April 17, 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.
Ladies and gentlemen, tonight's program is going to be hit right out of the park.
Thank you for tuning in.
We have got a great one loaded for you this evening.
I'm your host, James Edwards.
It's Saturday evening, April the 17th, and we are live from AM 1380, WLRM Radio in Memphis, Tennessee.
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We're glad you've joined us.
And Keith Alexander, am I lying to him when I tell them tonight's show is going to be pretty special?
I guess they all are, but tonight's show is going to be special also.
I tell you what, we just can't seem to help it.
You know, we try to have a laid-back show every once in a while, but the powers of bee just keep dumping it on.
It's like the ash from that volcano in Iceland that's falling all over Europe.
We just have one outrage and indignity after another to report one more newsworthy story.
And it just a never-ending cornucopia.
Keith, I couldn't agree with you more.
And we have so much on the agenda tonight.
We're not going to come close to being able to cover it all in the three hours we have allotted for us each week.
But I'll tell you this, our blog has not only been on fire, it has just burned up.
I mean, if you go there, it's just, you're going to get scorched.
Go to thepoliticalasspool.org.
You will there read some of the headlines that have caught our attention from the last seven days, from our last show to tonight's live broadcast.
If we can't cover all of them, you can at least read our unique commentary on these issues by going to our website and checking out the blog thepoliticalasspool.org.
But we will cover as much as we can tonight.
I promise you that.
Coming up later, Bill Rowland will be co-hosting with me during the second and third hours.
And we will be joined by our featured guest this evening at the end of the show during the third hour, Dr. Michael Hill, the president of the League of the South, will be our guest as we continue our month-long tribute to Confederate History Month this April.
We will also be opening up the phone lines during the third hour and third hour only.
So if you have any questions, comments, opinions on the South as we do our Confederate History Month hour during the third hour with Michael Hill, call in then during that third hour.
It's going to be fun.
And I'll tell you, Bill Rowland is supercharged tonight.
It's been a few weeks since he's co-hosted.
And he's going to have a nuclear meltdown on the show, and you're going to love it.
But Keith, before we get to that, let's start tonight.
Every time someone who has inflicted nearly irreparable harm on this country passes away, there is inevitably a headline above the fold front page of the paper that says, a giant has been laid to rest.
Or when Ted Kennedy passed, the lion sleeps tonight.
One of those so-called lions also passed away this week.
Keith, who was he and what did he do?
Well, the giant they're talking about now is civil rights celebrity Benjamin Hooks.
Now, there are probably a lot of people in our audience that aren't familiar with Mr. Hooks, but we here in Memphis, Tennessee, are because he was a Memphian.
And quite frankly, he's emblematic of the career of an awful lot of so-called civil rights leaders.
He passed away this week, died at Methodist Hospital Central in Memphis.
I think he was born in 1925 and died in 2010.
He had a long and prosperous career, much of it undeserved, we might add, getting a variety of appointed government jobs basically because he was one of the few acceptable blacks that could be promoted here in the city of Memphis and nationwide.
He was not only a judge, first of all, he went to Lemoyne Owen College in Memphis, which is a historically black college university, originally a Freedmen's Bureau school, not from the top dresser drawer academically.
Then he went to DePaul University and got a law degree.
Then he was one of the many black lawyers that played a big part in a variety of civil rights activities in the South recruited by the NAACP.
And of course, as usual, he gets appointed to high office.
He was appointed Federal Communications Commission Commissioner by none other than Richard Nixon, the turncoat who deserved to be driven out of office because he was responsible for initiating the affirmative action plans that plague us to this day from the federal government.
You know, anybody that thinks that Richard Nixon was a conservative really needs to check his history and get his facts straight on that.
And one of the things that he did was appoint Ben Hooks.
And then Hooks was appointed the head of the NAACP in 1977, where he served until 1992, and basically presided over the decline of the NAACP into a paper tiger.
Well, Keith, can I interject this?
Did you tell me, or am I mistaken, was Benjamin Hooks the first black leader of the NAACP?
No, he wasn't quite the first black one, but he was, actually, there was, let me see, I've got the thing up here on the computer, so I will tell you exactly.
I don't want to guess on this.
He was appointed as a executive secretary, okay?
And then they changed the term, the title executive secretary to president because, embarrassingly, up to that point, they didn't have any blacks serve as the head of the NAACP.
And who was leading the NAACP?
Well, at first, it was a couple, it was a bunch of downeast Puritan, Transcendentalist, Unitarian abolitionist types, Moorfield Story, Joel Spigard, and then his brother Arthur Spiggard, and then Kibby Kaplan during the period of most activity from 66 to 75.
And then a guy named William Montague Cobb, the first black, in 76.
And Benjamin Hooks served from 77 to 1992.
So what was it exactly that Hooks did, Keith, that we find such disdain in?
Well, I guess the thing about Hooks is he's emblematic of the second-rate talent that got promoted to high positions almost exclusively because of their race as a result of the civil rights movement.
He was kind of a gray-haired eminence, kind of a vuncular, you know, uncle-like figure.
But I don't think anybody was under any misapprehensions that he was a great mind or a great thinker in any way.
He just wanted the number of hangers-ons in the civil rights movement, and he had a family.
Now, his children themselves were kind of anonymous, but he had a slew of cousins in Memphis named Hooks that traded on the popularity or the acclaim associated with his name.
And these people almost all won one elective office and two went to jail for a variety of scandalous behavior.
I'm not going to name their names directly, but there were, you know, you could count them on two hands, but Hooks was a pretty popular name in Memphis politics, and these people got elected.
And, you know, let's look at, you know, that, so consequently, you know, there's just one scandal after another associated with the family, not with Benjamin Hooks, but with cousins and nephews and nieces and people like this.
But then what was really, really kind of telling to me is the fact that he was appointed an FCC commissioner.
Apparently, all he did was harangue the Federal Communications Commission to give TV stations and radio stations to blacks that, one, couldn't afford them in the normal course of events and two didn't have the business acumen or sharpness to run them successfully once they got them.
And his whole career himself, you know, his career was getting appointed to these high-paying jobs.
You know, he wasn't a successful lawyer.
He got appointed to be a judge and in grandiose fashion took the bench, I think, back in 65.
Keith, hold it right there.
Hold it right there.
We're going to wrap up on Ben Hooks and how his ascendancy was made possible by Hooker, by Crook, as they say.
And when we conclude that story after the break, ladies and gentlemen, much more to come this first hour here in the political cesspool.
More disturbing news from the Tea Party.
We're going to talk about Palin, Glenn Beck, brawls in the Memphis schools, and much, much more.
I'm James Edwards.
He's Keith Alexander.
We'll be back in a flash.
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Ladies and gentlemen, as we said at the top of the show, our plate overfloweth this evening with topics we want to bring to your attention.
And wrapping up the first one before we move on tonight, I turn it back over to Keith Alexander, who is providing commentary on the passing of Ben Hooks and why that passing made it to the political cesspools radar.
Keith?
Well, you know, to put it in a nutshell, it's a tale of an undistinguished person who was boosted into high-level, high-paying governmental jobs that he didn't deserve.
And once he got into those positions, he proved to the world that he was a mediocrity.
He was an FCC commissioner, accomplished nothing there virtually.
He was a lawyer who did not make much money in private practice.
So he gets appointed to the criminal court bench and was not a very distinguished judge there.
Then he gets appointed to the NAACP leadership and basically runs that organization into the ground.
His most success financially was as a black preacher.
Surprise, surprise.
You know, it seems to be something that Mr. Hooks and people like him have an affinity for.
It's the only business you can start where the only inventory you need is hot air.
And, you know, you just, you know, somebody somewhere should have gotten those positions, should have gotten those judgeships, those leadership positions that could have done something good with them.
But again, because he was fortunate enough to come by during the blossoming of the civil rights movement, he gets all these positions and people are falling all over themselves, giving him accolades.
But, you know, any objective person looking at his career would have to say this guy was a stunning mediocrity.
And he's like many others, just like the products of political correctness and affirmative action.
That's what he stands for.
Excellent commentary, and I appreciate you bringing that to the audience's attention.
If they hadn't heard of Benjamin Hooks, perhaps now they do and know some of the truth behind the story amidst all of the lavish praise and adulation he's receiving and some very big newspapers around the world.
You would think he could walk on water if you read the local newspaper here or that he did walk on water.
But, you know, it's all sound and fury and no substance.
Well, and perhaps things could be put right if the sleeping giant of American conservative populism would awaken.
We hear about all these giants being laid to rest, the lions sleeping at night with regard to the proponents of cultural Marxism.
Well, if the people who stood up to put America first would come together and take advantage of the weakness with which our enemies attack rather than being silenced into a corner by name-calling, if they would just rise up.
See, this is a perfect example, James, of that, because, see, we're cast into the role of the little boy that tells the emperor that he has no clothes.
Most conservatives, unless they have some really strong reason to criticize one of these so-called black leaders, will not do it because they are frightened to death of being called the R-word.
And, you know, this is not, this is just the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth.
Well, and as we've said on our radio program's blog, we have provided you a handy ADL and SPLC to English dictionary.
We understand that racist simply means that you're a white person, but heterosexual Keith is now the new racist.
As we wrote on the blog this week, gay pride is wonderful.
Straight pride, however, is nothing but Nazi hate, apparently.
Homosexuals and others are outraged that people at a recent tea party rally in Michigan were selling t-shirts that said straight pride.
Now, being a sodomite, of course, is something that should be celebrated.
Not being a sodomite is something people should be ashamed of and never dare mention in public.
Being proud of being straight is just sick.
And it's right up there with being in the Ku Klux Klan.
And this is what the article that we found had to read.
State and national organizations who represent the lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender community are expressing outrage over t-shirts bearing the slogan straight pride, being offered for sale Saturday at a rally of the Tea Party Express.
Gay advocacy groups say the shirts are reminiscent of white pride slogans adopted by racist groups who oppose equality.
It's like being a white supremacist, says Penny Gardner, president of the Lansing Association for Human Rights, a Lansing area lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender rights group.
Did you hear that, Keith?
Lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender pride has long been, so says the spokesperson, an inspiring, powerful, and celebratory rallying call.
And its appeal is obvious.
But this doesn't appear to be the case of imitation being the highest form of flattery.
Instead, it's veiled homophobia in action, and peddling homophobia and profiting from it are both immoral and unacceptable.
Homophobia has no place in our country.
That is what a major newspaper had to report out of Michigan, ladies and gentlemen.
Did you hear that?
They are following the playbook that the cultural Marxists set in place for the civil rights movement.
Now, there is no place for homophobia in our country, so say these major newspapers.
And you are a homophobe, so-called, if you don't think there's anything wrong with being a heterosexual.
And forget about all this free speech and First Amendment nonsense.
That's preferred.
That's for perverts.
That's not for normal people.
Being proud of being normal is hateful in their eyes.
And as a listener of this program commented on our blog, he said that once again, normality and decency are under attack by the usual suspects.
Homosexuals, like blacks and Hispanics before them, are the new accredited victim status group.
Expect the t-shirt sellers to be sued for some kind of civil rights violation.
Keith, I saw this, and once again, it appears as though the line in the sand that conservatives can come up to but not cross is being pushed back more and more and more, ever so subtly.
Well, it's not so subtle, really.
I guess the comment that my brother-in-law made in the 70s when I visited him in New York was prophetic.
He said, Keith, he said, between gay Greenwich Village and the feet east side up here in Manhattan, it looks like they're going to stamp out heterosexuality altogether.
That's what's happening.
I mean, this is so strange you couldn't make it up, as we often say.
Now they have demonized heterosexuality, if you can believe that.
That somehow people need to be ashamed to proclaim themselves heterosexual, that it's hate-filled, that it puts you, like you said, a neo-Nazi.
By the way, they always use neo-Nazi.
They have an old school Nazi somewhere.
I don't know what they're talking about here, but nonetheless, they are in the they're trying to put heterosexuality into a kind of forbidden gulag.
And what gets me, what is so incredible, is that people just sit back and they say, I guess these are just words.
We'll just honker down and forget about it.
They are transforming our nation.
And, you know, they may not be having an effect on adults, but they're definitely having an effect on children.
And, you know, this is nothing but a manifestation of pure evil to try to persuade the emerging generation that somehow there's something wrong with heterosexuality and that being a homosexual is a positive thing.
And Keith, if people can't believe it, don't take our word for it.
Go and read our article entry about this story, which, of course, as always at thepolitical cesspool.org, we provide references and links to the originating source.
This is a blog entry we posted within the last seven days.
So go to our blog and check it out.
And again, Keith, only us, only the Political Assess Pool radio program, at least it's the only show I've ever listened to in this country or heard of, that is going to stand in fierce defiance of political correctness every day, every time we're on the air.
And that is why people need to support us.
And we're going to compare and contrast that once again with some of our adversaries on the neoconservative side of the world.
Yeah, well, what it is.
When we come back, we've got to take a break.
Compared to the rest of them, the silence is dead.
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Right before that last commercial break, ladies and gentlemen, we were once again comparing and contrasting the genuine and authentic paleoconservative voice that this radio program provides.
Compared and contrast, obviously, we don't need to compare and contrast what the garbage that comes out of the mouths of leftists because we know that that's anti-American and anti-Christian and anti-anything you would want to be.
But let's compare and contrast it once again to the mouthpieces of Fox News, most specifically Glenn Beck, for example.
He, and we have blogged about this on our website within the last couple of days.
He brazenly admitted to Forbes magazine recently, just the other day, that he's just in it for the money and he makes a lot of it.
$32 million a year, in fact.
He admitted that he's just a showman telling people what they want to hear.
It's nothing but an act and it's a very good one because a lot of people really believe that he is standing up and fighting for them.
But he's laughing all the way to the bank.
And if you think that I'm twisting his words, go to our blog.
We've got the link over to the Forbes article, the interview with Beck.
I'm telling you, as Keith says, as we say every week, you can't make this stuff up.
Sarah Palin has made $12 million since last July.
And that's a low-ball estimate.
It's probably far higher.
But she didn't quit her job as governor of Alaska to get rich.
Oh, heck no.
It was all about being more effective at standing up for conservative principles, etc.
You know, people fall for these false prophets, these people who are packaged by Sumner Redstone over there at Fox and Rupert Murdoch, etc.
You know, that ilk.
And they believe that Glenn Beck and Sarah Palin are standing up for them.
Scott Brown, another example.
He has recently, of course, he was the recently elected senator from Massachusetts.
He's told the Tea Party that they can take a hike.
A few months back, of course, Scott Brown's shocking victory in the race for a Massachusetts Senate seat, held for decades by Ted Kennedy, was the talk of the mainstream conservative movement.
Many pundits gave the credit for his victory to the support and activism of the Tea Party types.
And Scott Brown certainly had no qualms about seeking their support during the race.
But just after he was elected, he told a reporter that the Tea Party movement had little or nothing to do with his victory.
When asked about Sarah Palin, he denied that he'd ever spoken to her, even though she called and congratulated him after his victory.
Now, just this week, there was a huge Tea Party rally in Boston there on Tax Day, April 15th.
And guess who couldn't be bothered to come out?
That's right.
Scott Brown blew the Tea Party movement off, even though, as they held a huge meeting right in the heart of his own town.
Sarah Palin was there, although there's no word on how much she charged for her appearance, but not Brown.
Now that he's in office, he wants nothing to do with other conservative white people who got him elected.
He's a Republican, and he's doing to conservatives what Republicans always do to conservatives.
He's pandering to them at election time and then ignoring them until the next election.
Just wait and see.
I guarantee you, when the next election rolls around, he's going to be singing a different tune.
He'll show up at their rallies then.
He'll be telling them that their issues are his issues then and that they're the salt of the earth, the heartbeat of America, so on and so forth.
And once he's back in office, he'll go back to treating them like the scum of the earth, just like always.
And conservatives deserve it because they just keep putting up with it no matter how many times it happens.
Bush didn't do anything about gay marriage his first three years in office.
But in late 2003, with the new election cycle coming around, he called for a constitutional amendment to ban same-sex marriage.
And then he and Carl Rose spent the next year getting conservatives all worked up about it.
And they turned out and droves to re-elect him.
And once Bush was back in office, he never mentioned gay marriage again.
And this is what we're talking about.
How long can conservatives keep lying to themselves?
Mike Huckabee just this week has pushed the line in the sand back on himself.
He's no longer talking about the very basic conservative principle that homosexual sodomites shouldn't have the right to marry, which they don't.
And I will say that till the day I die.
I don't believe that they do.
I don't believe that they should be able to.
But now he's not talking about that anymore.
Now he's saying he will fight to make sure that they can't adopt kids.
You see, now the battlefront is whether or not they can adopt kids, not whether or not they should be married.
So the whole lot of them, George Bush, Mike Huckabee, Glenn Beck, Sarah Palin, Scott Brown, they are your enemies, ladies and gentlemen.
Can you not see that the only reason they are there is to make you believe that you have two choices, that they are the conservative side, that Alan Combs and the rest of them are the liberal side when they are both playing for the same team.
They are owned by the same people.
There are very few organizations out there that are legitimate and sincere, paleoconservative, America first entities.
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I tell you, we do this at our own expense.
$12 million Palin gets paid.
Keith, your thoughts on it all?
Well, I mean, that was a lot of it.
That was a lot to digest.
Let me just say that this is the reason why the political cesspool is a necessity and why people need to support the political cesspool.
You see that I'm sure there are other people in the conservative masses out there that feel that what happened at the Michigan Tea Party regarding the striped pride t-shirts was an outrage.
They think that things like this kept opposition with Glenn Beck, Sarah Palin, and people like this, they're yearning for something else.
But if you're listening to this show, you understand that you need to support this show to prove that the First Amendment still has a pulse in America.
We're the only people that bring you true, unadulterated, courageous, conservative commentary on all of these issues of the day, issues that you can get.
You're not hearing anything like this if you're turning into Glenn Beck or to Bill O'Reilly or to Sean Hannity.
But this is the truth, and you need to hear it.
And if you need to hear it, if you need that type of spiritual sustenance, then you need to support the political cesspool.
Well, and Keith, that's why we're here.
We are the voice of the American right.
And, you know, there's so much out there that, you know, it's amazing.
And so many people really, again, fundamentally subscribe to our message.
I mean, we get emails from all over the world, more than we can read, although we do take the time to read them all, more than we can respond to, I guess you could say.
But we greatly appreciate all the well-wishes and kind thoughts that are shared with us from our fans from coast to coast and all ports of call here in the world.
But there's so many people out there that believe in this message, yet so few people willing to stand on the front lines and take the pounding that we take.
Get the word out, ladies and gentlemen, to your friends and neighbors who are conservative.
Let them tune into this.
And, you know, rather than drinking Kool-Aid, drink the Jack Daniels that the political cesspool represents.
I was at the Reform.
You mentioned Jack Daniels.
I was at the Reform Party convention, Pat Buchanan's nominating convention back in 2000 when I was working for Pat.
And I was the delegate entrusted with going up and casting in order to nominate the Reform Party presidential candidates.
The delegates for each state had to cast a vote for who they wanted to appear on the Reform Party ballot.
And Tennessee, of course, cast their ballots for Buchanan.
He was the eventual nominee.
But the whole thing was carried live by, I believe it was CNBC at the time.
And I went up to the podium.
This was national television.
And said, I was supposed to just go up there and say that the delegates from the state of Tennessee cast their votes for Pat Buchanan to be the nominee for the Reform Party, something to that effect.
And I got up there and I said the delegates from the great state of Tennessee, home of Andrew Jackson and Jack Daniels, vote for Pat Buchanan.
Anyway, you mentioned Jack.
Every time I hear Jack Daniels, I'm taken back to Long Beach, California in that time.
I should have said Davy Crockett and Jack Daniels.
But old Hickory was okay.
Anyway, back to the Tea Party people.
You know, the bombardier Eddie Miller went to the Tea Party rally here in Memphis this week.
Keith, do you even want to tell him what?
Eddie's coming on in May to give you a full rundown of what happened.
Should we even get into that?
What happened?
I tell you what.
Eddie is a one-man riot.
Everywhere he goes, you know, controversy seems to follow.
But Eddie is a person who, you know, he's playing his Garrett snuff, as they say down in the South, and he's going to tell it like it is.
And, of course, that's going to rub some people the wrong way.
And another good Southern saying is don't sandpaper a wildcat's ass.
Well, let me tell you, Eddie does it each and every time.
And we know whenever Eddie is sent out on assignment that we'll have a good story come back.
Yeah, and we got a good story coming up in May.
Speaking of good stories, we're not going to get into this.
We don't have the time.
But Nebraska, the state of Nebraska, has called for abortion seekers to get a mental health screening.
Meaning, if you want to go murder your kid, you've got to go to a psychiatrist first.
And I guess that's a start.
I mean, you know, we are a pro-life program.
It would be good if the psychiatric profession wasn't so sold out to liberalism.
They would probably consider somebody that does not want to abort their child to be mentally ill.
Yeah, I think.
Yeah, they kind of won that whole debate back in Roe versus Wade.
I mean, any nation that can murder their unborn is, of course, America is a sick country.
So, I mean, you know, I don't need to.
I think Nebraska must be living in the past back in the early 70s when basically homosexuality was designated a American Psychiatric Association.
That's right, 1972.
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Ladies and gentlemen, as I mentioned a few minutes ago, Bill Rowland out of our all-star stable of talent of coast.
And of course, in my co-hosting closet, I can go in there and find a wardrobe that's always in season, whether it be Winston Smith, Eddie the Bombardier Miller, Keith Alexander, or Bill Rowland.
I'm never at a loss for talent here on this program.
Bill Rowland, as I said, will be co-hosting with me tonight during the second and third hours.
He is waiting in the wings here at WLRM 1380 AM Radio.
And if you think Keith and I have had a pretty impassioned show thus far, just wait until Bill gets on.
I tell you, Bill has got some good stuff for you tonight.
We covered a lot of ground, though, ourselves there in that last segment, covered a story about Sarah Palin, Scott Brown, Glenn Beck.
There's still so much more that we've been blogging about this week.
Of course, that's why our website is such a great compliment and indeed an anchor to our work here on the air.
If you can't get enough of us during our three hours of live airtime each week, you can go to our website anytime, any day, and there's always going to be fresh content for you.
Some of the other things we've been tracking this week, a former NBA player blows $87 million, earned $87 million in just over a decade, and now has nothing to show for it but three fur coats and a car.
More on that Nebraska law, that pro-life bill out of Nebraska that we're excited about.
We covered a couple of stories here out of Memphis, Keith, that you know.
It's typical Memphis Fair.
At least it's not as bad as Chicago, where I think last Friday night they had 25 people shot and eight people killed.
Yeah.
That's something else we bad battery.
Jim Coachie didn't know what the south side of Chicago was like.
That was nothing compared to what it is now.
All that and more at our website.
I tell you, I really enjoy bringing these stories to you.
If I'm not talking to you about them on the air, I'm writing about them on the blog.
So go read all of it at thepolitical cesspool.org.
But Keith, as you know, one of the big issues that Bill Rowland and I will be providing commentary on during the second hour before we get into the third hour, where we're going to be taking calls with Dr. Michael Hill, president of the League of the South, we're going to be talking about the hullabaloo about these Confederate History Month proclamations being made by Governor Bob McDonald in Virginia, Haley Barber in Mississippi, and in other places.
And you want to kind of set the stage, get the crowd warmed up for the conversations that's to come.
James, I'm glad to see a couple of Southern governors grow a pair of cojones and actually proclaim Confederate History Month as a celebration.
Apparently in Virginia, until Republican Bob McConnell did it this year, for eight years, two Democratic governors, two terms of Democratic governorship, failed to recognize it at all.
Of course, Black History Month in February goes out saying that every one of us, and particularly our children, if they attend school, Are expected and required to burn incense at the shrine of that particular graven image.
Same thing for Martin Luther King Day.
But then, on the other hand, if you dare to think or to even suggest that Confederate History Month needs to be celebrated rather than mourned, then you have proven the utter darkness of your soul.
And, you know, all the newspapers around Memphis, you would think that if World War III had come along and they were dropping atom bombs everywhere, it would be back page news compared to this.
We've got one article and editorial after another.
No, Keith, I mean, I can't agree with you more.
I saw that Confederate History Month was being denounced, of course, in the USA today.
And again, I have to remind people of this.
It looks as though that our ideas are not fashionable anymore.
And certainly they're not within the halls of the major movie studios and of the major cable companies and of the major print media.
But of course, the people that control the discourse of those outlets do not make up Red State America.
And Red State America still far outnumbers Blue State America, both in size, geographic size, and numbers.
We still do represent basically common sense thought in America.
So don't get overwhelmed or despaired.
The thing we need to do is we can't let people tell us who we need to revere, who we need to celebrate, who we need to honor.
And that's what I'm saying, Keith, is that the movies, the TV shows, the newspapers, they don't speak for America.
They speak for the small minuscule minority that has risen up to grab hold of these institutions.
Well, I was glad to see that Haley Barber stood up to them.
Bob McConnell kind of immediately started apologizing for slavery.
But, you know, the truth of the matter is the Civil War was not about slavery.
If you read what was being said back in 1861, nobody was proposing freeing the slaves.
In fact, I think we pointed out on a recent show that when the Emancipation Proclamation was made by Abraham Lincoln in 1863, freeing the slaves behind Confederate lines, but not elsewhere.
Well, let me tell you this, Keith.
Fighting Joe Hooker's army almost mutinied.
They said, this is not what we went to war for.
This is not why we signed up.
We signed up to preserve the Union.
But all of these mavens of political correctness now insist that it's beyond debate that the whole Civil War was nothing but a plebiscite on slavery.
Well, Pat Buchanan, another reason to go to our website, our good friend Pat Buchanan has written as of April 8th of this year one of his finest columns ever.
It's entitled Hatred of the South, It's Hatred of America.
And he writes this, speaking to the point that you made, Keith, and I quote Buchanan, in his first inaugural, Lincoln sought to appease the states that had seceded by endorsing a constitutional amendment to make slavery permanent.
He even offered to help the southern states run down fugitive slaves.
So if, in fact, that is what Lincoln did, and that is a matter of historical fact, then how could the war between the states be fought over slavery?
In 1862, Lincoln wrote Horace Greeley that if it could restore the Union without freeing one slave, he would do it.
The Amana proclamation of January 1st, 1863, freed only those slaves that Lincoln had no power to free, those under Confederate rule.
As for slaves in the Union states, they remained property of their owners.
So a few people will deny that.
Well, you know, the other thing about this is that The average Confederate soldier, you know, the vast majority of Confederate soldiers did not come from slave-holding families, owned no slaves themselves.
They were going to arms and fighting because their region of the nation was being invaded, and they knew that the powers that be that were controlling the U.S. government despised their region of the nation, as they still do, as articles like this demonstrate beyond a shadow of the doubt.
So, consequently, you know, our ancestors are right to want to secede from a loveless marriage with another part of the nation that despised them.
And these articles, like the ones that we're talking about in the local newspaper here, and I'm sure elsewhere, just attacking governors for celebrating Confederate History Month just shows you that the South really should have seceded, and nothing's changed.
It's the same playbook, but we're dealing with the same animus against the South that has existed since the 1820s.
Well, and speaking also to the cause of the war, Pat Buchanan provides a punctuation mark on the point, again, Keith, that you so eloquently made.
Why did the South secede?
Why did they go to war?
It certainly wasn't to less than 5% owned slaves at all.
So, to believe that people back then weren't stupid enough to allow themselves to be manipulated into fighting to preserve an institution they had no stake in.
To be that stupid, you have to be a modern American and allow yourself to be horn-swaggled and brainwashed by liberals.
Well, the entire population of the South would not go to war to protect the right of rich plantation owners.
That's just absurd.
As Pat Buchanan wrote, Virginia seceded rather than to provide soldiers or militia to participate in the war on their brothers.
And that is why North Carolina, Tennessee, and Arkansas followed Virginia over the same issue.
They were slavery to war on their kinfolk.
See, slavery was going to end anyway.
The last place in the Western Hemisphere where it existed was Brazil, and that ended in 1895.
Harriet Beecher Stowe, whose book, Uncle Tom's Cabin, basically fomented the Civil War in a lot of ways in the eyes of at least northern abolitionists, admitted after the war that chattel slavery was bound to end because the elites understood and came to realize that wage slavery was cheaper in the long run than chattel slavery.
Well, Keith, and ladies and gentlemen listening, that's just the taste of some of the commentary to come during the second hour tonight, and even indeed the third hour when we open up the phone lines and take your calls on this and other Southern-related matters as the political cesspool continues its annual April salute to Confederate History Month.
We've covered a lot of contemporary political issues during the first hour tonight.
We are going to shift gears and talk of issues of a more southern flavor when we come back.
We're going to take a break, listen to some national news.
I'll be back with Bill Rowland right after this.
Keith Alexander, thank you for your work tonight.
We'll see you next week, and I'll be back in a flash.
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Carve leaped to his feet and says, Something's got a hold on me.
Wow!
The day the squirrel went berserk in the first South British church in that sleeping little town of Pastagoula.
It was a fight for survival.
That's a guy in revival.
They were jumping fumes and shouting, Hallelujah!
Well, Harv hit the aisles dancing and screaming.
Some thought he had religion, others thought he had a demon, and Harv thought he had a weed eater loose in his fruit of the blooms.
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.