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Clintons Get Taste of Their Own Medicine; Judge Explains Why He Lectured Black Defendants; Company to Market Fuel Efficient Air Car
Aired April 03, 2008 - 19:00 ET
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GLENN BECK, HOST (voice-over): Tonight, Clinton`s back in action. Hillary`s husband explodes at a group of super delegates and accuses New Mexico`s Governor Richardson of lying.
Cosmic karma. Ann Coulter will be here in a second.
Plus, bipolar politics on polar bears. Yes, they may be cute, but they`re not endangered. Senator James Inhofe sets the story straight.
And God forbid a student puts religious imagery in his artwork. I`ll show you how one Wisconsin student is pushing back after the school system said, "Hey, hey, slow down, Michelangelo."
All this and more tonight.
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BECK: Hello, America. You reap what you sow. It`s been good advice for quite some time. Too bad it seems so foreign to Bill and Hillary Clinton.
Back in the 1990s, they steamrolled over American people with their lies and overwhelming sense of entitlement. I mean, I swear to you, they were like king and queen in the White House. And now, they`re crying about bias and broken promises. So here`s "The Point" tonight.
It`s called karma. Sucks, doesn`t it? Payback is a Clinton, and here`s how I got there.
First, let me refresh your memory here. I don`t know if you, you know, were in a, you know, some sort of a coma in the `90s, but Bill Clinton -- or so they tell me -- initially decided to handle the accusations that he had an inappropriate relationship there on the floor with Monica Lewinsky. As far as lies go, that was kind of a big one, at least in my book. Today we know the truth was just a little bit different.
More recently, Hillary has misspoken about the landing in Bosnia under sniper fire, you know, having to duck and run for cover and all of that. Turns out that the U.S. military, a video tape and Sinbad, the comedian, who I think has the most credibility out of that bunch, bar the military, had a little different story.
These are just two of the kind of large examples that I`d love to rattle off, you know, because there`s a lot more half-truths. But the show is really only an hour long, so let`s just leave it there.
Today, the media`s love affair, strangely, with the Clintons is over. Barack Obama is the new cover boy. Hillary`s claiming media bias. And when that doesn`t work, there`s, "I`m a woman." And she cries, cries gender bias.
When that doesn`t work, and that doesn`t get her any sympathy, she lets her husband off the leash. In a recent meeting in California of the super delegates, Bill got all red in face, which I think is the only time I`ve ever seen him actually blush or get red in the face.
He found out that former candidate Bill Richardson was backing Barack Obama instead of his wife. Reportedly, he started screaming that Richardson would -- said that he would endorse Hillary and that, quote, "Richardson lied to his face." Wow. Don`t you hate it when somebody lies to your face?
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BILL CLINTON, FORMER PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES: I want you to listen to me. I`m going to say this again. I did not have sexual relations with that woman, Miss Lewinsky. I never told anybody to lie. Not a single time. Never. These allegations are false, and I need to go back to work for the American people.
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BECK: And he means that, false. False.
Well, Bill, at least you didn`t spend a lot of time and energy and money getting to the bottom of Bill Richardson`s lie, because it really sucks when you have to do that.
Tonight, America, here`s what you need to know. The Clintons may be slimy, but at least they`re consistent. You know, I have to say, considering the screwing that they gave this country in the last decade, it takes a set of brass ones like I can`t believe for any Clinton to play victim, but they do it quite well, don`t they?
Ann Coulter is a syndicated columnist and author of "If Democrats Had Any Brains, They`d Be Republicans."
Ann, brass ones? Don`t you think?
ANN COULTER, AUTHOR, "IF DEMOCRATS HAD ANY BRAINS, THEY`D BE REPUBLICANS": Thank you, that`s my favorite clip in the whole history of video.
BECK: Oh, my gosh. When he said, "He lied to me five times," I went, hmm. That`s no big deal! You never had a problem lying to my face five times.
COULTER: It`s so much fun seeing the media turn on the Clintons.
BECK: But they don`t understand it. They don`t see it. They really don`t get it.
COULTER: This always happens. I don`t think it`s ever happened in real time before. What usually happens is, these Democrats get carried along, buffeted by the media. The media believes everything they say. It takes them till they`re running for president to suddenly find out John Kerry didn`t deserve his Purple Heart.
BECK: Yes.
COULTER: He wasn`t in Cambodia on orders of Richard Nixon, Christmas 1968. Or they wait until the candidate loses or is out of office to finally admit that he was a lunkhead, like Carter.
BECK: I think I could -- I think I could cut to the chase here. What you`re saying is the media is treating the Clintons...
COULTER: Like they`re Republicans.
BECK: Yes, and I`ve never seen it before, and I think they`re shocked by it. They`re -- I mean, it`s like they`ve been transported onto another planet. Like, "What is this? People are holding us accountable." And they don`t know how to do it.
COULTER: Right. I`ve always wondered how would a Democrat hold up being treated like a Republican? Forget a Republican candidate for president. How about just a conservative commentator. Try to take that for a day.
BECK: Let me -- let me go to Bill Richardson, because I think -- I don`t know. I think Bill Richardson seems to be a decent guy. Seems to be like, you know, I never promised anything, and the approach of the Clintons seem to be taking is, you owe this to us.
COULTER: Right.
BECK: It`s almost like you`re in bed with the mob.
COULTER: Right, right. It always has been. Yes, it always has been with the Clintons, and everyone around them and their entire party collapses. But everything is for advancing themselves.
I mean, look at what they did to the Democratic Party. Because of Bill Clinton, Democrats lost control of Congress for the first time in half a century.
BECK: You know, I am so torn when you say this, because I don`t want you to say this because I`m hoping that Hillary is the candidate.
COULTER: I know.
BECK: You know, I know you`re going to be back tomorrow. We`re going to talk a little bit about Barack Obama. But I mean, I never thought I would root for Hillary Clinton and here I am.
COULTER: I know.
BECK: And we`ve talked about this before. You actually say -- are you still saying that you`ll campaign for her?
COULTER: It looks, I`ve -- I hate making predictions, but you just can`t help but in this sort of atmosphere. It looks like Hillary`s finished. I mean, this year feels like 1992 to me, and Obama is -- is their Clinton. He`s the narrative. They are just -- they are gaga for him.
BECK: Do you think that they`re doing the party a -- I`m really torn on this -- a disservice by not really going after Barack because anybody else that was in this situation would go after -- if Barack Obama wasn`t black...
COULTER: Right.
BECK: And -- and so full of hope. I mean, he looks like JFK. You know what I mean?
COULTER: Right.
BECK: He looks like, wow, he`s got all this, you know, great karma going for him and everything else. If it wasn`t for that, I think they would have taken him out at the kneecaps. I think they would have.
COULTER: Well, he`s -- he`s a Democrat they love. He`s the Bill Clinton of 1992. By the way, that`s one...
BECK: Wait, wait, wait. What I`m saying is, the Clintons.
COULTER: Oh, the Clintons.
BECK: The Clintons, anybody else they would have taken out at the kneecaps.
COULTER: I think they`ve been going pretty hard. It`s just that nothing will touch him, the same way nothing would touch Bill Clinton in 1992. I mean, remember, it was successive scandals. It was Gennifer Flowers. It was the pot smoking, but he didn`t inhale. It was the draft dodging, the craven draft dodging, you know. Hillary`s ankles, one scandal after another. And it just all bounced right off him.
Look at what`s happening with Obama and Reverend Wright.
BECK: So who`s fault -- I know, that amazes me. So whose fault is it? Is it the media or is it the American people?
COULTER: I mean, certainly the media, because you are not getting the Obama coverage that now or the Republican treatment that now Hillary is getting which, by the way, is one of the reasons Hillary actually does make a better candidate. She`s being attacked by the loony left. She`s being attacked by all the people who used to lie for her, by the media. And I think you can`t -- you can`t go through that process without kind of moving to the right a little.
BECK: That`s why I thought that Barack Obama is being done a great disservice...
COULTER: Yes.
BECK: ... by the media...
COULTER: Yes.
BECK: ... because he doesn`t have to center himself. And he doesn`t have to...
COULTER: Right.
BECK: He`ll answer once.
COULTER: Yes.
BECK: But he`s not being hammered over and over and over again.
COULTER: That`s right.
BECK: When you become president of the United States or you run against the 527s that are going...
COULTER: Right.
BECK: ... to be unleashed against you, you`ve got to know, and the Democrats have to know, can this guy withstand real heat?
COULTER: Right.
BECK: Or is he a flash in the pan.
COULTER: No, that`s exactly right, and it always happens that some leaders get huge surprises when -- once the Democrats have picked their nominee for president.
Gore lying about his service in Vietnam where he told "Vanity Fair," "I took my turn around the perimeter. We saw something move and we shot, and we shot and asked questions later."
It turns out he went to Vietnam with a bodyguard. That doesn`t come out until they`ve already chosen their nominee, because the media sucks up to the Democrat, sucks up to the Democrat, and finally like you say, the 527s, reporters like you, hosts like you, OK, you get the news out there.
BECK: Yes.
COULTER: Hosts, megaphones like you, then the information comes out. It never happens that way to a Republican, because you can`t run for dog catcher in America as a Republican without having, you know, your divorce files looked through.
BECK: Do you think -- do you think that -- I can`t help but get past the feeling that Bill and Hillary have got to feel a little like Louis and Marie Antoinette. You know what I mean? Or the Czar Nicolas.
COULTER: Yes.
BECK: You know, where they`re -- they`re like, wait a minute. We had all these friends and all of a sudden, you know what I mean?
COULTER: Yes.
BECK: They must be -- do you think they -- do you think they`ve really truly bought into their lie or do you think that they have known the whole time that their friends aren`t really friends; they`ll turn on us at any time?
COULTER: No, I think they buy into the lie. I think everyone does. You know, I`ve always wondered how it is someone can`t see someone, you know, powerful and important, that person`s a total sycophant. This person doesn`t really like you.
But, of course you don`t. When people are being nice to you, you think, well, I am a terrific person.
BECK: Right. What happens to his legacy if she goes down in flames?
COULTER: I think his legacy is already in flames which, by the way, is something else that only happens to Democrat presidents. All Democrat presidents, their reputations plummet in history. All Republicans presidents go up in his history, much later. Calvin Coolidge. Ronald Reagan when he left office...
BECK: Come on, come on. Jimmy Carter is like...
COULTER: Yes, Jimmy Carter is the reverse.
BECK: No, yes, he`s a -- no, he`s a God.
COULTER: Oh, to -- maybe to five people.
BECK: Those five people, they keep going on TV all the time.
COULTER: Democrats wouldn`t even let Carter go to the Democratic National Convention for years. He was such a laugh.
BECK: Yes. But they just sat him next to Michael Moore in 2004.
COULTER: I`m not sure that`s the good seat.
BECK: OK.
All right. Where am I wrong? The only thing I know for sure about the Clintons is that you never count these people out. Swing for the fences. Agree or disagree? Go to CNN.com/Glenn right now and cast your vote.
Coming up, black judge has ordered white lawyers out of the courtroom so he can lecture black defendants. What did he say? We`ll ask him next.
And then we`ll look at the neighborhood assistance corporation of America. You`re not going to believe this story. They are demanding the same federal money that Bear Stearns got. Tonight`s "Real Story." You`re not going to hear it anyplace else.
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BECK: Couple things coming up. First thing, about 20 minutes from now, I`ll introduce you to a guy you`ll say -- I swear to you -- what`s with the hair, dude?
And then a high school student from Wisconsin. He`s filed a lawsuit against the school for censoring a religious drawing that he did in art class. So that you`re clear on this one. Public school is trying to restrict an individual freedom of religion by saying it`s unconstitutional. Well, that`s unique. We`ll give you all the details in tonight`s "Real Story."
Now, last week, Superior Court Judge Marvin Arrington ordered whites out of this Fulton County, Georgia, courtroom so he could lecture, as he put it, the 99 percent of defendants who are black.
Arrington says he was just tired of seeing the constant parade of young blacks before his bench and he wanted to talk privately with the defendants, tell them to get their lives together, get in school, improve themselves through hard work.
You know, I think the judge is well intentioned. I feel his heart`s in the right place. I haven`t talked to him yet. We`ll do it here in a couple of minutes but I don`t think self-improvement should be the goal preached to only one race of a defendant.
Bill Cosby got into similar trouble a few years back when he targeted motivational remarks at young blacks. You know what I said at the time: preach it to my kids, too.
I don`t think it`s the "what" that these men have said that is the problem, it`s the too narrow "who" that they`re talking to.
In explaining his actions, the judge said he separated white lawyers from black defendants because he didn`t want to appear like he was talking down to anybody. The reality is, if we`re going to turn our society around, we need to get everybody on board, and race has nothing to do with that.
I`m joined now by the judge himself, Judge Marvin Arrington.
Hello, Judge. How are you, sir?
JUDGE MARVIN ARRINGTON, FULTON COUNTY, GEORGIA: Best day of my life.
BECK: Good. Mine, too. What a coincidence.
So, tell me, Judge, what exactly did you say? I mean, did you say, "White people, out." How did you clear the white people out?
ARRINGTON: Well, I just said, "I would like the white lawyers to step out. I want to talk to the Afro-American defendants in the courtroom." And I have, in fact, lectured white defendants, drug cases.
And the point I was trying to get over, we cannot continue to commit all these crimes: rape, armed robbery, child molestation, cases where fathers are going to bed with their daughters. And it`s crazy. It`s insanity. In saving them, they need to try to turn it around. You know, the infrastructure is going to fall out if we don`t speak up, particularly black leaders.
I`ve been in this community all my life, born and raised here, public high school. And I was there 25 or 30 years ago, because I was out of control. And someone came along and helped me get back in control. And I simply said to them...
BECK: What was that -- what was the message? When you were out of control, what did they say to you that turned you around?
ARRINGTON: Oh, when I got through -- you talking the teachers?
BECK: I don`t know who it was. You just said somebody...
ARRINGTON: Yes, it was a high school teacher and a young lady was doing, a student teacher from Spelman College who called me aside one day and said, "Marvin Arrington, if you don`t turn your life around, you`re going to end up incarcerated in some type of penal institution."
And it was the way that she said it that impacted me in a great way that I start getting serious about my studies, start thinking about going to college. I had an older brother in college who kept saying to me, "You need to go to college."
And I said, "I`m not interested in going to college." But once I started studying, once I started putting my heart and soul into it, I did, in fact, get a football scholarship to college, went to college, thoroughly enjoyed it. It turned out to be very advantageous to me, and I decided to go on to law school.
BECK: So how long -- how long have you been a judge?
ARRINGTON: About six years, but I`ve been in politics for almost 30 years. I was the president of the Atlanta City Council for about ten years. And prior to that I was on the city council as a councilperson. And prior to an alderman. So I`ve been in politics almost 31, 32 years.
BECK: How many -- how many complaints have you had on this?
ARRINGTON: No one filed a complaint yet. It`s just been news inquiries about what I did. And I tried to explain to them, I was trying to tell them to be a better you. There are some options out there. You don`t have to go to jail. You don`t have to run drugs. You don`t have to execute people, kill people.
I had a case where two young people between the ages of 19 and 22 years of age executed somebody, three people, over $15 worth of crack cocaine.
BECK: Holy cow.
ARRINGTON: That is insanity as far as I`m concerned. I had a young man who allegedly lost the money. He wanted to buy some marijuana. And his co-defendants are the people that were with them, told him he had 24 hours to get the money up. When he called his mom and the mom called the uncle, they couldn`t get the money up, they executed him. And they said, you know...
BECK: But Judge, it`s too late to save somebody who is already down that road. These aren`t the people that you were lecturing, were they? I mean, you`re not giving somebody a second chance that`s just executed somebody over $15.
ARRINGTON: Yes, but you`re talking about early intervention, and we need that. You know, you need to go back to the community, talk to young people, teachers and parents.
BECK: Judge, do you think that it is -- I mean, do you think it`s, you know, "Hey, I want to be your pal."
Or I remember growing up on in the `70s. ABC television did this special. It was called "Scared Straight." It scared the pants of me, and I knew I don`t want to end up in prison. I don`t want to be like that.
Are we a little too soft and cuddly for people? Nobody`s even held responsible for anything anymore.
ARRINGTON: They`re being held responsible here in Georgia. State legislature, man, they passed laws and what have you. But...
BECK: Good.
ARRINGTON: What I say to them, if you`re 18 years of age, and you get a life sentence, your life is over with.
BECK: Judge, thank you, sir. You keep it up. Thank you very much.
Coming up, we have a bit of an oil dependency issue in this country. I don`t know if you`ve noticed that. But, you know, this show being about solutions, I`ll bring you this. What is it? When you find out, you`ll be amazed that it`s not on the front page of every newspaper in the world.
And polar bears or cheaper gas? It`s the decision that the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee has to make. We`ll get all the details coming up. Look at how cute they are! I`ll pay $7 a gallon for gas.
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BECK: When I wanted to have a job at PBS, I had to learn things like this. To paraphrase Occam`s razor, everything else being equal, the simplest answer is usually the best. This is PBS.
So let`s apply that theory here for a second. Search for a replacement for oil and gas. Where would that take us? How about air? No shortage of it. I mean, it`s there. It`s completely free to everybody. There would be no global warming problems, because the byproduct of air would, of course, be air. But is that idea insane? Probably. But maybe not, if you believe a company called Zero Pollution Motors.
And if they`re right, Al Gore`s going to look pretty darn stupid very soon. They say they`ve developed an air-powered car that may be on American roads by 2010.
Matt Sullivan is an online editor for "Popular Mechanics."
Come on, Matt, this cannot be true. Otherwise, you would see this. This would lead the news everywhere.
MATT SULLIVAN, ONLINE EDITOR, "POPULAR MECHANICS": It sounds pretty far-fetched, Glenn, but actually, Detroit engineers and automotive engineers in general have been trying to come up with an air-powered car for a while now. And there`s a former Formula One engineer named Guy Negre, whose company in France has actually been working on this since the early `90s.
We`re always skeptical at "Popular Mechanics" of these kind of, you know, world-changing, gee-whiz technologies, but when they started licensing the technology to Tata Motors -- it`s the Indian manufacturer that actually just bought Jaguar and Land Rover from Ford -- we kind of started to pay attention.
Of course, that was the kind of smaller car that was used more for the city and could fill you up for about two bucks in about three minutes at a little compression station or in your home. But now, Zero Pollution Motors, which is a little start-up based in New York, says they can bring a full six-seater sedan to the U.S. by the end of 2009.
And, of course, that works for the kind of little hybrid module of it all, which can get you 100 miles per gallon on as little as 8 gallons of gas for a thousand-mile range.
BECK: Holy cow.
SULLIVAN: So that`s your 100 miles per gallon right there.
BECK: Is this company -- the little green car? Is that the -- I mean, because that`s a coffin on wheels.
SULLIVAN: Yes, you said it. That`s one of their smaller -- smaller models that they showed off as part of the Automotive X Prize at the New York Auto Show last week. It kind of looks like a box of junk.
BECK: No, I mean, I`ll drive a box of junk if it -- I mean, really, if you get a thousand miles on eight gallons of gas, I`ll drive a box of junk. But I don`t want a giant Escalade backing up on me going, "Oh, crap, I`m dead."
SULLIVAN: You said it. And that`s the big fear. When you think air- powered car, you think, you know, you`d get a huge explosion, a fireball on the road.
BECK: I was just thinking that I would be crushed in a little plastic car.
SULLIVAN: Fair enough. That, too. And then some of these parts are glued together. So it`s going to have to deal with some of those side- impact safety ratings before it can come to the U.S.
But they`re building about one of these prototypes a day. And, you know, if you believe what they`re saying, I think they can get them here. And they have a kind of cool business model whereby they`re going to start off with kind of little factories that license the technology themselves and are actually the dealers, as well.
So you`ve got a little guy in Georgia, a guy in New England and a guy in New York. And they can pump out about 4,000 cars a year selling themselves. And hopefully, these will start to take off in American cities, where you`ve seen kind of these little buggy microcars taking off, anyway.
BECK: I`ve only seen -- smart car, come on. Smart car. No man -- no man would ever drive a smart car.
Real quick, do they have guts to them? Can they go quickly?
SULLIVAN: Oh, yes. They can hit up to 98 miles per hour and, apparently, allegedly go on this long charge.
BECK: I`ll tell you, this company is worth a fortune, worth billions of dollars.
SULLIVAN: They`re getting investors by the minute.
BECK: OK.
SULLIVAN: And, you know, you wonder if it`s going to get bigger by the minute, too.
BECK: Matt, thank you very much.
Now, more on the air car. If you want to read about it, sign up for my free e-mail newsletter at GlennBeck.com. We`ll link to the full story in tomorrow`s edition. That`s at GlennBeck.com.
Back in a minute.
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ANNOUNCER: We interrupt tonight`s regularly scheduled "Real Story" segment to bring you special message from Skip (ph).
BECK: Comrades, great news from our western front. Our ongoing initiative to take all religion away from all of the believers is making great strides. An art teacher in our stronghold of Madison, Wisconsin, has censored a student who drew this. Oh, yes, look at it. It has got a reference to a Bible verse and a cross. Oh, how offensive.
And, comrades, it gets even better. This religious extremist student was told by our beloved teacher that he had given up his beloved constitutional rights by signing a school policy. Oh, comrades, things are moving much faster than we had even hoped. Soon we will have those evil Westerners praying to their government, oh, please, take over our banks. Please take the profits from the oil companies. And, yes, take health care.
Believe it or not -- stop the music, this story about art censorship is completely true out of Madison, Wisconsin. I mean, you won`t put a fence on the border, how about we just fence up Madison? The saddest part about this story is, you`re probably not even surprised by it. That`s how much of a stranglehold socialism and political correctness already have on us.
The "Real Story" is, Americans do not relinquish their constitutional rights to anyone ever. We were endowed by our creator, not by a government, and certainly not by some -- not by some school that is just slightly less communist than Beijing.
But to put all of the boring, you know, God-given rights stuff aside for a second, this was an art class, right? Not algebra, not history, it was art. I thought virtually everything was acceptable in the name of art.
I mean, naked people on the street for a photograph. It`s art. A vase full of urine on the desk. What? It`s art. But a hand-drawn cross with the words "a sign of love"? It`s so offensive. Stop it!
Come on. Can you show me who exactly is offended? Because I`m looking up a couple of other drawings done in that same art class, I`m having a hard time figuring out where the line is here.
We have this picture. This is great. A demonic being with horns. That`s obviously acceptable. Then, of course, my personal favorite, another Satan. Yes, well, I can`t say it`s Satan, it might just be a Satan-looking chap with horns who appears to be holding the whole world in his hands.
Wait a minute. The world in his hands? Meaning, Satan rules the world? Well, as someone who takes adolescent artwork very seriously, I am deeply offended. Who`s with me on a lawsuit?
What has happened to us? David Cortman is a senior legal counsel with the Alliance Defense Fund and is representing the students.
We can (INAUDIBLE) God in this school but not Satan.
DAVID CORTMAN, SR. LEGAL COUNSEL, ALLIANCE DEFENSE FUND: That`s right. And I appreciate you having me. I`m with you on a lawsuit.
BECK: I`d love to have you on this lawsuit. I can`t believe it. Here`s the policy that says that they can`t draw anything with blood, sex, and religion.
CORTMAN: It`s incredible to me and this is what`s offensive about this case. They are telling people of faith that their beliefs are equal to blood, violence and sexual connotations. And I think, obviously, that`s one of the problems we have in this case.
BECK: Yes. But this school also has symbols in it. It has a Medusa. It has a couple of Buddhist statues in it. It has demonic masks in it, but God forbid you let a kid draw a picture of a cross?
CORTMAN: Well, you know, one of the problems here is this school district is discriminating just against Christian students just by this young man putting a cross and a reference to John 3:16, a reference all of us have probably seen if we`ve ever watched any football or baseball game.
BECK: I know, and I`m so offended every time I see it.
CORTMAN: That`s right. But look at what they do allow, they allow these demons, they allow Medusa, they allow Buddha.
BECK: Well, they also have a teen pregnancy class, do they not? They have a class on teen pregnancy. And this student, if I`m not mistaken, has said that one of his teachers actually preaches Hinduism to him all the time.
CORTMAN: That`s right. And as you mentioned before, when he asked the teacher why he received a zero, she had the nerve to say, you signed away -- you waived your First Amendment rights, which obviously is impossible to do, but somehow this school system figured out a way to do it.
BECK: Because it`s in Madison, Wisconsin. Please tell me you`re going to use the "bongs for Jesus" court ruling from the Supreme Court, right?
CORTMAN: Absolutely. And the Tinker case from 1969 that says students have free speech rights, by the way, including Christian students, in the public schools, and they don`t surrender them.
BECK: Unbelievable. David, thank you very much. Do you think you`re going to win? Is the kid going to be able to draw a cross?
CORTMAN: We certainly hope so. We`ve got a good feeling about it.
BECK: What did you say?
CORTMAN: We`ve got a good feeling. We certainly hope he`s going to be able to draw his cross and any other student who wants to do so.
BECK: Did he actually -- he was suspended for two days, right, because he -- did he rip up his contract? Did he -- they said he signed his rights away?
CORTMAN: That`s exactly right. When the teacher said, here, you signed this policy, you signed away your First Amendment rights, his response was, well, I didn`t knowingly sign away anything but my response is to rip it up and hand it back. And they gave him two days` detention merely for ripping up an unconstitutional policy.
BECK: Comrade, thank you very much.
Now last week I showed you this video of protesters storming the Bear Stearns headquarters to demand homeowners get the same kind of help that Bear got. At the time it seemed all logical. I mean, you know, you have all of these struggling homeowners watching as the government uses taxpayer money to rescue giant corporations.
I mean, it`s only a matter of time before somebody demanding, hey, why don`t you bail me out as well. But it`s America. It`s nowhere near that cut and dry anymore. The "Real Story" is that the behind this protest and others a lot like it is nothing more than a bank terrorist.
Put away the liberal blogs, I know, you`re all like, what did he just say? It`s a term that he actually uses to describe himself. He`s proud of it. His neighborhood group is called the Neighborhood Assistance Corporation of America. NACA. And while the name sounds kind of cute and cuddly, NACA`s tactics really aren`t.
Their premise is basically to enact change through public embarrassment instead of using outdated, un-American tactics like trying to get new legislation passed or having a petition signed by a thousand people or something like that, they use fear and intimidation just like actual grownup terrorists.
For example, according to their founder, Bruce Marks -- Marks, Marx, where have I heard that? Oh, I remember where I`ve heard that name before, in the first story. "If a lender" -- I`m quoting. "If a lender says, we`re not going to work with you, we will be at the auction. We will be at the CEO`s home. We will be there to say we`re shutting you down," end quote.
But they don`t just visit homes or offices, in at least one case, they`ve also taken their protests to the schools where the CEO`s children go to, quote, "educate the children on what their parents do."
Well, gosh, thank you. They`ve even resorted to distributing fliers to neighbors of another CEO detailing an alleged affair that he was having. It`s vigilante justice, plain and simple. After all, I mean, who needs a courtroom when you`ve got the court of public opinion.
Let`s just throw their pictures on the TV. It`s the new American way. The ironic part is after these CEOs and the banks caved to the extortion, which they almost always do, the outcome is sometimes positive. Low-income borrowers get to stay in their homes, they get a better mortgage and, yes, some predatory lenders are even taught a lesson.
But like the environmental terrorists who throw blood on fur coats or burn down Humvee dealerships or the other kind of terrorists that fly planes into buildings, the ends never justify the means, especially when those means are taken right out of a terrorist`s handbook. Bruce Marx is the, let`s stress this, nonviolent bank terrorist who is the founder of NACA.
A bank terrorist. You`re totally cool with being called -- you`re proud.
BRUCE MARKS, NEIGHBORHOOD ASSISTANCE CORP. OF AMERICA: Glenn, it is great to be on your show. Whatever you want to call me, you know, bank terrorism, whether it is.
BECK: I didn`t call you that, sir, you called yourself that.
MARKS: . you know -- or extortionist or whatever it is, Glenn, but the fact of the matter is -- the fact of the matter is, we`re there to advocate for the homeowners who are at risk of lose their homes, the many thousands of people who are listening to your show, your TV and your radio show who need -- they are hard-working people, Glenn, out there who nee the assistance.
BECK: Please, you`ve been doing this since the 1990s, this is not something new.
MARKS: Absolutely.
BECK: You`ve been doing this since the 1990s.
MARKS: Absolutely.
BECK: Here`s the thing. You`re targeting children. You`re targeting children. Let me ask you where the line is. If a woman goes to have an abortion and she goes and has an abortion, should some right-to-lifer go and show pictures, hey, this is the baby your mommy killed. Should they be able to do that?
MARKS: But, Glenn -- Glenn, hold, let me respond. When someone loses their home, they have to deal with that 24 hours a day.
BECK: Answer the question.
MARKS: Glenn, Glenn, please, let me.
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BECK: Answer the question.
MARKS: The point is, is that it`s personal, Glenn, just like the way that you do stuff on the radio.
BECK: And so answer the question. Where`s the line?
MARKS: It is personal.
BECK: Should you be able to say.
MARKS: The limit is -- Glenn, the limit is, it`s nonviolent. The limit is.
BECK: OK, so the answer then, is yes.
MARKS: The fact of the matter is, you`ve got to be out there. You`ve got to say, when someone loses their home out there, they have to live with that 24 hours a day, seven days a week. The people.
BECK: Let me tell you something.
MARKS: The people who make decisions.
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BECK: Bruce, I get it.
MARKS: . need to be held responsible.
BECK: I got it. You want to go for the bailouts for everybody. Is there no such thing.
MARKS: No.
BECK: No, come on, please.
MARKS: Glenn.
BECK: You`re looking for -- here`s what -- you got "Bostonian of the Year" -- the award, "Bostonian of the Year." They used in the example, a woman who makes $15,000 a year. She said she watched the lender write down $44,000 a year as her salary. She went along with it. You bailed her out when she couldn`t make it.
Now, I think the bank is a scumbag. You and I will agree on that.
MARKS: Yes, but, Glenn.
BECK: But, you know what, she has responsibility, too.
MARKS: Glenn, can I please respond? Because the fact of the matter is, we don`t want $1 of taxpayer money, not $1, not for Bear Stearns, not for the builders, not $1 of taxpayer money. What we`re saying is that the investment bankers, the people and the lenders who created the crisis, they -- and profited from the crisis, that he need to fix it.
They need to restructure the loans to reduce the interest rates, reduce the mortgage payments to what homeowners can afford. We`ve got millions, millions of homeowners out there losing their homes, Glenn.
BECK: You have been doing this.
MARKS: And the fact of the matter is.
BECK: . before millions.
MARKS: . there are hardworking people out there.
BECK: . of people were losing. What you`re doing is, you are bullying people into things that are not necessarily good for the banks. Look, here`s when -- here`s when capitalism.
MARKS: No, no, the fact of the matter is.
BECK: Shut the piehole.
MARKS: . if they`re making money off foreclosures, they shouldn`t be allowed to do that.
BECK: Good, thank you very much. May I speak? Here`s the thing, Bruce, when capitalism works, it is good for the corporation and good for the people, not only that work for them, but use that corporation. And when that corporation starts screwing the people that work for them and screwing the little people, they should go out of business. We don`t need bullies.
MARKS: What about the consequences of their actions? The fact of the matter is.
BECK: You know what, I`m with you. Let them, let them fall, let them fold. Bruce, I`m going to run. Thank you very much. That`s the "Real Story" tonight.
Coming up, polar bears, they eat people, they make gas more expensive, they do, and that`s why I say two reasons we should eat them coming up.
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BECK: Well, if you saw Al Gore`s movie, well, how could you forget this scene? It`s the cute little Coca-Cola look-alike polar bear hopelessly drowning. Help me, help me! Don`t let go, Jack! But cartoon or not, this was just another piece of evidence that environmentalists used to prove how global warming is killing off all of our polar bears. Freak out!
But while pictures like this may say a thousand words, I only actually need actually 10 words to tell you the truth. The polar bear population is up over 300 percent since 1972.
So, why, may I ask, are we holding Senate committee hearings to question whether or not to add the animal to the endangered species list if they`re reproducing faster than human beings right now? Senator James Inhofe is the senator from Oklahoma, ranking Republican on that committee.
It`s a lonely, lonely place for you right now.
SEN. JAMES INHOFE (R), OKLAHOMA: That committee is lonely. We`ve got Hillary and we`ve got all the liberals on that side and Barbara Boxer clearly controls the votes in there. So we had yesterday a hearing on that nice white fuzzy polar bear.
BECK: Now, Senator, this is a projection, a projection that someday they`ll start to go down in population. Today, the increase is 400 percent. Are we going to put them on the endangered species list?
INHOFE: Well, you know, they may go on. We can`t really control that right now. But the idea that they`d be trying to do it, I think you said it right except you`re a little bit conservative.
Since 1950, we have quadrupled the number of polar bears. The populations have gone up from the range of 5,000 to 10,000 to 20,000 to 25,000. So if anything, it`s an overpopulation problem.
But you know what they`re trying to do, Glenn. How many times have I been on your show on the global warming Al Gore stuff? What they want to do is do what they can`t do legislatively and cause the Fish and Wildlife Service to say, anywhere that you`re using -- having emissions of carbon dioxide, you`re going to have to stop doing it because that`s going to make its way up to the polar cap and it`s going to kill all the bears.
I mean, you can be on my patio in Tulsa, Oklahoma, with your outdoor cooker and have Fish and Wildlife say, well, you can`t do that because you might kill the polar bears. And polar bears are so pretty to look at.
BECK: They eat people! For the love of Pete, they`re big, angry bears. They eat people. Not that I say we go out and kill all of them, but I mean, it doesn`t seem to be a problem here. Senator, I can`t take the -- I can`t take the lies anymore.
INHOFE: Well, you know, of the -- two-thirds of the polar bears are in Canada. Of the 13 populations in Canada, 11 are either stabilized or are growing. Only two have reduced. One of those is because of hunting regulations in the West Hudson area, so there that problem doesn`t exist.
BECK: OK, well, part of the thing is that, I guess the Al Gore movie came from these four polar bears that drown or I don`t know what the story was. And they`re quoting, they`re saying, from 1987, the polar bear population is down by 17 percent, but if you look at -- start -- instead of 1987, just an arbitrary date, you start at 1981, the polar bear population is up 90 percent, up 90 percent in that same region where the four little died.
INHOFE: Well.
BECK: I mean, it`s a game -- it`s a numbers game.
INHOFE: Yes, but if you`re looking at Al Gore, you know, what his movie said is, the sea levels are going to rise 20 feet, that has been totally debunked. There`s no truth to that. He said it`s going to sort precipitating a warm winter. The winter was the coldest we`ve had in my state of Oklahoma. I don`t know what it was the rest of the place.
Also, they said it precipitated hurricanes. We had the mildest hurricane season that we`ve had in the last 20 years.
BECK: Oh, but that`s only one year, that`s only one year.
INHOFE: So nothing that was in his movie has turned out to be as -- but there are a lot of little kids going to bed at night half scared to death that the sea levels are going to wipe them out.
BECK: Well, Senator, here`s the other thing, I think Al Gore was wrong because I heard the truth today. We had it on the radio program today. Ted Turner has come out and said that in 30 to 40 years -- first, he said it would be 10 years and then corrected himself, and I`m like, foof (ph), in 30 to 40 years that we will all be living in broken environments like Somalia, there will be eight degrees warmer. And in 30 to 40 years, those humans that are left will be cannibals.
INHOFE: Yes, but you remember right before the Christmas holidays, I was on your show and announcing that 400 scientists have come through and said, hey, we used to believe that. It`s just not true. The science is not there.
BECK: No, no, no, no.
INHOFE: But no one will talk about it.
BECK: Nobody has talked about the cannibal thing. That`s new information.
INHOFE: Hey, if you really want to do something, I`ve got a Web site, EPW, stands for Environment and Public Works, epw.senate.gov. And then click onto "Welcome Glenn Beck Viewers." If you want to know more about it, you`ll get it there.
BECK: Senator, thank you very much.
INHOFE: Thank you, Glenn.
BECK: All right. I don`t know why you hate polar bears the way you do, but whatever.
By the way, in an upcoming issue of my magazine Fusion, we have an absolute must-read story on the truth behind the hysteria about the polar bear extinction. Please read this, it`s amazing. You can sign up for it right now by visiting glennbeck.com and clicking on the magazine button. Oh look, it`s Al Gore.
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BECK: There is a new program starting this weekend here on "Headline Prime." It is -- well, in addition to being expertly produced and written by some of the just incredible people that write and produce this show, it also has a wildly clever title, "not just another cable news show," from the makers of the GLENN BECK program. We`re clever, we just never stop.
To give you an idea of the quality of this program, my radio producer Stu is one of the experts that they use on camera. Take a look.
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BECK (voice-over): Now, let`s take a trip back in time to a political blunder that would forever be known as "the kiss." The year, 2000. The location, the Staples Center in downtown Los Angeles where Al Gore is about to accept the Democratic nomination for the presidency of the United States.
Only one problem, how to get the audience worked up when your candidate is, how do we say this politely, a complete stiff.
STU BURGUIERE, TALK RADIO PERSONALITY: Al Gore robotic, what could you possibly mean? He has won an Oscar and a Grammy and a Nobel Peace Prize. He`s married to Tipperbot 3000.
BECK: The Democratic National Committee tried everything to make Al Gore seem more human. They even dug up his old college roommate, Tommy Lee Jones, who offered up Al Gore`s name for the nomination.
TOMMY LEE JONES, ACTOR: I lived with him for four years and what did we do? We shot pool and we watched "Star Trek" when maybe we should have been studying for exams.
AMANDA MELSON, WRITER/COMEDIAN: Al Gore can never get it right. He`s, like, Tommy, tell them -- no, I`m not the kind of guy who studied all the time in college. That would make me a nerd. I watched "Star Trek" like the cool kids.
JONES: He`d challenge me to shooting contests. We`d see who could hit a tin can from the farthest away and, I tell you, it was usually Al.
JOEL STEIN, TIME MAGAZINE: He makes it sound like they were at Appalachian State, in like 1840. Like, oh, for fun, we`d go outside and shoot tin cans, like, at Harvard Yard?
MELSON: I`m pretty sure if they had a shooting contest, Nerf was involved.
BECK: One by one, the Democratic Party offered up anyone they could think of who could say something nice about Al Gore, even Cher.
LARRY KING, HOST, "LARRY KING LIVE": You going to work for this ticket?
CHER, SINGER: Absolutely.
KING: You`ll go out, we`ll be seeing you?
CHER: Yes, I mean, I can`t do enough really to work against something that I think is so wrong for this country because I love the country, I love the people.
MELSON: Cher seems to be right on the money endorsing Al Gore, but if I recall, she also endorsed ass-less pants at one point.
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BECK: The show starts Saturday and Sunday, 7:00, 9:00 and midnight right here on "Headline Prime." From New York, good night, America.
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