Glenn Beck Presents 'Just the Beginning' of Why You Need to Pay Attention to Grover Norquist

10/21/13 - Glenn Beck on Monday began what he said is "just the beginning" of his work to reveal the background and motivations of Grover Norquist, the founder and president of Americans for Tax Reform. Beck began by playing recent clips of Norquist calling out Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) for his efforts to derail Obamacare, noting that while he used to joke about the left's portrayal of Norquist as a "big power player," he's since revised his dismissive opinion in light of the warnings that you "don't ever take this guy on unless you're prepared."

Beck's show Monday primarily concentrated on Norquist's alleged connections to Islamists. He invited Frank Gaffney, the president of the Center for Security Policy, and Daniel Greenfield of the David Horowitz Freedom Center, to weigh in. "[Norquist] is the guy responsible for a lot of the Muslim Brotherhood stuff that goes on in the White House, isn't he?" Beck asked the two.

"Glenn, I think most people who know Grover only as a prominent anti-tax guy in the conservative movement would find that statement unbelievable, and to be honest with you I would've, but for the fact that I saw it first-hand as a result of sharing office space for what I think of seven biblically long years with Grover Norquist," Gaffney remarked. "I saw terrorists in his office space. I had colleagues come to me and say, 'You know there's a Muslim Brotherhood front operating out of his office suite?'" "It was called the Islamic Free Market Foundation, or Institute," Gaffney continued, saying it is more commonly known as simply the Islamic Institute. "This was an operation that was created by a man who's now serving time in federal prison for terrorism by the name Abdurahman Alamoudi."

Gaffney added that at MuslimBrotherhoodInAmerica.com, where viewers can find a ten-part course on the Muslim Brotherhood by the Center for Security Policy, there is a clip of "Norquist at a meeting in Dearborn, Michigan in October 2011 put together between George Soros' progressives or leftists, radicals, and the Islamists."

"[Norquist] talks very candidly about what amounts to an influence operation that he's been running against a prominent conservative Republican Senate leader, and you just can't come away from this with any conclusion other than he knows exactly what he's doing, and what he's doing in this case is advancing the agenda of not just Muslims, but Islamists, and I'm afraid that's the kind of thing that he's got to be held accountable for," Gaffney said. When asked why he would have such connections, Greenfield weighed in: "Well the Muslim Brotherhood, like the communists and the Nazis before them, are experts at setting up front groups with innocuous names and finding people who would be useful to them. Norquist was useful to them, and in some ways, they were useful to him."

Greenfield later added: "If you were a freedom guy, then why would he be backing an ideology associated with a complete totalitarian regime? Why would he be backing the...misfortunes of the conservative movement? And why would he be doing everything possible to undermine the possibility that the Republican Party can back a freedom-based agenda?"

Beck concluded by saying this is a "complex issue," but that it is time that somebody takes on the "establishment Republicans" and tell you "exactly who's who."

"If you're for the Constitution, I don't care if you're a liberal or a Democrat or a Republican and a conservative, I don't really care, if you're for the Constitution of the United States of America," Beck said. "That's our dividing line, and there are too many in the Republican Party, so let's clean out our own house first."