Dec. 27, 2014 - The Political Cesspool - James Edwards
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You're listening to the Liberty News Radio Network, and this is the Political Cesspool.
The Political Cesspool, known across the South and worldwide as the South's foremost populist conservative radio program.
And here to guide you through the murky waters of the Political Cesspool is your host, James Edwards.
Welcome everybody to tonight's live broadcast of the Political Cesspool Radio Program.
I barely knew when to start talking.
This is the first time in three weeks.
We haven't kicked off each segment with a Christmas song.
I kind of miss it, but I hope that each and every one of you had a blessed and Merry Christmas.
We're going to cover a little bit of everything tonight.
We're going to be covering the news, and we're going to take a look back on some of the top 10 moments of the Political Cesspool's year that was 2014 coming down to its conclusion.
And we're going to be going into a brand new year with a full head of steam.
But first, we are going to talk just a moment about Christmas.
We've got a big guest, Sean Bergen, with another live report from New York, the site of so much rancor.
That's coming up this hour.
And then in the second and third hour, we're going to cover some additional news stories that we've been tracking and get into some of those top 10 lists as we look back on the year that was and plan for the year to come.
But first, as we mentioned just a couple of days ago, it was Christmas.
And as I told you at the end of the show last week, it's such a special day for us for so many reasons.
But it's important that we always remember that we're here to protect and preserve a culture and a faith that has given light to a dark world.
And it is our duty to ensure that that flame is never extinguished.
We think back about that.
We reflect upon that at Christmas time, especially at Christmastime.
I should mention that I have my family here in the studio this evening.
My daughter, my wife, our newborn son, they're all here with me.
And my daughter has been practicing some Bible verses.
My wife is very diligent about teaching her the scriptures.
And we're talking about Christmas and reflecting on our faith.
So I thought it'd be kind of nice to have Isabel share with you a Bible verse.
Now remember, Isabel, this is just practice.
No one's listening.
So say it as loud as you can.
No one's listening.
God said that I will love the world.
Whoever follows me will never walk in darkness.
John 8, 12.
There you go, everybody.
How about that?
Good job, sweetheart.
All right.
Well, I'll tell you another thing that I was reflective on, especially this Christmas.
It was the 100-year anniversary of the Christmas truce of 1914.
You know, these were people, brothers, fighting one another this Christmas truce of World War I.
It was a series of widespread but unofficial ceasefires, as we posted to the website on Christmas Eve along the Western Front around Christmastime 1914.
In the week leading up to the holiday, German and British soldiers crossed trenches to exchange seasonal greetings and talk in areas men from both sides ventured into no man's land on Christmas Eve and Christmas Day to mingle and exchange food and souvenirs.
There were joint burial ceremonies and prisoner swaps while several meetings ended in Christmas carol singing.
Men played football games with one another, giving one of the most enduring images of the truce.
And I've got a picture there for you at thepoliticalscesspool.org that shows the British and the German.
That war should have never been fought.
The Second World War should have never been fought.
I pray that our people will never again go to war against one another.
We can't survive it.
You know, with our declining birth rates, you look at our people, where we stood in the world, our mental health, our vigor 100 years ago.
European mankind, Western civilization can't survive another war against itself.
I pray that this never happens again.
It was just a shame.
But they were united by a common culture and a common faith, and they were able to see through the odds that they were told that they had.
And in those moments, very heartwarming.
And it was the last time that ever happened.
Never again have people come together to celebrate Christmas on a battlefield.
Perhaps never happened even before that.
But speaking of battles, I got some great Christmas presents from we had a great Christmas, and I hope everyone listening tonight did too across the country and around the world.
Great Christmas with my family, my parents, and my in-laws, and of course, my family, my wife and children.
Got some good gifts, too.
Let's not discount that.
That is still fun.
That's not the reason for the season, of course, but it's still fun.
I got a lot of good clothes.
You know, it wasn't that long ago that I would have thrown a temper tantrum if I opened up a box and it had clothes in it.
You know, we wanted those toys.
You know, when you're growing up, it's all about toys.
Well, now I like getting clothes, but perhaps the best gift I got, my wife gave me, and it's a book I love to read.
And it's a book about history's greatest battles.
And it's just very inspiring to read some of these accounts.
It includes facts and figures about some of the conflagrations that changed the world.
For instance, the battle at Thermopylae, the hot gates, where 300 Spartans went up against between 100 and 200,000 of the horde led by Xerxes.
That's kind of like the odds we face right now, ladies and gentlemen.
I mean, certainly the vast majority of people agree with us on our fundamental issues, but for the people who actually go out there and work day in, day out and fight for our movement, I think 300 would be generous to say that there's that many that actually go out and work.
Certainly those who support us with their prayers and financial considerations, and you're right there with us and just as important, if not more so.
But in terms of the people that go out and fight and work daily, we're certainly in a minority the likes of which Leonidas could appreciate.
But there, facing those overwhelming odds, 200,000 versus 300, and Xerxes told the Spartans to surrender their weapons.
And you know what they said?
According to history, what history tells us, Leonidas said, come and get them.
100,000 versus 300, or 200,000 versus 300, come and take them.
That is the kind of stuff that inspires our people.
And certainly my work on the radio is in no way comparable to sacrifices the likes of which these heroes gave.
But I can draw inspiration from them and do the best I can with the resources I've got.
And it inspires me to redouble our efforts here.
Some of the other battles I've been reading about, the battle that Alexander participated in at Galgamela, the battle where Arminius and the Germanic tribes put down Rome.
You know, I'm not a Roman basher.
I respect and value and revere a great deal of the civilization that the Romans had and their contributions to society.
But it cannot be discounted that it was important that the Germanic people repel the Romanization of Europe because so much of what we hold dear in terms of our Anglo-Saxon heritage came from the Germanic tribes that would grow as a result of that victory won by Arminius.
And there's so many others, Cortez at Tenoctylon and on and on.
But we should remember history and we should remember our heroes.
And that's very important.
Well, we've got some other stories.
We're not going to dwell on Christmas anymore.
I wish we could.
Pressing affairs at state must be administered.
And as I said, we're going to cover a lot of news tonight, but we do have some other Christmas-related stories.
Pat Buchanan has an article, Christmas in an Anti-Christian Age, that we've posted.
Of course, the war on Christmas, you know, we always like to track that.
Christian symbols outlawed by the media, by the government.
While Jewish menorahs erected there on the White House grounds, and we've got a great article about that, the Jewish extremist takeover of the Christmas season.
Nativity scenes banned from public life, but menorah is so tall they have to have red lights flashing so airplanes won't crash into them.
That's okay.
That can be put up at the White House.
Tim Wise, he's on CNN last year, I believe, saying Jesus Christ was a white supremacist and a symbol of genocide.
He can get back on CNN.
I can't, but, you know.
Anyway, all that's there.
We're going to be back with Sean Berkin right after this.
Stay tuned, everybody.
We're just getting started.
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Phenomenal live report, an exclusive from the scene, provided by the one and only Sean Bergen, a veteran television news reporter who we've been very fortunate to have working with us here.
And he was there outside of the hospital where the two slain, the two murdered officers were taken.
Murdered, I think you can certainly say as a result of the media's fanning of the flames of racial tension and division, aided and abetted, of course, by the Obama administration and the Injustice Department.
Well, Sean Bergen was there.
You know, this double murder, this execution-style double murder took place just a couple of hours last Saturday before we went on the air.
And then we had Sean there in New York outside the hospital where de Blasio was about to conduct a press conference.
Sean, you're back out on the streets again, are you not, my friend?
James, I'm standing just steps from where those two officers were assassinated a week ago today.
And I can tell you there is a massive candle-lit shrine, a growing memorial to these officers that is befitting royalty.
It really is something to see.
This on a day when the city of New York and the entire American law enforcement community did a final farewell to Officer Raphael Ramos.
His funeral was attended by an estimated 25,000 officers who came from all over the country and as far away as Canada today for that funeral service that was held in Glendale, Queens, not far from where we are right now.
So it's been a tough day.
The funeral was noteworthy for two reasons.
The first, of course, was the massive crowd, the tremendous outpouring of support that was demonstrated by men who wear the uniform all over the country.
And then, of course, it was not without controversy because as our esteemed mayor arrived to eulogize Officer Ramos, the police officers outside watching the services on Jumbotrons made a very bold statement in turning their backs to the mayor once again.
So this is clearly a city divided, and this mayor has a lot to do in order to make amends to the NYPD.
I can tell you that right now.
Sean, just to ask an elementary question for the benefit of those who may not understand, what is it that is fueling this rancor between the men on the street, the law enforcement community, and the mayor of New York?
There's some sirens kind of drowning us out here in the background.
We're here in Beth Stuyves in Brooklyn.
I'm sorry, could you just repeat that question for me, James?
Yeah, just basically, for the benefit of those who may not know, what is it exactly that has the law enforcement community at odds with the mayor?
Well, you know, we have had six months here of general racial strife around the country, driven in large part by what happened out in Ferguson with Officer Darren Wilson.
And then, of course, we had our own case here in New York involving a guy by the name of Eric Garner, who went into cardiac arrest after he resisted officers and there was a struggle involved.
Now, that gave rise to protests that kind of swept the country, and they really took off here in New York after a grand jury did not cleared the cop who was involved in the Garner death.
So with those protests, our mayor kind of reveals himself as someone who sided with the protests.
He made some very telling remarks about the fact that he has had to counsel his mixed-race son on how to deal with the police.
He's seen as someone who's sided with the protesters and the demonstrators, some of whom have gotten violent and out of hands at times.
We saw a videotape of officers actually being attacked.
And then, of course, the mayor came out and said they were allegedly attacked.
So, you know, he's been not, he's been seen as a mayor who does not have the back of the police officers.
And, of course, the head of the PBA union, Pat Lynch, has made some very incendiary remarks saying that there is blood on the hands of a number of people involved in this situation, not the least of which is Mayor de Blasio.
But he also pointed to folks like Al Sharpton and Eric Holder.
And then, of course, there are a lot of people who are pointing the finger at the liberal media for exacerbating and just fanning the flames of this racial tension and ratcheting it up where they may have could have possibly played a different role.
Well, so basically, I guess what you're saying, and the de Blasio administration and de Blasio himself have basically, for the last several weeks and months, backed the narrative of the establishment media, backed the narrative of the Obama administration and that white cops are perhaps suspect of doing things for no good reason to blacks who are just minding their own business.
Now, of course, that is a great departure from reality.
The reality of it is, and you can understand, I'm sure, why these officers, you know better than I do, being up there in New York in the thick of it, but I'm just talking about police and law enforcement in general, how demoralizing it must be to insert yourself into these areas, these crime-riddled areas, to try and protect these minority communities from harming one another.
You're going in there and you're risking your life to try to keep them from killing each other and committing other crimes against each other.
And you're cast as the villain.
And you're basically, the media has almost made it to where police are nothing more than uniformed targets and punching bags.
And if you defend yourself in any way, you're going to wish you had either been killed or, you know, because the reality is worse.
You know, to live the life that Darren Wilson is going to have to live is in some ways probably comparable to death, I guess.
And so this is what these officers face.
Well, I'm not going to be right there.
Officer Wilson, you know, may as well just go into the witness protection program, for God's sake, and leave life for somebody who had just turned his back on a career as a criminal.
Yeah, they are cast as kind of thugs in uniform.
There is this implication that they are somehow racist, that everything they do is motivated by some nefarious racist agenda.
And these poor guys, I mean, I literally, I got a couple of cops standing just feet from here right now, and I'm just chatting them up there for the last 15 minutes.
You know, they're good guys, so we're out here trying to help folks out, trying to make a difference.
They're just, you know, real stand-up.
The kind of guy who you'd want by your side if you were ever in any trouble.
And, you know, just to put a finer point on it, you know, Officer Lou and Officer Ramos were from a nearby precinct.
They were brought here to the corner of Myrtle and Thompson, which is just, I'm looking at the sign right now for the Tompkins houses.
It's the housing project.
And they were here at the request of the community to, you know, help community relations and provide, you know, enhanced patrols.
And, you know, they were just sitting on their break, for God's sakes, and they were assassinated.
So, you know, this mayor here in New York has got a lot of work to do.
And a lot of people are saying that they don't quite know how on earth he's going to govern if he's lost his own police force.
Well, that's right.
And you certainly don't see any of these people who have fanned these flames.
At least I haven't.
Sean, correct me if you have.
Have you seen de Blasio?
Have you seen Obama holder?
Anybody in the media, specifically from MSNBC, has anybody taken any responsibility or put forth any accountability for creating a scenario in which this sort of action can be seen as do?
Because I think that that guy believes that he did something right.
The wonderful thing about working in the mainstream news media is that you never actually have to say you're sorry.
And, you know, many of the folks here I've experienced are just unconscionable in what they'll do.
You know, they wake up in the morning, they look in the mirror, and in their view, they're looking at an objective journalist.
While the rest of us, you know, clear-eyed adults are scratching our heads going, you know, what are you talking about?
I mean, clearly, they give these, you know, these protesters and these agitators a very big platform and a very big megaphone for which to speak.
I mean, let's face it.
Well, Al Sharpton would not exist were it not for the Liberal News Media.
And listen, this is the guy.
This is the guy.
Honest people, we're coming up on the music, Sean.
Honest people like you get drummed out.
Other people forced to apologize for telling the truth.
You got people like Al Sharpton getting millions of dollars a year to host his own television show in MSNBC.
We've got to take a break.
Scoop Stanton's on the line.
We're going to get to him next two.
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All right, folks, again, it is our pleasure and privilege to have Sean Bergen with us for the second consecutive week reporting live with exclusive coverage for the Political Cesspool on the streets of New York.
Tonight, Sean is outside reporting outside of a memorial set up for the two slain officers, Lou and Ramos.
Murdered by political correctness, murdered by this narrative being put forth by our peers in the media and stemming from the very pinnacle of power in the American government.
Peter Scoop Stanton is here on the phone, and he has some great questions for Sean as well.
And I know they're great because he sent me over a little sneak peek, and we want Scoop to weigh in on this also.
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Good evening, everybody.
We're going to have to rename the show from the Political Cesspool to the Crime Blotter.
Sean, once again, thank you for coming on board the Political Cesspool.
Sean, can you tell us, let's switch gears a little bit from New York to back to Missouri.
Could you tell us what happened in Berkeley, Missouri late Tuesday night?
Can I tell you what happened in where Berkeley, Missouri, late Tuesday night?
Correct.
I believe a young man was shot after he pointed a gun at a cop.
He was shot to death.
That's my understanding.
Yep, you would be correct.
Unlike the Michael Brown shooting, this one was caught on videotape.
And the person, the perp's name is Antonio Martin.
And Sean, we heard from Antonio's mother, but do you think the media has found Antonio's father?
I don't know.
Has the media located him or found him?
That was a problem that I used to run into on the streets quite often, and I was quite often told that he's not in the picture.
Of course not, Sean.
You're absolutely 100% correct.
This just goes to show you that you were terminated for telling the absolute positive truth.
What's been the response from the local community in the housing projects back in Brooklyn about the Dutch of Officer Lula Ramos?
You know, I'm actually at the scene of this rapidly growing memorial that's really grown in size remarkably.
I was talking to a couple of cops here on the street.
They said they were here a couple of days ago, and it was just a few candles.
So anybody who's here at this location, and it looks to be, you know, is generally supportive of the police.
Unlike when I was here last Saturday, I was actually huddled in the news van with an old colleague of mine from the local Fox affiliate.
And one after another, we heard young black men coming by expressing, well, in kind of gleeful tones that a cop had been killed or saying that they deserved it or things to that effect.
I mean, it really just reprehensible comments.
And Sean, Sean, right now, I was very heavily policed.
Well, I don't mean to interrupt, but see, stuff like that just really incenses me.
You know, it's I'm not even a cop, all right?
But if I were, I would imagine that chilling my bones.
Now, you, as someone who has been out there on the front lines, not in the capacity of an officer, but have followed the stories and the lives and the deaths of so many officers throughout your career.
What is your reaction when you hear something like that?
Well, I mean, it's enough to make your blood boil.
And you think to yourself, my God, how could you be so morally bankrupt and so completely opposed to just a general sense of right?
And we've got a whole generation of guys like this.
They have a very anti-authority mentality.
And I don't care if you're talking about their approach to cops on the street or a teacher in a classroom who's trying to keep order.
Because as anybody who's tried to teach in the inner cities will tell you, it's next to impossible.
There's no learning going on there.
And so, you know, for a lot of these guys, they're really like a one-two punch.
They're really doomed.
They don't have a stable environment at home.
And then they can't get a decent education, which for many of them is really their only means of escape.
It's a double whammy.
I mean, not only are they doing a disservice to themselves, I mean, they think that they're macho and that they've got a leg up, that all of this is justified and sanctified.
They're on a first-class ticket to nowhere.
That's where they're going.
I mean, they're going to end up dead or causing harm to others.
And it also does a disservice to the productive members of society, those who try to contribute something and live normal lives, because we have to worry about these people getting hopped up on hate and doing damage to our families, because they have been emboldened and in many ways encouraged by the media.
I mean, I have no doubt.
I have no doubt.
Now, this is just my own personal opinion, but I will say that I have no doubt in my own personal opinion that those two officers who died doing their job died for no reason, they would still be alive if the media had any sense of fairness when reporting these issues of a racial animus.
If they hadn't gone into the tank for Michael Brown and Trayvon Martin and Eric Garner, if they had just left those stories alone, because those were non-stories, but they just have to have this story of some white racist killing a black person for no reason.
I don't know why they fantasize about that story so much.
But this is the result of it.
You bring up an interesting point, is that the media tends to then mythologize these guys.
I mean, not only do they legitimize them, but then they go on to mythologize them as though they're anything other than two-bit thugs.
I mean, that's exactly what Mike Brown was, was a two-bit thug.
Trayvon Martin, you know, he was in his father's backyard at one point.
decided to go back and confront Zimmerman, punch him in the face, knock him to the ground, start bashing his head off the pavement, and he's treated like he's some type of choir boy.
And the same thing with Eric Arner.
I mean, here's a 43-year-old man who's trying to support six kids by selling loose cigarettes.
I mean, why is that considered to be perfectly okay?
It's not okay.
You can't be a career criminal and a family man at the same time.
You've got to make a choice.
And so they legitimize these characters, and then they lionize them and turn them into like, you know, urban legends.
And it's understandable then why a guy like Ishmael Brinsley would want to come up here, gun down two cops, because he's going to die a martyr's death.
Well, that's right.
That's the key word, Sean, and that's the exact right word, the most appropriate word you could have used.
They have become martyrs.
They have been deified.
They've received sainthood in this false religion of political correctness.
They are the saints of this religion.
And it is the new state religion in America.
It's no longer Christianity.
And it's just absolutely disgusting.
I mean, how are we supposed to move forward as a country?
Obama jokes, and it is a joke about coming together and healing racial divides.
The races are further apart today than they have ever been.
They are further apart today than they were during the days of segregation.
Races couldn't be further apart.
But it's more violent now than ever before.
And it's all been aided and abetted by the government and the media and the Justice Department.
And it's sick.
But I'll tell you, you mentioned earlier, and I wrote this down, the American law enforcement community has come together.
You talked about 20-plus thousand people there in New York to honor these fallen officers.
My wife's uncle is a Memphis police officer.
Her best friend's father is a sheriff's deputy in neighboring county.
And I saw both of them over the Christmas holiday this past week.
And let me tell you something.
They really feel connected to this story.
Being down here in Tennessee, never knew these people.
They feel that they're a part of this and their heart bleeds for these people.
And they are absolutely outraged by the treatment that, as you mentioned, two-bit thugs are getting.
And I think that is almost universal.
Yeah, you're right, absolutely right.
And I'll tell you, one thing I've learned about the police, the law enforcement community is that when you hurt one of them, you hurt all of them.
They all feel it because they're a family.
And I learned that firsthand myself when I went through my travail six months ago.
The American law enforcement community really rallied to my cause in a way that I never ever saw or expected.
So, you know, when you have these dividers, these agitators who constantly want to, you know, point at the police as being, you know, that the cops are what's wrong with this country.
Let me tell you something.
Cops are what's right with this country.
In fact, they're one of the few things that are still right about this country.
And every good American, anybody who has a shred of human decency, needs to rally to these guys' cause.
I don't care what you do.
Give them a high five, give them a handshake, buy them a cup of coffee, give them a pat on the back because they deserve it.
And it doesn't take a lot.
They're not out here for the pay.
I can tell you that right now.
Let me ask you this, Sean.
I know the cops would never do this.
They couldn't do this, and they wouldn't do this even if they could.
But let's just say, all right, let's just say if they all came together and they decided, all right, you know, we're the bad guys, we're the villains, you hate us, you don't need us, you don't want us, we're not going to patrol your neighborhoods anymore.
What happens then to these urban areas?
Well, as Charles Barkley says, you know, they turn into the Wild West.
They become the Zoo.
Listen, I remember what New York looked like during the 1970s and the 80s when we had all these touchy-feely police policies in place.
And, you know, talking about, it was the same kind of thing.
Let's put the cops through sensitivity training.
I mean, it's a bunch of nonsense.
If there's anybody who requires retraining, it's the people who live in these neighborhoods.
They need to be retrained how to respect authority, how to respect the badge, how to have general respect for one another.
Because these cops are here to keep black people from killing one another.
That's a fact.
That's right.
I mean, you know, the statistics don't lie here.
And they may like, that's generally, that's where we are right now.
I remember in New York when the first thing you did when you parked over the Nassau County line was you locked your doors.
You didn't ride the subways at night.
You didn't go through Central Park at night.
Everything was covered in graffiti.
There were quality life crimes everywhere.
I mean, the breakdown.
Let's pause right there, Sean, too, for a like of us.
You got to take a break.
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For the second week in a row, folks, we have with us a pros pro veteran newsman Sean Bergen with exclusive live reporting on the streets of New York City outside of this memorial for the fallen officers Lou and Ramos.
We have Peter Scoop standing on the line as well.
If we're hopeful that Scoop will be able to also call back in at the top of the third hour when we look back on the year that was, Scoop always gives us a good top 10 list.
But before we get to that, I want to go back to Scoop with a few questions for Sean.
This is actually one of Scoop's question that I'd like to ask, and then we'll turn it over to Scoop.
But Sean, as we know, the Obama administration saw fit to dispatch Eric Colder to Ferguson.
Obama administration officials attended the funeral of Michael Brown.
I mean, if you can imagine, I mean, what kind of lunacy, what kind of madness is that?
Did anybody, any high-ranking government official attend the funerals this weekend in New York?
Well, yeah, we had Vice President Joe Biden, who was at the funeral service today, in addition to Governor Cuomo, was here.
And to his credit, Biden didn't step in it the way he normally does.
From what I'm told, he actually made some very nice and poignant remarks.
But, yeah, no sign of Obama or Eric Holder.
Well, it's good.
You know, listen, we got to get, unlike our adversaries in this business, we will give credit when credit is due.
And it's not to say that we're in the tank with these guys, but listen, if Biden attended and he said sensible remarks, let's give him credit for that.
Scoop, over to you.
Okay, thanks, James.
A couple of things.
We're going to have to hold off for the top 10 list until next week, since, of course, I did not bring it with me.
But here's a question for both of you gentlemen.
Wednesday night or Christmas Eve, Washington, D.C. had not one, but two officer-involved shootings.
One was in Neil Road in Southeast Washington, which is an absolute hellhole.
And the other one was in Northeast Washington in another not-so-nice neighborhood.
So you had two shootings by Washington's finest.
It never made mainstream media.
It never made Twitter.
We didn't have any protests.
Could either of you tell me why there's no protest or outcry from the shooting by the D.C. police?
Because the officers were black, and that doesn't really play into the liberal news narrative that says, you know, racist white cop guns down unarmed black teen or unarmed black man or, you know, angelic cherubic innocent choir boy.
It doesn't play for their narrative.
So if the pieces don't fit, then they just ignore that story.
This is where liberal bias comes in.
A lot of people don't understand what form it takes.
This is how it works.
It takes form in the stories that they choose to cover, the stories that they choose to ignore, and the emphasis and repetition they placed on those stories that they choose to cover.
So like in the early days of the Mike Brown story, basically they gave a full platform to anyone who knew Brown and anyone who wanted to support this hands-up don't shoot narrative.
The police, of course, can't comment because they're in the midst of an investigation, so they don't get hurt at all.
So it's a completely one-sided, lop-sided affair.
And then the media will defend themselves saying, well, these are the only folks that are available right now, and that's how they sidestep.
That's how they kid themselves into believing that they're actually doing objective journalism.
Outstanding.
That was my thoughts exactly.
But anyway, since I go ahead, James.
No, go ahead, Scoop.
You got another one?
No.
I'll have to switch gears.
Like I said before, I left my top ten list home, but I have a major announcement to make.
This doesn't concern you as much, Mr. Bergen, but we still want you to stand by.
Ladies and gentlemen, the Political Cess Bull family, James Edwards and I had long conversations about the direction of the Political Cess Pool.
I have my idea where the show is headed, and James has his.
James attested to this by numerous emails.
This show tackled such taboo issues as race, Jewish power influence, the Muslim takeover of Europe, Mexican invasion, and government turning its guns on the people that make this country great, including New York's finest.
We had guests such as controversial figures, U.S. congressmen, best-selling authors, rock legends, war heroes, fellow radio personalities, and of course, Sean Bergen.
The end result was attacks by the SPLC, the ADL, MSNBC, newspapers, politicians, other radio personalities, just throwing us under the bus.
You name it, they came after us countless times, and we even had death rants.
But we wouldn't change this for anything.
But tonight, yours surely has a major decision to announce.
It was an easy decision to make, but it's one that James and I wish we didn't have to make.
We decided to add yet another staff member to the Political Cess Bowl radio show.
This person has been vilified for simply stating the truth.
His colleagues did absolutely nothing to protect him and make sure that he has the freedom of speech.
But of course, we brought him on board.
This person has experience as a legitimate journalist.
He's been there and done that.
He's appeared on the show numerous times.
And he will bring both his guns loaded for bear.
Takeaway, brother.
That's you, Sean.
Well, you know, it's sometimes a requirement.
You know, you're the only guy that gets introduced at the end of an interview, I guess.
But no, I guess it's a requited type of thing.
You know, we hope this isn't an unrequited love, but unrequited love.
We do hope to have you, Sean, as we head into the new year.
Continue to serve as a regular correspondent.
The last two weeks have just been amazing for us, and we're very grateful for the contributions you've given to the show in the last two weeks, as well as the previous interviews you were on with us earlier in the year.
So if that is something you're interested in, we would certainly like to work with you more in a great way.
Of course it is.
And it feels great to be a part of the political cesspool family and a bunch of proud stand-up Americans who want to tackle tough issues and take them on head-on, no matter what the naysayer say, or what the critics say, or what these other folks in the mainstream media who've actually conned themselves into believing that they're doing some type of journalism or public service.
So, yeah, I'll be here.
I'll be your official New York correspondent.
And if anything big breaks, of course, in the greater New York metro region, I will be on the scene to bring you those reports as they develop.
Well, we look forward to that, Sean, and we're quite humbled and thankful that you're willing to accept that position.
And we promise not to wear you out.
But we have another native New Yorker, someone with whom we're all acquainted.
Matt the Copperhead is on the line with a comment and perhaps even a question for Sean Bergen.
Copperhead, take it away.
Hey, James, Sean, and Scoop.
It's Matt the Copperhead.
I'm at the corner of Myrtle Avenue and Cooper and right by Zumstompditch German restaurant here in Glendale, Queens.
This has become the default headquarters for international consolidatory from the likes of the Garden Shikana and some polit members from the German various Bundesforce who had made their way all the way from Europe, Mother Europa, to come and pay their respects to the officer who is late to rest today.
Well, that's great, Matt.
And of course, to have you there.
You were just here with us in Memphis for the Christmas party we had at Keith Alexander's house just a few days ago, now all the way back up in New York.
And how far are you from Sean right now?
We're about, he's standing in Bed Sty and Myrtle Avenue.
I'm on Myrtle Avenue in Glendale.
Approximately two miles, give or take.
Well, I certainly hope that there will be a reunion tonight under the circumstances.
Absolutely.
It was a solemn day, guys.
The Interboro, I'll never call it the Jackie Robinson Parkway.
It will always be the Interboro Parkway to me.
It was absolutely jammed today.
It was a parking lot with the amount of police presence, cops that had taken their own personal vehicles that were clearly marked and pulled off to the side.
And it was just amazing as Officer Ramos was laid to rest today in the Cypress Hill Cemetery in Brooklyn, right on the border, approximately half a mile from where I stand today.
Well, listen, I'm glad that you're there.
I'm glad that you called in, Matt.
I want to thank Scoop Stanton again, who last week, just around this time, a couple of hours prior to this time, let me know about this story.
And it was his idea to try to get Sean on.
Sean was good enough to accept the invitation and now in back-to-back weeks.
And we look forward, as we just mentioned, to working with Sean Moore in 2015.
I want to wish all three of you gentlemen a very happy new year.
I won't talk to you all again until after the first, but I look forward to doing that in due time and a very Merry Christmas season, what's left of it, the 12 days of Christmas and all.
But listen, happy new year to everyone on this line.
We're going to be switching gears and covering some additional stories in the second hour.
But an especially Merry Christmas to Sean, the newest member of our team.
God bless you, brother.
And thank you for your good work.
Thanks very much for that, guys.
And yeah, it's great to be here and it's good to have a home.
Well, you've got a home with us.
And one day the ship will come in.
Truth tellers will be back in vogue and we're going to hasten that day.
And when it does, people like you who actually have talent and actually have the courage to tell the truth will get their just rewards.
And that is, you know, that is certainly a goal of ours.
The people who do good work, the people who do righteous work should be rewarded.
In this depraved society, that is not the way it is.
In fact, the exact opposite is oftentimes true.
But we're working to change things and reclaim America's destiny.
And it's good to be working with people who share that vision.
Thank you all.
Thank you, James.
And with that, we're going to take a break, and we'll be back.
Keith Alexander's in the studio.
We've got much to discuss tonight before we head into the third hour and take a look back on the year that was with the top 10 list, top 10 defining moments of the political cesspool in 2014.