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."
