GLENN BECK PROGRAM
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GLENN: From Radio City in Midtown Manhattan, hello, you sick twisted freak. Welcome to it. It's the third most listened to show in all of America. Glad you're here. It's quite a day. It's going to be quite a week in New York City. It's the worst week of the year and that's saying something for New York City. They closed down several avenues and streets in New York and it's already a nightmare with gridlock and they closed them down so all of the -- you know, so all the dignitaries -- I hate to even use that word when I know Ahmadimejad is in town, but all the dignitaries can get to where they are going without having to stop. They don't stop the cars at all. And so they have to close down full avenues and streets, and it is a nightmare. Today driving in early this morning at 6:00, there were two giant Coast Guard cutters there by the George Washington bridge. There will be fighter jets that will be going up and down the rivers around the island of Manhattan. There will be black helicopters everywhere in the sky and the black helicopters really do exist. The Department of Homeland Security, on the way home, I think it was on Thursday night -- was I here on Friday? No, I was in Washington. Thursday night on the way home I saw these unmarked DHS vans that had prisoners in the back of the van and then I thought to myself, they're rounding people up to get people off of the street that might cause some trouble in New York this week when all of the, quite frankly all of the enemies of our country are here in town at the UN. I have Dr. Zuhdi Jasser on phone with us. We're going to go to him in just a second. We also have Stu out at Columbia University where Ahmadimejad is going to speak today. It is an outrage. I would love to hear from the politician that wants to cut off every single federal dollar to Columbia University. They won't let our ROTC on campus but they will let a guy who executes homosexuals, their only crime being homosexuals. They will allow him to speak for diversity of opinion.

Let me go to Stu who's now out at Columbia. Hello, Stu.

STU: Hey, Glenn, how are you?

GLENN: What's the scene like out there?

STU: Shockingly enough, there is a very, I would say there is a very few pro Ahmadimejad supporters here.

GLENN: Really?

STU: I honestly thought he could have run for senator here, being on the upper side of Manhattan but actually I haven't seen one person yet that actually likes the guy.

GLENN: Well, I mean, are you going to -- you're going to carry a sign that's pro Ahmadimejad?

STU: It's New York City.

GLENN: Well, that's true. That's true. All right.

STU: As I was saying a second ago at Columbia, I was talking to a local businessman here in Harlem who came in, when no one wants to be in Harlem years ago and bought up real estate that was extremely cheap and he was -- one of his big complaints about Columbia is that they are trying to use eminent domain to now take back the real estate now that it's expensive again.

GLENN: I mean, these liberal universities are incredible. It's like Yale. Yale pays no taxes. You'll learn in their university classes that taxes are the way of the future. That's the way you go ahead and you run your country, but Yale University, this he won't pay taxes to the city of New Haven and basically their thought is, what are you going to do without us? Go ahead, see you. We leave, there's nothing left. And they don't pay taxes and they just gobble the whole city up and then leave people living in squalor because there's no tax base there. And look at Columbia University going after eminent domain. I mean, these people are incredible. You'll learn in their glasses how evil the government is and how they're trying to rob you of your rights and they're listening on your phone calls but they will take land from people on eminent domain. It's incredible

STU: It's amazing, although there is at least here in the area, it makes you feel a little bit better about the university in that, A, there are a lot of people here protesting against him being here which is, I mean, to me is somewhat surprising but very satisfying.

GLENN: Are they -- wait a minute.

STU: Go ahead.

GLENN: Are they university students?

STU: Yeah, lots of university students. I would say the ones I've seen, there are certainly a lot out here with no discernible -- like they are not, they are trying not to make a statement either way which is I'm sure the way I would want to be out here at this point in this area.

GLENN: What do you mean? They just want to see the scene?

STU: Yeah, just -- there's a lot of people here, Glenn. And I think you talked about one of them earlier. Like there's a lot of people who were here for the show, for the spectacle of it, the fact that there's just this nutbag and all the, you know, news organizations are here, people printing up flyers with President Tom's face on it, say "Bringing sexy back." There is a bunch will college silliness surrounding it. It's ridiculous for the most part.

GLENN: Hitler was really funny, wasn't he?

STU: No, there's a lot of seriously funny, Hitler, particularly when he was alive, people were joking about that all the time.

GLENN: Yeah, when they were readying the trains to take Jews to the gas chambers, that's when he was at his funniest.

STU: Oh, my gosh, that guy, you know what it was, Glenn, it was timing. It was all about timing with him.

GLENN: Well, that's the secret to comedy. So --

STU: It really is. There aren't a lot of anti, you know, President Tom posters around, you know, pictures of people for being gay. Other ones who have been lashed for being gay. Lots of denial of Holocaust material floating around. Really pleasant material. At least for right now it seems on the right side of it.

GLENN: Do you see, like, do you see a big contingent of people with rainbow flags?

STU: You know, no. And I spoke to another guy earlier who was making a similar point about activism in the African-American community saying -- he's a black guy and from Harlem and he said, you know what, I talked to all the people at my office and I'm like, why aren't you coming out here and supporting this just as well. These people are going the same place our people did 100 years ago or 200 years ago. And they don't -- this is something that should be more unifying, I would think, to activists but really it seems to be just normal people trying to sap in the whole environment of it all and there are a lot of very pro Israeli people here as well.

GLENN: I have to tell you, it is amazing to me. I think the only way that Ahmadimejad would be disinvited to Columbia University is if all of a sudden he announced today that he was a conservative Republican.

STU: (Laughing.)

GLENN: Do you see anyone from the National Organization of Women there?

STU: Glenn, so far there are zero -- I don't see tents anywhere.

GLENN: Unbelievable.

STU: I would say there's none.

GLENN: They stone -- this guy stones women to death, stones women to death for adultery. And by the way, their testimony is only worth, I believe it's half or is it now 1/3 of a man's testimony.

STU: Yeah, yeah. No, maybe that wasn't on the website.

GLENN: All right, Stu, we'll talk to you here in just a few minutes, okay? We'll talk to you later...

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