Aug. 27, 2011 - The Political Cesspool - James Edwards
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Welcome to the Political Cesspool, known worldwide as the South's foremost populous radio program.
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All right, everybody.
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Last week, Eddie and I talked about this briefly on the show, I think, and then I posted it on the website last Sunday, and it just became a big, big hit.
Two Souls One Cart.
And we're looking here at a couple of 300-pounders, and they're getting married at Walmart.
It's a white guy and a black woman.
And it's so appropriate that they get married at Walmart because this is something that I've noticed.
I'm sure other people had to have noticed it.
And I found out that that had been true because when I read some of the replies to this, so many people shared my observations that I had concluded.
Two Souls One Card.
It's about this mixed-race couple who want to sweepstakes to be married at Walmart.
Have their wedding at Walmart.
You got to watch the video.
Yes, I have a video about this.
Two Souls One Card, August 21st at the blog at thepolitical Cesspool.org.
And these just look like two people you would find shopping at Walmart.
I tell you, America has fallen far in so many ways.
But now, I tell you, when I think about Americans, I don't think about the lean, strong-willed, rationally-minded people that came before us.
I want to think of Americans now across the board, but especially at Walmart, where it seems to epitomize this, I think of fat, ugly, stupid people.
And I hate to say that.
When I think of Americans, you know, just an average American, no one in particular, when I envision a stereotypical American, I think of fat, sluggish, sloppy, stupid.
And that's all by design.
And that's what most Americans are devolving into now, Eddie.
No doubt about it, James.
Like I was telling you earlier, James, I'm really disappointed in a woman.
I thought that she would probably have her standards higher in a man than to marry a slug like that man right there, racing makes him man.
But yeah, you know, if you look at the schools, you're starting with the school system.
You know, our schools don't get it, they don't get exercise anymore.
You know, the people have been so dumbed down.
They know more about Martin Luther King than they do, George Washington.
The curriculum is just pitiful.
Several years ago, there was a valedictoria that graduated out here from, I think it was Fraser High School here in Memphis.
And, you know, she couldn't, she had trouble reading her diploma.
That's such a true story.
And we have this, I think it's just either Trezvin or Fraser High School here in Memphis, James, when they had, what was it?
You might remember this story.
Wouldn't they have like something like 90% of the senior class was pregnant when they graduated?
You remember that?
Yeah, it was somewhere between 80 and 90%.
And James, they even have sometimes I just, I feel like I'm just really not, you know, experiencing reality.
I feel like I'm living, walking through life in a dream, you know, psychotic or something, you know, never waking up.
Because when I was in school, never in my wildest dreams would you imagine that a pregnant girl would come to school.
And now, James, by God, they have nurseries in every school in Memphis.
I'm glad you brought that up because you're a little longer in the tooth than I am.
I'm 31 years old, and all my time in school, and of course, I homeschooled 9th, 10th, 11th, and 12th grade.
But my mom worked at the Christian school that I went to through 8th grade, and my dad was a coach there.
And so, yeah, we went 43-0 in 8th grade, you know, only undefeated team in the history of the school there, basketball.
But, you know, we kept tabs with what was going on in grades above and beyond my own because, you know, my family was a big part of the school there.
In all my years of going to that school, only one time and one time only did, you know, Briarcrest is a big school here.
Thousands of kids go there.
Only once did a girl end up pregnant while at Briarcrest while I was there.
And my eight years there, only once was there a pregnancy, and she was kicked out of school.
And now, as you said, now that was just me talking, you know, I was going to school in the 80s and early 90s.
I graduated high school in 1998 only once.
And now, as you said, all of the schools have nurseries, and it's almost cool to be pregnant.
Well, anyway, getting back to the Walmart thing, I mean, we're just talking, we're just giving that as an example of how standards, morals, and otherwise have fallen in America so drastically.
I go to Walmart from time to time.
I'll admit it.
You know, we all do occasionally.
We have to go there for something.
It's convenient.
You know, the prices are cheap.
I'm like, you know, when you look at those gossip magazines, celebrities, they do things just like you do.
Well, yes, I go to Walmart occasionally.
And every time I go there, oh, I dread it.
I'd rather take a beating than go in there.
It's depressing.
It's like all those fluorescent lights.
And it's the dregs of society in Walmart.
It is a third world hell to go into Walmart.
It's really a crystal ball into the future of America.
Anytime you go into Walmart, it's looking to the future of America.
You know, they've got 30 cashiers stations and only three of them are manned.
It's just nasty.
Well, we've got a video for you.
ThepoliticalAccessible.org.
Check it out.
You know, Eddie, I know you were listening to the show before you showed up in the studio tonight.
We were talking about that MLK shakedown they're having there at the National Mall.
Pales a comparison to the United States Slavery Museum.
If you've never heard of the United States Slavery Museum, it's because it never got off the ground, but it's not because they didn't take in a lot of money.
They took in millions, and it was all siphoned off and extorted by the former black governor, if you can call him black, of Virginia, L. Douglas Wilder.
We're going to talk more about this next week, but what's that?
It probably was a presidential candidate.
But as the old saying goes, no sooner do you put one person in a position of responsibility than they immediately start stealing.
Well, that's the story behind the United States Slavery Museum.
We'll come back and tell you something quick about that.
A little teaser for next week, and then we'll let Eddie go chase prayer rabbit.
Eddie's going to ask you a question.
We've got to take a break, then.
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Follow-up, United States National Slavery Museum.
It's been 10 years.
The big story in the New York Times this week about this little extortion racket.
It's been 10 years since L. Douglas Wilder, the nation's first elected black governor, unveiled a plan to build the United States National Slavery Museum on 38 acres in Fredericksburg, Virginia.
It was to be the only institution of its kind housed in a soaring glass building and illuminated at night so that cars passing on I-95 could see the full-scale replica of a slave ship in its atrium.
Today, the land remains vacant and is drowning in tax bills.
The museum owes more than $215,000 in property taxes dating back to 2008.
This month, the city announced that it's putting the land on the auction block.
It seems that nothing has been happening and nobody's answering any of the mail we send to them.
So we're just doing the same thing that we do to anybody else, said the city treasurer there in Fredericksburg.
The museum's director has departed.
Its board no longer meets.
Its offices are abandoned and the museum's state license to solicit donations has lapsed.
Some people who donated artifacts to the museum years ago have demanded them back.
So here's a recap, Eddie.
The museum's design called for a nearly 300,000 square foot building.
Mr. Wilder, again, the black former governor of Virginia, estimated that the construction cost was $100 million, but in its last filing from 2007, the museum reported just $115,000 in assets aside from the land.
Okay, so you got this former black governor of Virginia going to build the National Slavery Museum because there's one thing we need more of.
It's reminders about slavery because we don't have enough of that.
They raised $100 million and never built anything.
Never built anything.
Never poured a foundation.
All that's there is a garden that marked the spot where the museum is going to be built.
They raised $100 million, never built the museum, collected all of these artifacts that they must have hawked off from donors.
$100 million plus artifacts.
They never paid the property taxes, and now it's being auctioned off.
That is a racket that MLK himself could be proud of.
You know what?
James, I bet you a dollar to a donut that the garden there, some white schmuck, put the garden in, did the work because the blacks aren't going to go out there like Keith Alexander says that they're not going to break a sweat nowadays because they get all these government handouts.
But that tickles the crap out of me.
You know, maybe it's mean-spirited of me being a Christian and all.
But that just, you know what, I think it's poetic justice, James, because you know, blacks are not going to spend a cent on anything like that.
They're not going to, like Keith says, always find a saying, he's right there.
You know, even the well-to-do blacks, they're not going to spend a dollar on their kids' education.
They're not going to spend a dollar or anything like this.
These white liberal schmucks are the ones that send in all this money.
And you know, James, I'm glad they got fleeced.
I really am.
I think it's poetic justice.
And I'll bet you that a white man did that.
Wilson, folks, I got to bring up something.
I'm going to start back in the old days, back in the 80s, and I'm going to bring us up to date on what's going on down here at the border with this Fast and Furious.
A lot of you people may not remember the crime that was going on over in MENA, Arkansas, back in the 80s and the early 90s when Bill Clinton was governor of Arkansas.
But there was a big, huge, huge series done by the Commercial Appeal, no doubt, here in Memphis about what was going on over there in Arkansas.
And they hooked it up with the deal with Whitewater political shenanigans over there in Little Rock, Arkansas, involving the Rose law firm in Hillary and Bill.
Well, come to find out, they were smuggling millions and millions of dollars worth of drugs in from Columbia, South America, all over South America.
And they were taking the drugs and they were dumping them on the streets of Los Angeles, California, in Miami.
And our government, the United States government, under the CIA, they were selling the drugs to the bloods in the crypts in Los Angeles.
There was an explosion, I mean, a huge explosion of crack cocaine because the drug lords out there in L.A. were taking that cocaine and to make it go further, they were cooking off crack and selling it to other lesser drug dealers.
Well, the same thing was going in Miami.
There was a fellow by the name of Gary Webb.
Some of you more older guys and astute readers of keeping up with the news.
A fellow named Gary Webb out of the San Diego Mercury did a huge article, a huge article on it.
Bless his heart.
It took about a year or two to do this tedious research project.
And he released a whole series of these articles over a period of time.
I think he named this whole series the Dark Alliance.
The series were, they were in the archives.
You could go into the San Diego Mercury newspaper and pull them up.
You can no longer pull them up from the San Diego Mercury, but you can go into, there's other newspapers that have gotten them.
But see, he detailed it.
I mean, it's documented.
I mean, it's this irrefutable evidence that the CIA and other government, United States government agencies were dealing these drugs.
They were dealing with trafficking in human slaves.
When I'm talking about arms, I'm talking about grenade launchers, Uzis, M79 machine guns.
I mean, these kind of weapons were showing up in the streets of L.A., streets of Miami.
And, well, it's still going on, people.
And it's going on.
Actually, it was going on there in Vietnam, too, because the CIA was sending drugs back in the coffins, James, for God's sakes, in the coffin of my dead brothers, in the GIs.
They would put these drugs and they send them into the United States.
They had planes crash up here in the United States.
Of course, the police could never do anything about it.
But now we've heard about this fast and furious down here on the Mexican border where we have the ATFE, they've added the E for explosives, the DEA, the IRS agents, you know, all these government thugs are getting in on the action.
And they were busted red-handed of selling these drugs to the drug dealers down here in Mexico.
And the reason, and when they got busted, they had this little flimsy excuse.
They said they were, oh, we were, yeah, we were taking these guns down there.
We were giving them to the drug lords.
So because we wanted to trace the drugs from just the penny anti-drug drug lords to the big-time guys.
Yeah, I want to chime in on that real quick, and I'll turn it back over to you.
He's right about this.
Obama even, I think, had to comment on this because he was saying that, yeah, we gave him all these guns because we wanted to track the flow of the guns.
So basically, this was a big story.
We actually posted this on the CESPOL site, and it had a lot of references and links and, you know, to major news stories.
Major news stories covered this.
The United States government, yes, released thousands of guns to the drug cartels so they could track the flow of the guns.
This is an absolutely true story, at least that much of it is.
Of course, the government had no idea where the guns were going, even though they hand-carried them and hand-turned them over to the drug lords in Mexico.
And meanwhile, police, civilians and South Police from the Southwestern states of Arizona and Texas and California being slaughtered by these illegal guns.
But you know, we had a fellow on the radio, and I know I've mentioned this several times.
He was always one of my favorite guests.
His name was Senator John DeCamp out of Nebraska.
And he wrote a whole big documentation.
Actually, it turned out to be a novel.
It's called The Franklin Cover-Up.
And people I used to really look up to, James, and I know you looked up to him too, like Lieutenant Colonel Oliver Nor, you know, he was busted red-handed.
And, you know, coming into Omaha, Nebraska, it's laundering money, this drug money that the CIA and other agencies of the government were getting.
And the reason they were getting that money, one of the reasons because, well, they wanted to get rich.
But they were laundering this drug money through one of the biggest banks in the country at the time.
It was called the Franklin, something like the Franklin Federal Credit Union in Omaha, Nebraska.
John DeCamp talked all about that.
They were running human slaves, little boys, little girls, whatever you wanted.
You want a little six-year-old girl or eight-year-old boy, whatever you wanted.
Hey, put your order in and you can sell it.
Nancy, is it Maureen Reagan, Reagan's daughter?
She was mixed up on all that.
Poppy Bush was there.
By the way, they call him Poppy Bush because he's waist deep in these drugs.
I mean, folks, there's nothing new under the sun.
Like I said earlier.
Folks, we'll get back.
I'm going to take about just a couple more minutes to tell you about Poppy Bush running the Zapata Oil Company before he was even the head of the CIA running the drugs and stuff.
Now we're going to a break, folks.
We'll be right back.
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All right, everybody.
Still a lot more to talk about tonight, if you can believe it.
We only have two segments left.
We're chasing conspiracies with Pappy right now.
And I'll tell you one thing.
The thing about the guns is absolutely, without a doubt, undeniably true about the government releasing just all of these heavy-duty guns down to the cartel so they could track them.
I mean, that was their excuse.
I mean, it was one of the most brain-dead things you could mention.
To me, Poppy Bush, as Peppy calls him, was an international criminal, whether or not he liked little kids or not.
But, you know, there's a lot of people who subscribe to that.
And I'll tell you, you know, we've had a lot of guests on who have researched into this.
I don't know.
I haven't really read enough to make an educated and informed decision one way or another.
The big E has.
The Big E has, as Eddie will testify.
But to me, you know, it's irrelevant.
I mean, they're criminals anyway.
But, you know, a couple of more crimes and then pederasty.
Of course, pedophilia won't be a crime too much longer, as we mentioned.
You know, they've got these groups out here seeking to decriminalize it.
So I guess that'll be good for a lot of these Washington insiders and Hollywood moguls.
But John DeCamp, Jim Rothstein, Jack McLamb.
These are people who have come on our show in the past, over the years, to talk about some of these issues that even for us are a little out of bounds.
And anyway, we were going to have another show like that.
Eddie, though, God bless him.
Everybody has their strength.
Booking guests is not Eddie.
No matter who he books, they cancel.
The only one who didn't was Paul Babiu.
And that was one of the biggest unmitigated disasters in the history of this show.
Not so much that it went bad.
I mean, we had a great interview with him.
He knew all about the show.
He wanted to come on.
Then after he came on, it made headline news across the country.
It was one of the biggest news stories in politics in America for about a month.
A reporter from France flew from Paris to Memphis just to interview us about that show.
John McCain made, it was a big issue in the John McCain re-election for Senate campaign because I think they were lovers or whatever.
I don't know what was going on there.
The phone records, Eddie never could get it.
I tell you, Eddie, Eddie's like that guy who had all the talent to make it to the big leagues, but he just couldn't break through.
That's Eddie when it comes to booking guests.
But Eddie was going to have Officer Jack McLamb, who now, in addition to being one of the most highly decorated police officers in the history of American law enforcement, has a radio program now, but he has new religious beliefs, and he can't come on our show on Saturday or something.
But he was going to come on and talk about some of this stuff that Eddie's getting out there for you now.
Couldn't come on.
It would have added a little more legitimacy, right?
No one's more legitimate than Officer Jack McClam.
You're absolutely right.
You know, he was shot to pieces in several, breaking up several drug deals in Phoenix, Arizona.
Most highly decorated police officer ever come out of Phoenix, Arizona.
Flew for the Black Ops during the Vietnam War.
That's all I know because he's not allowed to tell.
People in the future, I would like to go back and talk about Poppy Bush when he had the Zapata Oil Company.
We'd like to talk about that.
Everybody knows he was a front man for the CIA.
Later on, he became the head of the CIA and was running drugs then.
Went into the vice president with Ronald Reagan.
Everybody knows that.
Run drugs when he's with CIA when he was vice president under Ronald Reagan.
And people, I would like to relate this.
I think the most crucial part of this story is the way that police are being recruited now.
Just going back to these police we saw in Washington, D.C. tonight.
I mean, they're a bunch of wannabe Rangers, a bunch of wannabe SEALs.
You know, they come out to arrest a bunch of 20-somethings selling lemonade.
For God's sakes, why do they have to arrest them?
They're recruiting morons in the police station now, James, for the police.
They don't want them with normal IQs, that's for sure, because if they have normal IQs, they will think and question orders.
Well, people, we need to talk about that.
Listen, I'm not kidding you, James.
I'd rather be stopped roadblocked by the Crips and the Bloods or MS-59 or whatever the hell they are.
I'd rather do battle with them because at least you know you don't have to battle the United States Army, the National Guard, the CIA.
You don't have to worry about the IRS coming, kicking your doors down.
I can handle these punks and the Crips and the Bloods, but it's just the police, James.
We have to worry about them.
They're recruiting thugs and they get off on stomping on citizens' rights.
And they can't wait.
They cannot wait to bust someone's head.
It's going on every day, James.
Well, and that's going on in the military for sure.
They're expunging records of thugs in return for their service.
And then, you know, all of these thugs who are admittedly have been previous members of some of these gangs you mentioned.
And they're going in the military and getting military training, and then they're going back on the streets.
And, James, this boggles my mind.
James, you're a smart guy.
What happened in Rome?
In the Roman Empire, you're talking about how fat and lazy and stupid the American people are getting.
That's what happened in the Roman Empire.
The Roman Empire had one of the greatest armies the world had ever seen.
But they got fat and lazy and stupid.
What did they do?
They started recruiting soldiers from other parts of the empire who didn't give a damn about Rome.
Well, guess what we're doing now?
As Salma said, there's nothing new under the sun.
James, they're recruiting.
They're going in and getting Mexicans by the droves.
You know, other people out of third world countries, and they're telling them if they will do a stint in the United States military, guess what they're going to do?
They're going to make citizens out of them.
And do you think some MS-29 gangbanger, when he gets out of the army and he comes and applies for his automatic job in the police force, do you think he's going to give a hoot in hell about Eddie Miller or James Edwards or Keith Alexander's rights?
You think they can't wait to blow our brains all over the street.
I mean, we're talking about third world thugs.
That's who the United States is bringing into the United States military because smart white kids do not want to be a thug and they don't want to come in and shoot grandma.
So they're doing what the Russians did in 1917.
They're taking northern Russians and sending them to the south to shoot the southern Russians and they're taking Russians from the south, shooting them, taking them up to the north to mow people down.
They're doing what the Romans did under Nero.
They're bringing in the so-called barbarians and they didn't give a damn how many Romans they speared and tortured.
They're looking forward to it.
I'm telling you, that's the kind of police that we've got looking forward to today.
Turn it back over to you, son.
I think it's more prevalent in the military than that.
You know, certainly in local police offices like Bartlett.
I mean, you got a pretty good core here.
I mean, it's the typical local residents of the community.
And there are some good ones, but more and more, I think, it's going on on a national level.
Anyway, Peppy does love to get fired up, that's for sure.
But, you know, one of the things, I'll go to something a little lighter and fair now.
One of the things we've been doing this week, we've been having an online presidential straw poll just to see, you know, who the people of the political cesspool would vote for if the election was today.
And it's a landslide.
I mean, it's almost as if there's no other choice at all.
Ron Paul all the way.
And there's a whole lot of comments on this.
If you go to our blog entry, is Ron Paul the one, quote unquote?
Everybody loves Ron Paul.
Now, they don't love him necessarily, but they're going to vote for him if they vote at all, almost without exception.
Not with us on race.
He's not.
You know, he worships at the King Statue like all the other politicians, but he's easy on the homosexuals.
But he does seem to be a constitutionalist.
He definitely wouldn't vote for more taxes, which God knows we can't afford to pay.
There's certainly nothing going in Ron Paul's favor, as I wrote on the blog entry, that I can plan to vote for him in the GOP primaries in 2012, as I did in 2008, without feeling like a total whore and sellout after doing so.
You voted for Ron Paul in 2008, right, Pappy?
Surely did.
And I think you and me, and Keith and other girls, and Bill and Winston, I think we put this kiss of death on Chuck Ballman when we voted for him for president back when he ran for the constitutional ticket.
Isn't that right, James?
Yeah, well, as I said, I have voted in every election since I was allowed to vote.
And my first election was 1998.
I was 18 years old.
18 years old in 1998.
That was the first time I was ever able to vote, and I voted.
And I voted in every election since then.
I wasn't old enough to vote for George Wallace.
Eddie was saying he voted for George Wallace.
But the same thing, the same pattern is consistent.
I've never voted for anyone who's won, and that goes from the president all the way down to dog catcher.
You know, I ran myself as a candidate for state representative, and I voted for myself, and I lost, just like all the rest of them that I voted.
Eddie voted for me.
Thank you.
And I got data.
I did pretty good for an independent.
I surely did.
I think I set a record for getting the largest percentage of an independent candidate in a state representative race in Tennessee.
Yeah, well, we spent a little more than $150, but we got out, spent 10 to 1, and we spent about $10,000.
$100,000 my opponent spent for a seat that paid $16,000.
Anyway, I've never voted for anyone that's won, but I'm still going to vote for Ron Paul, I think, in 2012 in the GOP primaries.
What else you got to do?
You want to vote in that straw poll?
Go to thepolitical cesspool.org and do it.
A lot of people are doing it.
You don't have to vote for Ron Paul, but just tell us who you're going to vote for.
It's the TPC Online Straw Poll, thePolitical Cesspool.org.
We're going to take a break.
America says goodbye to a hero.
We're going to tell you about him when we return and conclude in the political cesspool after this.
We'll be back right after these messages.
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Final segment.
Here we are.
The final segment of the night, if you can believe it.
Another three hours gone by.
Far too quickly, but I'm happy to be joined now by my good friend and your Zetti, Peter Scoop Stanton, political cesspool correspondent, calling in.
Where are you calling in from tonight, Scoop?
And did you wave to Hurricane Irene as she passed you by?
Well, Hurricane Irene is making her approach here in the Washington, D.C. area.
She should be in full force about 2 a.m. over my house.
Okay, so she hasn't exactly gotten to your house yet?
No, no, no.
It's raining.
The wind's picking up.
So we're hunkered down for the evening.
So you didn't evacuate.
Do they try to get you to pull up stakes or what?
No, I'm waiting for a FEMA trailer to be dropped in front of my house in case you get fallen out.
Well, did they try to get you to leave Scoop or?
No, no.
We're not near any uh large body of water except the Chesapeake Bay, and my house is like uh pretty far away from the Pe Chesapeake Bay or the Potomac River or any other like that major body of water.
Okay, so you didn't live in Kill Devil Hills, North Carolina, or whatever I kept seeing on TV today.
No, no, no.
Of course, I knew you didn't live there, but you're not in a an area like that right now.
You weren't vacationing in Kill Devil Hills.
No.
Well, either way, so it is now.
Can you go outside and like fly a major kite right now?
I remember I was in Portland, Oregon one day, and they had this historic windstorm.
And my dad, this was when I was a kid, and we were up there to see a basketball game, actually.
And my dad said he was going to go out there and ride the storm.
You're going to go out there and try to tackle Irene or you're going to enjoy it at all?
Get any footage?
I kept watching Shepherd Smith today, and he kept saying, you know, send in your hurricane footage to Fox News.
Why don't you be our man on the street reporting for the cesspool with this?
Well, I'll send another different type of photo of Mr. Smith.
I'll get a rise out of it, if you know what I mean.
So you're not going to go out there and try to windsurf this thing?
No, no.
I'm not one of these idiots who jump in body water, think they can body surf, and next thing you know, the Coast Guard's out there risking the life of a limb for some loser.
Yeah, actually, a couple of fatalities today.
Well, unfortunately, you know, speaking of fatalities, I know that's why you're calling in.
It was actually Peter Scoop Stanton himself that scooped this story to me earlier in the week.
And of course, we quickly got it up on the political cesspools website.
Pete, I'll let you tell the story from beginning to end.
America lost a living legend, one of the good guys, truly one of the good guys this week, and it's a man whose establishment you visited and ate at.
Right.
Well, this nation now lost a patriot, a true American, and a Philadelphia native son named Joey Vento.
In 1966, armed with a ninth grade education, some cases of food, $6 and liver training and experience in the U.S. Army, he opened a cheesesteak stand across the street from the self-proclaimed king of steaks.
And the end result was his hard work and his innovation in making a sandwich.
He became a very, very wealthy man.
And 40 years later, in 2006, he became a center of controversy when he put a bumper sticker or a little sign that says, this is America.
When ordering, speak English.
Now, people got all upset because he had this sign up and he would not take it down.
He would not kowtow to the mainstream media and the leftist psychopaths.
And needless to say, the end result was still a continued success.
Besides having people speak English when ordering, Mr. Vento spent a lot of money and time and effort in the shop to remember those fallen public safety heroes in the Philadelphia Police and Fire Department that lost their lives in the line of duty, including Daniel Faulkner.
He has a shrine, if you will, of a photo of Mr. Faulkner, and in big letters is Officer Daniel Faulkner murdered by Bumia Abu Jamal.
Now, leftist idiots like Ed Asner will say, oh, free of Mumia Bujamal.
But this person who was born Wesley Cook shot and killed Officer Faulkner in cold blood.
On top of that, he has patches from about every law enforcement agency up and down the East Coast.
He was also a very charitable man.
He gave $100,000 to Elton Johns AIDS Foundation, and he held fundraisers where if you bought one of his patronizing restaurant, he would donate all proceeds to a foundation for either fallen law officers or firefighters.
Whereas Sean Handy, this Freedom Concerts, the band's got to get paid, and the parks got to get paid, and everybody's got to get paid.
But Vento, 100% of the proceeds is going to go to charity.
And he passed away on the 23rd of August at 71 years old.
And what's really disgusting is the Washington Post put out an obituary about Mr. Vento.
Now, Will Chamberlain said, you're at your best when you're laid to rest.
Because when somebody passes away, all you hear about is all the great stories how this person was.
However, this reporter, her name is Emily Langer.
She actually trashed Joey Vento.
I'm holding the obituary in my hand right now from the August 25th edition of the Washington Post.
I'll go through it real quick.
The first sentence, Joey Vento, the tattooed, trash-talking, motorcycle revenue, founder of Geno Stakes, Legendary Cheesesteak Joint South Philadelphia, died August 23rd as a home.
That's the first sentence.
He's tattooed, trash-talking, and I guess he must own a motorcycle or something.
Going further down the article, he called, he said that South Philadelphia, the old Italian neighborhood, built on ottery, clar gang, all-American traditional street food.
Then another paragraph in 2006, aggrieved by the influx of immigrants in the neighborhood, he hung a sign in the shop that said, This is America when ordering speak English.
That move brought national media attention to Genoes.
Mr. Vento appeared on television supporting his heavy bling and defending his right to free speech.
So I guess if you buy your own jewelry and wear it, you're wearing bling.
But I doubt Mr. Lang would ever say anything about any rap star wearing some jewelry.
Then the article goes on and says, the store would not refuse to serve a non-English speaker, he said, but certain standards would be enforced.
God forbid, a property owner enforcing some standards.
You don't hear that in the public school about standards.
You don't hear it about government efficiency standards.
But, you know, a private citizen owning a private restaurant needs standards.
Again, folks, this is an obituary, not just a hate piece.
Next paragraph.
Critics said Mr. Vento had crossed the line from serving up the swagger many customers enjoyed to inflaming real sensitivities in the community.
Mexican restaurant workers and other immigrants had flooded to Philadelphia, Nicholas said, especially from New York, where business suffered 9-11.
It was also pointed out that Mr. Vento, the grandson of Italian immigrants, perhaps should have been more accepting of the neighborhood's natural evolution.
Then Vento, to his credit, says people are being too touchy.
So a guy who was born and raised in South Philadelphia has a business in South Philadelphia, seeing the quality of life going from what he's used to, probably very decent, with very decent, hardworking people from South Philadelphia, to something other than that.
I mean, again, diversity is not a strength both.
It's a deadly disease.
Hey, Pete, I want to thank you for that excellent report on the passing of Joey Vento.
If I could just add a couple of things.
First, I want to reiterate a couple of the points that you made.
The man, ninth grade education, $6 in his pocket, and he creates a landmark tourist trap, what became a tourist trap restaurant, Gino's Stakes in Philadelphia.
Of course, Joey Vinto was the founder of the restaurant, became world famous, as Peter reported, Scoop reported, in 2006 when he placed a sign on his business that read, This is America when ordering speak English.
That's all it said.
Now, only in a very sick and degenerative, multicultural, diverse society like America would that be a controversy to put a sign on your window that said, When ordering, speak English.
But I mean, let's face it, if you don't know what they're saying, you don't know what to serve them.
So it kind of helps him out if he can understand them.
So he shouldn't have to be forced to learn Mexican so he can decipher his orders.
This single act, though, putting that sign up, pushed him into the front of America's immigration debate.
And he was a fixture on television and radio shows across the country there in 2006.
He was a guest on our radio program the very day he appeared on the Bill O'Reilly show.
We had him on our show.
That was during the height of his fame.
Austin Farley, any of you TPC fans that go back to the very early days of this broadcast, Scoop, I know you'll remember.
Austin Farley, my co-founder of this radio show, who is no longer with us, booked Joey for the show that night.
He died last week, or this week I should say, of a massive heart attack.
But America needs more men like Joey Vento, men who build businesses and refuse to cower.
He never apologized for putting up the This Is America When Ordering Speak English sign.
Rest in peace, Joey Vinto.
You'll be missed.
Scoop, as Scoop has said, as the left always does, or excoriating him in the press.
But we do have a good obituary from the Philadelphia Daily News at thepolitical Cesspool.org.