democracy. Right.

As usual, the media has this story all wrong. The real story isn`t about Cuba becoming the 51st state the day after Castro dies. It`s about what happens if things go the other way, if Cuba happens to find a youthful and aggressive version of Venezuela`s Hugo Chavez to take over and they actively search out terrorists and anyone else looking to do harm to America.

This story really is about a country that`s already been reaching out to anti-American regimes like Venezuela and Iran for years. Did you know that, when the International Atomic Energy Agency voted to refer Iran to the U.N. Security Council, only three countries voted no. The first was Syria, and the other two? Yes, Venezuela and Cuba.

The ties to powerful anti-American regimes are already in place. And we are kidding ourselves if we actually think that every enemy of the U.S., from the biggest nation to the smallest terrorist group, won`t be trying to stake their own claim to this country the second Castro is dead.

Next, you`ve probably read the stories about Senator Joe Lieberman, how he may lose in the Democratic primary tomorrow in Connecticut. But this story is not about Joe Lieberman; it`s about the message the Democrats believe they can send to President Bush and to everybody else who supports the war in Iraq. I`ve got to tell you, if that`s true, if they think that not re-electing an 18-year-old veteran of the Senate because he supported the war is going to send a message, then we`re in even bigger trouble than I thought.

This is not about Iraq. As I said on my radio show over two years ago, it was never about weapons of mass destruction. We went into Iraq -- we went in for a vision. That`s what this is all about. It`s a vision to see that we are in a world war defending the Western way of life, and it`s a fight for our lives.

In a speech over the weekend, Supreme Court Justice Kennedy said, quote, "In half the world, the verdict is not yet in. The commitment to accept the Western idea of democracy has not yet been made." And he`s absolutely right.

We all sit here thinking, "Oh, gee, it`s so obvious, everybody in the world, they want democracy, the rule of law. They admire America." I`ve got news for you: It ain`t true. The jury is still out, and the war is just beginning to rage.

So go ahead, Democrats. Slap Joe Lieberman on the wrist because he supported the president. Take away his job because he truly understands what we`re doing in Iraq is so much bigger than liberating one country. But when it gets right down to it, do you actually want someone representing you who`s just playing party politics, someone like Michael Moore, who doesn`t understand the global implications of everything that`s happening today?

I don`t. That`s why I`m hoping -- I don`t think it`s going to happen -- but I`m hoping that common sense prevails tomorrow, and so does Joe Lieberman, I don`t care what party he`s from.

Bill Whalen, research fellow at the Hoover Institute at Stanford University. Hey, Bill. Is the Democratic Party really becoming the party of Michael Moore?

BILL WHALEN, POLITICAL ANALYST: I think it`s becoming the party of a circular firing squad. Figure this. Joe Lieberman may very well lose in Connecticut tomorrow if the polls are correct, but let`s be careful about the polls. You know, tracking a primary in August is like tracking a hurricane in the Atlantic in August. It can go all over the place. But Lieberman, if you run him as an independent in Connecticut in the general election, he wins. So what does that say about the wisdom of the Democratic Party? This is not a very sound strategy.

BECK: What does it mean for the -- let`s say that he does lose tomorrow, which all the polls -- and the only poll that I really trust is Trade Sports, honestly, because that`s where people are exchanging money, and it shows that Lieberman is losing in a landslide on that poll. What happens if he does lose and runs as an independent? What does that mean to the rest of the country and the other elections?

WHALEN: Well, it shows the problems that the Democrats have in winning national elections. Bill Clinton won 30 states when he was reelected in 1996. Al Gore runs four years later, he wins 20 states. John Kerry runs in 2004. He gets four million votes more than Al Gore. He wins only 19 states. The last two times Democrats have run anti-war candidates, 1968 and 1972, 13 states in 1968, one state in 1972, the Democrats have to grow their party beyond this current 19-state level they`re at. This is not the way to do it.

BECK: I tell you, I just think the golden watch era is over. You know, my grandparents died Democrats. Even though they didn`t believe in the things that the Democrats -- you know, they died Democrats because FDR was a Democrat. That era of golden watch politics -- you know what? I vote Republican usually. I voted for Joe Lieberman in Connecticut.

The day the Republicans abandon my values, which they`re pretty close to doing, I drop them like a hot potato. You can`t count on people to vote for you when you`re this out of touch, can you?

WHALEN: No, you can`t. And, you know, it makes for curious party politics. For example, Lieberman is up for vote tomorrow. You know who else is up for a vote? Cynthia McKinney down in Georgia, the outspoken congresswoman, as anti-Bush as you can get. On the night of her primary in Georgia, Cindy Sheehan was on the stage with her. Where are the Democrats coming to rally for her? They don`t care about her so much as they do defeating Joe Lieberman in Connecticut because they want to get George Bush. This is personal.

BECK: Yes. There is anger on both sides. I mean, I`m wondering how this is going to shape up. I know, as a conservative, I think the Republicans have done an abysmal job in many things. I mean, they`re spending us into oblivion. I don`t know where they -- I mean, what are they doing with the border? What are they doing with oil? So, I mean, I`m actually angry at the Republicans.

WHALEN: Sure.

BECK: The Democrats are angry at the Democrats. What does the average person do?

WHALEN: The average person holds their nose and votes for one party or the other. I think 2008 is ripe for a third-party candidate, if such a person could exist, somebody who come in like Perot did in 1992 and possibly siphon away 30 percent of the vote. But I don`t think that creature exists.

But, you know, again for the Democrats, you know, what is -- you know, the problem coming out of the Lieberman episode, what does it say about the state of the party? You run very aggressive primaries in deep blue states, which is what Connecticut is. It ain`t Bush country; it`s a deep blue state. And you run against George Bush. But the fact is, if you want to win a national election, you`ve got to win red states, and you cannot win a red state by being anti-Bush like this.

BECK: This is really a bad mistake for the Democrats. Thank you so much, Bill. Appreciate it.

You know, I did see -- I am from Connecticut, and they`re running -- you know, Lieberman started to distance himself from Bush. I mean, I don`t know if it was just me. Do you think this ad went too far?

(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Ned Lamont says Senator Lieberman is too close to President Bush. Now it`s time to set the record straight.

JOE LIEBERMAN IMPERSONATOR: My voting record is clear. The president and I disagree on everything. Actually, I`ve never met the president. George Bush? Nope, name doesn`t ring a bell. This country has a president? Wow, that`s freaky.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: On August 8th, vote for Joe Lieberman. He`d hate George Bush, if only he knew who he was.

JOE LIEBERMAN IMPERSONATOR: I`m Joe Lieberman, and I don`t approve of that message one bit. Well, maybe a little.

(END VIDEO CLIP)

BECK: Huh, that wasn`t a real ad. That`s weird.

Time to go "Straight to the Hill" now, Erica Hill, the anchor of "PRIME NEWS" on Headline News.

ERICA HILL, CNN HEADLINE NEWS ANCHOR: Hi there.

BECK: Hello, Erica.

HILL: Welcome back.

BECK: Thank you. I missed you.

HILL: Well, you know, it`s nice to see you back. Did you have a nice vacation?

BECK: I did. I played with my family and my kids. And my wife called me this afternoon. She said my son has been walking around the house all day going, "Daddy? Daddy?"

HILL: Aw.

BECK: I know, it broke my heart.

HILL: That does break your heart.

BECK: Yes.

HILL: Well, you know, it`s good to be loved though, right?

BECK: Yes, it is. Yes, it is.

HILL: That makes you feel good.

BECK: So what`s happening?

HILL: It`s also nice to have a nice week off.

This one -- you know, I`ll tell you what`s happening. We wished this was happening to us. A winning Powerball ticket, $208 million bucks, hasn`t officially been claimed, but there`s a group of about a hundred Wisconsin cheese-factory workers who say they`ve got it under lock and key in a very safe place.

BECK: May I ask, this is not affecting the price of cheese, is it?

HILL: Not yet, but somebody brought that up actually at our staff. They said, "You know what? If there`s like a hundred people at this factory, what if they only employ 300 and they lose a third of the staff?"

BECK: I`ll tell you, I hunt these people down one by one if it affects the price of cheese. Let me ask you. I know you`re not supposed to give opinions, but let me give -- I want an opinion on this.

HILL: Yes?

BECK: You win, let`s say, $5 million.

HILL: Yes!

BECK: OK. Do you even call this crappy network and say you`re not coming in? Or are you just -- it`s 6:00 Eastern, and somebody`s behind the camera going, "I don`t know. She didn`t show."

HILL: I don`t know. I would probably still work for a while.

BECK: No, no, you wouldn`t. I mean, I would eventually go back to work because I`d be so bored, but...

HILL: I`d pay off bills for my family, like, you know, for my parents and my sister.

BECK: Yes, you watch. Erica`s going to win and she won`t even show. Thanks a lot, Erica. Talk to you soon.

HILL: See you later.

BECK: Bye.

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BECK: You know, with the constant barrage of bad news that comes in from Iraq every single day, we sometimes forget that there are a lot of really good stories, people doing good things, helping improve the quality of life for others, and showing support for the soldiers who are willing to sacrifice everything they have to make sure we hold onto everything we have.

Dorine Kenney is one of those stories. She is the focus of this week`s "Real America."

(BEGIN VIDEOTAPE)

BECK (voice-over): For Dorine Kenney, it started out pretty simple.

DORINE KENNEY, JACOB`S LIGHT FOUNDATION: Well, I`m a mother. You have your kid going, you know, Iraq or Afghanistan, and you just send them comforts from home, tastes from home.

BECK: Her care packages for her son, Jacob, became so popular that while serving in Iraq he asked mom if she would also send some things to some of the buddies who weren`t getting any mail from home. Dorine happily obliged.

KENNEY: When I get the special requests, it`s a lot of fun for me to fulfill that. I`ll get a letter back, "Gee, the Triscuits you sent were really great." You know, or, "Loved the macaroni," or I had a soldier write back and say, "Oreos are a soldier`s favorite cookie," so of course I bombarded him with Oreos.

BECK: And so it went, that sending packages and letters became Dorine`s tangible connection to her son. Checking the mail became the highlight of her day.

KENNEY: I used to come home, and I would go to my mailbox. And when I saw a letter, I would sit in the car, and hold it to my heart, and I would rock for a while so I could feel him.

BECK: She shared a piece of her favorite letter.

KENNEY: "Thanks for being my mom. I love you with all my heart. One picture that stands out in my head is the picture I gave you of us. You must have been about 21, me about 3. I`m in me pea coat with my curly hair, you with your long straight hair. I know how much I mean to you because I know what it means to sacrifice for another like you did to me. You gave it all up for me. I was your best friend, and here we are, 25 years later, and guess what? I`m still your best friend. I got to go. Miss you, mom. Love your son, Jacob Samuel Fletcher. Please be safe."

BECK: Jacob was in Iraq for seven and a half months before he was killed by a random roadside bomb. Now, the letters are all Dorine has left.

KENNEY: I remember walking in the door, and my sister was here in the apartment. I was out with my mother taking care of funeral arrangements. And when I came in, I`ll just never forget the look on her face. And she said, "I have some letters," and I received two of them on the same day, and they were the last two letters.

BECK: After Jacob`s death, it would have been easy for Dorine to stop sending packages and try to move past losing her son and somehow go on. Dorine Kenney did just the opposite. To date she`s sent over 61,000 pounds of supplies to soldiers. Honoring her son, her efforts have been named the Jacob`s Light Foundation.

KENNEY: Knowing that the soldiers over there are having a little bit easier through the work we do, and it`s really kept me alive. It`s given me focus; it`s given me a stronger purpose. Just knowing that their morale is boosted helps.

BECK: What is it she thinks Jacob would say about all of this?

KENNEY: "Wow, mom, look at all those boxes that are going. And thank you. Thank you for caring for my brothers and sisters over there. It`s pretty rough on them, and I know it makes a little bit easier for them to receive support from home."

BECK: Nowadays, Dorine says Girl Scout cookies are the most popular requests she gets from soldiers. And once again, checking the mailbox is the highlight of her day.

KENNEY: "I am Staff Sergeant Leasen (ph). I`m a soldier with the 501st, just stationed in Iraq from Freeburg, Germany. Upon arrival here in Iraq, I have inherited one of your boxes that you and your volunteers sent to us. Knowing that we are not forgotten by the American people such as you and your volunteers mean a lot to us. It reminds us that we are not just fighting for the American way of life but for the people, and puts a face to those who enjoy those freedoms we proudly fight to the death to protect."

BECK: For Dorine Kenney, continuing to send comforts of home has given her hope and lifted her spirits, the light that has gotten her through her darkest days.

KENNEY: I named it Jacob`s Light because the light that`s within every spirit and who he was as a person, and his giving, and his heart, and his compassion lives on through Jacob`s Light Foundation.

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BECK: Dorine Kenney is here in the studio. What a pleasure.

KENNEY: Thank you for having me.

BECK: I notice you are wearing his dog tags.

KENNEY: Yes. I always wear his dog tags. I hold onto them when I really have a shaky day. It gives me strength.

BECK: You are an amazing woman to take your sadness and your grief, and where there are so many signs now of, you know, people who just turn it to anger, and you have taken and turned such grief and such sorrow into just something so wonderful and beautiful.

KENNEY: Well, the soldiers that are over there, they need to be supported. They need their morale boosted. They need to know we`re thinking of them.

BECK: Do you believe that -- you know, I hear from people who -- and I`m torn on this, because I think disagreement is so important to America. But do you think you can be anti-war and pro-troops?

KENNEY: Absolutely. Absolutely.

BECK: What do you think of Cindy Sheehan?

KENNEY: I think she`s a grieving mother. I understand some of her questions, and she has the right to express herself whatever way she needs to.

BECK: Yes, yes. What do you hear from the guys over there? When you get these letters, what is the one theme that you hear throughout?

KENNEY: "Thanks for thinking of us. Thank you for supporting us. It really means a lot."

BECK: I heard -- and this is disturbing to me -- we said in the piece that Girl Scout cookies are the number-one thing that they need or that they want. But they`re something that they need: blood coagulants. That`s true?

KENNEY: Yes, that`s life-saving.

BECK: Why aren`t we providing that as a nation?

KENNEY: They asked for it, and we send them what we can. I actually brought this situation to Congressman Steve Israel, who took immediate action, put an inquiry into the Department of Defense, and brought it to the floor of the House within days. And Senator Schumer has placed an amendment to a defense authorization bill for more money for them. And Jacob`s Light Foundation has sent about 650 units of it over there so far.

BECK: If somebody wants to get involved, how do they get involved? How do they find you?

KENNEY: Through our Web site, JacobsProgram.org, and, boy, do we need help. We need donations. And if anybody wants to help us with donations, they could send it to Jacob`s Light Foundation, 116 Nadia Court, Port Jefferson, New York, 11777.

BECK: And we`ll find you again on the web.

KENNEY: Yes.

BECK: Thank you so much. What a pleasure, and what a testament to your son. God bless you.

KENNEY: Thank you.

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BECK: All right. Coming up in a second, the doctored Reuters photos and some new evidence that we`ve discovered.

But first, let`s check in with Nancy Grace. Nancy, what`s coming up tonight?

NANCY GRACE, HOST: Ten years later, O.J. Simpson back in the headlines. Hours of new video of Simpson. Did he cheat justice in the murders of Nicole Brown and Ron Goldman? Simpson`s life since the murders, living like a king, not paying a nickel toward the multimillion-dollar judgment against him.

What happened to his home, Nicole`s home, the dream team and the prosecutors that lost the case of the century? How he also landed back in court, these answers and brand-new video tonight. And even if he did confess on the videos, Glenn, why he can never be prosecuted for double murder.

BECK: Oh, good to see that O.J. Simpson is enjoying his innocence. I`m sorry, his not-guiltiness. Nancy is coming up right after our show at 8:00 and 10:00 Eastern.

But first, let`s do a "Ask Glenn" coming in from Darryl in Orlando. Here`s what he writes: "Glenn, did you see those Reuters pictures that had been Photoshopped? Absolutely unbelievable. Is this a one-time thing or does this stuff happen all the time?"

Actually, Darryl, it`s pretty common, at least coming from this particular guy. He`s a Lebanese freelance photographer for Reuters, or at least was. Bloggers picked apart his pictures, and they found that he was trying to make the Middle East look worse than it actually is. I mean, honestly, if you`re going to risk your career on a lie, why not, you know, try to do something big? Making, you know, the Middle East look worse than it is, is like adding a cup size to Anna Nicole Smith. It`s making a mountain out of a slightly smaller mountain.

Here`s the side-by-side comparison of the Photoshopped pictures. Look at this. Oh, it`s either a little smokier, you know, or not. But, you know, I`m still not buying a vacation package here.

Look closer here. Check this building out. Can you zoom in a bit? There it is. Look at the next building. I mean, either this guy is scamming Reuters or Lebanon has some really uncreative architects here.

However, for full disclosure, we here at the GLENN BECK program cannot claim absolute purity on this issue, either. Look at this picture that we found. Can you tell? It`s been altered by our staff, and we`re ashamed of it.

Let me show you the original. Here it is. Yes, yes, you have to look closely to see the difference here. It`s tough to see with the untrained eye, but there it is. All right. We`ll see you tomorrow on the radio and back here tomorrow night. In honor of our new radio station in Los Angeles, KLAA 830-AM, adios.

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