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Obama Speaks in Germany; Will Russia Control Oil in the North Pole?

Aired July 24, 2008 - 19:00   ET

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GLENN BECK, HOST (voice-over): Tonight, the messiah has landed in Germany.

SEN. BARACK OBAMA (D-IL), PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE: People of the world, now do your duty. People of the world, look at Berlin.

BECK: Thousands turn out in Berlin to watch his speech. We`ll take a look at what he said and the significance of where he said it.

Then, showdown at the North Pole. A new report says the Arctic contains a fifth of the world`s oil reserve. I`ll explain why this actually could give a new meaning to the term Cold War.

And a new PBS documentary shows a remarkable device that sucks CO2 out of the atmosphere. Yet, environmentalists are against it. Hmm. I`ll have "The Real Story."

All this and more, tonight.

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BECK: Well, hello, America. I have to tell you: I`m tired of being an outcast, you know, in the media. I really am. I`m just going, I mean, let`s go for it. I mean, let`s just go for it. I`m jumping on the bandwagon, man. I`m not going to be the only one in the media, you know, that`s not full-fledged "if I could just touch the hem of his garment."

I`ve traded in my lapel pin, you know, for the full Monty here, you know, supporting my new hero, the savior of the universe, the next president of these United Nations, Mr. Barack Obama. He is -- seriously, if I could just put my finger to his side.

He made a campaign speech this afternoon to thousands of adoring fans. Obamamania is sweeping the nation. Only, it`s not our nation that he was sweeping today. It was Germany. Yes, is this guy amazingly arrogant? I`m sorry, Obama. I forgot what I was saying.

Obama is making history as the very first candidate for American presidency who is campaigning in foreign countries. I don`t know if he knows this, but they can`t buy your books, your T-shirts, the cool hats. He`s the savior of the world. So America, here`s "The Point" tonight.

You want to talk about cojones? And since we`re a global society, why can`t I spice in a few foreign words from time to time? Barack Obama is starting to feel less like he`s running for president and more like he wants to be anointed the new King of kings, the King of the world. And here`s how I got there.

There`s a lot about Obama`s speech that people need to see and hear. Please, read the speech, take a look at just this.

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OBAMA: I come to Berlin, as so many of my countrymen have come before. Although tonight, I speak to you not as a candidate for president, but as a citizen. A proud citizen of the United States and a fellow citizen of the world.

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BECK: Citizen of the world. Too bad the world won`t be paying your salary for the job that you`re applying for. We, the people, hire you. This guy is acting like he`s already been elected and anointed.

Secondly, America is struggling with the biggest batch of domestic crisis in recent history. I can`t even fathom why Obama is selling his agenda to the Germans. This is spooky. Is it spooky to anybody else? He`s laying out your foreign policy. You know, you want to do that? That`s one thing. But I prefer my presidential contenders to make, you know, taking care of business at home their first priority.

Then, there is the amazing choice of location for the speech. Berlin`s Victory Column is where he speech -- where he gave the speech. Now, at first glance, you thought, oh, wow, that`s cool. A monument like our own Washington monument. Look at the pretty angel there. Yes, not so much.

The cornerstone of Obama`s campaign has been ending the war in Iraq, so it`s ironic -- or maybe moronic -- that he chose to give a speech at a monument to war. Let me give you a little history of the Victory Column.

It was erected by Germany in the late 1860s to celebrate the bloody victories and to humiliate the rest of Europe. The angel on top is a vengeful angel, a mocking goddess of victory. Most Germans ignore this thing or are embarrassed by the column because, largely, it was Hitler who moved it from the Reichstag to its present location.

By the way, the angel -- OK, this is a Victory Column. This is the inspiration for "sieg heil." Translation, "hail victory." Angel on top, perfect, isn`t it?

Here`s what you need to know, America. Last I looked, we`re not electing an American Idol or a rock star or a prince or a King or a god. We`re electing an American president who works for us. He`s our employee. Save the Oktoberfest, Obama, for late November, and dance with the one who brung [SIC] you. Keep your focus on the many issues plaguing us right here at home. And leave the tour of historical hot spots to somebody else. You know what I`m saying?

And if Obama was going to give a speech overseas, why did he give it in Germany? I mean, you know, is it the history of universal housing and health care and the land of peace that Germany has always been? Why didn`t he say a few words earlier this week in -- oh, I don`t know -- Iraq or maybe Israel? Could it possibly be that there`s not a chapter of the Barack Obama fan club there in Baghdad? Or did you just not want the veiled faces of Muslims on the TV screen?

Kevin Madden is a Republican strategist and former senior adviser to Mitt Romney. Amity Shlaes is the author of "The Forgotten Man" and a syndicated columnist for Bloomberg.com.

Kevin, let me start with you. I mean, this whole image, and maybe it`s just me, I think this sets a whole different tone. The rest of the media, they`re onboard, and they say, "Oh, it was fantastic." I looked at it and thought, who the hell does this guy think he is?

KEVIN MADDEN, REPUBLICAN STRATEGIST: Well, look, I think the fact that he was in Berlin giving a speech was just one of the many contradictions.

I know that he mentioned Ronald Reagan and he mentioned John F. Kennedy, but both of those presidents went there to make the case to Europe for a very robust national security posture and in a very forward-looking foreign policy from America. And I think that Barack Obama is doing the exact opposite. He`s talking about a weaker national security posture in the world.

So again, it`s one of just many contradictions.

BECK: Amity, has this ever been done before by a candidate? Has this ever been done by anybody, something like this?

AMITY SHLAES, AUTHOR, "THE FORGOTTEN MAN": All the time. They want to not necessarily to this extent, but I would add to what Kevin had said. It`s not nearly the oppression symbol, but also the Cold War symbol where there`s a contradiction. Because Obama is for timetables. The Cold War was the opposite of a timetable.

The Berlin Airlift to which he referred was about persevering at great cost. You want to look at what the federal government was spending then as a share of the economy on those wars, nobody ever asked for closure. Asking for closure would have been asking for weakness, Glenn. And yet, in the same speech, he asks -- he asks for closure in Iraq. So big contradiction with the venue.

MADDEN: That`s exactly true.

BECK: Let me show you guys a couple of thoughts here. And then get your feeling on it. Here`s a couple of sound bites from today`s speech. Let`s start with cut No. 2. And listen carefully to what he`s saying.

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OBAMA: This is the moment when we must build on the wealth that opens markets to free agents and share its benefits more equitably. Trade has been a cornerstone of our growth and global development.

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BECK: He wants to take the wealth created by open markets and share that wealth more equitably. What the hell does that even mean?

MADDEN: That`s called -- Glenn, that`s called socialism. That was the whole -- that was the whole reason that we had a lot of our national security interests in Europe, was to stop socialism and communism from spreading across the rest of that continent.

Yet Barack Obama goes out there and basically makes -- makes a case for his view of what the American economy should be, which is redistribution of wealth, which is exactly wrong.

BECK: Global.

MADDEN: Global distribution of wealth now is what he wants. So he`s running for president, a Democrat, liberal Democrat president of the world.

BECK: I swear to you, he is. Amity, I want you to watch this -- this piece of tape. Listen to this carefully and tell me what it means.

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OBAMA: Now is the time to join together through constant cooperation and strong institutions and shared sacrifice and a global commitment to progress to meet the challenges of the 21st century.

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BECK: I mean, Amity, where do I even start on that one? Sacrifice, guaranteed commitment to each other. What was -- what was the other thing that he said? Under a strong institution. This is a global nation that he`s building.

SHLAES: He`s multilateral, but the remarkable thing to me about this speech, Glenn, was that it was almost neocon. It as a let`s fight together the hard fight for democracy, and you know how much that is a taboo currently among -- you know, in the Democratic Party, in Germany, certainly.

There`s a lot in this speech where he talks the talk, and he`s not willing to walk the walk. So it`s a contradiction.

He`s saying, let`s fight for the blogger, the small men in Zimbabwe. That could have been scripted by -- forgive me for saying so -- Bush`s own speech writers, a lot of it, and yet here it is coming out of Obama`s mouth. Very interesting speech.

MADDEN: You know, Glenn, I think there`s shades of 2004 in there, as well. You remember during 2004 when John Kerry said that he wanted to deploy troops after they passed a global test? This is very much that same rhetoric. So I could imagine that the McCain campaign is going to see here an opportunity. They`re going to seize upon it.

And they`re going to try and draw a stark contrast between a very strong national security posture around the globe, versus a weak one with Barack Obama.

BECK: OK. Can I ask you guys? And I mean this not as a pundit or anything else. I mean this sincerely, as one American to another. Does this kind of rhetoric scare you at all? This imagery, this globalist rhetoric, this Marxist rhetoric? Does it creep you out or worry you at all?

SHLAES: It creeps me out if you have the same party in Congress. Clinton said stuff like this all the time.

BECK: Not like this. Not as a candidate.

SHLAES: But it didn`t matter so much, because he had the Republicans in Congress to contradict him, to nullify it. If you have a strong and left-leaning Congress going along with this, this tide goes farther than any tide before.

MADDEN: Well, look, I think what bothers me is that it renegotiates America`s role in the world as the global leader. And what it does is it almost says to Europe and everyone else. We want to take a back seat and let you guys make a decision.

No, I`m not saying that America should dictate everybody else`s global -- everybody else`s policies around the globe, but we have to recognize that what makes America great is that we are the leader in the free world, that we are the ones that defend democracies, that we`re the ones that defend those principles that have made America a great place throughout the world so that the world can be a safer place.

BECK: You know, I`ve got to tell you. If we would just unleash ourselves and, you know, let Congress and the White House and everybody else just take the handcuffs off this country, we would lead the world for the -- for you know -- for any possible foreseeable future.

But it is frightening to me that we`ve got a guy who doesn`t seem to understand the Constitution of the United States, and really in this speech at least, I don`t think, puts America first. Puts us all into one nice global package where we can share sacrifice and wealth.

Guys, thanks a lot.

Now, coming up, a new report says the North Pole may contain as much as 20 percent of the world`s undiscovered oil and gas reserves. Could it lead to land grabbing and possible military conflict? New Cold War. Wait until you hear this.

And this is great news. You have to ask yourself why is this not on the front page of every paper. A Columbia University physicist has developed a machine that can remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere. All the tree-hugging greenies should be happy, right? Wrong. Why? Answer, coming up.

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BECK: Coming up, a professor at our beloved Columbia University has invented a device that actually sucks CO2 out of the atmosphere. It cleans the atmosphere of carbon dioxide. Well, you would think that Al Gore and the environmental crowd would be behind this thing 100 percent and be throwing a party. They`re not. Why? Answer, tonight`s "Real Story."

But first, environmentalists are always saying how America needs to lead the way. We`ve got to lead the way on global warming. Really? While we`re debating whether we should lead the way, Russia is making a deal now to buy up all of Libya`s gas, oil, and liquefied natural gas. They`ve planted their flag on the floor of the Arctic. They are becoming the world`s energy supplier.

So what? So what? The Arctic. Well, that`s just where 20 percent of the world`s undiscovered oil and gas reserves are. Twenty percent. There`s an estimated 1.7 trillion cubic feet of gas. Ninety billion barrels of oil. So, while all the greenies are trying to prevent us from getting our all of oil in our own country, everywhere on planet earth, there is a Russian trying to lock it up everyplace else.

Kevin Kerr is an analyst and editor for Resource Trader Alert. Kevin, saw the story today about the Arctic. This is significant amount of energy under the polar cap, right?

KEVIN KERR, RESOURCE TRADER ALERT: Yes, it`s gigantic. It`s hard to even fathom how much it is. And we even don`t know how much it is because nobody has really gone up there and mapped it out. But obviously, Russia is far more aggressive than us. They`re already up there. They have nuclear ships already plowing through the ice, and we`re still debating whether we should go there or not.

BECK: OK. So Russia is buying up energy everyplace. They are buying it from -- trying to buy it from Libya. They`ve gotten to a deal with Iran. They are a huge resource themselves in Russia, and now they`re going after the Arctic. They`re locking up energy on planet earth.

KERR: Absolutely. You know, they`re being so progressive, and they`ve got places like Kazakhstan that also have huge stores of energy. We don`t have any of that, and here we`re debating over whether we should even go and go after the Arctic supplies that we may have. They have all these different resources.

BECK: Right. And what`s amazing to me, please tell me why the environmentalists are seemingly cool with Russia and China locking up all of these reserves, or they`re fine with Saudi Arabia drilling, you know, in Saudi Arabia. But somehow or another, they believe we`re less responsible than China and Russia. Do you think they care about the polar bears?

KERR: No, it`s ridiculous. And if you look at Russia`s history of environmental damage from their drilling procedures, I mean...

BECK: It`s awful (ph).

KERR: ... they should be up in arms that they`re up there first. It`s really awful. You know, the U.S. would probably be the best steward of the environment up in the Arctic. It`s just -- it`s just ridiculous.

BECK: OK, so in 2020, 2030, what does the world look like, because no matter what these people say about new technology, it`s going to take 20 years to find it and have the tipping point of being able to have everybody use new energy. We`re still going to need oil for a long time. What does America look like if we don`t get off our butt right now?

KERR: Well, we better all learn Russian. The bottom line is we are going to have much bigger demand. Much growing demand, no matter what. Doesn`t matter if wind farms come online and solar power. All that stuff is great, but we all know it`s not going to be immediate. We need supplies right now.

And again, if we start drilling in the Arctic today, we`re not going to really have supplies for 10, 15 years, maybe. So we have to be realistic on that.

BECK: It says -- it says on the bottom of the screen here, energy war. I think people, you know, everybody is -- no war for oil. That`s coming, isn`t it?

KERR: It is for all resources, I think. And I don`t want to be an alarmist here. I wrote a column a while ago about that. The coming resources war. I mean, do we really think that countries aren`t going to battle it out wherever those resources are, whether it`s Africa, whether it`s South America for farmland, whether it`s going to be in the Arctic. Of course, they are.

Countries go to war over a lot less than energy supplies, which are completely important for the economy. So I think it`s absolutely something that`s going to happen.

BECK: Based on what we`re seeing now and our inaction, I mean, I`ve had people telling me that the rest of the world is laughing at us because we`re just -- we`re just being bypassed. Who controls the world -- he who controls the energy will control the world. Who controls the world in 2020?

KERR: You know, I don`t think it is OPEC anymore. And their infrastructure is crumbling. Their membership is sporadic. I think it depends on where you`re located. For us, it`s going to be who`s closest by. Maybe it`s Canada. Because they`re one of the biggest exporters to us.

BECK: Maybe.

KERR: Or maybe -- maybe Mexico, although their oil fields are in serious trouble at the Cantarell Field. So I guess you`re looking at countries like Venezuela. You`re looking at the Middle East, sporadically. And you`re looking at Russia, absolutely.

BECK: Great. That doesn`t sound -- that doesn`t sound like the Triangle of Death. Thanks a lot, Kevin. Appreciate it. Now...

KERR: Thanks, Glenn.

BECK: ... coming up, I`m going to share a guy with you. You know him from the Simpsons. He`s actor and comedian Harry Shearer. He stops by to tell me about his new CD, "Songs of the Bushman." I`ll explain. It gets dicey, next.

Plus, monster from Florida sentenced to 43 years in prison for child abuse and molestation. He hasn`t spent a single day behind bars. Why? The answer in tonight`s "Real Story."

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BECK: Well, besides being one of the funniest and most original, comedic voices in entertainment today, I also think it`s fair to assume that Harry Shearer is not really a huge fan of President Bush. Just in case he needs some proof, the "Spinal Tap" alum now has a new album of songs that should do the trick. It`s called "Songs of the Bushman."

Actually, while Harry and I don`t agree with anything -- not a single thing do we agree -- I think he`s a really funny, funny guy. And an honest man, as well. You`ll hit them on both sides, won`t you, Harry?

HARRY SHEARER, COMEDIAN: Yes. I think that, you know, it`s not the job of a satirist to be the fan of anybody who`s occupying the Oval Office. That would be a dereliction of duty. So, you know, our job is to make fun of whoever has -- well, in other countries it would be the monopoly of the guns. But here, it would be the majority of the guns.

BECK: Yes, right. OK, here`s the thing, Harry. I mean, you know, I`m not going to go out and buy your album, because I just don`t -- you know.

SHEARER: You want -- you want it for free. That`s what you`re saying.

BECK: No, but I mean is there -- look, I`m not a fan of George W. Bush. I used to be.

SHEARER: Yes.

BECK: Not so much anymore. Is there something that is just -- or is this just a bunch of just -- oh, look, he stole the election kind of stuff.

SHEARER: No, no, no, no, no, no. First of all, it`s not really about him, as the title implies. It`s about the people who work in the administration. So there`s a song kind of written in the persona from the point of view of each of the major characters in the administration and sung in their voice, I hope. So it`s Colin Powell, Condi Rice, Don Rumsfeld, Alberto Gonzales, Karl Rove, and John Hugh, among others. John Bolton and Paul Wolfowitz. So it`s about the cast of characters. It`s not about him.

BECK: When Obama -- I`m just -- I`m jumping on the band wagon. When he becomes president...

SHEARER: Yes?

BECK: ... are you going to find anything funny about him?

SHEARER: Here`s the deal, Glenn. I -- I`m a believer in the wisdom of the founders. The founders created a system based on a simple premise, that power turns everybody to crap.

BECK: OK. I don`t think that`s an exact quote, but you are pretty darn close on that.

SHEARER: You know -- you know the gist of it. Yes.

BECK: Here`s the thing. I am concerned -- and I was talking about this on my radio program today. I was concerned about 2003, and I warned - - I`m a conservative, but I warned conservatives, I said, look out, man. This thing is swinging so far in one direction, it`s going to swing the other direction. Just as far, if not further.

I`m nervous, just like everybody was nervous on the left, about freedom of speech or political correctness. I`m really concerned about Obama and not being able to say anything. I mean, this thing in the "New Yorker," I mean first of all, when did anybody start paying attention to the "New Yorker" cartoons and trying to understand them?

SHEARER: Yes.

BECK: Well, but aren`t you concerned at all about political correctness in this country and what`s coming?

SHEARER: Oh, I`m concerned about any time there are fake limits on speak. I thought that the FCC`s ruling on the shocking Janet Jackson episode was bad for all of us in broadcasting. It certainly put a -- you know, it put a chilling effect on everybody in radio, because all of -- especially, public radio, because the stations couldn`t afford that fine. I don`t know -- I`m sure your show could. But you know...

BECK: I don`t really care. I expose my breasts...

SHEARER: You don`t pay the fine.

BECK: ... every day.

SHEARER: Yes, but you don`t -- you don`t -- you only pierce it once a week.

BECK: Yes.

SHEARER: So I mean, I think it`s always a danger when, from right or left, free speech gets attacked. Absolutely. That`s the business we`re in.

BECK: Right. Harry, always good talking to you, sir.

SHEARER: Exactly. You did a great job on Larry King, by the way.

BECK: Thank you very much.

All right. Coming up next, a Florida man gets 43 years for molesting a child, but he hasn`t served a single minute behind bars. What the hell is happening to our country? I`ll explain in tonight`s "Real Story." Stick around.

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BECK: We have a lot of authors on this program, but not all of them had sold over 150 million books on their own. Best-selling author, James Patterson`s new book called "The Dangerous Days of Daniel X;" he stops by to tell me about it, coming up in just a second.

But, welcome to "The Real Story" first. One of my main points on the global warming crisis has simply been let`s not overreact and do stupid things. If you haven`t noticed we`re overreacting and that usually creates bubbles, and bubbles lead to bursting of bubbles. And let`s take a look to see what happened to the Internet stocks and the real estate market, if you need proof, that`s not a good idea.

We don`t need to drop trillions of dollars on new cap in trade or dumb tax schemes. We don`t need short cited ideas like dumping iron ore or now it`s lime into the oceans. The real story is that climate change, just like almost every other problem, can be solved by getting the politicians and the special interest groups out of the way of the entrepreneurs.

Politicians, shoo, shoo. People, people, the rich, they are the ones who understand virtually every millionaire in this country made money by solving a problem that seemed insurmountable to others. That`s how the rich got rich. That`s how America became America. We dream. I trust you, not the politicians.

Right now in Tucson, Arizona, a Colombia University physicist named Klaus Latner is working on an amazing device. It`s a CO2 scrubber. It could remove one ton of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere every single day. Now, you produce about 18 tons of carbon dioxide a year. Could you imagine what this could do? It doesn`t filter out new CO2 from factories, other technology exists to that.

This scrubs out existing CO2, which means it has the potential to take us back to pre-industrial age carbon levels without giving up anything; without giving up cars; without turning off our air conditioners or paying some ridiculous amount of our incomes to some new government agency.

The scrubber, which is still in development now, it means that removing one ton of carbon a day is likely just the beginning because it`s still in development. Remember, remember the first computers, we used to watch them, as kids on -- remember Willy Wonka, when he -- I`m now asking the machine where the last Wonka bar is.

They`re as big as a house. Even Al Gore understands the technology always gets better, faster and cheaper. In fact, he used this argument himself on "Meet the Press" last weekend.

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AL GORE, FORMER VICE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES: Think about what happened in the computer revolution. That -- we saw cost reductions for silicon computer chips of 50 percent every year and a half for the last 40 years. We`re now beginning to see the same kind of sharp cost reductions as the demand grows for solar cells.

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BECK: Ok, he`s half right, which is about half as right as he usually is. Gore`s Law doesn`t apply just to solar cells but to all technologies. They get better, and they get cheaper as they approach singularity and then, boom, you`re off to the races, including the CO2 scrubber.

Yet, Al Gore is not happy about the CO2 scrubber. Environmental groups are opposed to the idea of a CO2 scrubber. Why is that? In fact, they oppose many of them, any technology that allows us to continue to live with fossil fuels. Hah. It`s almost like somebody on this program has been saying that for quite some time.

The truth is climate change is nothing but a smoke screen for what these people really want; and that is power. It`s -- their motivated by greed, money, controlling every single aspect of your life. That is their real agenda. Why don`t the rest of us work on the CO2 problem?

Sterling Burnett is the senior fellow at the National Center for Policy Analysis.

Sterling, this scrubber, I heard about this, this morning. I can`t believe if the world is really concerned about CO2 that this isn`t on the front page of every single newspaper in America. We should be investing, investors. You want to solve the problem, go invest in this company.

STERLING BURNETT, NATIONAL CENTER FOR POLICY ANALYSIS: Well, it`s really out there for a month. It`s been out there for months, they have been talking about it but as you say, nowhere on the front page.

The "New York Times" hasn`t covered it. "Washington Post" isn`t covering it. It`s a -- you have to find it on YouTube. I will say "60 Minutes" did a story on it last month.

But -- because, as you`ve already rightly identified, Glenn, the environmentalists, and they`re the ones driving the global warming whip, they`re not really concerned about CO2. They`re concerned about people`s lifestyles.

They want to control -- they have a vision of the world. And that vision, they continue to live in their pretty nicely appointed houses, and pay more for the cars that make them salve their conscience, and the poor people don`t do that well because their vision is a simpler lifestyle for everyone but them.

In the `80s, there was a t-shirt, a group called "Earth First." Had a model called "Back to the Pleistocene" well, they don`t go quite that far, but they really -- it`s about, as you said, controlling how people live. I don`t think it`s not about money. It`s about control.

BECK: Ok, you know what I have to tell you, I would invest in this company. I think there`s a lot of people who would invest in this company; or in new technologies. But you don`t -- you don`t trust the people who are fighting the global warming thing.

The cleanest energy we can find is nuclear energy. They don`t want it. CO2 scrubbers, they don`t want it.

BURNETT: Control.

BECK: Yes, you don`t trust them, so nobody will invest in this company, and then on the other side of that, you don`t trust government that government is not going to come in and stop that technology. So how do you get yourself out of it as an entrepreneur?

BURNETT: It`s tough as an entrepreneur. I`m not even sure it`s part of a company yet. It`s really in the experimental stage.

But the question is, how far will the experiment be allowed to go forward? Because environmentalists are trying actively to stop this; their argument is not that we should remove CO2, but that we should stop using fossil fuels.

BECK: Right, I will tell you that we called, and I think well, we hope that they`ll be on the air at some point. They do have a company; I think it`s with the new Wright Brothers, believe it or not. And I have to tell you, we`ll check this company out, and America, if this is true, this is one of the big, huge keys to the global warming problem. And it will open up every door; if that`s the real motivation.

BURNETT: There`s a variety of technologies out there. You sort of didn`t like the idea of iron filings in the ocean. I actually think it`s not a bad idea because it does a lot of other things that are good.

But Geo-engineering solutions -- proposed solutions have been out there for some time, but they`re always pooh-poohed, they`re always demeaned because they don`t get it what the environmentalists are really about.

If you want to reduce CO2 emissions, there are ways to do it that don`t force Americans to sacrifice their lifestyles, that don`t make the poor poorer, that don`t raise energy.

BECK: Right, thanks Sterling. By the way, just a note everybody always says that it`s big auto and oil that stopped all this technology. Well, here is new technology to scrub the air clean of CO2. Who is burying it?

All right, now I`m a law and order kind of guy, but when the Supreme Court ruled recently that child rapists can`t be put to death because of quote, "evolving standards of decency," I started thinking, maybe we should start collecting pitchforks and torches here on my set in New York City, you know just to remind the people in Washington it`s we the people who are in charge, not the courts, not the politicians.

But after I heard about this next story, surely I thought we just might need a lend-lease act for my pitchfork collection. The first stop might be South Florida.

Here is a story that will make blood shoot out of your eyes. About five years ago, a middle school art teacher did the unthinkable. He abused one of his very own students, a 13-year-old boy. He raped the child in a supply closet at school or he`d take the boy home and molest him and then he brings him back to school at the end of the day. This went on for nearly two years.

Fortunately, this scum bag, who -- do we have a picture of him, please -- there he is, Aaron McHanlal he is from Port St. Lucy, Florida. Take a good long look at his face, America there he is. Yes, he was caught, arrested, prosecuted, and convicted sentenced to 43 years in prison, which I don`t think it`s enough; but better than nothing, right?

Well, "The Real Story" is, a genius Florida judge who must be auditioning for the role on the Supreme Court, released this monster on a bond pending his appeal. He has never spent one day in prison. Even worse, this low-life could be working as an ice cream man at the nursery school if he wanted to because the judge never ordered him to stay away from any child except for the victim. Florida, my pitchfork collection awaits your call.

Tom Blomberg is the dean and professor of Criminology at the Florida State University. Tom, what the heck happened here? How did this guy go from a sentence of 43 years to walking out of the court room free?

TOM BLOMBERG, PROFESSOR OF CRIMINOLOGY, FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY: Well, you just asked the $64,000 question. It`s a mystery to all of us. Florida law indicates that a convicted offender who has no prior felonies that has been convicted of first degree murder or sexual battery is ineligible for a post-conviction bond.

But in the case of Mr. McHanlal, he was convicted of second and third degree sexual battery felonies and child molestation and he had no prior record. So technically, it was legal what the judge did. But the judge always has discretion in these cases.

And again, my -- again the point here is -- is that with a sex offender facing a 43-year prison sentence and an appeal that could go on for years, this is a pretty high-risk offender to have out, even despite global positioning being on him.

BECK: Who is the judge? Does the judge -- does he have this kind of reputation of being, I don`t know, crazy?

BLOMBERG: I don`t know the answer to that question. And you know the real perplexing thing is the judge has indicated that at the hearing, at the bond hearing, that he made full consideration of all the circumstances and felt that a bond was appropriate.

Well, this is something that is highly unusual and particular in criminal cases involving felony convictions. And then when you have, you know, an offender facing a 43-year prison sentence, and he knows full well that when he gets into prison, there is a social structure.

Pedophiles are at the bottom of that structure, and they are subject to considerable victimization by other inmates. He`s at high risk for absconding, and as you know, the bond does allow him to travel, to work, to live, as well as to attend church; so he as a lot of flexibility of movement.

BECK: Tom, we`ll be in touch with you. We want to follow the story. Thanks a lot, that`s the "Real Story" tonight.

By the way, I am getting a ton of these pitchforks in, a ton. Keep them coming, America. I`m going to hang them all over the walls of this set here in the Time Warner Building, which is 10 Columbus Circle, Time Warner care of me, Glenn Beck, New York, New York, 10019. Send them in.

I want every politician, every judge, everybody who is supposed to protect and defend our constitution to know who they work for, us.

James Patterson, back in a minute.

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BECK: Best selling author James Patterson was on the program yesterday talking about his latest book, "The Dangerous Days of Daniel X." It is targeted towards a very different audience than you might think coming from James Patterson.

Jim is back today to talk a little bit more about the book and why he wrote it. We were talking a little bit yesterday off the air about, you know, you`re obviously a successful guy, but you didn`t start successful. You were a poor guy. You grew up poor.

JAMES PATTERSON, AUTHOR: Yes, I did. I have a 25 cent allowance. And that was I had to negotiate that up from 15 cents.

BECK: And then you went into the ad world. You`re responsible for the "Toys R Us."

PATTERSON: I have been clean for 15 years.

BECK: No, you haven`t. I have seen the advertising for your books. You did the Oscar Myer Wiener thing.

PATTERSON: I was involved with that. I was involved with "Toys R Us," I was involved with "Burger King."

BECK: But when you say that, I know it was a collaborative effort, --

PATTERSON: I think I`m paying work, yes.

BECK: Kids that climb on rocks if it wasn`t for you.

PATTERSON: Whatever. I come from the modest school of life.

BECK: Ok. All right so you did that. And then how did you go to fiction writer?

PATTERSON: Well, I had -- I had always -- I wrote my first novel, published it when I was 26. Got turned down by every publisher in New York; then it finally got accepted by Little Burton and then it won an Edgar as the best mystery of the year; so go figure. So if you ever get turned down by a New York publisher, don`t worry.

BECK: Oh yes, I know -- I don`t think they generally get it although, they continued to publish mine, which is just yet another sign they don`t get it. And you control -- you control everything, when you first did "Along Came a Spider" you took and said they`ve sent you a cover of the book.

PATTERSON: No, I don`t like to control. I like to participate. And I think a lot of authors don`t get to participate.

BECK: You`re a wordsmith, aren`t you?

PATTERSON: Yes, no, that`s the way I have always operated. I like to put a couple of smart people in a room and then listen to everybody.

BECK: Did anybody -- did anybody tell you that short chapters were a bad -- that it was a bad idea? Because your chapters, quite frankly, it`s because of you I`m up until 3:00 o`clock in the morning; because everybody does it. They`ll look through a book and say, like oh it`s only two pages. And before you know it --

PATTERSON: It did seem to me that, you know, it`s 10:30 at night or whatever, you want to read. And if you pick it up and its 40 pages, I don`t know -- a lot of people can`t handle it. Mine, its three or four pages and you`re slept and you`re you know; one more, one more.

BECK: Exactly right. I did it last night. I looked at the end of one chapter. I was coming up. Ok, I`ll read it. And then next chapter was really long, and I closed the book. Where if it was a couple pages like your books usually are, I would have stuck with it.

The idea that you are so successful, I mean, Stephen King wrote under the name of Richard Backtauf yes, for a long time because he said he couldn`t write so many books, et cetera, et cetera.

You have, and you have become very successful at it. And yet people, is it true that people knock you and say you can`t be that successful? You can`t do this. Right?

PATTERSON: As you know, you`re always going to have some people -- what I would say about it is there are thousands of people who don`t like what I do. Fortunately, millions do like what I do. So we`ll go with the big crowd.

BECK: In the book, "Daniel X" this is "The Dangerous Days of Daniel X" and this is written for -- to get kids involved in reading and families to read together, et cetera, which is

PATTERSON: And talk about books.

BECK: Right. And you do that because I would guess, part of you is a very big capitalist, and you see the future. If they`re not reading there`s no future for books.

PATTERSON: There`s no future -- well, let me put it this way. It`s hard to imagine a future for this country if kids don`t read because reading is where you get so much more exposure; so many different kinds of ideas. You have to think rather than just be passive and let information come to you at all times.

BECK: The -- is it true that you`re developing a Website? Because I read, I started reading with my kids. And we will read "The Wizard of Oz" and loved it and then we came across a book called "The Return to Oz;" it was the worst book of all-time. And it almost turned my kids off.

PATTERSON: Yes, well, look, it`s hard for a lot of people to go into a bookstore and decides which one --

BECK: Yes, you have no idea.

PATTERSON: To buy me. If you went into the movie theater and here were 1,000 titles you`d just turn around and leave.

BECK: Sure.

PATTERSON: So I`m starting a Website, it`ll be out in the a few weeks. It is called "read kiddo read." And the whole idea -- is that you could lean over the fence and say, Jim, what are some cool books that might -- that are going to turn my kids on?

Because I believe it`s the responsibility of parents and grandparents to find books that their kids are going to love. So this site "read kiddo read" is all about books that are really going to be a turn-on and the kids are going to say, give me another book.

BECK: The name of the book James Patterson is "The Dangerous Days of Daniel X." It`s available at book stores everywhere.

Back in just a minute.

Thanks, James.

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BECK: Well, you know the song "Take me out to the ball game, take me out to the crowd," well I think that the last line may have to change. It used to be "buy me some peanuts and cracker jacks" but now only evil hate- mongers would dare suggest to you to buy such a deadly product at the ballpark.

Are you trying to kill innocent children? Could be allergic to peanuts you know.

Luckily peanut-based terrorists will not be welcomed in the new peanut-controlled zones at two Seattle Mariners games August 5th and September 9th. Special sections now are being set aside where peanuts will be banned. I would assume that that would include Cracker Jacks as well because they have peanuts in them.

So the song will just be "buy me some" -- and then that`ll be it." Peanut allergies are a total nightmare for parents to deal with. There`s nothing wrong with private companies doing what they can to bring in new people. Peanut allergies can be deadly.

So the parents of kids with peanut allergies always have to be on guard. Luckily, studies shows about quarter of parents are convinced their kids have food allergies when only 4 percent actually do. And all allergies combined in kids and adults kill only 150 people each year and our population of over 300 million.

But peanut allergies, I mean it seems like they`re everywhere lately, doesn`t it? I mean I guess if we ever lose our Second Amendment rights, we could always carry around a pack of Planter`s Honey Roasted just to protect it. I mean I know how to use them.

Or you could always get a pitchfork. They keep coming into New York here at the Time Warner Center, much to the pleasure of the mailroom here at the Time Warner Center. And, yes, we`ve got a few of them that have come in so far. I can`t keep them on the set yet because they`re a "danger, a hazard" on set but we`re working on it.

I want to put them right here in the studio because the pitchfork is a symbol to our weasels in Washington that we`re sick of them acting like royalty. They need to start acting like employees. Again, they work for us. Some might think that a pitchfork is just a symbol and it won`t actually accomplish anything.

And of course a lot those same people are driving around with bumper stickers that say nothing but "hope and change." At least my symbol comes with a bunch of sharp points at the end, which this show usually has.

Don`t forget, sign up for my free email newsletter at glennbeck.com.

We`ll see you tomorrow from New York. Good night, America.

RICHELLE CAREY, HEADLINE PRIME NEWSBREAK ANCHOR: I`m Richelle Carey. This is your "Headline Prime Newsbreak."

A day after Hurricane Dolly, officials in South Texas are telling people to stay home one more day unless its life or death. Downed power lines are the greatest danger. Dolly dumped as much as a foot of rain in places. Insurance estimates say the damage will cost $750 million.

The owner of the barge that spilled 420,000 gallons of industrial fuel in the Mississippi says not his company`s fault but they`ll handle the cleanup. The barge collided with a tanker near New Orleans Wednesday affecting a 98-mile stretch of the river.

And check out this wreck in Burnsville, Minnesota. The police officer was on a traffic stop because he never saw the SUV coming. He pulled over a suspected drunk driver on the highway when another one plowed onto that car at 40 miles an hour. Amazingly, no one was seriously hurt.

That`s the news for now. And keep it here. I`m Richelle Carey.

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