GLENN BECK PROGRAM
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GLENN: I was talking to a foreigner about a month ago. Said, you guys are crazy here. You sue over everything. You used to think of America as a place that you'd want to come and live the dream, build something, let people be out of your face and just do the right thing. Do you think that's the impression that people have around the rest of the world? The good stories you know because you see in Iraq. The good stories don't get out. Just the bad ones. Just the crazy ones. Just the ones we put on television. Sometimes there's a place for common sense. I think that time is here. Common sense, honesty, fairness. Does anybody find it interesting that the Republicans are going to MSNBC to do their debate? The network that has Keith Olbermann who takes his news -- I mean, I think Media Matters, I just, I think they have a link to Keith Olbermann's TelePrompTer and they just type directly into his TelePrompTer. And that's unfair because they may have come up with another system that just types it directly into his head. I'm not sure. So I don't -- my apologies to Media Matters. I think you might use the old technology of linking directly to the TelePrompTer.

Chris Matthews, who is as much of a journalist as I am. Yes, Chris, I mean that as a slam to you. I'm not a journalist. I'm an opinion guy. Anybody who comes out with his opinions all the time should let you know I'm coming out with an opinion. Now, the Democrats can't go over to Fox because they have Chris Wallace, Chris Wallace, a journalist. Isn't he related to another -- oh, Mike Wallace. Yeah, that's right. It was journalists engaging the politicians in a debate. MSNBC has Chris Matthews, and you know what? That's all for the Republicans. Good, no. You should. If you can't face Chris Matthews and Keith Olbermann, you can't be the President of the United States. But it's strange to me how the Democrats just expect the Republicans to go over there and face them. They just expect it. And the Republicans do it because they should. And yet the Democrats can't face the evil people at Fox. Oh, my goodness. Just can't face them, the journalists. Can you imagine if Fox would have had Bill O'Reilly on requesting the questions? Sean Hannity asking the questions? That's exactly what this is. And yet there's no outrage, there's no claims of bias. And here's the amazing thing. The reason why there won't be that is because those guys won't admit who they are. Some common sense tells you who they are and that's why the popularity or the trust rating, if you will, of all media is as low as it is, because we know. Don't treat us like a moron. We know. We know you're biased. We know that you're most likely flaming liberal. If you would just come out and say it, it would be okay. I don't have a problem listening to somebody I disagree with. It will help -- I will be able to make a better judgment on how much I should believe the story or not. We all do it. What? Conservatives are so different when we don't trust CBS because they have proven time and time again of their liberal bias? What? We're some freak? Really? Little Mr. Socialist? Oh, how much do you watch Fox? I mean, at least you can get out and say this is who I am, but they won't do that. Why? Because they live in a world of lies. They live in a world of, just that the truth doesn't matter. Even better, they live in a world where context doesn't matter. Only media matters. As long as it's in the media, the truth doesn't matter, context doesn't matter. Only the media matters because the media can hypnotize you. The media can say anything and you'll believe it. I happen to believe the truth matters. I happen to believe context matters. I happen to believe the last thing that matters is media.

Unbelievable that Chris Matthews, in today's upside down world, can actually have credibility as being known biased and hold a presidential debate. Unbiased. A guy who said just last week, God help us if we would have had Dick Cheney during the Cuban missile crisis. What does that mean exactly? That sounds an awful lot like, oh, I don't know, an opinion. No, no, no, journalists don't give you an opinion. No, let me restate that. I'm sorry. Journalists don't come out with their opinion. They embed their opinion, and that one was a little too clear for a journalist. 

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