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	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.
	Welcome back to the show, everybody.
	The third and final hour of the 52nd and final show of 2012.
	I'm your host James Edwards.
	It's been a good night, been a fun night.
	The last segment of the second hour was particularly lighthearted because we were talking about some of the more ridiculous stories of the week.
	You can't help but laugh at some of this stuff.
	We've had a lot of laughs this year.
	We've had a lot of good moments, and that is, in fact, what the focus of tonight's third hour is all about.
	The top 10 moments of 2012 for yours truly and the political cesspool.
	As we broadcast to you tonight from our flagship AM radio station and going out to the AMF and affiliate stations at the Liberty News Radio Network across the country and around the world, we're simulcasting at thepoliticalcesspool.org.
	And it goes without saying we're quite proud of the banner year that 2012 was.
	The Political Cesspool stands alone in the English-speaking world as a mainstream media entity dedicated to the advancement of our people.
	When you're listening to the voice of the American right, you're listening to the political cesspool.
	And now we're going to look back on some of our, what I found to be greatest moments of 2012 with this top 10 countdown.
	And Eddie Miller and Keith Alexander, Keith actually is on his way home right now.
	Eddie's joining me for the third hour, but no one else, not even the staff members, know what my top 10 are.
	And other people, other hosts might disagree with me on the top 10 or change the rankings in one direction or another.
	But as I was going back through from January until just a couple of days ago through the blog, reading about who our guests were on each particular week, what we were talking about, what we were doing off the air and behind the scenes, I came up with this top 10 list, and I hope it'll bring back some good memories for you on the year that was.
	Number 10 in the top 10, it's an annual shoe-in, our April Confederate History Month series.
	Each year we make a point to showcase the Confederacy in April.
	It is Confederate History Month and we celebrated the South once again in 2012 by interviewing pro-South leaders and by talking about what the South means to us and why we go to such great lengths to celebrate its traditions.
	It's always an annual highlight, Eddie, and I can remember me and you having a couple of profound segments during April earlier this year during which we sat together and talked and it was just great radio and certainly very moving for us as Southerners.
	It's funny you mentioned that, James.
	I was out with my grandson today and I was telling him about the history behind the Second War of Independence.
	And I was telling him about how we have relatives and I particularly pointed out up in Eastern Kentucky where I have relatives buried that rode with the Confederacy.
	They were with the Confederate cavalry.
	And I explained to my grandson how a lot of people look at me like an unpatriotic scallywag because I really don't feel like the stars and stripes is my flag.
	And as James can attest, I have two, not just one, but two honorable discharges from service from the Army.
	And so I feel like I have an opinion, you know, that I can voice my opinion.
	And I think we're under illegitimate government.
	In that flag, we see the stars and stripes.
	My true flag is the Confederates flag, James, in the flag before 1860, the American flag.
	Well, Eddie, because we do share those sentiments and we are who we are on the air and off, we always showcase the Confederate History Month series in April.
	We've been doing it since 2004 and we'll be doing it for as long as we're on the air.
	And it's always an annual highlight, which is why it makes our top 10 list of 2012.
	Number nine, I had the opportunity to snub NBC.
	And it's rewarding to know that your show, in this case, the Political Cecil, has grown to the point that it puts you in a position to be able to turn down interviews with major television networks, which is exactly what I did when NBC's Memphis affiliate wanted me to appear as an on-camera featured guest to respond to the SBLC's 2012 hate watch list, which the Political Cecil proudly graces for the sixth consecutive year.
	Frankly, it has been my policy now for a few years, ever since we, quote-unquote, made it, that I don't grant interviews with local television newspapers or radio.
	I'll do national shows.
	I'll go on CNN.
	I'll do something like that.
	I'll talk to other venues that I believe share some sentiments of mine.
	But I don't do local, and I certainly don't do local things in Memphis anymore because it's just too bush league.
	And I felt as though the proposed segment was going to be beneath me.
	And I was proven right when it aired a few days later without my participation.
	I can remember the reporter calling me from Channel 5 here, the NBC affiliate in Memphis, saying, you know, we want you to be on.
	You're a big name.
	We need you.
	And they were kind of blowing smoke at me.
	And they said, this is going to be what it's about.
	The SPLC said, this, we want your response.
	And I knew it was just going to be a hatchet job, as it always is.
	I mean, the national media, as biased as it is, is still a little bit better than the local outlets.
	And I politely declined, as I always do.
	And sure enough, a couple of days later, the teaser for that particular segment that I was supposed to star in showed, you know, people with Nazi tattoos carved into their head, you know, marching around in, you know, jack boots.
	And, of course, they wanted me on to play the part of those guys, which certainly isn't what this show is about and never has been.
	And so I made the right decision to turn it down.
	And frankly, I don't talk to people who has an audience smaller than my own.
	I don't slum it with those guys.
	And so, no appearance on NBC.
	It's funny you mentioned that the hatchet job, James.
	That comes to mind the Moro Trade Center in Oklahoma City when they supposedly had the Klan and the Nazi, neo-Nazis training down in a place called Elamine City down there in the extreme southeastern Oklahoma.
	Well, come to find out, the whole thing was a setup job.
	They might have been a few bimbos down there that actually thought that they were in the Klan or neo-Nazis.
	But for the most part, most of the people down there, James, were government agents.
	They were CIA, FBI.
	They even had some German black ops groups in America over here in Elamine City with that Oklahoma City thing.
	And the whole thing was planned that way to make it look like the American militia and make the South and the Southwest look like a bunch of ding bats.
	But they tried to make the militia look bad.
	But you're right, James.
	It's the same.
	When you said that, it made me think of Elamine City, and there was no militia patriots over there.
	They were just trying to throw crap on the American people.
	Well, you've got to be wise as serpents when dealing with the media, who is certainly in firm control of our enemy, the enemy of God and country, of the Constitution, and everything we stand for.
	That's not to say you can't use their venues and platforms from time to time.
	The Political Cessible has made a lot of headlines over the years, and we're not averse to giving interviews, but it's got to be something where we're going to reach at least a number of people, even with the bias that we'll be subjected to, that it has a chance to benefit our brand and our message.
	Number eight, on the top 10 moments of TPC's 2012, I had the opportunity to speak at the American Renaissance Conference in the spring.
	Hosting this show gives me the opportunity to travel and accept speaking engagements across the country.
	Taking the podium at the 2012 American Renaissance Conference was very rewarding.
	And here's what the organization had to say about my remarks.
	James Edwards, host of the Political Cesspool, spoke about effective white advocacy, reminding the audience that loving our race is the key.
	Mr. Edwards spoke of some of the achievements and satisfactions of radio work.
	In Memphis, where he lives, blacks outnumber whites two to one, and that may be why his program is so popular.
	He noted some of the triumphs he had helped bring about.
	As a talk show host, Mr. Edwards gets fan mail from all over the country and even the world and believes that more and more whites agree with us.
	We are making our issues fashionable again, he said.
	And indeed, we are, and this show has long been a trailblazer in making that possible speaking at American Renaissance.
	The number eight item on our top 10 countdown of 2012 will be back to give you the rest of the list right after these words.
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	And here's the host of the Political Cesspool, James Edwards.
	All right, everybody.
	We are now recapping, since this is our last hour of the year, the top 10 greatest moments, as far as I'm concerned, of TPC's run from January until tonight.
	And it's everything we're talking about and so many other things that happened that were good this year that we're not going to be able to bring up and mention because of time constraints were made possible by the financial support and prayers of our listening audience.
	Folks, without you, none of this would be possible.
	And it wouldn't have been possible from 2004 onward as it has been.
	But number 10, the Confederate History Month series, always very special for us here.
	Number nine, you've crossed a Rubicon when you can turn down major interviews like the one that I was asked to give to NBC.
	I turned it down because I didn't think it was in the best interest of the show.
	And I was right.
	Speaking at the American Renaissance Conference, on the other hand, was a very good experience.
	And we met a lot of good people, big crowd there.
	Number seven on the top 10 list of things we experienced this year as hosts of the show is something that Eddie Miller certainly had every bit to do with.
	Bob Mazor's guest appearances on the show.
	It's not every day that you get to interview a former DEA agent who courageously infiltrated Pablo Escobar's cartel as an undercover agent.
	And we did it on more than one occasion in 2012.
	Mr. Maz's life story is currently being made into a movie.
	And he was on this show two or three times, Eddie.
	And this is a guy that you sought out, that you booked, and it was big news.
	And he remains very cordial with our work.
	And so are we with his.
	You know, I'll follow his work a little bit.
	Recently, there was a big bank, another big bank busted.
	If you want to call it busted, they slap their little hands, James.
	I don't remember which one it was.
	There's been so many of them that have been caught dealing drugs and laundering drug money.
	But it was one of the, I think it's even one of the larger banks in which Mazor busted.
	He busted, James, he busted the seventh largest bank in the world for laundering drug money and other, you know, involved in other stuff like, you know, child prostitution.
	But this other huge bank that went down, Mazor talked about, and they just got a little slap on the wrist.
	Not one person went to jail in the banks.
	If you notice that, and Mazor pointed that out, very seldom does anybody ever go to jail in these banks.
	But you're right, James.
	I'm wondering when that movie's going to come out.
	I think all the guys from Cessbook got to go see that movie when it comes out.
	What do you think?
	Well, we have to support a guy that's been on this show a handful of occasions.
	And, of course, Eddie, as we kick off the new year, we've got to make another big top 10 list for 2013.
	Getting this guy back on the show might very well qualify.
	It was a big guest, you know.
	He was a good one.
	HSBC Bank, Sam Bushman said.
	It was a big guest.
	DEA agent, not just a very high-profile law enforcement official, but one that, again, the Pablo Escobar cartel, I mean, they make that's just Wells Fargo was also implicated in that, or find at least.
	But Pablo Escobar, that's something that everyone's heard his name.
	This man was one of the most influential in bringing down his empire.
	Quick comment, Eddie, and then we're going to go to number six on the list.
	You know, James, I'd like to point out one of the things that you remember, it really floated my boat when the DEA agent said, yes, that the Federal Reserve not only knew about what was going on, but they were involved in the drug laundering money.
	What do you think about that, James?
	That was groundbreaking.
	You know, we wanted to tread lightly with Bank of America, by the way, was another one that he helped implicate, and that was a part of that.
	When we had Mazer on for the first time earlier this year, that was something that, you know, we wanted to tread lightly.
	We wanted to get a story.
	We wanted to not put back him into a corner and ask him an uncomfortable question.
	When he came back, you asked it just as a floating, you floated it out there.
	He took it.
	He didn't back off.
	He swallowed it, hook line, and sinker, and he really held the feet to the fire.
	And that made him even more worthy of the spot on our top 10.
	It was a great interview.
	Number six, great series of interviews.
	Number six on the top 10 list of TPC's 2012.
	Our live broadcast at the Council of Conservative Citizens Conference back in July.
	Now, we truly enjoy each and every show that we have the honor of hosting on this network.
	But we really love the ones during which we're flanked on all sides by a crowd of screaming fans for three straight hours.
	And that was exactly what happened.
	The first broadcast of July of this year.
	I think it was July 6th, July 7th.
	We were in Nashville.
	A couple hundred people in the room, enthusiastic fans.
	And if you have not yet listened to that particular episode, please find it in the broadcast archives, which date back all the way to the beginning of our run.
	But go back to the first show.
	I believe it was in July.
	All of the hosting staff, all of the active hosting staff was up there.
	Of course, Winston Smith, because of his medical issues, was not there.
	But I was there, and Bill Rowland co-hosted the show with me.
	You and Keith were also there.
	You remember the atmosphere, Eddie?
	You know, go back and listen to it.
	It's just such a great camaraderie.
	Again, the atmosphere, so jovial, so friendly, so robust and enthusiastic.
	I actually went back and listened to a portion of that show while I was compiling the top 10 list because I remember it so fondly, and it lived up to everything that my memory suggested.
	And I know, Eddie, you being there, you can probably add another word or two to it.
	I'll tell you what, that show has an especially special spot in my heart, more spot in my heart.
	If you remember, James, me and my grandson had been up in the edge of Virginia in Eastern Kentucky.
	We dropped back through Nashville to do the program, the show there.
	And James, I don't know if you remember or not, but that's where we kicked off my St. Jude Marathon fundraising program.
	And listen, I know the marathon's over, but I would just like to tell our listening audience again, James, guys, thank you, Had it not been for the political assess pool, our listeners, James, I would have got diddly for my contributions.
	My minister chipped in $100.
	Of course, me and my wife gave some.
	And when the secretary for my church goes where I go to church and where my grandson goes to school, chipped in $25.
	But the vast line share of the contributions to the St. Jude Children's Research Hospital here in Memphis was given by political assess pool listeners.
	And that's where I kicked off, pretty well kicked off the campaign.
	And plus, we did a YouTube here at your house about St. Jude.
	James was so gracious.
	Liberty News Radio allowed me to have this news venue for a charity operation for St. Jude.
	And it's hard to talk about without crying, James.
	And we did talk about it, and rightly so, a couple of weeks ago after you successfully completed the 26-mile run on behalf of the pediatric patients of St. Jude.
	But it all kicked off during that show.
	The live broadcast at the 2012 Council of Conservative Citizens Conference.
	Again, folks, consult our library broadcast archives if you have not listened to that show or if you just haven't listened to it recently.
	Certainly one of the finest of the year.
	And that's why it's on the top 10 list.
	Number five.
	You will remember back in October of 2011, so this wouldn't qualify for one of the top 10 of this year, although it was certainly one of the top 10 of last year, Pat Buchanan made a third live appearance on the show.
	And for months, the very cordial and polite and professional discussion that we shared, Pat and I, was making national news.
	It was a very big story politically in this country.
	The coverage of his October 2011 appearance on TPC spilled over into 2012.
	It was still making news all the way up until March when it got picked up by Howard Stern himself.
	Number five, Howard Stern plugs the political cesspool.
	And we've proven ourselves to be quite the media magnets, having commanded headlines from some of the biggest media outlets in the world for many years.
	However, we'd never been plugged by the self-proclaimed king of all media himself, Howard Stern.
	But 2012 fixed that, Eddie, and talk about a cesspool.
	Not that we would want to be plugged or mentioned in any way whatsoever, good, bad, or indifferent by Howard Stern, but it just, as a matter of fact, occurred this year, and it is a fact that he has a pretty big audience.
	So it was something noteworthy for us.
	Virgin Soil was plowed there inso much as it was just a new and different media venture that was tracking and commenting on the work of the political cesspool.
	Howard Stern plugs TPC number five on the top 10.
	We'll get to the top four right after this.
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	Political Cesspool that you, our listening audience, made possible the top 10 moments of our year.
	Number 10, our Confederate History Month series, which we host each April.
	Number nine, Snubbing NBC.
	Number eight, my speech at the American Renaissance Conference.
	Number seven, former DEA agent Robert Mazor's guest appearances.
	Number six, the very memorable live broadcast in July that we hosted in front of a live and raucous crowd at the Council of Conservative Citizens Conference.
	Number five, getting noticed and talked about by Howard Stern himself on the Howard Stern show.
	Getting media attention doesn't really blow up my skirt anymore like it used to when I was a young lad.
	You get used to things, and it's surprising what you can get used to, but that was something a little bit different, and so it was noteworthy.
	Number four, Winston Smith's triumphant return to the airwaves.
	That occurred earlier this year.
	Of course, Winston Smith remains a very valuable member of our staff.
	And up until the day when he completely lost his hearing, he had been a regular co-host of the program along with Bill and Eddie and Keith.
	Of course, he proved this year that it's hard to keep a good man down.
	In fact, you can't do it.
	As he returned to the show a few months back with the aid of a courtroom transcriptionist.
	And to my knowledge, this may have been the first time, Eddie, in the history of Broadcast Talk Radio that a deaf person co-hosted a live show.
	In fact, if you go back and listen to that show during which Andy Nowicki was the guest earlier this year, Winston did much more than just co-hosting it.
	He handled most of the interviews solo.
	Somebody get Guinness on the phone, you know, and the way Winston was able to come back on the show was that he had a courtroom transcriptionist on the guest line listening to what we were saying live on the air.
	And she was typing to him via a chat room in real time because she's a courtroom transcriptionist.
	She can type a lot faster than we can.
	What the guest and I were saying.
	And he was responding with his voice to what he was reading with his eyes, the spec not being able to hear.
	Definitely worthy of the top 10.
	We didn't think Winston would ever return in a hosting capacity.
	And he did it, and he came back another time or two after that.
	Incredible story.
	It was incredible.
	I remember that show, James, very well.
	I do.
	And you're probably right.
	If that's not the very first time in history, it's got to be in the top five times that has happened.
	You know, speaking of Winston, I miss that guy so bad.
	And I miss the chief, Art Frith, too.
	I remember, you know, as everybody knows probably by the day, I'm real sentimental and nostalgic.
	But we used to do the radio show out there in Millington out in the middle of a beanfell fighting snakes and wasps.
	Oh, Winston would come out there.
	Remember his pipe?
	I used to love when he'd come out there with his poke, this pipe, man.
	And we never did it on the air, but we'd have a briskie every now and then before, of course.
	We never drank on the air.
	But, God, he was such an intellectual.
	Matter of fact, when I first heard the cesspool, Winston was my fan.
	Of course, I loved you too, James.
	But Winston was the guy who really rung my bell.
	And the first couple of times I called him was because of Winston.
	I guess I kind of identified with him, too, because he was the ex-Navy guy.
	I was ex-Army.
	But the guy is just a superb intellectual, second to none.
	And I only wish his own air contributions could be more steady, but in light of his medical infirmities, it's understandable that he can't appear more.
	But he did break through with the aid of the courtroom transcriptions, and I remember his pipes as well.
	You know, Winston kind of reminds me of a Hobbit in the Lord of the Rings movies.
	He kind of has that demeanor and very laid-back lifestyle.
	And just a great man and great friend.
	And it was so rewarding to be able to do radio with him again.
	And he found a way to make it happen.
	He did.
	He had a settling influence.
	Just calm, cool, and collected.
	Never rattled.
	You're the bombardier, and he is the antithesis of the bombardier.
	Number three on the top 10 list.
	And keep in mind that no one in advance of us, of me presenting these items to you live knew what I had in store tonight.
	Not Eddie, not Keith.
	And if Eddie had known what I had in store tonight, he would have saved a little bit of his commentary a moment ago for this, because the number three item on our list of accomplishments and most noteworthy dealings in 2012 was, in fact, Eddie's marathon run.
	And that's number three on the list.
	Despite being 65 years old and being a patient himself in the cardiac ICU just a couple of years back, co-host Eddie the Bombardier Miller had trained all year this year to run in the 26-mile St. Jude Marathon, and he successfully completed that run earlier this month here in December, which benefited, as I said a moment ago, the pediatric patients of the St. Jude Children's Research Hospital.
	It was a run made possible by the support of TPC's audience.
	You had to raise at least $500 to even get on the starting line.
	All that money went to the kids, and we raised way over that on Eddie's behalf.
	Way to go, Eddie.
	I know we talked about it for a full 30 minutes earlier this month, and you talked about it a moment ago, so we'll just make this one quick.
	We don't just celebrate what we accomplish on the air when we look back on the year that was.
	We are a family.
	We're brothers.
	We celebrate some of the triumphs we have off the air, too, because what we do off the air, what we do in the studio, it's all the same.
	You know, and I've said this in the past shows, but I'd like to point this out one more time.
	A lot of our detractors and people that heap garbage on us all the time, like the PLS PLC and the ADL, the same old people.
	You know, James, and I'm not tooting my horn.
	I'm not tooting the horn of the cesspool because we here at the cesspool, we are a bunch of sentimental guys.
	We're humans, so we all have children.
	James has a small child.
	You know, we all have kids.
	Bill's got kids.
	Keith's got kids.
	I got kids.
	I got grandkids.
	And we love kids and we're human and we're Christians.
	And I'd like to throw the gauntlet out.
	I hadn't seen anybody from the SPLC or the ADL going out and giving airtime and spending money supporting somebody like St. Jude Children's Hospital.
	But the political success pool, and they pay more taxes probably the weak gross of the year.
	And, you know, we put it on the line.
	Liberty News Radio gave St. Jude airtime.
	I've yet to see any of our detractors do anything comparable to that, James.
	What do you think about that?
	Well, you never will.
	And it's not surprising, and you never will.
	These aren't good people.
	They're not righteous people.
	They're not fighting hatred.
	They are perpetuating it.
	And no, they're never going to do anything as noble and as honorable as you did, Eddie, because you're a noble and honorable man, and they're not, and they'll never understand what it's like to be one.
	But that was number three on the top 10 list of things we experienced in 2012.
	And I use the term we loosely, vicariously through you.
	I experienced that, but I do feel I was a part of it and happy to be.
	Number two on the list of, as far as I'm concerned, the top 10 of TPC's year, the Ray Stevens interview.
	Now, this was special to me for a few reasons.
	Ray Stevens has always been one of my favorite singers.
	And in August, the Grammy Award winner became one of my favorite guests as well.
	And what made that interview even more special was that my pastor joined me as a guest host that day.
	We weren't able to have Ray Stevens on the air live, so we taped it and then played it the following Saturday to work around his schedule.
	But my pastor has been a lifelong Ray Stevens fan, and I knew that.
	And I called him up the day before Ray was scheduled to tape the show with me.
	And I said, why don't you come to the studio?
	I got a surprise for you.
	And we had him on, and that was in August of this year.
	Go back and listen to that one.
	Ray Stevens, the streak Misty, Mississippi Squirrel Revival, turn your radio on, just great stuff.
	And we had a great conversation with him.
	But the number one item, as far as I'm concerned, this year, was another interview that we conducted with a very big name.
	New ground was plowed in this case as well.
	And Eddie, once again, your fingerprints are all over it.
	It was the first time the political cesspool ever hosted in a live interview or otherwise a sitting member of the United States House of Representatives.
	That's exactly what we did in September when United States Congressman Walter Jones joined us for a particularly enthusiastic interview.
	And if you listen closely, you can still hear the media lamenting his appearance, but the congressman never disavowed us.
	This story made a lot of news.
	He never backed down.
	He never said, I wish I hadn't gone on there.
	I didn't know better.
	He backed us up all the way through, and he later cruised to reelection in November, despite the fact that his Democratic opponent tried to make it a point of the campaign that he had come on the show.
	He never apologized.
	He never backtracked.
	He never retracted.
	And he was a big winner on Election Day when most Republicans were not.
	You know, James, I'll never forget that either.
	No one was more surprised than I was when I was able to land that interview.
	I kept thinking, I know me and James were sitting here, we kept thinking all the way to the 11th hour that he would get wind of the SPLC or somebody would get in touch with him and threaten him and say, if you go on your toast, if you go on that show, you're history, son.
	Well, he didn't.
	And like James said, he just dumped his nose at all the opposition.
	It's a lies.
	Yeah.
	You know, it's lies.
	That's right.
	And, you know, I think if other congressmen out there, if other politicians had enough brains, and very few congressmen have enough brains to do anything without being, you know, led by the nose.
	But James, that should set the amount.
	That should set the mole.
	That should be like a prototype for other congressmen.
	If you will stand your ground and stand for your principles, fight for your principles, come hell or high water.
	Damn the torpedoes, full speed ahead.
	Stick to your guns, speak to your principles, you'll be the winner in the end.
	His appearance with us did not hurt him at all.
	In fact, it could have only helped if you look at his election numbers.
	The media and our enemies are only as powerful as you allow them to be.
	More to come right after this.
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	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 as we are recapping the year that was 2012, the top 10 from 10 to 1, April's Confederate History Month series, snubbing NBC, speaking at the American Renaissance Conference, Bob Mazor's guest appearances, our live broadcast at the CFCC conference, Howard Stern, Winston Smith's triumphant return to the airwaves, Eddie's marathon run and the appearances of Ray Stevens and Walter Jones respectively.
	And, you know, as I said, the news tried to burn Jones for appearing by trotting out the usual lies and a doublespeak about the show.
	He knew better.
	He looked at our body of work.
	He didn't back down.
	And in fact, I saw at least a half a dozen letters to the editors that were published in North Carolina newspapers after his appearance from people reading the news stories about him coming on with us and them looking into our show, reading our website.
	These are just people who had never heard of the political cesspool before, people who had read some of the news stories there in North Carolina saying, you know, I went to the website.
	I've listened to a few shows and, you know, this isn't the show y'all are describing.
	I didn't see anything that led me to believe this was a racist show or a hateful show.
	These seem to be good Americans.
	And we are.
	That's how we see ourselves.
	And that's how other real Americans see ourselves.
	That's how Walter Jones sees us, if I dare to be so presumptuous.
	And certainly, if anyone listens to this show, we are much more in line with the thought process of Americans than people like Piers Morgan, who, as we were talking about earlier in the show, says, we need to get rid of the Bible.
	We need to amend the Bible, rewrite the Bible because it's out of date with regards to how it addresses the issue of homosexuality.
	Well, that is certainly a radical and extremist statement compared to the things we say here.
	But those are the top 10.
	Eddie, and it's hard to come up with the top 10 because so much happened this year.
	Sonny Landam's appearances on the show, always thrilling.
	And he, our good movie star friend, was back on a time or two this year.
	I loved all the shows we did during Christmas where we played the great Christmas music.
	Of course, our annual birthday party, the on-air anniversary special that we do each October around the 26th to commemorate our first show that ever was back in 2004.
	That's always a big show.
	The Halloween show was a lot of fun this year.
	We played all the Halloween music.
	Any show that Sam Bushman filled in, and he filled in two or three times for me in addition to his routine guest appearances was great.
	When Bill and Keith subbed for me when I have to be out, also excellent shows, excellent programming.
	Richard Mack made a very big appearance.
	Let's not forget Richard Mack, you know, and his debut appearance.
	That should be in the top 10.
	George Wallace Jr. was on last month.
	I mean, talking to the son of one of the greatest governors in American history.
	A very big show.
	It was a big year.
	And I'll tell you, you know, I tried to keep it to accomplishments that we had rather than celebrating the fact that karma was served to some of our detractors.
	You know, Roland Martin, my sparring partner on some of my CNN appearances, was, in another case of poetic justice, suspended from CNN for making comments that they thought were derogatory towards homosexuals.
	So he can call me a racist.
	He can call me a bigot.
	He can call me this, that, and the other.
	He can slander and malign me all he wants.
	But even he had to bend a knee at the altar of political correctness when he got out of line and said something that violated the tenets of political correctness with regards to sodomites, but it couldn't have happened to a nicer guy.
	So CNN suspended Martin.
	Another one of the people who have inflicted harm or at least taken us to task on their shows.
	Keith Olberman was fired by, I think, his sixth or seventh network.
	He is now off the air.
	Paul Babu, your good friend, Eddie, who invited you to come down for a ride-along, giving the new term to ride along.
	You know, Paul Babu, wow, what a scandal that was a couple of years back.
	And he got his comeuppance this year in a gay sex scandal when he was the headmaster of an all-boys school, and that ruined his political career and ambitions.
	But a lot of the people who have done the cesspool wrong were paid back this year in ways that we could have never served justice ourselves.
	Revenge is a dish best served cold, as they say.
	But Keith Oldman, Roland Martin, Paul Babu, and I think there was another celebrity or two that had taken issue with us and kind of spread some lies about us that got their due.
	But I'll tell you, the greatest moment of the year for me, I guess, in being loosely related to the show, it wasn't really an accomplishment we had on the air.
	It wasn't a celebrity guest.
	It wasn't somebody that we've sparred with getting their just reward.
	You know what really I think, in all honesty, was probably my best moment that I shared as a host of the show this year was an experience I shared with you when we went to Nashville earlier this year.
	I believe it was back in March.
	Why don't you fill in the audience why that particular trip was so special and what we did and who we met?
	Well, I'll tell you what, me and James, in fact, I think that was back in June, James, or May.
	But yeah, me and James met and came over to his house.
	We got in the car and we went to Nashville as usual.
	If you've ever ridden with James, if you've never ridden with him, it's quite a treat right there.
	He doesn't leave not even 30 seconds leeway to get there.
	I mean, we were rolling on to Nashville, buddy.
	And, you know, the big E here, when I go someplace, I'm always looking out for the, expecting the worst, a train to block us or trimmer to fall in the road or something.
	But we went up there.
	We met Sam Bushman and his buddy, Kurt, Sam and Kurt had a wonderful time.
	We had a wonderful meal at a restaurant.
	And probably the high point of my day, besides meeting those guys, I mean, it was just like we'd done them all of our life, just like they were kinfolks.
	When we went to Andrew Jackson's with the Hermitage, and we toured that.
	See, I've never been there.
	I've been in Tennessee all my life.
	And it was very, very special to Sam, too.
	Sam was a big, huge fan of Andrew Jackson, the guy who killed the central bank the first time.
	Matter of fact, I didn't see, I'd always heard all my life that Andrew Jackson's tombstone, he had an epitaph that said, I beat the banks.
	I didn't see that, but I didn't look for it that hard.
	But it was such a wonderful day.
	The high point of that trip, James, like you said, that was very special to me, was touring their hermitage.
	But it was a very rare time that I got to have a day uninterrupted with you.
	No phones coming in, no people calling in from the audience, but we got to talk a lot of war planning, just a lot of camaraderie.
	It was a wonderful, special time.
	We met at my house that morning.
	You and I drove up straight to the Nashville airport, picked up Sam and Kurt, took them to their hotel.
	And the reason we all rendezvoused in Nashville was that Sam Bushman, of course, owner of Liberty News Radio, host of the Liberty Roundtable show, our good friend, was speaking at the, he was a featured speaker at the Constitution Party's national convention where they were nominating their presidential and vice presidential candidates.
	And we got to meet Virgil Good, who was the head of the ticket.
	And we got to hear Sam's speech, He Who Owns the Media Makes the Rules, which is just great.
	And we went on to rave about that afterwards.
	And that was a great experience.
	Just hanging out with Sam and Kurt, going to the Hermitage, as you mentioned, sharing that time together to and from Nashville in the car that day.
	And anyway, that would have been number one on the list if it had anything to do with the personal success of the show itself.
	That was kind of an auxiliary thing related to it.
	But that probably was, I guess, my most memorable and probably most fun and favorite moment of the year, the day we spent with Sam in Nashville.
	But folks, it's been a great year.
	And thanks again, fans, for making it possible.
	And as we've said before, with the dawn of a new year upon us, 2013, just a few days away, we appreciate the promise of hope that comes with New Year's.
	And we here in Memphis at the Political Assessable Radio Program promise you another year of programming filled with, as this top 10 list has proven pleasant surprises, thrilling accomplishments, and of course, celebrity guests and the razor-tongued commentary that you've come to expect from our award-winning show.
	In other words, we've got some big plans in store for you in 2013.
	And what's so wonderful about it, Eddie, is we don't know any more than the listeners what to expect.
	I mean, there will be things that we can't anticipate.
	Media interview requests that come in, scandals, attacks, accomplishments, victories.
	We don't know what the new year is going to hold.
	I mean, we're going to do our part and we're going to make plans.
	But the thing that really make these things so special is that you never know what's going to fall into your lap.
	Like Ray Stevens, you know, that Ray Stevens interview came up because his publicist emailed me a day or two before and said, you know, they wanted to come on the show.
	You know, that just fell into my lap.
	Walter Jones getting back with you and being so flexible as to work around our schedule so he could appear live.
	I mean, you just can't plan and anticipate stuff like that.
	But whatever the case, whatever happens, we'll all experience it together.
	And we'll all go on that journey and adventure together beginning next week, the first show of 2013.
	Hey, everybody, be safe on New Year's Eve.
	Drive safe.
	Don't do anything silly.
	Don't be foolish.
	And spend the time with your family.
	And we'll see you next Saturday here as we kick off, again, what promises to be another exciting year in the Political Cessible as we continue to lead the way.
	On behalf of the entire staffing crew in Utah, the Bushman Family Liberty News Radio, our crew here in Memphis, Bill, Eddie, Keith, and Winston.
	I'm James Edwards.
	God bless you.
	Happy New Year, everybody.
	We'll see you next week.
	Thanks for joining us tonight in the Political Cesspool.

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