This is a rush transcript from "Glenn Beck," April 4, 2011. This copy may not be in its final form and may be updated.
GLENN BECK, HOST: Hello, America. I'm here to hypnotize you again. At least that's what they tell me.
I am so excited that the Middle East has suddenly decided to let freedom ring. We should send them the liberty bell. Now, I know Mr. Gloomy Pants said back on January 21st, after Tunisia's spontaneous uprising that began on December 17th, that this could be the Archduke Ferdinand moment and things would spread throughout the Middle East and they get -- you know, get worse and worse and worse.
But looking back on that, I -- you know, it's not like the fire has spread or anything. I mean, look at Tunisia. And then Algeria and then Jordan and Yemen and Egypt and Lebanon and Gaza and then Iran and Bahrain and they'll be in Morocco.
OK, so all right, OK? But all of these are spontaneous and completely unconnected. That's why President Obama decided to step in, kind of, in Libya.
And now, we are working together like this, sympatico, with members of al Qaeda. Sure, they are our declared enemy. But can we help them help themselves?
Some of them are even former detainees at Gitmo who were released. What? We released them. They had to have learned their lesson. So, they maybe were good in detaining, you know -- and so, we went over there and now, we are knee-deep in this conflict and we're helping the people that we -- OK, arrested before because they were fighting us.
Last week, the president lent support to yet another country, verbally stepping up for the democratically elected president of the Ivory Coast. Let's listen in.
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PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA: Last year's election was free and fair. And President Alassane Ouattara is the democratically elected leader of the nation. And I commend President Ouattara for offering a peaceful future for all Ivorians and inclusive government, reunification and reconciliation.
But I want to close by speaking directly to the people of Cote
d'Ivoire: you have a proud past from gaining your independence to overcoming civil war. Now, you have the opportunity to realize your future. You deserve a future of hope and not fear. You deserve leaders, like President Ouattara, who can restore your country's rightly place in the world. You deserve the chance to determine your own destiny.
It's time for democracy in Cote d'Ivoire.
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BECK: What does democracy looks like? Well, with Ouattara, it's sweet. We know, our president said President Ouattara. He's a Muslim. But not officially the president yet because the current Christian president, who has his own share of issues, is refusing to allow a power change -- mostly because he fears that this guy is going to round up all of this guy's supporters and kill them all. Crazy talk.
We just heard from the president. Ouattara is the man.
Well, not quite. Even forces loyal to the Muslim president, like these guys, have slaughtered people, grabbed them out of their cars and set them on fire, and now they're beheading them, too. And our president is supporting them, which is great.
So by the way, the death toll, about a thousand in three days over the weekend.
So, we got this guy, standing with this guy, who's responsible for the scenes, you know, where people are (INAUDIBLE). That begs the answer to this question: why aren't we intervening on this genocide? Don't we have a responsibility to protect?
Samantha Power, we learned that from you -- who, by the way, Samantha Power, she's not only Cass Sunstein's beautiful, beautiful wife, but she's also right there in the pocket, right here spooky dude and may be the next secretary of state. Now, is she whispering in Barack's ear like she did with Libya? No, I know, Mr. President, we don't have any vital or imminent interest in the Ivory Coast, but it's our moral duty to protect them.
Now, what a moral dilemma for the president.
But, thankfully, as Obama's deputy national security advisor said, quote, "We don't make decisions about questions like intervention based on consistency or precedent." Well, that's great. There is nothing better than a completely unpredictable superpower to make things all calm and rational all around the planet.
So, the president is being entirely consistent with his inconsistency. Besides, why bother, France is now taking the lead again. Yes, they sent more troops to hopefully stabilize the situation. The French have.
Our current administration is so weak and so unpredictable and so seemingly on the wrong side that they are making the spineless Frenchy Frenchmen look like super heroes.
So, there we are, defending the guy whose people are cutting off the heads of people. In Libya, we are arming the rebels, you know, the ones that got out of Gitmo, fought against us on the battlefields of Afghanistan and Iraq, and we're giving them weapons and defending the guy who's chopping off the heads of thousands of people in another country.
But wait, there's more. If you act right now, this administration will also throw in protest. Yes, protest like these that erupted late last week in Afghanistan which at least 10 foreigners were slaughtered.
Now, why are they so unhappy? What have we done to them this time? Well, it was in retaliation, of course, to the two idiot pastors who burned a Koran. Oh, yes, they are nuts, they're stupid, and then we have Harry Reid. Harry Reid said, I'm going to look into these pastors that burned the Koran. Whoa, Harry, that sounds important.
Just a quick question -- come here -- what are you looking into and then what are you going to do once you look into them? Because I didn't even look into them and I already know they that worked on God projects with the Westboro Baptist Church -- you know, nutjob church people. OK.
So, you're going to look into them and then what?
Harry, I see that there are only three kinds of people. Three kinds of people in the world: there are dopes, you know, idiot dopes like the pastors. You know, I put them into the category of book burners, you know, these crazy people. Wasn't it great when we all got around the campfire and some burned books? No, no. So, dopes and they are usually idiots and dangerous.
Then two, there are the political dopes. You know, people, people who don't have a problem with crucifix in urine or burning the Bible, but when it comes to the Koran -- now, hang on just a second. We have Harry Reid looking into it and we have Lindsey Graham saying this.
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SEN. LINDSEY GRAHAM, R-S.C.: You know, I wish we could find some way to hold people accountable. Free speech is a great idea, but we're in a war.
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BECK: Oh, free speech. I didn't know free speech was just an idea? I thought free speech was an amendment to the Constitution. But I'm not a senator like you guys.
So, we have political dopes like Republican Lindsey Graham and Democrat Harry Reid. And then we have -- what I like to call -- you. You know, the people who don't go out and burn the Bible, don't like it when the Bible is burned, or the flag is burned, or a Koran is burned.
But you realize that the world isn't a perfect place and the last person we need to investigate our freedoms -- they are people like Lindsey Graham or Harry Reid, because usually those dopes -- well, what they find doesn't lead to more freedom.
You also know book-burning isn't the real problem. If it wasn't books, I'm guessing there would have been a really nasty cartoon that would have sent these enemies of God off to the public square with machetes.
But I haven't sat down with them and talked to them about their childhood. I have -- I did hear them chanting some thing in the streets, maybe it's the book they are upset about. But it could be something else. Maybe that isn't the real problem. Let's listen to their voices and see if we can understand them.
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