Bill paid his customary Friday morning visit with Glenn Beck on The Blaze Radio.  Beck got things off to a hot start by asking a very provocative question about Bill's appearance on Sean Hannity's show Tuesday night.  "If you were so dangerous," Beck pondered, "that you had to be removed and your show taken off, why would they have you on as a guest?" 

"I told everybody from the very beginning," Bill replied, "that it was a pure business decision.  The evil, far-left cabal put together a fiction and a fantasy to silence my voice like they did with you and many others.  It didn't work with Sean Hannity and so we have developed mutual empathy.  The crux of this is that every thinking American knows what happened and we should make sure it doesn't happen again to anyone else."  Beck reached another interesting conclusion, saying, "Any thinking American is thinking that Fox News should put O'Reilly back on."  Bill steered clear of that speculation, citing legal issues that have yet to be settled. 

Beck and Bill turned to the tax plan that Donald Trump is pushing very hard.  "I think most working people in America would benefit from this," Bill theorized.  "It looks like it is fair because it would give people more money and therefore more power.  I want to empower the individual so they can have as good a life as possible.  People at the higher end will pay more or it will be flat, so when Chuck Schumer says it is 'wealth-fare' he is lying."  Bill again stressed, "If Donald Trump doesn't get this passed, I don't think he will be reelected, and this might all come down to who will sabotage him in his own party."  Beck suggested that John McCain may defy the president, saying "McCain is making Ted Kennedy look like a conservative lately." 

Beck then brought up the decision by some retailers to drop Ivanka Trump's clothing line.  "What did Ivanka Trump do to anyone?" Bill asked rhetorically.  "But these idiots tell Nordstrom that if they don't dump her clothing line, we're going go outside your stores and say you're racist.  How long are Americans going to put up with this?  People have to start realizing that their freedoms are under siege.  They did that to some extent with the NFL, you'll notice that last night there were no players kneeling or sitting."  Beck criticized President Trump for saying protesting players should be "fired." 

Turning to health care, Beck predicted that the failure to repeal and replace ObamaCare will cause massive harm to average Americans and political damage to the president.  "I hear from many people," Bill argued, "and when the health care thing went down the vast majority of my audience wasn't that angry at Trump.  Their anger was turned on McCain and the Democrats.  But that won't happen with the tax cuts because this was the economic basis on which he was elected, he promised that he can make deals.  The folks will tolerate health care, but not a failure to reform taxes.  He has to make the deal or the independents will flee." 

Moving overseas, Beck brought up the tragic case of Otto Warmbier, the student who returned from North Korea in a coma and died shortly thereafter.  His parents accuse the North Koreans of torturing their son, but the coroner is much less definitive.  "Grief takes a lot of different faces," Bill observed, "and this family is just devastated because Otto was, I believe, murdered by the North Koreans.  Are they overstating it?  Perhaps, but there is no doubt that this North Korean regime is as evil as any regime on the face of the earth.  If they attack someone else, I think Trump will move against them." 

Finally, Bill analyzed the chaotic situation in post-Hurricane Maria Puerto Rico.  ""In Texas you were dealing with an efficient government," he opined, "that was able to take the aid and move quickly.  Same thing in Florida.  But the government of Puerto Rico is basically inefficient, and so was the government of New Orleans during Katrina.  So when disaster strikes, they can't be as effective.  There is aid arriving, but there is no organization at the local level.  There doesn't seem to be a dereliction on the part of the federal government, but it looks like there is if you tune to CNN." 

They ended, of course, with a brief plug for Killing England.  "If I were to redesign the cover," Bill declared, "I would have George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Benjamin Franklin … and Glenn Beck!"  Beck was totally stunned, not by the cover idea but because Bill had never, ever used his first name.