Dec. 26, 2022 - Bannon's War Room
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But King Wenceslas the proud, on the feast of Stephen, When the snow lay round about, deep and crisp and even, Brightly shone the moon that night, though the frost was cruel, When the poor man came inside, bearing winter fuel. | |
| Heather, page and sand, I know, and if thou lost it tearing, Younger peasant, who is he? | ||
| Where? | ||
| What? | ||
| His where is he? | ||
| Sire, he lives far goodly, can't you see? | ||
| He lives beneath the mountain, right against the forest fence, by St. | ||
| Isaac's fountain. | ||
| Bring me flesh and bring me wine, bring me pine logs, feeder, thou and I will see in time. | ||
| Okay, Merry Christmas. It is Monday, 26 December, in the year of our Lord 2022, we continue on with our Boxing Day special. | ||
| I have one of my favorite people on, Ken Blackwell, now joins us, former Secretary of State of Ohio, and one of the most prominent thinkers and activists in the conservative movement for many, many, many decades. | ||
| Ken, we just had Dr. Carol Swain I was able to join us for the first hour of our special and she left us with, talked about a Great Awakening, but it was because if America doesn't have a Great Awakening, she fears that America could actually fall. | ||
| We could see the fall of this Republic because we've gotten so far off of the original tenets, the intellectual and spiritual and moral and ethical underpinnings of this great nation, I think in a time of renewal, which is always what Advent and the birth of Christ is about in Hanukkah. | ||
| What are your thoughts about this? | ||
| I think Dr. Swain is correct. | ||
| I mean, you just go to the Declaration of Independence and that powerful second paragraph, which helps us to understand that For the first time in all of human history, we had a nation that was built on a foundational understanding that God, not government, was at the center of our being. | ||
| And, you know, we've been fighting, Steve, for decades now, the march of relativism, marching towards the destruction of absolute truth. | ||
| And as someone who grew up in the civil rights movement and who had the privilege of sitting in the living room of Reverend L.B. | ||
| and listening to Dr. King, his colleague, talk about the fact that if we didn't start with the absolute truth that we're all created equal and that God is at the center of our being, then we didn't stand a chance to move this nation towards his promise. | ||
| And so if you, you know, I've been blessed, Steve, as you know, I've traveled the globe. | ||
| I've been to over 63 of the 190 plus nations on the face of the earth. | ||
| And I've seen every type of government, totalitarian governments, authoritarian governments, big welfare states. | ||
| And one of the things that I know is that there is this constant push to run God and faith out of the public square and destroy our families, which are the incubators of liberty to build a dependence on governments. | ||
| So, this attack on the moral absolute and the authority of God in the life of our nation puts us on a glad path towards destruction. | ||
| So, Carol is absolutely correct. | ||
| We can't let them run God and faith out of the public screen. | ||
| Square and we can't let them destroy the family as you and I've talked about before the family is the incubator of liberty and the family is where But where traditions are created, you destroy the family, you run God and faith out of the public square. | ||
| You put a hammer blow on religious liberty. | ||
| And again, you put us on a path towards destruction. | ||
| If you look at the founding of the nation, but then you look at the big turnings in American history, the revolution. | ||
| You look at the Civil War, you look at the Great Depression of World War II, and now, you know, guys like myself and others argue in the great fourth turning of American history. | ||
| In every other time, in the Revolution, in the Civil War, in the Great Depression, in World War II, the Judeo-Christian values informed that culture and that society. | ||
| It was the foundational bedrock. | ||
| And people, you go back and you read, I know you're a great student of history and a reader of biographies as I am, and you see in every aspect that they are so steeped in the Christian tradition and so understand how that's based on the values of the Judeo-Christian West from Athens and Jerusalem and Rome. | ||
| Have we, and particularly what's happened here so recently, was the reason Dr. Swain said that we had to have, Dr. Swain said we had to have a Great Awakening. | ||
| Are we so far removed from that, that you can actually talk about how we can turn this around? | ||
| If this is a time of renewal and rebirth, of the calendar year before the new year, is it time now to reflect upon that? | ||
| Is it in Ken Blackwell's No, it's not. | ||
| And Steve, you know, that whole, you know, the birth of Christ, His death, His resurrection, what we know from a study of history is that in that cycle, we moved from being a world headed towards a hopeless end. | ||
| To one where there is endless hope. | ||
| But as we talk among ourselves and we talk to others, we understand that it is through the regeneration of that faith and our ability to move history. | ||
| History is not a snapshot. | ||
| It is a process. | ||
| And you can either be Made by history, or you can make and move and shape history. | ||
| And that's why it's so important. | ||
| And there's just been an attack on the Judeo-Christian ethic and worldview because those radical extremists, those who want authoritarianism and who want to be the elite that rule the world through government apparatus, | ||
| They, in fact, know that they have to destroy that ethic, and we have to know that we have the human agency to push back and to win. | ||
| And so, Woody Hayes used to always talk about three yards on the football field in a cloud of dust. | ||
| That's how we have to push it. | ||
| We're not always going to throw the Hail Mary and get it done. | ||
| You know, we have to, we have to push, we have to push forward. | ||
| I remember working in the South and there was, there was in Clarksdale, Mississippi, there was a Baptist preacher who talked about the Constitution And the importance of understanding religious liberty embedded in the Constitution. | ||
| And he said, I will fight for your constitutional right to be theologically wrong. | ||
| But what he was saying is that I'm not going to let you stifle me. | ||
| I'm not going to let you crush the Constitution and religious liberty. | ||
| I'm going to say that I believe so much in the Judeo-Christian ethic that I can withstand any challenge and debate and conversation. | ||
| We have to get off of the sidelines. | ||
| This is a battle. | ||
| This is a point in our history. | ||
| Where we, in fact, cannot be sideline sitters. | ||
| We have to be on the front line, and we have to understand the agency that we have to direct history going forward. | ||
| Steve, you might know, you might not know, I had a great uncle. | ||
| His name was D. Hart Hubbard. | ||
| He was my mother's father's brother. | ||
| He was the first African American, Black American to win an Olympic gold medal in track and field. | ||
| He did it in the 1924 Games in Paris. | ||
| And what was so interesting about Uncle New York was that that year he was to run against Eric Little in the 100. | ||
| He had qualified for the 100 and the high hurdles. | ||
| And when he got to Paris, he was told by the International Olympic Committee that the 100 and the higher hurdles were white-only events. | ||
| And so he didn't get to compete against Eric Little. | ||
| But he told my mom's generation, and he told me, that God had blessed him because he was able to witness something. | ||
| And that was Eric Little's fidelity to his faith and his tradition, his Christian tradition, that he, in fact, had a... He was... | ||
| He was probably a sure bet to win the 100, particularly with my uncle not being in it. | ||
| He, in fact, chose not to run to worldly glory to practice the fidelity of his faith. | ||
| So that became a watchword in our family. | ||
| Fidelity to faith. | ||
| And that's what we call upon all Americans and human souls who find themselves in this struggle. | ||
| Fidelity to faith. | ||
| Understanding that we have the human agency to change the direction of history. | ||
| We don't have to be, you know, shaped by the forces of evil and the forces of authoritarianism. | ||
| You know, let's fight back. | ||
| We've got a minute or two here before we go to break. | ||
| When you say fidelity, Off the Latin term, explain to our audience what you mean, fidelity to faith. | ||
| What does that mean to Ken Blackwell? | ||
| What was that? | ||
| What was that tradition passed down? | ||
| Unshakable fidelity, a faithfulness to that faith, a commitment to a person. | ||
| I mean, you know, the Marines have a fidelity, you know, to their ethic. | ||
| They are unafraid. | ||
| And Christ, You know, it told us to be unafraid, understanding that we, in fact, cannot retreat to the sidelines. | ||
| We cannot fear the importance of challenging those who would undermine, and that we can do it together. | ||
| 35 BC, I think it was, you know, before Christ, you know, Nehemiah had gotten a charge to rebuild the city and the walls of Jerusalem. | ||
| And he went into the center of the city and he let out a clarion call. | ||
| He said, come, let us build together. | ||
| And what he found when he was dealing with Getchum and Sam Ballard and Tobias, the naysayers, the napalm of negativism, he told his folks, keep your focus. | ||
| Do what you can with what you have, where you are. | ||
| Let's be force multipliers for each other and get it done. | ||
| Let's have a fidelity to our mission. | ||
| And that's what we have to have. | ||
| Here in America in our third century. | ||
| Ken, just hang on. | ||
| Ken Blackwell, former Secretary of State of the great state of Ohio and one of the leaders of the conservative movement for many, many decades. | ||
| We're going to take a short commercial break. | ||
| We're going to return. | ||
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| We love doing these specials. | ||
| We just had a big one on Christmas Eve and Christmas Day. | ||
| Want to thank them for that. | ||
| And this is your Boxing Day, as Raheem used to call it, your Boxing Day special. | ||
| 26 December, year of our Lord 2022. | ||
| 2022, we will return in just a moment. | ||
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In the name of the Lord. | |
| Let's sing this together. | ||
| Okay, welcome back. | ||
| Okay, welcome back. | ||
| It's the day after Christmas, 26th December, the year of our Lord. | ||
| I want to thank everybody. | ||
| Audiences have been huge over the holidays. | ||
| over the Christmas season. | ||
| I want to thank everybody for that. | ||
| Ken, you said we have to do what we can do with what's at hand. | ||
| I want to go back and return to one of the central theses, and particularly this time of year. | ||
| You continue to say that the family is the incubator of freedom, and that in our foundational documents, the founders are very specific that these rights come from God, that your rights do not come From a government. | ||
| And it makes the two revolutions that took at the same time, the American Revolution, the French Revolution, quite different. | ||
| That the French Revolution was all about the state and state power, right? | ||
| Talked about humanity, you know, equality and liberty, but it was very much a everything they wrote was very much the control of the state. | ||
| That's why they wanted to have a state that did not have a king at the top of the Republic, but it was a state. | ||
| Nonetheless, the American thinking Oh, absolutely. | ||
| into it is that these are natural rights that come from God and can't be interrupted by any government. In that context, how is it that the family is the incubator of liberty in this time of year where everybody is so family focused? Do you see an erosion in a direct attack on said family, sir? Oh, absolutely. There is a desire by the big | ||
| government, socialist, Marxist, authoritarian, administrative state to in fact make us dependent on government. | ||
| The, you know. | ||
| Look, what has made us different and what you just said was that we as a nation were founded on the intrinsic non-negotiable right to be free. | ||
| And what we know, and you and I have both studied the whole principle of subsidiarity, that government closest to the people is the best. | ||
| So, you know, there's been a harness placed on the federal government that it keeps trying to break, then the state, then the county, then it's township. | ||
| But that first unit of governance is the family. | ||
| And so that's why the family has been, whether it's the bourgeoisie in Russia, or Mao's China, it has been to crush the family. | ||
| And so I believe that As a movement, we have to resist and we have to push back against the attempt of those governmental forces to run God and faith out of the public square. | ||
| And we have to understand the value of protecting the nuclear family. | ||
| And so these crazy notions of gender fluidity and the like, All right. | ||
| on the traditional family. | ||
| And we in fact have to, we have to take a, we have to take a stand in that regard. | ||
| You know, and I grew up in a family where my mom and dad had us always focused on what they called the three books, you know, and they, and there were your date book, your checkbook and the good book. | ||
| And quite naturally, the anchor book was the good book because it helped you choose the path of conviction over the path of convenience. | ||
| But they always had us always focused on that date book because it told how you spend your time And with whom you spend it. | ||
| And so that's why it's so important in terms of shows and the networking that you do and that we all try to do within the conservative movement. | ||
| It's so important because it is important that we, in fact, be force multipliers to one another, reinforce Those non-negotiable fundamental human rights that has made us an exceptional nation. | ||
| And those who would destroy this nation, they don't want us to think about the USA as an exceptional nation. | ||
| That is not to say that we are a perfect nation. | ||
| We have, in fact, had periods where we've had to move history in a different direction. | ||
| But we have. | ||
| In our, you know, 247 odd years of existence, we, in fact, have come together in moments of challenge. | ||
| to move this country forward. | ||
| We're not stuck in 1619. | ||
| We're not even stuck in 1776. | ||
| We, in fact, watched as we came together as a nation, all races, all ethnicities, both sexes, to, in fact, move this nation through the civil rights And we knew that we had to look for that commonality of our human dignity. | ||
| And so, again, I've just been blessed to not only be in the company of great thinkers who were Christians, but some of our Jewish brethren. | ||
| We are the at the center of Reform Judaism in Cincinnati. | ||
| Hebrew Union College is actually headquartered in Cincinnati, and so one of the professors in the 60s was Heschel, Professor Joshua Heschel, and he was a confidant of Martin Luther King, but he in fact has to focus on a A fundamental understanding that respect discovers the dignity in others. | ||
| And so that's the way that we move forward. | ||
| Understanding the traditions, understanding the importance of family, but most emphatically, understanding the moral foundation of this country based on universal truth. | ||
| And we, in fact, go back to the Psalms 11, verse 3, if the foundation be destroyed, what shall the righteous do? | ||
| And you and I and others, we put out a clarion call for folks to put their shoulders to the wheel and grind this out. | ||
| We must save this most exceptional nation. | ||
| What do we say to people? | ||
| You've had this massive victory and the massive victory was because the politics of Trump and this populism and people that came out and worked and you had this change of the Supreme Court. | ||
| So you had this monumental reshifting. | ||
| On the Dodd situation and obviously Roe v. Wade, and then immediately... | ||
| We got into this Marriage Equality Act, which I think many of the thinkers who I appreciate their intellect and their understanding of this is saying that this bill is really an oath for the first time in our country's history is really a potential attack, not just on organized religion, but Christianity. | ||
| What do you tell her? | ||
| What do you say to our audience that is going to put their shoulder to the wheel? | ||
| But they see in my point is that this was passed. | ||
| By 12 Republican senators would have never gotten passed in the old days, but 12 Republican senators actually came up and voted for it. | ||
| And they did 12, not 10 so that they could all run for cover. | ||
| And then a number of Republicans in the house, sir. | ||
| We have new and strong headwinds, strong headwinds of new challenges. | ||
| And, and, and, you know, sometimes it's. | ||
| One step forward, two step backwards, two steps forward, one step backwards. | ||
| History is not without its disruptions. | ||
| And as we march towards victory, we will have setbacks. | ||
| And so we can't be defeated or embrace defeatism when things don't work out perfectly. | ||
| We have to get up off of the ground and we have to continue to fight. | ||
| But one of the things that we know, if you go back to those words in that second paragraph, life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness, We know that you can't have liberty if you don't have life. | ||
| And so, protecting innocent life is paramount to actually winning the soul and maintaining the soul of this nation. | ||
| We know that it's pretty difficult to pursue happiness if you're enslaved. | ||
| And so, one, fighting for liberty and being a stand-to-bear for liberty, no matter what it is that you can do, You know, everyone can't be a king, Martin Luther King. | ||
| Everyone can't be a Fannie Lou Hamer. | ||
| Yeah, the reality is that you do what you can where you are. | ||
| And that's the message. | ||
| You know, don't give in to a setback or don't give in to the cowardness of folks who proclaim to be the standard bearers. | ||
| Change them. | ||
| Challenge. | ||
| Ken Blackwell, hang with us. | ||
| It's our Boxing Day special on the day after Christmas. | ||
| Ken Blackwell honors us with his involvement. | ||
| And we're going to take a short break. | ||
| Be back in a moment. | ||
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I'm going to be a little bit more quiet. | |
| Now we hear of endless bliss, joy, and joy. | ||
| Jesus Christ is born for this. | ||
| He hath bought the heavenly door, and man is blessed evermore. | ||
| Christ is born for this. | ||
| ♪ Evermore, Christ is born for this ♪ ♪ Christ is born for this ♪ ♪ But even when the snow lay round about ♪ ♪ Deep and crisp and even ♪ ♪ Brightly shone the moon at night ♪ ♪ Though the frost was cruel ♪ | ||
| ♪ When the poor man came inside carrying winter fuel ♪ ♪ Hither page and stand I, my little crown, who's did tearing? ♪ It's our Christmas celebration. | ||
| Okay, welcome back to the War Room. It's our Christmas celebration. We always love these shows, love the people we have on. Ken, Dr. Swain said that she didn't think that we could get back on track and actually save the country unless we | ||
| had a great awakening. | ||
| I know that you're a student of this. | ||
| One, do you believe she's correct? | ||
| And two, what would be the tenets of a Great Awakening? | ||
| How, if we need this, what is it? | ||
| How do we drive towards that? | ||
| What would be the outcome that would then inform our decisions going forward? | ||
| Well, I think she's correct. | ||
| Look, we have to understand what is at the essence of the exceptional nature of our country. | ||
| But you know, you can't have an awakening if, in fact, | ||
| You actually have to start with those who want to proclaim the magnificence of the Word of God and the gift that God has given us in this country, and it starts with being willing to take a stand. | ||
| And I think, you know, it's just doing, Steve, as I've mentioned, it's just doing the little things. | ||
| You know, you won't have it if you run away from the Word of God, if you let them cleanse the public square of biblical direction. | ||
| And so, again, This country has been unique in that it has It has always, when it has been at its greatest, had God at its center. | ||
| And we just have to be willing to take that stand. | ||
| And when we started, by looking at little things, whether it is reclaiming our schools, reclaiming the curricula of our schools, actually taking a stand to | ||
| To protect life, to understand that the radical left will be alarmed, and they are alarmed, that this country has found in its Judicial system of judges, justices with the courage to to protect innocent, innocent life. | ||
| And so we just have to be we have to be engaged. | ||
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| One of the things that you can start to pick up as a signal is the number of people who are starting to push back against this notion of gender fluidity, the attack on the family, our efforts to reclaim the curriculum and parental rights and the education of our children. | ||
| It is just You know, a fundamental understanding that there are people who are willing to fight and to take a, you know, rush to heal with the Word of God. | ||
| So you're very, when you see all the, everything is happening and you see the parental rights movement kind of come out of nowhere. | ||
| As a reaction to what the school systems trying to do the education systems trying to do you take that as a positive because it springs out it springs up as self organizing and without any organized structure and the next thing you know it's one of the biggest and put parental rights. | ||
| This movement in context of what you've seen before of other rights movements that have built up, because it seems like all the rights movements we've seen recently are on the left, particularly, you know, the gay marriage situation, now gender fluidity, gender affirmation, all of that. | ||
| So is this something that sprung up out of whole cloth from somewhere? | ||
| Well, look, my mind is and I don't To be professed to be a leading authority on this. | ||
| But, you know, I watched the whole institution of slavery in this country. | ||
| I watched them tear down the masculine role of the male in the family. | ||
| I've watched this whole notion of the welfare state, which created a system where families couldn't get a hand up if the mail was still in the house. | ||
| We saw a whole system put in place, a social welfare system, that got its its energy from dividing the family and attacking the male and destroying the work ethic. | ||
| And that disease now has crisscrossed the country regardless of ethnicity, race, or income. | ||
| We've watched the work ethic be destroyed. | ||
| But I see, whether it's in Chicago, or Detroit, or Cincinnati, or Waco, Texas, I actually see people fighting back to say, one, I'd rather be free and lower income with the opportunity to work my way to middle class than to be a dependent, a ward of the state. | ||
| People might think that we just give lip service when we talk about human agency and people being participants in their own upliftment, but we're not. | ||
| We're playing to a basic instinct. | ||
| That when we tap into it, we get folks re-energized and re-engaged or re-engaged in the process of moving history in the right and more positive direction. | ||
| Do you see right now from the grassroots movement, you've been a grassroots leader for, I don't know, 50 years or plus. | ||
| You were there for President Reagan. | ||
| You've seen what we did in the Gingrich revolution in the 90s. | ||
| You've seen, obviously, the beginning of the Trump movement. | ||
| Is your belief now, and you see this parental rights come up with something that people hadn't expected and it's one of the most important things we have going on, Do you believe that we're winning right now or that we've got the fight in us to win? | ||
| I, and let me say, I think we have the fight in us to win. | ||
| Uh, and, um, the one, one of the things you, I've said it on, on your show before, but, um, that uncle that I talked about, D Hart Hubbard was one of the founders of the American Negro Baseball League and, uh, Satchel Paige, played on one of the teams, not his Cincinnati Tigers, but one of the teams in Annapolis Clowns that he was an investor in. | ||
| And so I grew up with, you know, some of these great baseball players moving in and out of Cincinnati and my uncle's presence. | ||
| And he was also a keeper of the witty remarks of Satchel Paige. | ||
| And Satchel Paige was fond of saying, it's damn difficult to steal second base if you want to keep one foot on first. | ||
| You know, and so you have to have a risk orientation. | ||
| You have to have a risk to be free. | ||
| You know, one of the one of the outgrowths of the growth of statism. | ||
| is to make us, you know, less risk-oriented, that we become complacent in being subjects, not citizens. | ||
| And one of the things that I've witnessed over the last two cycles, even when we haven't One, some of the races that we should have won, we wanted to win. | ||
| Some that were riddled with abnormalities, irregularities, and out and out, you know, incompetence and theft. | ||
| is the ability to take a risk. | ||
| People are becoming, you know, they're willing to take a risk to be free. | ||
| They're not stuck with one foot on first base. | ||
| People are making the break, you know, and they're doing it, again, using that principle of subsidiarity. | ||
| They're doing it at the local level. | ||
| You might not see the sweeping changes, you know, but we can't lose facts. | ||
| We can't lose track of the fact that we've seen a positive movement at the township level, on school boards. | ||
| You know, you have people now challenging local health directors, and so we need to give amplification To these voices, to keep the momentum going. | ||
| Whether we were satisfied with the margin, we took the house back. | ||
| People understand, and we're getting smart. | ||
| We're getting smart because we see the evil deeds of the opposition. | ||
| And I will just tell you, Heritage Foundation, and you might have already had Mike Howell on, But they just did a contractor. | ||
| I mean, we see the game plan. | ||
| I mean, these guys are showing us that they're putting in our face and they're daring us to push back. | ||
| Yes. | ||
| But you know, one of my favorite professors of philosophy was Father E.J. | ||
| O'Connor. | ||
| And he was also the chaplain of our football team. | ||
| Now, I want to make sure you understand this because he was a great believer, quite naturally, in the power of faith in God's Word. | ||
| I remember he taught me and a Jewish classmate who was one of the few Jewish students at Xavier to the old golden glove matches at the Cincinnati Gardens. | ||
| And about the 11th hour, a young boy from the west side of Cincinnati, of Irish Catholic heritage, came out, and before his bout, he made the sign of the cross. | ||
| And Benji, who was Jewish, asked Father, said, Father, what's the significance of that? | ||
| He said, Son, you know, you come to class, and I'll teach you the significance of that from a theological point of view. | ||
| But let me just tell you, right now, at that moment, it doesn't mean enough if you can't fight. | ||
| And so that's what... | ||
| So that's where we are. | ||
| We're embracing our religion, our faith, but we also are exhibiting the human agency to fight back. | ||
| So great. | ||
| Ken Blackwell, hang with us. | ||
| Ken Blackwell, one of the leaders of the conservative movement and one of the leaders of the Trump movement. | ||
| Thank you very much. | ||
| Take a short break. | ||
| We're going to be back here in about a minute or two. | ||
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back in the world. | |
| I'm going to be a good Christian. | ||
| Now we hear of endless bliss, joy and joy. | ||
| Jesus Christ is born for this. | ||
| He hath bought the heavenly door, and man is blessed evermore. | ||
| Christ is born for this. | ||
| Jesus Christ is born for this. | ||
| He hath bought the heavenly dollar, and man is blessed evermore. | ||
| Christ is born for this. | ||
| Christ is born for this. | ||
| Good King, whence dost thou stop doubt on the feast of Stephen? | ||
| When the snow lay round about, deep and crisp and even, brightly shone the moon that night, how the cross was cruel, when the poor man came inside, gathering winter fuel. | ||
| Hither, page and stand I, then, and if thou wilt keep. | ||
| Okay, we're back with Ken. | ||
| You know, Ken, what I love, and I think it's from the Midwest, you've always had the ability, it's Lincoln-esque, of always bringing in a short story. | ||
| That gets to the point. | ||
| You know, Lincoln was a master of that, right? | ||
| To tell that story, particularly in the middle of heated discussions or in cabinet meetings, tell a short story that the punchline was about exactly what they were talking about. | ||
| You've got this very rare, I know so many people in politics and in power in Wall Street, That is very rare. | ||
| It's one of the rare attributes that President Lincoln had. | ||
| And I got to tell you, of everybody I know in Washington politics, you are the only person I can say is Lincoln-esque in that regard, that you always know the perfect story. | ||
| It doesn't, not going to help him a lot right now if he can't fight. | ||
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It's pure brilliance. | |
| I laugh about that one a lot. | ||
| Ken, And going forward, we got a couple of minutes here, and going forward, I want to make sure people get access to you because you've... | ||
| Now become an elder in this movement and are someone I've always looked at as a mentor and someone I trust their judgment and discernment. | ||
| And I want to make sure that people get full access to you and to your thinking. | ||
| But talk about the groups. | ||
| We got a couple minutes. | ||
| The groups that you're spending most of your time with, where you're putting your effort, and then how do people reach you and how do people get to you? | ||
| I chair the Conservative Action Project, and we've had you come in and speak to us. | ||
| It's 120 conservative organizations, and we plot and plan and debate together. | ||
| The Family Research Council is where I've spent the last 15 years. | ||
| Looking at hard issues around the preservation of the family and I work with some great warriors and Tony Perkins and Jerry Boykin over there. | ||
| I am at the America First Policy Institute where I chair the Center for Election Integrity but you can find my and again I I put my head together with Cleta Mitchell and Hans over at Heritage and our great CEO there at the Public Interest Legal Foundation, Christian Adams is an outstanding leader. | ||
| So we keep our shoulders to the wheel there. | ||
| But you can find me at Ken Blackwell on on Twitter. | ||
| You can find me on my public page at Facebook at Ken Blackwell. | ||
| It's been fascinating to me. | ||
| I've been stuck at about 110 followers for about Two years now. | ||
| You're a living example. | ||
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You're a living example of that. | |
| My old linebacker coaches always tell me, keep your feet moving. | ||
| And so that's what I do. | ||
| Sir, thank you so much. | ||
| Merry Christmas and have a great time during this holiday season. | ||
| You're a great, not just a great warrior, but someone that I think gives people the kind of common sense they need now, particularly this thing is that you've got to deal, you've got to work with what you've got at hand and you can't give up the fight. | ||
| If you give up the fight, we're going to lose the country. | ||
| It's that simple. | ||
| And we have Small victories some days, and some days it's very cloudy and you're going to have defeats, but you got to get up and pick yourself up. | ||
| Ken Blackwell, Merry Christmas. | ||
| Thank you very much for joining us in the world. | ||
| God bless you, brother. | ||
| Yes, sir. | ||
| Thank you. | ||
| Ken Blackwell. | ||
| Okay, we're gonna go out on as we always do on our specials or try to with Bing Crosby the song written in the summer of 1941 before Pearl Harbor, but really came known in the summer and Christmas 1942 white Christmas Bing Crosby Christmas 1942 White Christmas by Bing Crosby. | ||
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I'm dreaming of a white Christmas just like the ones I used to know | |
| where the tree tops glisten and children play. | ||
| Listen to hear sleigh bells in the snow. | ||
| I'm dreaming of a white Christmas. | ||
| With every Christmas card I write, May your days be merry and bright, and may all your Christmases be white. | ||
| I'm dreaming of a white Christmas Just like the ones I used to know | ||
| Where the treetops glisten and children listen To hear sleigh bells in the snow. |
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