Beck: America's Fixation with Rep. Weiner Published June 07, 2011 | Glenn Beck
| Beck: America's Fixation with Rep. Weiner Published June 07, 2011 | Glenn Beck | Glenn Beck
GLENN BECK, HOST: Well, hello. And welcome to "The Glenn Beck Program." Let's start with everybody's favorite topic, the one that everybody is talking about. How about a little Weiner? Congressman Weiner. Congressman Weiner headlines. Come on! I love this. "Blogger says he has X-rated photo involving Weiner." "Weiner coached porn star to lie." "Congressman to single mom: You're not stalking me, I'm stalking you." "Weiner woman says Representative Weiner used government phone for phone sex." And my favorite is, how Anthony Weiner can recover from this scandal. Most people know these stories. In fact, we have a studio audience. I asked this morning that we'd bring a studio audience in today because I want to ask about -- I want to ask about these headlines and these headlines. Everybody here probably can tell me all about the apology, the press conference, the timeline, the underwear pic, the cat pics, right? Who knows about the cat pictures? Did you know about the cat pictures? Yes, go ahead. What's your name? Victoria? What's the pic? AUDIENCE MEMBER: Can I say it? He's got a photograph and he's sitting with his two cats -- BECK: That's enough. (LAUGHTER) AUDIENCE MEMBER: Another word for the cats -- BECK: Yes, another word for cat. OK. So, we all know that. Anybody here know how many followers he has on Twitter? How many followers he had before Twitter? Let's have a big group hug. I love you guys. I can tell you that everybody at TMZ is giving you the number, screaming it at the television. It was 44,000. And he is becoming super, super popular. And I think that's fantastic. Can anybody tell me about the "Weiner coached porn star to lie"? Can you tell me about that story? You guys are the best. I love you. You are answering exactly the right way -- Daniela? AUDIENCE MEMBER: He had some contact with the porn star and he said, Well, I'll give you my PR person. I'll tell you how to cover this up. BECK: You knew that. You knew that. You're shaking your head. Don't be afraid to answer the question. Weiner says government phoned for phone sex. And the single mom -- did anybody know the single mom story? It's fantastic. We're going to play a little game -- we're going to play a little game I like to call "newsroom." We're going to play that here, America, next. Newsroom, you tell me which story should be on the air and why it makes a difference. Come on. Let's go. (MUSIC) (APPLAUSE) BECK: All right. Hello, America. I have to tell you, I am -- I am proud to be built like a big bag of Marshmallows. And I'm happy about it because it makes -- it easy for me to resist all the women that don't throw themselves at big bag of marshmallows. Little interest is paid to a guy like me. But then again, you got Anthony Weiner. And you would think that little interest would be paid to a guy like him -- but apparently not. There's a lot of -- there seems to be a dirt bag circle out there. I actually said on the radio today and I know a lot of people would disagree with this, because I said on the radio today that I actually -- I feel bad for Anthony Weiner, and I kind of. I mean, I have compassion for Anthony Weiner. He has -- I don't know what trap he fell into but one of them is the Internet. And the Internet and porn and chat rooms and all of these things is a black hole. The Internet is both the best thing in the world and the worst thing in a world. You're going to be sucked down into that black hole or you can go to the -- you can find any book in the library. You could find anything, any piece of information instantaneously. It is both good and bad, simultaneously. It's what you choose to make of it. He chose incorrectly. He went the wrong direction. I want to play a little game "newsroom" here. If we could put two headlines up and you tell me, if you are the newsroom director which one you put up? Can we put these up, please? Tiffany is saying 1-1,000, 2-1,000. Here it is. You have it? There it is. OK. The latest picture of Congressman Weiner -- has anybody seen the picture of him bare-chested? There with the family pictures behind him? Isn't that classy? Oh, man! And I love how he said in the apology yesterday, "It was just a joke." I bet his wife and family are laughing. (LAUGHTER) BECK: All right. So, here it is. You are the news director. Which do you put up in the latest picture of Congressman Weiner or the housing market being worse than the Great Depression? Which one? B -- you put B up? How many say B? OK. Remember, you are the news director. I mean this one, doesn't get you any ratings or sell you any newspapers. It's nothing. This one everyone wants to see. Who puts B up? OK, we weed out about half of you. Come on! OK. B is the one that we should put up, but that's not the one that's put up. Next one, please. Revealing details about Weiner's women. Something everybody wants to know, apparently. Or B -- the revelation that Geithner doled out billions secretly to his favorite banks. AUDIENCE: B. BECK: B. Does anybody know this story? You don't know this one? Oh, this is great. Here's Timothy Geithner, Timothy Geithner is our treasury secretary, of course. And he's completely clean. Doesn't know how to pay his taxes -- but he is completely clean. Timothy Geithner went and he gave loans to some of his favorite banks at a special interest rate. Now, I don't know if you -- I mean, if you guys can't pay your credit card, do you get a special interest rate? Of course you do. You pay 18 percent, 25 percent, 40 percent. You get a special interest rate. He worked out a special interest rate for his favorite banks and it's 0.01 percent. Your tax dollars -- what is it $80 billion? OK. The news department all around the world decided to go with this one. Not this one. This one sells. This doesn't. One more. Do we have one more? Pictures of Weiner's chest. Or China pumping big money in to Latin America for oil, food and minerals. Can anybody tell me about B? Can anybody tell me that story? Anybody know it? Nobody? But you can all conjure up in your head Weiner's chest, can't you? Yes, it's good, isn't it? Can anybody tell me these stories over here? Dollar falls on China comment, stocks rebound. Dollar drops to one-month low on recovery concerns. Dollar falls on China comments. Does anybody know what the China comments were? China, this is this week -- this weekend. Friday came out. Yes, ma'am. In the back. You here, go ahead. AUDIENCE MEMBER: They converted to longer term bonds. BECK: Ninety-seven percent of the T-bills that were short-term, OK, which means they were just putting their money in for short-term, 97 percent of them are gone. It's like I'm going to get out of that whole short-term business of the United States. Good or bad? Good or bad? Bad. That's why the dollar falls. Stocks rebound. China officials says U.S. could pursue weak dollar policy. What does that even mean? Anybody want to tell me what that means? Yes? AUDIENCE MEMBER: Weak dollar policy would be when the U.S. devalues the dollar a little bit in order to boost demand for trade. The problem is it basically steals money from the rest of us. BECK: How does it steal money from the rest of us? AUDIENCE MEMBER: Our money is not worth as much as it was. It's basically a tax since the government has a printing press. BECK: How do you mean it's a tax -- I'm playing the person who's just looking -- I'm sorry, they are now at their computer and they're, like, wait a minute, the Weiner chest is really interesting, but what? They're stealing money? AUDIENCE MEMBER: Our money is now worth less because I can buy fewer goods with it. But the government that can just print more money doesn't feel that, because the government can print more money. The government gains based off my loss. That's a tax. BECK: They're causing inflation. You can't buy as much. You have to take more dollars to buy the same thing. So, inflation. Prices are going up. Weak dollar prices -- weak dollar policies -- Chinese officials say the U.S. assumes a weak dollar policy. Basically, inflation. Do we have inflation now? Yes. China pumps big money for oil, food and minerals. This is the one we just went on. Look at the one underneath it. China official sees risk in holding U.S. -- excessive U.S. assets. Why? Why? And China buying European food companies. Just put those together on your head and look at these -- U.S. home prices, the lowest since the great depression. How great recession could still turn in a Great Depression. Anybody read the story this week, that we're not headed for a Great Depression, we're headed for a great, Great Depression? Long-term unemployment worse than now the Great Depression. Geithner and Goldman are thick as thieves. Dollar drops one month lows, recovery returns. And the president says that we've hit a few headwinds. OK. Can anybody tell me? We look at these individual stories. Here are all the Weiner stories and here are all the "we're screwed" stories. Tell me what is the Weiner story, what is the collection of Weiner stories tell us? What do you say? AUDIENCE MEMBEER: We'd rather look at -- BECK: A junk? AUDIENCE MEMBER: Story that excites and titillates. BECK: OK. Christina? AUDIENCE MEMBER: That we're entertained to death almost that BECK: That we're entertained? AUDIENCE MEMBER: Yes. BECK: Go ahead. AUDIENCE MEMBER: Watch the other hand. BECK: Watch the other hand. What does that mean? AUDIENCE MEMBER: Meaning, pay attention here. While you're not looking, we're going to do what we want. BECK: OK. Yes, Jordan? AUDIENCE MEMBER: They'd rather watch someone else suffer than know they're suffering, too. BECK: That's really good. They'd rather watch someone else suffer than realize that we're suffering, to, or they're suffering, too. Anything else? Marian way up in the back. We have to move these mikes quickly. AUDIENCE MEMBER: The American idealization of trivia to the point where nothing serious can penetrate the nonsense. BECK: Wow. I think you guys -- I think these are all great. Cakes and circuses. Cake and circuses -- give them cakes and circus. Are you familiar with that? S.E. Cupp. S.E. CUPP: Hey, boss. BECK: How are you? S.E. CUPP: Good. BECK: Good. Cakes and circuses. What's it from? Do you know? Anybody? Yes, Jesse. AUDIENCE MEMBER: The emperor's used to control Rome by giving the people food and entertainment while the empire was falling apart. BECK: Cakes and circuses. Think of this, give them the cakes. Can anybody give me an example of cakes being handed out by the government? Can anybody handle -- if you are the emperor of Rome, you gave people cake. Well, we're not giving people cake now, cakes, but food -- food stamps. You want to control the people. The emperor knew. Give the people cake. And then entertain them. Isn't it interesting how entertainment -- we're not, really, really, what differences? What are you going to do about this? What are you going to do about Weiner? Anybody -- that is probably the wrong thing to say. What are you going to do about that story? Get all mad? What are you going to do? You're going to call him? "Hey, you should resign." That's going to help. What are you going to do? Seriously. Nothing. You're going to -- what? I'm sorry, Todd, what? AUDIENCE MEMBER: Sort of using, it's basic since. I mean, like an "Enquirer" mentality. You just look at it and you are amused by it, but nothing ever happens of it. BECK: But is it really funny? I mean, we're laughing because there's nothing else we can do, right? But it's not funny. It's horribly, horribly tragic. Here's a guy who has just put our country on the ropes. Why do I say he is putting our country on the ropes? Endangered each and every single one of us. How? Why? He what? AUDIENCE MEMBER: He could have been blackmailed and he could have given different things to different people because he's being blackmailed. BECK: Extortion. His wife is like this with the Clintons. You're telling me that there's no foreign interest in getting someone near the Clintons or getting somebody, you know, close to even anybody in Congress? Or blackmailing for information? You're telling me that that man didn't endanger the lives of his wife? Didn't endanger the lives of people around his wife? People around him? People of Congress? Information of the United States? You're darn right. Look what he did. For three, four, five days, he looked people right in the eye and said, "I didn't do that. I can't say with certitude that's not me." I can! I can tell you right that, there are no pictures like that of me. Thank goodness, fall to your knees and thank God tonight. (LAUGHTER) BECK: He couldn't do it. We laugh but what else are you going to do? Yes? AUDIENCE MEMBER: Personally, I don't really mind that whatever he did. You know, what I mind more about is that he just came out and told the American people that it wasn't -- you know, that he didn't send anything, and he lied to everybody. And then a few days later, he says that it was him, and now, all of a sudden, you know, it's supposed to be OK. If we can't believe him as a person, how are we going to believe him as a politician? So, that's my biggest problem with him. BECK: Yes? Go ahead, Jessie. AUDIENCE MEMBER: I mind what he did. (LAUGHTER) BECK: Good for you. I do, too. AUDIENCE MEMBER: In the first place, it was horribly immoral. In the second place, we elect representatives because we trust their judgment, because we can't be there in Congress ourselves every day to make decisions. This was really, really bad judgment. (LAUGHTER) AUDIENCE MEMBER: And a member of Congress should haven't that bad judgment. BECK: How can you trust a guy -- is it Shainee (ph)? AUDIENCE MEMBER: Shainee. BECK: Shainee. AUDIENCE MEMBER: Yes. BECK: How can you -- how can you trust a guy who's in Congress who says, wow, wow, and I've been screwing around on my wife and I've done such bad judgment -- I'm so stupid, I am this important? You know, I'm on TV. Everybody knows who I am. I'm in Congress. I got political enemies everywhere and I'm sending pictures of me with my cat and my shirt off going "dig me." That's how bad his judgment is. So, how can you trust him when he says, You know what, health care, I looked into it, it's good? Really? OK. How can you trust him when he say, "You know what, no, I'm telling you, this is -- we have to go to war"? And how do you thrust that this guy hasn't been compromised? And compromising all of our information? It does matter, doesn't it? Yes? AUDIENCE MEMBER: The lying bothers me. Certainly, it was terrible what he did. But when a witness takes the stand and an attorney shows that that witness was lying, the question comes -- well, are you lying now or are you lying before? You know, they're useless, they're worthless -- once you can prove that they lied. And my question is: if -- if we weren't able to prove it with a lie, how long would that lie have gone on? BECK: OK. So, when we come back, you said something to me right before we went on the air. You said that how many people even care about morals and what's morally right. Can you restate that? AUDIENCE MEMBER: Yes. Basically, we always talk on the show about good and evil and morally correct. And just there's a lot of people that are in this little bubble and they just don't care or don't even really know about what's going on in the world. Everybody is just kind of focused on their day-to-day and nobody really looks at the bigger picture. And that's the real big problem. It's just like there's a whole group of people that might even be comprised like a majority to some degree that are just kind of go with the flow. BECK: When that happens, cakes and circuses. When people say, "I don't really care. I'm just watching it. This is entertainment." They control. Whoever wants power -- it could be anybody -- whoever wants power controls you. So, now, we're going to take -- we have taken a look at the Weiner list. Now, let's take a look at this list and what does this picture mean? And why is that list important? And then, I'll ask the same question. OK, so then what are you going to do about it? Why even pay attention to it? What are you going to do about it? Content and Programming Copyright 2011 Fox News Network, LLC. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. Copyright 2011 CQ-Roll Call, Inc. 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