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Glenn Beck
What Can Be Done About Iran?; Man Kills Alleged Child Molester
Aired August 31, 2006 - 19:00 ET
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GLENN BECK, HOST: Coming up the U.N. deadline on Iran`s nuclear program has passed. How did Iran respond? Gee, I wonder.
Plus a shocking example of how our way of life is being hijacked by illegal aliens. Video you will not see anywhere else. That`s coming up.
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BECK: You know, what I think makes this show different from other cable news shows, is people think a lot of things, but people are afraid to say them. We try to say them.
Here`s tonight`s exclusive. We are facing the end of the west, and the one that is squeezing the trigger is Iran. Here`s what that means.
As expected, Iran today completely ignored the U.N. I mean, wouldn`t you? It`s the U.N. They pledged to continue its nuclear program even as the U.N. threatens sanctions.
Forget about the sanctions. All right. We`ve tried to talk to Iran before. In fact, 1979 our very own Jimmy Carter was talking to them. He reached out to the Ayatollah Khomeini, and then the Ayatollah Khomeini went out and grabbed a lot of Americans and held them hostage for a year. Worked out great, Jim.
I`ve been saying this over and over again. The reason that we went to war in Iraq was not for WMDs; it was Iran, not weapons of mass destruction. And I know this sounds like an excuse. The president can`t come out and say this now, but I did, over three years ago on the eve of the Iraqi war.
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BECK: When you listen to George W. Bush, you kind of have to read between the lines. I`ve said over and over again that he can`t say everything. He cannot say to the people, "Oh, well, actually we`re going after Iran by going into Iraq." He can`t say that. You have to do the math on your own time.
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BECK: We are quickly running out of that time on dealing with Iran. We are now faced with lousy options, because the only good option we had, planting democracy all around Iran until it spread, has been so badly bungled. And now our options range, really, from crappy to really crappy.
So today, in our Iran 101 series, we`re going to look at what it`s going to take to stop Iran. Here is, as I see it, the least crappy option.
President Bush needs to call for regime change in Iran. He needs to stand up in the Oval Office in a loud, clear voice, look you and the Iranian people straight in the eye and say, "This is a battle for our freedom and for our way of life, and we are not going to rest until the people of Iran are free of the evils of the Muslim fascists."
And then Congress needs to pass legislation saying exactly the same thing in clear language.
Although he kind of alluded to it in his speech today, the president needs to clearly state that what`s happening now in the Middle East is the same thing that happened in Europe in the 1930s.
Hitler and Ahmadinejad, they`ve got a lot in common. I mean, they`re both monsters without a shred of humanity, and they have one clear mission. Hitler wanted to exterminate the Jews and then take over the world. Ahmadinejad wants to see an end to the west. Kill the Jews first. Sound kind of familiar?
The world didn`t take Hitler seriously until it was almost too late. We can`t make the same mistake with Iran.
So tonight here`s what I know. Unless we act now, our way of life is in real peril. Iran is the turning point. As Winston Churchill said on the eve of World War II, this is the most avoidable war in history. Let me tell you that myself. This is the most avoidable war in history.
I don`t want to have to send my son or daughter into war, and you don`t want it either. But that`s what it`s coming to unless we act now. Call your congressman, call the president. Tell him you think this is the most -- potentially, the most dangerous crisis we`ve ever faced as a nation, and they`ve got to speak clearly to the Iranian people with one voice, unflinching.
I also know that we can`t wait for the United Nations to solve this one. They`re busy on solving the crisis in Darfur, and they`ve done such a great job with that. They`re totally useless. The only thing sanctions are going to do is unite the Iranian people against us and the rest of the world. Huge mistake.
Here`s what I don`t know. No, I`m actually pretty good on this one. I`ve done my homework, so I`m good. No, wait, wait, wait, I do have one.
How is it exactly, we shut the U.N. down? There`s what I would like to see happen, and I don`t know how we`re going to do it.
Clifford May, he`s the president of the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies. He is an expert in international relations and national security.
Cliff, ticking time bomb with Iran?
CLIFFORD MAY, FOUNDATION FOR THE DEFENSE OF DEMOCRACIES: Absolutely a ticking time bomb. It`s been ticking for years, and we`ve simply ignored it. We should have known as early as 1979 when they took over our embassy and held our diplomats hostage that this was a problem we had to solve.
If we didn`t know it then, how about in `83 when Hezbollah was dispatched by the Iranians to suicide bomb our Marine barracks and our embassy in Beirut? And in 1996 they were responsible for the Khobar Towers attack on us. We have waited so long to deal with this problem.
BECK: So now we`re going to wait some more. This sanction thing through the U.N., that -- what is that going to do? That is doing nothing but stalling for time.
MAY: It`s -- I think the diplomatic phrase would be we are exhausting all other options. We are -- I think President Bush wants to show that his first inclination is to not go about anything unilaterally, to do cowboy diplomacy. He wants to give diplomacy a chance, give the U.N. a chance.
The U.N. will fail at this. You`re right, Glenn, because it`s failed at every similar mission it has ever undertaken in its entire history.
BECK: Cliff, here`s the thing, Cliff. I mean, when we say we don`t want to act unilaterally, I can`t even imagine fighting a war and putting boots on the ground in Iran, but that will set the entire Muslim world against us, and then the whole Middle East goes up in flames.
I mean, what are your other options here, besides a Ronald Reagan/Poland moment in saying rise up, and we`ll protect you.
MAY: Well, I would say rise up is good, saying we`re protecting you better say -- you better know how you are going to protect them when this regime starts to mow down those people who rise up. You were right when you said earlier we only have lousy options.
Another way to say it is we have no good options. We have bad options and worse options, and the worse option of all is for this Islamo-fascist dictatorship which, as you say, is aggressive, is genocidal, wants the destruction of the west to allow them to have nuclear weapons. That`s the worst of all.
Now there should be military contingencies being prepared at the Pentagon. They don`t necessarily include boots on the ground. If you remember in the early `80s Saddam Hussein`s nuclear weapons facilities were taken out from the air.
BECK: I was going to say, do you think we can do that now? Everybody`s got hardened bunkers way deep in the earth?
MAY: You`re right, and that`s what I would think that Pentagon strategic planners should be working overtime to figure out yes, these facilities that the Iranians have are disbursed, hardened, and underground. What new weapons do we have that might be able to, if not destroy them or damage them enough so Iranian nuclear weapon production will be set back five years, which gives us more time for regime change.
BECK: Do you really think that we -- we could send planes over and -- or we could said missiles in to Iran, violate their airspace, drop something, and not have them -- I mean, through Hamas and everything else just not light that whole region on fire?
MAY: They may try to light that region on fire. Actually, one good result, I would say, of the recent war in Lebanon is that Hezbollah no longer at this moment has quite the means it used to have to light everything on fire.
There`s also not a lot of sympathy in the Sunni world for the Iranians. The Iranians want to lead the international radical jihad against the west. A lot of Sunnis, even radical Sunnis don`t want to follow the Shia in this.
I`m not so sure that you would light up the Middle East if all you were trying to do was set back nuclear weapons production. Certainly, again you don`t have any good options. You have to say what is the worst option. The worst option is they have nuclear weapons, because if they do you have to figure they will use those weapons before very long.
BECK: OK. One minute. Cliff, tell me what are we doing? We had the Evangelical Protestant Church to invite President Khatami over to speak at our National Cathedral in Washington.
MAY: I don`t know what is being fought by the -- what is it, the -- no, it`s by the protestant church who wants to invite them to the cathedral.
I don`t know what in the world they are thinking of. Jimmy Carter wants to host them. CAIR, the Council on American-Islamic Relations, wants to host them. I understand that, but they`re apologists for that sort of thing.
He`s also going to be speaking at Harvard, for goodness sake. Look, president -- I don`t know why he`s getting a visa. President Bush has said many times, as you know, Glenn, that if you were sponsoring terrorism you are our enemy. The No. 1 sponsor of terrorism in the world is Iran. Why are we inviting the enemy to do public relations all over the U.S.?
BECK: I don`t know. Cliff, you know and I know, because we are so tied up into our own politically correct world, that sometimes we can`t get out of our own way. Thank you so much.
MAY: OK.
BECK: Now President Tom, he`s got -- you know, he`s working on these nukes. How do you get them away? Well, we`ve tried incentives, but honestly, the U.N., what do they know? If you want real incentives, I`ve got to tell you, the world has got a lot to offer.
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ANNOUNCER: The permanent members of the U.N. Security Council would like to offer Iran the following incentives.
From Russia, Maria Sharapova.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: She`s smoking.
ANNOUNCER: From China, General Tso`s Chicken.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Spicy and crunchy!
ANNOUNCER: From the U.S. The Colonel`s 11 secret herbs and spices.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: The recipe`s yours.
ANNOUNCER: From England, the Spice Girls.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Any three, take your pick.
ANNOUNCER: From France -- you don`t want anything from France. Trust us.
And if that`s not enough to stop you from enriching uranium, oh, well, bombs away.
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ANNOUNCER: This is Glenn Beck.
BECK: I told you yesterday that there was -- that pedophiles really needed to be afraid of us. Well, unfortunately, the avenger, a guy who killed his neighbor yesterday, we`ll tell you about it.
Also, illegals raising the Mexican flag over a U.S. post office, video you won`t see anyplace else.
And the last man to walk on the moon. Coming up.
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BECK: You have been lied to. You have been lied to. I have been lied to. And it is time we wake up. Yesterday on the program I said the child molesters need to wake up. Child molesters need to realize you don`t surround us, we surround you. And there is coming a time when the American people are going to say enough is enough.
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BECK: You know, we were talking about child molesters on the program yesterday, how to deal with them in our neighborhoods. And I did issue that warning, and I want to play it back for you. This was on yesterday`s program.
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BECK: I know that even though it feels like we`re surrounded by these creeps. I`ve got a message for them. We`re not surrounded. You`re surrounded by us. And we`ve had enough of you. The country is finally waking up to the fact that you`re in our community with us, and we want it to stop now.
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BECK: Now, I also told you last night that I didn`t know what I would do -- I could tell you what the natural man in me wanted to do. And let`s just say it involved a .45 and a shovel if I ever found out anybody molested one of my children.
What I was talking about last night was I was addressing the frustration that people are feeling. People are trying to rehabilitate child molesters instead of punishing them and then locking them up forever to keep them away from our children. And I said last night people are about to snap.
Well, today I get up and I look at the "New York Post" and look at the cover. Here it is. The story of an enraged Connecticut lawyer, Jonathan Edington. He leapt through the window of his house next door and stabbed a guy to death, because Edington`s wife told him that the neighbor had molested their 2-year-old daughter.
Now, I don`t know who`s guilty or innocent in this, but quite honestly, I also have no idea how I would react in the same situation. I hope I wouldn`t do that, but I know I`d want to. Tragically, our next guest was in exactly that same situation when his daughter Polly was abducted and killed in 1993, Marc Klaas.
Marc, can you identify with this guy at all?
MARC KLAAS, DAUGHTER MURDERED: Our situations were different because Polly was kidnapped and missing for 65 days. However, once this individual was captured I said at that time and I continue to say that I could easily participate in his demise.
BECK: So what should this guy -- if he did it and the child molester next door, if he was a child molester, manslaughter?
KLAAS: You see here`s the problem. I mean, in any civilized society, Glenn, when -- when government fails to take care of the needs of the people and properly protect the people, the people will resort to vigilante retribution, which is exactly what happened here.
The problem with what this individual did, though, is that he, first of all, didn`t check with the authorities at all, based it upon the evidence presented by a 2-year-old child.
BECK: Yes.
KLAAS: And he`s going to further victimize his child, because she`s not going to be protected once his name gets out into the public arena. And that`s always the primary purpose of a juvenile justice kind of a -- of a prosecution, is you want to be able to protect the victim.
So he`s done his daughter more harm by committing this act than he would have by utilizing the proper vehicles.
BECK: I completely, completely agree with you. Let me -- let me take you here. I feel like there`s a -- there`s a disconnect in our society. It`s so hard. It`s on immigration. It`s on war. It`s on just about everything that is facing us, including child molesters.
The people are saying put these guys away for all time, and yet the disconnect between my house and the house on Capitol Hill. It`s not the same.
KLAAS: You know, you`re absolutely correct on this. First of all, and I know you were talking to Erin Runnion last night, and Erin knows as well as anybody else that you`re not going to completely solve this problem through legislation.
BECK: Yes.
KLAAS: That having been said, President Bush signed some very powerful child safety legislation only a month ago. It`s the Adam Walsh Children`s Safety Act, and it`s going to ramp up penalties against these guys. It`s going to create civil commitment laws in states that don`t have them. It`s going to give law enforcement much better tools. It`s going to force compliance. And it`s going to create a national sex offender registry, all within the next three years.
So, you know, the steps have been taken recently that are changing these laws tremendously.
BECK: But you are in a unique position to know, better than anybody else. I mean, you know, we all watched like freaks, honestly, we`re watching a little side show circus, Captain Highpants coming over from, you know, from Bangkok.
You watched it differently, because this guy had your daughter`s death certificate with him. What did that feel like?
KLAAS: Well, it doesn`t get much worse than that. I`m still enraged at how that entire event was handled, and I think that there are huge outstanding questions.
But, again, we have to protect -- we have to protect the victims. And in even that case, as in this case, the victims were not protected. People forget about JonBenet Ramsey, and people forgot about Polly Klaas.
And instead, you found this cast of characters...
BECK: Yes.
KLAAS: ... utilizing this particular situation to promote their own careers. That and the activity of the -- of the prosecutor in this case is what outrages me, that our daughters once again have to be splashed around in the headlines and their memories have to be sullied in this incredible way?
BECK: So let me ask you the same question that I asked Ms. Runnion last night. Death penalty or behind the bars forever?
KLAAS: Well, never in the history of the world has either a psychopath or a pedophile ever been cured. I have absolutely no problem with executing these individuals post haste. The problem, though, and here`s the irony about the death penalty in the United States, particularly in California.
BECK: Quickly.
KLAAS: If you sentence somebody to death, you`re going to extend their life -- you`re going to extend their life much farther than it would have been extended otherwise.
BECK: Thanks a lot. Marc Klaas.
Back in a minute.
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BECK: Every day you can hear my radio program all across the country including 1000-KTOK in Oklahoma City and 600-WREC in Memphis. Let`s get the buzz from now from WLS-890 AM`s Roe Conn out of Chicago.
What`s happening, Roe?
ROE CONN, RADIO TALK SHOW HOST: Hey, Glenn.
One of our favorite Chicagoans, Jesse Jackson, is globe trotting again.
BECK: Yes.
CONN: Here`s something I`m not quite sure. Is there like a bat light that people put up in the sky, and Jesse sees this image and then he rushes to an emergency?
BECK: It`s not a bat light; it`s a TV light. He sees the TV light go on, he`s like, "Oh, I must be there."
CONN: Well, as you know, he went to the Middle East.
BECK: Yes.
CONN: And he was -- and I think what happened was he was going to try to get those FOX reporters out, but the hostage takers and the FOX reporters realized who was on the way and they`re like let`s not deal with him. Let`s let him go.
BECK: I don`t think that`s really what happened.
CONN: So then he gets there, and he meets with Hezbollah and Hamas.
BECK: Yes.
CONN: And he`s going back and forth, and this is the piece of tape from him from yesterday. This is from CNN`s "SITUATION ROOM". Take a look.
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REV. JESSE JACKSON, RAINBOW/PUSH: When I met with Mashal of Hamas he was concerned about the one soldier that they have vis-a-vis the Palestinians. And Hezbollah`s concerned about the two soldiers, vis-a-vis the Lebanese.
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CONN: In other words he got nothing.
BECK: What does that even me?
CONN: It means nothing. He sat there with John King, who`s in for Wolf Blitzer, and he was tap dancing for like a good, like, 10 minutes or five minutes, sort of well what happened while you were there? And I like when he doesn`t really have an answer, he just goes around and around and around. He fancies himself as the ultimate diplomat.
BECK: You know what? I`ve got to tell you, God bless you, Jesse Jackson, if you can get the guys out, that`s great. I -- you know, I don`t really like the idea that, you know, private citizens can just -- got to go over and deal with terrorists. I think that`s kind of a bad idea.
But then again this week we have the former president of Iran, the guy that President Tom replaced, going over and coming here and...
CONN: He`s coming to Chicago. He`s coming here.
BECK: Oh, my gosh, and then he`s giving a speech at our National Cathedral in Washington, D.C. That`s an outrage.
CONN: Yes, yes, it`s -- it is a bad thing. Although I think with Jesse Jackson, and I agree with you, I mean, when he goes over he can get things done, but I think when he`s going over to try to rescue Americans it`s always embarrassing to whoever`s in power at the time that a private citizen goes over and -- and...
BECK: Why do you think they cut a deal? That`s why they cut a deal. I don`t care if it`s a Republican or a Democrat, whoever`s in power, those people are trying to make them look like I won`t deal with your president, but I`ll deal with this guy, who doesn`t matter.
CONN: Right. Right. Exactly. And then what happens here is he goes over there, and now the FOX guys are out. So he`s left just with just Israeli soldiers and I think Hamas and Hezbollah are like what are you doing here? You are?
BECK: Right. I`m the president of the Rainbow Coalition.
All right. We`ve got about 40 seconds. What else do you have?
CONN: OK. Radio Shack laid of 400 employees this week by e-mail. Now, actually...
BECK: You have a problem with that? What, do you have a heart?
CONN: I don`t have a problem with it, because it beats going into work to get fired, I think.
BECK: That is true. That is true. You know, it`s always a bad sign when they say to you, "Hey, can I see you Friday? And bring a cardboard box with you, will you?"
Roe, thanks a lot. WLS, 890 AM in Chicago. We`ll talk to you again.
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BECK: All right, welcome to "The Real Story." This is where we try to cut through the media spin, try to figure out exactly why a story is important.
First up tonight, the story of the two FOX journalists who were recently released by a group of Palestinian militants who had been holding them hostage. I want you to listen carefully to what Steve Centanni, one of the journalists, had to say after their release.
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STEVE CENTANNI, FOX NEWS CORRESPONDENT: I just hope this never scares a single journalist away from coming to Gaza to cover this story, because the Palestinian people are a very beautiful, kind-hearted, loving people, who the world needs to know more about. And so do not be discouraged. Come and tell the story. It`s a wonderful story.
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BECK: You know, here`s the real story tonight. I can`t help but hear those words and wonder why there is such an enormous double standard in the world, you know? Think about it. If a Palestinian journalist came to the United States and some whack job kidnapped him, held him hostage at gunpoint, forced him to convert to Christianity, do you really think that the first thing he`d be saying after his release was, "This country really needs to better understand the U.S." or "They`re really just beautiful and kindhearted people. It`s just a small percentage of American extremists who are bad"?
I don`t think so. It`s a double standard. But you know what? It`s one of our own doing. And deep down, if you really think about it, it`s one that we should actually be proud of. We hold ourselves to a higher standard than the rest of the world, and that is just one of the many things that makes this country so great in the first place.
Now, you probably haven`t seen very many headlines lately about Congress debating, let alone passing, any sort of immigration reform bill, and it ain`t going to happen. Part of the problem is that Congress has virtually the entire month of August off. That`s great.
But the bigger problem is, most of the leaders just -- they don`t have the cojones, a Spanish word for guts, to fix the problem once and for all. You know, for most of them, it`s just about politics, and they are so blinded by the enormity of this threat.
So tonight, I want to show them and you the real story about the threats of illegal immigration, in the form of some video that apparently no other media wants to air.
What you`re looking at is a protest in the small town of Maywood, California. It is just south of Los Angeles. The town is 96 percent Hispanic, and it is estimated that half of the 28,000 residents are illegal aliens because the city council has made the town, quote, "an official sanctuary," end quote, for them.
Last Saturday, about 500 pro-immigrant demonstrators protested against what they called "the racists." Look at the signs. Where are the racist ones? They were confronted by pro-American groups who showed up to rally against them.
Well, as things started to heat up, a group of the anti-racist protesters, some of whom obscured their faces with bandanas, raised this: the Mexican flag. Now, that pole is actually standing in front of the U.S. post office. That`s the post office pole. And they were in the streets chanting, "Whose streets? Our streets."
Others in the crowd carried signs reading -- you saw them -- "Stolen Continent," "Illegal European Invaders, Go Back to Europe," and, "We Didn`t Cross the Border; The Border Crossed Us."
Look, no matter what the media and the politicians try to make you believe, this is not about Maria and her kids coming here to make a better life for themselves. This is about a growing mentality -- in fact, a Zogby poll puts the number at 58 percent of Americans who now believe the southwest of America rightfully belongs to Mexico.
Have you ever heard people say that illegal immigration is like somebody breaking into your home and eating all your food? Well, I`m going to take it a couple of steps further. It`s like somebody breaking into your home, and eating your food, and then complaining how it tastes, then using your pool, and sleeping in your bed, all the while telling you that they belong there because they used to camp on this property before you built your house there.
This is an invasion! It may be a silent one; it may be a slow one; but it is an invasion nonetheless. And if you want it stopped, you`ve got to act.
Now, I think our next guest just might disagree just a little bit. His name is Juan Hernandez, former member of Vicente Fox administration.
Juan, how do you feel about what I just showed the American people?
JUAN HERNANDEZ, FORMER MEMBER OF VICENTE FOX ADMINISTRATION: Well, first of all, my dear friend, I think that we need to bring the passion down just two or three notches.
BECK: Wait a minute...
HERNANDEZ: You and I have been able to discuss other topics before, and you`re a very intelligent person, and we`re able to get a little punches in, but we`re talking about wonderful people in this nation who are willing to give even their lives for this nation, like yours truly, and suddenly we`re becoming invaders of this nation.
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BECK: Sir, stop being a politician.
HERNANDEZ: I`m not a politician.
BECK: I have respect for you -- yes, you are -- I have respect for you, but let`s talk facts. We`re not talking about Maria coming over with her kids to make a better life.
HERNANDEZ: Yes, we are.
BECK: We are talking about -- no, sir. Sir, we are talking about people who are standing in the street right now hoisting up -- what was it, Mexican Flag Day at the U.S. post office? -- hoisting the flag, holding up signs, calling me a racist, saying that I don`t belong here...
HERNANDEZ: You, a racist? I`ll never.
BECK: Come on. Juan, respond to what they were doing.
HERNANDEZ: My response is that, look, I can`t believe the kinds of things that Pat Buchanan was saying on your show, saying that, well, the nachos are taking over, and you`re no longer eating hot dogs...
BECK: You are -- come on.
HERNANDEZ: ... and in one little town, they prefer nachos and they raise one little Mexican flag (INAUDIBLE) this invasion.
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BECK: In any town, sir. You know it, and I know it, Juan. This is not one...
HERNANDEZ: This is not an invasion, my friend.
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HERNANDEZ: Is it invasion having streets called "San Antonio" or towns? That`s not invasion.
BECK: I can`t have a dialogue with you.
HERNANDEZ: Sure, you can.
BECK: No, I cannot, sir. I can`t have a dialogue with you because you`re spinning. You`re just being a politician. You know it, and I know it, Juan, that this is not one town. You will not even recognize that there are those here in our country, unlike people who just want to come here and make a better life for themselves, there are people in our country that are trying to reclaim our land. Admit it or not, sir. Which is it?
HERNANDEZ: OK, I let you finish your sentence. Let me finish one or two sentences. Will you, my friend?
BECK: Go ahead.
HERNANDEZ: I think that, just a few months ago, people were saying, "Our borders are broken. We have to make sure that none of those terrorists come through the borders in Mexico." Now, it`s really what causes some fear in my heart and in my mind, is now we`re starting to think that those 41 million Hispanics, just because some are dark -- and, by the way, this Hispanic isn`t very dark -- but they are a threat to this nation.
We would die for this nation. Just because in one little town someone raised a Mexican flag doesn`t mean the rest of us don`t love this country.
BECK: That is so -- I mean, you are absolutely amazing. A picture is worth a thousand words. Show the pictures again, please. Roll the video. Roll the video of the crowds of people that -- "Your Forefathers were Illegal," we were slave-owners, we were butchers. Come on, "We`re invaders"? "Go back to Europe"? "No borders, no bombs, no bosses"? Please, stop the denial that you`re living in, Juan.
HERNANDEZ: No, let`s show the video of those of us who are Hispanics who are in Iraq dying for democracy. Let`s show the video of the people that are working in the fields in this nation. Let`s show those videos, not of one little town and a few people that prefer nachos over hot dogs.
BECK: Absolutely unbelievable. Thank you very much. I appreciate it.
That tonight is our "Real Story." If you see something on the news and you`re thinking to yourself how the media just completely missed the mark on it, I want you to e-mail it to me, along with what you think the real story is by writing to realstory@glennbeck.com.
All right, let`s go "Straight to Hill" with Erica Hill, the anchor of "PRIME NEWS" on Headline News.
Hello, Erica.
ERICA HILL, CNN HEADLINE NEWS ANCHOR: Hello, Glenn. Are you OK?
BECK: It`s been a -- it`s been a rough few minutes. What do you have for us, anything happy or anything?
HILL: Happy, happy...
BECK: No, not so much.
HILL: I mean, I have something happy, but we don`t have the video for it.
BECK: OK. What do you have?
HILL: The unhappy. Well, hopefully it will lead to more strict regulations actually so this won`t happen again, so we`ll look at it in a positive light in that respect.
The air traffic controller we`re learning who was on duty the morning Comair Flight 5191 crashed had just had only two hours of sleep before his shift. He`d been off for nine hours between shifts, and that actually does meet federal requirements. They have to have at least eight hours between shifts.
But the FAA also requires two air traffic controllers in the tower at all times. He was the only one on duty. He reportedly did clear 5191 for take-off on the correct runway but didn`t see it turn on the wrong runway, because he turned around to do something else.
BECK: Yes, Erica, we have had a lot of pilots write us on "The Real Story," and we`re looking into it now, saying that there are a lot of safety regulations because of 9/11 that have been good to make us safe in one way, made things much more dangerous in this very way with our pilots. And we may be using that as a real story coming up soon.
Thank you so much, Erica.
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BECK: What if I told you that just for $1.7 billion I could put you into some really sweet transportation? I mean, sure, it was designed in 1972 and, OK, maybe she`s got a few miles under the hood, but this baby gets 12 feet per gallon on the highway. And you know how much we all care about the environment these days.
As you might`ve guessed, I`m talking about the space shuttle. But today, NASA has selected the contractor to build the next-generation of Orion class space vehicles. It`s going to take over when the space shuttle finally retires in 2010. Wow, that`s weird to say that, 2010.
Gene Cernan is former NASA astronaut and the last man to leave a boot print on the moon.
Gene, how are you, sir?
GENE CERNAN, COMMANDER, APOLLO 17: I am fine. How are you today?
BECK: I am very good. Tell me, I think a lot of people would say we`ve got a lot of stuff going on. We`re just putting cash out like crazy. Why should we go to the moon or go into space and continue to do this?
CERNAN: Oh, golly, I don`t know if we have enough time, maybe just because it`s there. But, you know, I think our nation needs another major goal for generations to follow, like we had during Apollo. Those were pretty dreary years during the `60s. And Apollo, if you think back -- Glenn, I don`t know how old you are, but it sure gave our country something to hold on head high on. We`re the leaders of the free world. And the way we`re going to maintain being the leaders of the free world is to get back out there where we belong.
BECK: OK. I know that everybody is rushing to the moon. There`s quite a few people out there that don`t think we went in the first place, but they`re rushing to the moon. I know that China is trying to get to the moon. Everybody is. Why are we getting back to the moon? Why did we -- if it was so important now, why did we stop going in the first place?
CERNAN: Well, in my estimation, although the -- well, that`s a good question. I`d like to know that, too. When I left the moon 35 years ago, I really thought we`d probably be back within a decade and on our way to Mars by the turn of the century. I was a little disappointed, but we will go back, and I think today was a major step in that direction.
BECK: But why? Why? Why is it we have to go back? What are we looking for?
CERNAN: Well, curiosity, to me, is the essence of human existence. We all want to know who are we, where we are, where is this planet going, where has been? Was Mars like Earth? You know, we can talk about the technological spin-offs and the research that`s done on the way to get us back to the moon and eventually on to Mars.
Maybe it`s because we are who we are. We`re human beings. We desire to know something about the unknown. The greatest unknown that surrounds us is the universe, is this universe in which we live. And we`re really -- you know, having been to the moon a couple of times, I can tell you we`re a very, very beautiful but small part of it.
BECK: I will tell you that I brought my kids -- now, this is summer, as I`m putting my daughter in school, into college next week, and we were talking this summer about all the favorite things that we`ve done. On the top three of all of my kids` lists of the things that we`ve done, is we went to watch a space shuttle take off at 3:00 or 4:00 in the morning.
It is truly a wonder of the world. It is so awe-inspiring to see that thing lift off. I don`t know if -- I mean, if because we`re curious and it`s cool is a big enough reason, you know, to go and do it, but, you know, to each his own, I guess. What do you say to those people who say you never went to the moon?
CERNAN: I knew you`d get there from here.
BECK: Well, I mean, no, no, no -- I mean, I had a guy -- total nut job, in my estimation -- he says we never went on.
CERNAN: You know, I know. They`ve been around for four or five years. I`ve had a couple encounters with them myself. The truth needs, quite frankly, needs no defense, and in a way I really feel sorry for them, because they miss one of the greatest adventures in humankind, as far as I`m concerned. And I don`t know where they think I went. I don`t know -- and I`ve been there a couple of times. Where did that Saturn 5 go? You know, I`ve never found a good answer for that question, but I don`t think it needs one.
BECK: Well, that`s because you`re making it up, Gene.
CERNAN: Oh, yes, we put all though shadows out there in Hollywood.
BECK: Sir, best of luck, and thank you so much for all of your service to our country.
CERNAN: Thank you, but I just want to say that this is really a significant day in the future of America. And I really believe it.
BECK: Good. Thank you, sir.
CERNAN: Thank you.
BECK: All right. Now a guy that I would like to put into a capsule and shoot him out into the moon, Brian Sack, our public viewer.
BRIAN SACK, PUBLIC VIEWER: No, no, no, you can`t shoot me to the moon.
BECK: Where have you been?
SACK: I was in Poland.
BECK: What do you do for a living?
SACK: I was over in Poland. I was with my wife and child who are out there. She visits her family, and I go out there, and I drink vodka and eat chocolate...
BECK: So you were in France...
SACK: ... and play with ostriches.
BECK: ... and in Poland?
SACK: Yes.
BECK: It`s like the Nazi tour.
SACK: It is the Nazi tour. Yes, but I`m doing it backwards. I went to France first and then Poland second. I should have done it the other way.
BECK: All right, so...
SACK: But I got you presents.
BECK: You did?
SACK: Yes.
BECK: Is there anything I could break? The last time when you went to France...
SACK: No, I got something you couldn`t break on purpose.
BECK: What is that?
SACK: It says, "Don`t drink beer in front of the store."
BECK: OK.
SACK: So I thought...
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BECK: That`s good. That`s good. I`m an alcoholic. That might be a good thing for the office.
SACK: And then I got you this. I don`t know if you can actually read this here. It`s straight deodorant, straight. I figure, if you`re going to wear the pink sweaters and stuff, you can at least use the straight deodorant. And I got you a chocolate bar.
BECK: Is there a reason why you`re on?
SACK: Hmm?
BECK: Is there a reason why you`re -- do you know how much airtime costs on this network?
SACK: Well, the door was open. I kind of wandered in off the streets.
BECK: Is that what it is?
SACK: I do have some things I noticed when I got back.
BECK: All right, yes?
SACK: I mean, I was gone for two weeks. And August 22nd, I`m not sure what happened. I haven`t caught up to the TiVo on that one.
BECK: Sure. The world ended.
SACK: Oh, that`s -- damn. So anyway, yes, I found your kryptonite. I know the Glenn Beck kryptonite.
BECK: All right. What is it?
SACK: It`s a very old Jewish man named Jackie Mason.
BECK: What do you mean? We had a nice...
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JACKIE MASON, COMEDIAN: time I`ve got a problem, you find a pleasure in it?
BECK: Yes, pretty much.
MASON: I`m furious, and you`re enjoying yourself. So you must have an anti-Semitic tendency.
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SACK: Can`t get a word in.
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MASON: How could you enjoy the fact that I`m having such a miserable experience here?
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SACK: He`s not letting you say anything.
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BECK: Right. And you`re a...
MASON: They decided I`m merely a gentile.
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SACK: Nothing. It`s like talking to Glenn Beck.
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MASON: All of a sudden, I`m something else that I never knew.
BECK: OK, so you`re...
MASON: So, of course, I fought for Christmas.
BECK: What is it that...
MASON: Because, since the Roosevelt era -- "It doesn`t look nice. I have to pretend I`m really not making this much money.
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SACK: You had four words in that whole interview.
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MASON: And if I am, I have to pretend I`m giving it away.
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BECK: OK.
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MASON: ... you`re not intelligent enough to follow the conversation.
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SACK: He stream-rolled you.
BECK: It really was. It was like doing an interview with me.
SACK: Yes. It was like looking in the mirror.
BECK: Right.
SACK: Which I imagine you do every now and then.
BECK: I don`t think -- what do you mean? Was that a -- like Jackie Mason?
SACK: Moving on. Well, speaking of self-appreciation...
BECK: Yes?
SACK: ... I noticed -- this is -- we pulled archival footage from another show here. Look at this, you`re finishing your show. Oh, clapping for Glenn. Happy.
BECK: I actually am clapping for the crew.
SACK: Hey, show`s over. Hey, good for Glenn. Look at me. Hey, everybody. Let`s go get ice cream.
BECK: Wait, there`s ice cream involved?
SACK: Hey, maybe.
BECK: I`m suddenly interested.
SACK: I noticed something -- I got -- was it last night, Michael Gross?
BECK: Yes.
SACK: I love this guy, and it was a talk-to-the-hand moment. Check this out. Just talk to the -- hey, sister, you just calm down right now and listen to my point of view.
BECK: It was. It was. I think he was trying to spank me there.
SACK: I love this guy.
BECK: Yes, I do, too.
SACK: He`d make a good principal.
BECK: Brian, we`ve got to run. Thank you so much.
SACK: You have to run. OK, talk to you later. PublicViewer@GlennBeck.com.
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BECK: All right, we`re going to get to your mail in a second, but first let`s check in with Nancy Grace to see what`s coming on tonight`s show -- Nancy?
NANCY GRACE, HOST: Glenn, he confessed to the murder of 6-year-old beauty queen JonBenet Ramsey, but DNA and secret tapes show John Mark Karr, while not a killer, is a clear and present threat, a predator of our children from Alabama to Petaluma, California, to Boulder, Colorado, all the way to Thailand. Tonight, we put out the alert.
BECK: Don`t forget, you can check out Nancy at 8:00 and 10:00 p.m. Eastern tonight.
Now, let`s get right to "Ask Glenn."
From Darrin in San Antonio, he writes, "Hey, Glenn, I`m freaked out by the possibility of Iran, terrorism, oil, the border, everything else going on in the world, but it`s Labor Day weekend. Can you give me something, anything to distract me for at least a few seconds?
Darrin, I`ve got to tell you, I don`t blame you. So here`s a distraction for you. As you may know, I do my radio show every day right above Radio City Music Hall. It`s right here in Manhattan, and that`s the home of tonight`s MTV Video Music Awards.
As I walk into work the other day, not only do I see big signs everywhere about the VMAs, there`s really -- I`m not kidding you -- SWAT teams for security all over the place. I mean, SWAT, for the Video Music Awards, two days in advance, really? I mean, if the VMAs are the biggest target we have left, oh, I think we can safely lower the threat level from yellow all the way to clear.
You know, I`m glad to see that we have our priorities in this country, I mean, because if we can`t provide a safe venue for Shakira to sing that super classic "Hips Don`t Lie," well, then what kind of America have we really turned into? I mean, if Whitney Houston and Bobby Brown were showing up, I could see extra protection, but that would be for the citizens of New York.
While the ratings have dropped in recent years, the VMAs are still one of the most-watched awards among younger viewers -- those kids these days - - mainly because of idiots in the news kissing each other. First it was Mr. and Mrs. Michael Jackson -- right -- then later, Madonna, Britney, and Christina. And I think it`s time to bring back that gimmick.
You know? I think there should be a nice kiss between President Tom and Captain Highpants. Oh, yes. I mean, I`m not an MTV executive, but I am a thinker. Who wouldn`t watch that? I wonder which one would be the dominant one? But that`s a different story.
On tomorrow`s radio program, anything you want to talk about. I mean, it`s a long weekend coming up. I`m in vacation mode. I mean, you really don`t think I`m going to plan something do you? See you on the radio tomorrow and back here tomorrow night. See you then.
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