something and see if you guys can this is, what s his name, george benard shaw. we played tape this week and last week. he s frightening. he is absolutely frightening. would you agree? larry, you re laughing. yeah, he s frightening. i mean he is the guy who said hey, chemists, please come up with a humane gas to get rid of some of the people that don t know anybody. here is margaret sanger. margaret sanger, hillary clinton talked about margaret sanger. this is planned parenthood. yes. glenn: also, planned parenthood, its roots with margaret sanger, progressive, really more in line with george bernard shaw. it s to get rid of undesirable, is it not? eugenics fits in here carefully. correct. correct. glenn: but woodrow wilson has a lot in common here, because he s a real i mean he s a dirt bag racist, is he not? he is. the number of in fact, we had very few african-americans in federal government but they were
you. two years ago i knew nothing about woodrow will with wilson. it hate this s.o.b. he was an evil, evil dude. america should know about woodrow wilson because he, i think, has done more to change america than most presidents. in fact, series of presidents combined. would you agree with that? he has. look at federal reserve, federal income tax. manipulating with wages and hours, that it s the government job to determine wages that might be paid or hours of work that might be done. he also did all the work on administrative work, administration, right? he was the guy who wrote before the early 1900s. then he also was a guy who helped change history. if i m not mistaken, it was during his administration that a group of professors, i think from columbia, progressive professors got together and said you know what? our founders were racist
became somewhat of a cit irk of the progressive movement late in life. kind of saw the light. really kind of woke up about the capacity of government to actually accomplish all of these things that the progressive had in view. glenn: walter it willman a harvard grad. well educated part of the elite. glenn: if i m not mistaken he had something to do with cbs as well. early on with the columbia broadcasting system. but he and edward house were instrumentl in the treaty of versailles. they were both there. glenn: both there. which woodrow wilson. they both also found cofounded if i m not mistaken the council of foreign relations, which was a progressive idea of let s take media and egg heads, and figure out what the idea is, what the solution is. then teach it to the media.
today, progressives, than they were in the early 20th century? they re very similar. well, glenn glenn: go ahead, r.j.. i think that they are similar in the following represe respect: they think government is whatever it needs to be, whatever any human problem is, whatever crisis comes up, government has to be there to meet that. that was the progressives. history drove government. that s today. glenn: you know, there is a few things here that i think are interesting because here are the progressives then and now. if you look at it, okay, here is theodore roosevelt. theodore roosevelt is john mccain. progressive. he wants healthcare. he wants all these big government programs but the difference between the progressives of republicans and the progressives of democrats, if i m not mistaken, john mccain says we re america and we ll send the troops in, we ll do it. we ll dictate to the rest of the world. that was theer the theeodore r
declaration of independence, disregard the preface. that is to say that part of it where, you know, those small somethings like the natural equality of all man, god-given rights, permanent ends of government. glenn: that s what it was. what are you left with? a litany of grievances against george iii. that is to say the declaration is the historical document. if you re kind of interested in what george iii was doing, that was a problem, you could read those things but no relevance for us. glenn: forget, dismiss all men are created equal and endowed by their creator. all of that is garbage and means nothing. look at the list of grievances. okay. when we come back we ll talk a little bit about the relationship that progressives have where they know better. they just, they. do they re smarter than you. they know better. back in a second.