Best of the Program | Guests: Sharyl Attkisson & Vickie Paladino | 6/4/26

**Glenn Beck** (0:00)
All right, this is a great podcast for you today. We have Vickie Paladino 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, Sharyl Attkisson 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. We begin there on today's podcast.
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. And it's going to get harder and harder to see the truth. 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 gonna 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.
A program, she was listed as a speaker at the Kremlin's Flagship Forum.
You know, 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 gonna meet Alexander Dugin 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 cast 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. Okay. 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. Okay. The payload was a single engineered question. Does your faith come first or your country, which I told you yesterday is a 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.
Luckily, I have been watching this guy, Alexander Dugan, for years. I've been warning you for years. He is about to set, he is, I shouldn't say about, he is on center stage now in much of the right and in Christendom. So I want to show you today, I want to take it from a different angle. I want to show you the same thing, but from a different angle. Because people in this audience already diagnosed this disease once before. You just didn't know you were being trained to recognize it. So let me help you recognize what you're facing by showing you what you've already recognized. Do you remember when we started talking about Barack Obama in 2007 and 8, and we found Jeremiah Wright, and we heard crazy things coming from the pulpit with Jeremiah Wright? We did our homework. What is that? That's liberation theology, okay? It swept through the church in the last century, but you, hopefully, were not fooled. You saw it for what it was, Marxism in a cassock. The cross traded for the hammer and sickle. Salvation redefined as revolution. Remember, it takes the gospel from a personal salvation goal to a collective salvation goal. God doesn't save us collectively. 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, the categories of Marx 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. 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. At 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.