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Congress Gets Lowest Poll Ratings Ever; Drug Gang Taking Over Mexican Border; Greenpeace Co-Founder Lauds New Nuclear Power Plant

Aired June 21, 2007 - 19:00   ET

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GLENN BECK, HOST: Tonight, disapproval in D.C. Congress now with the lowest approval rating in history. Yes, give yourselves a big hand. Can this Congress be saved? I`ll tell you how.

Plus, blood on the border. How one Mexican paramilitary group is threatening our national security with their own brand of ruthless violence.

And, Obama be! I`ll talk to the star of the hugely popular Obama girl video.

All this, and more, tonight.

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BECK: Hello, America, let`s get right to it. Here`s the point tonight. Politicians suck. I got more time. I guess I could tell you how I got there. I don`t think I need to.

But congratulations, Congress. A new Gallup poll shows 14 percent of Americans have confidence in you. This number is at an all-time low, breaking the previous record of 18 percent, which occurred several times between 1991 and 1994. Basically, your popular ranks somewhere between Kim Jong-Il and scurvy. Kudos to you on that.

The good news is -- I guess -- is it`s a bipartisan hatred. Runs the gamut between, you know, Nancy Pelosi and Trent Lott. Doesn`t matter if you`re on the right or left. America, we`re finally united. We flat-out hate every politician.

On this program I have spoken to Republican and Democratic strategists and politicians, and I`ve got to tell you, I don`t think any of them really understand where America is right now.

Well, Washington, listen up, here`s where we are. We`re tired. We`re tired and we`re sick and tired. We`re tired and sick and tired of hearing about comprehensive blah-de-blah-de-blah-de-blah bull crap. The solutions to most of America`s huge problems are painfully simple.

When it comes to war, fight it with everything you`ve got. Fight it like we mean it. Fight it to win. And if you can`t do that, pull our troops home immediately.

When it comes to illegal immigration, oh, this one`s really tough. Secure the border. Then we`ll worry about the status of everybody else who`s already here.

When it comes to earmarks and special interest groups, stop spending our money. Throw the special interest groups out on their ass. You work for me. You don`t work for them.

You know, I don`t have any political background. I know, it`s hard to believe. I`m not a politician, but I am a thinker. And maybe that`s what we should all start looking for in our leaders. It doesn`t seem that hard. Of only 14 percent of the country has confidence in these politicians, to me, that says there are more people out there that would rather drink a glass of Liquid-Plumr than spend any time with any congressman. Count me in, congressmen, as one of the Liquid-Plumr drinkers.

You can`t do much worse. Why not give logic a try. I`m just saying.

So here`s what you need to know tonight. The answers our government just can`t seem to find are all based in common sense. The president and Congress don`t realize this, and this is why their ratings are so low.

Unfortunately for us, common sense and shame died a slow, lonely death in some Washington, D.C., hospice, I think about five years ago. The good news is, it`s alive in the rest of the country.

Joining me now, two people who are way outside the beltway, "New York Times" best selling author of "The First Commandment", Brad Thor, who`s also advisor to the Department of Homeland Security`s intelligence unit. And from KFTK, the bald man, St. Louis radio talk show host, Dave Glover.

Hey, Dave.

DAVE GLOVER, RADIO TALK SHOW HOST: How you doing, man?

BECK: Good. Let me start -- Brad, let me start with you. We`re just going to run down -- let`s just common sense ballpark some of these issues, all right? Let`s start with the border. How do we fix the border?

BRAD THOR, AUTHOR, "THE FIRST COMMANDMENT": You start by putting up a big wall, a big fence. You do whatever you`ve got to do to keep them from getting in. We`ll hold the ones inside and then figure out what to do them. I mean, your opening was perfect. I mean, it is. That`s what it is.

BECK: So do either of you guys have an idea of what to do? The fence just seems really simple, so we can move off of that. What do you do with the people who are already here?

THOR: I`ve got to tell you, I think it`s a real easy thing. People are dying to get into this country. What`s broken here is not the whole immigration, illegal shamnesty thing. It`s the legal immigration process.

Let`s get all the people that have been lined up for years who want to come in here, and say, OK, we`ll speed up the process, but your first two years here you`re going to go work in a Motel 6 down in Alabama, because we`re -- we`re getting rid of three illegals there and putting you in. It doesn`t seem like it`s that hard to figure out.

BECK: It`s -- Dave, are you understanding this right? That would be kind of like an exchange program. You guys, out.

GLOVER: Yes. I get that. You know, I`m one of those people that, when you hear people dismiss the fence, and they say, well, that`s physically impossible, Hadrian did it pretty well. The Chinese built a hell of a good one. It seems to me that this is pretty ancient technology, that we`re working on a space shuttle. It`s a fence.

BECK: I know. You see the guys out in zero gravity repairing the space shuttle. And they`re like, and we`ve got a little epoxy we`re going to put on this flameproof -- flameproof tile. And yet we can`t build a fence for some reason or another.

Let`s go to war. Who`s got a solution on the war?

GLOVER: Fight it World War II style. What you said in the opening was perfect, either fight it or don`t fight it. But don`t fight it halfway and cost lives and waste lives. Go back to George S. Patton, fight it World War II style.

BECK: You know, I don`t know if you can win. I said this about six months ago on the program. I don`t know if you can actually win anymore with the PC bull crap that we`ve got going on.

We`ve got a guy on in about a half hour on the "Real Story" tonight that is Navy SEALs. And the PC bullcrap that they had to go through almost got them killed.

Brad, can you win with this PC culture?

THOR: You absolutely cannot. It`s a tyranny of political correctness we have in this country. You have to let loose the dogs of war, let these guys do what they need to do to get the job is.

The fact is that after we did Nagasaki and Hiroshima, and I`m not saying that`s what we ought to do now, but everybody respected us. Nobody messed with us. But the minute we get all PC, and we start backpedaling and doing this, what happens is the toughest guy in the schoolyard wants to come and punch your lights out. And we`re going to get hit again and again and again because we look weak.

GLOVER: Yes. One of the worst parts of the war in Iraq has been that prior to invading Iraq, we still had the element of surprise. They didn`t know what we were capable of. People still feared us the way that they did Israel before the Hezbollah fiasco.

Now we`ve proven what we`ll do, just how far we`ll go. And we won`t pull back.

THOR: Exactly.

BECK: Here`s the thing that kills me on the question of the war. We`re fighting a war, and we want to be this kind and gentle nation, because that`s who we are. We are kind and gentle.

But look up the definition of war. It`s killing people. And it`s killing them faster than they can kill you.

Why is it that nobody understands that if you fight with -- if you unleash the military might of the United States, and you let these guys go in and fight with everything they got, you will save more lives.

It`s -- I mean, honestly, I`m not saying we use nukes. I`m just saying, it was the same strategy with Nagasaki and Hiroshima. Drop it, you will save more Japanese lives...

THOR: You will save -- exactly. Which is why they let MacArthur go and relieved him of command in Korea. Because he said the only way to win that was to nuke them.

GLOVER: That`s right.

THOR: I think what we need to do -- and let`s go grab Noriega, pull him out of his cell, ship him over there and give him Saddam Hussein`s old uniform. Let Noriega -- we`ll parole him early. We need a dictator back in that country. That`s all those people respond to.

The Arab world is so messed up, they can`t -- you can`t give people democracy. They have to earn it. So let`s put our own strong man in there like we did with the shag, and let`s -- let`s make it work.

BECK: OK. So no -- go ahead.

GLOVER: Can I tell you the basic -- why we hate Congress so much. Is because all of our problems...

BECK: I`ve only -- I`ve only got about 58 more minutes.

GLOVER: They`re based on -- everything is based on their basic refusal to accept reality. We`re all living real lives, blue collar lives. If we don`t make the payments, they come, they take our car away.

That doesn`t happen in Washington, D.C. They are not acknowledging the reality of illegal immigration, about the border, not acknowledging the reality of this war with the jihadists. They`re just not acknowledging reality.

THOR: Not only that, Dave, but they voted themselves pay raises every 15 months for the last ten years, and let the minimum wage stay at $5.15. It`s crazy.

BECK: Let me go to -- let me go to energy. Oil is really a problem. Anybody have the solution for getting the oil monkey off our back? If you were president today? If you were president today.

THOR: I think Google is somewhat on the way of doing it. I think they`re spending a lot of their hard-earned money to try to develop -- I`ve been talking about this a lot, that recharge-it car.

Now, I drive a nice, big SUV. I can get my Staffordshire Lab mix dog in there, get all the kids, all the toys. If you can convince me that one of these little cars is going to get me where I need to go, and I`m not going to get, you know, paralyzed in an accident, I`m all for it.

BECK: OK. Let me just ask you, both. I`ve only got a couple of seconds here, so I need a very short answer from both of you.

I sense real anger in the country. And I sense that there -- I mean, it is -- it is Declaration of Independence kind of mood that we keep asking for solutions, and they keep repeatedly injuring us.

Do you ever see a time coming in this country, if Congress and the White House doesn`t get their act together, that people stand up and say, "I want my country back"?

GLOVER: Yes.

THOR: I definitely do. It will only take one more terrorist attack on American soil. But that`s, unfortunately, what I think it`s going to have to come down to.

GLOVER: If there`s one thing the framers taught us, they did not trust the government, especially our own, and now we see why.

BECK: OK. Dave, Brad, thanks a lot. See, it`s not really that hard. Common sense.

Now last night I told you about the crisis on our border that is continuing to escalate, and it is really getting dangerous for our border guards. Tonight, I`m going to tell you how drug cartels have put a price on our border agents` heads.

Plus, politicians are forcing our troops in the Middle East to fight with both hands behind their back, and I`m going to be joined by a U.S. Navy SEAL for his firsthand accounts of the hardship that our soldiers are facing every day in tonight`s "Real Story."

And she`s Barack Obama`s biggest fan, the star of the campaign tribute heating up on the Web. But she wasn`t the first to do this. Oh, you`ll see. Don`t miss it.

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BECK: All right. Coming up a little later, why Washington`s rules of engagement mean our troops in Iraq and Afghanistan are fighting with one hand tied behind their backs. We`re going to talk to a Navy SEAL to get his take on the war on terror and tell you his remarkable story of survival in the face of overwhelming enemy odds, a story you`ve never heard before. We`ll share it with you here in just a second.

But first, another unbelievable story that nobody, or very few in the media, seemed willing to tell you. A group of highly trained military deserters banned together to take over a powerful drug cartel. They are known for their brutal violence. Scary reality? You bet. They`re taking their brand of brutality right to our borders.

They are called the Zetas. And they started with 50 military men recruited by a notorious former drug cartel leader, with training from such places as Israel and Colombia and here in the U.S.

Now the original 50 guys have grown into a powerful 2,000-member paramilitary that is slowly overpowering the drug cartels that they were originally recruited to work for, and they are terrorizing most of Mexico. Their grip now is starting to spread here to the United States. But, hey, let`s work on a comprehensive package.

Their strategy? Gain control of the drug distribution routes in the U.S. by controlling all of our entry points at the border. And they are doing anything to make that happen, including, according to some reports, issuing lucrative bounties to anyone who will kill a U.S. border agent.

What you are about to hear will amaze you on two fronts: A, that it`s really happening, and B, that you most likely haven`t heard about it.

Mike Cutler is a former secret special agent with the INS and a fellow at the Center for Immigration Studies. He joins me now, as does Larry Birns. He`s the director for the Council for Hemispheric Affairs.

Mike, let me start with you.

MIKE CUTLER, CENTER FOR IMMIGRATION STUDIES: Sure. Thanks for having me on today.

BECK: You bet. How much of a threat are these guys to the U.S.?

CUTLER: Well, I think they`re a tremendous threat. Look at the way that they`re operating. They are extremely violent. They`ve had some of the best training. They`ve worked with our own agents. They understand our playbook. They know what our tactics are. They know our rules of engagement.

BECK: Which are very little. These guys -- these guys are really well armed.

CUTLER: Absolutely. They`re well armed. And they`re extremely violent, and they`re getting what they want.

Now, by growing their numbers, as they are, my concern is that, while they`re making the border a much more violent place, and believe me, it is, the point will be reached when they will have enough people, I fear, that they will then be heading towards the rest of the United States to shepherd their drug loads. Not just along the border, but to their end points and cities around the country. That`s really the danger.

BECK: Larry, tell me a little bit about these guys. They have done beheadings. They have made videos. I mean, this is al Qaeda stuff. They executed 100 women, did they not?

LARRY BIRNS, COUNCIL ON HEMISPHERIC AFFAIRS: Well, they`re tough. They`re very tough. But let me speak about probably a much more serious problem, which is that Mexico is going through an institutional crisis where law and order increasingly doesn`t exist. And the Zeta phenomena is merely one part of it.

Another one is the lack of predictable justice in the court system of the country, that you can threaten, you can extort, you can bribe. Justice is for sale.

The new president started an anti-drug war, anti-cartel war upon his inauguration four or five months ago, the same way that his predecessor Vicente Fox did. But this thing plays out after a while. It is not a serious commitment.

BECK: How high does the corruption go there? I mean, and does it spill into the United States? Something`s wrong with our border and our side of the border, as well. Is it corruption? Does it spill across the border?

BIRNS: First of all, you should understand that all the territory we`re talking about, California, Texas, New Mexico, Arizona, before 1848, belonged to Mexico. And so Mexicans feel they`re simply migrating for the season to the northern borders.

I mean, the history of the Guadalupe Hidalgo treaty is not a particularly honorable one.

But even more to the point, today, the Mexican government is incapable of creating jobs. So a number of years ago...

BECK: But I`ve got to tell you. You know, Mike, let me come to you.

CUTLER: Sure. Absolutely.

BECK: We can get a history lesson on, you know, what Mexicans -- we`re talking about the Zetas. We`re talking about people who are brutal.

CUTLER: The bottom line...

BECK: Go ahead.

CUTLER: I`m sorry. I didn`t mean to step on you, Glenn. The bottom line is this. We have no control over our border. We don`t have enough Border Patrol agents. I`ve testified before Congress at the administration`s unwillingness to hire an adequate number of Border Patrol agents, an adequate number of ICE agents.

You look at the level of violence. You look at the precarious condition that the Border Patrol is in. The agents are down there, being overwhelmed by people who have more violent -- more weapons with a greater propensity toward violence. When they do get involved in a situation like Ramos and Compean, they run the risk of getting arrested and prosecuted.

And we`re seeing drugs flowing across the country. The president is still pushing to have trucks flowing across the Mexican border. We don`t have agents in sufficient quantities from within the United States to combat the problem.

We have all these incentives for people to violate the border, come to the United States, sell their drugs, do all these other things. And we`re supposed to be waging a war on terror. If you don`t secure the border, how do you defend your country?

BECK: Let me go here, because these guys want to control the ports. They`re not just talking about, you know, where we don`t have gates and fences. They want to control our ports.

Which goes right to what I have believed has been going on in our government for a while, and look this up -- SPT.gov, I believe -- it is this idea that there is no border.

CUTLER: That`s right.

BECK: That we`re fine. There`s no way to control anything. I mean, what is NAFTA? Either one of you guys, what has NAFTA done to the drug cartels?

BIRNS: Well, I think -- I was very much against NAFTA. But of course, most of the American corporations are very much in favor of NAFTA. And NAFTA was a gift from Bill Clinton. And we were told it`s going to be a win-win situation.

Well, it didn`t turn out to be a win-win situation. Some people won, and some people lost.

BECK: Yes, we seem to be -- we seem to be losing.

CUTLER: The biggest thing to happen -- look, Mexican farmers lost their farms and headed north looking for employment.

BIRNS: Exactly.

CUTLER: But the bottom line is, if we have no control over the borders, we have no control over national security. That`s the thing that people need to understand.

BECK: OK. Guys, thank you very much. By the way, the attorney general in Mexico has said the Zetas are in control of much of Mexico.

Coming up, President Bush has toured a nuclear plant in Alabama. Is this part of a plan to lessen our dependence on foreign oil? Let`s hope so.

Plus, our soldiers continue to face an unfair fight in Iraq, and it`s not their fault. If you want somebody to blame, point the finger at the suits in Washington. And I`ll explain in tonight`s "Real Story".

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BECK: The president is in Alabama today checking out the first nuclear power plant to successfully get a new reactor in 20 years. Yes.

See, I know that nuclear power isn`t as Oscar worthy as Al Gore`s approach to the energy crisis. You know, changing your light bulbs or driving a super sexy Prius. But it is practical, and when it comes to breaking our dependence on foreign oil, isn`t that really what we need?

Patrick Moore is chairman and chief scientist of Green Strategies (ph).

Patrick, nuclear energy, you know, I said this on the air a couple of times. I`m not even going to listen to these -- these, you know, global warming people until they actually say, "Nuclear power, I`ll consider it." It`s a good option.

PATRICK MOORE, CO-FOUNDER, GREENPEACE: Absolutely, Glenn. It`s really quite ironic that the people who are most concerned about climate change and carbon emissions from fossil fuels are against the one technology that is doing the most to reduce carbon emissions in the whole of the United States.

BECK: You were a co-founder of Greenpeace. You left when it -- when you realized, wait a minute, some of this stuff that you`re against is really good for the environment. Am I wrong?

MOORE: No, you`re not wrong. I found that my fellow Greenpeacers sort of went of in the direction that I just couldn`t justify with my scientific education.

And since then, I`ve come to realize that we made the mistake of lumping the peaceful use of nuclear technology in with the destructive use for nuclear weapons. And we shouldn`t have done that.

BECK: Yes.

MOORE: We should have had the brains to make the distinction at the time. And a lot of these guys are still stuck in the `70s, and they`ve invested so much of their energy into convincing their followers that nuclear energy is wrong that they can`t make a quick about-face.

I`m certain that eventually the environmental movement will come to realize nuclear energy is one of the main technologies that can get us off fossil fuels.

BECK: You know, it kills me how unreasonable people are. Because you know, conservatives and liberals, they can agree on an awful lot. And you know, all of us love the planet. We want to take care of it, et cetera, et cetera. But you`ve got to bend someplace.

And the same people who are, you know, saying Johnny Depp is just the greatest human being that ever lived because he moved to France, which is a paradise on earth. France has nuclear power.

MOORE: Yes, France gets 80 percent of its electricity from nuclear energy. That puts the lie to the people who say it`s too expensive, because French nuclear rates are not unreasonable.

And the same with the 20 percent of electricity being produced in the United States by nuclear energy today. It`s being produced at the lowest cost of any of the major electricity sources.

BECK: They also say, though, that it`s not safe, which is another lie.

MOORE: Well, actually, the U.S. Bureau of Labor says it`s safer to work in the nuclear industry than it is in either real estate or financial services. In other words, it`s safer to work in a nuclear plant than it is on Wall Street.

BECK: Holy cow. And solar power, you know, that`s the one everybody says, that`s just great, and everything else. It`s a lot more expensive than nuclear energy.

MOORE: It`s like five to ten times as expensive, and it goes out when the sun goes down, whereas nuclear power runs 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. It`s just -- there`s no way that solar or even wind, which is not as expensive as solar, but it`s also intermittent. There`s no way they can actually substitute for continuous power sources like coal and gas and hydro and nuclear, and we`ve got to reduce our coal and gas consumption.

We`ve pretty much built all the hydro capacity there is. Nuclear is really the main option that does not produce carbon dioxide or air pollution.

BECK: I`ve got to tell you, Patrick, you are, you know -- you`re an environmentalist that I can actually have a conversation with. I appreciate a reasoned conversation with you. Thank you.

MOORE: Thank you very much.

BECK: When we come back, a truly amazing story of survival. We will talk to a former Navy SEAL about his experiences fighting the Taliban in Afghanistan And becoming a lone survivor. Don`t go away.

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BECK: All right, coming up a little later on the program, the woman who could be Barack Obama`s secret weapon. She is the star of that viral video called "I`ve Got a Crush on Obama." Talk about party politics, you know what I`m saying? You`re going to meet her, coming up in just a minute.

But first, welcome to the "Real Story." This is a story tonight about yet another new study group reporting on how to win the war in Iraq. This one was written by former U.S. defense officials and it includes, quote, "more realistic objectives and goals like preventing a genocide there." Way to reach for the stars there, guys.

I`ve got the "Real Story" on the war thing, for all these think-tanks and study groups and politicians, and now I offer it to them completely free of charge: Fight to win! That`s it. We have the most well-trained, lethal military this world has ever seen. We can`t be defeated; we can only defeat ourselves. And that`s exactly what`s happening.

The rules of engagement that our soldiers have to live and, unfortunately, also die by are often dictated by the people who are working in conference rooms thousands of miles away from the battlefield. Some of these rules are undoubtedly important. Sure, we don`t want to be monsters. But most simply force our soldiers to fight with both hands tied behind their backs.

In case you haven`t noticed, our enemies don`t play by those rules. They don`t care if you fire first; they don`t care if you duck into a church or a mosque for cover; they`ll follow you in and they`ll behead you. That`s what war is. And if the clowns in Washington don`t like it, well, then they should bring every troop home tomorrow. Leaving them there with this half-hearted ability to fight is what`s getting people killed, on both sides.

I told you earlier that the approval rating for Congress is at an all- time low, 14 percent. Gee, anybody have any doubt as to why? The American people are not stupid. We know we can win this war if we want to. We also know that it`s not the insurgents, it`s not the roadside bombs that are preventing us from winning a war. It`s us. Actually, no, I`m sorry, sorry, didn`t mean to offend you. It`s our politicians.

You know, I know it`s hard to separate empty cable talk show rhetoric from reality, so let me tell you what happened in the mountains of Afghanistan back in 2005. There were four U.S. Navy SEALs. They were sent on a mission to capture or kill Al Qaeda leaders that were being protected by the Taliban. And as they searched undercover, the SEALs were spotted by a couple of goat herders who were well-known to be Taliban spies. Well, because of our rules of engagement, we couldn`t kill these guys. The SEALs had no choice but to let the farmers leave. And sure enough, 45 minutes later, over 100 heavily armed Taliban soldiers surrounded our four SEALs. For 24 hours, they fought. After 24 hours, only one SEAL was still alive. His name is Marcus Luttrell.

He`s got an amazing new book. It`s called "Lone Survivor." He was on the radio program with me today honoring the brave and courageous American heroes that we lost that day.

Marcus, great to talk to you again tonight. The goat herders, you didn`t -- you couldn`t kill them. You guys had a choice to make. "If we kill them, our enemies are so good at using our press and the press over in the Middle East that there will become a political witch hunt for you guys," and you`ll spend your time in prison. That was a decision you were faced with, wasn`t it?

MARCUS LUTTRELL, U.S. NAVY SEAL: Yes, sir.

BECK: And so you took a vote on, "Do we kill them or not? Do we risk prison or not?"

LUTTRELL: Not necessarily a vote. I mean, we all came together and tried to come up with a plan. We were in a unique situation.

BECK: Yes. And the things over there are so bad, our rules of engagement are so bad that -- correct me if I`m wrong -- somebody could have a bunch of TNT on the back of a donkey, but as long as they`re not carrying a gun, you can`t do anything about it, right?

LUTTRELL: That`s right.

BECK: How do we fight and win a war like that, Marcus?

LUTTRELL: You`re asking the wrong person.

BECK: So, now, you were taken in. You told this incredible story, and, please, I urge you to read the transcript at glennbeck.com. And you`re going to join me for the rest of the story tomorrow. You were stuck there all by yourself. Your hero friends had died. And then you crawled, drug yourself seven miles. You were taken in by a tribe, right?

LUTTRELL: Yes, sir.

BECK: And when that tribe had you, you had a grenade in your hand. Can you tell me about this?

LUTTRELL: Initially, once I had found water, after the second day, I had been shot again. I finally found some water. While I was sitting there drinking some water, three more people walked up on me. They pursued me. It turns out -- you know, I swung around to engage, and it turns out it was the villagers. They were coming, walking towards me. Instead of killing them -- I wasn`t really sure what was going on. I had been through this the last two days, people chasing me and shooting me and stuff like that.

So not knowing what was really going to happen, I just pulled the grenade out, pulled the pin, and was just sitting on it until they walked up, just in case they tried something, or it went south on me.

BECK: And they actually took you in. This tribe is amazing. They have a time-honored tradition that they were bound to help you, right?

LUTTRELL: That`s correct, sir.

BECK: And what did they do? And how long did you live with them?

LUTTRELL: Six days, and they moved me from house to house. The village doctor doctored me up twice a day, pulled the shrapnel out of my legs, hit me with some antibiotics. I started getting sick out there. The village -- Gulab, one of the main villagers, he looked out for me, carried me around most of the time.

I had to be transported. I couldn`t walk, so three or four people would pick me up and take me from house to house. I`d switch houses every night, because the Taliban had encircled the village. So they would come in daily with ransom demands, or, you know, shooting through the village and stuff like that. So it was pretty intense.

BECK: Please, I`m begging the American people to read "Lone Survivor," if you really want to see who our troops are and what we are capable of doing. It is a powerful, powerful book.

The one thing that I find interesting about this, when I hear your story, Marcus, I think -- two things come to mind. One, we haven`t heard this story at all until your book came out, so that means that you`re either not a remarkable SEAL and what you went through is not remarkable, these are the kinds of heroes that we have for us, and, two, nobody`s really looking for this story. Many people will remember that the Chinook helicopter that went down in a rescue attempt for you early on, was it 19 or 16 died in that Chinook?

LUTTRELL: Sixteen, sir, and three on the ground.

BECK: Sixteen, and everybody remembered that. I did a search for you in the news trying to find this story. We hadn`t heard it. Is anybody looking for these stories? I mean, because they`ve got to be everywhere with you guys.

LUTTRELL: Oh, we don`t put our business out on the market, sir. It`s kind of the -- that`s the whole business about being a SEAL, is we really don`t want the American public to know what we`re doing, because if the American public, and if the media knows, that means the bad guys are going to know, because they get CNN, too.

BECK: I have to tell you, I`m just so impressed with you and the way you`ve handled yourself through all of this, and especially when you came back, you took it upon yourself to meet with each of the members of your team, their family, and have a talk with them. What was that like?

LUTTRELL: It was heart-breaking, sir. It was hard. I mean, you know, having to deliver the news of -- at least the three members on the ground, those were very difficult. The members in the helicopter, I really didn`t have much -- I mean, I didn`t know what to say, but it was different every time. But they were all wonderful, wonderful families. I can`t say enough about them.

BECK: Marcus, you do them a service. You really do. Thanks for telling your story. If you want to hear part of it, if you`re an insider, go to glennbeck.com. You can hear the audio or read the free transcript, and then tomorrow he`ll be back on. It`s a powerful, powerful story.

That`s "The Real Story" tonight. If you`d like to read more about it or if you`ve found a real story of your own, please go to glennbeck.com. Click on "The Real Story" button.

Coming up, I`m sure you`ve seen the racy Internet campaign tribute to Barack Obama. Well, that star of that tribute joins me for an unorthodox conversation about her crush on Obama. You don`t want to miss this one. Stick around, it`s coming up.

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BECK: Well, you know what? I`ve got to tell you, I have confidence in the mob. I do. They can at least get the job done. I`m going to give the mob a pass. I`ve decided that I`m just making far too many enemies. I`m taking on both parties in Washington. I`m taking on Muslim extremism. And the third thing I`m taking on is the border.

I was talking to friend of mine yesterday and he said, "Boy, is there somebody else that you could piss off that actually could kill you?" And I said, "You know, that`s a good point, the mob." There should be one group of killers that I shouldn`t take on. So you`ve got to -- mob? What mob?

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BECK: Oh, I don`t know about you, but I love the smell of politics in the morning. I wake up, I stuff my face with doughnuts, I read the headlines, and I realize that none of these politicians inside the beltway can get anything done, from Iraq, to immigration. Tying their own shoes I think is a problem for these guys. I`m not happy with it; you`re not happy with it; my neighbor`s dog isn`t happy with it.

So I`ve been saying for a long time, it`s not about left or right, it is about right and wrong. So in the `08 election, we need to vote American. I want to bring in our public viewer, Brian Sack, to get his analysis of where I`m wrong on this.

And, Brian, I`m glad -- this is the first time I think we`ve ever had you on the show that I`m happy to have you, because you`re not critiquing me. We`re talking politics.

BRIAN SACK, PUBLIC VIEWER: That`s right. I`m not critiquing you. We are talking politics. We only have 17 months until the election. We need to hurry.

BECK: Yes, I know we do. I know. No, I know. So what do you have?

SACK: Well, my Public Viewer politics division assembled some clippage of you talking about political things, and I have a clip right here.

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BECK: The outgoing Congress is just so incredibly stupid that they can`t even find their own way to their own congressional chambers.

Men are from Mars, women are from Venus, and Dennis Kucinich and Nancy Pelosi are from Gliza (ph).

Rick Santorum is the Churchill of our times.

Just about all you`ve heard about Bill Richardson, if at least you`ve been reading the paper this weekend, is apparently he`s Hispanic.

SACK: That is correct. His mother is Mexican; his father was Nicaraguan.

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BECK: How did you make this about me? Again, aren`t we supposed to be talking about politics?

SACK: This just happened this way. You get in the editing room and things happen.

BECK: By the way, I want you to know, I stand by the whole Dennis Kucinich is from another planet thing.

SACK: Couldn`t you just say Andromeda or something or Alpha Centauri Beta?

BECK: No, no, no, Gliza 587 (ph).

SACK: Whatever. OK, now, I notice the pattern that you don`t seem to like Hillary. And here`s how I came to that conclusion.

BECK: What?

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BECK: I think Hillary`s voice makes angels cry, just sticks in your ear like an ice pick. It makes me envy the deaf.

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SACK: God, you`re tougher than Simon Cowell.

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SACK: America should vote.

BECK: I stand by the Dennis Kucinich from space and that Hillary`s voice makes angels cry.

SACK: I want America to be the judge of that, so I have a clip.

BECK: What?

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SEN. HILLARY CLINTON (D), NEW YORK (singing): ... for the land of the free, and the home of the brave...

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BECK: Right now. That`s making me weep. I didn`t mean that. I just mean the way she delivers a speech.

SACK: I thought it was the singing.

BECK: No.

SACK: All right, well, I did have another Hillary thing I noticed there, too.

BECK: Yes? What else?

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BECK: I believe Hillary Clinton is the Vanilla Ice of politics, a relic from the `90s that is out of touch with the tastes of today. She`s old school.

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SACK: Wow, you`re all hip-hop.

BECK: Can I tell you something?

SACK: Yes, sir.

BECK: I like this guy you`re showing. I agree with everybody he`s saying. He`s brilliant.

SACK: I did notice a little hip-hop pattern coming, and then I did some more research, and I have this.

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UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Glenn Beck, y`all.

BECK: This is why I`m hot, catch me on the block, every other day, another (bleep) another drop. I`m-a be pimpin`.

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SACK: Be pimpin`?

BECK: I`m just sayin`.

SACK: Yo, G.

BECK: That`s the way I roll, Brian.

SACK: I notice, sir, that you do seem to have a preference for one of the candidates.

BECK: Which one?

SACK: Well...

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BECK: I`d not only vote for you, I think I`d French kiss you right now, man.

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SACK: Who could that be? Let me think. Ah, look at that.

BECK: He`s so tall and commanding.

SACK: Look at your little buddy. Where was that? Was that in Iowa?

BECK: Yes, that`s...

SACK: Oh, and look at you, helping the guy. He`s helping you out there.

BECK: Wait a minute. I mean, look at this picture. We can`t trim the fat under my face?

SACK: I love Photoshop.

BECK: I mean, jeez. If you were going to Photoshop, at least cut the fat from underneath my face.

SACK: They`re not that good at Photoshop. It`s really just cut and paste. All right, so, anyway, Denis Leary was on the show recently, and he had an idea.

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DENIS LEARY, ACTOR: Lou Dobbs for president.

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LEARY: You could be the vice president.

BECK: No, I don`t want your pity vice president.

LEARY: It`s a whole CNN ticket.

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SACK: I agree with you. I like Denis Leary a lot, but I had a better idea. Beck-Sack 2008. I`ve got some taglines.

BECK: Do you? What are they?

SACK: Strength, freedom, cupcakes, because politics is no place for politicians. You have to like one of us, right? Or how about, tougher borders, tighter abdomens?

BECK: That last one doesn`t really work. I`m not sold on...

SACK: One more. One more. Fewer taxes, secure borders, better schools, pick one.

BECK: I think I`m going to go with the cupcakes one. Brian, thanks a lot. I appreciate it.

SACK: Yes, sir.

BECK: Time now to introduce you to a man who is sharing his creative craft to help shape the lives of the impoverished children in Colombia. He is tonight`s "CNN Hero."

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ALVARO RESTREPO, "CHAMPIONING CHILDREN": Catalina (ph) is one million people, one million inhabitants city, where 70 percent of the population is living below poverty line.

My name is Alvaro Restrepo. I co-direct a college of the body. We work with kids coming from poor, difficult neighborhoods of Catalina, teaching them dance and, through dance, values that can change their lives. So kids like Jose, well, he was born in the midst of something that for him is natural.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE (through translator): Sometimes here we see violence. Almost every Saturday or Sunday, someone is killed.

RESTREPO: They have the courage to realize, "Yes, I can become somebody with doing this." So when you are teaching a simple exercise, you are speaking about concentration, about self-esteem, you are learning to work with others.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE (through translator): Whenever I performed, I was afraid. But Alvaro encouraged me. He tells me there are two options: Either you do it, or you do it. I have to do it.

RESTREPO: From the very beginning, we started to realize that we were plowing in very fertile soil. We were able to prove that, if these kids are given opportunities, they can become great human beings.

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BECK: By now everybody in America has seen that video called "I`ve Got a Crush on Obama." Let me remind you, in case you haven`t seen it...

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BECK: Here she is, the star of that video, Amber Lee Ettinger. Hello, Amber.

AMBER LEE ETTINGER, "OBAMA GIRL": Hi, how are you?

BECK: Very good. So do you have a crush on Obama?

ETTINGER: Yes, a little bit.

BECK: Is this -- did you come up with this or...

ETTINGER: No, this wasn`t my idea. They actually just approached me and said, "You know, I have a funny project. Do you want to work on it?"

BECK: It`s them, the amazing them.

ETTINGER: Yes. The team, Ben Relles, Leah Kauffman. She`s the singer, and Ben is the producer.

BECK: So you didn`t even sing it?

ETTINGER: No, I`m lip-syncing the whole time.

BECK: You were just the body?

ETTINGER: Yes.

BECK: Yes, has the Lyndon LaRouche people, have they ever approached you? Would you do a Lyndon LaRouche?

ETTINGER: No, I don`t think so.

BECK: You don`t think so? But who are you going to vote for?

ETTINGER: I`m definitely going to vote for Senator Obama. Yes.

BECK: Look at you. Of course you`re going to say that.

ETTINGER: I wasn`t sure, but, you know, I`ve done my research, so...

BECK: Right. Right. And he`s hot, you`re hot, you know what I`m saying?

ETTINGER: Thank you.

BECK: Yes, OK. Well, I want to get your opinion on something, and there`s another video that has been made. And I don`t know if you knew this. This is a rip-off, either vice versa, I`m not sure which came first. It`s for McCain. It`s called "McCain Mama." His fan base is a little older, but I want you to take a look.

ETTINGER: OK.

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UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Hi, J., it`s me. If you`re there, pick up. I was just getting a hip replacement, and I thought of you. Anyway, call me. I can`t wait until 2008. If I live that long, oy, would that be great. That bill you wrote Feingold, hey, I like. Then, again, I liked Ike. We`ve got a lot of things the same. I walk with a cane. You`ve got "cain" in your name. Your wife is kind, but I`m much kinder, because I`ve got a really sweet (bleep).

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BECK: OK. OK. I mean, that`s just wrong.

ETTINGER: I haven`t seen that yet. Where did you find it?

BECK: Oh, we made it, unfortunately. Thanks a lot. We`ll see you again. Thank you.

From New York, America, good night.

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