April 11, 2015 - The Political Cesspool - James Edwards
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In Dixie's land, where I was born in early on the frosty moment, look away, look away, look away in Seventh.
And I wish I was in Dixie.
Hooray, hooray.
In Dixie's land, I'll take my stand and live and die in Dixie.
Away, away, away outside the Dixie.
Away, away, away outside the Dixie.
Keith Alexander and yours truly, James Edward, standing at full attention with our hands over our hearts as they play our national anthem here in Memphis, Tennessee.
Welcome back to the second hour of the Political Cesspool.
I look forward to April every year just for this reason.
And of course, the month of April is Confederate History Month, and we celebrate it here on the air.
That's for sure.
So many things of significance occurred in the month of April with regards to the Confederacy.
It was, of course, this very week in April 1865 when Lee tragically surrendered at Appomattox.
But it was April 17th, 1861, when the state of Virginia seceded rather than provide soldiers or militia to participate in a war on their brothers.
North Carolina, Tennessee, and Arkansas followed Virginia over the same issue.
They would not be party to a war on their kinfolk.
Slavery was not the cause of this war.
Now, I know, as Gene Andrews said last week, it may come as a shock to you, but the media will lie to you, ladies and gentlemen, and they lie every time they talk about this war.
Secession was the reason.
Freedom and self-determination was the reason for the Confederacy.
That and Lincoln's determination to drown the nation in blood, if necessary, to make the Union whole again.
And as Keith and I talked about in the first hour, more Americans died in Lincoln's war than in World War I, World War II, Korea, and Vietnam combined.
Think about that, folks.
And nor did Lincoln ever deny it.
In his first inaugural, Lincoln, now this is history you will only get here on the political cesspool because it's the truth.
Now listen to what I'm about to say, ladies and gentlemen, because it is jaw-dropping if you didn't know it.
In his first inaugural address, Abraham Lincoln himself, the man, sought to appease the southern states that had seceded by endorsing a constitutional amendment to make slavery permanent in the 15 states where it then existed.
Did you hear me, ladies and gentlemen?
Now, do you learn about that in schools today?
That is a fact of American history.
He even offered, Abraham Lincoln offered to help the southern states run down their fugitive slaves.
In 1862, Lincoln wrote Horace Greeley that if he could restore the Union without freeing one slave, he would do it.
Then, of course, the Emancipation Proclamation of January 1st, 1863 came, but it only freed the slaves Lincoln had no power to free, though still under Confederate rule.
As for the slave in the Union states of Delaware, Maryland, Kentucky, and Missouri, they remained property of their owners.
As for terrorists, no army fought more honorably than Robert E. Lee's Northern Virginia.
Few deny that.
The great terrorist in this war was William Tecumseh Sherman, who violated all the known rules of war by looting, burning, and pillaging on his infamous march to the sea from Atlanta to Savannah.
So why were the Confederates vilified?
Because they are white Southern Christian men.
The same reason we are vilified today.
We don't defend slavery, but I'll tell you what, we are defiantly proud of the South, its ancient faith, and the forefathers who fell in the lost cause.
Welcome to Confederate History Month 2015.
Last week we had Gene Andrews on talking about a particular battle, Fort Pillow, and a particular man, Nathan Bedford Forrest, my all-time favorite Confederate.
Tonight it's just going to be Keith and I, no guest, talking about the war in general and its cause and effects.
And Keith, you give, around this time of year each year, a speaking tour.
You're out on the circuit to the local SCV camps and other Southern heritage groups.
What do you talk about?
We talk about the true causes of the Civil War.
Now, Common Core just brings it into focus, but American education is poisonous today.
It basically has been corrupted to the point that nothing salutary comes from it.
It is basically a way, a weapon, to imbue the emerging generation with a left-wing viewpoint.
And there's no part of American history that has been more corrupted by the left than the study of the U.S. Civil War from 1861, approximately four years.
And the big problem, the biggest problem is the insistence that the war was about slavery, that the North was filled with righteous abolitionists who wanted to end slavery, then that this was the prevailing sentiment throughout the North.
And the South likewise was filled with fat cat slave owners who were motivated by not just their acquisitive instincts, but by the pure evil associated with owning and oppressing other people.
And that's what the Civil War was.
It was this little morality play, nice, neat little morality play.
The truth, of course, is that it was nothing of the sort.
Lincoln was not, as you pointed out in your intro, the great emancipator.
He was instead the great maven of big government.
He wanted the United States to be a large, populous, wealthy country that could project its power and influence on the world stage.
He was the first American president to hold this vision.
The founding fathers held the exact opposite.
Read George Washington's farewell address.
He said that the surest way for us to jeopardize our existence as a nation was to fight foreign wars and to develop favorite nation status with any foreign nation.
Now, that's exactly what Abraham Lincoln was about.
What would have happened if America had actually split in two and the Confederacy had either been able to negotiate a peace or win militarily?
Well, what would have happened for sure is that America would have been half as large, half as populous, and half as wealthy and much less likely to intrude upon world affairs.
We would have been more like Australia.
And what would in terms of foreign policy?
We would not, for example, probably have entered, at least the Confederacy would not have entered into World War I. World War I was lost by the Germans because America joined the side of France and England and poured 250,000 fresh troops into the Western Front every month in 1918 until they defeated the Germans.
Now, likewise, we wouldn't have gotten involved in World War II.
We wouldn't have had a colony, in effect, over in Hawaii.
We would have tended to our own knitting.
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All right, everybody, welcome back.
As we mentioned last week, when we kicked off Confederate History Month 2015, we had Gene Andrews, who spoke at our 10-year anniversary event last October here in Memphis.
Gene Andrews, the former lieutenant in the Marine Corps, the former history professor.
He was on to talk about specifically Nathan Bedford Forrest and the Battle of Fort Pillow.
Well, tonight it's a more general discussion, and we're talking about the stump speech that Keith gives.
And he is a very in-demand speaker in the Southern Heritage Circuit.
In addition to him being a bona fide celebrity for being a co-host of the political cesspool, he is an authority on the true cause of Lincoln's war.
And he's going to cut to the chase right now about that.
Well, it's really the true causes, because there were many.
First of all, the South wasn't going to war about slavery because, as you mentioned, there was a proposed amendment to the U.S. Constitution.
It would have been the 13th Amendment had the southern states not seceded that dealt with the slavery issue once and for all.
It would have been enshrined in the U.S. Constitution as the 13th Amendment.
It was called the Corwin Amendment.
And what it said was that slavery would remain forever legal and inviolate in all states and territories in which it was then presently legal.
So consequently, if slavery had been the issue, the Corwin Amendment would have answered that.
There would have been no reason to go to war.
The real reason was political and economic domination, which was typified by another key talking point that our people need to have so they can explode this myth of slavery as a cause of the Civil War, and that is the Morille M-O-R-R-I-L-L tariff, which was going to double the tariff on foreign manufactured goods.
Southerners had to buy foreign manufactured goods from France and England in order to induce the French and English to buy their agricultural products, tobacco, indigo, and primarily cotton.
If they didn't do that, at the time, the English and the French were developing other sources for cotton in Egypt and in India, for example.
And they would have lost out if they would not have bought these manufactured products from England and France.
And these were the goods that were the primary targets of the tariff.
And they were also the goods that brought in most of the income of the federal government.
Remember, at the time, before the Civil War and after the Civil War, there was no income tax in the United States until the passage of the 16th Amendment.
So we need to understand that, you know, that's what animated real Southerners in real time back then to do it.
On the other hand, Northerners were not abolitionists at all.
Most of the people in the North were willing to let the South go at the beginning of the war.
The immigrants in particular felt aggrieved that they came over here to America and were being dragooned into the U.S. Army to fight Southerners for reasons that they didn't understand.
All of that stuff is really, you know, that's the key truth that we'd like to impart about the true causes of the Civil War.
Weren't on a crusade and slavery.
Abolitionists were the lunatic left fringe of northern politics for the most part.
And even they did not think like a modern liberal on the issues of race.
Even Frederick Douglass didn't, for example.
He would have been appalled at the welfare dependency that has developed in the black community as a result as a result of events that were set in motion by the American Civil War.
Keith, you know, if there was any justice in this world, you would be on C-SPAN.
In fact, you would have your own show on Fox News.
You would have your own show, Keith.
And I tell you, the political cesspool, and I don't say this because it's my baby and that it, you know, I was the one who found this show is a national treasure in this network, Liberty News Radio, Sam Bushman, National Treasures All.
We have given more truth and more objective critique on four of the most significant years in American history in the last 20 minutes than you will find anywhere else for the rest of the year on any given network, any given publication.
And I've got in my hands right now, ladies and gentlemen, a copy of the book, Rebel Wisdom, a collection of the memorable quotes, sayings, and speeches of prominent and not-so-well-known Confederates.
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But I tell you, there are parts of this book, there are parts of this book that will make you laugh.
There are parts that will make your eyes swell up with emotion.
And I'll just give you a couple of quotes here.
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How about this?
General John Brown Gordon wrote, and this is the truth, God knows, no people in the history of the world have ever been so misunderstood, so misjudged, and so cruelly maligned.
That is, he said that then, and it is just as true even more so today.
How about this?
How about this?
General Albert Sidney Johnston of the Confederate Army in accepting his command rank August 1861.
I read this stuff, folks, and it sends shivers down my spine.
He writes this, we may be annihilated, but by God, we cannot be conquered.
Albert Sidney Johnson.
How about this?
An unknown Confederate said this to a Union soldier.
This was a Confederate prisoner to a Union soldier.
The Union soldier asked him, what are you fighting for anyhow?
I'm fighting because y'all are down here.
Amen.
My God, if I had a bayonet in the studio, I'd go out and charge somebody right now.
I'll tell you that.
I mean it, folks.
And, you know, this book is full of stuff like that.
It's full of quotes.
There's a passage in here from Stonewall Jackson who wrote to his pastor apologizing for missing his tithe because he was in battle.
I mean, this country doesn't make men like that anymore.
The men who fought for the South were better than anybody you and I will ever know.
Including me.
Including us, including me and Keith and everybody.
I want to read this last quote, though.
This is a quote that everybody knows, I'm sure, from Robert E. Lee, who said this in August of 1870 to Governor Stockdale of Texas.
He wrote, Governor, if I had foreseen the use those people designed to make of their victory, there would have been no surrender at Appomattox Courthouse.
No, sir, not by me.
Had I foreseen the results of subjugation, I would have preferred to die at Appomattox with my brave men, my sword in this right hand.
Well, that's exactly right.
And see, again, the victors write the narrative.
And as it today, what's actually happened back then was that the problem is that the North was in charge of the mass media of the day.
And Lincoln was really the first American president to try to manipulate the mass media in favor of his viewpoint.
And he seceded.
As Gene Andrews pointed out last week, the whole Fort Pillow flap was basically a public relations ploy by the Lincoln administration to try to whip up Animus in the North against the Confederacy in the South.
They couldn't do it based on the facts, so they had to make up a fable about what supposedly happened at Fort Pillow, which is, as Gene Andrews pointed out, totally at odds with the truth.
Well, as always, Keith, we know that the victors write the history.
So we all know the famous quotes from the prevailing army.
But we've got a book here that we're sending out to those who contributed to us last month who's going to fill them in on the rest of it.
And we're celebrating that.
It's so hard.
How can you possibly cover four years of Confederate history and four hours of commercial radio?
You can't do it.
We're doing our best, and we'll continue right after this.
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Maestro to put it in the key we can handle.
We're going to start singing.
We're going to sing the first verse, the chorus, second verse, War Course.
Just try to follow the, just follow along if you can.
Hey, give us a hands up if you can, Maestro, when you're ready for us to start singing and play it as loud as you can.
Oh, Wisha was in the land of cotton.
Old times there are not forgotten.
Look away, look away.
Look away.
In Dixie Land, where I was born in early on the cross before look away, look away, look away.
Oh, Wisha was in Dixie.
Hooray, hooray.
In Dixie Land, I'll take my stand to live and die in Dixie.
Away, away, away down south in Dixie.
Away, away, away down south in Dixie.
Southern men, the thunders mutter, northern flags and south winds flutter.
Two arms, two arms, two arms in Dixie.
Send them back your fierce defiance.
Stamp upon the cursed alliance.
Two arms, two arms, two arms in Dixie.
Advance the flag of Dixie.
Hooray, hooray.
For Dixie's land, we take our stand to live and die for Dixie.
Two arms, two arms, and conquer peace for Dixie.
Two arms, two arms, and conquer peace for Dixie.
Fear no danger, shun no labor.
Live the rival fight, you say two arms, two arms, two arms in Dixie.
Shoulder pressing, close to shoulder, let the eyes make each other.
To arms, to arms, to arms in Dixie.
And fence the flag of Dixie, the rain, the rain.
For Dixie's landlords, take our stand, live and die of Dixie.
To arms, to arms, and conquer Mr. Dixie.
To arms, to arms, and conquer Priscilla Dixie.
Swear upon your country's altar never to submit or father.
To arms, to arms, to arms in Dixie, till the spoilers are defeated.
Till the Lord's work is completed.
To arms, to arms, to arms in Dixie.
And Ben's the flag of Dixie.
That's the way we did it Thank you folks for indulging me tonight on live radio.
That's the way we did it on the night of October 18th, 2014 at the 10-year anniversary.
That was our whole crew standing room-only crowd assembled for the Political Secrets.
Singing the war version of Dixie.
So we snuck that in there.
I felt that appropriate.
When is the last time on live radio a sold-out ballroom, standing room-only crowd?
We had people out in the hall during that show that night there for our 10-year anniversary.
People in the chat room tonight were there, and we sang Dixie, and we sang it as loud and as proud as we could.
We wanted to replay that again tonight on this program in honor of Confederate History Month.
And we're going to get to Chris in Alaska in just a moment.
I appreciate his patience if he'll be patient with us just a moment more.
But I want to say this before we toss it over to Keith, who's brought in an important article.
You know, you try to cover four years of Confederate history.
It's impossible in the time constraints of commercial talk radio.
But I want to give you a couple of names.
Isham Harris, the governor of Tennessee, who actually fought.
Now, he was the sitting governor of Tennessee.
He fought in the Battle of Shiloh.
Now, can you imagine the governor of any state right now going out and fighting for anything?
It wouldn't happen.
How about Robert E. Lee, who was offered command of the Union Army, turned it down to go and fight for his state of Virginia?
Of course, Jefferson Davis was a United States Senator from Mississippi, gave that up to become the president of the Confederacy.
And how about John Breckenridge?
Now, that's a name you might not know.
We've been talking about it in the chat room.
John Breckinridge was the vice president of the United States.
He left the vice presidency to go and be a commander of the Confederate Army, and he commanded a bunch of kids from the Virginia Military Institute.
They didn't even have shoes when they fought the Battle of Newmarket.
And these cadets at VMI, these teenagers, beat back the Union Army and won that battle under the command of John Breckinridge, former Vice President of the United States.
Keith, can you think of any of these men in comparable positions today that would give up those types of power and prestige to fight for something that they believed in?
Well, they were the true revolutionaries, just like the people that fought in the original American Revolution.
And I'll tell you this, the founders would have fought for the South.
You better bet your life on that.
Well, quite frankly, the important founders, the real intellectual leading lights of the American Revolution, were Southerners.
And that's a point that can't be stressed too strongly.
Now, James, let's get to this article by Leonard Pitts.
He's a black syndicated columnist.
This is Monday, April the 6th, 2015, Commercial Appeals.
All right, we're going to read it quick, and then we're going to get to Chris, who's waiting patiently.
Been waiting since before the break, actually.
But here's what Leonard Pitts writes.
After 150 years, Dixie is still a place apart.
On the day after the surrender of Appomattox Courthouse, Abraham Lincoln appeared at a second floor window of the White House.
He was ascending to the wishes of citizens who had gathered to serenade their president in the moment of victory.
They called for a speech, but Lincoln demured.
Instead, he asked the band to play Dixie.
The song, A Homesick Southerner's Lament, had been the de facto anthem of the Confederacy during 48 bloody months of Civil War.
But Lincoln declared now that the South had no monopoly on it.
I have always thought Dixie one of the best tunes I have ever heard, he said.
Here's some more history you've never heard of, folks.
Two days after that, April 14th, Lincoln received a more direct response.
John Wilkes Booth, famed actor and southern symphysizer, shot him in the head.
Thus ended arguably the most consequential week in American history.
This week, the events of that week move fully 150 years into the past.
They are further away than they ever have been, and yet they feel quite close.
If the hate spoke of dissipated in the 15 decades gone by, what has not faded is Dixie's sense of itself as a place apart and a people done wrong.
Small wonder.
Twice now at gunpoint in the 1860s, by force of a law a century later, the rest of the country has imposed change onto the South, made it into what it did not want to, i.e., extend basic human rights to those that had systematically brutalized and oppressed, so writes this particular columnist.
No part of the country has ever experienced that, has ever seen itself so harshly chastised by the rest.
Both times, the act was morally necessary, in his opinion.
But who can deny or be surprised that in forcing the South to do the right thing, as he calls it, the rest of the country fostered an abiding resentment, an enduring apartness that made the South a region defined by resistance?
Name the issue, immigration, race, abortion, education, criminal justice, and law and custom in Dixie have long stood stubbornly apart from the rest of the country.
Keith, I'll let you take it from there.
Okay, well, he's right.
He's right, at least partially right.
And what he's telling us basically is that the South and let's say, he says now the South has gone far beyond the borders of the old Confederacy into what is the current manifestation is Red State America for the Confederacy and Blue State America for New England.
Blue State America is now including the left coast, the upper Midwest, and the Mid-Atlantic Seaboard up.
Well, you're right, Mr. Pitts.
All this shows is that we're basically two different peoples and we should be two different countries.
Our ancestors had it right.
Everywhere else in the world, when there are indigenous uprisings of people who want to have their own nation, their right of self-determination, actually manifested into a new nation, we supposedly support it, except when it comes to our own nation.
And this is the enduring truth about this.
We still are two nations, and we should be two nations in political reality as well as in spirit, in values, and every other way.
That way, the Northeast and its kindred spirits in the upper Midwest and on the left coast can be as liberal as they want to without us holding them back, and we can be as conservative as we want to here in Red State America without being bludgeoned into submission once again by the haughty self-righteous forces of Blue State America.
You know, the first prerequisite for being an independent nation is to have a culture set apart from your surrounding areas.
And certainly the South still has that today, as diluted as it is compared to that of our forebears in 1861.
Somebody like Leonard Pitts acknowledges it.
Well, there you go.
There you go.
And I don't know if we have time to work in this call before the break.
I doubt that we do, but we'll try and then we'll carry it over to the next.
Well, never mind.
We're going to go to Chris in Alaska, who's been waiting a long, long time.
We're going to go to him first right after the break.
Stay tuned for that, folks.
We're looking forward to it.
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Wow, what a song.
You know, and there's actually, that is not a fictitious song.
There's a lot of history that that song is based on.
And if you want to know the history of the band's version there, that was actually a live rendition of the night they drove old Dixie down.
Go to our website tomorrow.
We'll break down the history behind that classic song at thepoliticalcesspool.org.
Check it out.
This month is always one of the highlights of our broadcasting calendar each year.
It's Confederate History Month, and we're doing our very best to honor the very best here during this month of April.
Let's now go to Chris, who is about as far away from Dixie as you can be, all the way up in Alaska.
But he's one of our regulars and one of our loyal listeners.
Chris, welcome back to the show.
Babies in southern Alaska.
Yes, gentlemen, actually, I am from the last site of the last battle of the Civil War.
The last.
Tell us about it.
In Alaska, the Confederate Raider CSS Shenandoah was right after the Yankee whaling fleet in Alaska that had depopulated all of the North Atlantic, and they were all the way up in Alaska in the Bering Sea, in the northern part of Alaska, whaling there and then going back to Nantucket.
And the Confederate raider Shenandoah had made the trip all the way around the horn and was fighting trying to deprive them of whale oil for various different industrial processes.
A lot of the, in fact, Connecticut gun manufacturing plants that made the guns for the Union Army used whale leather for driving the belts on the factories.
So in order to make rifles and provide light and all that other stuff, there was a large whaling industry here in Alaska, and CSS Shenandoah captured ships and sunk them and was up here and didn't hear about the surrender until, obviously being far away and things, didn't hear about the Shenandoah surrender until I believe the summer of 1865.
So it was like two years ago.
Here we have, ladies and gentlemen, a listener from Alaska educating our entire audience on Confederate History Month.
And I tell you, one of Eddie's forebears, you know, Eddie has Confederate ancestors, just as I do, and Winston and Bill Rowland did, and most of our staff.
One of your ancestors had to be on that ship, Eddie, because I tell you, you're the kind of guy that would fight the enemy from Alaska and back.
And didn't you try to hitchhock to Alaska one time?
I most certainly did.
I was at the ripe old age of 11 years old.
And I made it as far as Missouri, and the Marshals picked me up.
Roscoe Pete Coltrane picked you up and sent you back to your daddy.
He sure did.
You want to comment on Chris's?
I certainly would.
Chris reminded me of something.
One of the most profound statements I heard made at the political suspo birthday party back in October.
I bet you went over the head of most people.
There was a Marine officer there, a retired Marine Corps officer.
Chris, and this applies to what you said.
He said that amateurs study tactics and professionals study logistics.
What you just talked about was logistics.
The Confederate writer depriving the Yankees of the whale leather and whale blubber, et cetera.
That was logistics.
And it's probably kind of off the wall sounding to a lot of people, but that I've never forgot that statement that the Marine officer made, Chris.
And what you said, the Confederates knew that all too well.
And if people haven't picked up on it by now, Keith Alexander has left the building, as we like to say, in Memphis.
So when any celebrity leaves, most notably Elvis.
Two additional points, if you don't mind, gentlemen, that we're yeah, go, Chris.
I was just going to let the audience know that Eddie has now slid into the co-pilot seat.
But, Chris, you were still the star of this segment.
So, yes, by all means, continue.
One thing that Keith talked about was a tariff that was being used.
And the internal, so-called internal improvements that were basically government projects that were financed by tariffs vastly, disproportionately benefited the North, like the Erie Canal and the railroads.
You don't find massive railroad infrastructure investment in the South.
You don't find massive canal building projects in the South.
You don't find the federal government spending a lot of money in the South.
So all of the money that the South was generating went to the North.
That's one thing.
So it's basically the South was kind of resentful of all their tax money going to people who weren't paying for things and then not being able to be represented.
So when people say, you know, that the South was, you know, had a slavery problem, no, they were being robbed, essentially.
And then the last thing is that Ralph Waldo Emerson, I think, the guy who wrote, oh, Captain McCaffin, no, the poets, I can't remember the name of the guy.
New England Transcendentalists, they are the direct antecedents of political correctness today.
They are not Christians.
They believe in some kind of wacky universal brotherhood of man that has absolutely no need for God or a savior.
And they were the people in control of the ideological apparatus in the North, Harper's Magazine, the Atlantic Magazine, Harvard University.
And everybody knew it, that the North, New England Transcendentalist types were not Christians any longer.
And they were attempting to squash the Christian civilization of the South.
And once they'd done that, they used that victory to squash all of the genuine Christians left in the North.
So all of the stuff in Indiana that you're seeing about the gay marriage thing, all of the attempts to get the Catholic Church to endorse sodomy and abortion, all of the attempts to deprive people's ability to associate freely with people that they're not associated with people they rapidly disagree with about issues like abortion and sodomy.
That is all directly as a result of the Civil War.
And it is with us today.
You were on fire, Chris.
Hey, listen, you were on fire, brother.
You've been the star of the show tonight, as far as I'm concerned, because I'll tell you, that war didn't end in 1865, Eddie.
I guarantee you, Chris, you know, you've nailed upon something, my man.
I salute you for your knowledge of your intellect.
Just started the show for the past month, as far as I'm concerned.
But you are so right.
You know, we hammer on this show over and over and over that there is a good force and a bad force.
The good force, as you mentioned, comes from the God of the Bible, the Father, the Son, the Holy Spirit, my Lord and Savior, James Edwards, Lord and Savior, your Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ.
It's been a battle from before man was on this planet.
There's a battle right now, and the battle you just spoke of, young man, you nailed it.
They hated Christians.
They hated Christians now.
Chris, thank you so much for the call.
One of our best, as Eddie mentioned, that we've received in a long, long time.
All the way up in Alaska, ladies and gentlemen, Chris coming in and just ramroding truth into the hearts and minds of our audience.
Thank you, Chris.
All the way up in Alaska.
We're thankful to have you.
And, you know, I want to say this, talking about Confederate history, I mean, where do you go?
There's so many sources you could draw upon.
You know, and it wasn't that long ago.
150 years was not that long ago.
I mean, my dad was born in 1954.
You go back a couple of more generations and you're right there in the thick of it.
And so it wasn't that long ago.
And in fact, I actually attended the last official funeral for Confederate soldiers in the funeral of the crew of the CSS Hunley, the first submarine to sink an enemy vessel in naval combat.
And I was there in Charleston, South Carolina in 2004, I believe it was.
I attended the last official Confederate funeral.
That just goes to show that it wasn't that long ago.
This is what we're talking about.
You know, James, my grandfather, and I remember him just like today.
I remember walking up those dirt roads across those bean fields and cotton fields in Arkansas.
He was born in 1886.
My other grandfather was born in 1884 shortly thereafter the Civil War was over.
So you're right.
It has not been that long ago.
But I'd like to say one more word out to a shout out to Chris.
You know, Chris, we could do a three-hour show easily on just what you brought up tonight with, you know, these wacko New Age people up there in the North.
They've been with us forever.
But yeah, we could do a whole three-hour show on that.
Don't you agree, James?
Absolutely.
And, you know, here's the thing.
As we mentioned earlier, it is true, the Unitarians, some of these others.
But at the same time, this show has a global audience.
This show has an audience from every single state in this country.
We appreciate those who support us in the North as much as those who support us in Memphis or Alabama or anywhere else.
We cannot have another conflict between our brothers and our cousins.
And we were talking about that earlier tonight.
So this isn't a South versus North type of thing as it stands in 2015.
You know, we're not going to divide our people again as we've been divided so many times before in tribal wars.
But we do love the South.
We love our family.
We love our family a little bit more than we love others.
And so for that reason and many more, we celebrate Confederate History Month here on the Political Cessible.
And we will continue again next week when we get to other guests who will be able to, as Gene Andrews did last week, provide laser-like focus on a particular issue or aspect of Southern history and Confederate heritage.
But tonight, it was sort of a more general approach.
And I appreciate what Keith Alexander and Chris and Alaska and Eddie brought to it.
When we come back, we're going to shift gears again.
And Eddie and I are going to cover 15 stories in the next four segments.