Glenn Beck Hands It To Him

Glenn Beck vs Connecticut's Attorney General Richard Blumenthal
And the winner is (drum roll please)...Glenn Beck!




Part of the Transcript:

BECK: No. Their bonuses, Sir. They are their bonuses. They earned that money.
What right — what law did they break that gave you the ability in Connecticut to
go after those bonuses?
BLUMENTHAL: Well, let's take it one step at a time.
The money they received came from us, the taxpayers. It's part of the
bailout.
BECK: Oh, I know how this works. I'm asking you, sir. You're the
attorney general. I'm asking you for the law that they broke that gave you the
ability — are you not the defender of the law in Connecticut?
BLUMENTHAL: The
law that they broke...
BECK: Yes.
BLUMENTHAL: ...is the law that requires
that they serve the public interests. The bonuses that are
paid...
(CROSSTALK)
BECK: Wait, wait. What law is that, sir? You are the
chief law enforcement officer. What law is — say that again? I don't recognize
that law. It sounds like a good policy. It sounds like a good rule of thumb, but
I'm not sure I recognize that law. Could you give that to me
again?
BLUMENTHAL: Well, you know, again, these funds belong to us
taxpayers...
BECK: No, no, sir. Look, you know what you have done? You know
what you've done? You are an insult to George Washington, sir. George Washington
made it very clear that we are respecter of laws, not of men.
For your own
political gain, you have decided to go after these people at AIG, because it is
a popular thing. And while I may agree with you that it is obscene, I would like
to know, sir, not what's right as a rule of thumb, not what makes us feel good.
You, sir, are to protect people and to stand for the law in Connecticut.
So,
again, I ask you, sir, what law gave you the right to go after them? What law
did they break?
BLUMENTHAL: Well, I think you're wrong in the basic premise.
We're not going after any individual. We're asking the United States...
BECK:
You as the attorney general...
BLUMENTHAL: Let me finish. You have to let me
finish if you want to know what law I'm talking about.
BECK: There is no law,
sir.
BLUMENTHAL: We are asking the United States of America — our federal
government — to ask that this money be returned or pursue it, because they were
undeserving of it.
BECK: They were undeserving of it?
BLUMENTHAL: Now, I'm
not reporting a law against them. They did not earn this money.
BECK: What
right do you have to say that the people that work for $1 a year,
sir...
(CROSSTALK)
BLUMENTHAL: They were bonuses that were given to people
without services being performed.
BECK: Let me ask you this...
BLUMENTHAL:
And the law here relates to the Wage Protection Act of the state of Connecticut
which was used — unjustifiably — as a reason why the bonuses would not be
returned.
BECK: No, sir. I will give you...
(CROSS TALK)
BLUMENTHAL: So
the law is the statute of the state of Connecticut
BECK: That is so much bull
crap, and you know it, sir. You know...

Here is the full interview. Its pretty lengthy but worth it!