GLENN BECK PROGRAM
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GLENN: Liz, if you had a gun to your head, who would you vote for? I'm going to ask everybody on the staff and see if they change. Had a gun to your head, who would you vote for today?

LIZ: For President and vice or just President?

GLENN: Just President.

LIZ: I would say Obama right now.

GLENN: Oh, my gosh. Oh, my gosh.

STU: This is dangerous territory. This is like celebrities where you don't want to find out what they actually think.

GLENN: I don't know. Really, you're that? You did live on a hemp farm or something. Didn't we rescue you from some PETA, animal clinic or something?

LIZ: It shouldn't be surprising considering I'm a vegetarian, Unitarian and I used to work on a goat farm. Hate to say that I might be liberal leaning.

STU: She lives in New York City.

GLENN: Well, I was joking about the boxes until about 10 seconds ago.

Carolyn, who would you vote for?

CAROLYN: I think if I had to right now, I'd vote for Fred Thompson probably because I don't know anything about him.

GLENN: [Laughter].

Dan, who are you going to vote for if you had to vote today?

DAN: Giuliani.

GLENN: Sarah, who -- is somebody keeping track of all of this? Sarah, who would you -- somebody out in the audience. Somebody within the basement of their mom's house. Sarah, who would you vote for?

SARAH: Probably Giuliani.

GLENN: Really? That actually surprises me.

SARAH: Well, you put the fear of everything in me. So security's kind of a big deal.

STU: That's so true. You are actually scaring your own staff into voting one way.

GLENN: You know what? Good. Be afraid. Be very afraid. Stu, who would you vote for?

STU: Well, I just got this one in from Chris Balf, by the way, just text messaged me. Romney for him.

GLENN: He is a big Romney guy.

STU: I would go Giuliani. But Romney's very close. I could go either way with that one.

GLENN: If I had to vote today -- this is the first time I've taken a stand on any of this, is it not?

STU: Yeah.

GLENN: If I had to vote for today, the guy I would vote for, for President of the United States is... back in a minute.

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GLENN: 888-727-BECK. 888-727-BECK. We haven't heard from John Carney yet, we haven't heard from John Bobby, Rich, any of the production staff on the program. We're taking a poll today. If you had to vote today, who would you vote for.

STU: I'm getting all sorts of e-mails from our staff right now.

GLENN: Okay. Who do you have?

STU: Kevin Balf.

GLENN: Okay.

STU: He has supported Rudy Giuliani. His mom disagrees with him and is supporting her other son which apparently I guess, I don't know, maybe perhaps she likes better. I don't know off the top of my head, but is supporting Mitt Romney which is also a --

GLENN: No, she likes Chris better.

STU: She does like Chris better?

GLENN: Yeah, he makes more money than Kevin does. She's in for the money.

STU: Oh, Conway, we're having a pick from Conway.

GLENN: Conway, hold it just a second, Conway, can we announce this or is this mealy-mouth, wishy-washy executive producer kind of speak, "I support everybody"?

STU: I don't know. Is he allowed to as an employee?

GLENN: He said it. Go ahead. Who is he voting for?

STU: Giuliani. John Bobby's about to call in with his pick as well. What about your pick? You're the one that we're --

GLENN: I already told you, back in a minute.

STU: I don't think that's --

GLENN: Back in a minute, they talked about him last night, my ears perked up when they said back in a minute, my ears perked up. It's something this candidate is promising, longer lasting nights of love that start in 15 minutes or something like that. Is there is a warning of a four-hour erection. I don't know what it --

STU: Right.

GLENN: I liked his stance.

STU: I like the stance of, if you come home and there's a surprise party, you can still do it later. That's fantastic. What a great product.

GLENN: When did those commercial -- oh, shave his head.

STU: This is only a surprise party, too. How many surprise parties are happening around the world? These poor people, they can't have any sex because there's constantly surprise parties.

GLENN: And who has a surprise party and then immediately has to go have sex? If you're having a surprise party, you know, surprise, that's great. You, come into the bedroom with me. I mean, what is that?

John Bobby?

CALLER: Hello, sir.

GLENN: How are you?

CALLER: I'm good, thank you.

GLENN: John Bobby, who are you going to vote for if you had a gun to your head and had to vote today?

CALLER: It would be Rudy Giuliani and that's from a lifelong Democrat.

STU: Wow. This is New York, though, and New Yorkers are the people that actually have seen his work.

CALLER: I've lived here almost 14 years and the city was in much worse --

GLENN: So hang on just a second. Hold it just a second. Are you only 14 years old?

CALLER: No, I'm a little older. I'm in my mid to late 30s.

GLENN: So I thought -- right. So I thought that you were a lifelong New Yorker. That's what you just described. We should have the people check your monologs a little closer.

CALLER: They're riddled with errors.

GLENN: Yes, they are. Okay. So it's Rudy Giuliani.

CALLER: It would be Rudy Giuliani, yes. If you can Claire -- look, I'll a little uncomfortable with his wavering on the choice issue, which as a single man in Manhattan, I'm very pro choice. So if he could be a little more clear about that, then I would be much more comfortable with this but I just can't bring myself to vote for Hillary Clinton and Obama just seems too young to me. He seems like somebody I might have a drink with in the bar and I don't know if I want that guy running the country.

GLENN: Hang on just a second. You'll have a drink with him but he's a little too young for you.

CALLER: To be -- I want my Presidents looking more presidential, older, more weathered, someone not just out of the neighborhood bar.

GLENN: Is that John Bobby or Jack McClellan?

STU: I thought it was Jack. I don't know, he's a little too young, me being 14 years old and at least in my heart I'm still 14.

Okay. So do we have everybody else's?

STU: I think, do we have -- I mean, we're going to have to get more in from some other people. We'll list them all on the website. How about that?

GLENN: Here we go. Watching --

STU: I have another one coming in, Glenn. I don't mean to interrupt you. I know you're about to make your announcement here. Rich Bond has just chimed in and he says Rudy Giuliani's his pick. Rudy's winning this election at least --

GLENN: We have to hear from John Carney but you know what? --

STU: Oh, wait. Tiffany has just written in.

GLENN: Yes.

STU: Tiffany is going for Giuliani as well.

GLENN: Check with John Carney. Call the bar downstairs. Tell them just to shout in the stool direction. He's probably laying under one of the stools.

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STU: Just shout at.

GLENN: Just near the school: Who are you voting for? And he'll just... "Ron Paul."

All right. So I'm watching last night and I thought, you know what, John McCain I just can't do. Brownback reminds me too much of Greg Brady. What's his name, Duncan Hunter doesn't have a chance. I like Duncan Hunter, he just doesn't have a chance. Tancredo I like but he reminds me too much of Paul Lynde. I mean, he was wearing Paul Lynde's outfit last night. If he had an ascot, he would have been Paul Lynde. Who else is even running? Ron Paul, please, for the love of Pete, ughh. What's his name, Mitt Romney, something about him. Just, it hasn't connected with me. And it's so -- and maybe on the Mitt Romney thing it's just that I have -- I am too tough on him because I'm not going to give him my vote because he's a Mormon and I'm a Mormon. Not going to do it. Not good enough for me. It wasn't good enough for me with what's his name, Harry Reid. Certainly not good there.

Oh, hang on just a second. Jeff Fisher, our Moron Trivia, our Moron Trivia referee, which starts tomorrow, by the way. Who would you vote for, Jeff?

FISHER: First of all I believe I've been promoted from referee to commissioner. I may come back to referee. I figured you didn't mention because I was going to say Hillary but right now I've got to do Fred Thompson, the actor. Any actor can make me feel good about anything. That's already been proven.

GLENN: Well, you -- that usually with you, Jeff, usually revolves around porn but... I don't know if these are technically actors in those movies.

STU: They're working hard. So what's your pick? What's your hard? You still haven't given your pick.

GLENN: Yeah, if I had to vote for President of the United States today, it would be...

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GLENN: We just got Adam Clarkson. Adam, his nickname is Swat on the team.

STU: Yeah.

GLENN: Did we get his pick in? Because I don't know his pick.

STU: I would classify it as shocking I would say.

GLENN: Really?

STU: I would say it's shocking.

GLENN: Adam, he would want somebody with the strength of Stalin, you know, somebody that's like, shoot them all. They disagree; shoot them. But he would like it to be with the freedom of Ron Paul. Who are you picking, Adam?

ADAM: That would be Rudy.

GLENN: Really? The gun thing doesn't bother you?

ADAM: Well, I think we can overcome the gun thing. I think that in the overall picture of the war on terror, I think that that's the most important thing and I think that he would do a good job of that.

GLENN: That is shocking because Adam is -- Adam is really, bury your guns and your bullets in the backyard right now; they're coming to get them. Notice he doesn't -- notice he doesn't say "No, that's not me." Okay. So you know what? It's going to be a landslide. My vote is, if I had a gun to my head today, it would have to be for Rudy Giuliani.

STU: Really?

GLENN: Yeah.

STU: Wow.

GLENN: He's the only one I watched last night and I believe him. He will shoot them in the head. He will shoot them in the head. He will -- and the other one was John McCain that I felt, this guy's not going to take -- there's no compromise here. You win, you fight to win, you kill them before they kill you and that's -- and that's all there is. Cut and dried, done. John McCain was the only other one, but John McCain is so screwed up on everything else that I just couldn't vote for him. Rudy Giuliani is screwed up on a lot of things, a lot of things, and I think the guy's got a lot of baggage and just, I don't know. I don't know if I like the guy. Where, you know, he's the opposite of Romney. I like Romney, but I don't feel the fire in Romney. I don't feel the "Look, nobody's going to mess with us, nobody, and I can -- I'm going to get this job done and I'm going to -- excuse my language -- kick ass and take names."

By the way, hang on. Hold on just a second.

STU: I don't know that you could do that. I mean, you were -- you have the -- I would say no. I would say a very bad idea.

GLENN: I got a great story to tell you and I can't.

STU: Why are we so --

GLENN: I'm a man of integrity.

STU: We tease your stupid presidential pick for, like, an entire hour and it was, you know, just --

GLENN: But that's harmless. There's nothing wrong with that story.

STU: Right. But now you're telling people that you have stories you want to tell and you can't tell. This has got to be the most frustrating program to listen to today.

GLENN: Sorry. You were the one who told me to tease the presidential thing.

STU: I didn't mean for 45 minutes.

GLENN: It was a surprise.

STU: It was a surprise to me.

GLENN: Was it? Who did you think I was going to come for?

STU: Would you say that you're still open to switch, though? Because I know I --

GLENN: Oh, I'm absolutely open to switch. I could go to Fred Thompson.

STU: Yep.

GLENN: I don't think so only because what Rudy Giuliani has is a record, a very, very long record. He took on -- in this city he took on crime, he took on special interests, he took on a city that was just upside down budget-wise, he took on 9/11. You name it, a very long record. For anybody who had ever been to New York before Rudy Giuliani, it was a night -- it was Escape from New York and this guy turned it around. And he didn't care. You say whatever you want about Rudy Giuliani. He didn't care, and I like that. I like that. And he has what Bush doesn't have and that is, you know, the ability to vocalize his thoughts.

STU: Yeah, he's very well spoken, he's quick, he's smart. People don't talk about how great he is on healthcare. He's got the best answers on healthcare that I've heard from every candidate.

GLENN: Absolutely. It's not Mitt Romney's, "Well, let's work together and have some healthcare." No, no. Let the private sector do it.

STU: I like him a lot. Fred Thompson says a lot of good things, too.

GLENN: For me the ticket would be Giuliani/Romney. That would be the ticket.

STU: That would be the ideal one, too.

GLENN: That's only saying that because I don't know enough about Fred Thompson in action, and the stuff quite honestly that I've heard from people who know him -- well, I can't say this. I've heard it from -- I've heard it from two sides. The people who know him have said one of two things about him. One, he's lazy. He just doesn't have what it takes. And then the other side that I have heard of him, and this actually comes from, I think this was Mary Matalin who said that he has that fire in the belly, and I think she's for Fred Thompson, I think. Isn't she part of his campaign?

STU: I'm not sure. I'm not sure.

GLENN: She's going to be on tonight. We're going to talk a little about politics. Mary Matalin's going to be on tonight. I could still go with Romney. I'm not going for McCain, I'm not going for anybody else. I could still go for Romney and I could still go for Thompson but if I had a gun to my head today, I just, I can't take anybody else that won't shoot the bad guys in the head and then ask questions later and then say, oh, you know what, yep, that guy over there standing next to the other bad guys probably shouldn't have killed him but, oh, well, war is hell. 

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