The Glenn Beck Show Partial Transcript, Thursday, April 10, 2008:
Subject's Transcript: Glenn Beck: Socialist-Marxist-Communist, Say Hello to Michelle Obama

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For months, I`ve been telling you, Barack Obama, and more his wife than Barack, I mean, at least looking at her language. I believe there`s a socialist agenda there for America.

And Michelle ain`t helping him any. She`s adding fuel to the fire. Remember, Michelle is a campaign surrogate for her husband. So he can`t be everywhere. So he sends her out to speak for him.

This is what she said at a North Carolina campaign stop, and I quote. "The truth is most Americans don`t want much. Folks don`t want the whole pie." I do. But I have a fat man screaming to get out of me. "Most Americans feel blessed to thrive just a little bit." Well, good, let`s lower the bar. "But that`s out of reach for them." And then she continued, "The truth is, in order to get things like universal health care and a revamped education system, then someone is going to have to give up a piece of their pie so someone else can have more."

Well, hello and welcome back, Karl Marx. A redistribution of pie doesn`t make me feel any better. Thanks, but no thanks, Michelle. When it comes to pie, or money, I`ll take all I can get. I want all my pie. I should be able to keep my pie. And you know what? I want you to have a huge piece of pie, as well. Have the whole thing. It`s not because I`m -- I`m selfish. I`m not. Unlike the Obamas, I happen to give away more than 1 percent of my income to charity.

The bottom line is this. Success and money, it`s not finite. This is America. That`s not a zero sum game. There`s as much as you feel like working for it. You know, you`ve got to -- you`ve got to look at money and success as the ocean. It doesn`t hurt the ocean to back a dump truck up to it and take a bunch of water out of it. There`s more. Stand in line, go get it.

Let`s stop thinking about pieces of pie, and remember that if you want to look at it as pie, this is America. We`re a freaking bakery. Bake more. Make as many pies as you want.

Mark Steyn is the author of "America Alone: The End of the World as We Know It." It`s out in paperback this -- this week. And you`ve got to read this book, if you never have. Why? Because Canada is trying to ban it.

Mark, talk to me about this pie stuff. I think -- I think there is hidden language in especially Michelle Obama. Her language is riddled with socialism.

MARK STEYN, AUTHOR, "AMERICAN ALONE": Yes, I think she`s a conventional university socialist.

And you`re right. I give enough of my pie to the federal government, and they waste most of that pie. So, when she`s talking about universal health care and revamping and reforming education, by any reasonable measure, American education is overfunded. We spend more per student on public school education than any country except Switzerland, and we have nothing to show of it. By any reasonable measure, a third of the pie that is thrown at public education is completely wasted.

BECK: First of all, there`s two things. You want to talk about public education, I just read something in -- it`s in Hartford. It`s in New York now. I think they`re doing it in Maryland. They`re starting to pay kids to go to school.

STEYN: That`s right.

BECK: Don`t take any more money from me, man. You`re going to have to take it with a shotgun. You`re not taking any more money from me.

STEYN: No. It`s a complete waste. We would be better off enrolling them in these schools in Switzerland. It would be cheaper to actually board America`s students in Switzerland, and at least they get a decent education there.

By any reasonable measure, the pie is wasted. And that`s the point. If you believe in redistribution, who does the redistributing? The government. The government is an inefficient spender of money.

BECK: You know, look, here`s the thing. I`m tired of -- tell me how big my piece of pie has to be. Tell me how much I have to -- tell me what the top is. Right now, we have, in "The Real Story" tonight, we`re going to give you the stats on this. The top 10 percent of American -- the top 10 percent pays 70 percent of the tax bill.

STEYN: That`s right.

BECK: The bottom 50 percent only pays 3 percent, and the bottom 48 percent get money back.

STEYN: Yes.

BECK: It`s insane.

STEYN: And Michelle Obama understands this. Because just a couple of weeks ago this crazy woman was saying that she and her husband had a hard time paying for their kid`s piano lessons because they only earn half a billion bucks a year between them.

On the one hand, it`s America`s fault that she and her husband can`t get by on a lousy half million a year.

BECK: I know.

STEYN: Why is that? Because the government takes too much of it.

BECK: Let me -- let me ask you this -- or you`re really bad at budgeting. Either way, I don`t want you in the Oval Office.

STEYN: That`s right.

BECK: Let me give you this. You just tell me what -- what we`re missing here in Michelle Obama`s language. Listen to this. Quote -- this is from the UCLA speech she gave. "And Barack Obama will require you to work. He is going to demand that you shed your cynicism, put down your division, that you come out of your isolation, that you move out of your comfort zones, that you push yourselves to be better and that you engage. Barack will never allow you to go back to your lives as usual, uninvolved and uninformed."

My gosh.

STEYN: Yes, exactly. Soft, fluffy totalitarianism. The right to be uninvolved, the right to be left alone is one of the most precious rights in a constitutional republic. And if she wants me to shed my cynicism, she`s going to have to prize it from my cold, dead, cynical fingers.

This is not -- this is Kim Jong-Il dressed up with a bit of Oprah Winfrey dressing. It`s unbecoming of an American presidential candidate.

BECK: I just wish these candidates would go back and read the worlds of the Founding Fathers. You have a right to fail.

STEYN: Yes.

BECK: You have a right to starve to death.

STEYN: That`s right.

BECK: You don`t -- the government is not the person to come in and tell you how to live your life.

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