Glenn Beck

It really was so well done, so uplifting.

I mean, except for the fighting until you're a bloody stump.

Then he also bought the town square that had quietly become a place where the wrong opinions disappeared, the wrong people were locked out.

The imagery and the lessons and the music and everything was about America, and it just made you feel good.

He reopens the doors.

Now, you can argue about how he did it, but you can't argue about which direction he pushed.

Compare that to...

How you felt after the Knicks?

He pushed towards more speech, not less, towards louder, not quieter.

In an age where the instinct of every government and every corporation is to manage what you're allowed to say, one man said, no, I think you should be able to say whatever you want.

My mom used to say, she had this line and she would always say it.

Whenever us kids, if we would start roughhousing it all, you know, you knock over a lamp and you crack something that wasn't yours to crack and she'd stop and she'd put her hands on her hips and she would say the same six words.

I mean, if that isn't the whole idea of America, I don't know what is.

I bet your mom said the same thing.

What did she say?

This is the combination of Edison and Tesla for our generation.

Kids, this is why we don't have nice things.

The inventor who builds the thing, the visionary who sees the current that will power the next century, both in one man.

I'm like,

Well, if they're not nice, you shouldn't write.