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Glenn Beck: Ask the Right Question

October 28, 2009 - 2:57 ET

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Thanks to stimulus money, Vice President Joe Biden announced a re-opening of a GM plant.

The people of Detroit are so excited; they'll be put to work once again! Of course, they'll have to commute... to Wilmington, Delaware. But hey, that's why they invented car-pooling.

The vice president made it pretty clear, as he cut the pretty ribbon, that the stimulus package is really nothing but a giant special interest package. Even President Obama's economic team admitted the best days of the stimulus will be behind us by mid-next year.

Umm, there were never any good days: Your actions hurt small businesses!

The first stimulus was a failure because it didn't jump-start the engine that creates 80 percent of jobs in this country: small businesses. While Biden is opening up GM plants in his hometown, small businesses (according to The Wall Street Journal) struggle to get loans and they are too scared to hire or expand; they sit paralyzed in fear as Obama gobbles up and re-structures large chucks of the economy.

At the same time he is hurting them, he pays them lip service:

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PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA: Small businesses have always been the engine of our economy, creating 65 percent of all new jobs over the past decade and a half, and they must be at the forefront of our recovery. That's why the Recovery Act was designed to help small businesses expand and create jobs.

(END VIDEO CLIP)

Your actions hurt small businesses, but your words heal. They don't match. Why? Is there possibly another agenda at play? Let me show you Barney Frank's words from Monday:

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REP. BARNEY FRANK, D-MASS.: We will be providing a mechanism for putting non-bank financial institutions out of everybody's misery. There will be death panels enacted by this Congress, but they will be for non-bank financial institutions that will not be considered too big to die. And I say that because we have this euphemism that we are going to be resolving these institutions. It has not been my experience that when someone says that they are going to resolve something, they kill it. We are talking about dissolution, not resolution. We are talking about making it unpleasant for the entities...

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Death panels for the free-market system... that's great. They get to control more and more companies — dictate salaries, companies can't takes the risks they want, pay CEOs what they want — but Tim Geithner has carte blanche to do anything he pleases with the $317 billion left in the TARP fund, no questions asked.

Is that the system you want?

I have been asking the wrong questions every night. I can't get answers from the White House even though they have a phone dedicated to them whose number only the communications director has. I think I have to stop expecting answers from them and I need to start asking you: What if I'm right? Does it matter?

I learned a critical lesson after Bill Clinton's Monica Lewinsky scandal. When the news of the affair broke, almost everyone on the left said, "That's a right-wing lie. He didn't have sex with her." We'd say: "Yes he did." They'd say: "No, he didn't.

Remember?

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ROBERT S. BENNETT, CLINTON ATTORNEY: She's under oath saying there was nothing. The president adamantly denies it. I smell a rat in all of this.

BENNETT: This is about embarrassing the president of the United States of America — plain and simple.

FORMER FIRST LADY HILLARY CLINTON: I can state unequivocally that, as my husband has said, these are false allegations.

ANN LEWIS, FORMER WHITE HOUSE COMMUNICATIONS DIRECTOR: The president of the United States said that there was no sexual relationship. That's pretty clear language.

SEN. LINDSEY GRAHAM, R-S.C.: I think we have an overwhelming case that the president did in fact perjure himself before the grand jury perjury, obstructed justice.

REP. RAHM EMANUEL, D-ILL.: The only thing that matters is the truth as it pertains to two questions: Did he have a sexual relationship and did he ask her to lie? And the answer to that question is no and no.

(END VIDEO CLIP)

Then, after it turned out he did have sex with her, the left changed their tune to: "So? It doesn't matter. It doesn't affect how he governs the country."

So, the lesson I learned was that we must ask the right question — right now. The question we should have asked at the beginning was: "OK, but what if he did; does it matter?"

The same thing is repeating itself all over again. These are Marxists. No, they aren't! Yes, they are. No, they aren't.

For almost a year now, this show has been virtually alone trying to piece this story together. The story that there are Marxists and anti-free market radicals in and around the White House. We should have seen them coming; it started with Joe the Plumber:

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THEN-PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE BARACK OBAMA: It's not that I want to punish your success, I just want to make sure that everyone who is behind you, that they've got a chance at success too.

Everybody is so pinched that business is bad for everybody. I think when you spread the wealth around, it's good for everybody.

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Was it confined to that one, isolated statement? If so, maybe I could understand the mind-numbing ignorance of the media.

Oh, gee whiz, Glenn, it was one comment, made in the heat of the campaign. Let it go.

No, unfortunately, it started a long time ago:

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OBAMA: To avoid being mistaken for a sellout, I chose my friends carefully: The more politically active black students; the foreign students; the Chicanos; the Marxist professors and the structural feminists and punk-rock performance poets.

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But, gosh Glenn, that was college. Who wasn't a Marxist or, at least, who didn't hang out with Marxists and structural feminists in college?

Well, I didn't and I don't know anyone who did. But, let's fast forward to 2001:

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OBAMA: One of the, I think, the tragedies of the civil rights movement was, because the civil rights movement became so court-focused, I think that there was a tendency to lose track of the political and community organizing and activities on the ground that are able to put together the actual coalition of powers through which you bring about redistributive change.

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Couple that with this:

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THEN-PRESIDENTIAL NOMINEE BARACK OBAMA: We are five days away from fundamentally transforming the United States of America.

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And I've made my case. And apparently it's such a strong case, that it's gone absolutely unchallenged that there are communists, revolutionaries, socialists, Marxists and followers of Chairman Mao appointed by Obama to executive branch positions in the government.

I even set up a phone with a direct line to the White House for them to call to correct any falsehood. That phone has never rung — not once. Why? Could it be, because the person on the other end of the line is one of the followers of Mao?

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ANITA DUNN, WHITE HOUSE COMMUNICATIONS DIRECTOR: The third lesson and tip actually come from two of my favorite political philosophers: Mao Tse-Tung and Mother Teresa, not often coupled with each another, but the two people that I turn to most...

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Even when they got rid of Van Jones — an admitted communist who shouted spreading the wealth ideology from the rooftops:

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VAN JONES, FORMER WHITE HOUSE GREEN JOBS 'CZAR': No more broken treaties! No more broken treaties! Give them the wealth! Give them the wealth!

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Even then, the administration never addressed the real issue. Nor have they addressed Anita Dunn's issue — apart from her lame excuse that she was joking. But no rational human being believes that, once they've heard the tape.

There has been no response to manufacturing "czar" Ron Bloom's bizarre disavowal of the free-market system:

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RON BLOOM, WHITE HOUSE MANUFACTURING 'CZAR': Generally speaking, we get the joke. We know that the free market is nonsense. We know that the whole point is to game the system, to beat the market or at least find someone who will pay you a lot of money because they are convinced that there is a free lunch. We know this is largely about power. That it's an adults-only, no-limit game. We kind of agree with Mao that political power comes largely from the barrel of a gun...

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Or Mark Lloyd, the FCC's diversity "czar":

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MARK LLOYD, FCC DIVERSITY 'CZAR': In Venezuela, with Chavez, a really incredible revolution, a democratic revolution...

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Science "czar" John Holdren talked of the need to redistribute America's wealth:

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JOHN HOLDREN, WHITE HOUSE SCIENCE 'CZAR': I think ultimately, the rate of growth of material consumption is going to have to come down and there's going to have to be a degree of redistribution of how much we consume, in terms of energy and material resources, in order to leave room for people who are poor to become more prosperous.

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I've got hours of evidence. But let me just give you the latest one from — again — Barney Frank:

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FRANK: The right wing took control of government and ruined it. They gave it a bad reputation. Now that we are trying on every front to increase the role of government in the regulatory area, we run into this public opinion that says "Hey, those are the guys who screwed up Katrina."

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I mean, at this point, you have to be trying not to pay attention to miss this pattern. There is so much anti-free market rhetoric from Obama and his top officials, you'd either have to have been living in a cave in Afghanistan with bin Laden and a herd of goats or you are so deeply in love with Obama, that you can't detect a single flaw in him.

But, if you still don't see it, ask yourself: If it were true, would it matter?

America, you must decide. Stop having the "they're Marxist; no, they're not" argument and ask yourself this question:

Of all the things we've told you and were right about — the dollar; the banking crisis; the stimulus; TARP; Van Jones; Anita Dunn; Anita Dunn's husband; the "czars"; ACORN; cars.gov — I could be wrong that these groups or people are all Marxist, but they are definitely not friendly to the free market system.

So, forget the label — I don't care if you call them Fred-ists — look at what they are doing to the free-market system. They are dismantling it brick-by-brick, which are the exact words that one of the advisers on the media to this president has called for: Dismantling capitalism brick-by-brick.

Are you willing to have the greatest force the world has ever seen — freedom and the free-market system — go away in the middle of the night — taken from you, from your children — while you argue the wrong question with your friends?

Decide now: Do you believe in the free market? Because what if I'm right?

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Glenn Beck: The War on Capitalism

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October 28, 2009 - 13:32 ET


Stephen Moore from the Wall Street Journal

GLENN: We've been talking about George Soros. George Soros is dumping another $50 million into a

PAT: Antifree market think tank.

GLENN: Yeah, well, it's Democratic, you know, like Chavez is Democratic. It's a Democratic antifree market think tank.

PAT: He's hoping to put together $200 million to explain to people the economics of failed, this paradigm has failed.

GLENN: Yeah. Well, it only made him $9 billion last year.

PAT: Yeah. And, you know, had it been for if this was a socialist system

GLENN: He would have been

PAT: How much more could he have, I mean

GLENN: Right.

PAT: Look at those communists back in the Fifties, the lavish lifestyles they... didn't really lead. But let's not think about this too deeply.

GLENN: Deeply. Yeah, let's just

PAT: He could have been standing at cheese lines, but he wasn't.

GLENN: But he wasn't.

PAT: No.

GLENN: And you know what he could have done, he could have just got the new Russian system which is an oligarchy where we could just have a few people like George Soros ruling the entire world. Wouldn't that be fantastic?

PAT: Oh, wow.

GLENN: So anyway, he's putting this think tank together and quite honestly we went over the names and we have no idea who these people are. So I thought I would call one of the smarter guys that I know on the economy and that's Stephen Moore. Is he on?

MOORE: Hey, Glenn.

GLENN: Hey, Steve, how are you?

MOORE: Great to be with you. By the way, when I listen to your show, I never feel like I'm slumming it.

GLENN: You never? Sure. Okay, so Steve, I want to go through this list of names.

MOORE: Okay.

GLENN: And you tell me who these guys are because

MOORE: Before you do that, can I just say one thing about this project?

GLENN: Yes.

MOORE: I mean, the thing that I find so humorous about this, you know, a $200 million new endowment that he wants to build up to attack the ideas of free market capitalism. All I could think of is, Glenn, is he paying attention on what's going on in American academia? He doesn't have to spend $200 million on this. There's billions of dollars. Every academic stack virtually in the country, especially when you look at the liberal arts and, you know, sociology and psychology and stuff. They spend every minute of every day attacking capitalism.

GLENN: My daughter is dating a guy who's going for economics in college, and he said his professors are all saying the same thing: Free market system doesn't work, it's a joke, doesn't work.

MOORE: And most schools already have departments in Marxism and so the idea I mean, he should just visit the faculty lounge at Cal Berkeley or Harvard or Yale.

GLENN: Why doesn't he you know what? Why doesn't he just go ahead and take your $200 million and just send a bunch of people to Harvard.

MOORE: Well, but the point there is, you know, Harvard already has, what, a $6 billion endowment although the one good repercussion of the financial meltdown is Harvard's endowment isn't as big as it used to be.

GLENN: Yeah.

MOORE: But, you know, the other thing about Soros that's important for your listeners to understand is how he made his money. And Soros made a huge amount of his money as a financier by shorting the dollar.

GLENN: I get a lot of conspiracy notes, Stephen, from people who say that that's, that's what his real game is here, that he is one of the main instruments pushing all of this spending, you know, the Cloward and Piven thing, that he's one of the main instruments pushing all of this nonsense and he's going to short the dollar at the last minute and he'll clean up.

MOORE: Well, you know, look. I don't know if this is a conspiracy or not but I do all I know is the facts, and the facts are that he has made a lot of money shorting currencies of countries. He shorted the, you know, Russian Ruble, he shorted the dollar during the period of crisis in the dollar. So I wouldn't it wouldn't shock me at all that he is pursuing policies that will undermine the U.S. dollar and undermine the growth of the U.S. economy, and he has found a formula for making money off of that. So there is at the very least a conflict of interest here. I do not believe that he's just pursuing this out of righteousness.

GLENN: Is there a way to track how much he has in treasuries and being able to see if he sells and starts shorting the dollar?

MOORE: I doubt that because it's private information but, you know, I'll do some digging on that.

GLENN: Yeah, I'd like to see.

MOORE: We do know, though, as they said we know he's become a billionaire as a currency trader and he oftentimes goes into countries, destroys their economy with his advice and then he makes money off of it. And I think that

GLENN: Well, let me tell you something. If he loses on this effort, I think we should all pool our money together and bail him out because he's too big to fail.

MOORE: (Laughing).

GLENN: Okay. So help me out with a list of these names. These are the people that he's putting together. Give me the Pat, what's the first one?

PAT: Joe Stiglitz.

MOORE: Joe Stiglitz is a Nobel Prize winner. He was the chief economist for Bill Clinton. He's moved consistently to the left. He was initially very, very free market oriented, but he has become very jaded in terms of his support for the free market. So he is one of the leading kind of left writers about all of the shortcomings about free market capitalism.

GLENN: May I switch gears here. I'm doing a thing on the dollar and the possible scenario that's headed our way and what they're going to do tonight.

MOORE: Yep.

GLENN: I want to ask you this question: Can you tell me, can you name off the top of your head anybody who is advising this president that is in his inner circle that is sincerely a true diehard believer that freedom and the free market is the answer?

MOORE: No. The only person I could think of that comes close to that would be the former Fed chairman let's see. I'm blanking out on his name, in 1980 the Fed chairman.

GLENN: Oh, Volcker.

MOORE: Paul Volcker, I was having a brain freeze there. Volcker is the only person in his entourage who even semi believes in the free market system. I understand by the way what you are going to be talking about on your show tonight about the disastrous fall on the dollar and how this is going to I call the Argentina, Bolivia and Mexico model we're pursuing right now in America.

GLENN: I've been told by somebody recently, somebody who I respect who, you know, has a lot, lot of money. They said that we are looking at Mexico 1995 possibly in the next three to five years.

MOORE: If we continue to borrow at this pace, I mean, I don't think it's going to be that bad but I do think we're going to see a continued devaluation of the dollar. I just did the calculations, by the way, Glenn. The dollar today versus what it was ten years ago, worth 62 cents.

GLENN: Holy cow.

MOORE: A dollar today is worth 62 cents. I mean, that's pretty bad. I mean, and this is and the dollar's falling every day. And the reason it's falling is because the debt is so enormous and it's going to be another $10 trillion over the next ten years. So I would agree with you. If we stay on the course we're on right now, the only way out of this crisis is by a continued devaluation of the dollar.

GLENN: Okay. I'll explain I'll explain this tonight, America, and please don't miss the first 20 minutes of the program.

Okay. So give me just the highlights because we're running out of time. Give me the highlights of the worst of the worst on this Soros council.

MOORE: All of these people, George Akerlof is a left wing professor at the University of California Berkeley, of course. He's hostile to the free market. He's written many, you know, tomes about how we need to regulate salaries, we need to regulate the free enterprise system. Michael Spence is also a big, a big leftist. They are all economists. They have many of them, by the way, have won Nobel Prizes in economics.

GLENN: What a surprise.

MOORE: But that tells you a lot about the Nobel

GLENN: Yes, it does.

MOORE: So that's what these guys are up to. He wants their qualifications and their credentials to give this new think tank to fight capitalism some gravitas.

GLENN: Stephen, on a scale of 1 to 10.

MOORE: Yep.

GLENN: 10 being, well, it's almost gone. With the things that they're talking about now with cap and trade.

MOORE: Yep.

GLENN: With healthcare.

MOORE: Yep.

GLENN: With this new regulation that's coming in that Barney Frank was talking about, the new, the expanded powers of the Fed, etc., etc. How close are we to losing the essential parts of the free market system?

MOORE: Oh, I mean, we are facing a jihad against the free enterprise system right now.

GLENN: How close, a scale of 1 to 10, 10 being we're there.

MOORE: See, this is the difference to you and I. I think we're going to bounce back. I think the American people are going to not tolerate this and I think they are not going to succeed. But right now I would put it at a scale of about a 6 or a 7. And that's, you know, that's very high on my scale because, you know, normally we're at about a 2 or 3. But these people are feeling full of their oats, there's no checks and balances right now. The only checks and balances are you and Rush Limbaugh and other people who they are trying to gag. So that's I think we are under assault. And by the way, I wanted to say one last thing, Glenn. I love your special you did on the war against small business, and you inspired me on writing a piece this week on exactly that theme for the Wall Street Journal.

GLENN: Really?

MOORE: The war against small business.

GLENN: Would you send it to me when you're done?

MOORE: Will do.

GLENN: Thanks. Stephen Moore from the Wall Street Journal.

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