July 24, 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.
And here to guide you through the murky waters of the Political Cesspool is your host for tonight, James Edwards.
Welcome to the Political Cesspool radio program, everyone.
I'm your host, James Edwards.
It is Saturday evening, July 24th, and we are red-hot and rolling as we come to you from the studios of AM 1380 WLRM Radio this evening in Memphis, Tennessee, going out to the AM FM affiliate stations of the Liberty News Radio Network, and of course, simulcasting online at our website, thepoliticalcesspool.org and libertynewsradio.com, where the archives of our broadcasts are available to you on demand 24 hours a day, seven days a week, and immediately upon the conclusion of each program.
I was chuckling a little bit at the very onset of the show because I tell you, the only thing hotter than the weather outside is the temperature inside the studios this evening.
The political cesspool, it has been a white hot summer for the cesspool, no pun intended.
We just can't stop making headlines.
Our award-winning broadcast, for reasons too numerous to mention, continues to command the constant attention of the establishment press since the first week of June.
We have been denounced by Keith Olbermann.
He has called us the worst person in the world, which is, of course, an honor for us.
We've been attacked by Eli Roth of Inglorious Bastards for our association with Mel Gibson's father.
Now, among other things, our radio program is the biggest political news story in the state of Arizona this week and has been since last Tuesday.
We have been making front page headlines in Tucson, Phoenix, on the television affiliate stations in just about every city in Arizona for an interview we did two weeks ago with Sheriff Paul Babiu.
And we are going to tell you why that interview has made such big news.
It is now directly a campaign issue in the race between John McCain and J.D. Hayworth.
Some news outlets are saying the political cesspool could actually tip the balance of that race one way or the other.
How did that happen?
We're going to talk to you about it at the top of the second hour.
That's right.
It's going to be a little bit of time before we get on that issue.
Keith Alexander and I have a few issues of our own we're going to address first.
Then we're going to bring on Eddie the Bombardier Miller, the man who was responsible for booking Sheriff Paul Babue.
And he is going to set the record straight about exactly what happened, when it happened, and why this story is making front page headlines, not only in Arizona, but truly around the country.
When you're talking about John McCain and J.D. Hayworth, obviously big names.
This is news in Washington, Miami, and elsewhere.
The political cesspool, a program of record, never before has our star shined so brightly.
And Keith Alexander, my friend, welcome to the show.
I want to ask you, why does our radio program continue to get this much attention?
Because we address the problems that are facing America squarely and honestly.
And quite frankly, I think that in the past couple of weeks, we're getting all this press coverage.
And we're getting the press coverage because I think people in the mainstream press are genuinely surprised that an outlet like the political cesspool exists where people tell it like it is without fear or favor, with no retreat, no apology, no surrender.
And that's what we do.
I mean, we're as plain as a billy goat's posterior on a stump.
Well, Keith, that's a good southern colloquialism.
You got that right.
Say that word again.
I like that.
Yeah, colloquialism.
If you don't know what that means, ladies and gentlemen, check a dictionary.
But I will tell you this.
We have for six years, as everyone, every regular listener is readily aware, provided consistent and steady leadership for paleoconservative European Americans.
This show is their voice, and we do not run from that fact.
In fact, we embrace it quite proudly.
We, unlike so many so-called leaders, we don't run when the media comes calling.
We relish the attacks of our enemies because we think it speaks directly to the quality of our work.
And when we see ourselves being attacked by hate groups like the ADL and the SBLC, we take to that like a pig in slot because it's something that we want.
It's something we want to show.
We want to show this kind of steely resolve in the face of adversity.
We live our lives on the front lines, and those who best understand the strength of a tide are those with the courage to swim against it.
And we're proud to be one of you.
We're thankful to have the support of our ever-growing nationwide syndicated listener audience.
And we're not going to betray you.
And we are going to share some facts and figures with you tonight that are going to, we hope, earn your respect even more.
But again, coming up in that second hour, just a little while from now, we're going to have Eddie the Bombardier Miller on.
And we're going to set the record straight about all of the stories that you've read on our blog.
It's all been documented there.
But of course, we're going to go on record tonight with the spoken word.
And we look forward to doing just that in just a minute.
But Keith, I'll turn it back over to you for a little more commentary about all this press attention that has existed, of course, for many years now with this radio program, and it will continue to come our way.
And how you think the best way to handle it is compared and contrasted with the way that we see so many people handle it with a certain craven subservience to people who will never support them.
That's what I just can't understand about people who seem to readily agree with our viewpoints.
The media has never been on their side.
They never will be in favor of their positions.
And yet when the media comes calling, they seem to get weak in the knees.
And as we said on our blog, we're just thankful that these people didn't exist back in 1529 when the Ottoman Empire was beating down the gates of Vienna.
Had that been the case, Europe would have been wiped out.
And I'm thankful that we had men in that day and age.
There's still a few of us left.
But what happened to the people that used to produce men like that?
You know, it's remarkable.
We're a paleoconservative radio show.
And what does that mean?
There's been some question about what is a paleoconservative.
I've given so many interviews to different news reporters this week as a result of what happened in Arizona.
They all want to know, I've never heard of a paleoconservative.
What is that, Keith?
Well, it's pretty well defined in Wikipedia.
People like Pat Buchanan, Sam Francis, Sam Dixon, Clyde Wilson are exponents of paleoconservatism.
And paleoconservative, paleo just means old.
Basically, we are the conservatives as they existed in the 1950s and 60s.
And what is so remarkable about our present situation and the taboos and the no-go zones of thought control that Americans are confronted with every day is that these taboos and no-go zones were the common sense and the common observations of most Americans as recently as 50 years ago.
And now it's just like some Orwellian fog has drifted in and you can't say these things without risk of your livelihood, risk of your standing in the community.
But as of the ghost of Christmas Past said in Dickens' The Christmas Carol, truth lives and truth certainly lives at the cesspool and I think that's what has just shocked and amazed.
Talking about shock and awe.
Well, there's shock and awe in the mainstream journalistic world that there is anybody with the backbone to speak out the way that this show does.
And we do it every week.
Rain, shine, heat, snow, it doesn't matter.
We are here.
And I think we have stood the test of time to an extent that very few right-of-center organizations can say.
And we've done it without ever bringing shame to ourselves.
I think that our commentaries are very professional.
And we're going to continue to crank out a product that refuses to apologize for we have nothing to apologize about.
This is standing up for the kind of beliefs that carved this nation from a wilderness and we will never say I'm sorry for that.
And I wish more men like this sheriff in Arizona would take our lead because his instincts are with us and it's a shame when we allow ourselves to fall victim to baseless name-calling and character assassinations.
You know, we were talking about this before the show.
I really admire Sheriff Babu and I am quite frankly a little bit saddened by his plight.
Here is a man that has the backbone and the courage to confront thugs armed with AK-47s and machetes on at least a weekly and probably a daily basis.
But on the other hand, he assumes the umbilical position, cowers like a kitten when some mugwomp steps up and accuses him of racism.
He starts shucking and jiving and trying to protect himself from basically what is a spurious and baseless charge.
That's what everybody needs to do with the charge of racism.
That's the point of your book, James.
Racism, Schmacism.
That's right.
And I wish that Sheriff Babue had read my book.
But nevertheless, it is our relationship with that particular sheriff who has appeared in John McCain's campaign ads that has gotten so much media attention.
We're going to talk more about it during tonight's second hour.
What was our relationship and the nature of it?
You got to stay tuned for that.
But first, Keith and I are going to examine a few other issues that have made the news this week, and we're going to do so right after this commercial break.
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And here's the host of the Political Cesspool, James Edwards.
Welcome back to our award-winning talk radio show everyone.
I'm your host, James Edwards, joined first hour by my co-host Keith Alexander.
I'd like to remind everybody that copies of my book are available for purchase tonight on our website, thepoliticalcesspool.org.
Go there and get the book that every conservative needs to read in order for us to build a movement that can win.
The title of the book is, of course, Racism Schmecism, How Liberals Use the R-Word to Push the Obama Agenda.
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We encourage you to buy one for yourself and some for your friends too.
And again, do that tonight.
They are priced to sell and they are getting rave reviews and a lot of them.
So again, racism, Schmecism, get your copy tonight at thepoliticalcesspool.org.
And when you're there, you will notice our blog entry is top heavy on stories pertaining to the big news in Arizona.
Again, I say the biggest political news in Arizona this week, the political cesspool's relationship with Paul Babu and how that affects the John McCain versus J.D. Hayworth race for United States Senator.
Had it not been for the controversy that has been stirred up as a result of that interview with Sher Babu, we would have been blogging about other stories this week that we've not had time to talk about on the website.
We're going to talk about a few this hour with Keith before we focus more on the Arizona incident in the second hour.
But we've been fending off a lot of alligators this week, as Keith has said before the show tonight.
And Keith, what would be one of those stories we would have blogged about had we really had a chance to catch our breath?
The Shirley Sherrod NAACP story has been prominent in the news this week.
And it's really a watershed moment in my opinion because it's the first time that I can remember in which the NAACP has admitted that it's possible for a black person to be a racist.
You know, that hasn't happened very often.
In fact, it hasn't happened at all before now as far as I know.
Now, Shirley Sherrod, to set the table for people that may not be aware of this, was an employee of the U.S. Department of Agriculture.
And she gave a speech in front of some NAACP gathering, which was recorded, in which she said she had been confronted with a white farmer and his wife fighting to preserve their farm to protect it from being taken from them for some type of financial problems.
And she said that at first she looked at these people with scorn, concluded secretly without telling them that she wasn't going to give them much help because they were white.
And that was what was picked up in a short video entry and sent to Andrew Breitbart, you know, the guy that got the goods on Acorn.
And he credulously believed this and published it.
Well, the full story is that it was an epiphany story.
She says that later, as she got to working with these people, she developed empathy for them.
And by the end, she concluded that all poor people, white, black, or any other color, deserved our help and efforts.
And she helped them.
And she was able to protect them from having their farm taken away.
So it was a happy ending.
And it was a kind of odd type of statement, I guess, for you to pick up at an NAACP meeting, but it was a hopeful meeting and a hopeful message.
But Breitbart got horn swoggled, I guess.
He published the other thing, and immediately, and again, this is unprecedented, the U.S. Department of Agriculture Secretary fires with apparently the Obama administration's approval, this Shirley Sherrod lady, who is protesting her innocence all the time.
Then it comes out that you have this full thing.
The whole thing smacks of some type of setup or some type of agent provocateur episode trying to bring down Andrew Breitbart.
But nonetheless, that's what the story is about.
And it just, it goes to show you that, you know, basically, you're not going to have a black person charged with racism and brought down.
Even when you get this close, it's not going to happen.
Of course, in this case, it was like a morality play that black people, again, when all the dust settles, aren't and cannot be guilty of racism.
In fact, this person's heart is pure, implicitly, unlike these pernicious honkies that are, you know, trolling all through America, creating mischief and misery for non-white people.
Well, that has become, as a matter of fact, Keith, the modern-day definition of racist.
A racist is a conservative white person, period.
And racism is anything a conservative white person does that minorities don't approve of.
But with regard to this story, what's so interesting is who is not getting the blame here.
Now, true, and I wouldn't doubt for a second that this Sharad lady doesn't have anything but contempt in her heart towards the European American majority, as so many of her kinsmen unfortunately do.
But be that as it may.
Andrew Breitbart.
Now, this is a guy who is a neoconservative.
If you want to compare and contrast what a neoconservative is, look at Andrew Breitbart.
If you want to know what a paleoconservative is, look at James Edwards and Keith Alexander.
People like Jared Taylor, who Andrew Breitbart has denounced.
And so, Andrew Breitbart, at the end of the day, is just a political commentator.
He is basically just another talking head, of which there are tens of thousands of in this country.
And so he does not have the power or the authority to bring anyone down.
Now, he ran with part of the story, and it got picked up, and this woman was dumped from her position.
But the people who dumped her were the people in the Obama administration.
Now, they're claiming that Andrew Breitbart's the bad guy here.
Well, Andrew Breitbart didn't fire Sherrod.
It was the Obama administration.
They are the ones to blame solely and completely.
And never, Keith, in all the media attention that has been lavished upon the story, have I seen anyone make that point.
Which makes me suspect that the whole thing was a setup.
The fact that the Obama administration and the Secretary of Agriculture are taking no heat whatsoever about this, and Andrew Breitbart is taking all of it, just confirms what we've said time and again.
If you're even vaguely conservative, if you have a conservative bone in your body about the only, you know, you're going to be in the crosshairs of the mainstream media and the governing elite of this nation who have decided they're going to convert America, lockstock, and barrel to liberalism.
And that's what they are doing.
Andrew Breitbart, again, I don't know if he had anything to do with the Jeremiah Wright tapes, but he did have something to do with the Acorn tape where the two white kids came in to the Baltimore branch of Acorn to try to get government funding to run a brothel.
And we're excited.
Let me say this.
You know, as you said, Keith, a blind hog can find an acorn every now and then.
And Andrew Breitbart had a direct hand in bringing down a very powerful anti-white organization, which was Acorn.
And we commended him for that.
But by and large, his philosophy doesn't overlap ours on some of the issues of most importance.
Well, he obeys these imaginary boundaries and these taboos that the mainstream press has set up.
There are certain topics that are beyond the pale and can't be discussed.
And quite frankly, we think that everything ought to be something that we can discuss.
You know, our attorney general, Eric Holder, said that we're a nation of cowards and we need to have a frank conversation with race.
Well, it's obvious that if he wants a frank conversation about race, he needs to tune into the conservative political cesspool.
We have a frank conversation about race every week.
Every week, and we've been doing it for six years, and all anyone has to do is tune in.
Well, we're about to come up on our next commercial break, ladies and gentlemen, coming up.
We've got much more in store for you.
Keith Alexander is just getting started.
He's loaded for bear, as Davey Crockett was.
And we've got some hot button issues forthcoming here in the next couple of segments.
And then in the second hour, you just wait.
Eddie the Bombardier.
That's a full bombay list.
And he's going to drop them all over Arizona.
Be back to get on the show and express your opinion in the political says pool.
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Big Girls Don't Cry.
Well, we just heard right there, ladies and gentlemen, Big Girls Don't Cry by Frankie Valley in the Four Seasons.
And you know, that's appropriate because just today my wife and I were driving around Memphis, and it just so happens that Frankie Valley himself will be coming to Memphis.
He's still alive.
He's going to be doing a live performance at the Orpheum Theater.
And I bought my tickets today.
And Keith, I'm very excited about that.
You know, I never miss a Frankie concert if it's within, I don't know, a thousand miles of here.
And great music.
I tell you, they don't make it like that anymore.
But I digress.
Ladies and gentlemen, I want to remind you that we are not going to be taking calls tonight.
We know that we have a lot of people tuned in tonight, members of the media, throngs of new listeners who have become acquainted with our program from all the press that our show has generated this week.
So we ask your forgiveness, but do want to let you know that we're not going to be taking calls tonight.
And we hope that you'll understand that.
Now, of course, the anchor of our operations here is this radio program.
It was this radio program that got me as a guest commentator on CNN on numerous occasions.
It's this radio program that has gotten us interviews in the New York Times, Fox News, the London Times, LA Times, Newsweek Magazine, and so many other publications and venues.
This radio program is the political cesspool.
But we also complement our work on air with our website, thepolitical cesspool.org, where you can read our blog.
Everything that we talk about on this show, we back up on the blog with references and facts and figures.
And it's just a perfect compliment to the things that we do here.
And as a result, the articles that I post on the blog routinely go viral on the internet.
I wrote an article entitled The Crucifixion of Mel Gibson that got put up on Rince.com and scores of others earlier this week.
As a result of everything that's going on, we had 10,000 unique visitors in a matter of a couple of hours come to the site.
We have a very big audience, both to the website and, of course, to this radio program, which is nationally syndicated.
But another article we put up this week that has been very widely spread is an article that I wrote entitled The NAACP Tea Party Racism Fiasco.
And with that being said, I'm going to turn it over to my compatriot, my confederate, Keith Alexander, to let you know what that article was about and how it ties into some very big news that is surrounding the Tea Parties this week, most specifically the denunciation of that group by the NAACP as nothing but a racist movement.
Keith.
You know, there is an inescapable conflict between the NAACP and the Tea Parties that apparently the NAACP recognizes and understands, but the Tea Party doesn't.
They're naive.
They need to be aware of the fact that race is a reality and that you can't disregard it.
You can't, like an ostrich, stick your head in the sand.
The ostrich sticks its head in the sand and thinks that if he doesn't see the danger, the danger can't see him.
Meanwhile, there's big posteriors waving around making a tempting target on the surface.
But see, what's happened with the NAACP is they are inextricably wed to big government.
Quite frankly, without the civil rights movement, which caused more government intrusion into the lives of ordinary Americans than virtually any other governmental movement that has happened in the history of our republic, that is what has allowed blacks to gain ground economically and for, quite frankly, non-privileged whites to lose ground since 1960.
When you have a the Tea Party, it is not an explicitly racial group like the NAACP.
The NAACP is not the National Association for the Advancement of People.
It's the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People.
In other words, they are explicitly and unapologetically racial in their approach.
The Tea Party isn't, but the positions they take are what we call implicitly white.
Limited government is the primary mantra of the Tea Party.
The last thing the NAACP wants, because they know it would negatively affect their constituent base, which is blacks, is limited government.
Anybody that they think that government exists for the purpose of advocating on behalf of them and their people and getting them goodies.
Meanwhile, any group that wants to limit the influence and the effect and the reach of government, they recognize as their enemy.
So consequently, it doesn't matter how much pandering a Paul Babu or the Tea Party generally does, how much outreach they direct at the black community.
The black community, and particularly their advocacy groups like the NAACP, is not going to be fooled.
They know that limited government is a loser for them, and they're not, you know, they still aren't where they want to be as a people, so consequently, they are not going to embrace limited government.
That's why the Republican Party and the Tea Party need to understand you're never going to make black people into Republicans or conservatives.
If you think you are, you probably need to be under lock and key, James.
Well, Keith, you know, that is exactly what my article was about.
And this article, by the way, was covered in this week's edition of the Miami Times, which is a free liberal alternative newspaper.
Have them almost everywhere.
That's right, in every big city.
And basically, the tenant of my thesis there was the fact that here's this great grassroots rebellion.
We've said it time and time again on this show, the Tea Party is a wholly, and I mean wholly, W-H-O-L-L-Y.
It is an almost entirely white movement.
Anybody with eyes that work can see that.
And as such, they should be explicitly pro-white because the paleoconservative ideas that they espouse are ideas that are only embraced, by and large, by white people.
So why the Tea Party chooses to be wrapped up in bondage and fear of being called a racist and fear of embracing who they are is beyond me.
You don't see all of the spokespeople and organizations out there whose sole purpose, like the NAACP, is to advance the self-interests of certain minority groups.
You don't see these people apologizing for that.
The NAACP doesn't apologize for their attempts to stick it to white and advance the agenda of black Americans.
You certainly don't see the ADL apologizing for going to war against Christ in Christmas and being an explicitly pro-Jewish organization.
You don't see La Raza apologizing for efforts at Reconquista and serving the interests of Hispanics.
So why should organizations whose membership is made of 99% of conservative red state white Americans, why do these organizations feel compelled to say that we can't operate on that same playing field?
And this is the problem with the Tea Party.
As long as they feel the need to acquiesce and try to curry favor with the minorities and members of the media who are never going to be supportive of them in the first place, as long as they feel the need to try to appease them, and appeasement never works, they'll never be able to realize their full potential.
And that's what's so sad is that you have millions of conservative European Americans coming together and talking about issues that we're all about, limited government, rolling back taxes, so on and so forth, curtailing illegal immigration.
These are great issues, but they'll be forced to fight that battle with both hands tied behind their back if they get sucked into the debate as to whether or not they're racist.
The modern-day definition of racist means you are a white person.
Racism is anything that white people do that minorities don't approve of.
So when you get labeled a racist, you should just embrace it, laugh in their face.
These people aren't going to support you anyway.
But they know that by getting you on that rolling rat wheel that you'll never be able to get off of, they can sidetrack you into getting in this unwinnable debate as to whether or not you are, in fact, a racist, and it will completely render your movement asunder.
And this is, I think the Tea Party is dangerously close to falling off the edge right now, Keith.
And basically, that was what my article was all about, that this is an organization.
It is what it is.
They need to stand up and have the courage of their convictions not to be kow-towed by these hacks who want them to fail.
They have no good efforts or good feelings towards the Tea Parties.
They want, like Khrushchev at the United Nations, buying his shoe on the table saying, we will bury you.
They intend to bury the Tea Party.
When Benjamin, appropriately named Jealous, the current head of the NAACP, says that the Tea Party needs to purge racist from its ranks, turn it back on him.
Why don't you purge all the racists, all the anti-white racists from the NAACP?
If he did, there wouldn't be anybody left.
And that being said, we got to take another break.
Tea Party, embrace who you are and what we are.
Be proud of your cultural heritage.
We've got to take a break.
More to come right after this.
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All right, ladies and gentlemen, it is getting close to that time.
At the top of the second hour, Eddie the Bombardier Miller is going to be coming in here with napalm in hand.
And he and I and Winston Smith will be giving you a week-by-week accounting of the chain of events that led up to this great political firestorm that the political cesspool now sits firmly in the midst of, generating out of Arizona.
John McCain is a part of this story.
J.D. Hayworth, Sheriff Paul Babue, and yours truly.
We're going to set the record straight on how that happened.
And I'm sure all of the members of the press that are tuned in tonight are waiting with bated breath, Keith.
But I do want to say one thing before we move on to our last topic of this hour, and that is a final word about the Tea Parties.
You know, as we wrote on the blog today, I want to thank the listeners and the members of the press who both love and hate us for getting the word out that our program is an openly pro-white organization.
I know I speak for our listeners when I say that they are glad and proud that the host of this show have no fear in proclaiming our love for our people and insisting on our right to exist and prosper without reference to any other group.
We think it is natural and healthy to love your family more than anyone else.
And we certainly think it is perfectly normal for minority groups to band together and advocate for their own self-interest.
But by God, we are going to have the right to do that as well.
And that's what this show does.
We are the voice for paleoconservative European Americans.
And we ask that you stand with us in the face of the adversity that we receive for being on the front lines and make a donation to our work.
You can go to thepolitical cesspool.org and do just that.
You keep our show on the air and look at the return that we're getting on your investment.
We are truly, Keith, I think the one paleoconservative organization in America that gets more attention than any others, at least for the moment.
And I'm not talking about just this week, but over the course of the last couple of years, no right-of-center organization is making more headlines than the political cesspool.
And it again is because of the way we can conduct ourselves and the issues that we so gallantly advocate for.
And the Tea Party should operate in the same make and mold that we do.
They should embrace their identity.
The Tea Party is open for anyone to join.
If there are conservative blacks out there, conservative Jews, conservative Hispanics that want to join the Tea Party, no one is stopping them.
But almost without exception, these people do not exist.
The people who embrace the ideas of true conservatism just happen to be white people.
And so the Tea Party needs to quit running from that.
And Keith, I'll let you give a final word on that before you tell us about James Webb, who he is and why he's on the TPC radar this week.
Okay.
Well, the Tea Party is an implicitly white organization.
That means they're not explicitly white.
They're implicitly white.
They take positions that tend to mirror the predilections of white people when it comes to their preferences for a type of government.
Now, there are black people and there are Hispanics, other people that likewise embrace limited government and a reduction in taxes.
But on the other hand, they need to stop feeling some compulsion or necessity to bring more and more non-white people into the fold.
The people that belong there will find a way to get there.
Let me just say that, Keith.
It is absolutely ridiculous that people like Michael Steele are the heads of the Republican Party, that he's the Republican National Committee Chairman.
He is obviously a token.
It's gross pandering, and it turns off the base.
Now, Michael Steele, if he wants to join, if he truly believes in the ideas that the Republican Party is supposed to advance, let him join.
But the fact that he somehow ascended to the position of chairman is utterly preposterous, ridiculous, and absolutely something that is going to drive away the kind of people that can win the Republican Party elections.
But Keith, tell us about James Webb.
Who is he?
Why is he on our radar?
Pretty big story out of the Wall Street Journal this week.
Okay, well, James Webb is a Democrat senator, I believe, or maybe a congressman from Virginia.
And he's written a famous book called Born Fighting.
It's about the Scots-Irish, which is a subset of the white population in America.
They tended to be the frontiersmen.
And he has written a recent article for the Wall Street Journal entitled Diversity and the Myth of White Privilege.
And he makes a lot of very cogent good points in this.
For example, he says that the whole civil rights movement was based on the assumption that there is this largely powerful, overwhelming, overweening control of everything, WASP establishment.
WASP is for white Anglo-Saxon Protestant that controlled everything.
And of course, that power base was on the way out by the time 1960 arrived.
And by the time 1970 arrived, it was more or less gone.
It's been taken over by a variety of other groups, the Jewish population.
There's a Jewish elite in America.
There is a civil rights elite.
And there is no WASP elite.
In fact, if you go to the so-called strongholds of WASP culture like Harvard and Yale, you find out that white Gentiles are the least represented demographic category at those schools in comparison with their representation in the general population.
For example, white Gentiles are about 65% of the general population, but they're approximately 20 to 25% of the student population at places like Yale and Harvard.
Meanwhile, Jews, who are 2% of the population, are a full one-third of the student population.
And blacks and Hispanics are at approximately, well, they're slightly over 50% or at 50%.
I think Hispanics are 14% And there's 70% of the student population at Harvard and Yale based on some articles that have been recently cited by Pat Buchanan in a recent blog entry on his website.
And blacks, who are 13%, are at 8%.
So consequently, they've got 50% or more.
Nobody has less than 50% except for white Gentiles.
And on the Supreme Court now, with the elevation of Elena Kagan, there will be no white Protestants whatsoever on the U.S. Supreme Court.
And he says, all of this diversity machinery, this whole diversity bureaucracy we have with the EEOC, with all these preferences and all these set-asides and all these watchdog organizations in the government and otherwise to assure access to non-white minorities to the goodies of society,
positions or admission into elite colleges and universities, professional schools, representation in highly paid government jobs and in highly paid public sector, private sector jobs.
All of that is based on this myth that there is some monolith called white privilege out there that has been benefiting white people generally.
And in particular, he points to the Scots-Irish.
Now, James and I are Scots-Irish, or we have a large smattering of that in our genetic makeup.
And for example, in my family, my family had been in America since before the American Revolution, but my generation was the first generation to get into college and to start trying to access opportunities in America.
And just as we did that, lo and behold, what descends on America but affirmative action?
It came along in 1969, and it has scotched the prospects of a lot of people that have been waiting patiently in line for their ticket to the American dream, James.
Well, Keith, it's an excellent commentary from you, as always, my friend.
And these are the kinds of stories and the kind of truths that every American needs to realize.
And unfortunately, we seem to be, for the most part, a very lone voice in the wilderness.
And what's so disturbing about that is the fact that we are the voice of tens of millions of Americans.
I mean, truly, I think that at least a third of the population agree with us fundamentally on the issues.
And yet, for whatever reason, we've allowed a Marxist construct, words like racism, to put us into a subservient position.
So we've got to do better than that.
Our ancestors sacrificed blood and bone to give us this nation, so therefore we should at least be able to sustain verbal attacks, and certainly we can hear in the Cessible.
Keith, you got the final word this out.
Okay, we're a paleoconservative radio program, and I think that name has thrown a lot of people for a loop.
Paleoconservative just means old.
We believe what conservatives believed back in 1950, 1960.
The positions we take are virtually indistinguishable from the positions taken by the National Review under William Buckley in the 1950s and early 60s.
But we've had this cataclysmic change in America.
I don't think there's been as large a change in a long time.
In the last 50 years, basically all of the folk wisdom of America has been thrown out and become taboo.
And these are the people that a lot of people still believe it, and that's why we get such a reaction to this show.
Keith Alexander, great as always.
Bombardier Miller is standing on deck.
We're going to talk about the situation in Arizona when the political cesspool returns.
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