June 14, 2014 - The Political Cesspool - James Edwards
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And welcome, everybody, to the Political Cesspool Radio Program.
I'm your host, James Edwards.
It's the live broadcast for Saturday evening, June 14th.
And it's a pleasure to be with you tonight on this Summer's Eve, as it is each and every evening, regardless of the season.
And speaking of season, I am up here in Nashville, Tennessee tonight on the road.
Once again, surprisingly, though, this time, this was not a planned departure in advance, at least, but a big week for me coming up.
My birthday is next week.
I'll be 34 years old next weekend.
This weekend, of course, is Father's Day.
Tomorrow is Father's Day.
And we'll be talking a little more about Father's Day, by the way, later tonight in the program.
But in celebration of Father's Day, I will actually be going with my dad tomorrow night here in Nashville at the Wyman Auditorium.
Any fan of the Political Festival in the Nashville area, come on down and I'd be happy to see you.
But at the Wyman Auditorium, the one and only, Mr. Frankie Valley will be live and in concert.
And I will be there with my dad.
What a Father's Day this is going to be.
My wife and daughter are here with me as well.
My mom and brother will be driving up tomorrow.
So it's a family affair here for the Edwardses.
And we're going to be listening back to music that came from a better time and a better day and age.
I'm excited about it.
Big week for me, and it's going to be a lot of fun.
So we'll be talking about it.
But first, joining me in the show, the show Mexico Mon and Work Milk Intrude, Keith Alexander down about 200 miles west of here in Memphis.
Keith, how's it going tonight?
Oh, it's going great.
Beautiful weather here in Memphis.
Just a few clouds in the sky, but nothing threatening at all.
Beautiful sunny day, moderate temperature.
How's it in Nashville?
About the same.
Mildly, pleasantly surprising, very mild, as you mentioned, weather-wise up here.
Of course, we're going to be rocking and rolling tomorrow night.
It's going to get heated up there in that concert hall, especially with yours truly present.
And so it's a special time, special weekend, special month, June always is for me.
Never more so since I became a father myself.
But, you know, talking about the music of the four seasons, going back to their heyday, I was born in 1980, about 15 years after their, I guess, zenith.
But, you know, that's actually dug tails into what you and I had planned to discuss this first hour, Keith, and that is not just how American culture has descended from the Halcyon days of the 50s and 60s, early 60s at least, to what it is now, but certainly how the media has presented the American way of life, pop culture, compared to contrasting that from the 50s and 60s to that of the day.
I will be getting it in terms of music tomorrow night, but you and I, I think we talked about this briefly, or at least in passing in one segment last week, you and I had an opportunity to get together at your house, I guess, what was it, night before last, two days ago, and we watched the movie.
I know you mentioned it last week, but kind of take it from the top, and I'll add in now that I've actually seen it for myself, and we'll play off of each other here.
What movie did we watch, and why do we watch it, and why is that movie so significant?
Well, we watched Tammy and the Batch.
I have been twisting arms throughout the country.
Not your average housewife, one of our bloggers has been the victim of some of my arm twisting trying to get people to watch this movie.
I think it is an iconic movie of the 1950s, and it is a representative movie of the time.
It was so iconic that a whole generation of Southern girls was named Tammy after this movie, just like a whole generation of Southern boys were named Shane after the Western by the same name starring Alan Ladd.
These movies were iconic for a purpose.
People named their children after the title character in these movies for a purpose.
And that purpose was these people were paragons.
These people were, you know, they modeled wise, godly, Christian behavior.
And it shows what Hollywood is capable of doing and accomplishing if they only would, rather than trying to drag down the moral standards of the nation as they do today.
Back then, they supported so much that was good.
And I tell people that if you really believe, like some leftists do, that the 50s was a bad time, as portrayed by the movie Pleasantville, for example, then you were either not there, you didn't live it like I did, or you have on ideological binders that prevent you from seeing the truth that's right there in front of your face.
And I'm really curious to get your take on Tammy.
What did you think?
You've seen it one time.
I've seen it umpteen times.
Tell me what you thought about the movie Tammy and the Bachelor.
It was the first of the Tammy movies.
I think it's the only one that starred Debbie Reynolds.
It had in it the iconic love song Tammy's in Love, which was the number one selling record of 1957, outdoing Elvis and everybody else.
So let's get your thoughts on it, James.
Well, before I give you my thoughts on that, you mentioned Pleasantville, and you're so right.
That's a modern, a relatively modern movie.
I guess it came out a little more than 10 years ago now, but starring Kofi McGuire and Joan Allen and Jeff Daniels.
And Jeff Daniels, I like him as an actor, but what that movie is all about is how repressive and backwards the 50s were.
In fact, the movie starts out in all black and white.
And as people become more progressive, they get to be shown in full color.
For instance, when Joan Allen's character commits adultery, she becomes liberated and becomes in color as if that is a good thing.
And it's a great contrast, but they're celebrating these perversions as if things are better now than they were then, when you had a nuclear family and a stay-at-home mother and a boy.
Well, they certainly are better now than they were then if you think that adultery is a good thing.
But then I don't see how any Christian or any religious person, a Muslim or anyone else, could think something as flawed and evil as that, James.
Well, and it's not just adultery and other characters when they begin to smoke or drink Drink or have promiscuous sex or do things like that.
Maybe come in color and then everybody wants to be in color so they can be trendy and edgy and advanced, you know.
But that's Pleasantville, and it depicts the 50s, as I just mentioned.
And you haven't arrived and reached your full potential until you engage in such heinous behavior.
But getting back to what the 50s really were, so much to say about Tammy.
I knew the song.
I always tell Keith I love the music from the 50s and 60s.
I just never really got into the movie.
I knew the song Tammy was sung by Debbie Reynolds because as I'm up here in Nashville tonight and on a nostalgia tour, my grandmother actually learned to drive for all intents and purposes, driving my grandmother when I was 16 years old back and forth to Nashville, where I am tonight, where she went to Vanderbilt University to receive her chemotherapy treatment.
All my grandparents died of cancer.
And she was going through that routine when I was just learning to drive as I can remember her.
You know, a family member always had to take her because obviously driving to Nashville and back was a lot for somebody undergoing through that kind of treatment.
And anyway, I'm getting to a point here, but I always loved it because I loved spending time with her and it was great to drive.
I was just learning to drive and it was fun then.
Now driving is more of a chore, but when you first learn to drive, there's no distance too far.
But anyway, one of the cassette tapes that we had, her car at that time still had cassette players back in 1996, not CDs yet.
And we had some oldies compilations.
And one of the songs on one of the cassettes was Tammy.
And I knew Debbie Reynolds sang it, but I didn't know there was a movie about it.
And anyway, we listened to that song back and forth, back and forth.
God knows how many times.
Not until this week, though, did I see the movie?
And I'm going to share with you my thoughts on that as Pete is asked right after this.
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Tammy, Tammy, Tammy's in love.
The old hootie owl, the hootie hoo's to the dove.
Tammy, Tammy, Tammy's in love.
Does my lover say?
Well, there you have it, folks.
The title song from the movie that Keith and I are discussing tonight in the context of how American media has shifted to the far left, a far cry from when Hollywood, Hollywood of all places, was producing wholesome movies with wholesome heroines like Tammy, played by Debbie Reynolds, who I didn't know it until Keith mentioned, is the mother of Carrie Fisher, if you can believe it.
But nevertheless, that movie is very good.
I enjoyed it, and I don't typically watch older movies, despite my affection for older music.
And it was Tammy is 17 years old, I believe, in this movie.
All she yearns for is to be a good wife and a good mother.
She quotes scriptures, you know, frequently during the film.
She's everything you would want in a woman, you know, a traditional woman, morally sound, of high caliber, good family, humble.
I could go on and on.
Just the fact that she quotes scriptures throughout the movie, and it's sound in a way that's endearing, as if it adds to her character in a good way.
And you would think, well, she's quoting scripture, of course, but no.
In movies and in television shows now, the people who quote scriptures are always mean-spirited.
They're radicals, extremists, caricatures of Christianity.
I can think of just a couple of examples that come to mind.
One is an Emma Stone movie, Easy A. There's a girl portrayed as a Christian in that, and it's just ridiculous how over-the-top she is.
And of course, she's just the object of ridicule and scorn.
Orange is the new black is a television series put out by Netflix.
All of the trendy, fashionable characters in that are lesbians.
They come from Boston.
They're well-dressed, educated.
The one Christian depicted in the movie is a meth head from Backwoods, Kentucky.
All of her teeth are rotten out.
And so that's how, if you quote scriptures in modern day vehicles, that's how you're portrayed as your character.
And Tammy, it was an attribute the way it should be.
And I could say so much more about it.
I'm going to keep some of the blanks.
Leslie Nielsen, I didn't even know Leslie Nielsen was in movies prior to Airplane or the Naked Gun Sealie, but he did a great job in that.
He was manly.
He was a Southern gentleman.
And they had a Rebel Fall in which, you know, obviously, if you were Southern and of Confederate stock, you were the elite of that community.
Continue on from there because there's so much more to the movie than what I was able to relay after just, you know, watching it in one path.
Well, what it is, it's a primer of what a young man ought to be looking for in a bride, in a wife.
Tammy is contrasted with Barbara.
Barbara is the high-flutin, upper-crusted betrothed of the Leslie Nielsen character.
And Leslie Nielsen, for example, this will throw most modern audiences for a total loop to watch Leslie Nielsen's character.
And this he is a prototypical romantic male lead.
He kind of looks like a more handsome Peyton Manning in this movie.
And he is a southern gentleman to the core, down to wearing white bucks.
He supposedly comes from a wealthy family that has a big plantation home called Brentwood that is part of the Natchez Pilgrimage, which is still an annual event in Natchez, Mississippi, where they open up these antebellum homes, which are done out to the T's.
And they show visitors that, and back then, at least, I don't know if they still do, they had an event they called the Rebel Ball, which the luckiest of the tourists would get to attend, where they had period dancing and whatnot.
And everything was, you know, it was done in this like people in the families would be dressed in antebellum costumes and they would portray people that had passed on that were important figures in that home.
Now, Leslie Nielsen is a heartthrob in this, which is hard for modern audiences to comprehend since he's played a buffoon in movies like Airplane and Naked Gun.
He was also in the Poseidon adventure, things like this.
But back then, seeing a handsome young Leslie Nielsen and contrasting that with what most modern audiences have sampled of his acting is going to be worth the price of admission in and of itself.
But Debbie Reynolds is, like I said, she is what every man should be looking for in a wife.
She is wholesome.
She is hardworking.
She is spunky.
She is a perfect Adam's rib, a perfect compliment to her husband or husband to be, or one that she would like to be her husband, which is Leslie Nielsen.
Mala Powers plays Barbara Crane, who is the socialite betrothed or intended of the Leslie Nielsen character, but she wants him to move to the city and work for her rich uncle who owns an advertising agency.
In other words, Debbie Reynolds has one little vignette in the movie where she says, that Barbara don't know nothing about loving one man and one man only.
She did, she tried to help Peter realize his dreams rather than trying to make life easy for herself.
And remember the episode in there when Pete's tomato experiment is being destroyed by a hailstorm and she runs out there to protect the tomato.
And Peter in this movie, played by Leslie Nielsen, wants to remain on the plantation style home that they have and be an agrarian.
He wants to be a farmer.
He wants to live off like a traditional southerner and have his farm be self-sustaining as opposed to going to the city and getting into the advertising business.
And Tammy, despite having no formal education in this movie, is the one that is the most wise and has the most intellectual things to say.
And she is also religiously wise.
She says, for example, at one point, people today don't have confidence in themselves.
She calls Peter, the Leslie Nielsen character, Driftwood, caught between the current on one side and the Eddie on the other.
And he's trying to please other people like Barbara and his mother when he needs to stop puzzling, as she says, and find his life.
And she says that he's, you know, basically what he has to do is tune other people out and follow his dream.
And she's totally supportive of what that dream is, whatever it is.
And it's really a charming, touching movie.
And it is so out of step with the modern feminist version of what a marriage should be.
Tammy gladly takes on chores like cooking breakfast.
All the upper-crush women in the household scoring that type of duty, but she rolls up her sleeves and digs right in and does it.
She thinks there's nothing better than farming.
She says that people, my grandfather said, people well nigh do the work of the Lord when they're growing crops and having babies.
Can you imagine any modern heroine in a movie saying something like that?
That would like to be some fool.
When we come back, we're going to bring this to a head and draw to a conclusion on this part of the conversation.
We've got many more stories to bring to your attention tonight.
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Pretty eyes of midsummer's morning.
Hang on, hang on, hang on to.
Think what a big man he'll be.
Think of the faces you'll see.
I'll think what the future would be with a poor boy like me.
My absolute favorite song ever, not just by the four seasons, but I mean anyone.
That's non-go away, obviously Frankie Valley, written by Bob Gadio, who wrote most of their songs.
Went all the way up to number three in 1964, kept out of the number one in two slots by the omnipresence Beatles song.
I want to hold your hand and she loves you.
Not that the four seasons didn't have plenty of top toppers, chart concerns themselves.
And as you know, folks, I'm up here in Nashville tonight for a little Father's Day getaway.
My dad surprised me with tickets to go through the four seasons, Frankie Valley.
We'll be seeing them tomorrow night.
It was funny, I was talking to my dad after he told me about this just a couple of days ago, and he said he remembers seeing Frankie Valley in the 70s at the Mid-South Coliseum, which was the main venue in Memphis at the time.
If there was a sporting event or a concert in Memphis, it was inevitably held at the Mid-South Coliseum.
He says he remembers seeing them play in the 70s and thinking how old they were then.
Frankie Valley's 80 years old and still getting out there and doing it big.
And we're talking, of course, tonight about how media has changed.
And one movie we've used to draw a perfect example is Tammy and the Bachelor, Debbie Reynolds.
Obviously, music has changed as well.
The way news is presented has changed all for the worse.
I mean, you're never going to see songs like Dawn, any of these songs from the late 50s, early 60s, just talking about love and romance, and it's all still good and it's clean and it's healthy and everything's properly defined and the gender roles are there and traditional.
Well, I think, you know, there's no way you can effectively argue that he's gotten better or more normal.
I mean, they say it's progress, but it's the exact opposite.
It's regression.
And certainly we spent a great deal of time focusing on this one movie, but I do think it brings in a sharp focus.
The example we're trying to draw.
Why don't you fill in the blanks and make some final thoughts on this?
And I've got something else that kind of ties into it before we get into some other topics.
Well, I would say this.
I remember when the Four Seasons came out, their really big first breakout hit was Sherry in 1962, I believe.
That's right.
And I remember that hit so big everywhere.
I mean, it was on everybody's lips.
It was big.
And you're right.
The Beatles kind of crowded them out there for a while in the English invasion, but they still had great careers after that and produced some of the best 50, best music of the late 50s through the not just early 60s, but throughout the 60s.
Now, getting back to Tammy, Tammy says things like this in the movie.
She says, people don't trust themselves anymore because they don't trust the Lord.
She said, back in the day, they used to leave some things up to the Lord, like the last day and the end of the world.
But now they don't trust and have confidence in anything they do because they don't trust in the Lord like they used to.
Could you imagine anybody delivering a line like that in a modern movie?
I can't.
Well, I mean, if they did, it would be, as I said, it would be delivered by a character so over the top they exist only to be mocked and serve as a extreme caricature of what Debbie Reynolds is.
Live imitates hard here.
So we, right now, as we speak, there are advertisements coming out for a new movie called Tammy.
And who is Tammy?
Is she a pert, demure, you know, totally attractive person like Debbie Reynolds?
No, it's some fat, slatterly, coarse, uncouth, ill-mannered, foul-mouthed woman comedian who's apparently trying to ruin the Tammy brand.
And by the way, the Tammy brand was so strong that even though Debbie Reynolds didn't appear, I don't think in any other Tammy movies because she didn't want to get typecast, and she definitely would have been typecast if she continued in this series.
The rest of the series had Sandra D as Tammy, and it had Tammy and the doctor, Tammy and this, Tammy and that.
And although they were fairly good movies, they just don't hold a candle to Tammy and the Bachelor.
And I would recommend anyone in our listening audience who is looking for wholesome fare for themselves and their family, particularly young people that are getting into courting age and marrying age, get this movie because it shows you appropriate behavior.
For example, Leslie Nielsen is supposedly around 25.
He's gone to college, he's served in the Korean War, and he thinks Tammy at age 17 is too young for him.
And he can obviously see her ardor for him, but he tries to tone it down.
He's not some cad that would take advantage of her, which he could have easily done, as you can see by the way she reacts to him in the movie.
But during the Rebel Ball and during the pilgrimage, Tammy portrays Grandmother Cratcher, his Peter Brent, Leslie Nielsen's character's great-grandmother, who married his great-grandfather after the great-grandfather met her when she came up to the plantation selling eggs.
And after their first meeting, he was so captivated, he married her the next day and they lived happily ever after, like a fairy tale.
And he realizes when she's delivering these lines that he's just like his grandfather, and this girl is an appropriate wife for him.
And he basically breaks up with Barbara Crane, his socialite girlfriend who's trying to call the shots in his life.
And he tells her, Barbara, we refuse to face up to the fact that we don't have the right kind of love for each other.
Not what Tammy calls the till death do you part type.
And she says, Tammy again, you're in love with her.
Like, she's totally incredulous.
He could go for this little backwards girl who's uneducated, but is just a fountain of wisdom and goodness and wholesomeness.
And the only people that would be more incredulous than Barbara would be modern feminists watching this movie.
So if you are truly conservative, like most of our listening audience is, this movie is one that you need to put on your four-star list.
This is one you've got to see before the end of the year.
And you can see it with your family.
There's nothing that I have no reservations about.
It's just like movie Shane.
There are some movies that are so good that I can't imagine anyone having any legitimate concern about them.
And this is one of them, James.
Well, and you know, Keith, we're talking about heroes and people portrayed in a manner that you would want to emulate.
You know, back when America was a healthy and a decent society, we used to have legitimate heroes.
Now, certainly one of our would be a man like Davy Crockett.
And that was another guy who was repopularized in the 50s and 60s by Walt Disney in a massively successful series.
And so, you know, assuming now that David Crockett was ever mentioned, it would be that he was just an evil white racist.
But at the very least, we had people who accomplished something worth celebrating, who were honored and led honorable lives.
Well, they did.
And now you just compare that, and it's not just mediums, you know, but I'm glad that you can go back and find things like this to watch, to listen to.
Obviously, in radio, we do our part here to represent the way America should be and to fight for an advanced and repopularized ideas that are everlasting.
I mean, what's right yesterday is right today.
What's right and what's decent and what's morally sound doesn't change.
It's not open to interpretation.
And so we're heading the line here on the radio, politically speaking.
And so you can still find these things.
You might have to do some digging, but we're proud.
We're proud to play our role here with what we do because certainly on any other radio show in the country, you're not going to hear them talking about an issue like this.
But it's not just the media, it's all the institutions.
As you always talk about, Keith, the radical egalitarians made a long march to the institutions, and it was academia, it was media, it was television, government, art, you name it.
And it's, you know, now we're in the post office.
You know, does David Crockett get a stamp?
No.
You know, being honored with your very own personalized stamp now is sort of a tip thing to do, but now it's reserved for professional malcontents or sodomites like Harvey Milk.
I mean, Harvey Milk gets his own stamp, and I know it was a couple of months ago, but even the post office, which is, of course, under the aegis of the federal government, are under an evil spell.
Our whole nation is under an evil spell, and we need to break that spell, my friends.
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Welcome back.
To get on the show, call us on James's Dime at 1-866-986-6397.
Hey, everybody, welcome back to Wednesday and things that have changed.
Keep in mind, folks, that what you see presented to us by a handful of people who make up this cabal that controls the establishment media is still not an accurate reflection of the America that we live in.
Certainly, America is not as morally sound as it was in the 50s and 60s.
Let's not kid ourselves.
But it's a lot more like it was back then in the hearts and the heart of hearts of a lot of traditional working classes and say it, James.
It's not like that in Red State America.
Red State America still clings to the old path.
And there are people in Blue State America that do too.
But this left-wing cabal that you're talking about knows what they're doing.
This is cultural Marxism's Freudian aspect.
There's an old saying that life imitates art.
Well, life is beginning to imitate art.
If you look at the Tammy movie, for example, one of the foundational principles behind it is that sex without being in love with your sexual partner is unthinkable.
Now, everything that has been trending away from that, that is old-fashioned.
That's what Pleasantville would say.
And this erosion started shortly after the Tammy movie.
There was a movie in the late 50s called A Summer Place starring Troy Donahue and Sandra Dee, in which the people that are committing adultery or the unmarried kids that wind up getting pregnant are portrayed as just these, you know, Star-Crossed lovers who, you know, are pure spirits.
And all the people that are opposed to adultery or fornication or sex outside of marriage are portrayed in a totally negative light.
So, well, Hollywood got onto this.
This was really a transformation that happened between 1954 and 1960.
And it just so happened that that was the exact time when these civilian review boards for movies such as Lloyd Binford's Better Movie Review Board in Memphis were in their death throes.
Mr. Binford died in 1956.
His Better Movies Review Board died with him.
I've gone to his grave at Elmwood Cemetery in Memphis and I've paid homage to him.
People like Mr. Binford kept Hollywood in check because they would not let a movie like A Summer Place appear in Memphis movie theaters back then.
And Hollywood, if they dared to make a movie like that, and they did make some, that were banned in Memphis, banned in Boston was another famous word.
And as a result, Hollywood's profits were cut in half because of all these civilian review boards.
The passing of these civilian review boards, which is celebrated now, if it's discussed at all by Hollywood, is a great triumph of freedom of expression, was really a great tragedy for the American people because it let the hellhounds of Hollywood gave them free reign to do what they wanted to in terms of trying their best to psychologically condition and transform our society.
And unfortunately, they've done a buying up job at that task.
Well, now, of course, it's not just that kind of immorality.
Now they've blitz-creeped it all the way to homosexuality.
There's so much homosexual propaganda inside of me as if I'll talk more about that in a second hour.
I want to get back to Harvey Milk, get the stamp in a second hour because I'll tie it all in together.
But first, we have Peter Scoop Sentin waiting on the line patiently with his weekly report.
Scoop, what do you got for us tonight?
Good evening, Sensible Family.
Scoop's weekly report is brought to you by Charlie Leduff because my thoughts, opinions, and ideas came from him, which are brilliant.
So I'm going to give credit where credits do it.
Do first off, down in the southwest, we have tens of thousands of illegal immigrant children coming from supposedly Central or South America.
Now, if you think about it, the border between the U.S. and Mexico is wide open.
However, down on the southern border of Mexico, that's an absolute fortress.
Charlie's question is, are these children all from Honduras, El Salvador, and Guatemala?
If so, how did they get across the Mexican border?
Where are the parents of these people from Central and South America?
What we're living in is a real-life version of Camp of the Saints.
Eventually, the whole Southwest is going to be a no-go territory for people like us.
Whereas there's nothing more you can say about it, how anyone could argue that it's a good thing for America to have people coming over here who have no respect for our laws, no respect for our language, no respect for our culture, and just come over here and use it as a dumping ground.
And would that be okay?
And even if you think that that is okay, you know, how can you be so morally bankrupt to advocate basically what we call picking and choosing of which laws you're going to enforce?
There's laws on the books.
We're either a nation that is governed by some sort of a law or we're not.
But if you don't like the law and change the law, I would certainly argue against that.
But to pretend as though it's not a felony crime to come across and enter into this country illegally is erroneous.
And it, what, we just don't enforce it because of political correctness?
Keith, that's exactly what's going on, right?
Well, you know, Barito Brecht, the German communist playwright, famously said in 1948 that if you don't like the results of the election, change the electorate.
That is what the ultimate purpose of this open borders policy is.
It's not benevolent.
It's not to be kind to people that want to live a better life.
It is a leftist plot to make sure that traditional American values as held by America's founding stock and other people that have been here for hundreds of years will no longer be the predominant political philosophy of the majority of the citizens of the United States of America.
They're going to swamp us at the polls.
They're going to have people from foreign nations who do not understand or appreciate the concept of limited government.
They think that a government that doesn't do much is the very definition of a bad government.
They want government to do as much as it possibly could to provide for them and thereby intrude upon their own personal freedoms.
That's not a problem as long as you know you have bread and surfaces and you have plenty of food and you get health care of a sort and things like this.
That's what a government is supposed to do.
A government that doesn't do that is their definition of a bad government.
And of course, the traditional American view is best summed up by Thomas Jefferson.
The government governs best, it governs least.
You know, Keith, to hear you speak with such common sense is a breath of fresh air.
Of course, we're used to it here on this show.
But, you know, you put that kind of commentary on Financia.
This is what Keith said right there, which was just so basic and fundamental because, you know, people tuning into this show know you're getting advanced, advanced level courses in political science and commentary.
But just what he's filled in the last two minutes would be a bombshell if heard on Stanley or Fox.
You know, in fact, it's just so well-reasoned and so basic that it's hard to believe that anyone could find a way to argue against it.
But of course, liberalism is a mental disorder, and there's a lot of mentally ill people out there.
Scoop, back to you.
What else you got?
All right.
Back to the southern U.S. border.
The government plans to reunite these children and the parents on our side of the border, not down in Mexico, Honduras, El Salvador, or those other Central American hellholes.
And the president wants to pledge $2 billion to feed, clothe, and shelter these people.
Meanwhile, we still have GIs waiting to go see a doctor at the VA.
Now, up here in Virginia, there was a little primary election up here that may not have made the news.
Eric Cantor lost his primary to an unknown Tea Party candidate, and the media lost their mind.
Yeah, I was going to actually talk about that in the second hour, but I'm glad you're giving the audience a teaser.
I never put a lot of faith or hope into candidates, whether they be from outside the Beltway or not.
But the fact that Eric Cantor of all people were taken down, and he, I think this guy that beat him had a total campaign budget that matched what Eric Cantor spent on stakes for his campaign team through the course of the election.
My friend Peter Brimelow, who runs Beatair.com, puts some stock in the newly minted representative there in Virginia that knocked down Cantor.
So if you do that for Peter Brimelow, maybe there's something to him.
But this is a major story.
So give us a little more information about it, Scoop.
Okay, well, Mr. Cantor is a Beltway insider.
Fortunately, he does not represent my district, and he was too busy campaigning, wheeling and dealing up here in the Beltway to campaign.
And so the Cadaway, who spent about $100,000, beat him.
The media lost their mind because Mr. Cantor, since he's a Beltway insider, he's always on the Sunday talk shows.
He's always in front of, he's like Charlie Schumer.
Don't get in front of it between him and the television camera.
And I'm willing to bet my house that the people on the left, people on the right, and the media people from MSNBC, CNN, and whatever, they all hang out at like the Capitol Grill and other places on K Street.
So now they lost their media dialing.
And then allegations came up that people were voting against Cantor because they're anti-Semitic.
Of course.
Well, yeah, if you vote against someone of a different ethnicity, you must be against them because of their race or ethnicity, which is completely preposterous.
But this is the game they play.
He was beaten by a gentleman by the name of David Brad, who is a small college professor, I believe, a college professor at a small university.
Anyway, the biggest political upset maybe in 20 years, if not more.
But we're going to take a break, folks.
Thank you, Keith.
Thank you, Scoop Love.
Y'all be back with a lot more in the second hour.
Stay tuned.
Another hour of the political cesspool is in the can, but don't go away.