[ male announcer ] see how the hartford helps businesses at achievewhatsahead.com. ♪ >> glenn: hello, from los angeles. we have bad news for the democrats. yes, even more bad news. george soros. the guy who spent the last few elections donating tens of millions of dollars trying to elect progressive and push progressive issues, started s.o.s., where you can control the secretary of state. the people in charge of the recounts in states like i don't know, minnesota, al franken, well, soros says he has stopped dumping money in the mid-term election, because if i may quote him, "i cannot stop the avalanche that is coming for the republican party." that's great. just a note. by the way, spooky dude george soros, hey, always a delight to see you. just a note to the

republicans, don't get too comfortable. americans are not the same old pull the "d" or pull the "r" shrubs that we have been in the past. if the republicans find themselves winning a lot of votes, warning, you start nudging, you start spending, you start being corrupt. and playing the old game. guess who george soros won't be helping next time? yes, you. ♪ ♪ >> glenn: from los angeles, california, hello, america. good to be back with you. i had been out for a couple of days but through the miracle of video capture, it

look like i've only missed a day. i've been on the road since friday. i've been undergoing medical tests. everything is fine and i'll tell you about that tomorrow, because i learned something i want to share with you. tonight, i want to get to the news that you and i have missed together. i don't even know where to begin. bill clinton said basically that half of america needs psychiatric help. that is an amazing story. then food behavior scientists are trying to modify our kid's eating habits right out of cass sunstein's book "nudge." democrats are now on a smear campaign against the universally respected chamber of commerce. there is an incredible story of the miners in chile that are being rescued after 70 days trapped inside the mine. where to begin? where to begin? the main story of the day is the mine story. rightfully so. there are lessons to draw

from that and i'll get to it in a minute. but i want to go a different direction that most people -- i mean, this is the "glenn beck program." of course we're going to be odd and unusual. i want to start with something, i was on the plane, on my way to utah to have some tests done at the cancer institute. i don't have cancer, by the way. i was on my way out there for medical tests. i was reading a couple of things. i had things saved on my ipad and the "new york times" i was reading. it want to start with what i found in the "new york times" saturday. the horrific attacks that took place in the bronx a little over a weeks ago. i don't think i have ever read anything quite like this. maybe jeffrey dahlmer but he was one individual. so you can imagine mon stores

one at -- moner ises one at a time. this unimaginable hatred of they attacks that happened in the bronx left me with a sinking feeling and a burning question. who are we? and who are we becoming? i think before we go any further as a nation, it's time to examine ourselves and have a complete honest examination. we need to hear both the worst and the best. hatred is growing this this country. darkness is growing. i believe the light is as well. i want to talk to you first about the darker things and this story that happened in new york. i want to warn, you, there disturbing details in the story. normally i'd avoid them but i intentionally want to spend some minutes on them, because i think it's something we need to discuss. if you have children in the

room, please turn the television off at this point. this story out of new york, takes place. it's centered around a group of ten wannabe gangsters who call themselves the latin king goonies. they unleashed a series of vicious, sustained attacks begins october 3 on two 17-year-olds and a 30-year-old victim. now this was not just a random act of violence committed by a group of thugs out looking for trouble. that would be bad enough. this is a whole new level of evil. and i use the word "evil" knowing what it means. it was a cold, calculated attack that was dreamt up when the gang learned something about a friend, a friend who wanted to enter their gang. they saw him hanging out with a 30-year-old man who is

openly gay. the revelation triggered what was to follow a series of horrifying events. the latin king goonies, their ages are 16 to 23 years old. let that marinate for a moment. 16 to 23 years old. every single one of these, if they are convicted should be tried and convicted and serve as an adult, because of the plan that they hatched. they tracked down the 17-year-old who they suspected might be gay. they brought him in to a safe house and there he was shoved against a wall, severely beaten, forced to take his clothes off and repeatedly hit on the head. he was wounded with a boxcutter. then he was sodomized with a plunger. this went on and on as they interrogated the 17-year-old

and tried to get him to confess he had sex with the 30-year-old man they saw him with. he admitted that he had timely and then they let him go, threatening him and told him if he told anyone he would get more. not surprisingly, the 17-year-old didn't tell a soul, even when he was questioned at the hospital he had to visit, he lied to the hospital saying he had been jumped by strangers. what does that mean? why would he lie? does he maybe not believe in the justice system? this is just the beginning. the gang kidnapped another 17-year-old victim and questioned him of involvement with the 30-year-old man and they carried out another beating and again they got

him to confess to sleeping with the 30-year-old man. but he was not set free. the gang had something else in store for this 17-year-old. it always gets worse. they set a trap for the 30-year-old man who is known around the neighborhood as "the queen." they invited him to what he thought was a party. it turned out to be a nightmare. as soon as he got there, he was attacked and tied up. the beatings for him lasted hours. he was forced to drink ten large cans of malt liquor. he was forced then -- the 17-year-old, was forced to beat the man. since we're adults here, could you just let that marinate for a moment. the 17-year-old is forced by this latin king goony gang,

to beat a man that he had just been with. while the beatings were carried out, the other gang members went to the man's home. they attacked his 40-year-old brother. they demanded money. they took $1,000 and 52-inch television and attacks continued for hour. they stripped the man down and tied him up and burped him with a cigarette. they have the 17-year-old take the cigarette and burn him on the nipple and elsewhere. then they whipped him with a chain. then they sexual assaulted the man with a baseball bat. as this was going on, the group of 16-year-olds cheered the attacks. shouting gay slurs at the victim. i read this story while i was on the plane. i didn't even know what to say.

i couldn't even begin to understand the level of hatred and depravity. who are these people? who are these? not children. who are these men? i'm sorry, but to do this to some other human being, you are a man, you're a monster. it is pure evil. now i have been out of pocket for the last few days and away from new york, so i haven't seen the coverage on this. but i'm sure these attacked are being labelled as anti-gay. the thugs were clearly anti-gay. but it goes way, way beyond anti-gay. this is not only anti-gay, it is anti-human. it's bigotry for sport. 16 to 23 years old. what the hell is wrong with you? how does this happen?

a phrase keeps rupping through my mind. for the love of man shall wax cold because inequity shall abound. love of man shall wax cold. how does someone do this to another human being? hatred doesn't start, it doesn't come in black boots with red armed band. i have never read anything as horrifying as that story. that i remember. at least in my own country. i pick up my apad and i'm reading a few things i pulled

down, stories written about me. all kind of crazy things written about me in the last couple of days because i announceded on my program friday that i'm having some medical issues. they ruled out the bad things. possibility i had cancer or lupus or m.s. i don't have any of those things. i was shocked how many blog sites and people -- these people their job is to write stories. how many were writing stories so vitriolic about me. i don't care about with a you think about me. but really? the things said by professional writers and what was worse were people on the

blog sites that are -- they're not even using their real names. they are the ones that i expect to see i hope you die, et cetera, et cetera. this is what really shocked me and why i bring it up now. what shocked me were the responses by some people who were "defending me". responding with equally horrible comments. wishing harm on them. i read one that said progressives like you need to be rounded up. i read that, it was a horrific post -- that was just one line in it. a horrific post i sat on the plane and i thought to myself that guy cannot be a fan of mine. he has to be a poser. he has to be trying to discredit me. i don't know. that was the point. i don't know.

getting hard to tell the good guys from the bad guys. here is what i want to say. have you read blog sites lately? if you can avoid them, i guess don't post or don't read the post, because you will get caught up in a hatred. if you see people doing hatred on me, don't defend me. say we'll pray for you. or ignore it. but don't write and engage in the hatred. it's sucking us in. all of us. we're being sucked in. if you really believe the things you are posting in my defense, i don't want anything to do with you. can you see what is happening to our country? can you see what is happening to us as people? i know, and i -- we'll talk about it a little more tomorrow. the most amazing conversation with this doctor at the huntsman cancer institute. i never had a conversation like this with a doctor before.

spiritual in nature in the end. because there is a connection between our spirit and our bodies. there is. if we allow ourselves to be sucked in to anger and hatred, we are in trouble. we are done. if you are writing something on a blog or whatever, would you do yourself a favor. before you hit enter, reread it. ask yourself this. is that who i want to be? the only time you have a chance to take something back is before you send it. you can say all kind of stuff. believe me i'm the kind of saying stupid things. you can never take it back. as you're writing it, you can take it back. read it. over 8-28 and after i'll always say how proud i am to call you my friend. i am proud. but the hatred in this

country is getting worse and worse. i believe this with everything in my heart. this audience is going to be a part of the solution, not the problem. get out and get away from the problem. do not be a victim and do not create victims. we have want to be the people that will pull butts out of the fire! you can't do that if you are filled with hatred. it is a disease and very, very contagious. we hide behind sipseudonyms and masks now, especially on the internet. stop hiding. be who you are. take responsibility for what you do and what you say. it's time to decide who we are, who you are. will you allow yourself to be sub human? or will you strive to be superhuman? my 5-year-old son the other day was playing a video game with my wife's phone.

i hate these darn video games. i quite honestly to be real honest with you, we do them, we let him play with them now from time to time because it's easier. i hate myself for that. we get busy. and we let him play with video games. he doesn't have video games at home, but sometimes when we're traveling we let him play on the phone. well, he was lost in his own world playing a game. he passed right by a very good friend of ours. and wasn't really even engaged. we had just gone to dinner at this friend's house, and he had the phone. he had picked it up off the counter. we were saying goodbye. granted, he's six. he was completely distract and oblivious. i wanted to take the phone and toss it in the garbage.

i don't even know why we have the cell phone. all these things were supposed to make our lives easier. is your life easier? is it? think about all the things we have in our car now. we have everything. we have a phone. we have radio. we have news. we have gps. we have -- some of us have video in our cars so we go around and drive around with the kids, they're watching a video. what is this? we're disconnecting from ourselves. we're driving our living rooms. of course, if somebody cuts you off and you're in your living room, of course you're going to be p.o..ed. we're walking around with the ipod on and oblivious to humans all around us. we're missing the point. human connection. if you take the subway, or you ride the bus, does anybody even bother saying hi to you anymore? do you? it's probably considered rude or creepy to sit next to somebody and start a

conversation with them. have you ever been a situation where somebody is being nice and you're like what the hell is wrong with them? i have been. doesn't it tell you something? we've got to start noticing the people around us. we are becoming isolated. we are expanding what we consider to be our private space to areas that are never meant to be private. intimate conversations now on text messages. people stand -- i've seen this. if you have teenagers, i'll bet you have seen it, too. one teenager standing here. the other one standing here. they're texting each other. we are interacting less and less in the reality, the reality that is right in front of us. instead, we choose a fantasy world on screen.

we are changing because of it. we have to connect with things that are real again. i want to present you with a choice. when we come back, it's time we decide. who are we? back in a minute.  

>> glenn: there is a quote that is running through my mind. i'm paraphrasing here, but basically what it is: what one generation tolerates, the next will embrace. we are tolerating stuff that should not be embraced. we are detaching ourselves from one another.

we're losing our human connection. do you remember when president obama said that there were doctors that were amputating people's feet because they could make more money? the diabetes patients? i thought i've never ever heard that story. where? what kind of doctor would do that? well, it is happening. it's not happening in america. i's happening in greece. their government run healthcare system is now doing amputations because it's cheaper than paying for special footware for diabetes patients. how? how? how is that happening? i don't think it could happen if we kept our humanity. america has always been great because america is good. the people are good. but we're at a fork in the road. i think it's time to decide. and we're here. the fork in the road. we've always been united.

we've always been walking down this road together. somehow or another, we have started to split. and we're here. if this is the dark side of the path, you can still jump to the other side. but at some point, these are going to be so far apart, you're not even going to be able to see. i mean how many times have you said -- i mean this left, right. i mean all of us. how many times has the left said about the right, or the right about the left? i don't even understand you anymore. what is happening to us? remember this theory, i told you about? mutually assured destruction. we'll stop nuclear war by making sure that russia tries to wipe us out, we can wipe them out and nobody wins. mutated to mutually assured economic destruction.

the entire world would go down economically. that was the plan. stop world war iii. mutually assured economic destruction. the world is coming apart, coming undone. sliding in the abyss. we are, too. if you want to save yourself from mutually assured economic destruction you spit yourself out from the system. you unplug from the system and you won't be destroyed. the only thing with this theory that beats it -- this 1962, the only thing that beats is an unflagged nomadic culture. sounds like al-qaeda, doesn't it? if you want to spit yourself

out of the system, you have to be for right or wrong. it's easy to see the road now. it's amazing to me how many people won't see it. i read another story. this comes from michigan. this is about a 7-year-old girl being taunted by neighbors. i want to show you this. here is the 7-year-old girl. look how sweet she is. she is being taunted because of the arguments that the two families are having. photos of the little girl who is battling huntington disease have now surfaced on the internet. one depicts the girl's mom who died of the same disease in the arms of the grim reaper. look at this. the other photo features the little girl with her face above a set of crossbones. what neighbors would do this? what human being would do

this to a 7-year-old girl? well, it all started two years ago. the families had a falling out at a birthday party. one had a party and the other family asked to bring their kids and the response didn't come fast enough so it started a fight. that's it. show the picture again with mom and the grim reaper. it has gone to this extreme. how? now i know you wouldn't stoop to this level. but you notice that the fight didn't start there. it started out small. started with a simple mistake. it starts with a little wedge. then it is pushed farther and farther apart. it's hard when it starts with our mistakes. but if we are going to avoid nightmares down the road, we

have to change. we have to be the ones. let me tell you a story that happened to me about two years ago with a very good friend of mine. i introduced you to him a couple times before. his name is john huntsman. john huntsman is -- john huntsman is the best man i've ever met. john huntsman senior. there was something that had happened and it was my fault. i said something unthinkingly. and it hurt him. it hurt his family. and then i thought i better call and apologize but the old alcoholic glenn started in. i have didn't apologize. i thought maybe he'll forget about it and it will go away. john is an honorable man. four days later i get a hand wr written letter from him that says how could you do that? how could you say those things and not call me? i called him up immediately and i apologized. i was so upset.

i said i'm sorry. i wasn't thinking and then i avoided it hoping it would go away. he accepted my apology but it was pretty cold. he accepted my apology and hung up the phone. i called and tried to make amends for all the people around thinking i would never speak to him again because he would never forgive me, even though he said on the phone "i forgive you." the next day i was just, i was devastated. john called me. and he said as i picked up the phone. how is my dear, dear friend? i said john, i'm doing well. i am sorry. i am so sorry. he stopped me in the middle and he said glenn, i found two things. one, great men never hold on to grudges. great men when somebody asks for their forgiveness, they forgive them and they let it

go. but he said i learned something else. great men apologize, try to make it right and let it go themselves. live your truth. face the truth. 

i'm patti ann browne. a live update now on the mine rescues in chile from fox's steve harrigan at the scene.

hi, steve. >> reporter: a few minutes ago we saw miner number 25, avalos come up from the surface. his brother was the first miner up. both of them down there for two months. it's gone smoother than expected. the capsule moving up and down. banged up by the hard rock but no major problems or delay. originally the rescues were scheduled to take an hour an now they're coming in about half that time. back to you. >> thank you. continuing coverage throughout the night. glenn beck in a moment, but first, bret baier previews "special report". >> bret: what does president obama think he's done wrong? he speaks out about it less than three weeks from the election. we go coast-to-coast for in-depth coverage of hot races. join me at the top of the hour. back to glenn. ♪ ♪

>> glenn: there is reallying in more important right now than i guess the election as most people will say. i'm anxious to see what bret baier has to say on the elections. but there is something also very intriguing about the miners' rescue. why? we see darkness and destruction around us every day. we see the worst of man it seems in the news. i told you last week that ingesting all the ugliness and all of the stuff that i have read and presented to you in the last what four years now, on my radio and then this television show. i think has had a role in making me sick. you cannot keep focussing on the negative without some physical eeffect on your body. maybe you think it's because glenn beck has gone all

californian. no, i believe that our spirits and our bodies are connected. that's why it's nice and refreshing to see a story like the rescue of the miners in chile. for 69 days, 33 miners were trapped underground. how did they survive? other than on the canned fish which sustained them after being jammed in and trapped in a space the size manhattan studio apartment, which is about, i don't know, this big. well, amazing words that have come out. they expressed a oneness with the holy spirit that got them through their ordeal. on day 26 after the collapse, miner mario said, "we are 33 miners walking hand in hand with god. the youngest of the miners jimmy sanchez wrote, "down here, there are actually 34 of us, because god never left our side."

their saga, their incredible hope, courage and their faith resonated with the people of america. and resonated with the people in chile. 87% of whom are christianment how would their story be perceived here, if it happened here? would they be mocked or ridiculed? i don't think so. would they be asked not to talk so openly about their faith? again, i don't think so. would we embrace and accept it as a miracle? i do think so. but the media wouldn't understand it. what kind of country are we? what have we become? what do we believe? are we the people we were after september 11? or are we the kind of people that are just living in, that are oblivious to what is right around the corner and what may already be in the

air? this is a question you have to ask yourself. what is inside of me? maybe we should get on getting it out if it's darkness and bringing it out if it's light. if you have darkness inside, it feeds or drives you. but it won't be just you. it will be the next generation as well. i don't remember who said it but a fantastic quote. one generation will tolerate something, but the next generation will embrace it. i want to show you a clip from the 8-28 documentary that we have made available at glennbeck.com. can you show this? this is an amazing scene. this is the father talking about why he was there. he said i have to bring my kid. i want you to watch the child next to him in the blue

shirt. watch his eyes as he is talking. his father starts to say but i had to bring -- i had to bring my kids here because they have to know what america is all about. watch his eyes as he begins to look up at his father. as i saw this, as i saw this, i realized our kids are watching us. our kids are watching. they're learning from us right now. whatever it is we tolerate, they will embrace and tolerate a lower bar. it can be good or bad, but they are watching us. so ask yourself, what example are you setting? what is the poison inside of you? what is the thing that you are tolerating? keep in mind, another phrase that has great meaning. that what you gaze upon you

will become. what is it we are gazing upon? what is it that we are watching every day? what is that we are feeding ourselves any day? are we gazing upon monsters? both actual and metaphor call. we spend all of our time gazing on stories like this horrible neighbor that i talked about earlier. almost no time gazing on miracle like chilean miners. we and the children must gaze on these things. we must be better than we are currently. stronger than we are. life isn't easy. i got news for you, gang, it is only going to get tougher. you are in your boot camp now. boot camp is designed to make us stronger. as life gets tougher. at least for a while. we have to be better than we are today.

we are going to be sorely tested but we will make it. and beyond that, it is my hope that you will be guide or a help to someone else. because you are ready. when that test comes, we are either going to go to a cave and deny that there is a problem or put our hard hat on and we are going into that mine, that mine and find the very best in us. we will come out victorious. we will come out better. we will come out stronger. we will come out united. which will it be? it's up to you. back in a minute. ñ÷

>> glenn: so ben stein my good friend is with me. this is his hometown. i have thought ben -- i see you -- >> you have burritos. i don't foe what kind they are, but i'm going to look inside. cheese, and beef. >> glenn: every time he has been with us -- how many years now? >> many years. many years. >> glenn: for some reason, there is always food when ben is involved. when he came to new york, gave him chinese food. >> this is really good. he's like welcome to california -- have mexican food. >> glenn: this is taco bell.

this isn't mexican food. >> yes, it is. >> glenn: not really. >> considered mexican food in l.a. >> glenn: this is as good as it gets in l.a.? >> darn good. tasty. >> glenn: you wrote an editorial on -- >> yum, yum. >> glenn: -- on business. and you're saying that obama is killing business. >> i'm saying that the miles per hour economy is business, small business. they're like hunted prey in the obama world. let's be honest. the bush administration made terrible mistakes, too. they started out the recession. but we are looking at obama to fix it. what he is doing is saying to the businessman we're going to attack you with obama care mandates, we're going to attack you with cap-and-trade and we're going to attack you with higher taxes on successful businessman. anytime you poke your head up, we'll shoot at it.

now you have this attack on the chamber of commerce. >> glenn: never seen this. my dad was a member of the chamber of commerce. >> you would think being a member of the chamber of commerce was like being a member of al-qaeda as far as this administration is concerned. >> glenn: when did that happen? >> i don't know. i think mr. obama says naive ideas and one of them is you can beat business to a pulp and it will somehow encourage them to do better. a famous french saying that is how like the english to shoot one admiral to encourage the others. >> glenn: do you think that is what is happening? >> i think he is trying to beat them -- this is good, isn't it? you're eating -- >> no better than this -- >> glenn: i think you are going down the road that you think he's naive. >> i don't think he's naive. i think he's very angry. angry at businessmen and jealous of their success. >> glenn: really? i don't think so. i think he actually -- >> i think he is angry guy. >> glenn: i think he believes

in the redistribution of wealth. >> people who believe that are angry, envious people. people who are happy and content with their lives don't feel they have to take things away from other people. >> glenn: taco bell is not mexican food. >> it is. delicious. >> glenn: it's american food. >> that's what we consider the essence of mexican food. >> glenn: do they have taco bell in mexico? >> i have not seen any. i have been to mexico many times. redistribution is a person who believes to take things away from other people. that means by definition he's not that happy a person. these are not happy people. mr. obama grew up in difficult circumstances, not a happy person. >> glenn: hang on in a second. back in a second. i think you're wrong.

>> glenn: so ben stein is back and trying to convince me that taco bell is -- >> really good. >> glenn: this is not california -- >> it's mexican food. >> glenn: he has a book out, little book of bulletproof investing. talking a little bit before we went to the break all the things that are happening on small business. but, ben, let me ask you this. what does a small businessman

do? >> they do what they are doing. and big businesses, too. they acquire as much liquidity as they can, as much cash as they can and keep their heads down or government shoots it off. it's a big problem. >> glenn: if you do that, we never get out of the cycle. >> that is the problem. i don't think we would have gotp out of the cycle if the great depression not for world warrii. we still had 15% unemployment on the eve of pearl harbor. >> glenn: do you remember what f.d.r. did? business did the same thing they're doing now. >> profit stack and you think something like that could be coming and i think something like that could be coming, too. somehow mr. obama has to learn you cannot shoot one businessman to encourage the others. you have to be friends with business. america business is business. that's what calvin coolidge said. that's true. you have to be friendly with businessmen, regulate them and chemothem grown-up --

treat them as grown-ups. >> glenn: ben stein saying welcome to california with taco bell. >> nice to see you. >> glenn: back in a minute. 

>> glenn: oops. on tomorrow's program, fabian socialist and progressives in california. we have done our homework on the progressive movement in california. you'll be surprised what we found. on friday, there let be stuff. remember the video story of