The legacy media should be ashamed of how it’s covering the United Healthcare CEO’s suspected killer, Glenn says. CNN recently removed its own on-screen banner to show off the murderer’s abs. And left-wing activists, including sitting Senator Elizabeth Warren, are excusing his actions because they don’t like the healthcare industry. “This is the absence of all truth,” Glenn says. Glenn and Stu review some other ridiculous media takes, like the suggestion that back pain caused the killer to go crazy.
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GLENN: Now, I'm going to do my best.
To not take all of the nice stuff, that I just said in the last half-hour, and flush it down the toilet.
Because I'm a little irritated.
I'm a little irritated at the love we are showing for this killer.
The United Health Care killer. First of all, CNN -- and I am not making this up.
One of the anchors on CNN said, do we have it. Play this. Play this.
Watch this, if you happen to be watching.
And I'll describe it after. Go ahead.
VOICE: Yeah, the clips we were watching at the top of the segment, are driven by the fact that this is an attractive --
VOICE: We have to drop the banner to show why.
VOICE: And it's deeply troubling.
STU: And they actually do it.
GLENN: Okay. They actually do it!
This -- this banner, at the bottom of the screen, that's on all the time, they're saying that this guy is getting -- wait.
Charlie Manson could have been, you know, I don't know. The guy who can't believe it's butter. And nobody would have said, yeah, I know.
But look at him.
STU: Fabio?
GLENN: Boy, have you seen him? He's let himself go.
STU: Has he really?
GLENN: Anyway. I'm one to talk.
STU: Hmm.
GLENN: But we never say that.
I don't care how good-looking you are!
STU: Hmm. I don't think we never say it. Like, for example, I saw the -- did you see -- was it a Mexican assassin?
A drug cartel assassin. Did you see her the other day?
Sara saw it. She was attractive, and that was the only thing people were talking about.
So that does happen. I think it does happen from time to time.
That being said, it's not supposed to happen on CNN.
GLENN: Wait. Wait. Right.
And are people saying, you know what, maybe her hits were okay?
STU: No. No.
But I will say, looking at the picture, I totally assumed, there will be a movie made about her, in the future.
GLENN: All right. Yeah.
STU: That will seem to maybe glorify the stuff she did. Which was terrible.
GLENN: We are glorifying what this guy -- listen to this one. Listen to this one.
I'm not going to give his name.
STU: Thank you. Thank you for that. Thank you for that.
You're the only person I've seen do that. Everybody else --
GLENN: This guy has been made into a hero.
STU: It's worse than the typical mass shooter. Typically the media, while they have all their gun points. Aren't trying to make him into a hero. They're trying to make him into a hero.
Giving his name over and over again isn't a good idea.
GLENN: Wait a minute. I haven't heard anyone saying anything about pulling guns off the streets either. Have you heard?
STU: No. Especially, and it was a ghost gun. It's like Joe Biden's favorite topic.
GLENN: I know. I guess all you have to be is good-looking.
STU: You know why? And on the left. On the left. Are you an anti-capitalist? Then fine. Good job with the 3D printer.
GLENN: So this guy went. He killed somebody in cold blood, and everyone is excusing him.
Everyone on the left and everybody in the media, excusing him.
Well, look at his abs. I mean, really.
What does that have to -- you know what, you know what that ties into? His back problems.
STU: Yes. Yes.
GLENN: Don't even begin to talk to me about back problems, you wuss.
My gosh. I've got back problems. You're 20. And you have those abs.
They aren't that bad, attitude.
STU: If you can do that many situps, I'm sorry. Your back problems can't be that bad.
GLENN: Shut up. Shut up.
And if you're in your 20s, and you had back surgery, you're a moron, unless you absolutely had no other choice, but then you're still a moron, if you thought it was going to work! Back surgery hardly ever works.
Honestly, how many people do you know, that had back surgery. And they went, you know.
I mean, I feel like I'm 20 again.
I don't know anybody that says that!
I know back doctors, surgeons, who are like, don't come to me yet.
Don't come.
Until you -- this is a quote from my surgeon. Until you beg me to cut you open. And I have begged him. And he's like, not quite yet.
I mean, how do you -- oh. Your back hurts. Oh, boo-boos.
STU: I think there was at least rumors, or indications from his online writings that he had spinal fusion surgery.
GLENN: Well, fine! Lots of people.
STU: It's serious.
GLENN: Yeah, but lots of people have had it.
STU: No, that doesn't justify murder. But I really don't understand if you have spinal --
GLENN: How self-absorbed are you?
We were just talking off the air. Went to a Christmas party. Went to the studio's Christmas party. And I was there for what? Like three or four hours. Okay. Standing on hard concrete floors.
I stand about 45 minutes. And I -- that -- that is like -- that's a miracle, if I'm standing 45 minutes. And not in in agonizing pain, in my lower back and legs.
I stood there for four hours. Did you know I was in pain, Sara?
Did you know I was in pain, Stu? Okay. You know why?
Because I know Pat, who is in worse pain than I am. And he never says anything.
What the -- you are so self-absorbed, that you think your problems, what happened to me. What they did to me. What they didn't do for me.
I'm going to speak for humanity. And shoot a dad who has kids. Are you -- and then you glorify this guy?
This is the absence of all truth. This is the deception I talked about 15 minutes ago.
STU: Yeah. And, you know, it feels like it's a new moment in a way.
Like it feels like that.
But what exactly separates this from the way we handled George Floyd? What exactly -- like, when you're burning town cities, and everyone is saying, well, yeah.
But they -- but racism.
This is the exact same thing.
With the exception of 81 percent of the American public, don't approve of racism, like they do their own health care.
Health care -- health care is actually generally pretty well-received in this country.
GLENN: Well, better received before Obamacare.
STU: Yeah.
Obamacare is the worst approval rating of all of the insurance.
That is true.
But generally speaking, we don't hate our health care as much as everyone is portraying it right now --
GLENN: You want to go to health care. Go to Canada. Could I change it?
You know what this is?
What was the doctor?
What was the guy who shot the abortion doctor, that Bill O'Reilly was blamed for?
STU: Yes. I don't know his name thankfully.
Because he's a murderer.
GLENN: Right. What was the doctor's name.
STU: It was Tiller. George Tiller.
GLENN: Yes. Yes.
And remember that? All we talked about, was how Bill O'Reilly, who did nothing. Was responsible for the shooting, of a guy who was killing babies every day.
Okay? And no one -- no one was on TV saying, you know, he was killed.
STU: Violence is never the answer. But!
Let me give you my rant on why abortion is bad. And this is a good opportunity for us to discuss the -- no, it's not.
No. A murder is not a good opportunity.
It's important, of course, to discuss health care and abortion. There's nothing to do.
There's no new justification to discuss them because there's a murder. You're totally right.
I would love to hear what Bill O'Reilly is --
GLENN: Let's call him. Have them call.
STU: We should.
GLENN: If I have time today, otherwise tomorrow.
STU: Yeah. Because he was blamed for that murder.
Blamed for it.
He did not commit it.
He was blamed for it.
GLENN: You know what, I'm so mad about murder. I'm going to murder someone.
STU: Huh. By the way, Glenn. You know, bits and pieces of his manifesto have leaked out.
They are quote after quote after quote of what left-leaning people say about our health care system.
GLENN: No, Stu. It was both left and right.
STU: Oh, yes. I'm sure.
Well, he didn't like wokeness. Did he kill anybody over wokeness?
I'm sorry. Did I miss that part of the story?
Was he too afraid that United Health Care was too woke, was that his criticism?
I missed that. His criticism was every left-wing criticism of health care.
Anything you want to say about, well, we spent this much. And we're only in 40-second place in life expectancy.
All that stuff, that you've been hearing forever.
From Michael Moore documentaries, was this -- this guy's manifesto.
And if we were consistent at all, all we would be doing is looking around for left-wing people to blame this murder on. Now, I don't think that's the right way to approach things.
I think people with the guns should be the ones to get the blame for the murders. That's what I think.
And I don't think you should be --
GLENN: I'm very tempted. I'm very tempted.
If I were just a political person, that just wanted to have our side win.
I would be very, very tempted.
STU: Yeah. And I can understand the temptation.
I feel like it's not the right thing to do. Because it's not true.
GLENN: Exactly right.
STU: Beyond that. I get it.
And here is -- they went after. I mean, they absolutely tried to destroy Bill O'Reilly over that.
They tried to destroy him. They tried to rip him off the air. They tried to destroy his life and his career. As if he was the one -- they also, here's another person they've done this to.
Glenn freaking Beck. Go back to the times when -- I don't remember the exact story.
But it was related to the Tides Foundation.
A guy who -- who went out and tried to do some terrible crime.
GLENN: Oh, jeez.
STU: And there was no evidence, he even watched your show, but because you brought up the Tides Foundation a bunch of times.
And he at one point, tried to criticize the Tides Foundation, they tried to ruin your life over that.
GLENN: Wait a minute. I had forgotten about that one, I was thinking about the Gabby Giffords shooting.
STU: Yes, there we go again.
GLENN: And then I remembered the guy who hung himself, the IRS agent who said -- who I was blamed for wanting him to be hung. First, it was Glenn Beck had him strung up.
Then it was, suicide.
Well, Glenn Beck made him want to hang himself. I mean, this is so ridiculous.
So ridiculous.
STU: Yeah. I mean, Glenn. Today, Elizabeth Warren. A US senator, came out and said, violence is never the answer, but you can only push people so far. A US senator said that!
GLENN: You know, with everything that's going on, with communism and North Korea.
The only ones that were eaten, were North Koreans by Jeffrey Dahmer. I mean, yes, he ate people. But all the heads in his refrigerator were North Koreans. So I kind of understand, you know.
I don't condone cannibalism.
But you can see why he had a deal against North Koreans.
That's how insane this argument is!
STU: Yeah. It's not. It's not a well-reasoned argument, as you point out.
And I don't care how many situps, the guy did.
I don't care that he had nice abs, that he really enjoyed. I don't care that you thought his smile was nice in the video that identified him.
You are a legitimately horrible human being, if you're cheering this guy on. You are a terrible human being.
You know, my -- I have a relative, Glenn.
GLENN: May I change that? In the spirit of Christmas.
STU: I wanted to say five other things. And, yes.
GLENN: You are so lost in darkness.
STU: Okay. Fine. Fine. Fine --
GLENN: I'm trying.
Stu, I try to be a better person. And you drag me down every day.
Lord, it is his fault.
STU: Strike him down!
GLENN: There's a lot of smote coming. At some point.
STU: I have a relative who works for a company, that is associated with -- with United Health Care.
And to the point, that like she's had Zoom calls with Brian Thompson. You know, group calls.
GLENN: Wow.
STU: And she's like, I -- he's like the nicest guy in the world.
Everybody in the company loved this guy.
He spent all this time.
GLENN: Of course, they're all -- they're all sheaving the average person. In the back.
STU: I don't think that's true. You know, people -- he was known in the company, as one of the good guys, who was trying to reform the problems in this -- in the industry.
He was a guy who was constantly encouraging low level employees to be able to have new opportunities, and make their lives better.
This was a good man!
A good man!
A good man, who came up. Whose dad, by the way, worked in a grain elevator.
He came up from nothing!
And was a massive success, and was -- was loved by the people around him. And these mother -- people. Are -- are cheering on his cold-blooded murder in the streets of Manhattan.
GLENN: Let me tell you the part that really makes me want to sound like you. If just a minute.
Glad you're here.
You know, the -- the thing that really makes me angry, is -- sorry.
I have to use "Les Miserables" as an example. God, I'm such a weirdo.
That's why I have no friends.
STU: Better than Chitty Chitty Bang Bang.
That's usually where you go in this moment.
GLENN: So you know the revolution is started by all of these, you know, socialists. They're all rich kids. They're all rich, privileged kids that start the revolution. This is who this guy is.
He has absolutely nothing to whine about. Nothing to whine about.
His family seems to be a really gracious family. I don't know.
But it's these rich, spoiled white kids, that just think they know better than everyone else. They grow up to be rich little white liberals, and they are so screwed up, and nobody even seems to mention that. Here's 1 percent!