The Glenn Beck Program
Best of the Program | Guests: Tommy Robinson & Steve Hilton | 5/11/26
11 May 2026
Chapter 1: What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
Lots of stuff on today's podcast. I don't know exactly how we're going to get all of it into a best of, but we have gerrymandering and the Virginia Supreme Court.
Chapter 2: What is the main issue with gerrymandering in Virginia?
We also have Tommy Robinson on because I'm in London this week talking about a big Unite the Kingdom rally. He speaks directly to Americans today. The FCC and ABC and and also if we can squeeze him in Steve Hilton. We had him on for a few minutes today. He is fantastic.
Chapter 3: What is the significance of Tommy Robinson's 'Unite the Kingdom' rally?
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Chapter 4: How is the FCC involved in the conflict with ABC?
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Chapter 5: What are Steve Hilton's plans for California as a gubernatorial candidate?
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Chapter 6: What lessons can we learn from the FCC and ABC dispute?
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Okay, there we go. We're going to die a little inside. Let me give you a story first. Disney's ABC is firing back at the FCC, accusing the agency of engaging in actions that, quote, threatened to upend decades of settled law and practice and chill critical protected speech.
The issue involves an FCC investigation into whether talk show The View qualifies for an exemption to the agency's equal time political rule. But ABC argues that implications are broader than just a single TV show. Earlier this year, the FCC initiated enforcement proceedings of what Trump appointed Chairman Brendan Carr. That's so funny.
Alleged were violations of the equal time rule involving political candidates by the view. Daytime talk show for appearance of James Talrico, a Democrat running for U.S. Senate in the in the state of Texas. All right. Hear me out on this. I have done FCC regulated radio for 49 years. I know the FCC rules and regs better than probably anyone else on the air.
Um, I'm not a lawyer and I'm not, I'm not sure I'm right on everything, but I know it by gut because I was 13 when I had to take my first FCC, uh, calling it the third phone license on what you can and cannot do. Um,
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Chapter 7: How does the current political climate affect free speech?
Let me go over that first paragraph again. Disney's ABC firing back at the FCC, accusing the agency of engaging in actions that threaten to upend decades of settled law and practice and chill critical protected speech. OK, decades of law. Yes, everything changed in the 1980s under Ronald Reagan. It is the reason why the Rush Limbaugh show could come on.
Nobody wanted to do political talk back in the day because you had to balance absolutely everything. And it was just too much of a headache. Okay. The other way to balance it is if you combined MSNBC and Fox and every other hour, it was a leftist and then somebody on the right and then a leftist and then a right. Nobody would listen to that.
Chapter 8: What are the implications of the Supreme Court's ruling on gerrymandering?
And so radio just did not engage. Generally speaking, local radio just did not engage in any of that stuff. Okay. The issues involve an FCC investigation. Now listen to this. It involves an FCC investigation into whether talk show The View qualifies for an exemption to the agency's equal time political rule. That's totally legitimate for the FCC to launch an investigation to see if it fits.
What is the rule? The rule is equal time. You have to have, if you're not a political show, if you're not, I'm sorry, not a political show, if you're not a news program, the law stipulates if you're a broadcast person, this is not involving anything on cable or on the internet, but on broadcast radio or television, If you are a news show, you don't have to have both sides on because it's news.
It's breaking every day. It's changing every day. We have a hard enough time booking guests for a subject. Imagine having to book a guest that has the opposite view of everything you just are covering. It would stop news from happening. So that's the rule. Now, ABC claims that The View is a news show. I don't watch the view. I never have watched the view.
I have only watched the clips of the view because for the love of everything that is good and sacred little baby, Jesus cannot save my soul from darkness. If I watched that thing every day. Okay. I just couldn't take it. My head would explode. So I don't know for sure, but from the clips that I have seen over the years, I would say that's a news show. Is Glenn Beck supporting ABC?
No, I'm supporting the truth as I understand it. Now I could be, I could get new facts and change my mind, but as I understand it, and as I understand, uh, the view, which I despise, um, That's what they do. They see what's in the news, and they talk about it.
Now, if I have a skewed view of the view, because I only watch the clips, and they're spending 60% of the time talking about, I don't know, how beautiful Whoopi Goldberg is at the latest movie premiere, well, then that's not a news show. But if what they talk about most of the time is the news of the day, I would consider that a news show. And here's why I say that.
While I am not a hard news show, I talk about the news every day. That's what we do. We bring newsmakers on to discuss what is happening in the world. That's what we do. If I'm, if the view, if I have the balance right, and I could be wrong, that's why the FCC investigation is the right thing to do. What is the balance?
You know, it's my understanding, and ABC could correct me on this, but it is my understanding that Jimmy Kimmel is also considered a news program. I don't need to have an investigation on that. That's not a news program. I did one search. How many politicians has Jimmy Kimmel had on his show in the last 60 days? And the answer was one. What is the balance of his show?
The balance of his guests are Hollywood. Okay. It's an entertainment show, not a new show. That one clearly doesn't qualify. If ABC is defining that one as a new show, which would then stop him from having to have the other side on that's wrong. Let me back up and tell you why you're supposed to have both sides on. It's not because of news.
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