May 23, 2015 - The Political Cesspool - James Edwards
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The Political Cesspool, going 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.
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Wave it, baby, because you find your mind.
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I'm your host, James Edwards.
It's Saturday evening, May the 23rd, and I am barreling down.
I-75 in the great state of Florida, the Sunstein State.
I've been getting a lot of vitamin D down in Florida this week.
And I know what you're thinking.
This is the longest vacation in the history of man.
Well, we actually, it hasn't been much longer than a week.
Last week, I was traveling down to our vacation destination.
This Saturday night, we're heading back northbound towards home.
And it just so happened that the week in question included two Saturdays.
And I normally thought of planning my vacation was to avoid that.
So I'm not out of the studio more than two weeks in a row.
But it was unavoidable this time.
And it did give me the opportunity to get a little creative program planning.
There's a couple of things we can do when I'm out of town.
We can either play tapes or we can shine the spotlight on some of the other teammates here in the TPC, feature them a little more prominently.
And we had the opportunity to do both, or at least we will by the end of this evening.
Last week, of course, because of the anniversary of Brown versus Board, Keith and I were live.
It was a little bit of a hybrid show.
We were live the first hour.
Then we played a couple of tapes to the hours, some rebroadcasts, which I like to do on rare occasion because it just serves as a reminder that the broadcast archives dating back now a decade are just littered with treasures.
And every show is a different gem waiting to be discovered or rediscovered.
If a few years have passed, you just go through that broadcast archive and you'll really just find a lot of things to enjoy or to enjoy again.
Might be hearing them for the first time.
You're a longtime listener.
You can go back and hear them again.
We played a couple of golden OBs last week.
Tonight, Keith and I are live for the first couple of segments.
Then you're going to hear from Scoop Stanton and Sean Bergen.
Winston Smith will be coming in off the bench for some time in the second hour doing a little solo app.
And then I'll be at my hotel by the third hour.
And I'll have Mark Weber with me.
So tonight's going to be a patchwork show, but it's going to be a good one.
I'm very excited about the things we're going to be presenting to you tonight.
But I want to tell you very quickly before we bring Keith on about this vacation.
So, you know, there's basically nothing that could happen in my life that Florida isn't the cure for.
You know, a family member passes away, you go to Florida.
High blood pressure, go to Florida.
Stress at work, go to Florida.
Basically, anything you can think of, if you get me to Florida, it will fix it.
Especially if I'm down here with my family and I'm down here.
I'm actually in the car with my wife, six-month-old son, and five-year-old daughter right now as we broadcast live.
I'm speeding a little bit.
So if I get a speeding ticket, I'll just share that with y'all.
See, I'm trying to collect a speeding ticket in all 50 states.
I pretty much got the Confederacy covered.
We'll try to branch out on that.
But we've been down here.
We've been jumping around down in Naples for a couple of days.
We bounced around the keys a little bit.
And then I came back and drove through the Everglade.
That's why I wanted to open the show with Redbone there.
They were the only all-Indian band I could think of that had a great song there, Telling Get Your Love.
And so, Keith, I'm driving back through the Everglades.
And, you know, you're deaf, and you're seeing all of these, you know, these Indian tribes.
You have the Seminoles and the Miccosukee, I believe it was.
And they're down here and they're doing an airboat ride.
And they've got, you know, little villages we can go, I guess, interpretive centers of some sort.
And they'll tell you all about their culture and how proud they are to be who they are.
And then it's a little bit of a pap rising out of the story.
You know, but you know, they're down there and they're with the Panthers and the alligators.
And, you know, certainly, you know, their culture isn't comparable to the culture and civilization of Western man.
But I'll tell you, when it comes to just the basic sense of pride and community, and that they thought it flicked, and you know, you have to respect them for that.
And I certainly do.
They have a sense of identity that I only wish that we could have.
And I'm not talking about certainly the listeners of this radio program.
I'm talking about our descendant family, if you will, solo white.
We don't have the kind of sense of community that people living in poverty down here in the swamps of Federal Florida have enough to be commended.
Now, keep your thoughts on that.
And it's good to be talking to you, my friend.
Looking forward to seeing you when I get back in Memphis this week.
Well, it's been a long time, buddy.
I swear, I hope I recognize you.
You're probably burnt to a crisp after all that vitamin D you were.
I'm definitely a couple of shades darker.
Well, we missed you.
I had a nice party over at my house the other night.
In fact, last night, had about 30, 40 people over here and had a great time.
And I wish you and Danny could have been here.
How about you?
Soiree is certainly one not to be missed.
And I'm sorry that we didn't miss that one.
But tell us what you've got coming up.
Normally, we like to give the audience a kid of Keith, if you will, in terms of, you know, you're normally on as much as anyone, at least for the first hour and a half, if not the first couple of hours of any given show.
Tonight, they're just going to get a shot of Keith going for the first settlement and change.
But what are you going to be talking about in the next segment before we steep the mic to some of the other players on the team and recalibrate for next week where we'll all be back in the studio together?
Well, we're going to do a wrap-up on the Brown, the annual Brown show, and kind of take the global perspective on the thing.
You know, we've talked about the trees.
Now it's time to step back and talk about the forest that we've been plunged into primarily as a result of the Brown decision.
And it affects only Americans, but civilization generally.
And we'll flesh that out and try to substantiate that claim in the next segment.
Well, I look forward to listening to that.
And as soon as I hang up the phone here, I'm about to have to check into my hotel.
Remember, folks, I'll be back with you in the third hour of tonight's live broadcast.
It's amazing that we've lived this long.
Here I am driving in a car hosting a nationally syndicated radio program from my cell phone and they just have to zip this song.
As I often like to say, but I'll be back with you later and we'll be listening to Keith do his biz right after this first break.
Stay tuned, everybody.
We'll be right back.
I can't tell if it's a commercial breaker if Keith's doing heavy construction.
They grow it.
Or, but.
Then we were.
Yes, I hear you, Keith.
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You know, we always have a lot to say.
And I'm not going to say or pretend that we're good about hitting our breaks on time, even in the best of circumstances, but it is far more difficult to hear your cues when you're on a cell phone going 80 miles an hour with all this road noise than it is when we're at our studio in Memphis connected with a nice headset and microphone combo.
But anyway, we're going to turn you over immediately to Keith Alexander.
He's going to wrap up last week's coverage of Brown as only he can.
Keith, over to you, my friend, and I'll talk to y'all in the third hour.
Okay, well, thank you, James.
Getting back to Brown.
What was it about Brown that makes it so important that we devote an entire show on the anniversary of that decision, May 17th, every year?
And we talk about it, you know, often in between.
I don't think it's an exaggeration to say that America and Western culture generally would have been better off if we had sustained a nuclear attack on May the 17th, 1954 than to have had the Brown decision delivered.
The Brown decision is like the demon seed.
It has grown like Topsy.
And it's basically the discovery by the left of their equivalent of the Philosopher's Stone.
If you'll recall, medieval history, alchemists were constantly trying to discover the Philosopher's Stone, which was the formula for turning base metals like lead into gold.
Well, that is the magical quality of the Brown decision to the left's agenda.
With the power of judicial review, which was perfected and turned into an irresistible force by the Brown decision, the left discovered how to advance their agenda despite overwhelming popular opposition.
This is how the 3% of the American population rules over and prevails against the wishes of the 97%.
Now, they picked their strongest suit first, which was black rights.
But basically, what they accomplished in the Brown decision was really a masterstroke.
They got the least democratic part of the federal government, the federal judiciary, the federal judiciary, which was described by Alexander Hamilton in Federalist Paper No. 74 as the weakest and least dangerous branch of the federal government and made it the ultimate arbiter of social policy for the United States of America.
Furthermore, they accomplished this in a breathless fashion by engineering a complete departure from the normal rules for appellate decision-making by the courts, which is starry decisis or you rely upon past precedent.
There was no past precedent for the holding in the Brown decision, which was that the 14th Amendment's Equal Protection Clause was violated by racial segregation.
That's obviously not what the authors of the 14th Amendment, which was passed in 1866 by the U.S. Congress, that's not what they thought.
In fact, that same Congress that passed into law the 14th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution also established a racially segregated public school system for the District of Columbia, for Washington, D.C. Back then, there was no separate municipal government for Washington, D.C. as there is today.
Washington, D.C. was governed and ruled basically by the United States Congress.
So that should have ended it, that plus the Plessy versus Ferguson decision of 1892 that said that equal protection was not violated,
the principle of equal protection was not violated by the maintenance of racially segregated public facilities, such as a public railway system or a public school system.
Now, this template is being followed today very closely in the fight for homosexual marriage and equal rights supposedly for homosexuals and heterosexuals.
Homosexuals have lost in virtually every statewide referendum where they take the question directly to the people, to the electorate, to decide, even in places as liberal as California.
But the left then switches to the old tried and true formula that they perfected in the Brown decision by shopping the case to a friendly federal judge.
In the case of the gay marriage initiative, it was shopped to a gay federal judge named Gavin Newsom out of San Francisco, California.
And predictably, he found that there was a violation of the Equal Protection Clause in having and not allowing homosexuals to marry.
In other words, the traditional definition of what marriage is violated the Equal Protection Clause.
I'm sure this would be a great surprise to the authors of the 14th Amendment.
You know, it's just fantastic that these type of things aren't laughed out of court, but they're not.
Then, once they have established in the federal court district level a favorable decision, then, being on the West Coast, it is appealed to the U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, which is the Ninth Circuit, which is the most liberal circuit of all 11 or 12 or so of them in the whole United States of America.
and predictably, they affirmed the decision of the district Court.
Now it's going to the U.S. Supreme Court.
In the meantime, leftist control of the news media, of the entertainment industry, of every other facet of disseminating information except for the internet.
And of course, they plan to take care of that with this Net Neutrality Act.
They'll stop putting some teeth in that shortly, I predict.
But they have been able to transform public opinion.
If you watch television shows now, if you listen to, if you see movies, there's been this proliferation of gay couples showing up.
It makes people who really don't know any better, who just absorb their information mindlessly through the goggle box or through the movie screen, that a clear 20 to 30% of the population is gay when it's actually more like 2%, maybe 3% at the most.
And as a result, and you're always seeing gay couples portrayed in the best light possible.
They're so much wiser, so much more stable, so much more talented than heterosexual couples that appear in the main television shows and movies.
And this is planting the seed, the demon seed that they want for transforming public opinion.
So they are in the process of relentlessly transforming public opinion a la psychological conditioning through their control of the news media.
Meanwhile, they are changing the law through the application of the power of judicial review, which is definitely unconstitutional, James.
This is how they have got, this is their magic formula for transforming society.
And the transformation that's occurred over the past 61 years is absolutely astounding.
And it has not created a better America.
We have seen our best days as a nation and as Western civilizations.
I have some good work to do it.
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Well, you know, folks, I just love you all so much.
I just can't keep myself peeled away from you.
Even when on vacation, even when trying to check in a hotel, I hear Sean Bergen is going to be on.
I have to stop what I'm doing, drop my bags, and call back in because I just can't share Sean with anyone else.
And so here we are.
And James Edwards now were playing musical hosting chairs tonight as I travel back to Memphis from a vacation with my family.
And as I mentioned, we have Sean Bergen on, the intrepid correspondent that he is, TV newsman, and our go-to guy when it comes to situations involving police and the so-called crimes media would like to charge them with.
This is the new age lynch mobs, if you will, and cops on the target.
So, first of all, Sean, welcome back and thank you for being with us again.
Are you with us, Sean?
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Can you hear me, Sean?
Okay, we'll wait on our producer to get Sean Bergen back on the line.
There is actually one more thing I wanted to say while we wait, and that is pertaining to this vacation.
You know, as I mentioned, I was down here, of course, with my immediate family, my wife and children, but also with my parents.
And I may have mentioned this last week, I don't recall, but I was able to bring my mother and father down here.
A very dear listener in Missouri just lost his father not long ago, just actually this evening.
And my brother was down here.
I only have one sibling, a younger brother.
And so we were all together, my children, my wife, my parents, and my brother.
And I would say this: you know, when all of this melts away, you know, as important as the things are that we discuss in this program, and God knows they're important.
And this show is much more important than most because we talk about the things that everyone else refuses to discuss.
And it is some of the most important issues facing society and our people.
And it's a vitally important program.
But when it all melts away and all of these cares and concerns that we have drift, I would encourage people to remember to be good to those who will be at your funeral.
You know, be good to the ones whose funeral you will unfortunately have to go to.
And if your parents are still alive, give them a call, give them a hug, tell them you love them.
Try to go out and do things with them.
And I was just blessed as a younger, you know, earlier in life to have had a great upbringing and to have, you know, have parents who I knew loved me and took care of me and tried to teach me right from wrong.
And so now as a father and a husband in my own right, I still enjoy a great relationship with my family.
I don't know that's not the case for everyone.
There's been a war and an attack on family for a long, long time now.
And the results are predictable.
You know, what's happening?
And there's a lot of reasons that the family is disintegrating.
But if you're lucky enough to have the opportunity to tell your parents and your siblings that you love them or to be with them or to go out to dinner with them or even as I've done this last week, take a vacation with them, then take advantage of that opportunity because other than your relationship with God, there is nothing more important than your relationship with your family.
And that's not to say that our hobbies and certainly our activism when it comes to this glorious struggle that we find ourselves in, you know, obviously that's very important.
And that shouldn't be neglected.
You've got to look at life as a pie and you've got to have appropriate pieces squared off for each element and aspect of who you are and what you do.
And so just keep that in mind, ladies and gentlemen.
I mean, we can't live on the front lines.
We do need to be certainly more engaged in these issues that animate this radio program, for instance, than we are with entertainment and bread and circus.
But it should take even a second feat to spending time with family because you only get one shot at this.
And then, you know, once nothing lasts forever, including each of us, our own lives.
And so one day, you know, we're going to be called home and everybody we've ever loved or anybody and everybody we've ever met that they're going to be called home.
And so, you know, it's a finite thing we're working with here.
And everything's numbered and everything has a beginning and an end.
And so that is just something that I felt led to share.
And I was hoping to be able to work that in to actually the opening segment when talking about, you know, what a great time we had down here together and just spending that time with one another, the trip and all that.
But so now I got to say, and I'm glad I did.
So I'm glad that it worked out that we were able to work that in as we wait to continue the broadcast.
But as I said, not even a family vacation, even though that is number one, you know, in the pecking order, or I guess, you know, one A behind The relationship with God.
But y'all are right there, you know, say a one C, if you will.
And my mind is never far from my audience, who is certainly part of my extended family and people who I love and care for a great deal, those of you listening this evening.
And even on vacation, with my limited internet access, and it was a struggle to get on the internet at all, but I made sure that the website was maintained and that there were what I felt were good and engaging articles posted to thepolitical session.org each and every day while I was gone.
Y'all were in my mind, and I was looking forward to this broadcast, which again is going to feature a patchwork before it's all said and done.
We're going to hear from two different people, Winston Smith, Mark Weber, and I will be on in the third hour.
All of them coming through, okay.
I'm standing outside my hotel on the interstate, and I just heard, I think, Hell's Angels blaze by on a pack of motorcycles.
So hopefully this isn't coming through too distorted.
But I would rather come in a little bit distorted and not the best audio quality, calling in from my cell phone on a windy Saturday evening here in Florida than play another three-hour tape because we did the tape thing last week.
But we did have good articles on the website.
One of them was an article about Michelle Obama.
Now, if there's anybody who has been a victim of discrimination, obviously it's the first lady because you see, she's just really been held back in her life.
And so she was giving the commencement address at Tuskegee University, that great, you know, exemplar of academic achievement, Tuskegee.
And she was there at the university, and she let them know that, of course, like she, they will be faced with weight and racism and discrimination that will, you know, people seeking to hold them back as she has been held back while living in the White House, apparently.
Anyway, we do have Sean Bergen there now.
I'm not sure how long Sean has been there.
But Sean, as I was saying, welcome back to the broadcast and thank you for being with us, sir.
Well, it's great to be here.
And yeah, I mean, to pick up on Michelle Obama's speech at the Tuskegee Institute, she really, she can't stop with the Racial Grievance Act, no matter where she is or what she's doing.
I mean, the very founder of the Tuskegee Institute warned his own students initially about people like Michelle Obama and Barack Obama and people, people who basically have turned grievance mongering, racial grievance mongering, into a career.
And they've taken it so far with the help of the liberal news media that it has actually catapulted them straight into the White House in the most, probably one of the most powerful positions that anyone could ever attempt to hold in this world.
You're so right, Sean.
And it obviously, I mean, it's amazing that this season has to be discussed.
It's to be so transparent, her remarks to just be so transparent, they're laughable.
If anyone has lived a life of privilege, it's certainly the Obama.
But we digress a little bit because I know that's not the topic you want to discuss, but it does actually play, you know, when it goes to show it's two things.
Number one, there's going to be no absolution.
There's going to be no cure to so-called racism because certainly if the Obamas haven't overcome it, God knows no normal person can.
And so if they're still the victims of it, I'd hate to see, you know, somebody that's really down and out, you know, saying that they've been able to get over it if the Obamas can't get over it.
But now we see this, you know, poisoning the mindset of, you know, the same narrative or an element of it is poisoning the country against police officers.
And that is what you're on to talk about.
And we'll use the remaining time.
I'm told we got to be late in this segment.
Though we only have a minute or two before the next break, and then you'll be with us for the remainder of the hour.
What's happened to the latest in Baltimore, Sean?
Oh, goodness, have we lost Sean again?
I tell you what, this is live radio, ladies and gentlemen.
If he's having trouble calling from his normal location, imagine my duress.
The fact that we've actually made it 42 minutes into this program under these conditions actually is pretty good.
But while we're waiting on Sean to get back on the line, we'll try to fix these connection problems in the break that is immediately forthcoming and before we get into the last segment of this hour.
And I'm not exactly sure how the problem Sean is having, but I hope that it is rectified by that time.
But you got to go, and we got the video of this stuff.
In addition to a number of good articles there at the website, so check it out at DeepPolySuccessful.org.
You can watch this video of the first lady, if you will, making these comments.
And I tell you, it's not a felt for score eyes.
It's a sight that will make your eyes sore.
And we'll let you take a look at that and we'll take a break.
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Everybody, we have Sean Bergen back with us again now.
Hopefully, the technical staff food has been corrected.
And, you know, again, this is the political festival, and we're alive, unrehearsed, and uncensored.
And we like to prove that every week.
That is our motto around here, one of them, in addition to no retreat.
No swing, no apologies.
But anyway, Sean, apologies.
Well, one apology to Sean for the technical staff food we're having.
Not sure exactly what's happening there, but we will keep going until we can't go anymore.
So, Sean, the letter from Baltimore, if you will, sir.
I'm sorry I said that again, James.
I was saying, the letters from Baltimore.
Apparently, there have been new developments in the last few days there that our audience may not be aware of.
Well, I mean, what we're seeing in Baltimore is a serious uptick in violent crime.
The police there now are in play and defense.
They're hunkered down.
They have given up on proactive policing.
They're just answered 911 radio calls.
And as a result, we've had 37 homicides in the last 30 days, 100 homicides since the beginning of the year.
They're on track to break a new record.
And, you know, and this is what happens when you have government officials, mayors and prosecutors, turn their backs on the police department, throw the cops under the bus, and criminalize them for doing their jobs, essentially.
And we've been talking about this now for the better part of a year, going back, obviously, to Ferguson, but even before that.
But now it is seeming to escalate.
I guess even going back to the Zimmerman case to an extent, although obviously, you know, police officers weren't involved in that, but that's when this narrative really began to develop.
And now the evolution of this narrative has placed now all cops are George Zimmerman, basically.
I guess that would mean innocent of any wrongdoing in these kerfuffles that they'd like to turn into a story or manufacture to be a story.
But now, Sean, they're saying as the temperature rises this summer, we're going to see more Fergusons, more Baltimores throughout the next couple of months.
Is that something that you would bet on?
I mean, hopefully not.
Hopefully we hope it doesn't happen, but is it something that would be a good bet?
It just seems to be a growing trend.
And I think you're right in tracing it back to its origins with the Zimmerman case.
I mean, if you recall, there were no charges pressed against George Zimmerman initially, and the investigative detectives didn't file any charges because there was no evidence to support a crime that had been committed.
And a special prosecutor was named.
The case was taken away from the Sanford police.
And basically what we were treated to was a show trial.
And that seems to be the growing trend now with what's happening with police departments all over the country.
We saw that in Ferguson.
We saw New York City erupt into mass protest riots after a cop here was cleared of any wrongdoing in the death of Eric Garner.
We have six cops now in Baltimore who many believe have been overcharged.
And we could end up seeing those guys cleared of the charges as we saw with the cop in Cleveland today, where I understand protests are now underway after that cop was cleared for shooting two unarmed black individuals.
And that seems to be the headline that they want to run with.
White cop shoots unarmed blacks.
And they give no credence, really, to the truth of the matter and what actually happened.
So these guys...
It's sort of disgusting to me, because we're obviously not suggesting that all cops are infallible or that there are cops out there who haven't made a mistake and used lethal force at a time that it wasn't necessarily required.
But on average, I think it should go without saying that we as a society are much better off with a strong armed police force, particularly in cities like Baltimore and Ferguson, for reasons why we all know than, you know, basically poisoning.
It's not just the poisoning of the American public's consciousness against police officers.
But if you were a cop, would you want to go out there and really get tough over karma?
Would you just sit in your cruiser, Sean, until your shift was over?
I mean, knowing that if you go out there and get into a confrontation that involves a protected member of Obama's America, that whether you were right or wrong, you were going to lose your career at best or go to prison at worst.
Well, absolutely.
I mean, who can blame these guys?
I mean, you know, I mean, these are serious charges they're faced with.
You know, to be charged with second-degree murder is a pretty frightening prospect just for doing your job.
And ultimately, the people who ultimately pay the price are the folks who live in that community.
And we're back to this whole circular kind of situation where, you know, the cops are there to protect these people from killing one another.
When they do their jobs in protecting these people from killing one another, the cops are brought up on criminal charges.
They back off.
And what happens?
We see more of the people in these communities killing one another.
I mean, the whole thing is just so insane.
And all of it, of course, behind the scenes, all of this, on what's driving all of this, is coverage from the liberal news media.
I mean, right after that verdict was read in Cleveland this afternoon, CNN on the ground with the cameras, you know, legitimizing these people for, you know, if the protests take off and they start to get violent, then basically CNN legitimizes their actions and says, well, this is why they're justified in doing this, or why do you think they're doing this?
I mean, the whole thing is just so insane and turned upside down.
But tell us a little more about what happened in Ohio, because that was actually the very next question I had for you.
In case some of the members of the audience weren't as familiar with that as some of the other stories we cover with you, break it down for us all the way up to the most recent events as of a few hours ago.
Well, you know, this case has been overshadowed in large part by events that have been taking place recently in Baltimore.
I mean, that's really been sucking up all the oxygen in the room.
But apparently what happened was these two folks out in Cleveland who, you know, from what I've read, a public support for a pair of crackheads, drove past a police came to the car backfired, and it sounded like somebody shot into the precinct.
There was a high-speed chase that ensued with about 62 officers who chased this pair and ultimately ended up suing into the car.
I think a total of 137 shots were fired.
And this one young officer, Michael Brillo, jumped up on the hood of the car and basically emptied his magazine into the car because he thought people were shooting back at him.
So he just underwent a trial.
It was a bench trial, not a jury trial, which means that the decision ultimately was made by the judge, and the judge cleared the man of all charges.
And so now here we are back again with, you know, a bunch of people protesting on the streets of Cleveland.
And I guess we'll have to see where it goes from here.
Yeah, you know, Cleveland, Akron, all of that area.
This is kind of like to me, like a hurricane season.
You're waiting for the, you know, the elements to come together that will cause a hurricane to begin to spin.
And so you see these hot spots.
And sometimes everything just happens just right.
And you get an F5 like in Baltimore or in, well, I guess F5 is a tornado.
But anyway, you get a strong one like in Baltimore or Ferguson.
And then sometimes it doesn't quite come together.
You just get a heavy storm.
But we are seeing a few areas out there where one of these situations could manifest.
And obviously, the demographic conditions are right in that Cleveland-Akron area for something like this to occur.
But you've got two or three of these things brewing right now.
Will another one catch on?
Will there be more riots?
You know, it seems as though when you have these poll postings in the streets, you have everybody out there protesting except for the people who have really been disserviced in this country.
I mean, legitimately.
I mean, everybody, you know, this country is just nothing but a bunch of complainers down.
Everybody's got a gripe and everybody's upset and everybody's discriminated against.
I mean, what happens to manly men picking themselves up and doing something for themselves?
You know, just complaining.
But everybody's complaining except for the people who are truly been aggrieved.
And I'm talking about the red-blooded, taxpayer, hardworking people.
Where are they going to get out there?
And when are they going to get out there and take this country back?
And that's a million-dollar question.
I mean, certainly, you know, people with jobs, I guess, don't have the time to go out there and hoot and holler.
But everywhere from the radical militant homosexuals to the thugs and these riot cities, everybody's out there standing up for, well, I can't say they're actually standing up.
There's not a lot of critical thinking going on, God knows, but everybody's out there demanding something except for the people who have a right to do so, in my opinion.
But Sean, I'm trying to clone three segments into one here because I know there were some technical difficulties getting you on there for a moment last segment.
Scoop had told me to ask you your thoughts.
I believe you had a beat on the Amtrak derailing.
And we talked about that last week up there in Pennsylvania because I actually knew the guy who was the person at fault.
He worked for a small newspaper in my hometown when I ran as a state representative some 13 years ago.
I didn't know him.
I knew who he was and had seen him while in the office for interviews and to place ads.
But is there any more on that?
Because we covered it last week.
Have you followed that at all?
I don't know that there have been any real new developments with regard to the train the Amtrak crash out there, except questions now hanging over the engineer, this man Bob Bostian.
We have to get a better sense of it.
You know, he says that he's lawyered up.
He doesn't remember anything.
And I don't know that there have been any real new developments outside of liberal Democrats in Washington screaming blue murder about infrastructure problems when this had nothing at all to do with infrastructure, but never let a Liberal Democrat let it run a crisis pass without capitalizing on it, especially when there are lives lost.
I mean, this is some of the most craven acts I've ever seen, whether it's the Amtrak crash or what we saw in Newport, not Newtown, with the with that school shooting.
I mean, before the bodies are even brought out of the the before we even have a body count, there, you know, the liberal media are on the air talking about gun control or they're talking about infrastructure spending.
I mean, these congressmen in Washington, you know, it wasn't that long ago that the stimulus package was passed.
And they're with $60 billion.
That people you're talking about are throwing the fuel on the fire to stir up the specter of racism against the cops.