‘Raw courage’: Megyn Kelly remembers Charlie Kirk
Glenn Beck and Megyn Kelly were holding on to hope that the shooting of Charlie Kirk was not fatal while in the middle of recording an episode of “The Megyn Kelly Show.”
But it was during that episode that they got the horrific news: Their friend was assassinated at just 31 years old.
Days later, the news is no less shocking.
“I still don’t feel like I have my arms around it,” Megyn tells Glenn. “I don’t feel like I’ve totally digested the fact that he’s gone and the way in which he was taken. You know, Charlie truly was such a larger-than-life figure.”
“We say that term, but it was true about him. At 6’5”, he truly seemed larger than most of us. And he was, in his gifts and his tirelessness and just knowing exactly where the seam in every story was. And his raw courage,” she continues.
“You'd look at Charlie and you’d think, ‘Now that’s true courage,’” she adds.
Charlie said what others were afraid to say, and he said it with a kindness that softened even some of the more radical leftists on college campuses.
However, he was also widely misunderstood.
“He took a lot of slings and arrows for it and was demonized for being all the terrible things as opposed to people taking him on and saying, ‘Does he have a point?’” Megyn says.
“Megyn, how do we process this? How do we surface from this?” Glenn interjects.
“I think, as with any loss, we all have to go through the denial and the bargaining, you know, like I’m still refreshing my X account like hoping somehow there’s a reversal, you know, like somehow it was all wrong. Somehow we got it all wrong,” she answers.
“That’s a natural reaction when you’ve had a sudden loss in particular. And anger’s completely appropriate now, too,” she says, adding, “It’s completely appropriate.”
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Glenn Beck’s poetic tribute to Charlie Kirk sparks the next phase for fearless leadership
Yesterday, Charlie Kirk, beloved conservative voice and founder of Turning Point USA, was shot and killed by a gunman while speaking at an event for his American Comeback Tour on the Utah Valley University campus in Orem, Utah.
The news of his death has shaken conservative America to its core.
“I’ve only felt this way one time before,” Glenn Beck says. “I had just signed a contract with Premiere Radio Networks, and my show was to begin on January 1, 2002. And then tragedy struck at the World Trade Center, and I was called and told, ‘You start tomorrow.’”
“I spent most of the day and the night by my bedside praying for the words to share with you on that day. I spent most of the day yesterday in that same position. I pray that the words that I need to speak to you today come from Him and that you hear them,” he says through tears.
“There are moments when words from another age suddenly feel as though they were written for this moment,” Glenn says.
He references the famous 1947 poem by Dylan Thomas titled “Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night,” which is written from the perspective of a son pleading with his ailing father to fight against impending death.
“Do not go gentle into that good night / Rage, rage against the dying of the light,” the speaker beseeches.
Thomas’ words are “a mandate for all of us,” Glenn says. “Do not go quietly when truth is on the line. Do not surrender. Do not surrender to the shadows, even when — and especially if — you think the battle can no longer be won.”
“Charlie Kirk lived that mandate. He knew the cost of speaking unpopular truths. He knew the fury of those who wanted him silenced. But Charlie pressed on. In his short life, he embodied that defiance.”
But he did it not with hatred or vengeance but with “the kind of righteous defiance that has always marked those who refuse to bow to the idols of our age,” Glenn says.
Like George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, and John Adams, who “raged against the certainty of an empire,” knowing full well that “the gallows awaited them,” Charlie Kirk fearlessly fought the encroaching darkness of our time.
“Every single generation is called to resist the temptation to go quietly into the good night. It’s just our turn,” Glenn says.
He compares Charlie’s shocking death to “a knockout punch ... another body blow in a season that is already heavy with grief.”
But we are not out of the game. If anything, Charlie’s death is a rally call — a cry for courage and strength in the face of unspeakable evil.
“I am here to tell you, if his life meant anything, it’s this: Silence in the face of darkness is not an option,” Glenn says.
“He did not go gently. He stood. He spoke. He challenged. He knew, as Dylan Thomas wrote, that even the wise men and the good men must resist the dying of the light because surrender only hastens the darkness.”
“Today, that mantle falls to us — to me, to you, to every single person alive today that hears my voice,” he says.
“You and I cannot drift into the shadows. We cannot sit quietly while freedom fades. This is our moment to rage. But rage not with hatred ... not with anger, but with courage. Rage not in violence, but in truth-telling. Rage against the lies, against the apathy, against the hopelessness that says there is nothing you can do,” he continued.
“There is always something you can do,” Glenn encourages.
“The most defiant act in an age when the world throws hate around like it could be purchased in any dime store or 7-Eleven is an act of kindness. When you offer nothing but love, kindness, and the unrelenting truth, those are the flames in the night. Those are the flames that hold back the darkness.”
“My friend Charlie Kirk carried that torch. He was forced to lay it down yesterday. And it is ours to pick up.”
To hear Glenn’s full response, watch the episode above.
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SAY HER NAME: Democrats ignore Charlotte stabbing
A 34-year-old homeless man with a long criminal history has been arrested on charges of murdering a 23-year-old Ukrainian refugee — who fled the war in Ukraine for a better life here in America.
Decarlos Brown Jr. allegedly viciously stabbed Iryna Zarutksa on a light rail train in Charlotte, North Carolina, on August 22. CCTV footage revealed that the young woman was stabbed several times, including once in the neck.
She died on the spot.
“She was seeking the safety and the freedom and the promise that America still stood for something good. She never made it off that train alive because of the guy in the red hoodie. He’s a repeat offender, a man with a long rap sheet,” Blaze media co-founder Glenn Beck says, disturbed.
“Her name should be everywhere. Her story, when you see it, is like watching a horror film. It is extraordinarily evil and disturbing. Yet, outside of local coverage, you’re not seeing this anywhere,” he continues.
“No, there’s no wall-to-wall coverage, no breathless reporting, no endless panels on this,” he adds.
Glenn believes the mainstream media is ignoring this story because it “does not fit the narrative.”
George Floyd’s death in 2020 “generated tens of thousands of articles, cities were burned, corporations bent the knee,” and “media made it the moral center of the universe.”
“Why is this one completely invisible to the legacy media?” Glenn asks. “A young woman, an immigrant, a refugee, brutally loses her life on American soil, career criminal. Silence.”
“It brings up and makes you ask all the wrong questions. It shines a spotlight on a justice system that keeps turning violent men loose on the streets, over and over again. It reveals the double standard that screams louder than words, that some lives are politically useful,” he says, adding, “others are disposable.”
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Glenn Beck reacts to Dearborn, Michigan’s proposal to put Arabic on police uniforms
Last week, Dearborn, Michigan — a city near Detroit known for its large Islamic population, which drives much of the city’s culture — proposed adding a patch to its police officers’ uniforms that read "Dearborn Heights Police” in Arabic script.
While some reacted to the idea positively, public outrage far outweighed support. Shortly after the idea was announced, Dearborn’s mayor walked the Arabic patch proposal back, and the police department clarified it was a premature, unapproved idea.
Glenn Beck says the incident is more evidence that “we no longer respect the ethics and the constitutional norms that created this country.”
The proposed change was supposedly just meant to reflect and honor the city's large Muslim population, but Glenn says it’s far more than just “a small gesture of outreach.”
“It is a signal, and signals matter,” he says.
America was designed to be a melting pot: “You could come here from any land, speak any language, [practice] any faith, and ... if you believed in the laws and the Constitution of America ... and you upheld those things, we could melt together, and we could create something even greater than you could even imagine,” Glenn explains.
“We [don’t] erase cultures. We elevate what unites us instead of elevating what divides us, and we don't bend our civic institutions to mirror any kind of tribal or religious identities. We don't create parallel systems of justice or identity.”
Never in the history of this country has an immigrant or religious group had law enforcement “tailor itself to them,” he says.
In fact, it’s often been the opposite. Glenn points to Mormons, who were at one time persecuted for their faith, despite being “the most patriotic of any religion in America.” “They didn't bend America to their faith; they bound their faith to America,” he says, adding that Catholics, too, have faced religious persecution in this country.
But for some reason, Muslims have not only avoided persecution, they’ve been catered to. “Week after week, from the pulpits of the local mosque [in Dearborn], the imams openly declare their goal — not to join the American project, but to replace it, not to preserve the Constitution, but to subvert it.”
“They preach the supremacy of sharia law over American law, and now the police department, a symbol of our secular constitutional order, decides they want to appeal to that group? To wear that identity on its uniform?” says Glenn. “That's not inclusion. That's not assimilation. That's not the melting pot. It's the opposite. It's balkanization at its kindest.”
“It is the state bending towards the demand of a religious political ideology that seeks to replace our American civilization. Let me be really, super clear on this: This cannot stand,” he warns.
To hear more of Glenn’s commentary, watch the video above.
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Jasmine Crockett repeats ‘Handmaid’s Tale’ lines — but even Democrats are sick of it
Rep. Jasmine Crockett (D-Texas) is running out of anti-Trump material, as she can’t seem to stop regurgitating the old Democrat talking points. She told California Democrat Gov. Gavin Newsom on “This is Gavin Newsom” that D.C. is now “very dystopian.”
“It’s funny because I used to watch ‘The Handmaid’s Tale,’ and I can’t, right? I never finished, and I can’t watch it because it is too close to reality. And so, what we’re seeing is this militarization, and obviously it started in your state. That was kind of the testing grounds,” Crockett said.
“Going to your state, going to a black woman mayor’s city first, and now we are in yet another black woman-led city and taking over. And to me it goes, again, to the level of racism and hate that is constantly spewed out of this administration,” she added.
“What a stunning choice,” BlazeTV host Stu Burguiere tells Blaze media co-founder Glenn Beck on “The Glenn Beck Program.” “That’s like M. Night Shyamalan. I would never expect her to go to a racial claim,” he comments.
“Would you consider potentially putting together a fundraiser for the Democrats to come up with another literary reference than ‘The Handmaid’s Tale’? Like, is it possible we could get them a different book just so they could say that title of it?” he asks.
“Now,” he continues, “I know Jasmine Crockett, of course, is so stupid, she couldn’t even act like she read the book. She only said she was watching the Hulu show. But still, can we get them some reference other than ‘The Handmaid’s Tale?’”
“They’re already doing it,” Glenn warns, noting that the Democrats have realized an error in their language.
“The DNC has now blacklisted terms that they don’t want any of their people using. Now, tell me what these terms have in common — blacklisted terms: privilege, violence (as in environmental violence), dialoguing, triggering, othering, microaggression, holding space, body-shaming, subverting norms, systems of oppression, cultural appropriation, the Overton Window, existential threat to the climate, existential threat to democracy, existential threat to the economy, radical transparency, stakeholders, the unhoused, food insecurity, housing insecurity, people who immigrated, birthing person, cisgender, deadnaming, heteronormative, patriarchy, LGBTQIA+, BIPOC, allyship, incarcerated people, and involuntary confinement,” Glenn reads.
“Those are the words that the Democrats are now telling their people, ‘Don’t use any of these words.’ Those are the words that they forced everybody to use. So they are reading from a new book,” he says, adding, “They’re just burning their own book.”
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Glenn Beck shares the DISTURBING secret President Bush told him years ago
Back during the 2008 election, Glenn Beck was summoned to the White House by then-President George W. Bush. In a profanity-laden rant, Bush, who was angry about Glenn’s negative coverage of the Iraq War, excoriated him for suggesting that there were grounds to impeach him.
“The first thing the president says to me is ... ‘You know, a lot of people think they know how they can be the effing president. Well, they have no effing idea how to be the effing president,’” Glenn mimics in his best Bush accent.
Earlier that day, Barack Obama, who was still campaigning for president, had said that if he were the current president, he would just “bomb Pakistan.”
“This is at the point where Pakistan is kind of helping us. They’re not our friends. They’re more frenemies,” Glenn says.
When he mentioned Obama’s comment to President Bush, he responded with something Glenn has never forgotten.
“He said, ‘Oh, I heard that. Don’t worry about that. ... Trust me, Glenn, whoever comes into this office, no matter what party they’re in, they’re going to sit behind this desk, and they’re going to realize — because they’re going to be advised by exactly the same people that have been advising me — that they really have no choice. This is what they have to do,’” Glenn recalls.
When he left the White House that day, he was “freaked out.”
“I was like, ‘This is not good. The president isn’t really the president. The president is just listening to all these advisers who were advising the last president and the president before that,’” he says.
It became clear to him that day that the deep state is just “executing a long plan,” regardless of who sits at the Resolute desk.
“What difference does it make who we have in the office if that’s true?” Glenn asks.
He brings up this old story today because it’s becoming increasingly clear that President Trump has ended this trend of deep-state shadow advisers running the country.
On August 18 during his meeting with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and other European leaders, “Donald Trump sat at the table and said, ‘I’m just going to get ol’ Vlad on the phone,’ and he stands up, walks out of the room with all the world leaders, and he just picks up the phone and calls Vladimir Putin and says, ‘Hey, I just want to keep you up to speed of what's going on,”’ Glenn recounts.
“He didn’t ask for permission. He didn’t have anybody whispering in his ear. He’s leading the State Department. He’s leading the world. He’s keeping his own counsel. That hasn’t been done by a president in I don’t know how long,” he adds.
This is the reason “we’re once again the leaders of the world,” Glenn says.
“These advisers — all of these doctors and professors and people who have been in the State Department their whole life and know better than everybody — Donald Trump has said to them, ‘Shut up. I’ve seen your record. It doesn’t work.’”
To hear more of Glenn’s commentary, watch the clip above.
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