Thursday, January 06, 2011 Who Do You Trust? | Glenn Beck

Thursday, January 06, 2011 Who Do You Trust? | Glenn Beck With: Glenn Beck This is a rush transcript from "Glenn Beck," January 6, 2011. This copy may not be in its final form and may be updated. GLENN BECK, HOST: Some might say that this, me eating ice cream today might be because I haven't seen -- I haven't seen the -- Clay, the guy who, you know, tries to keep me in shape in about three weeks. And I see him on Monday. And so, I'm just -- I'm loading up now before he comes back and wrecks my life again. I want you to know, this is for science. Welcome to "The Glenn Beck Program." Newspapers are wondering right now, gee, why are we going out of business? Have you read one lately? Has anybody on The Times -- do they read this? You might as well take six different novels, rip out all the pages, scatter them on the floor and then randomly pick up the pages up and read them, because this doesn't make any sense. None of these do. None of them. I want to show you this. Front page of The Financial Times. Now, this is -- this is to give us perspective on the financial world. Front page. "Jobs data increased confidence in recovery." Well, that's great. Except -- "Food price shock, threat, as commodities soar." It's like you're tossing stories at the wall and nobody will give you any context. You don't know what's true. You can pick and choose. No, no, no. Jobs -- there's confidence in the recovery. No, no, no. Panic. Food price shock is coming. You get to pick and choose what to believe. This is ridiculous. You don't know what's true and what's not -- if you listen to the experts. But I say, listen to your gut. My gut likes ice cream. What? Ice cream is really my bellwether. When ice cream goes, I go. I have little or no self-control when it comes to ice cream. But this is the size of my actual bowl I eat it in. And the spoon is a little too big because it goes too fast. But this is a different story. My life pretty much centers around ice cream. By the way, they never put these in the bowl of ice cream. This is a little warm-up. Anyway, two weeks ago, I go on vacation and I couldn't get -- I couldn't get the ice cream that I actually buy here in New York City, because that would be -- I don't know, too convenient. But two weeks ago before I go on vacation, the ice cream was $2.19. Two weeks ago, $2.19. I come back from vacation, because I was doing science. The same ice cream, $2.19, is now $3.55. May I just say? First, they came after my cigarettes, but I didn't smoke, so I said nothing. Then they came up with my trans fat, but I didn't know what the hell that was, so I said nothing. But then they came after my ice cream -- damn the torpedoes, I rise up for this. But I read in the paper, and there's no problem. There's confidence in the recovery. Yes. There's confidence. Everything is great. Keep eating. Really? Wait a minute, I can't, because it's now $3.55. I don't know what your "aha" moment will be. Mine is at a gas pump -- mine is at the ice cream store. Yours might be at the gas pump. Have you seen the price of gas? These people apparently haven't. We're all going to have an "aha" moment. You have a choice. Don't read the papers and allow yourself to be surprised by the price of gas or ice cream or whatever else will be your "aha" moment. You have to educate yourself. You have to ask your neighbors if or when they will start to listen, while making delicious ice cream sundaes, to their guts. When will they listen to their guts and not the experts? I'll show you how, next. Come on. (MUSIC) BECK: Sorry, I got up and I realized I'm walking away from this. I can't waste this -- it's is $3.55 now. Hello, America. OK. Come on. Erin "Miss No Fun" is here. I want to talk to you about trust. Who is it that you trust? Do you trust The New York Times? Who do you -- who do you trust? Who do you trust? Do you trust the experts anymore? Or do you trust your gut? Who should you trust? May I give you the answer? No one. Not even me. I don't want your trust. I don't ask for your trust. I don't say trust me. Look it up yourself. Trust yourself. Educate yourself. Turn over every rock you can. The answer, who you can trust is you. Rebuild yourself from the bottom-up. Wait a minute, "bottom-up." Where have I heard that? Oh, bottom- up, top-down, inside-out, that's almost a plan for a revolution. Somebody call Van Jones. I wish my phone wasn't unplugged. Trust is what I want to talk to you about tonight. The problem we have in this country is trust, honor, integrity -- all of that stuff. And it's going to lead to big problems because you don't know what is true and it's so easy now to go into crazy territory. Let me show the point here with dead birds and fish. The story now is spreading quickly in the media, especially on the Internet -- by the way, may I show you this? The Internet just became the primary source for news for people under 30, the primary source. And look at this line. Here's s 2001, here's 2010. Look at that. That's the primary source for news for people under 30, which is better than Jon Stewart, but that's a different story. One of the big stories on the Internet is dead fish and dead birds popping up everywhere. And if you look at the stories, you're like, "Holy cow, birds are dropping out of the sky! Animals are dying. Rivers are turning green. It's the end of the world." What's happening? I want to show you a map I saw yesterday. Look at this map. Here's the map of all of the animal story. This is just the U.S. locations --at least what we're being told by the media, are strange bird and fish deaths. There they are. First, birds started falling from the sky in Arkansas. Then hundreds of dead birds littered the highway in Louisiana. Texas, large number of dead birds starting popping up on the highway. Over in Sweden, more dead birds. I love this one. The article I read is they were scared to death. Of what? Universal health care over in Sweden? Eighty-three thousand fish, dying drum fish, washed up along the Arkansas River. That's pretty impressive. I read this one and I'm like, whoa, what's up with this? Forty thousand crabs washed up dead on U.K. beaches. Two million fish dead in Chesapeake Bay. A hundred tons of fish washed up in Brazil. Canada, look at this river -- turn bright green. Here's the river -- there's the fish. There's the river. Whoa! You see all of this stuff and you're saying, OK, wait, wait, wait, wait. Then you read stories and you see the explanations. This is going to fill you with confidence. A spokesman for the Game and Fish Commission explained the birds by saying, "They're going crazy, flying in to one another," end quote. Some scientists say one bird may have become confused and flown into the ground and the others just followed him. One news outlet even quoted -- and I am not kidding you -- school children who believe the birds must have committed mass suicide. Well, that's good. Glad we got the school kids who are a top authority that I go right to, to find out the answers. So, they say the birds are just bumping in to each other or going kamikaze to the ground. The other investigation that was just kind of left at, blunt trauma. Birds experienced blunt trauma. From what? Did they just run in to Wonder Woman's invisible plane? By the way, that reminds me -- on the Internet, did you see this? This is the picture of the Chinese stealth plane on the Internet. The birds could see that. But here is something you haven't seen on the Internet yet. The Chinese stealth invisible plane. Yes! You wouldn't believe it if you didn't not see it for yourself. What about the Green River in Canada? Read this one, whoa! The article says, don't worry, it's a non-toxic chemical that's used to detect sewage leaks. That seems like a lot of non-toxic chemical in the river. If I'm living by that water, I am -- I feel much, much better. I'm like, oh, it's non-toxic. Drink up, kids. Except for one little pesky question, hw did the non-toxic chemical get into the river? Who put the green stuff in the water? Inquiring minds would like to know. Hey, we should read the newspaper and find out if the newspaper is - - oh, no, no. They're -- no, they're just telling you that the economy is really good and really bad. So, you can't do that. Most reasonable human beings would look at this and be left with more questions than answers. But the media seems content with throwing it out there and then letting it go. And then let us go fishing or not fishing because all the fish are dead on the Internet. So, the only one left searching for answers, I'm not kidding -- you're going to love this -- are the researchers at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. You'll know that is the home of grand "Crime Inc." progressive wizard Joel Rogers and the home of progressivism. Yes, they're the ones that the government is now telling, get to the bottom of the bird death. Oh, that's great! I trust them. Trust. I want to make this really, really clear, because everybody will take this monologue out of context. But, oh, well. When did that start? I want to make it clear. There is no invisible Chinese stealth plane. But wait a minute, I just didn't see it on "The Glenn Beck Program." Yes, we made that up. I'm not an animal expert. I have no idea why fish are washing up dead and birds are falling out of the sky. But I do know that reading the newspaper, listening to the media, you're not going to get anything. And what you do get are more questions and you no longer have the trust. And so, it allows people at various levels of distrust to say, "Something is really wrong. I'm only left with a creepy feeling that something is going around killing off all these animals." Wouldn't it be great if somebody took 30 seconds to use Google? I like this. Google. You should do an Internet search for it. I spent all of 30 seconds Googling this story and suddenly, there's a little context, a little history. Fifty-six hundred stories of history to be exact and here are just a couple. Way back in the time machine of 2004, millions of fish washed up in Maryland. Three million fish died in the California back in August of 2006. Two million more fish died in North Carolina in September of 2009. I love this story. Fish -- a whole bunch of fish just died in a river in Great Britain. And believe it or not, the experts over there said, well, that's because they were still recovering from the giant shock to their system when so many fish died last summer. What were they recovering from? The loss of their family member? What? When you read this, you start to realize that mass fish deaths aren't all that unprecedented. Now, I have haven't talked to any school children yet about the possible mass fish suicides in North Carolina, but I'm sure some reporter may be in that Scooby-Doo van will report on it as soon as kids wake up from their nappy nap time on the little rugs. What about dead birds? Has that ever happened before? According to the U.S. Geological Survey in the past three decades, there have been at least 16 events involving at least 1,000 birds that died at once. That's a little more than one every other year when this is happening. So, why are we left with the impression that something is going on? Because I thought it never happened before because a faceless basement blogger says, freak out, and I have to go to the newspapers or to the media to find out because they have so much credibility -- you know, the same newspapers that tell me many times on the same page that the economy is great! It's fantastic and horrible panic freak-out at the same time. That's called context and the truth. And that's why I want to talk to you about trust. If we don't have trust, we have nothing. Why do I feel like I'm in a movie about a divorce case or something? You have to have trust. Who do you trust? When Walter Cronkite, you used to trust him. Uncle Walter. There isn't Uncle Walter anymore. The media isn't something that I trust and that's a problem. One network seems to disagree with all the other networks. And the other networks seem to have their heads some place uncomfortable. Why does this matter? Well, because where are you getting the truth? Let me go to gas prices. The national average now is at $3.07 per gallon -- $3.07 per gallon. Remember that number. You, of course, heard the media reporting about the high gas prices at the pump, right? Yes. No, me neither. Why? Why? How come? Do you remember when gas was at $3 under President Bush? Well, the press seemed to care about then. It was the biggest problem ever. The Heritage Foundation recently reported on this back in April of 2005. Bush was grilled on a press conference on his handling of the $3 gas prices, and the national average at the time he was asked this question was $2 a gallon. A year later, he was asked at another press conference, this. (BEGIN VIDEO CLIP) REPORTER: What do you say to people losing patience with gas prices at $3 a gallon? And how much of a political price you think you're paying for that right now? (END VIDEO CLIP) BECK: So, at $2 they're freaking out. At $3, they ask him this. By the following year, Democrats were holding press conferences about the issue. (BEGIN VIDEO CLIPS) SEN. CHARLES SCHUMER, D-N.Y.: Had George Bush got his hasn't about this when he first took office, the price would not be $3 a gallon but $2 a gallon, or a $1.80, or $1.50. THEN-SEN. HILLARY CLINTON, D-N.Y.: Elect Democrats in November, if you don't like these outrageous gas prices, if you feel that the oil companies have been given a free ride by the president and the vice president, vote for Democrats who will vote for changes in our energy policy. (END VIDEO CLIPS) BECK: Oh, and they brought the change, didn't they? Hillary and Cynthia McKinney were so appalled by the high gasoline prices of $3 a gallon, they called for a windfall profits tax. Maxine Waters said she wanted the government to take over oil companies and nationalize -- remember that video? In 2008, Harry Reid said gas prices were the nation's top priority. Sing it, Harry. (BEGIN AUDIO CLIP) SENATE MAJORITY LEADER HARRY REID, D-NEV.: Whether we want it or not, there is going to be a discussion as to the fuel prices, what's going on is the number one issue facing America today. It's more important now than the housing market. (END AUDIO CLIP) BECK: More important than the housing market. Wow! In 2008, former Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi hammered President Bush for letting let gas prices rise on his watch. Here's my question: Where is everyone now? Gas is $3 a gallon. I was on television saying it can't last long. This is not good. Where were the other people that were saying that? The experts in the industry, including former Shell CEO John Hofmeister who at the time was saying this then with me on my show is now predicting $5 a gallon gasoline this time around. Eric Bolling, from the FOX Business Network, who has 23 years experience in the oil industry, says $7 a gallon gas prices are coming. That's great. Hey! Remember -- remember one thing, will you? Something that the media just doesn't see -- the president admitted in an interview, that what was it he said, the energy prices would necessarily skyrocket. Well, there he is -- under my (INAUDIBLE). People would be forced to consume less, thus saving the environment. Oh, no, the fishes are dying. Despite all of that, despite him saying his policies would necessarily -- show the tape again -- would make necessarily skyrocketing energy prices, not one of the December 2010 stories on the networks mentioning gas prices questioned the role of Obama's White House. He literally said right here on tape -- show it again -- on that tape, his energy plan will cause energy prices to necessarily skyrocket. And no one is questioning him on all of the things that he's doing to accomplish that goal. I will show you the real reason why our gas prices are skyrocketing. And ask you: are you going to listen to your gut or the experts? Content and Programming Copyright 2011 Fox News Network, LLC. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. Copyright 2011 CQ-Roll Call, Inc. All materials herein are protected by United States copyright law and may not be reproduced, distributed, transmitted, displayed, published or broadcast without the prior written permission of CQ-Roll Call. 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