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Should We Divest in Venezuela?; Pat Buchanan Weighs in on Border Security

Aired September 21, 2006 - 19:00   ET

THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED.

GLENN BECK, HOST: Thanks so much for watching us tonight. Coming up, our enemies are planning to destroy America, but are they doing it from the inside?
Plus, the one and only Pat Buchanan is here. You will not believe who`s taking over our border security. That is next.

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ANNOUNCER: Tonight`s program is brought to you by Chavios, the delicious new Venezuelan breakfast cereal made from 100 percent crude oil and bits of real sulfur. Chavios, from the makers of Ahmadinejad Crunch.

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BECK: Maybe it`s just me, but it seems like the whole world has gone insane. This week, has it been crazy?

First, Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez craps all over America in his U.N. speech yesterday. And then today, he follows that up by going to Harlem to generously offer deep, deep-discounted oil to New York`s low- income families. Watch this. I love this. There he is. What a nice guy. And that is a -- that`s a sweet red outfit. It comes from the John Mark Karr collection, I understand.

Here`s tonight`s point. After 9/11, I said that the only way our enemies could really defeat us was from the inside. I believe that`s exactly what`s going on here. Armies are being built within our borders, and Chavez is just one of the guys pulling the strings.

Now, that`s quite a statement to make, so hear me out. Here`s how I got there.

This week, three things have really stood out to me. The first, the media. I mean, the media has basically ignored all of the America-bashing at the United Nations this week.

Don`t -- I mean, don`t get me wrong. Sure, they showed Chavez deliver his zany one-liners, but they dismissed him as a clown. The guy is not a clown.

The second thing, we had a guy from the Homeland Security Policy Institute who -- who had just testified in Congress this week. He told us how our prison systems are being used to recruit Muslims to terrorism. That is a potential army of 120,000.

Three, Chavez`s visit to Harlem and his promise of cheap oil. This guy is borrowing a page right from his buddy Ahmadinejad`s book, when he promised to build houses for the Palestinians in Lebanon. You remember that? Same story. Chavez is buying foot-soldiers one gallon at a time.

Here`s the thing. I think we`re helping him. Many of our naval bases are supplied by Citgo. You go on a naval base, there`s a Citgo gas station. Citgo just happens to be, in case you don`t know, partially owned by the Venezuelan government. A percentage of each barrel of oil we buy from Citgo goes right into Chavez`s pockets.

Everybody here is always saying we should investigate these companies, Exxon and Mobil. How much money are they making? Where`s that money going? Well, let me ask you this. How about investigating Citgo? And you know how much they made this year? Forty-one billion dollars. You know how much Venezuela`s state oil profits were this? One billion dollars a month. And they spent $10 billion this year on their military.

Now I don`t know about you, but I would much rather have that money go to a fat cat executive than to a crazy dictator who wants to destroy us. And make no mistake, Chavez does want to destroy America. Forget about all the cute little jokes that he made at the U.N. roast yesterday.

Ahmadinejad has called Chavez a "brother and a trench mate". They have made a treaty. IN fact, they`re in 80 treaties, I believe, together. One of them basically says that Iran and Venezuela will be allies if either one is ever in a conflict with America.

Here was their message to us this summer.

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HUGO CHAVEZ, PRESIDENT OF VENEZUELA: (speaking foreign language)

GRAPHIC: I say today: "God, send bolts of lightning from Your hands upon the monsters."

MAHMOUD AHMADINEJAD, PRESIDENT OF IRAN: (speaking foreign language)

GRAPHIC: Allah willing.

CHAVEZ: (speaking foreign language)

GRAPHIC: Allah willing.

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BECK: Chavez has also said that he is -- he`s convinced that America is afraid of independent voices, yet he just threw one of his own cabinet members, in fact the cabinet minister in jail for disagreeing with him on TV. The guy is spending six years in prison.

Chavez is also buddy-buddy with Cuba. He funnels billions of dollars, and if I may make a prediction, I believe he`s going to make a move on Cuba when Castro dies.

But what`s really disturbing thing is that some of our own politicians are in league with this guy. Congressman Joe Kennedy, he has a non-profit Citizens Energy Corps Group. It`s said to have been hired by Chavez and will distribute the Citgo oil to New Yorkers.

Our politicians are failing us. They`ll do anything they have to do with anybody in order to get elected. So here`s what I know tonight.

First, since our politicians won`t do it, it`s time for you to make a choice. If you are driving down the street and you see a Citgo sign, remember that what you`d spend there goes right to Hugo Chavez, an evil guy who`s made a pact with President Tom. Your money could go to weapons that will be used against us. I am not calling for a boycott. I`m just asking you to be informed and then make a choice.

I also know that our politicians need to make a choice, as well. They need to put our interests ahead of their own and get out of bed with this nut job.

Charlie Rangel, who is going to be with us here in just a second, he did that today. I got to tell you, I applauded when I listened to him, and we don`t really get along on a lot of things.

We also need to get the Citgo stations off our naval bases. The government says we can`t break these contracts. Bull crap. Break the freaking contracts.

Here`s what I don`t know. I don`t why we`re letting Chavez waltz right through Harlem. I understand the U.N., the diplomatic immunity, blah blah blah, but he`s trying to destroy us, and he`s doing it from within, and our leaders are helping him do it.

New York Congressman Charles Rangel, like I said, a guy I wouldn`t ordinarily agree with -- in fact, I don`t think I`ve ever agreed with this man. He joins us now.

Congressman, thank you very much for what you said today. I saw your press conference earlier, and you and I, I don`t think I`ve ever agreed with a darn word that`s ever spilled out of your mouth, but thank you for being an American today and uniting on principals and letting our divisions be policy.

REP. CHARLIE RANGEL (D), NEW YORK: Well, let me say this. I`ve been an American every day for 76 years. I fought for this country. I got shot for this country. So it`s really no profile of courage what I`ve done today, but I appreciate your support.

BECK: Well, you know, it seems to me that it is profiles in courage, because it`s -- it`s what`s missing, I think, in politics today. You know, Democrats don`t want to say, "Hey, the Republicans have this right," and Republicans don`t want to say, "The Democrats have this wrong -- you know, this right."

They just yell at each other and everybody. You`re just bad Americans if you disagree. And I think it`s important once in a while to say, wait a minute. Somebody who I disagree with on policies, I agree with here. And I think it is a profile in courage in today`s politics.

RANGEL: No, it is true that we`ve gone too partisan in the Congress and in the country, but it`s like any family. They can have a sincere disagreement, but that doesn`t that people outside of the family can participate in that.

And my point was that you don`t come to my country and my congressional district and criticize my president, because he is elected for all of us. And therefore in criticizing him, you`re criticizing not only all Americans, but those in my district.

BECK: There were two people that -- two points of view with Chavez, and one that he`s a clown; and the other is he`s a threat to America. Which camp do you fall in?

RANGEL: I don`t think that either one is true. I -- I really think that both the President Bush and Chavez, exchanging these remarks back and forth, without having a diplomatic exchange, and this country being so dependent on oil, especially Venezuelan oil, I think is wrong.

I think that Chavez is attempting to become a leader in Central and South America. And I only hope and wish that we had some stable love and affection for America in these areas, so that people like this couldn`t succeed where people are in such desperate need.

BECK: So are you seeing a guy who has signed 80 treaties with Iran, one of them is an attack on Iran would be an attack on Venezuela, a guy who is calling for the destruction of our country, is not a threat?

RANGEL: Well, let me say this. The president of the United States says that he`s not going to talk with the people of Iran. We have no diplomatic relationship with the people in Cuba. We -- we have shaky relations...

BECK: Hold on. Hold on just a second. I just want to point out; it`s not just this president. I believe the first one was started by Carter, and the second one was started by JFK. So I mean, it`s -- there`s been a long history of this.

RANGEL: There has been, but during the Clinton administration, if Castro had not stupidly shot down those planes thrown by the Cubans, we would have come a long way toward normalization.

But, what -- you know, your questions are on point. I just wanted to make it abundantly clear that I can have my concerns about President Bush, foreign policy, and domestic policy. It has nothing to do with anyone coming here, spitting on my president and my flag. We who are elected have a constitutional responsibility to drive oversight over the executive branch. That is not Hugo Chavez. It`s not Castro. It`s not anyone else.

BECK: Congressman, thank you very much. I appreciate it. Thanks for your time.

RANGEL: Thank you.

BECK: Coming up, are we really at the point where we need to privatize it our border security? I`ll talk to Pat Buchanan about that.

And a Texas school celebrates Mexican Independence Day with a Pledge of Allegiance that has the community up in an uproar.

And later, an update on the story we brought you last night about the next play in Osama`s terror book. Do not miss it.

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BECK: I read a story today about the gas prices, and they`ve actually done a study that George Bush`s poll numbers actually rise and fall almost identically with the gas prices. That`s insane.

And then I read some Democratic strategist who said, "And as soon as they start pulling terror out of the closet, everybody starts to say the president is" -- like they`re making this terror stuff up.

I`m so sick of politics. You know, I told you on this program, please don`t vote for the Democrats. Don`t vote for the Republicans. Don`t vote for the independents. Vote for the Americans.

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BECK: I told you yesterday about a possible massive al Qaeda attack right here in the U.S. And this, let me show you the face of the guy who could be behind it.

His name he`s known as, at least, Jafer the pilot. He is wanted by the FBI and may be leading this new attack. Coming up, we have some new information, including the FBI`s response to our questions on this. Please keep an eye out for Jafer the Pilot.

I`ve been saying all along that our crappy border security system is one of the five elements in the perfect storm that could lead to our doom. Jafer the Pilot, according to our sources, smuggled in a weapon of mass destruction across the Mexican border. True or not, unfortunately, we may find out.

Our borders are now being outsourced to aircraft manufacturing giant Boeing. I don`t even know how we got there on this one. Is this a good thing or not?

Pat Buchanan, he is the author of a brand new book called "State of Emergency: The Third World Invasion and Conquest of America". Will Boeing be able to stop someone smuggling in a nuke, Pat?

PAT BUCHANAN, AUTHOR, "STATE OF EMERGENCY": I don`t know. They`re talking about putting a guard tower once every -- I don`t know how many miles it is along the 2,000 miles of border. Maybe once every 10 miles.

Glenn, look. We`ve got to get serious about this. We had six million people try to break in on George Bush`s watch. Clearly, you have trucks coming in with -- with narcotics and with illegal aliens, and they could bring in a weapon of mass destruction.

You need a security fence along the entire 2,000 miles of the border, period, paragraph. I think we`ve waited too long to get that done.

BECK: Yes, I fear that we are going to really pay for this. Would Jafer the Pilot and the latest coming in from al Qaeda, an al Qaeda source that we talked to last night, where he said that they`ve smuggled something in across the border.

How is it nobody in Congress seems to be able to understand that this is not about Hispanic votes? This is about national security.

BUCHANAN: I think it`s about national survival, too, when you`ve got more illegal aliens here than all the Irish and Jewish and English folks who ever came in our history. But you`re exactly right.

I do think this, Glenn. The House of Representatives, especially the Republican Party, and scores of Democrats seem to get it. They`re going for border security. So are many conservative Republicans in the Senate.

The president also now seems about to go along grudgingly. I don`t know why it`s grudgingly, but we do seem to be making progress because, Glenn, I think we`ve got the country with us on this.

BECK: Yes, you know, I`m telling you, Pat, I mean, I don`t want to get into politics, because I`m just bored by politics. But I don`t understand how politicians don`t see this as a huge win for them.

I think -- I think the real -- at least with conservatives, one of the main issues with their frustration is how can you not see this? How can you not be with the country? Eighty percent agree.

BUCHANAN: Politics are now with us. Eighty percent agree. In addition to that, Glenn, in this Proposition 200 in Arizona which cuts off all social welfare benefits, unless you can prove you belong in the United States, 47 percent of Hispanics voted for Prop 200. That`s a higher share of the Hispanic vote than Bush ever got.

BECK: So, Pat, let me -- let me switch gears here, kind of, to Chavez. Chavez was in Harlem today. He`s in this church, and he sees some American Indians, some Native Americans there sitting in a pew, and he looks at them and says, "You are the real owners of this land."

This is the same kind of thing that we`re hearing from the people coming in illegally under the cover of night, illegally into your country. Is it not?

BUCHANAN: Glenn, let me tell you. I have a chapter called "Return to Tribalism". It is about the new racism, in the western hemisphere, in the United States, and it is deeply anti-white. And Morales in Bolivia says the same thing as Chavez, which is, "We are the indigenous people. The occupiers came 500 years ago, which is exactly the time of Columbus. This land is our land. We`ve got superior rights. This is the bronze continent. We are the bronze people. The Europeans can go back home."

And even a Democratic state chairman in California said Prop 187 is the last gasp of white America in the United States. And others have said they`re going back to Europe.

The anti-white racism is mounting, and it`s all in that chapter, "The Return to Tribalism". Americans better wake up.

BECK: Pat, I tell you, I`ve read your book twice, and I agree with a lot of the things that you point out in there. Very good. Thank you very much for your work.

Now you know, the wonderful government agency in charge of our borders, the Office of Homeland Security, well, they haven`t exactly had what you`d call a stellar record. But maybe it`s not completely their fault. My advice to them, if I may be so bold: maybe you just need better P.R.

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ANNOUNCER: The Department of Homeland Security wants you to know that our borders are more secure than ever. Our trained Border Patrol agents are working 24/7 to insure that nobody crosses our borders illegally, without first coming to a complete stop and looking both ways.

To the north, our new border kiosks, based fully on the honor system, will do for border security what self check-out lanes have done for the American shopper.

Then just a reminder, school is back, so remember to cross carefully.

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ANNOUNCER: This is GLENN BECK.

BECK: Also, this month in my magazine, "Fusion", we kick off our end of civilization fantasy league. This is where we have drafted world leaders who we think are going to make the most progress towards bringing down the west by the end of the NFL season. You can play right along with us.

There`s just one day left to order this issue, so log on to GlennBeck.com or call 888-Glenn-Beck right now. Back in a minute.

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BECK: Every day you can hear my radio program on stations all across the country, including 560 WVOC in Columbia, South Carolina. By the way, if you can`t find an affiliate in your area, please sign up to listen online at my web site, GlennBeck.com.

Now, Pat Gray is on our affiliate in Houston, Texas, 950 KPRC. He`s also my best friend.

Hi, Pat.

PAT GRAY, RADIO TALK SHOW HOST: Hi, Glenn.

BECK: I read a story about the Pledge of Allegiance to the flag of Mexico.

GRAY: Right.

BECK: Can you fill America in on this story?

GRAY: Yes. In Freeport, there`s an -- there`s an elementary school, Velasco Elementary, where they had a big assembly. And last Friday at about 10 a.m. they had all the kids stand up and -- now, here`s where the story diverges a little bit.

BECK: Yes.

GRAY: Some of the parents say all the kids recited the Pledge of Allegiance to Mexico. The school administrators just say it was a group of students or parent volunteers who recited the pledge, but everybody stood up and paid homage to the flag.

BECK: That`s great.

GRAY: So yes. Isn`t that nice?

BECK: Did blood start to shoot out of your eyes at any point?

GRAY: At every point. At every point in this story.

BECK: Yes.

GRAY: You know, it`s gotten so, I mean, we can barely recite our own pledge. And we`re teaching our kids to recite the Mexican pledge? It`s all about diversity, you know? We worship at the altar of diversity.

BECK: You know, it`s amazing. I was -- we were just talking to Pat Buchanan here a few minutes ago. And Hugo Chavez got up today in a -- in a church in Harlem, and he saw a couple of Native Americans, and he looked at them and said, "You are the real owners of this continent."

I mean, this is being sold to so many people, and we are not standing up and -- and stopping the nonsense.

GRAY: No, we`re doing the opposite. We`re teaching our kids that this is great, that being different is great. We all want to be different. We all want to bring our separate languages or separate cultures, or separate sexual orientations.

If we could just find, say, a Spanish-speaking homosexual pygmy from a tribe in New Guinea, we`d probably build that person a monument, but it would just have -- it would have to be a little one, you know? It wouldn`t take very long.

BECK: I don`t think -- I don`t think that that`s necessary.

GRAY: It`s everything now. Diversity is everywhere.

BECK: You know what? You and I talked about. It was, what, two years ago on Fourth of July. I went to the Fourth of July celebration in Philadelphia, and Elton John was there, right there in front of the art museum with the Rocky steps, in Philadelphia, nation`s first capital, and not one time did they mention the Fourth of July and independence.

In fact, he at one point said, "It`s great. This is the largest audience for an AIDS benefit ever." And we`re all looking at each other on our picnic blankets and going, "We come every Fourth of July for the Fourth of July concert."

That same year you were in Houston at another Fourth of July concert and what did you see?

GRAY: Mexican music being played everywhere, Mexican flags being flown and waved everywhere. We celebrate every culture, every language but our own.

BECK: It makes -- you know what? It makes me want to stop drinking Corona. And not a lot makes me want to stop drinking Corona, well, besides my faith and the alcoholism, but that`s a whole different story.

GRAY: Sure. Sure.

BECK: Pat, thanks a lot.

GRAY: All right. Thanks.

BECK: We`ll talk to you again. From Houston, Pat Gray.

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BECK: Welcome to "The Real Story." This is where we try to cut through the media spin and try to figure out why a story is actually important to you.

Today, Richard Branson -- sorry, Sir Richard Branson -- of Virgin Air and, of course, failed hot air balloon ride fame, announced that he is committing $3 billion to fighting global warming over the next 10 years. Thanks. No, seriously. Finally somebody who isn`t a hypocrite, somebody who`s putting their own money towards trying to solve a problem that they`re contributing to.

But the real story is -- and I hate to say it, Sir Richard -- you`re wasting a lot of cash, man. Now, hear me out, because I know there are people in the audience now, you know, watching, thinking, "Oh, it`s a big oil, big SUV, kill-all-the-polar-bears, conservative hatemonger there on my tube." Yes, well, that`s actually only partially right.

I actually do believe that global warming exists. Did you hear that? Global warming is real. My issue is whether or not we`re the ones causing it and, even if we are, what can you realistically do about it?

Now, you know why that probably sounds controversial is because all of the scientists who are out there saying, "Hold on, hold on, wait a second," when it comes to this stuff, their voice is never heard. It`s the other side, the fear-mongering side, the "Oh, we`re going to burn to death" side that gets the media attention and gets the grant money flowing.

For example, Bill Gray, he`s a respected scientist. He`s from Colorado State University. He recently said that global warming is due to natural changes in ocean circulation patterns and that, even if he`s wrong, there`s nothing humans can do to stop it. Unfortunately, the best he could do for a media platform -- you know, until now -- was a speech at the Larimer County Republican club breakfast in front of about 50 people.

Even the Montreal Protocol, which is the so-called gold standard that environmentalists point to as the most effective thing ever done to combat global warming, has plenty of dissenters that are never heard. Seventeen years ago when the treaty was first signed, countries like Switzerland began sounding the alarm bells, but nobody wanted to listen. Too bad, really, because Switzerland`s concerns that the treaty would actually cause more greenhouse gases have proven to be true.

In fact, two to three times more greenhouse gas has been created by the Montreal Protocol than the total amount of CO2 that the new landmark treaty, the Kyoto Protocol, is supposed to eradicate. Let me say it again: The most effective treaty ever signed has done more harm than good.

There are real problems in the world that can be cured with money and time and devoted scientists, things like AIDS, cancer, malaria. There`s a ton of things. If you really want to leave this world a better place, spend your money on those problems, not one where you might just end up making things worth.

Bjorn Lomborg, he is the author of "The Skeptical Environmentalist." He was once known as deep-green environmentalist, but now he switched sides. He believes our priorities are all mixed up.

Bjorn, what was it that changed your mind?

BJORN LOMBORG, PHD, AUTHOR, "THE SKEPTICAL ENVIRONMENTALIST": Well, Glenn, I thought everything was going to hell. I thought air pollution was getting worse, that our chemical load was causing explosive cancer rates. It turns out not to be true. And so, of course, you`ve got to start thinking and rethinking our understanding of the environment, and that applies particularly to climate change.

BECK: OK. So if you could -- because you -- I know, when I know a subject and I see people on TV, I start screaming at the TV. What is the thing that you scream at the TV, "Yes, but"? What`s the one thing, if you thought people knew, they would -- their eyes would open up?

LOMBORG: I`m afraid it`s not one thing, but I see your point. For instance, Al Gore tells us that sea level rise is going to, what, 20 feet. Of course, the U.N. climate panel, which I think is probably the best amount of science that we have behind the understanding of climate change, tells one foot.

And so it`s not very helpful for our understanding, saying, "It`s going to be 20 feet," when it`s more likely over the next century going to be one foot.

BECK: OK.

LOMBORG: It`s going to be a problem...

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BECK: Here is one of the things that have convinced me that global warming is happening. I mean, you look at the glaciers, and you see them melting. How do you explain that?

LOMBORG: Well, part of the melting is definitely due to the fact that we`re coming out of a little ice age, but you are also seeing at least an extended melt-off, so part of this is probably due to climate change now.

So, as you say, climate change is happening, but the real question we have to ask ourselves is: How much can we do against it? And how much is it going to cost?

We actually had some of the world`s top economists look at this, and their answer was it`s going to cost $150 billion a year trying to do the Kyoto Protocol, but it will do very little good. It will basically postpone global warming six years in 2100.

BECK: Tell me if this is true or not, because I don`t even know who to believe any more, that 2 percent of the glaciers are melting, but 98 percent of the glaciers are actually getting -- it`s getting colder, the caps.

LOMBORG: Yes, no, that`s not true. Most of the glaciers are actually melting. We don`t have a very good overview of the glaciers, and that`s why there can be these kinds of confusions. But it seems very likely that most of the glaciers are melting.

So, again, the point is most of the problems that we hear about climate change are actually true, but they get distorted in the sense that we hear much, much bigger stories than what`s real, and we forget to ask, "Well, what can we do about it?" As I told you, you know, it`s going to cost $150 billion to do virtually no good.

Let me just tell you what you could do. The U.N. actually tells us that, for half that amount of money, for $75 billion a year, we could solve all major basic problems. We could give clean drinking water, sanitation, basic health care, and education to every single human being on the planet now. And so my question is, do we want to spent twice as much money doing virtually no good 100 years from now, or do we want start spending half the money and doing immense amounts of good right now?

BECK: So is it just that people are wrong and just misguided, or is it some other, you know, conspiracy-type thing? And I`ve only got about 30 seconds.

LOMBORG: Yes, I think it`s simply because climate change has the much better pictures. You saw "The Day After Tomorrow," great movie, but it has nothing to do with the reality. But don`t expect to see another movie where you see Brad Pitt digging latrines in Tanzania or something. And likewise, you see Branson go with his $3 billion and say, "Let`s do something about climate change." But what did Warren Buffett do? What did Microsoft`s Bill Gates do? They`re actually spending on HIV and malaria and all the other things where we can do lots of good.

BECK: Bjorn, thank you very much.

LOMBORG: Thanks.

BECK: And as I mentioned earlier, the Kyoto Protocol, which the U.S. has been vilified for refusing to ratify, is considered to be the landmark treaty when it comes to stopping global warming, but what is the real story behind it? We did our homework. Watch.

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UNIDENTIFIED MALE (voice-over): And now...

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: ... what happened...

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BECK (voice-over): The Kyoto Treaty, Japanese movie or really bad document? Oh, don`t we all wish that it was some sort of movie with bad dialogue. But the Kyoto Protocol basically says the world has to reduce emissions by about 5 percent. Of course, with the projected increases, it`s really more like 29 percent come 2010.

Oh, why won`t we just sign it? Well, actually we did sign it; we just never ratified it. A technicality. Apparently, we hired a new president in between the two.

And now we`re the only country that won`t ratify it? No, but almost. Australia`s the other big name in the boat with us. Canada and Japan favored a more flexible treaty, but eventually ratified it anyway. Plus, there are about 15 other countries that just aren`t playing ball at all or have no position whatsoever.

I`m part of the 1 percent that`s undecided. The real question is: Why has everybody else ratified it? Yes, I hear places like India and China have already ratified it. Well, that`s because they really don`t have to do anything under it, so why not? It`s not affecting them at all.

China is the second-biggest emitter of greenhouse gases and is totally exempt from the treaty. Iceland under the treaty can actually increase emissions by 10 percent. Cut them some slack; they`re Iceland.

But my favorite story has to be Russia. They put the treaty over the edge by ratifying it. They`re required to decrease emissions by a whopping 0 percent. But, wait, it gets better. They have to keep their emissions to levels of 1990. Well, what`s happened since then? They went from superpower to out of power. So it`s almost impossible for them to go over the Kyoto levels.

And beyond that, Russia may be able to sell their emission credits for a profit. Don`t you just love capitalism?

So what`s our big problem with it? Hmm, maybe it could be the fact that the wealthy countries like us are forced to pay for the technology for climate-related activities for the other less-wealthy countries. Hey, that kind of sounds like global socialism.

Actually, the big reason is the economy. It`s going to cost us a fortune. Until developing nations are involved, it screws us, but it also forces us to help everybody else. That`s great!

Also, what most people fail to remember is that, in 1997, the Senate voted against diving into any treaty of this type that doesn`t keep all nations to the same standard. The vote was a tight one: 95-0. Nay. Nay. Nay. Nay. Nay. Nay. Nay. Nay. Nay. Nay. Nay. Nay. Nay. And nay.

But more than anything else, the bottom line is it`s a U.N. project, and U.N. projects suck.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: This has been...

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BECK: All right. Let`s go to "Straight to Hill," Erica Hill, the anchor of "PRIME NEWS" on Headline News.

Hi, Erica.

ERICA HILL, CNN HEADLINE NEWS ANCHOR: Hello there, Glenn. Nice to see you.

BECK: Good to see you.

HILL: One of your favorite people in the news today. I`m going to have to use him name. I`m sorry, but I`ll only use it once, how`s that?

BECK: Yes, Captain Highpants back in the news.

HILL: There`s your boy.

BECK: Yes.

HILL: Well, the computer at the center of the child pornography charges against John Mark Karr, or Captain Highpants, as you like to call him, is actually missing. After a two-week search, the sheriff`s office has declared it lost.

Now, the computer was originally seized five years ago. These charges, of course, in Sonoma County, California. Authorities say though, hey, missing computer ain`t going to jeopardize our case, because they say they copied the entire hard drive, including those five illicit photos, beforehand. On Tuesday, you may recall, prosecutors offered Karr a plea deal, saying they would waive three of the five charges if he pleaded guilty.

Karr maintains his innocence. The D.A., the assistant D.A., meantime says there`s absolutely no connection between this plea deal and that missing computer.

BECK: Yes, we have to remember, it`s from California, the home of the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals. Erica, thank you.

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BECK: All right. Yesterday, I told you about a developing story involving a U.S. citizen known as Jafer the Pilot. He`s an Al Qaeda cell leader. There he is on the screen. Take a look at this guy. Memorize this face. He has been missing and wanted by the FBI since 2003, but we now have reason to believe that he may be heading up a new, massive attack that is being planned inside the United States.

We went to the FBI with the information that we had on a program last night. They gave us the following statement -- and I quote -- "All threat reporting such as this is pursued by the FBI and intelligence community partners until an informed assessment can be made relative to its credibility. We have no further information related to this issue," end quote.

Now, I don`t know about you, but, gosh, I feel so safe now. I just feel all warm and cozy inside. It`s like a nice, warm blanket.

I also want to continue with our pledge to find video of extremists in action from Middle Eastern media sources that you`re just not seeing anywhere else. Today`s edition comes from the Iranian Guardian Council secretary, Ayatollah Ahmad Jannati. This was during a sermon on September 1st. Watch this.

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AYATOLLAH AHMAD JANNATI, IRANIAN GUARDIAN COUNCIL: This goes for America, as well. It, too, is weaker than a spider web. But it requires real men. If the Islamic countries act like Hezbollah, and stand up to America like men, America will be humiliated, just like Israel.

UNIDENTIFIED GROUP: Allah Akbar. Allah Akbar. Allah Akbar. Death to those who oppose the rule of the Jurisprudent. Death to America.

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BECK: You know, I`ve been trying to put a finger on exactly what`s been missing from my sermons at my church, and I think the fun part about chanting death to other countries at the end, I think that`s what we`re missing. I don`t know about you.

Brian Sack, he is our Public Viewer, he`s with us now. Brian, you`re a pagan.

BRIAN SACK, PUBLIC VIEWER: Yes. Well, don`t upset the pagans. They`ll burn down your embassy and go crazy.

BECK: Do you do a lot of chanting like that at your church?

SACK: Yes, we like to chant -- yes, we chant. We set fire to things, a lot of effigy burning.

BECK: Is it "Death to Finland, death to Finland"?

SACK: Yes, we`re very anti-Finland.

BECK: Right.

SACK: With Iceland, it varies. And kind of Greenland tiptoes around us.

BECK: OK. So what do you have for us? You`re our Public Viewer, and people write you and then bash me.

SACK: Yes, they send me stuff. Well, I got a lot of e-mails over the course of the last few months suggesting you have some kind of -- there`s like a lost separated at birth with you and the guy Ralphie from "A Christmas Story."

BECK: I don`t know. What do you mean?

SACK: You know "A Christmas Story"? Well, this guy, Clint, from ToyandGamesCenter.com (ph), was nice enough to send me the Ralphie bobblehead doll. And as you can see, it does bear a striking resemblance.

BECK: It does.

SACK: "Oh, it`s World War III, people. Let`s get your guns, and let`s go (INAUDIBLE) it`s World War III." So that...

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BECK: Unfortunately, I`m going to have to stick your tongue to a frozen pole.

SACK: Oh, dear. I forgot that scene. So I thought -- this is a guy -- you can have this for your desk, unless you break it like you broke my Parisian globe.

BECK: Well, yes, it was really -- it was hard for me to keep something from France not broken, but...

SACK: I understand.

Next, last night, I guess it was -- no, I`m sorry, it was Monday -- you were talking about a study where they said that alcohol actually increased your salary. And you were quoting that -- you were talking about the Reason Foundation, and when you said it, you were saying it like this.

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BECK: There is a report that came out from the Reason Foundation...

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BECK: Yes.

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BECK: ... that says that drinkers earn 10 to 14 percent more money than non-drinkers. They say this is because drinkers are better socially. And I mean, do you really want to party with a prohibitionist? I don`t think so. Now, this happens to be the complete opposite of what a 2000 Harvard study says, but why would you trust Harvard when you have the Reason Foundation?

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SACK: I just wanted those -- now, do you not believe they exist?

BECK: No...

SACK: Because I subscribe to their magazine.

BECK: No, it`s -- good heavens. The Reason Foundation is something really, really smart, isn`t it?

SACK: Yes. Do you read "Reason" magazine? That`s right up your alley.

BECK: No, I don`t read "Reason" magazine.

SACK: You don`t read "Reason"? You`ve got to subscribe. You need to subscribe. They`re right up your alley, I`m serious.

BECK: Really.

SACK: Absolutely.

BECK: Yes. I read the -- what`s the name of the...

SACK: "Highlights"?

BECK: What is it?

SACK: "Highlights"?

BECK: Yes, that`s it, with Goofus and Gallant? They`re great.

SACK: Yes, they are funny. They taught me many a-moral lesson.

Moving on to moral lessons, Pete Rose interview.

BECK: Yes.

SACK: And I saw this. This was the first I see this the other night...

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BECK: Thank you.

PETE ROSE, FORMER MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL PLAYER: Thank you. Thanks for having me.

BECK: You bet.

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SACK: You said, "You bet," to Pete Rose, and I got all excited. I`m like, "Oh, I`m going to make fun of Glenn. I can`t wait to make fun of Glenn."

BECK: Right.

SACK: And then you totally stole my thunder on Wednesday.

BECK: Yes, yes, you bet.

SACK: Well, here it is.

BECK: There it is. By the way, I thought of the magazine that I -- "Mental Floss."

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ROSE: ... not knowing much about sports.

BECK: Thank you.

ROSE: Thank you. Thanks for having me.

BECK: You bet. You bet.

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BECK: Oh, jeez. I didn`t even notice that...

SACK: You totally stole my thunder.

BECK: Yes, well, sorry, Brian. I mean, sucks to be you.

SACK: Yes, I know. And then you were talking with Bill Handel, and that was -- was that Wednesday?

BECK: I don`t even know what happened on that one.

SACK: That was hilarious. And so Handel made a statement.

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BECK: Well, wait a minute. Just because you like Broadway show tunes does not make you gay.

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SACK: Actually, I live in Chelsea, and I happen to know it does make you gay. Is that your final answer?

BECK: No. No. I don`t -- I want to be very clear here. I don`t like show tunes. I`ve never even listened to show tunes. I`ve never experimented with show tunes or anything like that.

SACK: Do you have any in your iPod?

BECK: No, I don`t. I don`t know what you`re talking about. Brian, we`ve got to go. Real quick, thank you very much.

SACK: PublicViewer@GlennBeck.com

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BECK: It`s very possible that they`re putting mind-control devices in iPods. Once you buy one, you`re hooked for life. You don`t know why; you just are. I love my little iPod. Why do you think Apple makes it impossible to tinker around with the inner depths of the computer? Because they know you will find the mind-control chips inside. If my mind is going to be controlled, I want it to be by some super villain or evil businessman with ties to the Bush administration, not by some 22-year-old who wears a knit hat even in the summer.

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BECK: All right. Now, there are a lot of reasons that people would tune into this program every night. For example, they just might think that I`m wildly attractive. Oh, yes, I know. They might have become, let`s say, paralyzed during the previous show and remain incapacitated. Or they may have really fat fingers and they keep turning this show on by mistake. I`m sorry. Excuse me. Probably shouldn`t say fat fingers. They suffer from remote control inaccuracy syndrome.

But, of course, I think the main reason is people tune into this show -- and I mean this, I mean this from the heart -- probably because it`s free. I mean, you have to pay for satellite or cable, but I`m probably only costing you 1/1,000th of a cent per year. And still, a lot of people will write in and say, "That`s too much, Beck," so I hesitate to ask you for money. But when it`s for a cause like this, I`m willing to break my own rules.

Right now, there is a charity auction going on with the Kobold Watch Company. Michael Kobold is a good friend of mine and really one of the only quality American watch-makers. And this auction is for the five-year anniversary of 9/11.

There are special watches worn by James Gandolfini from "The Sopranos," Daniel Libeskind, the guy who designed the Freedom Tower, Gary Sinise, and a bunch of other celebrities. They`re all available to bid on. Oh, yes, and there`s one that I wore, too. And, oh, my gosh, here it is. What are the odds that I`m wearing one now?

It`s a commemorative spirit of America watch. And on the back, it says, "Expressly made for Glenn Beck, 9/11/01-9/11/06." This auction is up at CharityFolks.com, and the proceeds benefit the USO New York.

You know, there are a ton of things that we can drop the ball on in this country, but taking care of our soldiers isn`t one of them. And if you know anything about the USO, they do a ton of great things for our guys. Plus, you get a serious Kobold watch that`s still worth a lot of money, even though I drooled all over it this summer.

Again, the site is CharityFolks.com. Please take a second look at this. And on tomorrow`s radio show, anything you want to talk about, as long as you don`t bore me. And I`ll riddled with ADD. It can happen like that. I mean, I can bore you, but please don`t do it to me. It`s "Clothesline Fridays." Plus, moron trivia. We`ll see you then or, you know, hear you then. Whatever. We`ll see you tomorrow.

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