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Do you recognize America? (GLENN BECK)
GlennBeck.com ^ | 12-03-09 | Glenn Beck

Posted on 12/04/2009 5:51:04 AM PST by GOP_Lady

December 3, 2009 - 11:46 ET

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Glenn came up with a list of things that if he told you a year ago, you would never believe they'd ever come to fruition. The list is staggering, but it's only a partial list because it's what Glenn, Stu and Pat came up with just chatting in the office this morning. Listen to the list Glenn produced and help add to it by sending us any glaring omissions using the form below...

GLENN: From high above Times Square, Midtown Manhattan, third most listened to show in all of America. Hello, you sick twisted freak. Welcome to the program. My name is Glenn Beck. I'm glad you're here. I'm going to speak in code here for a second because this is going to be a message to an audience of one, an entity of one. I have a contract for a private party. That private party is going to be broadcast tonight. If my First Amendment rights, if my contract is violated in any way, shape or form, I'll spend every damn dime I have to make sure everybody understands the game that's being played. There's some interesting games that I will share with you gladly. In the meantime make sure you join us tonight in movie theatres for the road to redemption. Yes, a Christmas message. If any, if anything happens to me, just understand all involved will be exposed. Gladly. With glee. Christmas joy in my heart.

Now, hello, America. How are you? It is an interesting world we're living in. It's interesting that I started the broadcast with that today as one of the things I want to talk to you about is I said a year ago ‑‑ was it a year ago today or yesterday? When was it, Stu, that I said ‑‑ it was about a year ago. It just came up on ‑‑

PAT: I think it was a year ago today.

GLENN: Just came up on Stu's calendar. I said it was at this time that I said a year from now, by Christmas, you will not recognize this country. And we were talking about it this morning. And Stu said, I don't know. I mean, I don't know if that's right.

PAT: The buildings look about the same, the freeway on ramps are exactly where they used to be.

GLENN: That's exactly right.

PAT: They're still crowded on most of the major thoroughfares.

GLENN: I started making a list, just rattling off a list of the things that if I would have told you were happening in this country a year ago, there's no way you would have believed, no way. Not a chance. We'll give you that list, and I'd like you to help me add to that list. Do we have the list now? We're just printing it out because I ‑‑ I just rattled off the list. Oh, it's how many? One, one, two, three, four, five, six pages. That's it, though. It's only six pages, okay? And this is just off the top of our heads. You ready?

Won't recognize the country a year ago, you will not recognize America a year from now. Ready? If I would have told you last year at this time that the government would own General Motors, Chrysler, and many of the banks and financial institutions and AIG, that they would fire the CEOs, that they would threaten the banks, that they would shut them down unless they would take that money, that they would hire good people for places like AIG and pay them a dollar to fix the problem, a dollar a year, these people would volunteer; but they would also promise them, the government would, that they would promise them bonuses if they would just work for that dollar a year to fix the problem. When that year came up, they would not only give them that bonus, they would vilify them, send their minions out to protest in front of their homes for even wanting the bonus that they were asked, that they were promised by the government and then people in Washington would then set out to have a specific tax drawn up just for those people, would you have believed it?

PAT: I don't think so.

GLENN: Not only would they take over GM and fire the first guy, the president would fire a CEO but then the second individual that they put in place of the first guy, he would be fired and the guy they replaced, this is the third now person under Barack Obama's term, the third CEO of General Motors. No one in the media would report that that guy is the man who helped Rahm Emanuel make $16 million in one deal.

If I told you a year ago, which I did, you won't recognize the country, you will not recognize America a year from now, I said that a year ago; if I told you instead that there would be a 9/11 Truther, a guy who said the United States government blew up those buildings, a self‑avowed communist, a guy who, a guy who is speaking in prison anticop, who defended a guy who point blank shot a cop in the head, if I said he would be a high level advisor to the president of the United States, would you believe it? If I said the president would come out in a speech and say I have absolutely no information but the cops acted stupidly because they caught a friend of the president appearing to break into his own home, the cops didn't act stupidly, they just did their job and the president would never apologize, instead he would invite them all for a beer summit and use it as a learning experience about diversity, would you believe it? If I would have told you instead of saying you won't recognize this country a year from now, if I instead told you I'm going to be on the cover of Time magazine, would you have believed it? That I'm going to be one of the ten most fascinating people in 2009, you've got to ask yourself what the hell happened to this country. If I would have told you instead that the most frequent visitor of the White House, over the Secretary of State and everybody else, is a labor union president who has repeatedly said workers of the world unite; and we know we've got a lot of illegal members, illegal aliens in our membership, and who chief guy said, yeah, but we also represent American workers, end quote, that he would be the most frequent visitor at the White House, would you have believed it? That the president of the EU would say that 2009 was the year of establishing a global government through the EU and that the climate change treaty would be the next step in one world government, that there would be a call for the end of the dollar as the world's reserve currency by several massive countries and that the leader of Russia would hold up a coin in front of the cameras and say here's a prototype of the new global currency, that in government‑structured bailouts, bondholders would lose their legal status and their investments in favor of labor union payoffs and the courts would say, "Hmmm, yeah, okay." That you could lose your home and property through eminent domain and eminent domain would expand in staggering ways. That California would decide to levy a 10% tax on its people and insist it's not a tax; it's just a forced loan. That they would issue IOUs instead of tax refunds. That New York would say by the end of the year they would be broke. That New York would issue retroactive taxes, that a tax fund for the poorest of Americans would not really be a tax refund. Instead those poorest of Americans would find out many months later that they had to pay income tax on that tax refund. If I told you that the symbol of capitalism, the Empire State building, would be lit in colors of communist China, would you have believed me? That the hockey stick chart would be discredited as would its founder along with another leader of the global climate change movement who manipulated data, that they deleted e‑mails and information to avoid Freedom of Information Act, that these same scientists would do everything they could to discredit the peer review process to make sure it remained pure for their ideological purposes, and yet the media wouldn't report on it and we'd still be headed to Copenhagen with a president the who was going to present a 17% reduction in carbon. For our country, that our science czar, John Holdren, our science czar would be someone who called for forced abortions and sterilization through the drinking water, who said that the redistribution of wealth would be necessary and it would happen through the environmental movement. That the diversity czar at the FCC, if I just told you a year ago there would be a diversity czar at the FCC, would you have believed me? That the diversity czar at the FCC would say Americans have to decide soon which Americans would have to step down from their positions in order to give others a chance, that this same man said the revolution in Venezuela was incredible and that we should model our FCC and our programs after Venezuela and the revolution. That the U.S. would have a two‑day summit to discuss the role of government in journalism and be discussing a government takeover of journalism and that no journalist would actually report on that. That they would hold a job summit and not invite the Chamber of Commerce, that two uninvited people could get into the White House state dinner, chat with the president, be near the prime minister of the largest democracy on the planet and that the response from the White House would be, yeah, we need to do a better job with security. That a U.S. congressman would tell the American people that it's unreasonable to expect people in congress to read bills, and he would say that because our congress would pass two bills over 1,000 pages, that no one in congress had read. One of them was over 2,000 pages. That a job creating stimulus bill would be written, not read by congress but not even written by congress. It would be co‑written by the Apollo Alliance, a special interest group whose New York chief was a co‑founder of the Weather Underground and no one would care! That people in congress would openly be praising Castro, Chavez, that the president would receive an ‑‑ if I said to you a year ago, "You know what's going to happen next year: The president is going to receive an anti‑American book and a photo op from Hugo Chavez and then he would have a one‑hour private meeting with Vladimir Putin where Vladimir Putin, quoting, would teach the president the history of the Cold War. That our president would give an iPod of his speeches to the queen of England. That he would send the bust of Winston Churchill, which was a gift from the people of England; when the prime minister came over that our president would say to him, hey, by the way attention thanks, but you can take this back to him now and the prime minister would say to him, no, no, no, that was a gift from the people of England to you and you can keep it in one of your museums; we gave it to you on September 11th. No, no, that's okay, and box it up and ship it back!

If I told you that there would be hundreds of thousands of Americans gathered in a true grassroots event in a National Mall in D.C. and the media would not only dismiss them but the government, the president and the media would deem them a danger to the United States, that healthcare would be at 36% approval rating, which is lower than Hillary Care but that those in congress and the White House would still be jamming it down your throats. That the chief of the treasury who oversees the IRS cheated on his taxes as would almost everyone else in the cabinet. If I told you a year ago when gold was about $800 an ounce that it would be at $1200 an ounce, would you have believed it? That Dubai which a year ago was bailing out our banks would be on the edge of bankruptcy. If I told you we're going to lose 4 million jobs and the media would report that the White House has created or saved a million jobs even though in their evidence you have to find their evidence on a $20 million redesigned website where it would show that a good portion of these jobs were in about 400 districts that don't even exist. If I told you that, would you have believed it? Looking at that list, do you recognize the country that you live in? Is this the same country that you lived in a year ago today? I don't think so. I don't recognize it. If I would have told you that there would be a Muslim terrorist and that he would shoot and killed soldiers at Fort Hood, would you have believed it? If I told you then that, yes, the president will make a statement but he will spend two minutes prior to giving a shoutout and talking about the conference he had with the American Indian, would you have believed it? If I then told you after that two minutes he would then say then, oh, and also there's been a shooting of our military but let's not jump to conclusions. And then his Homeland Security director would be over in the Middle East and she would say, don't worry, we're working on things to stop the violence against Muslims in America, would you have believed it?

I can be wrong on an awful lot of things and I have been wrong on an awful lot of things. But when will people in this country, when will the media at least say, gosh, it looks like the direction of our country and the one this guy keeps laying out, gee, some of those things seem to be happening. When will anyone in the media even notice how far we have come?


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1 posted on 12/04/2009 5:51:07 AM PST by GOP_Lady
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To: GOP_Lady
I'm going to speak in code here for a second because this is going to be a message to an audience of one, an entity of one. I have a contract for a private party. That private party is going to be broadcast tonight. If my First Amendment rights, if my contract is violated in any way, shape or form, I'll spend every damn dime I have to make sure everybody understands the game that's being played. There's some interesting games that I will share with you gladly.

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2 posted on 12/04/2009 5:56:16 AM PST by snowrip (Liberal? YOU ARE A SOCIALIST WITH NO RATIONAL ARGUMENT.)
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To: GOP_Lady

He should learn to speak in smaller paragraphs.


3 posted on 12/04/2009 5:56:39 AM PST by ClearCase_guy (Play the Race Card -- lose the game.)
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To: GOP_Lady

I told my friends the exact same thing one year ago.
Beck and I were both right.


4 posted on 12/04/2009 5:57:17 AM PST by stephenjohnbanker (Support our troops, and vote out the RINO's!)
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To: snowrip

The chair is against the wall. Repeat: the chair is against the wall.


5 posted on 12/04/2009 5:58:36 AM PST by ClearCase_guy (Play the Race Card -- lose the game.)
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To: GOP_Lady

Thanks for posting this from yesterday’s broadcast. I heard it and hoped someone captured the text.


6 posted on 12/04/2009 5:59:44 AM PST by EBH (it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute a new Government)
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To: ClearCase_guy

John has a long mustache. John, has a long mustache.


7 posted on 12/04/2009 5:59:59 AM PST by snowrip (Liberal? YOU ARE A SOCIALIST WITH NO RATIONAL ARGUMENT.)
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To: GOP_Lady

I missed the show... Who was the private party?


8 posted on 12/04/2009 6:01:06 AM PST by snowrip (Liberal? YOU ARE A SOCIALIST WITH NO RATIONAL ARGUMENT.)
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To: ClearCase_guy

I’m watching the door.


9 posted on 12/04/2009 6:01:22 AM PST by WVKayaker (www.wherezobama.org / Obama's Excellent Adventure ...)
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To: snowrip

I don’t know. Glenn said it was a “private message” to a “single entity” in “code,” but he wouldn’t say. I guess we’ll never know unless they break their contract with Glenn.


10 posted on 12/04/2009 6:02:32 AM PST by GOP_Lady
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To: EBH
You're welcome.

I was listening to it on my iPhone this morning, and thought it was remarkable, and I had to share it with everyone here.

Good job, once again, Glenn! :-)

11 posted on 12/04/2009 6:03:32 AM PST by GOP_Lady
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To: stephenjohnbanker
You were indeed, correct, stephen.

I thought it would be different, but not this much this soon.

12 posted on 12/04/2009 6:05:09 AM PST by GOP_Lady
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To: ClearCase_guy

The BLUE bird sings. The BLUE bird sings.


13 posted on 12/04/2009 6:07:45 AM PST by upier ("Usted no es agradable en America" "Ahora deporte Illegals")
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To: GOP_Lady

How about this: That everyone would be discussing as a “health care bill” a bill that allows the government to look right into your bank account?


14 posted on 12/04/2009 6:14:15 AM PST by firebrand
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To: GOP_Lady

I’m surprised he hasn’t done worse. He was nothing but a Chicago gangster before he became the president.


15 posted on 12/04/2009 6:14:44 AM PST by stephenjohnbanker (Support our troops, and vote out the RINO's!)
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To: EBH

ping for future reference


16 posted on 12/04/2009 6:16:55 AM PST by The FIGHTIN Illini (The betrayal of the Greatest Generation continues)
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To: GOP_Lady

I think he was referring to what happened last nite at NYU. They had rented the theater there for his Christmas Sweater show that was broadcasted to many other theaters last nite and I guess there were problems. He’s talking about it now on his show.
It was a closed event, no tickets sold but things went awry apparently.


17 posted on 12/04/2009 6:18:42 AM PST by ozark hilljilly (This is not a drill!)
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To: ClearCase_guy
My father was a cop and as a child, when we went to a restaurant or any public place, my father would never sit with his back to the door, always with his back to a wall. Instinct in cops and that was in the 50's...I will not sit in a restaurant with my back to the door either...Just habit... and self defense.......

PS that included weddings and funerals......

18 posted on 12/04/2009 6:28:17 AM PST by goat granny
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To: snowrip

The white moose swims in the rain. The white moose swims in the rain.


19 posted on 12/04/2009 6:37:09 AM PST by Jackknife (Chuck Norris grinds his coffee with his teeth, and boils his water with his rage)
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To: firebrand

>> That everyone would be discussing as a “health care bill” a bill that allows the government to look right into your bank account?

The government can already look into/ sieze a bank account to pay a tax debt.

SnakeDoc


20 posted on 12/04/2009 6:37:12 AM PST by SnakeDoctor ("Talk low, talk slow, and don't say too much." -- John Wayne)
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