Aug. 29, 2009 - The Political Cesspool - James Edwards
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Joining me in the studios of AM 1380 WLRM Radio this evening, none other than my good friend and co-host, Keith Alexander.
Keith, how are you this Saturday night, August 29th?
Couldn't be any better, and I'm really looking forward to tonight's show.
Well, Keith, we absolutely have a program tonight, three hours full, chock full of exciting news and informative guests before we run out of time this evening, some three hours from now.
You will hear from Craig Bottaker, the documentary filmmaker of A Conversation About Race.
You'll also hear from film producer and director Merlin Miller.
And let's not forget Greg Johnson, the editor of the Occidental Quarterly, who will be joining us during tonight's third hour.
So great guests.
We're going to be talking about the media, movies, how we can work together to create a more positive image for our movement and for our issues.
We're also going to be talking about the film Inglorious Bastards.
Now, this is something, just wait till Greg Johnson gets on and starts dissecting that.
The Occidental Quarterly printed an outstanding review of that movie and really put the perspective where it should be.
And I don't want to give away too much.
Just trust me, you're going to want to stay tuned for the whole show tonight.
Every minute will be absolutely riveting, I think, Keith.
Starting right now, I mean, we're working overtime tonight.
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People are getting us in so many different ways, Keith, and more and more tuning in each and every week.
And we are obviously blessed to know that as a fact.
But Keith, tonight's first hour is truly one that I'm excited to have with you as we go behind enemy lines now.
I don't know.
It was kind of an obscure news story this week.
If people didn't tune in in just the right moment, they probably missed it or weren't aware of the fact that Ted Kennedy died this week.
I just can't believe that the media is not paying more attention to this.
Right, Keith?
Oh, yes, right.
It's very obscure.
Of course, it's a date that many of us have been waiting for for a long time.
Well, obviously, I said the first statement in jest.
It has been anything but obscure.
It's been absolutely Michael Jackson-esque in terms of the fawning, attention, and the adulation, incessant praise, all completely undeserved.
Now, as you listen to the political cesspool segment tonight on Ted Kennedy, compare and contrast that to what you've been hearing and reading in the so-called mainstream news.
We're going to tell you like it is, and we're going to put this man's legacy where it should be, and we're not going to leave any stone unturned.
But Keith, it just goes without saying that this has been, without a doubt, the story of the world this week.
At least that's the mainstream media has been blowing it up to be, and certainly over-dramatizing the fact that this man has indeed finally died.
But what was his true legacy?
Like I said, for a week we've had just incessant and unadulterated fawning and praise over a man who I think it could be very reasonably argued was a traitor to the United States.
He was without a doubt a traitor to his people.
But Keith, let's talk about the Kennedy legacy, the Kennedy legacy as it applies to Teddy.
Well, let's first of all just talk about the Kennedy legacy as opposed to the Teddy Kennedy legacy generally.
The Kennedy legacy and the Kennedy story is basically probably the best proof that you could point to of the effect of having a liberally dominated news media in the United States.
You would think that these people rode down from heaven on a cloud to rescue America from its benighted condition if you listen to ABC, CBS, or NBC.
You would think that these people were angels and that everything that they did was selfless, that they got rich by accident, and that they have been dedicating their lives to the betterment of mankind and living like angels here on earth throughout their lives.
And of course, nothing could be further from the truth.
The whole Klan was conceived in corruption.
The family fortune was founded on a criminal enterprise.
Bootlegging, right?
Well, bootlegging and rum running.
I guess what he did, what Joseph Kennedy did, was get liquor from overseas and sneak it into the nation, into the United States during Prohibition, and that's the foundation of his super wealth that he had.
Now, he was very ambitious.
He had a chip on his shoulder about being an Irish Catholic person trying to break into WASP society in the prep schools, expensive prep schools that he could afford as a parvenue for his children, like Rosemary Schoad Hall, where all of his male children attended, and Harvard University, of course.
They are part of that Ivy League group, but they had to kind of shoehorn their way in, and he had a deep, abiding dislike for Protestant Americans.
And this was passed on to his children.
They basically disdained the founding stock of America, of which they were not part.
And they are probably the best exemplars I can think of of the persecution of red state Americans by a small cadre of blue state Americans that continues on to this day.
Well, Keith, I couldn't have said it better myself, and we'll elaborate a little bit more as this hour marches forward.
Ted Kennedy truly had his hand on every left-wing radical egalitarian movement that manifested itself in the United States over the course of the last 50 years.
This is a man who's been in the Senate since his mid-20s, and he died at 77 years old.
As I said, based upon his actions, you could, I think, present a very valid case that he was, in fact, a traitor, yet he was able to live out his life in the lap of luxury and die of natural causes.
Shouldn't we all be so fortunate?
But one of the many aspects, and we're going to be covering a lot of things during this hour that's surrounding the death of Ted Kennedy.
One of the aspects of it, I'm sure, that everyone has heard, is that Barack Obama delivered the eulogy.
Now, a lot of people are probably wondering if the Kennedy family had asked James Edwards to deliver the eulogy, what would I say?
How would I eulogize the life of Ted Kennedy?
And I think, Keith, if I was asked that, I would step to the podium and say, ladies and gentlemen, we gather here today because Ted Kennedy has passed.
Ted Kennedy was a drunken rapist.
And that is the nicest thing I could say about him.
So I'm going to wrap it up right there because truly, Keith, the damage he inflicted on the women in his life paled in comparison to the damage that he wrought on this country.
I think he engineered the dismantling of the old America and the replacement of it with a new, debased America and had a bigger hand in that than just about any other person that you could name.
Well, there's no one.
I can't think of anyone else.
I mean, maybe Strom Thurmond, but certainly he was on, at least seemingly, on the other side of the matter on a lot of these issues.
But no one has been.
America really started to fall apart, obviously, culturally.
We reached, I guess you would say, our zenith in the mid-1950s, around the time where Ted Kennedy was sworn into office.
So, I mean, there's no doubt about it.
From the civil rights movement on, shortly after Brown versus Board, he was in there.
And he has basically presided over the absolute deconstruction of this country.
Everything that made it good.
He has been a part of that deconstruction, Keith.
Well, he was opposed to everything that was good about the old America.
And if people like Herbert Marcuse and Theodore Adorno and Eric Frong, the cultural Marxists, were the theoreticians of this evil plan to destroy America, Ted Kennedy was one of the chief implementers, particularly the chief implementer in the legislative branch of the government.
Well, we're going to be talking a lot more about this, as I said.
So much more to cover about it.
I hate to spend, I mean, you know, this guy's death certainly didn't elicit any crocodile tears from me, but I just felt compelled, Keith and I talking midweek, as we always do, about what we're going to do on the program this week.
And I just felt compelled because of the gross amount of publicity that his passing had elicited that we dedicate a segment of this show tonight to the true Ted Kennedy.
And that's what we're doing.
And we're going to be talking more about Ted Kennedy, his legacy, what he did to this country, and the role he played in its demise when the political cesspool returns, right after these words from our sponsors.
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Keith and I are talking about the passing of Ted Kennedy.
And we don't do it because we get a guilty pleasure in speaking ill of the dead.
I don't think we're speaking ill at all.
I think we are setting the record straight and we are counteracting that which you have been force-fed by the so-called mainstream or establishment media.
This radio program exists for a reason, and it's to tell the truth.
Yes, tell the truth in love, but tell the truth one way or another.
And I just felt, as I said, compelled to bring forth a segment this week on Ted Kennedy to try, at least in some small way, to counteract the lies and the distortions that you're getting from everywhere else.
So once again, the political cesspool stands where no other mainstream media entity is willing to stand, telling the truth.
I did hear, though, Keith, that Deion has come out with a new song.
It's called Abraham, Martin, John, and Ted.
I don't know if you've heard that yet.
No, I'm waiting with bated breath for that one.
I shouldn't mock Deion too much.
I like Deion.
I had front row seats for his concert here in Tunica about five years ago, and I'm not going to let Abraham Martin and John sully the good songs he had, like Teenager in Love and Donna, the Prima Donna, Run Around Sue, and so on and so forth.
But yeah, coming soon to a music store near you, ladies and gentlemen, Abraham Martin, John.
The Abraham Martin and John song was a desperate last-ditch attempt to revive his flagging career, I think, in the late 60s.
He tried to get folky into it.
He was an early 60s phenomenon, wasn't he, James?
Yeah, he was an early 60s phenomenon with the songs I just mentioned, Lovers Who Wander.
It was a more 50s pop, doo-wop type of sound.
And yeah, he tried to go folky there in the last part of the 60s.
And instead of going folky, he just went hokey.
There you go.
Not to get too far off subject, though.
Yes, anyway, Keith, back to the matter.
Elaborate a little more on Ted Kennedy and some of the specific votes he cast and some of the specific issues that he championed that would warrant the attention that we're giving him tonight.
Okay, well, first let me just say a couple things about the Kennedy myth generally and the Kennedy forebears.
Old man Joseph Kennedy was a political boss of the worst strife in Boston.
He got wealthy in a criminal enterprise, bootlegging and rum running, basically.
He bought a movie studio so he could pursue young budding starlets for illicit sex when he was a family man with nine children at home and a wife.
He was very ambitious for his sons.
The oldest son, Joseph, graduated from Harvard, was a big sports hero there, was sent into the Army, and his father told him to come home with a chest full of medals because that would enhance his prospects as a political candidate.
He searched diligently for the easiest mission to go on that was likely to result in him getting a chest full of medals, found it.
He was on a flight coming back across the English Channel.
And at that time, apparently, U.S. or Allied bombers would drop their bombs in the English Channel rather than take a chance of blowing up their plane when they landed.
And they were dropping some bombs, unfortunately, hit Kennedy's, Joseph Kennedy III's, or II airplane, and he was killed.
So again, the father's ambition killed the oldest son, and of course it was kind of a dishonest enterprise anyway that he was trying to go through.
Then, of course, JFK was a well-known womanizer, had his own issues of questionable honesty.
He did not write the book Profiles and Courage, for which he was given credit and won a Pulitzer Prize.
That was ghostwritten for him.
And then we have Teddy Kennedy, who was probably the biggest reprobate of all the boys.
Bobby Kennedy was a little gutter snipe, pugnacious, backstabbing political type.
But Teddy was kicked out of Harvard for cheating, not once, but twice.
Once he was caught cheating on a Spanish exam and kicked out.
Then his father's influence got him back in.
And he was kicked out again for paying a fellow student to take an exam for him.
Then, after being expelled the second time, he enlisted in the Army and mistakenly signed up for four years rather than two.
He got his father again, through his political influence, to cut that back to two years.
This was during the Korean conflict, but instead of sending Teddy to Korea, Daddy made sure that he went to Paris, which was about the cushiest assignment he could get.
Here's a Harvard man who goes in a buck private and comes out two years later a buck private, which was almost unheard of.
He must have been the world's worst soldier.
Just like his brother, JFK, was the world's worst sailor.
He was the only commander of a ship in World War II to manage to get something as fast and maneuverable as a PT boat rammed by something as slow and unmaneuverable as a Japanese destroyer.
In fact, it's been said that had he not been a senator's son, his dad's son, rather than getting a medal, he would have gotten a court-martial for what he did.
That was JFK.
But then, getting back to Ted Kennedy, he was attending law school at the University of Virginia.
Apparently, he had to step down a peg from the Ivy Leagues then, and was cited for reckless driving four times, including once when he was clocked driving 90 miles per hour in a residential neighborhood with his headlights off after dark.
Yet, miraculously, somehow with that type of driving record, his driving license was never revoked.
Again, we suspect his father's influence.
In 1964, he was seriously injured in a plane crash and hospitalized several months.
Test results done at the hospital at the time he was admitted had shown that he was legally intoxicated.
The results of those tests remained a state secret until the 1980s when the report was unsealed.
You didn't hear about that from the unbiased media, did you, James?
Well, you didn't hear any of this about the unbiased media all week.
I mean, this is a week where they're vetting his life and legacy and career and personal behind-the-scenes detail.
Not on any other show in the political sensible radio program have any of these facts, I stress the word facts, been destroyed, been divulged.
Keith, we have about 45 seconds left to the next question.
The best is yet to come.
On July 19th, 1969, Kennedy attended a party on Chappaquittic Island in Massachusetts.
At about 11 p.m., he borrowed his chauffeur's keys to his Oldsmobile limousine and offered to give a ride home to Mary Joe Copechny, a campaign worker.
Leaving the island via an unfit bridge with no guardrail, Kennedy, who was probably drunk, steered the car off the bridge.
It flipped and landed into Poocha Pond.
He swam to shore and walked back to the party, passing several houses and a fire station.
Two friends then returned with him to the scene of the accident.
According to their later testimony, they told him what he already knew.
Remember, he's a lawyer, has a law degree, that he was required by law to immediately report the accident to the authorities.
Instead, Kennedy made his way to his hotel, called his lawyer, and went to sleep.
All right, Keith, with that, we got to take a break.
We'll be back with more on the legacy of Ted Kennedy right after this in the Political Cesspool.
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We're talking about Ted Kennedy in this first hour, not because we want to, but because we feel as though we have to.
We have to set the record straight on who this man was, and Keith Alexander did a most excellent job that last segment in giving you what was obviously public record about this man's history and the history of his family, but facts still that were hushed up or distorted by the inconvenient truth, as Al Gore would say.
Right, as Al Gore would say.
Ted Kennedy's life is filled with inconvenient truths, and the whole Kennedy saga is filled with inconvenient truths.
Inconvenient truths that nevertheless have not been reported by and they show the true character of the Kennedy clan generally and Ted Kennedy in particular.
Let me go back to this Mary Joe Copechny episode.
And this is obviously something which he's most well known for.
But again, even this has never been mentioned.
Imagine if Ted Kennedy had actually been a conservative.
I mean, this would be the only thing you heard about in the wake of his death.
But yes, Keith, if you could, let's quickly try to finish up on some of the aspects of his personal life, which obviously should be stated here before we move into some of the issues that he advocated, because I think that's equally important.
Okay, well, Kennedy didn't report this thing until 8.45 the next morning after a good night's sleep.
And by that time, of course, Mary Joe Cope and I was dead.
Before dying, Copechny had scratched at the upholstered floor of the vehicle above her head in the upside-down car.
Copey was able to stay alive for a while, breathing the bubble of air inside the car.
She was pressed up to where the bubble was.
A diver was sent down and discovered Cope Ni's body at about 8:45 a.m.
The diver, John Farrar, later testified at the inquest that Copechny's body was pressed up in the car in the spot where the air bubble would have formed.
He interpreted this to mean that Copechny had survived for a while after the initial accident in the air bubble and concluded that had I received a call within five to ten minutes of the accident occurring and was able, as I was the following morning, to be at the victim's side within 25 minutes of receiving a call.
In such event, there's a strong possibility she would have been alive on removal from the submerged car.
But of course, Teddy Kennedy's career and his name was more important than this little person's life in the eyes of the liberal media and, of course, the mighty Kennedys.
So she was sacrificed.
The Kennedy family immediately began calling in favors, ensuring that any inquiry would be contained.
Her corpse was whisked out of state to her family before an autopsy could be conducted.
Further details are uncertain, but after the accident, Kennedy says he repeatedly dove underwater trying to rescue Copechny, but he didn't call the police because he was in a state of shock.
It was widely assumed Kennedy was drunk and held off calling police in hopes that his family could fix the problem overnight.
Since the accident, Kennedy's so-called political enemies have referred to him as a distinguished senator from Champaquittick.
He pled guilty to leaving the scene of the accident and was given a suspended sentence of two months for Mary Joe Copechny's death.
Now, see, this is typical of how the Kennedys handle things.
Remember when Ted Kennedy went to bat for a nephew, William Kennedy Smith, who was accused of raping a woman on the beach in Florida at the Kennedy compound in Florida, at Palm Beach, I think it is.
Right.
See, they do these things time and time again.
No ethics, no honesty to the group.
You know, they've proven that time and again, but miraculously, you know, mystifyingly, somehow our media portrays them as if they are saints.
The media, yeah, absolutely.
I think sane is the appropriate word.
The media has very literally deified the Kennedy family and Ted Kennedy also.
It goes back to what I was telling you at lunch the other day.
I was watching a panel, I believe it was on CNN, and they had all of these liberal talking heads pontificating over the passing of Kennedy, this traitor, this murderer.
And they said, you know, what do you think Ted Kennedy said when he was finally reunited with his brothers?
And then they said, well, he probably said this or he probably said that.
Once again, I only wish, Keith, that I had been a member of that panel because I know exactly what Ted Kennedy said after he died and he was reunited with John and Bobby.
He said, good Lord, it's hot down here.
That's exactly what he said.
Well, you know, you know, he brings to mind the biblical quotation, woe unto those who call evil good and good evil.
That is his legacy if there was ever a legacy for Ted Kennedy.
Well, let's talk about his political legacy now that you've brought it up.
Obviously, he advocated for the so-called civil rights movement, which was, in effect, what it really was and what it always was, was the dispossession of the majority.
Basically, we become the new second-class citizens.
Was finishing up the work, and in fact, even liberals were the middle, it's finishing up the work of the Civil War, but the real work of the Civil War was not freedom for slaves.
It was the dispossession, destruction, and marginalization of red state Americans, people in the South and the West, the people that are despised by the descendants of the abolitionist, Unitarian, Transcendentalist New Englanders, of which he's aligned, and the left coast, us poor, benighted folks out here in what they call flyover country.
We're the enemy, and it's time that people understood that.
And basically, we have been ruled like a colony by people in blue state America really since the late 1820s, James.
You're absolutely part of it.
You're absolutely right, Keith.
Let's, though, highlight some of the most specific things for which Kennedy advocated that would be an affront to any God-fearing or conservative-minded American.
What are we talking about?
Well, first of all, he was the Senate floor sponsor of the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1964.
And he played a key role in getting this passed.
This is the law that basically led to the Browning of America.
It gave preference to immigrants from the third world and took away any preference, put them at the bottom of the totem pole, people from Europe, which had been the traditional sources of immigration for America.
It was an intentional act to brown America.
And of course, Ted Kennedy was dishonest enough to deny all of this.
This is from the congressional record.
During the debate on the Senate floor, Kennedy, speaking of the effects of the act, said, first, our cities will not be flooded with a million immigrants annually.
Under the proposed bill.
He was right about that, though, Keith, to interject, it's more like five million annually.
And see, this is what the conservatives were warning about at that time, their oppression.
Under the proposed bill, the present level of immigration remains substantially the same.
Secondly, the ethnic mix of the country will not be upset, as conservatives claim.
Contrary to the charges in some quarters, the bill will not inundate America with immigrants from any one country or area or the most populated and deprived nations of Africa and Asia.
In final analysis, the ethnic pattern of immigration under the proposed measure is not expected to change as sharply as the critics seem to think.
The bill will not flood our cities with immigrants.
It will not upset the ethnic mix of our society.
It will not relax the standards for admission to the United States.
It will not cause American workers to lose their jobs.
Everything that he promised wouldn't happen has happened.
How many lies did he tell in that one statement?
Well, he's either colossally dumb or he was colossally mendacious and duplicitous because that's exactly everything he said would not happen has happened, much to the detriment of the United States of America.
He is that that's one thing that he did, first of all, the 65 Immigration Act.
Then every other liberal thing that came down the pike, he was in the forefront of.
One of the things that he particularly pressed was Title IX, which was to give women's athletics a more prominent role in American life.
And it was set up so that the EOC would administer this.
And what they did was say that girls and boys are, there's no difference between them.
So consequently, if you have a co-ed college and there are, let's say, 100 scholarships available in men's sports, there have to be 100 scholarships available for women's sports.
That's the way it was interpreted.
Now, they were having to invent sports for girls like field hockey.
They don't play field hockey in the South, for example.
But every Southern college now has a field hockey team for women.
They have soccer teams for women.
Most of them don't have soccer teams for men.
They've just cut out large swaths of scholarships for men.
And basically what it's resulted in is the marginalization, particularly of white males, from athletics in college.
What has happened on the other side is what Charles Cavignero, the former athletic director at Method State, called Spikes for Dyke.
We got to go to break.
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I gave Keith Alexander, my co-host, for this first hour tonight, the unfair assignment of trying to condense into an hour of commercial radio all of the treacherous acts that Ted Kennedy had been a part of over the course of his 50-plus years in the United States Senate.
Keith, I apologize, my friend.
There's just no way we could fit it all into an hour.
But if you could, there are some very important things in this final segment.
We're going to be moving on to a different topic in the second hour.
In this final segment, we have covering this issue tonight.
There's some things I absolutely have to bring to the audience's attention.
But if you could, in a minute or less, kind of summarize the rest of what he was all about in terms of his role as a senator.
He was all about the federal takeover of public education in America, of making it difficult for private schools to survive.
He was a primary proponent of affirmative action.
He was the chief Senate Judiciary Interrogator who was responsible for the so-called borking of Robert Bork, the conservative Yale law professor who was subjected to unprecedented levels of vile and bituperation when he was turned down,
voted down by the Senate for a position on the U.S. Supreme Court, despite the fact that he was probably the most qualified candidate that has ever gone before the Senate to sit on the Supreme Court.
Again, because he had a track record of being a conservative.
Now, probably the most effective, you know, if you want to know what is the worst thing that he did is probably the first thing that he did, which was this Immigration Act of 65.
Basically, blue state liberals have been attempting to convert red state Americans either by cajoling or by at the point of a bayonet into adopting their outlook for over 150 years.
It hasn't worked.
So consequently, they've gone to plan two or plan B, which is if you don't like the results of the election, change the electorate.
They're basically allowing all these third world immigrants into America, hoping to swamp us at the ballot box so that the voice of Red State America, the voice of the founding stock of America, is no longer politically significant.
And he engineered that, and he intentionally lied to the American people about the effects of this law.
He was also, you know, key in the passage of the 64 Civil Rights Act and also the 65 Voting Rights Act.
So Ted Kennedy, you know, basically stands alone as the most effective proponent of liberalism.
In fact, I read an article in the local newspaper saying it was very fortunate that Mary Joe Copey died.
This was by some syndicated comment named Jay Bookman, because had she not died, Kennedy probably would have become president at some point, and then he would have retired to Hyannisport or whatnot and not been this tremendous force for change in American society that he was by sitting in the Senate for 43 years.
What an absolute insult to the family of that woman.
Not that she was a Sanaan of herself, anybody that would be in the company of a Kennedy.
She could have been totally innocent just trying to get a ride home and he offered, you know, how could some aide turn that down?
Now, I don't know what to say.
Whatever the case may be.
Nevertheless.
Nevertheless, yeah, absolutely.
I mean, no matter what morals she had or didn't have, maybe she was an angel.
Who knows?
Still, I mean, the fact that someone could well, you know, that's typical, though, Keith.
I mean, and I read a lot of the things that I've done.
And that's why the left sees it.
These are just little people that don't count.
The transformation of society is what counts.
The transformation of society into, you know, a liberal society in which individual rights count for nothing is what they have in mind.
And I read an article also in the local paper, The Lion Sleeps Tonight.
You know, he was the lion of the Senate.
Also, I heard you say, Keith, if he was the lion, we were his prey.
Another old quote about Kennedy.
But, you know, the conservative media, the so-called conservative media, what little of it there is or what little of it there claims to be.
And I'm speaking, I guess we're the only true conservative media in the country, the political successful and Liberty News Radio.
But you heard Rush Limbaugh, if you tuned into Sean Hannity this week, they've been talking about it a lot.
And they have been giving just as much praise for Kennedy, if you can believe it, and I'm not lying, as some of the left.
I mean, you know.
No wonder people are confused.
If you can't get, if a conservative supports Ted Kennedy, then George Wallace was right.
There's not a dime's worth of difference between conservatism and liberalism.
Of course, Limbaugh, Hannity, Bill O'Reilly represent phony conservatism.
And unfortunately, they're the ones that have the big audience.
You're absolutely, and that's why they have the big audience, Keith, because the same power brokers that fund both sides.
And of course, when you have these two sides competing, no matter who wins, we lose, you know, they're funding these guys.
So, of course, they're not going to speak out of step.
But it's not just them.
It's even.
I was listening.
I was driving home from Jackson, Tennessee, from Jackson to Memphis, coming home the other day.
I was out on business in Jackson, and the local so-called, once again, so-called conservative station there said if any of the, and this was the local talk show host there, not nationally syndicated, but the local Jackson token conservative, and I use that word loosely again, said, if you want to come by the station and sign our memorial book for Ted Kennedy, we'll be sure that it gets sent to the family.
Now, this is the conservative station asking for conservative listeners to come and sign a book of condolences and sympathies for the Kennedy family, and then the station will mail it off to the Kennedy compound.
But this was a guy, Keith, in addition to everything else we've covered in this hour, was a hypocrite and a crook to the very end.
Let me bring this to the audience's attention first.
Absolutely.
Before we run out of time, four years ago, when it looked as though, or five years ago now, when it looked as though John Kerry was going to be the next president of the United States, there was a Massachusetts governor by the name of Mitt Romney, a Republican.
Ted Kennedy petitioned the Massachusetts legislature to change your law so that if Kerry had been elected president and would have to have vacated his seat in the Senate, that rather than the governor appointing a successor, there would be a special election to be held five months after the fact.
Within five months.
Within five months.
And he successfully petitioned that.
They changed the law because it looked as though Kerry was going to be elected and he didn't want Romney appointing his successor to the Senate.
Okay?
Because of Kennedy, that was passed.
Now, fast forward to just last week, a week before he died, Massachusetts now has a Democratic elected governor.
Kennedy petitions the legislature again to reverse what he asked them to do five years ago because now they have a Democrat and we're in the middle of this health care debate.
He said, Massachusetts cannot afford to be left without representation of two senators.
I'm hereby petitioning that the governor now be allowed to immediately appoint my successor.
See, principal be damned for liberals.
They just want to win.
They want the left to win.
And principles can be dispensed with with the snap of a finger.
That's the way that they are.
That's the way that Saul Alinsky says to operate in his Rules for Radicals book.
That's the way that the cultural Marxists said that you should operate.
You know, and it's just, you know, it's stupefying.
It's astounding when you consider the duplicity of a person like Ted Kennedy.
And while we're at it, what in the world is wrong with the people of Massachusetts?
They've elected time and time again John Kerry, Ted Kennedy, and Barney Frank.
What is it about, you know, you know, I know there are some good people in Massachusetts because you've had some of those people on this show in the past.
We have a lot of fans.
What's wrong with the majority of people in Massachusetts?
Are they crazy?
I don't know, but I tell you, Keith, once again, an hour just wasn't enough to really give you the full Monte about what this guy was all about.
I hope that if you have any liberal friends out there, though, ladies and gentlemen, that you'll point them to the political cesspool and thepolitical cesspool.org where they can hear our archive.
We gave you the truth about Kennedy, and we don't pull any punches.
And then again, Keith, we don't really have enough time to get into it, but just compare and contrast the kind of coverage that Kennedy has received in the wake of his death to that which was received by Strom Thurmond and Jesse Helms in the wake of their deaths.
True lines of conservatism, people trying to protect the old America from this forced transformation by a minority of elites.
And the Kennedys are probably the best example of those type of treasonous elites that are trying and have succeeded in changing America for the worst.
With that, unfortunately, Keith, we have to bring this hour to a close.
Thank you so much, my friend, for coming on tonight and helping me give the audience a fair assessment and a factual assessment of the legacy of Ted Kennedy, gone but not gone soon enough, and certainly without question reunited with his brothers.
As it says in the Bible, the truth will set you free.
Well, hopefully, we've set many of our listeners free tonight, although I don't think we have many Ted Kennedy fans in the audience.
You've got a fair assessment of what this man lived for and stood for and put upon all of us, objected us to, I guess you would say.
Keith, thank you, my friend.
We'll see you next week.
Don't go anywhere for the rest of you.
Craig Bottoker, Merlin Miller and Greg Johnson forthcoming in the second and third hours.
I'm James Edwards, and I'll be back with you right after this.
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