Dec. 31, 2016 - The Political Cesspool - James Edwards
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And here to guide you through the murky waters of the political cesspool is your host, James Edward.
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Happy New Year's Eve.
Happy New Year's Eve, Political Cesspool audience.
I'm your host, James Edwards, Keith Alexander.
Keith Alexander's in the studio with me tonight as we reflect on an absolutely triumphant year.
You will be amazed tonight when we look back on the year that was and count down the Political Cesspool's top 20 moments of 2016.
This show tonight will indeed be a celebration and one, I might add, for the record books.
Enjoy it, ladies and gentlemen.
Dear audience, you deserve it.
You made it happen.
We're going to count down those top 20 moments in a year that we absolutely impacted the national debate.
It all happened because of you.
We were thrusted into the presidential conversation and stayed there throughout incessant media coverage for nine straight months from March through November.
I'll tell you what, ladies and gentlemen, even I am amazed and thrilled in looking back on what we were able to do together this year.
In fact, on Wednesday night, Wednesday night, I went into my home office and started to work on compiling the list that we would be sharing with you tonight on this New Year's Eve broadcast.
And every year on the last show of the year, we do a top 10 list.
Well, top 10 wouldn't even cover it by half, even with the top 20 that we're going to be covering tonight.
I had to make some cuts just to get it pared down to 20, 20 momentous occasions over the course of the last 12 months.
And looking back on them, you know, it's amazing how quickly things can happen when you're in the fast lane, as this show is, and how quickly a little passage of time can cause you to forget, not forget, but it just the memory pales a little bit as you move on to the next battle or the next event.
And I've looked back on every blog post that was put to thepolitical cesspool.org from January 1st through this Wednesday, a couple of nights ago, read through them all.
And I was looking at these things.
I remember that.
Well, I've never been called that before.
And that was a moment we've got to remind the audience about.
Folks, I'm telling you, every year it seems as though the show gets a little bigger and a little better.
And every year I say, it can't possibly be any better than this.
How are we ever going to top it this year or the next year?
I don't know if we can possibly top 2016.
Keith Alexander, we're going to be covering this later on in the show.
During the first hour of tonight's show, we're going to celebrate the audience.
We're going to celebrate the audience.
We're going to read some correspondence that's poured into the show during the Christmas season.
This is a celebration of our audience.
But as we look back on the top 20 in the second and third hour, what stands out to you this year very quickly?
And Happy New Year, by the way.
Oh, thank you so much.
Well, what stands out to me is Trump.
We basically rode the Trump wave, and we and other people on the right have learned better how to manipulate the mainstream media.
We were talking right before we went on the air today about Richard Spencer's kerfuffle at the National Policy Institute conference in D.C. at the National Press Club.
Three days of scholarly presentations, great debate, great comment.
What gets reported?
The last probably 30 seconds of the convention in which three rogue people in the audience out of 300 give a Nazi salute.
Now, on one hand, you can say, well, you know, that was deplorable.
We hate that.
We hate that somebody did that.
On the other hand, look at it this way.
If that had not been done, you wouldn't have heard anything about the MPI conference except a little mouthing about how they're racist and how they're this and how they're, you know, they're bigots.
They're white supremacists, they're Nazis, whatnot, without any substantiation.
The only thing that really got reported was that incident.
Had it not been for that incident, it would have been a non-event.
And it was handled in such a way that you really couldn't claim that Richard Spencer did anything wrong.
He raised a glass with a drink in it as a toast, which is what provoked a couple of the members of the audience to give a Nazi salute.
But again, just think of it this way.
What else could he have done besides having carnal knowledge with a goat or something at the end of this thing that would have gotten reported by the mainstream media?
See, we've learned how to game the mainstream media now.
You know, it's unfortunate that that's the way it is.
But, you know, who is it said there's no such thing as bad publicity?
They will give you no publicity unless they have something that they think is a gotcha moment.
That's why you, in your wisdom, James, have decided not to take most of these interview requests because you can spend hours, days, weeks preparing for it.
I remember when you went on that Swedish television junket and they just monopolized your time for about a month.
And what did they have?
30 seconds worth of coverage on you?
Yeah, we were.
That probably made our shit list of whatever year that happened in two or three years ago.
That's right.
It was a long production.
We were supposed to be featured in every episode.
And then at the end of it all, we made it into 30 seconds in the entire series.
What you say certainly carries weight.
And this has been the year of the alt-right.
This has been the year of Brexit.
This has been the year of Donald Trump.
This has been the year of terrorist attacks that have been ubiquitous throughout the Western world.
This has been the year of Black Lives Matter burning down Charlotte, murdering police officers in Dallas.
We've covered it all.
This has been the year of the political cesspool as well.
And we've not only reported news, we've made news.
We've been a chief bogeyman of the alt-right in the eyes of the mainstream media.
And they've tried to link us with Trump.
They've tried to link us with every other group.
We're basically at the, you know, we're the most calm and reasoned group in the alt-right, I think, in that we are Christian, we are southern, we are polite, we don't provoke.
But nonetheless, if you have the wrong ideas, you're a villain.
And I don't mind people who manipulate the press in order to get press.
But as you just mentioned, Keith, we just are here to do the Lord's work.
And if we get all the press, more than we want, and certainly more than we consent to be interviewed by.
But hey, tonight we celebrate the audience.
We look back on the year that was.
Stay tuned.
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Okay, so folks, what this is, is a show.
that you deserve.
Maybe it's a show that we deserve.
This has been a year like none other in my 12 years in radio, and I've been saying all year that we're going to relax at some point.
And no better time to do it than the last live broadcast of the year.
Even back in October when we normally take a light week to celebrate our anniversary, and it was our 12-year anniversary at the end of October of this year, we couldn't even do that because it was the week before the election.
So we had to keep on keeping on.
But now, it's a reflective time.
It's a relaxing time.
And we're relaxing tonight with the scent of Fraser fur here in the studio.
You know, we like to light a candle to make things smell nice and to boost our morale tonight.
It's Frasier fur.
Now, I'm not an arborist, but I guess Frasier is a type of fur tree, but it sure does smell good.
I thought that was a new alt-right personality.
Frasier fur.
Yeah, I had to turn Keith back up.
He was taking a phone call in the commercial breaks.
I got him all squared away now.
Okay, so.
Yeah, I do notice that.
I don't know why.
I'm right on it.
That should be better.
Okay, so back to the audience.
This has been a month.
Christmas is a special time for those of us who are in the political assessment.
Really, I guess everyone.
But I can't tell you, I have got a stack of Christmas cards here that would knock your socks off.
It's maybe a couple of feet high.
From people who have written in, sent in Christmas cards, photos of their families to us.
And I want to let you know, ladies and gentlemen, how much that means to me and Keith and to the rest of the staff.
Not only do we love you, you love us as well.
And it shows in the outpouring of affection and support that we have received both morally, prayerfully, and financially.
We'll get to that in a minute because tonight is, by the way, the last night of our fourth quarter fundraising drive.
If you're a regular supporter of TPC who has not yet donated tonight, please do so before the end of the evening, 11.59 p.m.
And if you're, you know, we have listeners who tune into this show week after week for years who, for whatever reason, have just not contributed before.
And we get new contributors all the time.
If you've never contributed to the show, there's no light, no night like the New Year's Eve broadcast this evening to do it.
And we really have a new need for it.
I tell you, we've achieved a level of prominence that, quite frankly, I don't think we even imagined we could have this time last year.
And we're going to cover all of that, as I said, in the second and third hour tonight.
Last year, what we did, Keith, I looked back on last year's final show of the year, the 2015 Year in Review Show, and we spent an hour talking about the top 10 moments of TPC and an hour talking about the top 10 news stories that we covered on the political assessbool.
Well, we can't do that this year because basically all the news we covered involved us.
And so we're going to do the top 20 moments of TPC this year.
But first, I just want to read a couple of Christmas cards that we got in.
This shows you how perceptive and aware the audience is.
This one comes in from England.
Great Britain, I should say.
Great Britain.
Great Britain.
To James Edwards, Keith Alexander, Eddie Miller, Winston Smith, Scoob Stanton, Sam Bushman, and special correspondents, Sean Bergen and Jim Lancia.
Not even I can introduce the staff that well.
This is the guy that listens overseas that nailed every single one of us.
He didn't leave anybody off the roster right there as he addressed his Christmas card.
Congratulations on a highly successful and influential year of broadcasting.
Here's to more triumphs in 2017, wishing you peace and happiness at Christmas.
And then, of course, he signs his name on behalf of himself and his family.
I love that the audience is so in tune to the program.
They're not just casual listeners.
I guess some may be.
But we have so many listeners who just are part of the show.
They know everyone.
Part of their weekly return.
They recognize the different personalities that each member of the staff brings to the program.
This one here from a listener in Mineral, Virginia.
Mineral, Virginia, to my political cesspool family and band of brothers, James, Keith, Eddie, Winston, Peter, Sean, Jim, and Sam.
Wishing you a Merry Christmas filled with wonderful memories.
That comes from Rob in Mineral, Virginia.
Keith, I love it.
I tell you what, everybody is special at the political cesspool.
Everybody has their contribution to make, and our audience recognizes that.
We have a very perceptive and intelligent audience, much more so than just about any other radio program that I can imagine.
Well, and of course, anything that we do, of course, it's heightened on the year in review show, but anything and everything that we do on a weekly basis is made possible by the audience.
So anything that we accomplish is accomplished only because of the generosity and graciousness of the support that we receive from the men and women out there that make up TPC Nation.
This one, this is one of our regular contributors from Arkansas.
And he sent us a happy Kwanza card, but he scratched out Kwanzaa and wrote in Christmas, obviously, instead.
It also has a menorah on it, so that is really the multicultural card of all time.
And there's a corn stalk right there.
I don't know what that's supposed to signify.
But anyway, I realized after reading the card why he chose a Kwanzaa card and then just scratched out Kwanzaa and put Christmas rather than just buying your run-of-the-mill Christmas card.
This Kwanza card, if it was actually written as a Christmas card, would really say everything we want a Christmas card to say.
Listen to what it says.
Celebrate our community and culture, our people and pride, our history and hope.
May the spirit of Kwanza touch your life all year long.
Well, he, of course, scratched out Kwanza and put in Christmas, and that's the perfect card because it talks about the celebration at Christmas time of community, culture, people, pride, history, and hope.
That's everything that this show stands for and everything that this show seeks to do.
And so this dear listener in Arkansas writes of that.
Oh, if we had said that, it would be racist, of course.
Well, and again, of course, it must be pointed out that they can do it and we can't, but that's a perfect Christmas card.
Of course, it wasn't a Christmas card.
Christmas cards, you can find some that are Christ-centered, but most of them are just about giving gifts and Santa and all that stuff, which is fun.
But this really gets down to the heart of the people.
And he writes, of course, James, I hope you and your folks have a great Christmas.
Thanks for all you do.
Well, thank you, brother.
We wouldn't be here without you.
Let's see what this one is.
Well, we already read that one, read that one.
Got this letter in from a listener in Glendale, Arizona.
I'm not going to read it because it's personal and he bears his soul in the letter, as so many of our audience feel comfortable in doing with us.
And we feel comfortable in receiving that.
But he wrote about things going on in his life, things going on, how much he appreciated the show.
Well wishes to my wife and children and to the entire staff.
It was just an incredibly eloquent and moving and emotional letter.
And Keith, that kind of correspondence we're so fortunate and blessed to receive has poured in all throughout the month of December.
It does year-round, but it's certainly much more so during the month of December when we're celebrating Christmas and family.
And again, folks, this is a year-in-review show.
We're celebrating some of our triumphs, but we're also celebrating the audience tonight, and I can't say that enough.
Well, when you talk about family, we consider our audience the extended family.
We consider this more than just a radio show with some listeners.
Our listeners and us are interactive.
This is a joint venture, an enterprise that involves our audience to a great degree.
We basically pay close heed to the correspondence we get and we communicate with people and we like to have events from time to time so that our friends can come and have FaceTime with us and we can have FaceTime with them.
Well, that's absolutely right.
I also want to point out here that we have received financial contributions.
Now, don't get too carried away when I tell you all of the different places we've received them from because most of them are very small.
But a lot of small contributions, when great oaks from Little Acorns Grove.
That's absolutely right.
And this show has always been sustained by contributions averaging about $25 a piece.
Some people give less than that.
Some people give more.
It all goes into the granary, I guess, to the storehouse.
And based upon that support, we were able to do wonderful things.
When we come back, Keith has a couple of very quick items he wants to present to the audience.
This isn't a night for work.
It's a night for really time marches on and we do have some news.
But before Keith gets to that, before we start breaking down the top 20 moments of TPC in 2016, I'm going to shout out a few of the cities from which we've received support.
And I'm going to read one more letter that came in.
I think you'll enjoy it.
Stay tuned.
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We're thankful for every contribution we have received this year really over the course of the last 12 years.
During the month of December, during our fourth quarter fundraising drive, we have been blessed to receive support from 43 different states and 11 foreign countries.
Now that sounds like a lot, and it is for us.
But of course, even with all of that, the grand total is enough to cover our operating expenses, but it is not going to make the CNN budget or anything like that green with envy.
But listen to some of these states, just some of these places.
I can't read them all.
But this just gives you a sampling of where people are listening to the political cesspool because these are the places, some of them, from which our contributions are coming in from.
East Isleup, New York, Jackson, Michigan, Ford City, Pennsylvania, Ocala, Florida, Guild, Tennessee.
I live in Tennessee.
I don't even know where that is.
Winston-Salem, North Carolina, Rice in Arkansas.
Baltimore, Maryland, Marietta, Georgia, Davie, Florida, Abilene, Texas, Troutdale, Virginia, Bodark, Missouri, Valley, Alabama, Philadelphia, and Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Seattle, Washington, Beecher, Illinois, big cities, small towns.
There are people out there listening to the political cesspool across the country, north, south, east, west, around the world.
And I want to read one more before turning it over to you, Keith.
This comes in from a first-time donor.
We talked about first-time donors.
This comes in from a listener, long-time listener, first-time donor in Great River, New York.
It's dated December the 14th.
Got it a couple of weeks ago.
Mr. James Edwards, co-hosts and friends of the show.
Greetings from the North to my friends in the South.
In closed, you will find a small donation in support of this great program.
I listen to the rerun of the Saturday show typically every Sunday evening or during the weekday.
It's extremely entertaining and informative, which is a winning combination in my assessment.
You guys are very witty, funny, and articulate.
He left off handsome, but that's okay.
And I think this is one of the best shows on the air.
I also enjoy reading the various blog stories on the main website page.
Please continue to keep the faith and fight the good fight.
We're on the right side of history, my friends, and you have ample support all over the country and the world.
That much is clear.
Been meaning to send the show financial support for a few months now, but raising six kids on Long Island with a stay-at-home mom isn't easy.
But my pledge to you is this.
I'll continue to be a loyal listener and spread the word about your show and financially support the show when funds are available.
Last, a quick shout out, not only to James Edwards, but all of your various guests and co-hosts.
Apologies for excluding anyone in particular, but Keith Alexander, Eddie Miller, Jim Lancia, Sean Bergen, Sam Bushman.
He even throws in Jared Taylor and Lona Locteth.
Respect and admiration for all of you and any of our like-minded folks that I missed.
With much respect and gratitude, that comes from a gentleman in Great River, New York.
Keith, what's that mean to you?
I'll tell you what, it gives us another explanation about why our donations are small.
We have listeners that are actually putting our theory into practice and having large white families.
Our audience, more than I think, surely as much, if not more than anyone else, is a reflection of us.
And it's a family-friendly, not everybody who listens is a Christian, but this is a Christ-centered, right-wing political show, if you will.
But it is family-friendly, and we have a lot of family people out there.
And we encourage people to follow the biblical admonition to go forth, be fruitful, and multiply like this listener and first-time contributor did.
So he obviously has a lot of demands on his money.
And we can understand why we get small contributions from people like that.
It would be great if we could find Daddy Warbucks out there somewhere.
I've been looking for 12 years, but I tell you what.
But on the other hand, we certainly do appreciate these are like the widow's might.
We appreciate these.
You know, this is people giving money where they're cutting through the fat into the muscle and the bone to give us money at all.
And they're doing the Lord's work by having children and keeping, you know, the home fires burning.
So consequently, we love our audience.
Our audience is a reflection of us.
This is just an example of it.
Keep on doing what you're doing, folks.
We appreciate you.
And together, we're going to not only endure but prevail, as William Faulkner said.
Got a piece of correspondence from a listener in Japan this week, an expat in Japan who writes that he listens to us every week because we're so beat.
And he's been listening for years and years.
So they really are all over the world.
And it's just a privilege and a pleasure to be able to serve as the voice of such a fine, intelligent, loyal, dedicated, and supportive audience.
Keith, I didn't intend to take up that much time in this segment, but there's two things, I guess, work-related or not celebratory-related, two items that we would cover on any other show that you want to cover very quickly.
We don't have very much time in this segment.
Okay, one would be the death of Carrie Fisher and her mother, Debbie Fisher.
Debbie Fisher, of course, is one of my particular favorites.
She is a young, she was a young ingenue in Hollywood in the early 50s from El Paso, Texas, Nazarene background.
Her father was a Nazarene preacher, as well as a carpenter who moved his family to Hollywood.
She is Scots, Irish, and English ancestry, just like me.
Now, she admitted that she had a terrible taste in husbands, but she was blessed by the Lord with wonderful children.
The two children she had were both children of Eddie Fisher, who was a Jewish singer, pop singer back in the 50s.
After his divorce from Debbie Reynolds, basically his career went in the tank.
But it was important.
She was basically a victim of the casting couch.
You're not going to hear this anywhere else, but on this program.
Basically, if you wanted to be a movie star and you were a woman back then, you had to succumb to the casting couch.
And the casting couch typically was for women succumbing to the advances of Jewish producers and directors because they dominated in Hollywood.
There was one exception to that rule, and that was if you were married to a Jew, then you didn't have to do this.
So I guess Debbie may have concluded that it was discretion was a better part of valor, and rather than just standing up to him and then having no career, she married a Jewish guy.
Now, there are strange folkways here.
Let me read you this article from a, or this excerpt from an article by Roger Devlin.
And it's called The Question of Female Masochism.
He said, or consider this real-life Hollywood story quoted by Stephen Rhodes in his valuable book, Taking Sex Differences Seriously, New York Encounterbooks 2005.
Eddie Fisher and Debbie Reynolds both tell of a dinner party at their home when Mike Todd and Elizabeth Taylor, they were married at the time, started belting each other.
Todd ended up dragging Taylor across the floor by her hair as she kicked and scratched.
When Reynolds became alarmed and jumped on Todd's back to get him to stop, Todd and Taylor both turned on her.
According to Fisher, Taylor said, oh, Debbie, don't be such a girl scout, really, Debbie.
You're such a square.
See, this is a strange place to find yourself in if you're a nice little wholesome girl from a church background in El Paso, Texas.
But she had two children, Carrie and Todd.
Carrie said before when she read her father's autobiography, Eddie Fisher, that she felt she needed her jeans fumigated.
But she loved her mother.
Her mother loved her.
You see that Hollywood is focusing on two films, Singing in the Rain, one of her first movies, and The Unseekable Molly Brown, which she got an Oscar nomination for in the mid-60s, basically because she was like a prototype feminist, and they love that.
But during her actual film career in its heyday in the 50s, she was best known for her role of Tammy in Tammy and the Bachelor.
Of course, that's not popular at all with the Mavens of Hollywood today because she was an Adam's rib.
She portrayed a young woman that wanted to assist her potential husband in achieving his dreams in life.
She took the subordinate role that the Bible recommends and quite frankly, every major religion does, and was a great success at it.
But of course, and she's also, there's a reason why Tammy was such an important movie.
It was the chick flick of 1957.
Tammy's in Love was sung by Debbie Reynolds.
It was the number one song of that year on the pop charts.
And basically, there's a whole generation of Southern girls named Tammy in the 50s because of that movie, just like there's a whole generation of Southern boys from the 50s named Shane after the title character in that movie.
So that's part of the Debbie Reynolds story.
You're not going to hear in all these reports and articles and news broadcasts, but you're going to get the real story from us.
That's what we're going to talk about here at the Political Sessible news you won't get elsewhere.
And of course, with the passing of both Carrie Fisher and Debbie Reynolds in the same week this week, Keith being the big fan of Tammy and the Bachelor that he is, and anyone who's ever been over to Keith's house, and we had a big Christmas party over at Keith's house last week where some listeners of the show came in.
It was a private event.
But Keith, it's always fun to go over to Keith's house because, first of all, it looks like a medieval fortress.
It's made.
What's it made out of?
Indiana limestone.
Okay, look, it's this big, gray, imposing brick, beautiful home.
And every time you go over there, every light is on the house, even in the closets.
And I think his utility bill must be more than our annual budget to run the show.
But nevertheless, if you go to Keith's house, you're going to watch Tammy and The Bachelor.
And so we wanted to work in time for.
We didn't make anybody.
Nobody wants it at the Christmas party, but if you go there one-on-one, you can count on it.
And it's a rite of passage.
But anyway, we wanted to work in a little time.
A quick departure in the Urine Review show to let Keith memorialize Debbie Reynolds and Carrie Fisher.
We'll be right back.
Well, my family, my family is a very interesting family because we're what you would call a stable family.
My family doesn't smoke or drink because my mother brought me up in a Christian home.
I guess that's what kind of has kept me straight because I've always looked up to the Lord.
Every day, an estimated 3,000 teens start smoking.
My parents always taught me, you know, the difference between right and wrong.
They always taught me that smoking isn't right because physically it's not good for you and also mentally, it affects you.
And they always try to do the right thing because it catches things catch up to you in life sooner or later.
I think kids learn behavior patterns from their parents because they're the people that they mostly see.
They're the people who we love and respect.
So the people who you love the most and respect the most from is who you tend to take things from.
Smoking.
If you think you're old enough to start, you're smart enough to stop.
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Okay, everybody.
Scoop Stanton.
It really serves as the de facto resident historian for the staff here.
Scoop, as much as Keith has an encyclopedic knowledge on everything else in the world, Scoop has that same encyclopedic knowledge for the history of this program.
He can remember things, dates, events, guests, happenings that...
He's our in-house historian.
I don't understand how he does it.
And he just pulls them off, it would appear, from memory.
Even I can't remember everything.
Once I go back and read it, you know, revisit it, of course.
Yes, I remember that.
But he can pull them up with an incredible ability.
And so while I was preparing the top 20 moments for the Political Assessable Radio program, I assigned Scoop the charge of compiling his own top 10 list for the show because I knew that while there would probably be some overlap, Scoop would select items that I was perhaps not overlooking, but whatever the case, there would be a little bit of a variance there.
And sure enough, after I compared my list to Scoop's, there was, in fact, that.
So, Scoop, I want to thank you first of all for your service to the program throughout 2016 and really for many, many years before that.
I look forward to 2017 with you, brother.
But let's now go to your top 10 list.
I'll turn it all over to you.
Give us the top 10.
Tell us what it is, 10 to 1, and tell us why you put it on there.
Go.
Okay, thank you, James.
Number 10, Jim Lancia joins the show.
James gave me an email saying that he got an email from Mr. Lancia about coming on.
He had a booker promote.
So we put him on the show, and James interviewed him.
Sean Bergen took my slide because I was unable to do the show that day.
And it was like, wow.
So then we decided later down the road in the year, we were leading him on because they said, James, Jim, we love you.
You're great.
This, that, you know, this thing.
And then it was like, yeah, we're thinking about putting him on the show.
But like, I think second parents, we were like, all right, we got to make him one of us.
So that's number 10.
Number nine.
Yeah, and I'll tell you very quickly about Jim.
He joined the show this year, obviously, as the TPC's criminal justice correspondent.
He was on the show last week.
And after his appearance on last week's show, I'll make this very quick, Scoop, because I know you've got to go fast to get in all 10 before the end of the segment.
But the show was contacted by an attorney in New Jersey who was so moved by Jim Lancia's most recent appearance on TPC that he's going to reach out to Jim and help support him in his quest to become the next ambassador to South Africa and have him up to speak to an Italian-American group in the New York, New Jersey area.
Great stuff.
People helping people.
That's TPC.
Number nine.
Number nine, James Edwards joins Twitter.
Now, it might not be a big deal since billions of people are on Twitter, but it's very hard for Mr. Edwards just to pick up the phone and call somebody.
He does great on the radio, does great in public speaking, but for some reason, the telephone and social media is not his bag.
Number nine, Sean Bergen and Jim Lancia interview.
This was a showstopper, literally.
James was just the MC, spent a whole hour letting Sean and Jim do their thing.
And I happened to be listening to it, and James and I were texting each other saying how great this was.
And I was at work, of course, and I stopped whatever I was doing.
Number seven.
Hey, before you go to number seven, quick word, having a lot of fun on Twitter.
Was finally cajoled into joining Twitter late this fall.
We've been on there a couple of months.
Having a lot of fun interacting with the fans.
But yes, that was an interesting interview when we had our two correspondents.
Well, I guess you're the first, Scoop.
You've been there the longest.
But then Sean Bergen and Jim Lancia.
That really was a great interview.
I'm glad you put that on there.
Number seven.
Number seven, Sam Bushman scoops the media with the Bundy occupation of a federal building in Oregon.
Yeah, I'm going to talk about that more in the next hour, but that's certainly on my list as well.
Right.
And Sam, he was at the scene, and they said, hey, we're going to go take over this building.
Sam's like, I don't think so.
Number six.
The political cesspool gets press credentials to a Trump rally and the media loses their mind.
Number five.
Yeah, well, you can bet your bottom dollar that's on my list.
And that's actually number one on my list because that was the event that made so many others on the list possible.
And we'll break that down in much greater detail later on.
That's one interview request.
You're glad you took, James.
Well, you're talking about Trump Jr., but he was talking about the event at the Trump rally here in Memphis, which, of course, you were at as well.
Number five, Scoop.
Number five, James and Sam interviewed Donald Trump Jr. and the media loses their mind.
That's what I was talking about.
That's right.
He was getting to it.
You read Scoop's mind, Keith.
Right.
Well, I think that was a big one when you're talking about tens of millions of dollars in attack ads based upon a very polite, very cordial, very agreeable 15-minute interview that aired on the Liberty Roundtable show.
That's certainly something that happens every day.
You think there was human sacrifice involved, the way that the mainstream media reacted.
No, the people that engage in that don't get called on it.
Go, Scoop.
Number four, the Political Roundtable, which is a combination of the Political Cessible and Liberty Roundtables, does a four-hour non-stop commercial-free show covering the election, including yours truly driving down to GOP headquarters at around midnight.
Yeah, this was actually, if people remember, this was Scoop's brainchild.
Scoop pitched the idea to Sam Bushman, and Sam ran with it.
But what the result was was, as Scoop just mentioned, a four-hour non-stop extravaganza covering the election that aired on Liberty News Radio Network, featured a bunch of talent, several contributors, I think maybe even a dozen, by the time it was all said and done.
I didn't get a chance to enjoy Trump's victory on election night because I was working.
It was a work night.
Sam was doing it.
I appeared on the political roundtable and then did some stuff with Red Ice TV that night as well.
But that was number four on Scoop's top 10 list.
This is Scoop's top 10 list.
I don't want to say this is unofficial.
This is Scoop's list, but the official one that was posted to the Political Cess Pool, the top 20 list, we'll cover in the second and third hours.
But down to Scoop's top three of the year.
Go, Scoop.
Number three, the Political Cesspool post-election show with no guests.
It was me, James, Keith, Sam, Eddie, Jim Lancia, and Sean Bergen.
And it was one of our best shows ever.
I hate to say this, but unfortunately, most of the political show staff is more interesting than most of our guests.
Hey, we're only the best because we work with the best.
I'm thankful and proud of the guests we bring on, but there's no doubt about it.
The level of talent in-house between the people that you mentioned is, I think, quite good.
And it's so rare.
I'm glad you put that show on your top 10 list, Scoop.
That was the first show after Trump's victory in November.
It is so rare that all of us, all seven of the active staff of the political cesspool, are able to appear on the same show at the same time because of schedules and conflicts.
I mean, once you're dealing with seven people, the same place at the same time becomes difficult.
That was one of the rare nights when all the stars aligned right after the election, which was very special in itself, and we were all there to break it down.
Good one on you for adding that one.
Your top two.
What's number two?
Number two, the political session attends the Republican National Convention and the media loses their mind.
Well, I will tell you, and we talked about it in the summer, going to Cleveland, being in the arena when Trump officially became the nominee for the Republican Party for President of the United States.
I'll never forget that.
Sam Bushman was there, Kirk Crosby, Matt the Copperhead.
And that was a lifetime event for yours truly.
And that'll be, of course, something we talk about a little bit more as the show goes on tonight, too.
Going to the RNC, not just going to the RNC, but being invited to come to the Republican National Convention as officially credentialed members of the press.
That's TPC 2016.
Well, let me just say this, to satisfy all the curious liberals and the SPLC people that are listening.
And all of these events that we're talking about where the media lost its mind, no liberals and no minorities were injured at all in any way, despite what you may have heard.
That's absolutely right.
Thank you, Keith, for that.
Okay, Scoop.
Well, number one on Scoop's list isn't exactly something that the, well, I guess, well, yeah, we were involved in it.
I guess you could certainly say we had an impact in this, although it's not solely a TPC event, but it's certainly something that we shared in.
Number one on your list, Scoop.
Trump is elected president and the media loses their mind.
I picked this as number one for the simple fact that for a year and a half, we've been behind Donald Trump.
We put Trump signs in the yard, Trump signs, stickers on our car.
We were all Trump all the time.
And then the media was poo-pooing Trump, dragging us through the mud, calling us everything but a child of God, and losing their mind when we had Donald Trump Jr. on and went to a rally, went to the RNC.
But we revindicated that Tuesdays in November.
Well, you're absolutely right.
There's no doubt that we do share ownership or at least a sense of ownership in Donald Trump's victory.
We will break down some of the reasons for that, and they are included in the top 20 list that will be forthcoming.
We're going to take our time and really just savor it.
One last savoring of all of the thrilling events of 2016.
And think about this.
Let me, Scoop and James, think of how right we were about how the election cards would fall and how wrong the mainstream was.
But the silence is deafening with any apologies from the mainstream.
So we're going to crow about how we got it right.
Hey, that's right.
Scoop, thank you.
Thank you.
Thank you for your role in it all throughout this year.