April 10, 2010 - The Political Cesspool - James Edwards
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Welcome to the Political Cesspool, known across the South and worldwide as the South's foremost populous conservative radio program.
Here to guide you through the murky waters of the Political Cesspool is your host for tonight, James Edwards.
What a beautiful day here in Memphis.
Saturday, April 10th.
Welcome to the show, everybody.
I'm James Edwards.
You are listening to the Political Cesspool on AM 1380 WLRM Radio, an absolutely gorgeous spring day as we continue on with you during this Confederate History Month.
Tonight, our featured guest will be appearing in the third hour.
We talked quite a bit last week about Sam Dixon's book, Shattering the Icon of Abraham Lincoln.
And I thought to myself, well, anything worth doing is worth doing right.
So we're going to have Sam Dixon on himself this evening to talk about the book and other things pertaining to Southern history and culture.
That's in the third hour.
Before we get there, we've got much ground to cover with you.
We're going to be covering a lot of issues and hopefully delivering to you the type of commentary you've come to expect from our award-winning broadcast as we transmit tonight on the Liberty News Radio Network and their AM and FM affiliates across the country.
Joining me tonight during the first hour, as always, Keith Alexander.
Keith, how are you, my friend?
I'm doing great.
I enjoyed seeing you earlier today.
Yeah, absolutely.
I was going to say, how has your day been, but I can already answer that question for our friends and fans.
It was good because we spent it together and tell the listeners what we did, Keith.
We watched the movie Shane over at your house.
That's we did.
Shane, and we're going to maybe talk about Shane a little bit later this hour.
It's, of course, the 1952 Classic Western, and we've spoken about it before on this program.
We're not going to get into it right now, but Keith and I had a good afternoon together watching that a little earlier in the day.
Then my wife and I went out to the Botanic Gardens here in Memphis to enjoy this great weather with all things in bloom.
And then now I'm coming to the studio tonight to deliver you another episode of this show.
I tell you, Keith, you can't hardly top that for an afternoon agenda.
Yep.
You know, we, I guess unlike the liberals, we weren't out rioting or committing sexual offenses or anything like that.
Unlike the liberals, we enjoy life.
And certainly there are political issues that motivate us and animate us to take action.
But when we're not on the battlefield, we certainly enjoy time with friends and family.
And that truly is what we're all about.
And Keith, of course, that being said, I've got to transition into some news we want to cover this evening.
And this program is named the political cesspool for a reason.
And that's because when you get into a lot of news items and politics in this day and age, it is certainly a dirty job.
And so we're here to clean out that cesspool once a week on air.
And let's get to it tonight.
I found a story about a heroic black man, and we like to showcase heroes in our country.
And this heroic black man took out a racist dog.
And we certainly can't have that.
Apparently, a German shepherd named Jenna is a dog that only barks at non-whites.
Plus, she's a German shepherd, so clearly she's a Nazi dog who should be put down.
But our racist hatefield society refuses to take that chore upon itself.
But thankfully, there's at least one black man in America with the guts to do the right thing and keep the dream alive.
And the story reads, and we've, of course, put this on our blog this week.
Upset over the incessant barking of a German shepherd toward African Americans, Latinos, and other non-whites, a New York man stabbed a racist dog.
As a result, the canine lost its eye and the attacker was charged in court.
Consequently, this crime, both parties appear to be victims partially of a difficult work environment.
Whatever that means, Keith, but the bottom line is black man sees this dog who's barking apparently at other non-whites, and he decides to go gouge his eye out.
I mean, what can you do?
He's a hero in Martin Luther King's utopian dream society, right?
I tell you what, we're really expanding the definition of racist now.
Apparently, a dog can be racist.
And, you know, this is a straight-up story, ladies and gentlemen, by the news media.
They're talking about the racist dog.
Well, apparently, this gentleman who took out the eye got the Bible verse wrong.
He thought it read an eye for an eye and a bark for a bark.
So that is.
You just have to shake your head at Wonderment about this.
You know, any type of out-of-control behavior is justified by the media now.
And this guy stabs a guard dog for doing what guard dogs are supposed to do, which is barking at people that apparently are getting too near the zone that he's supposed to protect.
And he justifies himself by saying that the dog was racist.
And I'm not seeing how a dog can be racist.
I've got to, you know, this is opening up new vistas for us here.
Yeah, the definition of racist and racism is ever expanding and always evolving.
But, you know, typically people like this just kill other people.
But now, I guess even dogs are susceptible to being hate mongers.
I want to move over quickly, Keith, covering a couple of quick stories this first segment.
Then we're going to get into more, I guess, serious matters, although I guess that's serious too, but more matters that will affect each and every one of us.
But life is cheap in Obama's neighborhood.
This is another blog entry we put up on our website, thepoliticalcessbool.org, within the last week.
On the south side of Chicago, and I'm not about to sing the old Jim Crochy song, but on the south side of Chicago, an 84-year-old man was shot over a dollar.
And here's what the story reads.
A man charged with shooting an elderly man outside a Southside fast food restaurant allegedly opened fire because he became angered when the victim ignored his request to give him a dollar.
The 84-year-old victim was leaving McDonald's at 5.15 a.m. on Monday when Melvin Hammond, a 21-year-old black male, allegedly asked him for a dollar.
The victim is moderately hard of hearing and did not hear what the defendant said to him and waved at him.
According to the defendant's handwritten statement, he felt disrespected by the old man and became so angry he had to shoot him.
End quote.
Well, I'll tell you what's even better, though.
At the end, it said, outraged Chicago police superintendent Jody Weiss plans to hold a press conference with black clergymen to ask black Chicagoans to refrain from shooting anyone for less than $10.
I mean, you know, you can't make this stuff up.
This is actually happening in today's politically correct multicultural world.
You talk about aggressive panhandling.
A guy asks for a dollar, doesn't get it, and he kills a man.
And we've got to be compassionate in our response to this.
So now we're going to have a summit meeting where we try to get black preachers and ministers and other community leaders together to get everybody to sign the tennis code or tennis court oath or some equivalent, I suppose, that we pledge not to kill anybody over less than $10.
Of course, $11, $10, you know, it's open season, apparently.
Well, that's right.
You know, yeah, so this guy died for, or was shot anyway for a dollar.
I don't think he expired.
At least the story doesn't indicate that he did.
Maybe he did by now.
But nevertheless, so that's a couple of stories we picked up on the off the blotter here the last few days.
The racist dog got his eye taken out.
And if you're on the wrong side of the tracks in Chicago, Obama's old stomping round, and you don't give the black panhandlers their due, well, you could also be winding up accosted.
I do want to say this, though, on a more uplifting note: we're celebrating Confederate History Month.
We honor our ancestors, but certainly it goes without saying, we honor our friends and families who are among our contemporaries as well.
And we do have a very close-knit fraternity here at the Political Cess Pool.
Those of us who work on this show came to be friends naturally, and over the years, we have developed quite the familial bond.
We genuinely enjoy each other's company.
And like brothers, we eat together at least once a week.
Keith was over at my house for a movie today, and we mark the birthdays, anniversaries, and other special occasions that occur during the year, just as any family would do.
And with that being said, in case you haven't picked up on it on our website already, it is with great pride that I would like to wish a very happy birthday to Eddie the Bombardier Miller, the big E Pappy, as he calls himself, Eddie the Bombardier, turned 63 years old on April 6th.
So a little earlier this week, Keith, our good friend, peeled another page off the calendar, another year, even.
That's right.
I think Eddie's the oldest living Confederate now.
I think he more.
He said he's 63, but I think in spirit he's 163.
Well, in spirit, he's about 13 if you've ever seen him get up and at him at these political meetings he attends.
But good old Eddie, doing what he can with what he's got.
And certainly we all he's our resident expert on all things Confederate, and he you know, he believes in riding to the sound of the gunfire, doesn't he?
That's right.
And back in Eddie's day, you didn't win a fight until you killed a bronosaurus.
But nevertheless, happy birthday, Eddie.
All right, folks, we've got a lot more forthcoming this hour as we do shift to some more issues with some more depth, I guess you would say.
Radical United States Congressman right here in Memphis said the Tea Party protesters are all Klansmen.
Did you hear me?
If you're a member of the Tea Party, you are a Klansman, according to Radical Democrat Steve Cohen.
And we're going to talk about that a lot more forthcoming right after this.
be back right after these messages jump in the political cesspool with james and the game
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And here's the host of the Political Cesspool, James Edwards.
All right, we've got a very busy night tonight, but I do want to take the opportunity to remind you that we are doing our bit this April to honor and pay our respects to Confederate History Month.
And it's an interactive process that we want you to be involved in.
If you go to our website, thepolitical cesspool.org, you'll see that quite a few fans of this show have already taken advantage of our offer to let you be a guest star, let you be a guest columnist on our blog.
That's right.
For April and April only, during our Confederate History Month series 2010, we want you to send us an email about why you love the South.
You can send that email to my email address, jamesedwards at thepolitical cesspool.org, and let us know why you love the South.
And you will have a good chance to be featured on our blog.
Quite a few people have already done it.
You really need to read the heartfelt, honest, sincere, open emotions that are being displayed in writing on our blog this month.
It's really moving and touching on a personal level.
Check out what some of your fellow fans are writing this month, and you can do that right now at thepolitical cesspool.org.
Speaking of the blog, Keith, you know, over the past, well, month now, we've been covering that horrific story in Itawamba County about Constance McMillan, the so-called lesbian who basically shattered the prom for all of the decent Christian folk of Northeast Mississippi.
And we posted a blog on that, the Itawamba County Malcontent, we titled it.
And since our last program, we covered it last Saturday on the show, since last week, it apparently has been picked up on a couple of very well-visited homosexual websites.
And as a result, they've been linking over to our website.
We've been getting all kinds of crazy emails and replies to that blog.
For instance, I've been called a neo-Nazi.
Now, typically that's not anything unusual because I am right of center of Joe Stalin, so I get called these things.
But this time, for the first time, I was called a neo-Nazi because I take a biblical stand with regards to homosexuality.
One of the emails I received this week read that, I wish neo-Nazis like you would just hurry up and die.
God is love.
God loves homosexuals, but he hates racists.
So now you, too, Keith, are a racist for...
Well, all those names are interchangeable.
We always thought they had different meanings, but apparently they're.
It's anonymous.
You're a neo-Nazi.
A bigot is the same as a neo-Nazi.
A racist is the same as a bigot.
It's the same as a neo-Nazi.
A homophobe is the same as a racist.
It's the same as a bigot, the same as a neo-Nazi.
Yada, yada, yada, as they say on Seinfeld.
Exactly.
So, nevertheless, we're getting this.
And the reason I'm bringing this up is because we're talking about the names that any effective conservative activist will be called.
And what's regrettable is that the fear of being called one of these names renders a lot of people paralyzed.
I mean, it absolutely induces paralysis.
These people have absolutely allowed themselves to be hardwired into liberalism.
I think a lot of people don't realize it.
But, you know, all this gets back and even works into Confederate History Month, strangely enough.
We had a support of our program write a blog entry, or not a blog entry, but a comment on that Itawamba County malcontent blog.
And they basically found a way to tie this whole thing in again with the basic red state, blue state, conservative, liberal divide in America.
Yeah, and share with the audience what this listener had to opine on the blog.
Okay, they were responding to all of the vituperative slander coming from the homosexual advocate community.
And he said, to Anonymous and the rest, can't you see that we in Red State America don't care a fig about pleasing you or Stephen Colbert?
We're different from you and you're different from us.
We don't want to be like you any more than you want to be like us.
Celebrate diversity.
The difference between us is that we, unlike you, would never presume to come into your homeland, Blue State America, and tell you what to think and how to live.
We propose that we go our separate ways once, like civilized people who realize they have irreconcilable differences in the Civil War, but you tyrannically force us back into a loveless marriage at the point of a bayonet.
At the very least, you could stop staging incidents like this Itawamba County Tempest in a Teapot through leftist provocateurs like the ACLU for the purpose of attacking our values and lifestyle.
Your moralizing is tiresome, and we dislike you nearly as much as you dislike us.
Constance can leave Red State America.
That's Mississippi is in Red State America, of course, with our blessing at any time to join Ellen, Chelsea Handler, and the other Blue State cultural icons and do whatever she pleases.
We wouldn't dream of stopping her or you give us the same benefit.
Keith, I mean, obviously the guy who wrote that is a big fan of yours because he used a lot of your catchphrases.
But to have people so eloquently, or to have people with the ability to so eloquently express their opinions is what separates our show from so many others.
But the point of this segment is, ladies and gentlemen, you cannot allow the fact that our enemies will slander you and call you all sorts of things that aren't applicable.
They've been doing that to us for six years and like throwing water on a gremlin.
And they've been doing it to us as a group since the 1820s.
And this, you know, just think of how much better this comment is than any article you've ever read by David Brooks in the New York Times.
You know, this is, you know, basically liberalism is bullying of the majority population in Red State America.
They have, they just can't let up on it, and they're just showing that they're graceless, unmannerly clods to continue doing it.
You know, that provoking, you know, we're having people, we're reading in the last section about people being killed over a dollar bill and whatnot.
And instead of focusing on those real crimes, a la narco-tyranny, we have the whole of the nationwide media riveted on Itawamba County, Mississippi, and this totally phony stage bit of barretry.
A place where no crime was committed and it's getting all this national attention, but then, you know, the horrific disparity in black-on-white crime is absolutely never mentioned.
And if it is mentioned, whoever mentions it gets shouted down.
Like, you know, that was the point of the segment, Keith.
Steve Cohen, this rabid left-leaning congressman who, of course, getting back into when he was elected a couple of years ago, was publicly humiliated by being denied membership into the Congressional Black Caucus.
But nevertheless, he's once again resorted to shameless pandering by claiming that the Tea Party supporters are basically Klansmen.
Now, Cohen, as you might have gathered, is Jewish, but we can talk about that at another time about there being no negative stigma, no negative press stemming from Well, it's something that's never mentioned in the mainstream press.
But again, why is it important?
It's important because the Jewish population is the most liberal segment of the white population here and elsewhere.
And if you're a conservative, that's important information to know.
But, you know, Cohen was on some radio show called The Young Turks.
Now, if you have never heard of that, don't feel like the Lone Ranger.
Nobody's heard of it because it's a liberal radio show.
And as everybody knows, and as the people at Air America found out, nobody listens to liberal radio talk shows.
But he made these comments, and it shows you very clearly what the mindset is of the liberals.
So what he said, Keith, just so the audience is clear, what he said on this radio show that Keith mentioned is that the Tea Party protesters are Klansmen without hoods and robes, quote unquote.
He said that they do nothing but show opposition to African Americans, to gays, to anybody who wasn't a member of George Wallace's fan club.
And this, Keith, and we're about to go to break, and then I'm going to let you come back on the flip side with more commentary.
This proves the point that I've been making on this program for years.
If you are white, if you are a conservative activist, you are automatically considered to be a racist no matter how much you betray your convictions and try to run from the truth.
You will never curry favor with the left.
That's what they told me when I appeared on CNN once to discuss a similar issue.
And it would serve the Tea Party well if they would open their eyes and begin to serve their base better.
We'll be back with more right after this.
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Ladies and gentlemen, the moral of the last segment was that if you are a conservative activist who is bearing fruit, you're going to be called names.
You're a neo-Nazi if you believe that a man and a woman defines marriage.
You are a Klansman if you advocate for lower taxes and less federal government if you are against socialized medicine.
You are a Klansman, according to Steve Cohen.
And the point is, you know, never mind the fact that you have an all-black legislative body.
Never mind the fact that you have all-black TV channels.
Never mind the fact that as I was at the convenience store this afternoon on my way to the radio station, I saw a magazine entitled Black Enterprise.
And all that's well and good.
Who cares if the Tea Party is 99% white?
You know, conservative whites are the only people who are interested in the Tea Party to begin with.
I mean, minorities are never going to be interested in having less federal government so the government can't give them their data.
They think that's what government is for.
They think that's what it's for.
And so the bottom line is you're white and you will be called names unless you're a member of the support group of the regime.
And so if the Tea Party becomes more concerned with winning the battle and less concerned about being called racist, which they're going to be called anyway, no matter what, because they are white, because they are conservative, then they might have a chance to bring about positive change.
They certainly have the numbers on their side.
But based upon the sort of politically correct leadership I've seen coming from local Tea Party groups, I'd say that Cohen Zilk might very well be satisfied with the final results of this whole thing.
They know that these shut-up tactics historically that they employ usually paralyze whites with fear.
And I hope I'm wrong.
But thank God, Keith, that name-calling and childish bullying didn't scare off men like George Washington and Robert E. Lee.
What happened to the nation that used to produce men like that?
Well, what's happened is they've been brainwashed by the left into thinking that any type of manifestation of conservatism, and particularly any manifestation of white self-interest and expression of it, is to be demonized.
You know, William Raspberry, the black nationally syndicated newspaper columnist, said it was never legitimate for white people to rally together and lobby for their own interests or to speak out for their own interests.
But what about when blacks do it?
Well, of course, that's a sacrament.
I think that the church is going to make that a new sacrament, and they'll do that when they canonize people like Martin Luther King as well.
But see, what these Tea Partiers don't seem to understand is that they're riding in the back of the bus today.
This is a perfect example of Paul Craig Roberts' concept, the new feudalism.
They're the serfs.
These protected minority groups are the new nobles.
And, you know, I've been reading all these newspaper articles in the local newspaper and otherwise saying the Tea Party and all of this conservative activism that we're seeing now is just angry white men, and basically they just want to stuff a sock in our mouth.
Now, of course, during the civil rights movement, there was never any vilification of angry black men.
There was no vilification, for example, of angry homosexuals.
You know, they can riot and loot and pillage to their heart's content.
And the only proper reaction to that is for us to wring our hands and wonder what we've done to provoke these people to act like this.
But on the other hand, when conservatives try to speak up for their political interests, like any other group, they're going to be not only demonized, they're going to be told it's just not even legitimate for your voice to be heard.
And unfortunately, there are a lot of people in this Tea Party movement that apparently have drunk the Kool-Aid.
There is one local Tea Party activist that is very prominent here.
And apparently, his whole function in life now is to recruit minority group members into the Tea Party, go to Michael Steele and the Republican National Committee and get blank checks written for them running for Republican office as Republicans in primary elections.
These people are afraid to say, we're defined by our ideas.
Anyone that has these ideas can join us, and we're not counting noses or heads about how many are white, black, or whatever group.
They have bought into this idea that somehow they are not legitimate and have no legitimacy.
They have bought into William Raspberry's notion that unless they can find a black face to put on their movement, that their movement is ipso facto illegitimate.
And that's what's so sick, Keith, about the mindset of white people in this country these days.
I mean, they are essentially proponents of the Stockholm Syndrome at this point.
They are subservient to their captors.
They look their captors as their friends.
I don't know why they'll never be effective because if you are afraid to really engage the enemy, you're busy trying to figure out who's going to lead the charge or who's going to be the public face of the movement.
You never have any energy left to fight the real battle.
And that's why this show is so successful, I think.
This is why our show has been able to carve its name into the stone and become well-known and has stood the test of time.
It's because I think our show, more than any other, perhaps we're the only one, and we're the only one that I know about for sure, that's syndicated and has a wide following that is willing to tackle these very sensitive issues with a degree of candor.
And you're certainly not getting that, Keith, from people like Glenn Beck.
See, these Tea Party people are looking to Glenn Beck for their philosophical foundation, and what are they getting there, as you heard last week?
Well, you know, Glenn Beck has this reputation now for being off the reservation among mainstream conservative pundits.
You know, he's not safe.
He's not under the control of the Republican Party like Sean Hannity or Bill O'Reilly or even Rush Limbaugh or Laura Ingram.
You know, this guy has gotten off the reservation.
He talks about conspiracy theories and whatnot, but I've tuned him in, and I've, you know, I had an open mind, wanted to be impressed.
But every time I listen to this guy, I hear more of the same.
He's basically bought into this notion that liberalism was totally correct about the civil rights movement and that we all need to get in line with that.
Here's what he said this week on the radio.
He said that, you know, a lot of people say that I'm dangerous.
He said, I'm not dangerous.
My followers present the risk to the establishment, just like Gandhi's followers were dangerous.
Gandhi wasn't dangerous.
His followers were because they burned with this pure light of truth and whatnot, just like Rosa Parks' followers, just like Martin Luther King's followers.
Well, I'm sorry, Glenn, but the conservative position during the civil rights movement was against the integrationists, and that was for very good reasons.
He apparently doesn't know anything about the history of conservatism and liberalism in the modern era.
Every radical egalitarian movement that has come along, homosexual rights, criminal rights, illegal immigrant rights, radical feminism, environmentalism, you know, you name it, all of it had its blueprint and had its template fixed in the civil rights movement.
They've all tried to piggyback on that.
That was the original camel's nose in the tent.
And if you don't move the camel's nose out of the tent, then the camel will take over your tent.
And that's what's happening to the Tea Party movement.
That's what's happening to Glenn Beck and people like this.
That's why they'll never be an effective force for change because you can't fight an enemy that you're afraid to identify.
And the civil rights movement was just as wrong-headed in its way it was carried out and what it's done as any of these other radical egalitarian movements.
Look at what was accomplished in the civil rights movement.
What did it do to public education in places like Memphis, Tennessee, for example?
It ruined it.
It's ruined the economy.
It has ruined church.
It's just been like a blight on America's economy, America's position of predominance in the world, our standard of living, our educational achievement, you name it.
And liberalism has caused it to sicken and die.
What's it say in the Bible that be not deceived?
You shall know them by their fruits.
Can a good tree bring forth good fruit?
I mean, can a good tree bring forth corrupt fruit?
Can a corrupt tree bring forth good fruit?
Therefore, by their fruits you shall know them.
Well, the fruits of liberalism have been awful.
So wake up, Glenn Beck.
Wake up, all of you so-called phony conservatives out there.
You're going to have to be, you're going to have to grow a pair of cojones and actually tell people that, you know, everything in the liberal agenda.
There are no exceptions.
Every one of these things has been destructive.
And if you want your America back, if you want America to get back on a good course where we can prosper as a people together, you're going to have to repudiate liberalism in all of its manifestations.
Well said, Keith.
Well said, Keith.
And that, ladies and gentlemen, is what separates our show from the phony pretenders like Beck, Hannity, Limbaugh, etc.
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Yes, indeed, James Edwards and Keith Alexander here with you live Saturday night, April 10th, here in Memphis as we bring you another installment of the Political Cesspool radio program.
I do want to say one thing, and that is another story that we've been tracking over the course of the last couple of days is the joke that is Republican National Committee Chairman Michael Steele and the habitual embarrassment that he brings upon the party.
But of course, it should also be said that the Republicans deserve everything that they're getting with Steele for having elected him in the first place.
But I tell you, the things he's done in the last week almost take the cake.
We've put up three or four new articles about this evolving saga that is Michael Steele.
If you want to read that, we don't have the time to get into it tonight, but if you want to read it for yourself, I promise you won't be disappointed.
Go to thepolitical cesspool.org and read all about Michael Steele this week.
Yeah, just be ready for it.
And Keith, I want to toss it back over to you quickly.
There's something about Glenn Beck.
We were talking about Glenn Beck last segment and contrasting his voice of phony conservatism versus our paleoconservatism that is, in fact, the genuine article.
And there is something, though, about Glenn Beck that, in all fairness, we should say, and it's probably the most important point we have to bring on him.
And that's that we agree with an awful lot of what he says.
Now, the problem is this.
The most effective heresies in history have been heresies with the most truth in them.
And a friend of ours calls it the decon analogy.
He says that decon only has an active poisonous agent that is a very small percentage, less than 1%, of the total.
Instead of, you know, most of it is wholesome.
Well, most of Glenn Beck is wholesome.
And I'm certainly also not trying to say that everything that is, you know, that occurred in the civil rights movement was bad, but you need to realize that the civil rights movement was initiated by liberals for destructive purposes,
and it had had the net effect of destroying public education, of destroying the economy, of destroying so many things that, you know, anybody that tries to say that that was good is either stupid or is just ignoring the facts.
Are you there, James?
No, yeah, I'm here, and I'm listening to you intently, as I'm sure our listening audience around the world is this evening.
I was taking actually a drink of water, so forgive me.
But no, you're exactly right, Keith.
And that's the thing.
I mean, people can dismiss people, folks like Alan Combs out of hand.
I mean, sensible people will dismiss Alan Combs out of hand, but there are some very sensible people who will listen to Glenn Beck and say, man, you know, I agree with him on, you know, maybe guns, or I agree with him on taxes.
And so, well, yeah, he's a conservative on those issues.
He must be conservative across the board.
Maybe I was just wrong about all of this other stuff that I, you know, that he's saying here that kind of strikes me a little funny.
And then, Keith, you bring it into sharp focus here by saying it's the decon, the rat poison method.
A lot of it is attractive.
That's why the rats eat it.
And it's that 1% that's poisonous that kills you.
It's the 1% that's poisonous that kills you.
And that's what Glenn Beck is able to infuse into his commentary.
A lot of it is palatable.
Sean Hannity, Rush Limbaugh.
But on the most important issues, the issues that this program is known to address, these are the issues in which those guys will poison you, and they'll poison you every time.
And if they're going to poison you on the most important issues, they're not good for you.
See what we are, James.
We're the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth.
If you listen to mainstream conservatism, they're there for a purpose.
They're going to make sure that the conservative movement is confused and helpless because people won't have a comprehensive conservative worldview if they listen to the likes of Glenn Beck or Bill O'Reilly or Sean Hannity or Rush Limbaugh, Laurie Ingram, you name it.
They're pulling punches.
They're carrying water for the elite.
And, you know, let's just call things by their proper names.
You know, these people are not your friends because they keep us fractured, confused, and helpless.
Well, and that's all we can say about that.
I think if you don't get the point by now, there's not much more Keith can do for you.
You've been warned, as they say.
Yes, you've been warned.
And certainly our audience is much brighter than the audience of Beck as a whole.
So we know that they understand quite well.
But the point is, you need to share with your friends the truth, and the truth will set you free, right, Keith?
Absolutely.
That's what the Bible says, isn't it?
That's what it says.
Of course, if you quote the Bible now, you're a neo-Nazi, as we've learned this week, but nevertheless.
Or a homophobe or an anti-Semite or a race.
It's just kind of like a revolving wheel.
You know, pick one of the above.
It's like Wheel of Fortune.
You know, whatever it lands on is good enough.
But, okay, Keith, yeah, Confederate History Month, we're in it.
We're talking about it.
We're doing an hour on every show this month about it.
And then the last week of April, we're going to be doing a whole three-hour show on Confederate History Month before we get back into our more standard fare in May and, of course, throughout the rest of the year.
But we watched the movie Shane today.
And of course, Keith, you had seen that movie many times before.
This was my first time to see it all the way through.
And we've discussed it on this radio program before.
But this is a movie that is striking in many ways.
It was, of course, released in 1952.
And Keith can tell you much more about it than I, but it reaffirms the nobility, I guess you could say, in the South.
You know, the good guys in this movie are Southerners.
The bad guys are, I guess you would say Yankees, but without trying to put a trivial name on it.
And it tells you that basically guns are good.
Guns are tools that you can use, and they're no better or worse than the man who wields them.
But Keith, from more on Shane, I turn it over to you and why we feel it incumbent upon us to share with the audience once again about this film.
Well, you know, our good friend at the Occidental Observer, Edmund Connolly, has written a series of articles called Real R-E-E-L, like a movie reel, bad, and you know, insert the word, wasp, Arabs, whatever, white southerners, pointing out the fact that there is a lot of cultural Marxist psychological conditioning going on in the entertainment industry today.
And of course, that's not something that we should be surprised at since all eight of the major movie studios have Jewish heads, you know, CEOs and whatnot, and they're activists.
They try to work intentionally against the old order, the traditional American founding stock.
And it wasn't always that way.
And I point to the movie Shane as an example of how good and what a force for good movies could be if we had better people making movies today like we had in the past.
And that movie Shane, for example, is a movie that models some of the most admirable behavior that you could imagine.
True manliness, a true sound conservative viewpoint throughout.
People gathering together, having a sense of solidarity to fight against elite oppression.
That's what it's about.
I would recommend anybody that hasn't watched that movie, let's say, in the last several years, to rent yourself a copy of it or download one or get a Netflix of it and watch it and see a movie where you don't have to have your guard up,
where you can basically watch it with trust and see the expression of truth in the movies as opposed to some type of destructive subversive message.
That's why I was suggesting that Edmund Connolly do a movie review of this because it would be nice to have a review of a movie that is not negative.
But of course, Edmund is having to tell the truth.
And if you tell the truth about modern movies, basically what you have to be told is beware of this movie.
It is like decon.
It contains varying degrees of poison.
And it'd be nice to be able to consume a movie as a movie audience member that you don't have to have your guard up on.
Yeah, and I love movies.
And, of course, I was born in 1980, so I'm a child of more contemporary American culture, certainly not of the great culture.
And of course, I've said it many times before.
I think American culture was at its zenith, if not in the old South, of course, in the Old South, but in more recent times in the 1950s, early 1950s, which is when Shane came out.
And I had to watch movies.
And thankfully, I've got a filter, Keith, a built-in filter in my brain so I can discard the things that I know are destructive and take the rest of the movie.
I've got a decon filter when it comes to movies, but it is great.
It was refreshing to sit down with you on my couch this afternoon, this morning, and watch a movie that I could just take it all in and leave my guard down.
And folks, I echo Keith's sentiment, and we're coming to the end of this hour.
Let me say this one thing with real quick.
Real quick, Keith.
Remember that one segment where Shane was teaching little Joey how to shoot?
That's right.
And his mother comes up and says, I don't want Joey to learn how to shoot.
I don't want guns.
I think we'd be better off if there were no guns at all in this valley.
And then Shane gives her the perfect rejoinder.
It ought to be the center piece of every NRA and gun owners of America ad that there is.
He says, a gun is a tool, Mary, and no different than an axe or a saw.
A gun is no better or no worse than the man behind it.
There it is.
Keith, Alexander.
You don't hear that in today's movies, do you?
No, you don't.
And that's a comment I made to you instantly.
Stay tuned.
When we watch the movie, we've got to take a break.
We'll be back with more after this.
Right after these messages.
Harve leaped to his feet and says, something's got a hold on me.
Wow!
In the first South Baptist Church in that sleeping little town of Pastagoula, it was a fight for survival.
And that book got in revival.
They were jumping views and shouting, Hallelujah!
Well, Harve hit the aisles dancing and screaming.
Some thought he had religion, others thought he had a demon, and Harr thought he had a weed eater loose in his proven balloons.
He fell to his knees to plead and beg, and the squirrel ran out of his britch's leg unobserved to the other side of the room.