Dec. 10, 2011 - The Political Cesspool - James Edwards
41:03
20111210_Hour_2
|
Time
Text
Welcome to the Political Cesspool, known worldwide as the South's foremost populous radio program.
And here to guide you through the murky waters of the Political Cesspool is your host, James Edwards.
All right, everybody, welcome back to the show.
Welcome back to the Political Successful Radio Program.
I'm your host, James Edwards, Saturday evening, December the 10th.
A nice chilly evening in Memphis, Tennessee, as we broadcast to you live from AM 1380, WLRM Radio Studios in downtown.
Going out to the AMFM affiliate stations of the Liberty News Radio Network and simulcasting online to our fans around the world, thepoliticalscesspool.org, where you can listen to the online simulcast during each live show.
And, of course, pick up our broadcast archives, and they are all shows for the record book, if you do ask me.
Keith Alexander, I want to thank him again, as always do at the top of the second hour, for his services in the first.
He is such an asset to this radio program, such an asset to our cause and to our fans and for our issues.
A finer spokesman just doesn't exist.
He's so articulate, and he really adds just another layer of depth to each broadcast that he participates in.
Again, ladies and gentlemen, you know, we're having a party tonight here in the studio, as we did mention a couple of times during the first hour.
We've got a nice spread here.
Cheese tray, we've got a fruit tray, we've got all sorts of soft drinks and bottled waters, and we did it all for the star of tonight's show.
Our good friend Mark from St. Louis, who Mark's a guy I've known for years, and he is active in the Council of Conservative Citizens, and of course I am as well.
Mark's been a listener to this program for at least as long as we've known each other, if not longer.
And this is his first time to get down to Memphis and actually come into the studio.
And it was a long time coming.
And as I said, you know, we routinely have people come in, you know, a handful of times throughout the year that'll get in touch with us via the website over email and ask if we would take the time to meet them.
A lot of times, these are ladies and gentlemen that we haven't met before.
And we're meeting for the first time when we welcome them with open arms to our city and give them a little brief tour.
You know, we always love the interaction with our audience.
But Mark, even though this is his first time to come down and get the studio treatment, he is one of the people that I've known for a long time in this movement.
And I'm a better man for it.
Mark, how you doing tonight, buddy?
Welcome back.
Welcome.
You've been on the show before when we did some of the live broadcasts on the road at some of these Council of Conservative Citizens conferences.
But your first time in the studio, tell people what you think about it.
Thank you, James.
I love it.
It's a pleasure to be here.
This is outstanding.
And I finally made it here after all these years.
That's right.
You know, it was seven years.
And we finally got to do it.
But listen, folks, we extend this invitation to anyone out there.
You want to do what Mark's doing tonight?
Give us an email.
We're not always available.
We actually do have to work for a living, unlike our opposition.
But, you know, if we can make it, and if it works in with your schedule, you know, if you're coming through Memphis or you want to make a little trip down here, we'd love to try to coordinate that with you.
It's always our pleasure to meet and visit with the people who make our work possible.
And that is, of course, the listeners.
We're going to talk more with Mark this hour about some of his favorite moments, some of his favorite shows, favorite guests.
But, yeah, Mark, you know, you're downtown here with us tonight.
You're here at the radio station.
Not many people have seen this inner sanctum.
This is kind of like the Shambhala for our crew here, you know, to be in the studio.
I mean, this is it.
This is the inner core.
And as you can see, it reflects, as we've mentioned on the show, it reflects, I can't say our personality so much, but certainly mine.
I've got it all decked out in James Edwards.
I got pictures of my family picture with Frankie Valley.
We got our little musical shrine over there.
We got the political shrine, some stuff with Buchanan and some of our awards.
Walk them through what you see here.
Give them a verbal guide.
This is like being in a professional studio.
I'm seeing a little bit of everything here.
All between music and family pictures and all the awards and accomplishments.
If you could all see it, it's amazing.
We've got to get this on, and we're going to do this.
We've been talking about doing this for a year.
Giving people the video version of what it looks like inside 13 days.
We got some books over here.
Of course, tonight we got a lot of food, too.
But folks, as I say again, you make the show possible.
People like Mark, people like you.
Without you, there would be no political accessible.
And I got to tell you, we're like a family.
We always talk about it, and we don't do it disingenuously.
We're not blowing smoke at you.
I know a lot of people say, okay, we're all a big family, these multi-million dollar corporations.
We're all a family.
They couldn't care less, really, about what you think.
We do.
We really do.
And, you know, we do have a large audience, and we can't always get back in touch with people who write us as quickly as we would like sometimes, because, again, we do this as a moonlighting gig.
We all have to work to pay the bills.
All of the accessible hosts, myself included, have day jobs.
And this is a labor of love.
And I got to tell you, it's been a rough week for me.
I was talking with a supporter of the program who lives in Arkansas earlier today, and I was sharing the story with him.
And I won't go into all the details, but it's been a pretty rough week, pretty stressful week for yours, truly.
And I'm saddled with fatigue and stress that comes from being on the front lines for all these years.
You know, you would think, you know, we're not going to war, literally.
You know, we're not out there dodging bullets.
It could be a lot worse.
The conditions could be much more severe.
But it's not easy to do this job.
We talk about, well, okay, the church shouldn't have capitulated.
The church we were talking about in the first hour, they dodged verbal bullets for a couple of days and they fell on the sword.
We've been dodging those bullets for years, and the left is getting increasingly creative, if I can use that word, to describe their tactics in terms of some of the attacks that they're leveling against me and against our work here.
And I'm going to talk about that in the next segment.
But very interesting what's going on out there.
A CNN host attacked me earlier this week.
Actually, I actually saw the email from him when I got back in town.
You know, I was out of town with my family last week trying to catch up on some much-needed family time, which doesn't always present itself.
You know, when you work on the weekends doing the show and when you work during the 9 to 5 on Monday through Friday like everybody has to do, like Middle Americans, like real people have to do, you don't always have the family time.
And we put in full-time hours on this show on the website, prepping for each week's broadcast.
It's very busy and very hectic.
So I took last week off, spent a little time with the family.
And when I got back, I found this email from not just any CNN personality but Roland Martin, who was my nemesis for longtime political Cesspool fans, my nemesis on a series of CNN debates on television, mostly on the Paula Zahn show and I think the last.
It was years ago that the last occurrence of that happened.
Anyway, long story, but a very creative attack uh by Roland Martin against me and this show uh, this week, and i'm going to share it with you.
I'm going to tell the tale when the political Cesspool returns, after these words uh from our friends.
And we ask that you stay tuned because, after I fill you in on what's going on with this story, we're going to get to much, much more.
Winston Smith, a great column on the website this week, holiday thoughts.
Ron Paul's been banned from a debate by the Republican Jewish Coalition.
We're going to talk about Tim Tebow and much, much more.
Stay tuned.
Welcome back.
To get on the political cesspool, call us on James's Dime, toll free at 1-866-986-6397.
And here's the host of the political cesspool, James Edwards.
All right everybody, welcome back to the show.
Talking with Mark here about his travel plans to get back to St. Louis, I don't know if y'all heard a little bit of that as we came back in from the, from the commercial, but that's okay if you did because, like I said, this is real, it's raw radio unrehearsed, uncensored.
Anyway, getting back to what I was talking about a few minutes ago before the break, as I said, it's been a rough week for me, took a couple of hits this week behind the scenes, not not related to the radio show, but just in some personal affairs.
And then, you know, every now and then, even even the most heroic of people and I'm not saying I'm one of them, but everybody just gets a little tired and I'm tired tonight.
I'm having a good time, we're having a great show don't get me wrong and everything's great, but you know it's just, it's just.
You know it's been kind of a down week for me and you know the show obviously needs support we are.
I know today's harsh economic climate has devastated a lot of working class middle Americans and these are obviously the people that make make our show happen.
You know we rely on donations of a hundred dollars or less to keep on the air, whereas our opposition has millions of dollars in the bank, sometimes hundreds of millions of dollars, quite literally and we want our operation on the shoestring here and we need your help, ladies and gentlemen.
I'm telling you, we need your help.
This month.
We do quarterly fundraising appeals and it just so happens that one of our quarters is upon us.
December is always a month during which we we do an aggressive push to get a little, get a few love offerings into the coffers and right now we're a little bit short of our budget and we need some help and we would appreciate if you would consider making a contribution to eight our work.
You can do so safely discreetly securely, at thepolitical cesspool.org.
Anyone this month, before Christmas Day, who gives $100 or more will receive an autographed copy of Pat Buchanan's book Suicide Of A Superpower.
You can get suicide of a superpower in any bookstore.
To get an autograph from Pat is a rarity that we make possible.
And of course, you'll remember Pat on this show a couple of months ago.
Now, I can't believe it's already been almost two months.
But that's when it was.
And we had a great interview that made national headlines for a number of weeks.
Well, we've got the hookup for some autographed books, and we want to give those to you if you would be kind enough to show us that support.
And again, folks, if we didn't need the support, we certainly wouldn't ask.
But as you know, everyone here works for a living.
We do this at our own expense, emotionally, physically, mentally, and in some cases, financially.
And we can't get corporate sponsors because we don't play the game.
We tell the truth as we see it.
And we're not going to apologize for that.
And we're not going to seek to curry favor with organizations that are working against our people's best interests.
So we're not going to go after those sponsorships, even if we could get them, because it goes against what we stand for.
But we do need your help.
I'm asking for your help.
ThepoliticalSuccesspool.org, if you would care to make a contribution.
And as I said, you know, it's rough out here.
We are able to take some of the flack for you because we're out here on the front lines serving on your behalf.
And, you know, for years now, as we've talked about, for years now, you have always seen these articles about our radio program and some of our peers in the mainstream media because we believe that European Americans, the founding stock of this country, deserve to have the same right to come together and unify politically to advance our group interests, just like any of the minorities do.
They call us racists because we believe that we should be proud of our cultural heritage rather than ashamed of it.
They call us supremacists.
They've been doing that game for years.
And to be honest with you, not only has it not derailed us, because we haven't allowed it to derail us.
We haven't fallen on our sword like that church in Kentucky did this week, like so many others have done.
We don't like having to read these articles about us, these defaming articles that are intended to adversely impact our work.
We don't like having these things written about us, you know, obviously.
But at the same time, to an extent, we do embrace them because it shows the measure of our good work because of the fact that we are able to generate so much publicity, even if it's negative.
You know, people don't attack a nobody.
They attack people that they fear.
And so for years, the media has been doing that, as you know, these articles.
But just in recent weeks, as I started to tell you about in the opening segment of this hour, the people who opposed the work of this program and the people who oppose me have gotten a little bit more creative in their attacks.
And again, Roland Martin, my nemesis on CNN during those series of debates, I got in on the act.
And as I run on the blog, I'd like to know who out there is posing as me because apparently someone impersonating me sent an email to Roland Martin, CNN host, through his website, through a submission form on his website, and called him the dreaded N-word, among other things.
Roland then flattered himself by assuming that the letter really was from me.
He posted it to his website, then took the time to personally write me back to let me know that he owned my expletive, quote unquote, during our series of debates on CNN.
You can read the whole sorted exchange for yourself at our website, thepolitical Successpool.org.
But Roland Martin, again, someone out there went to his web submission page.
And if you know what a web submission page is, you go to the contact page, and sometimes there's just a blank form.
And you can fill in anything.
I could put my name was Barack Obama.
My email is barack at thepresident.org or whatever it is.
I could send it into Roland Martin.
And apparently, he would post it to his website tomorrow saying, oh, my goodness, the president just emailed me to say what a great guy I am.
Because this is all that happened.
It wasn't an email that came directly from my email address, mind you.
Was an email that was posted on his open submission form.
All you got to do is fill in the blanks.
I can put any name in there.
Obviously, someone did put my email address, but all you got to do is go to our website to know what that is.
And there you have it.
So, someone out there wrote an email pretending to be me to Roland Martin, calling him the N-word, among other things.
And Roland posted it to his website, but before that, he wrote this: I told you guys last week that I would start posting some of the ridiculous and ignorant emails that I get from folks on a regular basis.
This is what came in today from James Edwards.
I've debated this bigot on CNN, and he's a joke.
Well, that's professional.
Feel free to email him if you like.
And again, this email did not come from me, but he posted it verbatim as if it did.
And after falling for this hoax, hook, line, and sinker, Roland emailed me out of the blue.
This is how I found out that there was even an email written to him from someone purporting to be me when I got this email after coming back from my vacation last week.
And it was an email from Roland Martin.
And he wrote, he just, you know, he just went off his rocker.
And, you know, I've got it posted on the website.
Just thug, ghetto types of language there.
To which I replied, Roland, the letter below was obviously written by someone trying to impersonate me by posting a comment to your website using my name and email address.
Unless, of course, you did it yourself in an attempt to discredit me.
Frankly, I didn't even know that you had your own website.
This is what I wrote back to him after receiving his original email.
Secondly, if I did have the desire to get in touch with you nearly five years after our last exchange on television, I never used the crude language that I saw employed.
Whenever I get correspondence from someone claiming to be a media personality or a public figure, I always take the time to verify its authenticity before I issue a response.
Perhaps this is a practice you should consider adopting.
That being said, it's heartwarming to know that you did believe this to be a genuine letter from me and still took the time to write back.
Like you, I certainly cherish the time we've spent together.
Merry Christmas.
Folks, you know, okay, so that's the story.
That's the story.
Someone posing as me sends an email into this guy.
He makes a big stink about it on his website.
And of course, as he's a CNN host, it's getting publicity.
And we're getting hate mail and threats and this, that, and the other, all generated by the fact that this guy didn't verify to see whether or not this letter was genuinely from me, which of course it wasn't.
I'm going to talk more to you, though, about the tactics of the left.
I said all that to say this, not just for vanity's sake or to indulge you with or to indulge myself by sharing a story of a personal reflection, but I'm going to tell you why.
This is an important story right after the break.
So stay tuned and we'll get to the we'll get to the point on the show and express your opinion in the political cesspool.
Call us toll free at 1-866-986-6397.
All right, everybody, welcome back to the show.
I'll cut to the chase on this story because I feel as though we've maybe spent too much time because it is a story that involves me personally.
I don't want you to think that I'm grandstanding or just trying to, you know, make it about me because this show, everything I do, everything that this show is here to do is about our cause.
And the cause is certainly bigger than any man, certainly far greater than me.
And what small amount of ability I'm able to bring to the table on our behalf.
But anyway, Roland Martin, CNN host, gets this email from someone claiming to be me.
And he posts it and then he replies to me personally, sends me a personal email trashing me, and it's getting picked up.
And as a result, we've had some threats and various hate mail come in for people thinking that I would take the time to email him and call him the N-word.
And again, that's what I say.
Roland Martin flatters himself to think that I think enough of him to write to him.
It's always been my personal policy, and this is the truth, to never engage my detractors behind the scenes like this.
It's tacky and quite frankly beneath me.
However, there is something serious in play here.
It's fraud when someone communicates to someone using the name of another.
In this case, me, especially when it could lead to the damage of my brand on the radio, this program, or me as an individual.
You never know who's going to tick off some crazy lunatic leftist.
They read this irresponsible piece of journalism that wasn't fact-checked.
And they think that I'm going around and calling people this.
I live in Memphis, which is majority black.
A story like this comes up, who knows what they'll do.
But perhaps this is a matter for law enforcement.
And I suspect that what happened is that someone simply came across the footage of an Edwards Martin debate on YouTube and decided to pin an email to him as me.
But by posting this hoax as fact, Roland Martin, again, as I said, has generated yet another campaign of threats against this program, personal threats, violent threats.
And I hope that he now takes the time.
This has been a week already.
I hope he takes the time to investigate this matter by tracking the IP address of the person who sent him the original email.
But this is the, which he's not going to do.
He doesn't care.
But this is the second time in as many months that I have seen completely fraudulent stories written about me and this show.
Again, for seven years, they have always written stories.
This show came out, and because we were on the mainstream airwaves and because we were so prominent and because we talked about the issues that we talk about, obviously we began to start making news.
And for seven years, we have suffered these indignant attacks.
But there's something new beginning to develop here in the left's tactics against our work.
And that is, again, this is the second month in a row that we've had fabricated and fraudulent stories written.
The first one was written by the Anti-Defamation League.
They said in an article covering the National Socialist movement, and again, I know oftentimes they throw words around and they'll call people Nazis if they're white and they go to church.
Christians are Nazis.
But in this case, this actually was a true, dare I say, neo-Nazi rally.
I mean, it was a rally at which people were wearing swastikas and this, that, and the other.
A rally, quite frankly, that I have never participated in and would never.
But the ADL reported that I was there, that I was there.
Now, it's one thing for them to say they think that I'm a bigot, a racist, this, that, and the other.
It might not be accurate, but you can say it's their opinion.
But the ADL, a couple of months ago, wrote that I was in attendance at this so-called neo-Nazi rally.
And that is a matter of fact.
And the fact of the matter is that I was not there.
And they have no proof that I was there because I was not.
I wasn't even in the city that they claimed it took place in at that date and time.
And so I wrote the ADL, and I demanded a retraction and an apology.
They never did write me back.
They certainly never apologized.
Of course, the ADL has been attacking this show forever.
And we're proud of that, by the way.
But they never did write back.
They never did acknowledge my email to them, but they did quietly take that down.
But see, this is what I'm talking about.
You know, when you start saying, you know, I am a national radio host, it is very responsible.
We're not talking about, if it was just some obscure blog written by some guy that lives in his mommy's basement and he's a leftist, I mean, you know, we wouldn't take the time to set the record straight on that because as uncredible as Roland Martin and the ADL is, you know, these people, you can't monitor everything everybody says, but you do monitor, you try to keep factual the things that are written about you by people who do throw some weight around.
And so the ADL, you know, God knows everything they write on their website is republished in every newspaper in the country.
And so, you know, I had to get them to set that straight.
And to their credit on this one thing, despite the fact that they were so irresponsible to have posted something so false in the first place, they did take it down.
They didn't issue an apology.
They quietly, it just, I went back and visited that particular article a couple of weeks later.
It took them a couple of weeks to do it.
And my name was scrubbed from the article.
And so the record was set straight there.
That was the first time.
Then fast forward to last week, and then you've got Roland Martin, a CNN host.
And not just a host on CNN, mind you, but he's a syndicated columnist with Creator Syndicate, the same organization that carries Pat Buchanan's work.
He's a senior analyst on the Tom Joyner Morning Show, which is a nationally syndicated radio show.
So this is a guy that when he speaks, some people do listen.
They couldn't be too smart if they're listening to him, but I mean, he is able to generate enough publicity being on CNN alone that it could damage you.
And so, again, for him to report that I go around calling people the N-word is, again, very, very libelous and potentially very dangerous for me living in a majority black city.
People may disagree with me on the issues, but to the Southern Poverty Law Center's credit on this, and I hate to give credit to such Cretans, but they've always gotten one thing right about me, and that is that we have a very polished show and that we don't go around using crude language and that despite their differences with us on the issues, we, or at least me, I present a good image, a wholesome image.
And that's one thing out of all the articles they've ever written that's been right on target, if I do say so myself.
And certainly we go to great lengths to project a very polished professional image when we do this radio show.
But so you got the ADL article saying I was at this Nazi rally.
You got Roland Martin article on CNN and his website being picked up by others saying that I used this language in an email that I didn't send.
Now, that was a week ago.
I promptly emailed Roland back.
I actually read to you verbatim what I wrote to him in the previous segment.
And as of tonight, as of right now, he has not responded back to me.
You know, he was so quick to email me when he thought that I had sent in that email and trash-talked me.
Well, he certainly hasn't gotten back to me now after I proved him to be foolish and being so gullible as to believe that I would write him and how easily it would be for him to prove that it wasn't me.
Well, he hasn't taken it down.
He hasn't written me back to apologize or to say, okay, I was in error.
Have a good day.
We'll take it off.
No, it's still sitting there.
It's still there.
And this might not mean a lot to you folks, but, you know, again, you've got to keep in mind.
We've got families here.
This is dangerous stuff that the left is beginning to engage in.
I can handle their biased and silly opinions and their name-calling.
That's subjective.
When you start talking about matters of fact that aren't factual and you attribute it to me, listen, that would not stand anywhere else in the political spectrum unless you are a pro-white radio host.
I mean, then all bets are off.
You can just make it up.
And that's what they're beginning to do.
And I tell you, it's causing a little consternation and again, a little stress and fatigue because if they're going to start going down this path now to where they're going to absolutely fabricate things and see what sticks, who knows what they're going to say?
And who knows what trouble they can cause?
This is very dangerous grounds now.
And again, it's times like these.
And of course, I'm not going anywhere.
Don't get me wrong.
I'm going to be here.
I'm going to do this show.
I'm not going to let these guys get the best of me.
I'm going to be here until God himself calls me home.
I hope to be doing this show for years and years to come.
Do not get me wrong and do not read into this as if I'm wavering here.
That's not the case.
But I did want to bring this to your attention because I want it to be a matter of public record.
And I do want to say this.
When these dogs come, when the wolves attack, when it's late at night and the demons come, the people who give me solace are the ones like you, ladies and gentlemen, friends who support this radio show.
You give me strength when we need it, and God bless you for it.
And we couldn't do it without you.
Your support through prayer, financial support, or otherwise, you help keep us going during these days where we're being subjected to increasingly hideous articles of a whole new flavor.
Completely, completely fabricated.
Stay tuned, everybody.
be back.
Jump in the political cesspool with James and the gang.
Call us tonight at 1-866-986-6397.
And here's the host of the Political Cess Pool, James Edwards.
All right, everybody.
Welcome back to the show.
We are going to get into some pretty fast and furious stories here as we wrap up the remaining minutes of this hour and then go into the third and final hour.
We're going to cover a lot of ground.
But I did want to, again, spend a little bit of time, perhaps a little too much time, setting the record straight.
You know, I do believe this is the one security blanket that we have in doing this show is that we can get things out there as a matter of public record.
And that does offer us a little bit of protection because everything's out there in the open.
You know, we've always been open and honest with the members of our listening audience.
And when something like this comes up, you know, it's very important because if you allow it to just stand and just suspect that it'll be brushed under the rug, you really got to get out and get ahead of these things when attacks like this.
And again, this is kind of a new model for their attacks.
The fact that they just completely make things up now.
That's not a matter of opinion.
They've always made stuff up about us, mind you, but they've made it up and crafted it as opinion.
Now they're making things up and presenting it as fact.
But you want to get out and you want to have your say about it.
You want to respond to it and then let the chips fall where they may.
But If you want to revisit some of my exchanges of Roland Martin on CNN back in the day on the Paulazahn show when we were both regular contributors before Paulazahn, bless her heart, was fired from CNN.
Good memories up there in New York I had.
We actually have it posted there at the website, thepolitical cesspool.org.
Just look for the article entitled CNN host Roland Martin attacks James Edwards.
That would be me.
By posting phony email.
Check it out.
You can read both of the emails that were sent, including the fake one.
I really wouldn't put it past him writing this himself, but I'm going to give him the benefit of the doubt and just say that he swallowed this thing.
But anyway, at the end of the article, you can revisit a lot of our appearances on CNN anyway, the appearances that we made together.
You know what's so uncanny about this tonight is that this thing happened, or I got the email from Roland telling me about this when I got home Sunday night, last Sunday.
And then we have Mark, again, our friend from St. Louis who was in the studio tonight, made the trip down to Memphis.
These are two random occurrences.
The fact that this story would come up this week, and I get an email from Roland Martin, a man that I haven't talked to since 2007.
This all happens this week, and then Mark Palazzola is here tonight.
So what's the connection between Mark from St. Louis and Roland Martin?
Well, the connection is it was Mark, our loyal Cesspool listener, who put up these videos of the CNN segments that I had with this guy when we were on TV together.
He's the one who put them up on YouTube.
So isn't that just crazy?
A small world.
The story breaks.
Roland Martin emails me, and we have to respond to it tonight.
The one night of all nights that Mark is down here with us, and Mark's the guy who's responsible for posting all these interviews to YouTube.
And one of them, one of the appearances I had on CNN that Mark posted has now broken, I think, 100,000 views on YouTube.
So we're getting the word out there through the radio program, through YouTube, on the internet.
And thankfully, through all of this negative publicity that we seem to attract like a magnet, people are learning about the Cesspool every day.
And for those who have filters and working filters on their brains, and they can discard all that heinous stuff, many of them, through the negative attacks, come to check out our show for themselves, and they make up their own mind about our work.
And most of them decide it's a good show and they decide to stick around.
But Mark, real quick, your take on this whole Roland Martin thing, and then I promise we're going to get on to other matters.
Yeah, it's interesting that something like that, more than likely, I mean, you can't prove either way.
You know, if he put it up or somebody else put it up, but after all, as James has said, so many years has gone by and now this comes up out of the blue like that.
And being that you could sit there and just type any own name on the contact when you go to a website and type anything in, you know, you put two and two together and it just, it doesn't add up that after that many years have gone by that something like that would come up.
We'll continue to monitor the attacks to come on this program and see if this is something that's going to become increasingly frequent, the fact that they fabricate their stories now and present them as fact.
But I'll tell you, if you go to Roland Martin's website, the difference between our fans and theirs is that our fans have class and tact and they're polite and they're professional, just like we are.
If I were of a foul nature, I would share with you some of the emails that I've received from some of Roland Martin's readers.
But unfortunately, or I say unfortunately, thankfully, I should say, this is a family program, so we're not going to be able to share those.
It would have nothing but bleep, bleep, bleep, bleep.
But our fans, political Cesspool listeners who have caught wind of the story have gone to Roland Martin's website and very tastefully objected to his posting of this story and gone to bed on our behalf.
And, you know, again, folks, God bless you.
Okay, that's enough about that.
I think we've beaten that horse, ridden it to the end.
Let's talk about something a little more uplifting in nature.
Tim Tebow.
Do you watch football anymore?
You know about what Tim Tebow is up to?
And Mark, Mark Shaking.
He's not a sports fan.
He's a smart guy.
But, you know, Tim Tebow is the starting quarterback for the Denver Broncos, for anyone who doesn't know.
White guy, Christian, a very devout Christian who graduated from the University of Florida.
He led him to two national championships during his college days.
And he also won the Heisman Trophy.
So if you win the Heisman Trophy and you're the starting quarterback at a major university like Florida and you win two national titles at football, what would you think you are?
Well, according to the national media, you are a man that has no talent.
And that is exactly what they say about Tim Tebow.
Most of it is driven because they despise the fact that this is a guy that goes out and after every, at the beginning and the end of every post-game interview, win or lose.
And he doesn't lose much.
He's 7-1 this season as a starter.
But no matter what the situation, he gives thanks and credit to Jesus Christ for the opportunity to speak with the interviewer.
And then he always wishes them, you know, God bless you at the end of the interview.
Well, as you know, being white, being a heterosexual male, and being a Christian, you are completely in bounds to be mocked and derided to the end of time.
And that's exactly what they're doing to Tim Tebow.
One of the few professional athletes that I can root for without any reservations whatsoever.
And again, despite constant ridicule about his faith and quote-unquote lack of ability, again, despite the fact that he's now 7-1 as a starter in the NFL, a starting quarterback in the NFL, Tim Tebow continues to give thanks to Christ during each interview.
Ramsey Paul, he's an internet personality that every now and then, I don't know, really pretty regularly, about once a week or once every other week, will feature some of his video commentaries at thepoliticalspool.org.
And he comments on the Tim Tebow thing.
Pretty good commentary about the treatment that Tim Tebow is receiving.
And while I disagree with some aspects of Ramsey Ball's commentary, some of his remarks about Tim Tebow, his final conclusion is spot on.
His final conclusion is this.
Tim Tebow, again, because he's white, because he's heterosexual, because he's a male, because he's a Christian, he's going to be mocked and ridiculed because, you know, the people, we know who owns the media, who has a disproportionate representation of the media.
It's not cool to them that you mention the name of Jesus Christ, particularly if you do it regularly.
And he does it every time he gets a microphone.
And he's not one of these guys, folks.
I know there have been a lot of hypocrites and a lot of charlatans, a lot of people that go out there and they do all this religious talk and then they're whoring around behind the scenes and they're doing drugs and doing all this stuff.
You look at Tim Tebow's face, guys.
And I'm not saying this to be cheesy, but you can tell that he is a good and decent person.
I've never met the guy.
I don't know him except for what I've seen.
But I would be shocked.
And very little shocks me after my career in radio so far and all the stuff that we've seen come down the pike and all the things we've seen done.
I'm not too often surprised.
But I would be absolutely shocked if Tim Thibault turned out to be anything other than the genuine article.
But the fact of the matter is, he is constantly ridiculed and mocked for being an outspoken Christian.
Now, could you imagine, I don't, you know, and I'm not saying this, this isn't a racist comment, but Jewish athletes don't really, there's not that many of them.
I think there's one Jewish player in the NBA.
I don't know if there's any Jewish football players.
Jewish people, everybody has different strengths.
Obviously, Jewish folks are very cunning and they have great financial sense and they're very well organized and very clever.
But, you know, they don't have a lot of athletic prowess.
But if they did, could you imagine if a Jewish athlete came on and made mention of his faith at the end of each show or at the beginning of each interview, or if a Muslim, a black Muslim athlete, you know, gave praise to Allah, do you think he would be mocked?
Never in a million years.
If a Satanist came up and gave glory to the Prince of Darkness for, you know, voodoo, anything.
Folks, you need to, you know, you need to check out Tim Thibault.
He should be celebrated for the fact that in today's political climate, he should be celebrated for who he is and what he is rather than being mocked by the media.
In a healthy society, athletes like Tim Thibault would be the models for others to follow.
We've got a couple of clips of him giving interviews at thepoliticalsville.org.
Got to take a break.
We'll be back with the third and final hour right after this.