The Glenn Beck Program
Best of the Program | Guests: Sharyl Attkisson & Vickie Paladino | 6/4/26
04 Jun 2026
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Chapter 1: What warnings does Glenn Beck give about Russian influence in politics?
All right, this is a great podcast for you today. We have Vicki Palladino on from New York. She's a city councilwoman in New York City. It's nuts in New York City. She's a straight talker. Also, Cheryl Atkinson on what's happening behind the scenes at CBS and 60 Minutes. Some real insight there. And the third temptation. There is something that is coming out of the former Soviet Union.
that is infecting our churches and our podcasters on the right, and you need to recognize it. But the good news is you've already seen this movie before and you've already recognized it and seen it for what it is. It's changed faces and approach, but it is the same sin underneath. It's The Third Temptation.
Chapter 2: How does Sharyl Attkisson explain the departure of Scott Pelley from 60 Minutes?
We begin there on today's podcast.
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Okay, yesterday I started telling you about this trip. There's a story at glennbeck.com. It is a must read. I don't tell you that very often that these are things that you must read. This is one. You must be aware of this. This is the line that will decide, I believe, one of the crucial lines will decide whether you're on the right side or the wrong side.
Even the very elect are going to be misled, okay? And it's going to get harder and harder to see the truth, okay? So let me recap. Yesterday, I told you one of the most followed conservative voices in America, Candace Owens, announced a quiet family vacation in Russia. She was going to go see the cathedrals. She was saying it's a little faith tourism with her husband. Nothing wrong with that.
And a handful of researchers did something that I said yesterday was almost embarrassingly simple. They just read the program. She was listed as a speaker at the Kremlin's flagship forum. One of Vladimir Putin's headlines, a few names down from Vladimir Putin, is the Russian philosopher Alexander Dugin.
Now, on that same roster is Candace Owens, and she said she was going to meet Alexander Dugan and maybe talk to him, yada, yada. This is really bad, really bad. The thread the researchers pulled didn't lead to her, however. It led back to him, the man they call Putin's brain, who wrote back in 1997, the way to break America was to feed divisions and flatter its urge to retreat from the world.
Then he also casts Russia as the holy restrainer in a final war against the Satanic West. And that Satanic West and the Jewish Antichrist that will come from apparently America or siding with us is going to be fought by Russia, the right Christians that have teamed up with Islam.
And I told you how this idea written in Moscow can end up in your earbuds in Ohio listening to a podcast, and it's called narrative laundering. You strip the fingerprints off the message, and you slip it in the mouth of somebody you already trust so it doesn't sound like it's foreign, it sounds like home, and voila. The payload was a single engineered question.
Does your faith come first or your country? Which I told you yesterday is a false choice. built to set the two great loves of a Christian patriot at war with each other. And the most uncomfortable part was where it gets in, not through an enemy in a foreign uniform, but through allies waving our own flag and quoting our own scriptures. It was built to fool people exactly like you and me.
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Chapter 3: What insights does Vickie Paladino provide about the New Jersey 12th district election?
He saves us individually. And when you get this, when you get liberation theology, the kingdom of God collapses into a five-year plan and the gospel is reduced to a means and a political ends, okay? You knew that a faith bent into a weapon for the class struggle had to, it had already stopped being faith and it had to be stopped because it's not faith. Even the Vatican said so.
Cardinal Ratzinger himself warned that you can't borrow, you know, categories of marks and still be preaching Christ. You can't. So you are right. You got liberation theology. Hold on to that clarity for one more minute because you're going to need it. Because the same offer has just come back around, now new and improved.
And this time it's not coming from the left, it's coming from the right, and it's coming for you. And it's not arriving with a red star. It arrives under a golden dome. It doesn't say seize the means of production. It says restore the Christian civilization.
Chapter 4: What is 'The Third Temptation' and how does it relate to faith and patriotism?
It doesn't quote Marx. It quotes our church fathers. And it is aimed with great precision at the one group who would never fall for the left-wing version. The faithful, the traditional, the patriotic Christian who has spent his whole life resisting exactly this kind of maneuver from the other direction. So here's what you have to see, because you of all people are equipped to see it.
It's exactly the same heresy. Liberation theology politicized the faith and dragged it left. This new thing politicizes the faith and drags it to the right. But the sin underneath is identical. Taking the kingdom that is not of this world and nailing it to a kingdom that is of this world. Remember, this new philosophy is you got to get in with the Russians.
You got to get in with a Christian prince because only this kingdom of the world will save the next kingdom. You know that's garbage. And the moment you turn the internal into a tool of the temporal, you've handed someone else the handle. And in this case, the someone holding that handle sits in Moscow. The liberation theologians thought they were using Marxism. Marxism was using them.
And I'm telling you that the man selling the czar to the rescue of Christendom are running exactly the same play. And the faithful are meant to be the instrument, not the author. Let me tell you something that cynics will never say to you. I respect you too much to flatter or to lie to you. And here's what everyone who will stand against this will not say. And it must be said.
This new theology that is coming out, extraordinarily dangerous. is going to capture a lot of people including people like you and me because it's grievance it starts on grievance they're not wrong about the culture there is something in our culture our entertainment our schools our screens our institutions
that has set itself against Christ, not always in name, sometimes in name, but always in spirit, in its teachings, in its trappings, and the ache that you feel that you are looking at anti-Christ stuff coming from our culture, that's not paranoia, and it's not nostalgia. It's like, ah, I remember Leave it to Beaver. They would have never done it. No, no, no.
This is discernment screaming at you, and the disease is real. which is exactly why the counterfeit is so dangerous. Remember, the author of all lies, he doesn't make things out of whole cloth. A lie that works is never built on a false diagnosis. It's built on a true diagnosis, welded to a cure that is poison. You will see, and I've got a monologue on this maybe next week.
I just am running out of time this week. But I was thinking about this yesterday, and I started doing some research on all of the people that have diagnosed the sickness, but it was the medicine that was poison, okay? Liberation theology was right. The poor were crushed. This movement is right. The culture is evil. But a correct diagnosis is the bait, as it always is.
So let me name the cure for what it is in the oldest terms we have. Okay, so somebody has diagnosed the problem, right? Now they're giving you a solution. Let me name the cure for what it is. There is a moment in the wilderness...
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Chapter 5: How is narrative laundering impacting conservative voices?
We just need to go back to God. We need to humble ourselves as individuals. That's the road. Not a kingdom handed down from above, but a renewal built from below. Free churches, strong families, schools that actually shape. Persuasion instead of coercion. The slow, unglamorous, deeply American work of governing ourselves. Starting with the hardest government at all.
The government of our own appetites. You want to push back on the culture gone anti-Christ? You don't need a czar. You need a revival, and no government on earth will ever command a revival. No commissar investments can ever fake one. This road is harder than the other road, but it is the right road. Your soul has a very dear price tag on it. Do not sell it.
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She is the host of Full Measure. She used to be on 60 Minutes. She worked at CBS. She has had an amazing story of the government spying on her, her own network coming after her, and surviving all of that. And not just surviving, thriving with that. Cheryl, welcome to the program.
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Chapter 6: What are the implications of liberation theology on modern faith?
And the culture among some at CBS, and I think it's gotten worse since I left, was not to do so. And I think they don't understand or came to not understand the very basic tenets of journalism, which I worked really hard. Not that I always understood this, but I really tried to grow and understand and listen to criticism over the years.
Showing the other side of a story, even if you strongly believe in one side you're telling, does not weaken the story. It strengthens the story. Even if you're a liberal and you're telling a liberal perspective, the liberals in the audience actually appreciate knowing what the other side of the argument is.
And I think Barry Weiss is simply trying to tug CBS News back a little bit closer to the center. But the inmates have been running that asylum for a long time, and they're not going to go down quietly down this new path.
Is it too late to save the 60 minutes? I mean, I read that they were looking to put things now online. I mean, it seems like they have a real plan to bring it into the 21st century. and revive it.
And I don't think losing some of these, you know, names forever that are associated with television is not, I don't necessarily think that's bad if they can get the formula right, which I always thought 60 minutes was always very fair. I mean, you know, if you were on 60 minutes, you were in trouble because they had the goods on you. And it was balanced.
They would say, look, the other side says this, and they would really do their homework. I think there's a craving for that kind of work. But can 60 Minutes do it?
I think so. I think it's got a huge name. I think the name 60 Minutes is bigger than any personality that's been there in recent years. It hasn't been the 60 Minutes that we knew, Glenn, yet. Since they lost all the originals. So it's always been something that's in transition in the past 10, 20, 25 years.
And yes, I think the name survives the personalities and they still do some, as I heard someone note, many of their stories that are unrelated to these political slants that you're talking about. are great stories. They still do good stories and can continue to do great journalism with other people, other producers and other reporters.
There's not a short supply of people who want to do great journalism. They're just not allowed to do that the way they used to be at the networks.
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Chapter 7: How does the current political climate reflect past historical events?
Vicki, thank you.
All right.
Good. Thank you. I appreciate it. Vicki Palatino. She is a Palatino. She is the New York city council woman, uh, on the New Jersey 12th district. Uh, the guy who is not a good guy, not a good guy. Uh, and I don't know how we can have him in our Congress, uh, when he has had fingerprints all over the world trade center bombing in the, in Al Qaeda, uh, Not good. Just not good.
Hey, just a programming note on a couple of things. I am joining Moms for Liberty aboard the legendary USS Midway. And you are invited to come as we celebrate 250 years of America's freedom and honor the heroes that made it possible. I'm giving the keynote like I did up in New York at the Statue of Liberty this time.
We're doing a special tribute to D-Day, and there'll be fireworks over San Diego Bay. It's happening this weekend, this Saturday. Tickets are still available. You can get them at momsforliberty.org, momsforliberty.org. A sighting of Glenn Beck in California is as rare as, honestly, Bigfoot. It just doesn't happen. I cannot remember the last time
I did something publicly in California, and I want to go to California because I love the California conservatives because they're just like, water, please, water. I remember I did an event in San Francisco once at the Masonic Theater, 3,000 seats, sold out in a heartbeat. And I go there, and it was like the happiest group of people because everyone was like, we're safe in here. We're safe.
We can all talk. We can actually be ourselves in here. It was great. Maybe it'll be like that a little bit. 250 years of American freedom and honor, the USS Midway. It's in San Diego. It's Saturday. I think it starts at 5, but I will be there, and I would love to meet you and say hello. Get your tickets now at momsforliberty.org. It's at the USS Midway Museum, momsforliberty.org.
Also, coming up, I want to talk to you a little bit about what I sense coming our way. There is a change that is afoot. And I felt it when I was in Europe. And I feel it now every day I'm watching the news. And I think the maps could be changing soon. At least the maps of alliances are going to change. And everything that we've grown up saying, yeah, this is normal, I think is going to change.
And we're in this phase where the clock matters an awful lot. I'll show you. I mean, I'm going to lay this out on the chalkboard. The Vietnam Memorial, a clock, a DeLorean, and ammo shells. When you understand those things, believe it or not, I'll bring it all together and you'll be like, oh my gosh. And you will see the world in a completely different way. I'm doing that at noon today.
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