April 2, 2011 - The Political Cesspool - James Edwards
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Been a great show tonight, an informative show, and it's going to get even better as we kick off Confederate History Month.
We've been talking about it a lot this evening.
Now we're going to kick it off with our first guest of the month.
Great friend of mine.
He is one of the most versatile guests we've ever had on the show, which is why he makes so many appearances.
He's informative on any topic you could want to talk about.
You want to talk immigration?
You can call Sam Dixon.
You want to talk foreign policy?
You can call Sam Dixon.
You want to talk literature?
Call Sam.
You want to talk about Confederate History Month?
Call Sam.
That's what we've done tonight.
He is a prominent attorney in Atlanta, Georgia, where he is calling from tonight.
Popular speaker and author, Sam Dixon.
Sam, welcome back.
Well, it's great to be back.
Good to have you.
You know, we're going to be talking tonight, as we do annually during our Confederate History Month series, about your very popular booklet, Shattering the Icon of Abraham Lincoln, a little later on in the hour this evening.
But first, I just want to cover some of the basics with you, some of the general stuff about Confederate History Month, and we're going to segue into some more serious matters.
But first of all, Sam, I'm going to ask you this, as we're going to ask each of our guests this month, you've talked in the past about the importance of having heroes.
Why is it important that Confederate History Month be remembered and celebrated by people in the South and elsewhere?
Well, the brave deeds of the dead should not go unsung.
And we're often told that ghetto youth need models.
And that's why we see the assiduous search for African-American role models and heroes, because the liberal establishment says that this is very important to the proper development and mental health of minority Americans.
These same liberals steal from us our heroes and wish to inflict upon our children a diet of psychological warfare in which their heroes are deconstructed and ridiculed and their history, the history of their race, is presented as being a nightmare of genocide.
If it's necessary for African American children in the ghetto, it's necessary for our children too.
And the child molestation by liberals that goes on incessantly in the public and private school systems needs to be countered by remembering our heroes.
What an answer.
I mean, right there, ladies and gentlemen, you know, you now realize why we invited Sam to kick off our Confederate History Month celebration.
And you know, Sam, you live in Atlanta.
I'm in Memphis.
You're a son of the South, as am I. You drive around, even in Memphis, you know, old story now.
Back in 2005, the political cesspool enjoyed its first claim to fame for effective defense of three very big Confederate parks here in Memphis, including Nathan Bedford Forest Park, which is also his final resting place.
And that kind of got us in the news, and the rest was history.
But not just in Memphis, but in every little hamlet across the South.
I'll give you one example.
And there are hundreds of them.
Humboldt, Tennessee, which is just a blip on the map.
Well, there in the town square, it's near Jackson.
You've got a very nice marker with, you know, an unknown Confederate soldier with his binoculars and his rifle standing there.
All across the South, you see these monuments and these dedications.
How much longer, Sam, do you think they will be allowed to remain?
Well, when the people change, the monuments will come down.
And with the birth rates being what they are and the colonization of our country by third world settlers being implemented, once the demographics change, they will certainly come down.
Even without that, the people who hate our race and want our race to disappear are going to continue to come after them.
You know, we don't go after, we're told that we're haters, and we're told we're extremists.
And people like Mark Potok and Heidi Beyrish and the New York Times and others talk about us that way.
I don't know any white person I've ever known who wanted to go into black school and into the black community and take away from them their heroes and heroines.
Have you ever heard of white people trying to go into the black schools and take down the pictures of Harriet Tubman?
You know, we are not haters and they, Heidi and Mark and the rest of them, they are haters and they will not stop until they have destroyed every single hero that we have, including non-Confederate ones, including people like Washington and Jefferson and all the others that the liberal establishment works to.
We shouldn't blame white liberals as much.
I think they are really held hostage by the minority racists upon whom they depend for their political viability.
I think the minority racists and the Marxists are the ones who really drive this.
Such an excellent answer.
Folks, that bears repeating.
Mark this segment, bookmark it.
The broadcast archives are available at the end of each show.
You should send this out to others.
This is the kind of stuff, this is what separates the political cesspool from every other radio program on the mainstream airwaves today.
Sam, we're coming up on a commercial break.
I want to have enough time to ask you this question.
Don't know if we'll have enough time for you to deliver an answer, but you can be pondering your answer as we head into the break.
I was sharing with folks the fact that the traffic to our website is so high and the show has become so popular or so well known over the years at least.
I don't know if it's notorious or popular, but when you Google Confederate History Month 2011, our website is the first thing that pops up, or I think it's actually the second thing, but it's even ranked higher based on traffic than some of the SCV websites.
And one of the things, thank goodness, we're going to get into that after the break.
A little primer there, a little teaser.
But one of the things that we have posted here are some videos and some pictures and music.
I have a clip from a great movie, Gods and Generals.
It's a 2003 release.
And I have a clip there depicting the Battle of Chancellorsville that focuses on Jackson's assault on the Union right flank.
Of course, the Confederacy prevailed in this pivotal battle despite being outnumbered, as they always were by a two-to-one margin.
And this particular battle, Union strength was estimated at over 130,000, while the Confederates fielded only 60,000 men.
It was called Robert E. Lee's perfect victory as he divided his army in the presence of a much larger enemy force.
Sam, the rhetorical question I asked you: what happened to the country that used to produce men like that, men who faced almost certain death and overwhelming odds, but still going and doing their duty?
We'll get the answer right after this.
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Welcome back to the show, everyone.
We are celebrating Confederate History Month, 2011, here on the program.
And our first guest during our Confederate History Month series this year is Sam Dixon.
I was sharing with Sam a story that he knows very well.
The Battle of Chancellorsville, Confederates outnumbered 133,000, roughly to 60,000.
Robert E. Lee, it was his perfect victory.
Risky decision to divide his army in the presence of a much larger enemy force, and it resulted in a significant Confederate victory.
You look Robert E. Lee, okay, this guy, Southern aristocrat, given the opportunity to control the Union Army, command the Union Army, he turns it down to fight what he had to know was going to be a very uphill battle and joining the Confederacy.
Nathan Bedford Forrest, you know, a self-made millionaire with no military training, enlists as a soldier of the lowest rank, goes on to become one of the greatest tacticians in the history of mobile warfare.
D.S. Joe, perhaps a lesser-known name, but this was a Confederate scout who was tortured and had his eyes gouged out.
He was dragged, trying to, the Union was trying to coerce him to give away Confederate positions.
He didn't give away the positions.
I could list so many examples of this sort of heroism that was embodied by the Confederate soldiers.
And it goes back to each one of them to a man there at Chancellorsville, outnumbered two to one.
They all did their duty.
So, Sam, again, the rhetorical question: what happened to the country that used to produce men like that?
Because they don't exist anymore, except for a few of us.
Well, I think they do exist, not as many as we would like.
Many of the people in the South who have volunteered to go fight in Iraq and Afghanistan are the same kind of brave men who fought with Lee.
The unfortunate thing is that they don't understand that these wars have nothing to do with them or any interest of theirs, but are designed to pursue interests that are actually quite hostile to them and their people.
It's true in general that we have been, we are not as brave, and we don't have as many troops as we had, you know, the potential troops that we had back then.
And there's lots of reasons for that.
One is that much of the nation has changed.
A friend of mine who is an Irish Catholic from Pennsylvania commented that she looked at a lot of things on the Civil War and that the Southerners, unlike the Northerners, still look like their ancestors.
They still look like the pictures of the people of the soldiers with Lee.
In the North, that was changed and already changing before the war, as with the rise of immigration then, which at least was an assimilable immigration, unlike what we're getting now.
But the North had already begun changing.
And then the general feminization of America.
People don't seem to think about how strange it is that American boys are turned over to largely female school teachers.
This is a very unusual thing in human history.
In most societies, boys have been educated by male teachers, not in our society.
And male behavior.
Little boys are drugged in the schools.
If they are aggressive, they're drugged.
They're hyperactive.
So you take them to the school nurse and you drug them up.
And they are reprimanded.
And they also are subjected to an even more intense psychological warfare by their teachers and the school systems and the broadcast media than whites in general.
Males are constantly assaulted.
And we were told how men made Chinese women bind their feet 150 years ago.
I've had young women tell me that it become very emotional, that they think about this often and they become just really angry.
And I'm not talking about a situation in which I had opposed immigration.
I'm just talking about being around them and suddenly they would tell everybody in a group how angry they felt toward males because of what happened in China 150 years ago.
And so little boys are subjected to drugs, to reprimands, to psychological warfare, even if they have the native wiring to be little boys and to grow into big boys.
And they're physically flabby.
People don't do the kind of work they used to do.
They don't get the kind of food they used to get.
Another subject that someday ought to be looked at is the effect of diet on people.
And the freshness of food three generations ago was an astonishing thing.
The eggs were laid and immediately eaten.
And people had a very healthful diet.
They had a lot of calcium, a lot of unprocessed food.
None of my brothers and myself were ever a physical match for my father, who was not only mentally tough, but physically very, very tough.
But he grew up under extremely demanding circumstances in which he was physically active all day long, walking long distance to school, chopping down trees, sawing up logs, hauling in firewood.
You have to go to the gym.
We consider a guy to be really macho if he goes to the gym and works out for an hour and a half a day and has pretty good physical definition.
But even they are nothing compared to the hardship and the physical stress and pain that kids had to bear growing up just three generations ago.
Well, that's a very interesting answer, and I agree, Sam, that that's something that ought to be studied a little bit more.
And of course, folks, what we're doing here, the purpose of this series on this program is to celebrate Confederate history and honor the heroes of the Confederacy.
And it seems as though tonight with Sam, we're focusing on some more, I don't want to say serious, that's perhaps not the right word, but issues of a more negative nature than the celebration that this series is supposed to bring and will bring.
But these are issues that also need to be looked at in the context of our celebration of Confederate History Month.
We talked about the importance of honoring heroes, Sam, why it's important that we continue to celebrate and remember that which the South embodied during the war between the states.
And now you look at the SCV, and we're going to segue after this into your booklet on Lincoln, Shattering the Icon of Abraham Lincoln.
But the SCV, I mentioned earlier that we come up very highly when you Google Confederate History Month.
SCV also issued a proclamation.
I believe it was the Georgia Division of the Sons of Confederate Veterans.
And you got to remember, to be a member of the Sons of Confederate Veterans, you have to have Confederate blood coursing through your veins.
You have to be a direct descendant of someone who served in defense of the Confederate States of America.
So, you know, you would expect this to be the core of the Corps.
And Sam, I forwarded to you an email earlier this week in which the SCV offered their proclamation of Confederate History Month.
And it was just two or three paragraphs.
And the focal point of it was to honor the Jews, the black drummers, the Mexicans, and so on and so forth that defended the Confederacy.
What's the psychology there?
We have 30 seconds to break.
Well, you've heard of the Stockholm syndrome in which kidnapped victims at some point begin to identify with and mesh with their kidnappers.
These people that put out this terrible material, when we get back, I'm going to read it aloud, this offensive paragraph.
They have simply been kidnapped.
They've been psychologically kidnapped.
Right there, Sam.
I'm glad you want to revisit this when we come back.
That's what we'll do then.
When we come back, we'll take a look at this.
And again, folks, we don't want to cast a negative light on this.
This is cause for celebration.
This is an uplifting series.
That's the purpose of it.
But we've got to look at some of this also.
Got to examine all angles.
I'm going to be back, talk a little bit more about the SCV's proclamation of Confederate History Month.
Then we're going to talk about Sam's paper on Lincoln.
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Bravery.
Gallantry.
Valor and sacrifice.
You go through the annals of Confederate history and you will find hundreds upon hundreds of examples from the well-known Robert E. Lee, Nathan Bedford Forrest, Stonewall Jackson, to some of the lesser-known stories.
You know, Isham Harris, the elected governor of Tennessee, fighting in the Battle of Shiloh.
I mean, can you imagine a sitting governor of a state today going out and fighting with his country in battle?
It would never happen.
You know, George Dixon and the crew of the CSS Hunley, the first submarine to ever sink an enemy combatant in naval warfare.
That was a Confederate submarine.
They knew it was a death sentence when they got in that submarine.
Several previous crews had already sunk and drowned trying to get the machine to work.
So many examples like that.
And we're going to be profiling a lot of them during this month.
But as Sam and I were talking about before the break, the Son of the Confederate Veterans, which is supposed to be the foremost defender of Confederate history in Harry, did you would think that this month they would be really in their element?
They issue a proclamation of their own.
And who do they showcase?
Is it Isham Harris or Dixon or Lee or Forrest or pick your Confederate hero?
No, it's the Jews and the black drummers and the Mexicans and the Indians.
Sam, am I lying?
I mean, people might not believe this is true.
No, no, no.
In fact, I have it here in front of me.
I'll put on my glasses and I'll read this paragraph.
Confederate History Month commemorates the men and women.
It's so completely correct.
It's like what you hear now about always men and women of the Confederate States of America who came from all races and religions that include Irish-born General Patrick R. Cleburn, black Confederate drummer Bill Yop, Mexican-born Colonel Santos Benadides, Cherokee-born General Stan Waddy, and Jewish-born Confederate nurse Phoebe Pember,
who was the first female administrator of Chimboraza Hospital in Richmond, Virginia, where she served until the end of the war between the states.
Now, there's nothing wrong, and no one means any disrespect to these people, but these people are not representative in any way of the Confederate Army.
And by focusing on them in a way that you'd expect to get from Teddy Kennedy or Michelle Obama, that's the kind of thing you'd expect to come from their lips.
By focusing on them and giving them setter stage and the spotlight, the place of honor, which is deservedly belongs to the 40% of all white Christian Southerners who served in the Army and who are now being ignored,
that they're being set to one side to cater to some obscure black drummer boy and a Mexican-born Colonel Santos Benavides, who I imagine was born in Texas before the Mexicans were driven out of it.
Cherokee-born General Stan Waddy, the only reason General Stan Waddy fought for the Confederacy was he was an Indian.
He hated white people.
And he happened to be allied with us so he could kill white people.
He didn't fight for us because he believed in the Confederacy or any of the political theories of the Confederacy or Southern culture or the survival of the Southern white people.
I mean, he had his own acts to crime.
He fought for his own race.
Jewish-born Confederate nurse Phoebe Pember, who was the administrative hospital.
Well, you know, all due respect, good for her.
But why should she be mentioned and people like Lee or people or lesser people not be mentioned?
I like to tell people that I have a glorious Confederate genealogy.
As far as I can tell, I'm the only person who can boast of this.
That my ancestor, William Bayliss Dixon, who fought from First Manassas or Bull Run all the way to Appomattox, as far as I can tell, he was the only private ever to serve in the Confederate Army.
Everybody else is at least a colonel.
But I'm descended from the only private.
Well, why shouldn't my private ancestor, who didn't achieve the rank of corporal, why shouldn't he be mentioned here along with these people, like a black bummer?
But this is the ultimate victory for those who hated the South.
It's the ultimate victory for abolitionists like Charles Sumner and people like William Lloyd Garrison and the John Brown, the people who finished John Brown.
What greater victory could they hope for but that the descendants of the soldiers of the Army of Northern Virginia would come to hold views this wacky, that they would buy in to the whole ideology of self-loathing whites subordinating themselves and debasing themselves before rival ethnic groups.
The equivalent would be to have the remaining members of the Romanov family dynasty who survived the slaughter perpetrated by Lenin and Trotsky, Bronstein, and others,
to have them come out and say that they are now Marxist and that they're putting a picture of Trotsky up and they were taking down the pictures of the royal family in their living rooms and at least bracketing next to them pictures of Trotsky and Zerdlovsk, the actual murderer of the Tsar and Tsaritsa.
I mean, it literally would be like that.
To have the communist ideology embraced by the Russian royal family.
I just can't conceive of what these people think they're achieving.
And again, this is the sons of Confederate veterans themselves, not some obscure quasi-pro-Confederate entity.
I mean, obviously, I guess the objective is to buffer themselves from the inevitable attacks they're going to have to endure for even having the word Confederate in their name.
But all this does is like blood in the water to a shark.
It invites more attacks because it shows weakness.
Sam, I want to encourage everyone to revisit last year's Confederate History Month series, during which we also featured Sam.
Spend a little more time on the Lincoln aspect than we'll have time to do tonight, but I do want to transition now and at least touch on this.
Of course, Sam Dixon, our guest this evening, is the author of Shattering the Icon of Abraham Lincoln.
You can read it online.
Sam writes this, the astonishing thing about this paper on Abraham Lincoln is that it's needed or at all considered controversial.
In my opinion, one does not have to be a scholar to ferret out obscure and suppressed facets of history to see Abraham Lincoln as he was.
My views on this subject are not unusual.
They are those of the overwhelming majority of Southerners, both immediately before, during, and for decades after the war between the states.
My views were also shared by many in the North and the West.
Only the passage of time and the studious cultivation of the myth of Abraham Lincoln, coupled with his timely death, timely in the sense of being providential for his place in history, have caused Abraham Lincoln to be raised to the level of a sacred cow in American history, Sam Dixon.
That's Sam in his own words as he talks about his booklet, Shattering the Icon of Abraham Lincoln.
Sam, even in the Christian schools today, as you well know, and as you've said before, it's amazing to see the amount of worshipful Lincoln Douglas Tubman propaganda.
What's the most important thing?
We have a couple of minutes left in this segment and one more segment to summarize everything, bring it all full circle.
What's the most important thing you want our audience to know about Lincoln that they probably won't see on the History Channel?
Well, the most important thing about Lincoln was that he was a failed, he failed the most important thing, task that he had, which was to prevent the Civil War.
Again, contrary to what our enemies say about us, we are not extremist and we're not hateful people.
While we regard our Confederate ancestors with reverence and with honor, I don't celebrate the Civil War.
It was a tragedy of unimaginable consequences.
600,000 soldiers died, setting aside civilian deaths due to hunger and disease.
I read a review in the New York Times book review section two weeks ago of a book that's come out mildly critical of Lincoln for precisely the right point that this was not an unavoidable conflict, as is said in American history books, the irrepressible conflict.
We're the only nation on earth that had to fight a civil war and kill 600,000 people to end slavery.
Sam, hold up right there.
This commercial break snuck up on me a little bit more quickly than I anticipated.
We're going to take our last commercial break.
When we come back, it's all about Lincoln with the author of Shattering the Icon of Abraham Lincoln, Sam Dixon himself.
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This hour featuring Sam Dixon has really flown by.
I've gotten away from me a little bit too fast.
If you go to our website, thepolitical cesspool.org, there at the very top of the blog roll, you'll see an entry entitled, Sam Dixon Joins Us Tonight, Saturday, April 2nd, to Shatter the Icon of Abraham Lincoln.
If you click on that article, you will find a link that will direct you to Sam's booklet, Shattering the Icon of Abraham Lincoln.
Our mutual friend, Mark Weber of the Institute for Historical Review, wrote this.
The real Lincoln, says Georgia attorney Dixon in this source-referenced booklet, was quite different than the one portrayed in television, school books, and motion pictures.
The author marshals evidence from throughout his career to show that Abraham Lincoln was a hypocrite, an opportunist, an instigator and wager of ruthless war, and the nation's first political tyrant, particularly critical of the 16th president's savage war against the Southern Confederacy.
The author contends that Lincoln should be regarded as a dangerous forerunner of such liberal collectivists as Franklin Roosevelt.
Again, you can go and link over to Sam's booklet and read it in its entirety at thepolitical Cesspool.org tonight.
Sam, you were making a point right before that last commercial break about the real Lincoln.
Well, he certainly could have headed off the war.
The New York Times book review I was mentioning poo-pooed that.
But every other nation on earth, even Brazil, even the banana republics of Latin America, were able to resolve the slavery issue without the kind of revolutionary upheaval and bloodbath that we went through.
The czarist Russia was able to accomplish the same thing: the abolition of serfdom and the freeing of the serfs.
The monarchical system under Alexander the Second, the Tsar, functioned very much better than the Democratic system under Abraham Lincoln.
The serfs were emancipated without the shedding of a single life.
And in 1905 to 1911, his great-grandson or his grandson, Nicholas II, carried out one of the most successful agrarian land reforms in human history.
And the serfs were the previous serfs, their descendants were given title to the lands they worked.
If a monarchical system could do that, I would say that a democratic system can only resort to massive upheaval and bloodshed.
Lincoln did nothing to head off the war.
When he was elected president, it was obvious that we were facing a colossal crisis.
The South began to secede.
And no one knew that Lincoln would use force and wage a vicious war to crush the South and to pin it back into the Union at bayonet point.
But he knew, he knew what he was going to do, and he sat there and let the crisis develop.
He made absolutely no effort to conciliate the South.
He was asked by Southern Unionists like Alexander H. Stevens to give them some statement they could work with to try to head secession off.
Now, I'm not saying secession was a bad thing, but certainly the war was a bad thing.
And a person of goodwill would have sought to avoid war and to have avoided secession in Lincoln's shoes.
Instead, Lincoln answered the later vice president of the Confederacy, Alexander H. Stevens, with a letter giving him private assurances that he was not an enemy of the South, but forbidding him from using the letter to try to quell secessionist sentiment.
Now, what do you make about that?
What are we to make of that?
Well, let me ask you this.
And that was actually something I must admit, and I hate to admit because I hate to be Trumped in any way, but I had not even heard that story before.
And something I learned on the political session, along with our listening audience, when you watch any popular portrayal of Lincoln, he is always portrayed as a thoughtful, sincere, good-hearted Christian man.
He hated the war when, of course, the facts are totally the opposite.
How responsible was Lincoln for the barbaric and savage manner in which war was waged against the South, particularly Sherman's March to the Sea, where they raped and burned their way, killing civilians, women, and children.
They would even rape well-known documents of the Union Army even raping the slaves.
And contrast that with Robert E. Lee, who, when he made his one advance into northern territory, some of the Confederates were said to have thought this was time for payback.
And he expressly told them that they would not conduct themselves in such a way.
They would conduct themselves in the enemy territory the way that they would conduct themselves in their home states.
But Sherman, obviously, his legacy is well known.
Well, maybe not well known to people today, but to people who know anything.
How responsible should Lincoln be held to that account?
He's absolutely responsible.
He was the commander-in-chief.
He set the policies.
It's part of the Lincoln myth.
It's the idea that he sat in the White House sort of in a cloud, not knowing what was happening, just exuding benevolence and love of mankind, a kind of what the Buddhists call a bodhisattva.
And that all these things, to the extent anyone discusses them at all, and Sherman's March to the Sea is not really commented on or discussed much in the modern world, modern discussion of American history.
The insinuation is that this was just someone, a rogue operation that Lincoln didn't know about.
Of course he knew all about it.
It was being reported in the northern news media.
Sherman was reporting to him.
We have the example in Athens, Alabama, when a Russian Cossack mercenary unleashed his soldiers on the townspeople because they had turned their backs on the Union soldiers who had occupied their town and angered Tershev, the Russian commander of the American army there.
And so he unleashed his soldiers and said they could do whatever they want for 24 hours.
And for 24 hours, they raped and stole and beat up people and this kind of thing.
And this was done over the protest of his own native-born northern officers, who actually then brought court-martial charges against him.
When word of this reached Lincoln, he disbanded the court-martial, had Tershov brought back to the North in triumph, and sent him out on a bond-raising tour, glorying in this incident before hate-crazed northern mobs.
This is not a nice man.
Folks, of course, the nature of commercial radio is such that you never really get to have a comprehensive discussion of the issues.
As much as we can pack it to this hour, we are still only scratching the surface of a very important issue in American history, and that is, of course, the real legacy of Lincoln and the role he played during the war between the states.
And, of course, we want to at least provide a cursory review of this matter during our Confederate History Month series.
As I mentioned just a moment ago, you have got to read if this is an issue that interests you, and I'm sure that it is.
And judging by the response this hour is getting in the Political Successful online chat, all the fans in there passing around the links to Sam Dixon's booklet, Shattering the Icon of Abraham Lincoln.
Very well researched, very well referenced.
We encourage you to check it out for yourself.
Again, only getting the tip of the iceberg tonight during what time we have available on the program.
If you want to read the rest of it at your own pace, an in-depth analysis, go to thepoliticalspool.org, click on the top article that's featured this evening, and you will have a link directly to Sam's booklet.
And it is certainly recommended reading during Confederate History Month 2011.
Sam, we have about a minute left.
I want to end all this tonight on a somewhat more uplifting note.
I'm going to ask you an impossible question.
Your favorite Confederate hero and why?
Oh, I'd have to think about that.
I can't answer that question.
I told you it was an impossible, but I wasn't lying.
Well, let me ask you this.
I tell you who my favorite northern hero is.
Okay.
All right, do that.
And that's Franklin Pierce, the former president of the United States, who lived in New Hampshire and who publicly opposed the war of conquest against the South and stood his ground throughout the entire war, saying that the South had the legal right to secede, that the war of conquest and aggression was wrong.
His house was attacked by mobs on at least two and maybe three occasions.
And after the war, after having never backed down, he was one of the men who stood bond for Jefferson Davis to get out of Fort Monroe prison in Washington, D.C. after the North abandoned plans for a sort of Nuremberg trial of Jefferson and southern leaders.
And he publicly received Davis as his house guest in New England as Davis and nursed him back to health as Davis in shattered health was being sent into exile, first to Canada and then to Europe.
Sam, Sam, Franklin Pierce, everybody, check him out.
We're out of time.
On behalf of Sam Dixon and my whole staff and crew here at the Political Festival, happy Confederate History Month.
We will see you next week as we continue our celebration right here on the Political Festival.