Dec. 3, 2016 - The Political Cesspool - James Edwards
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I don't know if it gets much better than that as far as the fun,
feel-good Christmas music.
I mean, of course, as we get a little closer to Christmas, we're going to start playing a lot of the Christ-centered Christmas carols that we all know and love.
But as far as the feel-good, fun stuff, that was 1963, The Ronettes, Ronnie Specter.
You can say what you want to about Phil Specter.
I'm sure there's a lot of people.
You read my mind.
But hey, he was a genius.
He was a genius.
He was a musical.
See, I like somebody like Bobby Helms singing Jingle Bell Rock in his distinctive southern song.
Look, we're going to get Bobby Helms worked in the rotation.
We're just doing a little Christmas music at the top of each hour tonight just to get you acclimated.
The next week at the top of every segment, we're going to do some of that music you just mentioned too.
Brenda Lee singing rocking around the crowd.
We got to do it.
We got to do it.
It's going to happen.
All of those.
Those are mainstays during December on this show.
And then the last couple of weeks before Christmas, we're going to focus in on the more serious.
And some of Elvis's price.
Sure.
Both the hymns and got to have the music.
I mean, we love Christmas music.
We love this time of year.
We got the – Don't forget our southern roots, my friend.
Well, Well, we never do on this show.
That's for sure.
We got the fir tree-scented candle here in the studio tonight.
Smells like Christmas, feels like Christmas, looks like Christmas, sounds like Christmas with some of this music now.
And we're going to be featuring it more and more going into December.
This is our first show during the month of December.
I think you actually get, how many Saturdays do we have in December?
Let me check the calendar real quick before we get back down to business here.
At least four.
Well, I think there's always four, but we actually have five.
So you're going to get an extra, a little extra Christmas spirit from us.
You've got the 10th, the 17th, the 24th, which is Christmas Eve.
I guess we'll have to do Christmas, Christmas Eve on the 24th.
Now, let me have some input on these songs.
And then the 31st.
Hey, listen, that's what I'm saying.
You've got four more weeks.
That's a lot of songs.
Because we got 16 segments every show.
So just do the math.
Is that right?
Or we at least got 12.
Well, I guarantee you, we'll still leave something out because as much as we love Christmas, each one of us has his own special catalog.
I'm going to send you and Eddie an assignment.
You pick the music for one of the shows coming up.
Eddie gets to pick.
And then, of course, I'll have to pick two because somebody has to.
Anyway, all right.
Well, just that kind of music puts you in a good mood.
But all right.
You know our position on the media here at the political cesspool, which is basically a no-contact policy.
After my last interview with an establishment media outlet, I say establishment.
You could say fake news.
You could say whatever.
Was last summer, the summer of 2015, the summer of 2015, so I guess not last summer, but two summers ago now, with the senior editor of the Washington Post.
And it was just a horrible hatchet job.
And I said, you know what?
I'm done.
I'm done with print.
I'm done with anything that's not live and uncensored.
I'm not going to do anything taped.
I'm not going to do any print interviews.
And I held to that for about 18 months.
I especially held to it in March when all of that further had come out about me participating in an interview with Donald Trump Jr. that was hosted by Sam Bushman and aired on Liberty Roundtable.
All of that.
I mean, I have turned down over 100 consecutive interview requests from mainstream outlets.
I guess we're as establishment as anybody.
We're on AM radio.
I should say mainstream, fake news, whatever.
Establishment.
Whatever.
And I relaxed my position this week with the New York Times.
The New York Times is really the worst, honestly.
The New York Times was the, of course, it's the newspaper of record.
They set the standard for the entire print news media in America.
Not just America, but indeed around the world in many regards.
But I actually have a long history with the New York Times, or at least a history that stretches back many years.
You've heard me tell this story before, but I'll use it again to set the table before I tell you about what happened this week.
There was, of course, a reporter for the New York Times who actually came out earlier this year and said, listen, we're not even going to pretend.
I'm paraphrasing now, but this was pretty much the gist of it.
We're not even going to pretend to be objective.
It's so important that Donald Trump loses and that we help Hillary win because Trump is such a racist and a misogynist and a xenophobe and all of these other buzzwords and ridiculous words that they use that we're not even going to mask objectivity.
We're here to help Hillary win.
This was a very prominent reporter for the New York Times named Jim Rutenberg.
Well, I have Jim Rutenberg's cell phone number in my phone.
Jim Rutenberg actually flew to Memphis in 2008 to interview me in person.
Now, that doesn't happen very often.
Most of the time, of course, it's on telephone.
But not only did Jim Rutenberg fly down to Memphis in 2008 to interview me in person, the New York Times also commissioned a cameraman to come with them to take pictures of me sitting in my chair in the radio station for publication in the New York Times.
And the purpose of that story was it was in the fall of 2008, just before Barack Obama was elected.
And the New York Times was doing a piece on how people viewed the possibility of America's first black president.
They were interviewing all sorts of different people for this, people who supported Obama, people who were opposed to Obama, people right, left, and center.
And I was the person who was selected who was an outspoken advocate on behalf of European Americans to give the pro-white reaction to Obama's potential ascension to the presidency.
And I spent a couple of hours with Jim Rutenberg in the lobby of a hotel in downtown Memphis the very next day.
Met with his photographer at the radio station, and we did some pictures, and it was all set to come out.
Well, the article did come out, except I wasn't in it.
They ended up using, so help me God, a prison inmate, a prison inmate, a felon, to give the pro-white view.
And of course, you know why that was.
I didn't fit the caricature or the narrative that they had.
Perhaps I was too thoughtful or well-spoken, and that just didn't fit what they were looking for in that story.
This is the New York Times.
This is the same reporter that said eight years later, earlier this year, that the New York Times can't afford to be objective.
It's too important that Hillary Clinton beats Donald Trump.
So we're just in the tank for Hillary.
So that's the New York Times.
That's my remembrance of the New York Times.
And the New York Times reached out to me earlier this year, a very prominent reporter again, Nick Confessor for the New York Times, sent me a very cordial email asking me to do an interview with the New York Times for a major piece.
And I just simply declined it as I have done unilaterally and without exception.
Over the course of the last 18 months, Wall Street Journal reached out?
No.
98 others?
No, no, no.
I just didn't do it.
A couple of reasons.
It takes a lot of time to do it.
Every interview is at least an hour.
And then almost without exception, it gets taken out of context or it gets tossed or they just lie about you without using anything you said at all.
That's pretty much the three scenarios.
So why would I take time out of my busy schedule to accommodate them only to be subjected to that?
Well, when I got this email from this particular investigative reporter who had won a Pulitzer Prize, I decided to relax my position.
I'll tell you why, and I'll tell you what we talked about in the very next second.
My sister began smoking because of friends.
I don't think any less spurred because she smokes, but it's been really hard because I know she could have done better if she hadn't chose to smoke.
She's trying to quit actually right now, but it's a really hard process and she's down to a couple of cigarettes a day, so she's doing really good, but it's been a really hard thing in my family, actually.
It's caused a lot of problems.
My sister's smoking definitely hurt my parents.
I'd come home sometimes.
My mom would just be in tears.
Smoking hurts a lot of people, most of whom don't even smoke.
I definitely think my religion has played a role in me not smoking.
I'm a Christian and I believe I'm better because I don't smoke.
Smoking hurts your friends, your family.
It's not worth it in the long run.
And you may not realize it now if you are smoking, but you will.
Smoking.
If you think you're old enough to start, you're smart enough to stop.
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Well, getting back to the New York Times, so there in that first segment, I broke down a little bit of my history with the New York Times over the years.
But this week, I got an email, and it was from a Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter by the name of Serge Kovaleski.
Serge Kovaleski.
And you may remember that name.
If you do, it's because there was a big controversy earlier this year.
This is the reporter that Donald Trump was said to have been mocking in one of his public speeches.
Because he was supposedly disabled and he was mocking that.
Of course, that was a total fabrication.
Trump was not doing that, but this is the reporter who was the focus of that particular report.
It was a controversy.
Trump says he wasn't.
Some people say he was.
So hence the controversy.
But a little background on Serge.
He is an investigative reporter at the New York Times, of course, born in Cape Town, South Africa, which I found interesting.
Graduated in 1984 from the College of William and Mary in Williamsburg, Virginia, having majored in philosophy.
He contributed to the reporting that won the New York Times the Pulitzer Prize for its investigation of the Elliott Spitzer prostitution scandal, so said Wikipedia.
And he also worked for the Washington Post and the New York Daily News, among other publications.
So he reached out to me, and I'm not going to share with you the contents of the interview because I don't think that's right because the interview has not been published yet, and it will be published.
And let me say this.
If the interview is a hatchet job that we hope it isn't, but suspect it might be, you probably will be seeing this.
Well, here's the thing.
And we'll show you exactly what went down.
Well, on the other hand, right now, we're going to give them the benefit of the doubt.
As we always do, or as we try to do, if we agree to engage with someone.
But I will read you at least the invitation that I received.
And this is from Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative reporter of the New York Times, Serge Kovaleski.
Dear Mr. Edwards, I hope this note finds you well.
I'm a journalist with the New York Times, and I'm hoping to talk with you for an upcoming article that I'm doing about the alt-right, what it is, and what the election of Donald Trump as president means for the movement.
Given that one of Trump's sons has had communication with you, given the prominence of your voice within the alt-right community and beyond, I thought your thoughts would be particularly valuable.
Is there a time you could chat?
As I've done with sources for more than 30 years, I will go over with you carefully anything that I would use from you in an interview to make sure that what I have is accurate and contextual.
Thanks and best to you, Serge.
I wrote back to him initially saying that I might consider answering a couple of your questions via email so that I can have an exact transcript for my records.
But other than that, my patience with the media was exhausted years ago, and I seldom grant interview requests anymore.
Well, I'm not going to go into any more of the actual back and forth that I had with this gentleman at this time because, again, this is the New York Times story.
It's not my place to scoop them on this broadcast with their story.
So I'm not going to tell you what he asked me and what my responses were, but I will tell you that I do have an accurate and full accounting of that because we conducted the interview via email rather than over the phone.
And so we will see what happens.
Now, what could happen is the questions were very fair.
I thought that the answers that I gave were spot-on, if I do say so myself.
But I will say this.
I am willing to give this person the benefit of the doubt based upon an email correspondence over the course of two days, and we will see what happens.
When the article is published, I may not be in it at all.
That's what happened to me in 2008 with the New York Times.
I may not be in it at all.
When it comes out, it could be like the Washington Post did last year.
It could be just another screed about how I'm a racist zealot and a white supremacist and blah, blah, blah.
And if that happens, you know what I'll do?
I'll do just like Punk Satani Phil.
I'll go back underground for another year and a half because I don't need the media.
I don't court the media.
I'll just be like the groundhog.
I stuck my head out to do this one.
And if it doesn't work, I'll just go back and continue to do what I've done, which is build my own media here on the Liberty News Radio Network and with the political Cesspool radio program, which is known around the world this year.
Not because I participate in media, but because the media participates in us with all the articles, tens of millions of dollars in attack pieces lavished on us this year.
So I can do with it.
I can do without it.
I normally say no.
And one of the reasons I declined all interview requests up until this one for all of 2016 was really a couple of reasons.
I knew that the media would try to use anything that I say to damage Trump.
And I didn't want to be a fly in the ointment with regard to Trump's possibility of getting elected.
That's number one.
But of course, that's done now.
Trump is the president.
So what's the worst that could happen?
Trump's not going to lose the election now because of something that I say.
Or it's not going to negatively impact his ability to win the election.
I don't think anything that I could say is necessarily going to get him elected or not elected, but nothing that I say is going to cost him even one vote now.
And if the New York Times comes out with something that I say and Trump's asked about it, what's the worst that can happen?
Silly Hope Hicks is going to issue a third or a fourth asinine rebuking of me.
I don't care.
She's nothing to me, and I couldn't care less what she thinks.
We hope the hick will not.
No pun intended.
So if that happens, then so be it.
It doesn't bother me one way or another.
It's happened before, so we'll just see.
But I will say this about Serge Kovalewski.
I don't know him.
I've only had email exchanges with him because I chose to conduct the interview that way as opposed to the phone.
He was a complete and total gentleman all the way through, even after I gave him the answers to his questions and to a follow-up question.
He was 100% cordial and professional.
And so I hope that what he produces will be better than my experiences with the press over the course of the last 12 years.
Of course, he could be, of course, like Donald Trump Jr., alleged to be a racist himself now that he's had communication with me.
It's funny how some people are and some people aren't, I guess.
But anyway.
Many a truth is told in jest, as I say.
That's right.
Well, anyway, we'll see how it goes.
But my main thing was in relaxing my position.
This is the New York Times.
It is the newspaper of record around the world.
Yes, I've had bad experiences with them in the past.
Yes, they are really the flagship of dishonest media by their own admission.
They said, hey, we can't be objective.
We've got to make sure Hillary wins.
They said that this year.
One of their premier reporters who I actually have a history with.
But in this case, Trump's the president.
That's not going to change.
The worst that could happen is they call me a racist.
Well, they could call me a racist whether or not I participated in this interview or not.
It was an interview about the alt-right and I was selected as one of the premier voices of the alt-right by them.
They could have written about me whether I participated or not.
So I chose to participate.
Trump's still going to be the president no matter what happens.
They could use what I say.
They could not use what I say.
They could call me names.
I could get denounced for a fourth time by one of Trump's spokespeople.
But God will still be in heaven and I'll still be on the radio next Saturday.
All will be right with the world.
So, you know, though, I knew who this was the instant I got an email from him because, of course, I was familiar with the story about the Donald Trump alleged mocking of him.
And listen, Serge Kovaleski has been a lot more fair with me than the Trump campaign.
And Hope Hicks.
Yeah, that's right.
So I could say that.
So we did the interview.
It's going to be a major piece.
I don't know when it'll come out.
Maybe tomorrow, maybe Sunday, maybe next week.
But it'll come out.
Some of these major pieces take a few days.
He's interviewing other people, and we talked about some of the other people he's interviewing.
But anyway.
And it may well be that James and the whole exchange will wind up on the cutting room floor.
Or I could be featured positively or not at all or negatively.
But we'll see.
When we come back, we're going to talk a little more about this, but then get back to more important matters.
We'll be back with you in just a second.
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All right, I'm going to turn Keith loose on this.
Again, I am choosing not to release the content of the QA of my interview with the New York Times this week only because it's their story.
It's only fair.
Listen, we're always going to be fair no matter if we get treated fairly or not.
And I'm willing to give this guy the benefit of the doubt.
If it turns out bad, hey, it's not the first time.
I'm not going to learn any lessons.
If it turns out right, well, that would be a novelty.
And first.
Well, you know, I've done a lot of interviews in the last year with Sam Bushman on his incredible show, Liberty Roundtable, LibertyRoundtable.com.
I've done some stuff with Red Eyes.
I've done stuff with friendly media, but I've just had my fill after 12 years with the mainstream press.
And so, again, post-election, look, there's a rule, but I still, every interview request I get, I look up the person requesting the interview.
I dig into what information is available about them, and then I decide.
Now, it just so happens, 100% have been denied over the course of the last year and a half.
I changed my position on this one for reasons stated earlier.
I'm not trying to butter up this reporter.
Listen, he's a Pulitzer Prize winner.
It doesn't matter what I say on the show tonight.
He's going to do what he wants to do.
But he did treat me fair, and I'm reciprocating that tonight.
We do have the full transcript of the interview, but we're not going to make that public until the piece comes out.
And maybe not even after that.
If it's a fair piece, I'll just keep that to myself, but it is there just in case.
Keith, you actually read the entire transcript, the QA.
Only three people have read it, myself, you, and Sam Bushman, my owner here at Liberty News Radio.
Your thoughts on it without giving away any details.
Well, he asked specific questions, and you answered those questions specifically and right on point.
You didn't try to slip away.
You didn't try to change the narrative.
You answered the questions that he asked, which I would think that any journalist would appreciate.
Now, you probably did not give him the answers that either he or his editor wanted.
Well, we don't know that yet.
We're going to let him prove who he is.
We're going to let him prove if he's like we believe all establishment journalists to be, or if perhaps there is a reason he won the Pulitzer.
We'll find out.
Well, let me just say again, I would be that you could knock me over with a feather if you gave him the answers that he wanted.
But, you know, because there is this over.
Well, maybe he just wanted honest answers.
Again, we'll find out.
Yeah, well, if it were, you know, that would be a complete role reversal and complete change in outlook that we've gotten from all these major newspapers in America that report on us, like the Washington Post, the New York Times.
Hey, look, look, don't forget the New York Times earlier this year, even interviews.
We talked about some of the history of the New York Times.
The New York Times on several occasions this year trashed us.
And I think in one specific week after Donald Trump Jr. had issued the Skittles comparison to Muslim refugees, the New York Times attacked me three times in one week, including once above the fold on page 1A, and three times in one week, including twice in one day.
And they didn't even quote anything that you had said.
They just basically reported what the Southern Poverty Law Center had said about you.
So listen.
And other groups like that.
I don't have what they could do again with this.
Listen, I'm not building up the New York Times just because I talked to this guy.
I'm saying I will give this guy a fair shake because he was fair and cordial, as they all are.
Now, listen, you're not going to teach me nothing, folks.
I've been doing this for 12 years.
Yes, they're all.
I have always said that, of course, they're always polite and cordial.
They're your best friend when they want the interview.
Something strikes me a little differently about this guy.
But hey, hey, for the record, Sam Bushman actually got the New York Times to retract things that they wrote this year because he was such a bulldog against, I don't remember the name of that particular reporter.
It's not important.
But Sam Bushman has gone to war with the New York Times and won this year.
So we'll see.
But anyway, go, Keith.
Well, if this is the dawning of a new age where we can expect fair play from the Chicago Tribune, the Washington Post, and the New York Times, let it be as John London.
No, no, no, I don't expect it.
But I don't think we've reached the new age of nirvana.
There's no naivete here.
I'm just saying maybe this guy will surprise me.
And I told him that.
In fact, in my last email to him, I said, listen, you've been cordial.
I appreciate it.
I expect nothing less than for you to cast me as a racist zealot when this final piece comes out.
But hope springs eternal.
And I look forward to reading what you're saying.
Well, I think that the left may be finally having the scales fall from their eyes and realize that they've cried wolf too often.
In their case, they've cried racist too often.
And furthermore, racism has been broadened so that it includes institutional racism, unintentional racism, microaggression, safe spaces, all this type of stuff, to the point where basically being a racist is just another way of saying that you're a white person that doesn't hate yourself and your race.
Well, here's another thing, Keith, to consider with regard to my decision to participate in this particular interview.
Worst that can happen is what?
We get trashed like we do even when we don't participate.
Now, the only reason I don't participate is because I just don't want to invest the time.
Not that I'm trying to dodge anything.
They're going to write about us anyway.
I just don't like investing the time when we know almost universally it's going to come out the same way.
Now, here's a magazine article that came out on November 30th.
Whatever comes from Serge Kovaleski probably won't be this bad.
Here's the title of the article.
The problem with political correctness is not the content, it's the delivery.
And this is for a magazine.
And listen to what it reads.
In voting Trump, conservatives tired of being labeled racist, sexist, homophobic, or xenophobic, combated what they saw as undeserved condemnation.
It's no coincidence that Trump received unconditional support from white nationalists such as James Edwards, the human dumpster fire, who authored Racism-Schmacism, How Liberals Use the R-Word to Push the Obama Agenda released in 2010.
If you believed in the difference between racially discriminatory policies and actual racism, then Trump was your man.
So, hey, I got to give this guy and this magazine a little bit of credit.
I've never been called a human dumpster fire before, so at least that's the only thing that's going to be.
I think we've got a new name for James now.
It's all their ego.
James the human dumpster fire Edwards.
So listen, none of that bothers me.
I couldn't care less.
So whatever happens with the New York Times, I mean, they'd have to get pretty creative to do better than that.
I mean, we laugh about it.
We get it.
We talk about it on the air.
We move on with our work.
It never affects us or impacts us whatsoever, except for giving us some things to talk about.
Well, I will say this is right.
You are like a, you burn with a gem-like flame and you get all the draws out and you purify the dialogue just like fire purifies.
Well, thank you, Keith.
And then, of course, there's a Southern Poverty Law Center.
Sam Bushman covered this at length, I believe, on his Thursday program, Wednesday or Thursday.
He and co-host Kurt Crosby.
So there's this article up at the Southern Poverty Law Center's website this week about Ann Coulter giving a speech to a so-called white nationalist writer's workshop.
So apparently there's so many professional white nationalists that they actually have writers' workshops to help train them in their craft because it's just such a growing.
Well, we're actually larger and more and have more wealth than the New York Times.
It's a growth industry.
There's just so much growth in this industry that there's writers' workshops now to help you fine-tune your skills before you go out and earn money as a white nationalist, so-called white nationalist writer.
And I don't think this workshop would call themselves white nationalists either.
But nevertheless, Ann Coulter attended this gathering, this writer's workshop.
The SBLC calls it a white nationalist writer's workshop.
So they wrote this article talking about Ann Coulter's participation at this particular workshop.
And to illustrate the article, they used a photograph of me, Sam Bushman, and Ann Coulter together at the Republican National Convention.
Now, this was a picture taken by Sam's co-host, Kirk Crosby, who was with us at the convention when we broadcasted live in Cleveland earlier this summer.
But that had nothing at all to do with this workshop that took place last month in a completely different state.
And so, but anyway.
This workshop was so covert that James apparently attended it and didn't even know it was happening.
There you go.
But so the SBLC illustrates this article about Ann Coulter attending this supposed white nationalist writer's workshop with a picture of me and Sam Bushman and her doing an interview together in Cleveland at the RNC.
So, I mean, look, we've seen it all.
There's nothing under the sun we haven't seen in 12 years on this show.
You probably photoshop a picture of you and Ann Coulter talking to Martians on a flying saucer next.
But so that's that's where we're at.
So whatever happens to the New York Times, we'll take it in stride.
But it is.
I tell you what's interesting, though, is this.
What's interesting is this, and this is the takeaway, ladies and gentlemen.
This radio network that has received tens of millions of dollars worth of attack pieces levied against it.
Yours truly, our staff here at the Political Cesspool, Sam Bushman and the Liberty Roundtable, been attacked literally every week from the end of February all through the campaign and even now post the campaign.
Here is a guy at the top of his field, a guy at the top of his field at the most prominent newspaper in the world reaching out to us for the news that they're going to report.
You can take a bow over that, ladies and gentlemen, because it wouldn't have happened without you.
And I'll follow up with a little more on that right after this.
Let's hang on and come back to the political sesh pool right after these messages here on the Liberty News Radio Network.
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One day soon, folks, one day soon, hopefully before Christmas, we're going to take a moment and decompress from the year 2016.
We're going to reflect on everything that's happened.
And it's really hard to really grasp everything that's happened and everything this show and this network has been involved in during the course of this marathon.
It has been truly the banner year for the political cesspool after 12 years of broadcasting.
And every year, it seems as though we do a little more than the year before.
I can't think of anything we can do in 2017 that's going to top the year that we've had.
Thanks to the support that we receive from our listening audience.
Well, you know, the Beach Boys said, catch a wave and you're sitting on top of the world.
Well, we caught the wave of the alt-right and the Trump campaign.
And there has not been a week since Trump's announcement, basically, that he was running, or at least since January the 1st of this year, that we haven't on a weekly basis been mentioned as a primary player won in the Trump election effort.
Which was a little more imagined than real, although there was, I guess, some.
With the credentialing and the ability to return to the market.
Well, we're certainly not having covert meetings with Kelly Conaway or anything like that.
There was smoke there, but nothing.
But on the other hand, James did go to Michigan, one of the key states to Trump's victory, to give a speech and to appear on several radio programs.
What?
Within a month of the election.
So consequently, CNN, MSNBC, ABC, CBS, PBS have been mentioning us, at least on a weekly basis now.
One entity or another every week, including some weeks, all of them at once.
New York Times, Washington Post, Chicago Tribune, all of the major papers of record in the United States and overseas.
Well, and here's the point we bring this up.
Keith and I aren't sitting here shoulder to shoulder patting each other's back.
All of this is a result of you, ladies and gentlemen.
None of this happens without you.
And in fact, if you hadn't supported us through the years, this show would have been over and there would have been no mention of this at all.
No, there wouldn't have been.
And that's 100% true.
And I posted an article to that extent on the website.
I'd like to read it for you right now for anyone who hasn't yet read it themselves.
But it's entitled Take a Bow, Dear Audience.
And this is what I write.
Dear political Cesspool supporter, Donald Trump has been elected president, and I'd like to think that our work on the radio played a role in that.
As you know, and as Keith was reflecting on here just a moment ago, we were named earlier this year one of the top 20 right-wing media fixtures responsible for Trump's nomination.
Others listed were Bill O'Reilly, Sean Hannity, and Ann Coulter, among others.
So it wasn't exactly a listing of also Rands.
And of course, we were presented with media credentials and given the opportunity to broadcast live from a Trump rally in Memphis and later the opportunity to attend the Republican National Convention as members of the press.
But as Keith was talking about just a second ago, during the home stretch immediately before the election, I had the incredible opportunity, thanks to Bill Johnson's funding, to write and voice a pro-Trump paid radio ad that Sam Bushman produced and did the liner on that aired on radio stations in battleground states across the country.
I want you to think about that.
So the whole election came down to really about five or six states.
And in many of those states, this ad, this pro-Trump ad that we worked on, Sam Bushman and I, along with Bill Johnson, those states.
Well, that's true, but that's probably the worst part of it.
It was well written.
But then, as you mentioned, Keith, I went to Michigan immediately before the election to participate in two hour-long pro-Trump television interviews that aired on a television show that's broadcast in the state that he would ultimately win by the narrowest of margins, just 10,000 votes in a state-by-presidential election.
So yes, folks, I think all of that and more proves that we did our part.
The establishment media, of course, has been incensed about our involvement and has targeted us with one attack piece after the other this year.
Even Hillary Clinton's campaign released a statement featuring my picture in a comment that I had made in support of Donald Trump's immigration plan, which read, quote, this is how Trump and his extremist fans see America, and it's how they'll shape the country if we give them the chance.
And just like Donald Trump, all the bullets they train on us just bounce off, folks.
Well, I'm ready.
Hey, listen, I hope she's right that we'll shape the country in a Trump administration.
I can tell you that me and Bushman and Keith and Eddie, we're ready to take on that role.
But honestly, what's so rewarding about all of this is that we've been able to accomplish it without compromising our signature positions on the issues that made a name for this program in the first place.
So thanks to the support of our audience, we've been able to do things for our shared cause that I don't think any other organization can claim.
I don't think any other organization can claim receiving credentials from the Trumps, being able to go to the RNC, being able to air ads and do the things that we've done that have really impacted this thing.
I think we've played a role.
Now, would Trump have been president if we had never existed?
Well, maybe.
But who knows?
Because we did exist.
And all we know is the reality that unveiled itself.
All I can say is this.
The alt-right generally, and we as part of the alt-right are probably responsible.
I would say a conservative estimate would be anywhere from a half a million to a million votes.
And in a state like Michigan, where he wins it by 10,000, and a couple of states like that tip the whole thing, that's an impact.
I'm talking about the entire nation, but who knows?
I think your focused efforts in the state of Michigan may well have been responsible for 10,000 votes that took him over the top and caused him to win.
Well, I think, you know, if you ask, was Trump's rallies in Michigan, was his campaign's efforts in Michigan officially, did they have more of a part than we did?
I mean, obviously the answer is yes.
But the fact remains that we were there in Michigan a month before the election on two, did two statewide public television programs.
And there's another distinction I'd like to make about it, too, which is the pollsters got all of this wrong because they were not counting people that hadn't voted before.
Well, guess what?
James is one of those people.
He had never voted for a Republican nominee for president up until this election.
And we basically animated the efforts of an awful lot of people like James that normally don't vote for the Republican or the Democratic candidate.
There's no normally.
It's never happened in all my years of life.
But anyway, those are the type of people we speak to in this movement.
And those are the type of people we would argue obviously came out and voted for Trump and made the difference.
That's a good point.
And so the bottom line is this.
Whatever extent we played, I'd like to see it continue.
And so with that being said, ladies and gentlemen, please listen to what I'm going to say over the course of the next two minutes.
If you don't hear anything else I say all night, please.
I want to see it continue and I want to see it accelerate.
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