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Governor Jindal Responds to Obama Speech; Obama Address Pro-Israel Group

Aired June 04, 2008 - 19:00   ET

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BECK: Hello, America. Our long national nightmare is almost over. Last night, two contests in the longest primary season of your life finally happened.

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SEN. BARACK OBAMA (D-IL), PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE: Because of you, tonight I can stand here and say that I will be the Democratic nominee for the president of the United States of America.

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BECK: OK. Even though Hillary Clinton won South Dakota and hasn`t said she`s withdrawing from the race, the Democratic -- the Democrats now have their presumptive nominee who will go head to head with Republican John McCain in the general election. We`re not even there yet.

So before that nonsense gets under way, here`s "The Point" tonight. No matter what lofty promises Obama made in last night`s speech -- and they were pretty good -- when you scratch the surface -- you`ll see; this is one of my favorite analogies -- he`s all frosting and no cake. And that pisses me off. Here`s how I got there.

Barack Obama is possibly the most inspiring, gifted public speaker I have seen since Ronald Reagan, and he may even be better than Ronald Reagan in some ways. But, at the end of the day, talk is cheap.

Reagan got things done because he believed in them at his core. And he just let the chips fall where they may. He galvanized a nation. Will Barack Obama be able to walk the same walk? I don`t happen to see it. But, let`s let the man speak for himself.

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OBAMA: John McCain has spent a lot of time, talking about trips to Iraq in the last few weeks. But maybe if he spent some time taking trips to the cities and towns that have hardest hit by this economy, cities in Michigan and Ohio and right here in Minnesota, he`d understood the kind of change that people are looking for.

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BECK: I mean, I agree John McCain is a national defense one-trick pony. But come on, even McCain realizes that it`s not the 5 percent unemployment but the $4 gas controlled by extremist factions in the Middle East that pose the greatest threat to America, not the citizens of Detroit and Toledo and Minneapolis. I`m just saying.

Obama is wildly inexperienced. At least McCain knows who the bad guys are.

But the freshman Senator didn`t stop there. Obama went on to set the ground rules for conduct in the general election.

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OBAMA: What you won`t here this campaign or this party is the kind of politics that uses religion as a wedge and patriotism as a bludgeon.

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BECK: I love this one. Oh, that`s really hard. That`s like me giving up carrots. Sound familiar? Yes. You know what? Here`s the deal: we won`t use those things, either as long as you stop pretending that your Reverend Jeremiah Wright was anything but a showboating radical.

And get your wife from saying things like, you know, your candidacy is the first time in her adult life that she`s ever been proud of her country. Come on.

Finally, there was an ending straight out of "The West Wing."

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OBAMA: Because if we are willing to work for it and fight for it and believe in it, then I am absolutely certain that generations from now we will be able to look back and tell our children that this was the moment when we began to provide care for the sick and good jobs to the jobless.

This was the moment when the rise of the oceans began to slow and our planet began to heal.

This was the moment when we ended a war and secured our nation and restored our image as the last best hope on earth.

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BECK: You know, I actually -- I was really -- I was like, wow, great speech at this point. Still, you`d start really noodling some of the world -- some of the words there.

America already has the best health care in the world. We do take care of our sick. America is virtually at full employment. And since when were the oceans risings? Did I miss that episode of "Nova"? I`ve been freaked out by that one.

America, tonight here`s what you need to know. Speeches may get Obama elected, but they will not get the work done, the work that is needed for our nation`s very survival. And when you really listen Obama`s words, you realize that he has set the bar very, very high.

Unfortunately, I believe he has set it in a room where the average American is not. He has no idea where the bar should be or how to get us over in my cases.

Bobby Jindal is the Republican governor of the great state of Louisiana.

Bobby, how does this guy actually govern? He is as far to the left as you can get.

GOV. BOBBY JINDAL (R), LOUISIANA: Well, that`s exactly right, Glenn.

And first off, you did a fantastic job in Kentucky. Talk about a speech with substance. And I couldn`t agree with what you said more about comparing this to icing. It`s kind of like we`re going into the phase of the campaign where the voters are going to ask, "Where`s the beef?"

I mean, let`s give Senator Obama his due. He`s probably the most gifted political speaker I`ve heard in a very, very long time. I think you`re right, since Ronald Reagan, even. But now, it`s time -- he talks about change. We need to elect a president that can actually produce and deliver change.

Listen to what Senator Obama says. He talks about change. He`s talking about changing things like raising taxes. He`s talking about things like eroding our Second Amendment rights. He`s for gun control. He`s talking about, I would think, weakening the way we defend our national interests.

When you compare his record to Senator McCain about fighting the war against terrorism, I mean, there`s a clear contrast. When you look at what he wants to change, when he talks about health care, he`s talking about more government involvement, more government control in our health care.

So yes, he`s talking about change. But that doesn`t mean it`s positive change.

BECK: Let me -- let me play this from his speech last night, because I was really struck by this. Again, a great speech. But think about what he`s saying? Listen to this.

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OBAMA: The journey will be difficult. The road will be long. I face this challenge -- I face this challenge with profound humility and knowledge of my own limitations. But I also face it with limitless faith in the capacity of the American people.

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BECK: OK, that is great. That is fantastic. But you know what? He doesn`t have faith in the American people, because the American people always have to be protected from themselves or someone else, because the American people are just too stupid or whatever. The government always needs to step in.

He doesn`t have faith that people can recover from failure in this country. He doesn`t even have enough faith in Americans to own their own guns.

JINDAL: That`s exactly right. This is where the paternalism, I think, when you get to the extreme left and you get to liberalism. They think government can spend your money better than you can. Government can make health-care decisions better than you can. Government needs to protect you from the consequences of your own decisions. There has to be personal responsibility. There has to be personal freedoms. That`s part of what makes this such a great country.

Senator McCain had a great line when he was speaking in New Orleans in Kenner last night. In his remarks, one of the things he said -- it was a very pointed contrast. He said, "Look, I`m not running" -- I`ll paraphrase. He goes, "I`m not running because I believe I`m the chosen one at this time." He said, "I`m offering myself out of humility." Because he`s got a lifetime of service to the country: in the military, in the Congress.

We may not always agree with all of his positions. When you contrast the two, I think he`s a candidate -- he`s not going to raise our taxes. He`s not going to take away our Second Amendment rights. He`s not going to get government more involved in controlling our health care.

So these are two candidates representing change. The question we as voters should ask is what kind of change?

BECK: OK. Well, I mean, first of all, Governor, you know, I respect you an awful lot. But I mean, he is going to raise our taxes. Because he`s got -- he`s all into the cap and trade thing. And that is -- that`s a hidden tax.

But I want to -- I want to ask you this. He said in his speech in New Orleans, or in Louisiana, he talked about this is a failure -- you know, Katrina was a failure of the government. Well, what does he mean by that?

It was a failure of -- and you should know better than anybody else -- of the local government. The local government had the money, every step of the way, to reinforce their levies. And every time through corruption and everything else, everybody -- local and state government -- failed the people.

JINDAL: Well, a couple of things. First of all, in terms of -- and we can come back to energy environment. You`re exactly right. We need to have a more rational national energy policy that encourages domestic production, encourages nuclear power, clean coal, certainly, conservation and renewable fuels.

But we better be careful. As we`ll continue to export manufacturing jobs out of this country and drive the price of gasoline and other fuels to even more -- more expensive heights.

When it comes to the failures after the storms, look, let`s -- you know, people are trying to say it was this one`s fault or that one`s fault. The reality was there was plenty of blame to go around, with FEMA, with the local government. The Corps certainly didn`t design the levies properly.

But here`s the great untold part of that story. Look at where the successes have been. It`s been the faith-based community, the private corporations. It`s been volunteers. And that`s the great untold story.

And one of the things that`s happening in New Orleans now, we have nearly 40 chartered schools. We had, before the storms, one of the worst urban school systems, certainly, in our state. It was ranking among the bottom in the country. Now, you got more innovation, more entrepreneurialism.

BECK: You know and I know, Governor, that if -- if the private sector does it, that`s why the train bridge was built before the highway bridge was.

One last question, are you going to be the vice president? Would you be the vice president?

JINDAL: Look, no, I don`t think he`s going to ask me. He`s got many other people he can ask. I enjoy being governor. We`ve got a lot more work to do. We`ve cut five taxes. We`re doing our sixth tax cut now, our largest income tax in our state`s history. We`ve reformed ethics. We`re creating jobs. We`ve got a lot more work to do in Louisiana.

BECK: Governor, I have to tell you that I thought of you this morning as I was walking to work, and I thought of you. And I thought, you know, this really is a big day for African-Americans. But it`s bigger than the media even understand it. And I thought of you. And I thought you could be the next vice president of the United States

And you know what? Nobody even talks about that. It`s -- your ethnicity is no big deal. It`s bigger than the media is saying it is, because most Americans don`t care what color somebody is.

JINDAL: That`s exactly right. Look, when you`re electing the president of the United States, you want the most qualified person that`s going to do the best job. So many people make a big deal about identity politics.

You know, it`s -- we live in a great country, a great thing that it doesn`t matter what your last name is or who you are. You can do whatever you want in this country with hard work and education. Because you don`t vote for a president based on identity politics. You vote for a president based on who`s going to do the best job. It`s too important of a job. It`s the No. 1 job is to keep our country safe.

BECK: Governor, thanks a lot.

Coming up, Barack Obama says he`ll do everything in power to prevent Iran from getting a nuclear weapon. But principled diplomacies still equals talking to our enemies. Did the pro-Israel audience buy it today? Coming up.

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BECK: There`s an old saying that goes you can`t ride two horses with one ass. And that hasn`t stopped Barack Obama from trying when it comes to dealing with the treat from Iran and its connection to the Jews and Israel. Obama wants it both ways.

Here he is this morning in a speech to the American-Israel Public Affairs Committee.

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OBAMA: Our alliance is based on shared interests and shared values. Those who threaten Israel threaten us. Israel has always faced these threats on the front lines. And I will bring to the White House an unshakable commitment to Israel`s security.

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BECK: Well, I got to tell you, that sounds great. Israel is our most important ally in the Middle East. And I can tell you, they are our last hope over in the Middle East. Quite frankly, they`re the best hope of the Palestinians, as well.

Too bad Obama opposed legislation to designate Iran`s Revolutionary Guard as a terrorist organization and has said repeatedly that he is willing to negotiate with the leadership in Iran.

Just in case you`ve forgotten, like Obama apparently has, Iran`s president has denied the Holocaust ever happened. He`s warned Arab countries to not recognize Israel. He has called for Israel to be wiped off the map. And here he is just two days ago talking about Israel`s Zionist state.

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MAHMOUD AHMADINEJAD, PRESIDENT, IRAN: (SPEAKING FOREIGN LANGUAGE)

GRAPHIC: The Zionist regime has lost its raison d`etre. Today, the Palestinians identify with your name (Khomeini), your memory, and in your path. They are walking in your illuminated path and the Zionist regime has reached a total dead end. Thanks to God, your wish will soon be realized, and this germ of corruption will be wiped off the face of the world.

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BECK: This germ of corruption.

Ironically, just last week, Obama praised his great uncle for liberating one of the concentration camps at Buchenwald. I don`t understand how this guy doesn`t see that Adolf Hitler and Ahmadinejad want exactly the same thing, and no amount of negotiating will change that.

Lanny Davis is a Hillary Clinton supporter and former White House special counsel. Rabbi Marvin Hier is the founder and dean of the Simon Wiesenthal Center.

First of all, let me start with you, Rabbi. How -- how do you -- how do you buy that Barack Obama gets it?

RABBI MARVIN HIER, FOUNDER/DEAN, SIMON WIESENTHAL CENTER: Well, first, let me say that his speech, which I watched today and read, was an excellent speech at APAC.

And Israel has been very fortunate to have bipartisan support from every American president, and I don`t think it would be correct to say that Senator Obama is anti-Israel. He is certainly a friend of Israel.

However, it`s a legitimate issue to say, should you meet with Ahmadinejad on his terms? He denies the -- he denies the Holocaust. He says he wants to obliterate Israel. He uses every speech almost every week to talk about a world without Israel.

To sit down and negotiate with him, it seems to me, unless there is a change, and he comes forward and says, "I now recognize the Holocaust to be a reality" would be a meeting in which Ahmadinejad would win the PR battle, because he would say, "An American president came to me on my terms."

BECK: OK. Lanny, let me -- let me go to you. I want to play something from Nancy Pelosi. This is what she said on why the surge seems to be working in Iraq.

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REP. NANCY PELOSI (D-CA), SPEAKER OF THE HOUSE: Some of the success of the surge is that the goodwill of the Iranians. They decided in Basra when the fighting would end. They negotiated that cessation of hostilities.

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BECK: I think -- the goodwill of the Iranians? Not the prowess of the American military. Not the surge but the goodwill of the Iranians, the No. 1 enemy of Israel. What`s going on, Lanny?

LANNY DAVIS, FORMER WHITE HOUSE SPECIAL COUNSEL: Your question, what`s going on, has to be more specific.

BECK: I mean, how do I -- how am I -- I am a supporter of Israel. I think the Jews have a right to live. I don`t understand how the left in our country, not Democrats, the left, can continue to speak in glowing terms or hey, they`re just a bunch of crazy people over there but we should talk to them anyway. I don`t understand how this works.

DAVIS: Well, first of all, I`m a quite caring member of the left, as you know, Glenn, and I`m extremely pro-Israel.

BECK: You`re not crazy left, Lanny.

DAVIS: I`m rational left. That`s not an oxymoron. I agree with the rabbi that Senator Obama is very pro-Israel, as is Senator McCain. There is no debate between the two of them about our standing...

BECK: Wait a minute. Wait a minute. Lanny, you told me that you were so disturbed by some of the things that Barack Obama`s pastor was saying to him for 20 years, that you went to your rabbi, and your rabbi said, "You`ve got to stand up."

DAVIS: Well, I was talking about Israel. I still am very concerned about his passivity in the face of bigoted sermons from his pastor. And that`s exactly what I asked my rabbi: "Would you expect me to stay in a congregation where they`re using hate language and bigotry?"

And he said, "No. You should stand up. You, as a Jew, have a moral obligation to say that."

BECK: OK. All right.

DAVIS: But on the Israel question, I do have one problem with -- if you want me to...

BECK: Yes. Hang on. I`ve got a hard network break. Let me come right back. We`ll continue the conversation in just a minute.

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BECK: OK, back with Lanny Davis, former White House special counsel, and Rabbi Marvin Hier, founder of the -- and dean of the Simon Wiesenthal Center.

Lanny, go ahead and pick up your conversation where we left it off.

DAVIS: Well, I swore when I said anything negative about Senator Obama in the course of supporting Senator Clinton, that I wouldn`t change my mind just because he became our nominee. And I am going to support him over Senator McCain as our nominee. If for no other reason, that I`m worried about our 5-4 Supreme Court on Roe v. Wade being flipped by Senator McCain appointing the kind of justices he said he will.

But I am still concerned that Senator Obama spent most of the pre-Iowa caucuses criticizing Senator Clinton for endorsing Kyl-Lieberman, which supported by the senior senator from Illinois, Dick Durbin, who supported that resolution and the striking language it implies any military intervention, as a result of labeling the Iranian Revolutionary Guard a foreign terrorist organization.

Yesterday, the foreign policy advisor of Senator Obama suddenly announced, after criticizing Senator Clinton and building the Iowa caucus campaign around the war issue and the Iranian resolution issue -- that`s a face -- now, suddenly, he`s in favor of designating the Iranian Revolutionary Guard a terrorist organization. I`m glad that he is now saying that, but he`s omitted that...

BECK: That doesn`t ring true. Rabbi, Rabbi, this is too big of an issue. We have too much history here of people saying one thing and meaning it, in the case of Hitler and Ahmadinejad. There`s no doubt in my mind he wants to kill every Jew in Israel. I hope there`s no doubt in your mind.

And when somebody even talks about appeasement, is wishy-washy on that, that should scare the life out of Jews.

HIER: Well, many Jews are deeply frightened. Because you know, to everybody else, Iran is a theoretical discussion. Iran is not going to attack the United States.

BECK: Right.

HIER: It`s not going to attack England or France. But it`s 500 miles from Israel. And five and a half million Jews now live in Israel.

BECK: So how can you -- when you take -- when you take that and you know that to be true -- and I`m assuming that you believe Ahmadinejad -- how can you take somebody who`s been, like, wishy-washy on things or has somebody who is -- has a family member that has opened up a concentration camp. And yet, the message he got from that, apparently, was we need better health care for our military?

HIER: Well, no. Look, the point about Ahmadinejad, I think I`ve made very clear. If you asked me directly, would I be in favor of direct negotiations, of seeing a president of the United States sit down with Ahmadinejad, my opinion would be not to do so, because the winner would be Ahmadinejad.

BECK: Right.

HIER: Unless he came forward and said that he`s made a drastic mistake and wants to reverse himself. And I`ve made that very clear.

Because as I`ve said, Iran, it`s not only the revolutionary guards. Let`s remember that Argentina indicted the former president of Iran for planning the terrorist attack against the Jewish community building in Buenos Aires. So it`s not just the Revolutionary Guard. It`s the government of Iran.

BECK: Yes, OK. Lanny, rabbi, I thank you very much. We`re out of time.

DAVIS: Can I get one just quick shot?

BECK: Real quick, ten seconds.

DAVIS: You`re -- you`re conflating two issues. Negotiating with Iran, as part of what the Hamilton, Lee -- Hamilton and Baker Commission said, is something that we should be doing. Ahmadinejad, personally meeting by a president, which I think is tempestuously (ph) ...

BECK: I`ve got to run. Stick with us. "Real Story" next.

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BECK: Coming up -- red neck comedian Jeff Foxworthy has a new book out, how to stink at golf. This guy is a machine. Now, I`m not a sports fan. I think my golf handicap is 142. I`m interested in golf cart driving especially if you can be very, very reckless. And that`s what Jeff will join me to talk about in just a minute.

But first, welcome to the "Real Story." I don`t know about you, but the media is amazing. They have done everything in their power to paint Barack Obama as the Second Coming of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.

I wasn`t surprised this morning when I woke up and turned on the TV and saw the media love fest with Obama this morning after he clinched the Democratic nomination. But here`re some of the headlines that I found in the paper.

First one, "Obama, A New Course for America;" that`s the "Chicago Tribune." How about this one, "Obama Waits on the Threshold of History;" the "Times of London." "Destiny," oddly coming from the "New York Post." "Two words -- Black President;" "Washington Post."

I don`t know about you it`s just so warm and fuzzy inside. Of course now, Hillary Clinton wasn`t completely ignored. Remember the media hated her until today. Here`s a look at "Good Morning, America" from this morning.

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UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: The mid-western girl with big dreams wrote to NASA when she was 14 and said she wanted to be an astronaut.

SEN. HILLARY CLINTON, (D) FORMER PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE: They said, "We`re not accepting girls." And I was crushed.

She said I want you to know something -- I am going to be okay no matter what happens.

Maya Angelou once wrote a poem about Hillary Clinton. She means to rise. Don`t give up on Hillary.

MAYA ANGELOU, POET: Rise, Hillary. Rise.

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BECK: First of all, it`s only the savior Barack Obama that can say, "Rise, Hillary." It was very touching. I mean, I turned on the TV this morning and I thought, "Did Hillary Clinton die last night?" It was like watching an obituary. "Rise, Hillary." When two days ago they were saying, "Get the hell out, Hillary."

The media is positively schizophrenic. The real story is sometimes it`s not what you see on the news that matters; sometimes it`s the stuff that you don`t see, the inconvenient details.

When it comes to covering Barack Obama, media tends to ignore some of those pesky little details. For example, lost in the media`s adulation over Obama`s victory last night, was this -- did you know that Hillary won a primary last night? In fact, she`s won 20 states; 18 million votes throughout the primaries. Who knew that?

Do you remember -- do we have the picture of the giant Barack Obama happening in Oregon? Yes, you saw this. There was this picture on the Drudge Report. It was everywhere. Look at this, giant happening. Media told you 75,000 rabid Obama fans showed up.

Well, what they failed to mention here is that Obama`s speech was sandwiched in the middle of a free concert by a rock band. They have a pretty big following in Oregon because, you know, they`re from Oregon.

But that`s a minor detail. They came on stage. Played for an hour and said "Hey, we`re going finish up the set. But first we want you to listen to this guy." Minor detail; not even worth mentioning.

And now Obama apparently has America wrapped up, the media has moved on. Convincing the world, talk about worldwide appeal of Barack Obama. Today I heard, and I`m not kidding you, the people in France love him. The people in Africa love him. Well if he`s good enough for Africa, he`s certainly good enough for me.

Funny because here in America, barely half of his own party wanted him to be the next president of the United States. The media hasn`t been this blatant in selecting a candidate since William Randolph Hearst used his newspaper empire to support FDR in 1932. He even produced a propaganda movie telling Congress, "Get the heck out of FDR`s way.

I can`t wait for the Obama movie. Wouldn`t that be great? So far the trailers have been incredible.

Kevin Madden is former senior adviser to Mitt Romney. Kevin --

KEVIN MADDEN, FORMER ADVISER TO MITT ROMNEY: Hey, Glenn.

BECK: Should the Obama campaign be charged for the media providing the coverage?

MADDEN: Yes, I wonder what a six-month infomercial would cost from the major networks. Look, let`s go back to genesis of the Obama campaign. Here`s somebody who was probably only two years out of holding a state senate seat in Illinois before people started putting him on the covers on "Newsweek" magazine, "Time" magazine, "U.S. News World Report."

He was getting long lengthy feature profiles on the network news and on cable news. Essentially what he had was exactly that, a six-month infomercial about somebody who was only halfway through a senate term.

So I mean, everybody wonders, Glenn, how he raised all of these million of dollars. Well, I wonder how not when you get that kind of coverage?

BECK: And it`s amazing to me, because his campaign, when he went to the senate, it was -- he won -- he beat Allan Keys.

MADDEN: He beat Allan Keys, really, who was labeled a carpet-bagger because he was technically at that point, he was a Maryland resident and moved to Illinois just to run as part of essentially a personality campaign on his own. This was not like he had beat some sitting senator and this was somebody who was on the rise and everybody knew across the country knew he was.

People were just getting to learn about him. In large part, the media has created the phenomenon of Barack Obama. But that`s not to say that I ought not to give him credit for taking advantage of that.

BECK: Right. Let me show just you a couple of pictures that we have. There`s actually a Website for the messianic view of Barack Obama, where he`s just painted like only Orson Welles could paint him or Cecile B. de Mille.

Do we have those pictures? Could we put those pictures up? Here`s one. That`s weird. Here`s the other one; "A New Hope." Look at that, he`s like he`s radiating -- it`s like he`s made of light all of a sudden. The media has done an extraordinary job. How does John McCain beat somebody like this with the media in his pocket?

MADDEN: Well, look you know, John McCain has always had the media. He`s always described them as his base. So he`s probably got a more natural advantage than any other Republican that could be running against Barack Obama.

BECK: That love affair is over, Kevin, just like it was with Hillary.

MADDEN: Yes, and McCain will find that really -- he`ll find it really quickly that they`re not as good as friends that they thought they were.

But I will give the Obama campaign this credit; they do an incredible job of creating the pageantry behind their candidate. I know that -- you know the people who quibble about the 75,000 people in Oregon, that it was a rock concert before. But I think whey were very smart to take advantage of that.

BECK: Oh yes.

MADDEN: I bet you those 75,000 people they probably captured as many e-mail addresses of those people as possible.

BECK: Sure.

MADDEN: And they probably signed them up and registered them to vote. So it was really smart.

And they have done a good job of putting their candidate in these stadium arenas where he does look very inspirational. And they have done a good job.

Quite frankly the McCain campaign is at a disadvantage. They have to do a better job of framing their candidate among the crowds.

BECK: All right, Kevin thanks a lot.

By the way, America watch. They always shoot Obama up too. It makes him look bigger than life.

Anyway the one thing that the media hasn`t ignored is the senate`s Cap and Trade Bill because that`s about global warming and we got to save the polar bears. While Congress has been very busy with that, we`ve been begging them to do something real to solve our energy problem.

I have been getting ton of mail, people saying, "Oh, Glenn, please Congress shouldn`t do anything." No, my friend. Here`s where you wrong.

Here`s something they can do; kick-start our nuclear energy problem by opening up Yucca Mountain nuclear waste repository in Nevada. The site would provide a permanent storage site for nuclear waste. What better way to make nuclear waste, nuclear energy.

But here is the real story. The government is getting in the way of our energy independence yet again with Yucca Mountain and everything else and it`s nothing new. To show you this -- I saw this story today tucked in one of the last pages of the "Wall Street Journal." It just made me laugh out loud and then cried for about an hour.

It`s the beauty of the government bureaucracy. Government scientists now have spent 20 years working out the kinks in the Yucca application; that is two decades of paper work. Fine. So now they`re ready.

They went and turned it in. We`ll start churning out the nuclear waste, right? No, no, no. First the Nuclear Regulatory Committee will take 90 days to decide whether it will put the application on its "to do" list. Really?

Then the NRC has to approve it which begins a congressionally mandated three-year review. And then and only then can construction begin, which takes about eight years.

At the earliest, Yucca will be up and running in 2020. But that`s assuming, and this is a pretty good assumption, that there wouldn`t be any litigation and Congress will continue to provide funding.

Same old story. We try to break our foreign oil addiction; government won`t let us. We want to drill for oil in ANWR, government says, "Polar bears." We want to build new dams for hydroelectric power; the environmental lobby -- the salmon.

The Department of Homeland Security can`t even build a border fence without suspending all of our environmental laws which leads me to this question. How are we supposed to expand our alternative oil sectors when the government can`t even get out of its way to build a fence?

Steve Kraft is the senior director in Fuel Management and Nuclear Energy Institute. Steve, I have to tell you, 20 years to fill out an application?

STEVE KRAFT, NUCLEAR ENERGY INSTITUTE: Well, it`s been a long time coming, Glenn. We`re pleased it`s finally been sent over the wall into the Nuclear Regulatory Commission and it`s time to look forward and have the application reviewed and have all the questions answered so they can get on the building three years from now.

BECK: It`s not going -- let me start here. Lawsuits. You know the lawsuits are coming. Can`t congress do anything? Will congress do anything to speed this process up?

It`s my understanding that if we took all of the nuclear waste that the United States has produced since 1956, we could put it into a room the size of a high school gym. Can`t we get this mountain thing rolling a little faster?

KRAFT: Well, given that the Nuclear Regulatory Commission now has to look at 8,000 pages, 100,000 pages of backup documents and 30 million pages of even more backup document --

BECK: Oh, come on Steve, no one`s going to read any of this stuff.

KRAFT: Well --

BECK: 30 million. They`re going to do this -- it looks pretty good. I don`t think we do it.

KRAFT: Well, it`s going to be an exacting process, Glenn, that will lead to the discussions with the state of Nevada and all parties and all the questions being asked. And that repository will be built if all the questions are asked successfully and Nuclear Regulatory Commission issues that license in three years.

BECK: Ok, so here`s the great part of this that I found out today. Who filed the application? The government did. Who slowed down the application? The government did. Who got screwed in the whole process? We, the people did.

This is the government. This is the Department of Energy that did this application and they were tripped up and slowed down every step of the way by Congress.

KRAFT: Well, it`s true in the last ten or more years, about $1 billion have been cut from their budget. And it`s difficult to do such a complicated job when you`re having your budget cut so frequently.

BECK: Ok, is there any chance that a very green Nancy Pelosi, Harry Reid Congress with Obama in the White House that -- come on, we`re going to build a single nuclear power plant.

KRAFT: Well, we think we`ll start building nuclear power plants. There are applications in for 15 power plants at this point. We`ll have to start building the power plants if we`re going to combat global warming and provide clean air.

In fact, if Barack Obama is president, it would serve him very well to let this process go forward and see what the answers are to the questions raised about the repository.

BECK: Oh, dreamer. It`s been good to talk to you, Steve. Thanks.

KRAFT: Thanks.

BECK: That`s the "Real Story" tonight.

America, unless the government gets the hell out of our way, gets their act together soon -- not very likely -- energy crisis is only going to get worst. Things could get tough real fast. You`re not surprised by this.

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Back in just a second with Jeff Foxworthy.

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BECK: You know what I really love about living in New York is you can go to a comedy club and then the guys will tell jokes that everybody`s laughing and you don`t even understand. That happens in New York and Los Angeles.

Then you can go to another comedy club where there might be somebody there that you know but nobody in New York knows. And they`re like I don`t understand. What is he even saying? That person would be Jeff Foxworthy. He`s got a new book out now called, "How to Really Stink at Golf?"

Jeff, you`re a machine. What is this --

JEFF FOXWORTHY, AUTHER, "HOW TO REALLY STINK AT GOLF": So are you, Glenn.

BECK: This is like your 500th book. The next one`s going to be, "How to Get People to Buy More Books."

FOXWORTHY: You know what, I guess when you love what you do -- this is the 27th book. Glenn, I have got three more already done.

BECK: Do you really? Can I tell you something, Jeff? I got three in my head as well. They keep you up at night?

FOXWORTHY: Yes. When you`re creative, that`s the thing that you do. And I`ve got to tell you this. Out of everything that I have done in the last year, more people stop me to talk about the last time I was on your show and how much they enjoyed that.

BECK: I was just talking to Chris Gardner, he came by, he was on. He`s the guy that they did -- all I could think of was -- "I am Legend", "Pursuit of Happyness." And he was talking to me said the same thing that Michael Buble said, I have been on Oprah Winfrey and I`ve never had more people stop me in the street.

FOXWORTHY: Yes, everybody wanted to talk about the last time I was on your show so thank you for that.

BECK: You know, the last thing that you said when you were on the show with me? I said, would you ever have Hillary Clinton over for dinner. And you said, no.

FOXWORTHY: No.

BECK: Would you know she`s not going to be running the country?

FOXWORTHY: Let me think about it. No.

BECK: All right. What`s your best advice for playing golf?

FOXWORTHY: Well, here`s the deal with golf because I do so many of these charity golf tournaments. I have found -- there`s about two percent or three percent of the population that`s actually good at golf. The other 97 percent of it aren`t and we always leave feeling frustrated and angry.

And I just got to the point it`s like finding humor in life. It`s like we know the limits of being good. Tiger Woods has shown us that. We don`t know the limits of being bad. So, why not explore that end of the spectrum?

BECK: You`re the Tiger Woods of bad golf.

FOXWORTHY: Well, it`s just like embrace the fact that you`re not going to be good at this.

BECK: You know what would be fun? I would like -- because I get invited to charity golf things all the time. I never go, because I stink. We should do some charity thing where you can`t be good.

FOXWORTHY: Glenn, when I play in a charity -- people are pledging money to find a cure for whatever wrong`s with me. I`m awful at the thing. If you`re going to stink instead of being frustrated about it, why not embrace it.

The book starts off, I tell you, don`t warm up. My theory is, I`m going the hit four, five good shots all day long. Why waste one on the driving range? Go straight to the first tee and start whacking.

BECK: You say that fairways are for sissies.

FOXWORTHY: They are -- anybody can hit it out of that short grass. I`m not a sissy. I have never taken the easy way out. I stand down there in the woods just whacking going, "Is this all you got? Come on."

BECK: I want one in the trees the next time.

FOXWORTHY: When I finish playing, somebody`s checking me for ticks.

BECK: Jeff thanks a lot. We`ll talk to you again.

FOXWORTHY: All right Glenn. Good to talk to you.

BECK: Good bye. Happy Father`s Day.

We`ll be back in just a second.

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BECK: Got a great story for you. In April 2006, former car dealer, John Matthews, he faced a long uphill battle. He heard the news that nobody wants to hear. Doctor came in to the room and you have cancer.

And it wasn`t good. He had a rare and particularly brutal type of lung cancer that most people know from commercials, you know when lawyers are trying to round up clients to file asbestos lawsuits.

The doctors told him his cancer was terminal and he didn`t have much time to live. But John kept on living. He was told he wouldn`t make it past Christmas; he did. In fact he lived for another six months. He still feels okay.

Sure, he had bad days. But he was still here. He was still going strong. That`s when he started thinking to himself how could I give myself even more motivation to fight harder?

Doctors had told him the longest he could possibly live would be 25 months from his diagnosis. So he walked into a bookmaker, William Hill, in the U.K. decided to place a bet on his life. Matthews wagered $200 that he would live past June 1st, 2008.

The bookie was obviously skeptical at first but the story checked out. And while it might seem a little grim, they said, we have never been asked to accept a bet of this nature but John approached us directly. He was adamant that it would give him additional incentive to face his battle so he took the bet. They gave him 50 to 1 odds.

Amazingly, June 1st has just come and gone and I`m happy to tell you, he won. Final payout - $10,000. What`s John going to do with the money? Well he`s given half of it to cancer charity. He said the other half he`s spending on myself, probably on cigarettes and booze.

What do you expect? The guy was gambling on cancer. He also said he always wanted to go bungee jumping and he might just try that but he might not want to get too risky with his life because he`s just placed another bet.

This time to see if he can beat cancer for yet another year. Bookmaker summed it up best, never in 30 years in the business have I been pleased to pay a winning client $10,000.

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