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GLENN BECK PROGRAM
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GLENN: Oh, this
green nonsense. Why he had in USA Today, donations to
environmental groups, they say, eco friendly apparel and
housewares made of recycled materials, the Christmas gift.
Really? To who? According to an October survey for
Conservation International, whatever the heck they are, they
found out that more Americans that ever want to give or
receive green gifts this year. So is that up to, like, four
people in America? Dan, Stu, let me ask you a question. If I
gave you a, I don't know, a hemp bag for Christmas, would
you be thrilled?
STU: Oh.
DAN: Oh, yeah, especially considering that New York Times
article. I'd be psyched.
STU: I would actually I think, Glenn, use the temp bag to
carry aerosol cans and coal.
GLENN: I believe I would, too. They are saying over 50% of
the American people now want something green for Christmas.
I say this study is what scientists call a load of bullcrap.
I don't want to have a tote bag when I could have an iPhone.
I don't want to have a goat donated in the my name to some
third world country. I really don't. If I get a card from
anyone who says I bought a goat for you and it's in Africa,
I say, well, that's really good. That Christmas present
sucks. I want something cool from the Sky Mall catalog!
You know, I've been thinking about getting Raphe a slot car
set. I know, I know, it says in the catalog for 8 and older.
He'll grow into it. I'll show him how. Can you imagine the
disappointment in your kid's face if, you know, you were
going to give him a cool present and instead you bought him
a carbon offset? "No, but Raphe, Raphe, Raphe, Raphe, this
is the way Daddy can drive you in the big SUV and we won't
be hurting the Earth." We would both never stop crying, for
the love of Pete. I don't care how good giving green is for
the planet, I want stuff that takes 8 D batteries. I want
stuff that lights up. I want stuff that makes noise. I want
a remote control helicopter that looks like the one from
Magnum PI. That's what I want. I want a life size C3PO from
Sharper Image. I want a good old-fashioned Christmas. I
don't want a hemp tote bag! I don't know a soul -- I take it
back. Besides Liz who works for Fusion magazine, I don't
know a soul that wants a hemp bag. You know what, get Liz on
the phone. Can you get Liz on the phone? I bet you Liz
doesn't even want a hemp bag. She'll say she does: "Oh, no,
that would be good." But at home she would be, I can't
believe he gave me a hemp bag. Oh, I hope she says yes
because Christmas bonuses are right around the corner. I'm
buying her a goat. No, no, I'm not going to because that
would make her feel good because she would be like, and
Glenn took his own money and bought a goat. I'm going to
steal a wallet from some environmentalist and then I'm going
to take and buy a goat for her.
Can you get her on the phone? Is she there?
STU: No, Glenn, she just walked away from her desk a few
minutes ago.
GLENN: Did she? How convenient. You know why? Because she
knows she has to be on record as an environmentalist saying,
"yes, I'll take the hemp bag." I don't remember the
amendment number. I'm sure it's in there some place, but I
think we have a constitutional right to give and receive as
much crap at Christmas as our credit cards will allow. I'm
just sayin'. You know who doesn't like this stuff for
Christmas? Terrorists. Yeah, terrorists. Instead of asking
Santa for neat stuff like striped socks and pink shirts,
they want you to ask for causes. Yeah, I'd say no way. I say
if we start giving green, the terrorists win, and not on my
watch, brother, not on my watch.
They actually have that green Christmas display. I was in
San Francisco. They have this big green Christmas display in
the windows. I couldn't take it. By the way, in the, you
know, in the book I talk about what it's really all about.
Hey, Stu, did you see what happened with the UN?
STU: No, not today.
GLENN: In the book I tell you what this is really all about,
you know, and what the science is and how Al Gore has turned
it all upside down on its head and actually inverted the two
charts of CO2 and warming. It's actually the other way.
Warming causes CO2. So I talk about all of that but then the
real answer that I was looking for is why is this happening.
Why is this happening? Because it's about global socialism.
It's about international taxes.
The Law of the Sea treaty, you know what they want to do on
the Law of the Sea treaty. That's give away our right to the
ocean. We have to go to the UN. So if anybody ever wants to
drill in the ocean, they'll have to go to the UN and ask
permission. And they'll have to pay for that. And they have
to have two sites that they want to drill in. And the UN
says, okay, these two sites, our geologists have looked at
it. You get that site but you're also going to drill this
site but we get everything that we find in that site. Okay?
That's what the Law of the Sea treaty does. It's fantastic,
if you're a communist.
Here's what it's really all about. Look at this. Last year's
budget at the UN was $4.17 billion. Now next year's budget
is $7 billion. That's kind of weird, isn't it? $3 billion
increase for the United Nations? What's going on with that?
What's happening there? How are they going to pay for that?
They say it's the largest increase in history. How are you
going to pay for it? Ah, carbon taxes. Wouldn't that be
great? Wouldn't that be great? If we could just tax
everybody, that will solve everything.
You know, let me ask you this: Do you think one of the
tenets, the central tenets of global warming is wrong? Do
you think it's possible that one of the central tenets of
global warming is wrong? No. Of course not. Absolutely not.
I mean, unless you look at the facts, absolutely not. If you
watch An Inconvenient Truth, you'll see Al Gore telling you
how extreme the weather is getting and how it's getting
worse and worse. Not in 100 years in the future but right
now it's getting worse and worse and worse. Really? It will
fact is it's been getting much worse for a while now. The
Sunday times from the U.K. had an article that echoes what I
talk about in the first chapter of "An Inconvenient Book,"
that the death rate due to extreme weather has dropped by
around 98.7% from the 1920s to today. CO2 has been
skyrocketing. Everything's getting worse. We're all going to
die.
Well, wait a minute. We're all going to die? Death rates
from extreme weather have gone down by almost 100%. Research
was done by Indur Goklany -- I think that's how you say his
name.
STU: Goklany maybe?
GLENN: Anyway, we talked to him on the air about a year ago.
He wrote a book called The Improving State of the World. It
gives all sorts of stats about how our air is more cleaner,
our water is more pure, we're avoiding death now better now
than ever before. The most obvious example, and there are
tons of them, is heating oil, natural gas. How many people
in Iowa right now would freeze to death? How many people do
you think would freeze to death if it wasn't for natural gas
heating oil?
By the way, to put it in perspective, you're about 80 times
more likely to die from TB than from extreme weather. So
what's the opposing side? The opposing side, Greenpeace, you
know, went right into the exact strategy of defense that
they always do. You know, it's like they're reading An
Inconvenient Book and, you know, then they wrote the press
release from that and that is the research group that
released this, known for being in the pay of the world's
biggest oil company. That's, they're in bed with big oil.
You are either too stupid to get it or you're part of it.
That's the Progressive way. That's exactly what the
Progressives used to do around the turn of the century, the
ones that Hillary Clinton is modeling herself after. The
Progressives, they had one strategy. This is the way. It is
socialism and if you don't get it, you're either too stupid
and just need reeducation or you're part of that big evil
corporate monolith that's trying to stop it all.
They didn't say that the research was wrong. It just must be
the big evil oil has a plot to keep people alive to move the
statistics in their favor, which they kind of do. See
heating oil.
I was watching the reviews of the book come out on
Amazon.com. I love these people. I mean, I laugh because
they have clearly not read the book. One was said, said that
my claim on saving lives, the deaths from natural disasters
have gone down 98.7% since the 1920s. They say that claim
was misleading that, quote, yes, these things are true but
they have nothing to do with each other, end quote. Really?
Why is that? I mean, Al Gore says most of our people live on
the coastlines, that we now have this coastline mentality.
We've all moved out there. Death should be going up. The
reason for the massive drop in weather-related deaths comes
from innovations, better warning systems, better flood
defensives, stronger buildings, earthquakes. Why is it, why
is it every time there's an earthquake in Mexico, all these
people die, but earthquakes can happen in San Francisco and
people survive. Why is it? Is got on our side? I'll have to
ask Mike Huckabee's God to find out. Is God on our side? No.
Innovation is on our side, American ingenuity is on our
side. These incredible innovations built on the back of
cheap energy and strong economies. You know, it's not
something that you have to guess at. Look at the difference,
what happens to us, you know, in Haiti when a hurricane
hits, between Haiti and what happens in the United States of
America. Maybe the solution isn't trying to control global
weather and instead just keep as much of the $26.5 trillion
that Al Gore wants to spend on climate change, make our
economies, our warning systems, our buildings and our flood
defenses stronger.
Wait. Wait, wait. I just had an idea. Think how many cool
slide shows you could make with $26.5 trillion. Unless the
Government is making them, I bet they can make a lot of
slide shows but maybe it's just me.
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