March 25, 2017 - The Political Cesspool - James Edwards
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I was just thinking about this as we were sitting around with the crew before the show tonight.
Every now and then you just think about things that have always been obvious, but you just put a little thought into it.
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Saturday evening, March the 25th.
Very special day for me.
Today was my daughter's birthday party.
Her birthday was yesterday.
She turned seven.
And today was her birthday party.
I am worn out.
Birthdays growing up for me were always a big event.
It was actually like a week-long event.
It was an extravaganza.
That's just the way it was.
That's just the way my parents did it.
And believe me, I enjoyed it.
And so I tried to the best of my ability to give my kids.
I have a seven-year-old daughter now, a freshly minted seven-year-old, and a two-year-old son.
And I try to really make it an exciting birthday.
And of course, my wife is Miss Pinterest, if you know what that is.
She's just very crafty.
And she goes all in on the decorations and whatever the theme is.
She just goes to the hilt on that.
But anyway, to make these productions come off, you got to, it's a lot of work and a lot of late nights, especially the week before the birthday.
And today I've been up since the crack of dawn.
And we just got to the studio, or I just got to the studio just a few minutes before the show started.
And we've been out playing in the yard all day.
It was just a great day, but a tiring day.
But family comes first.
And so I'm a little tired tonight, but we're going to give you a high energy show nevertheless.
Being on the air with y'all, ladies and gentlemen, is like drinking 100 Red Bulls at once.
It just really gets me going.
No matter how tired I am when I come into the studio, it all pops into gear when we put microphone in hand.
And again, 13 years without missing a week.
Can you imagine?
Not many people operate at a high level for that long.
And I'm happy to host a show that has stood that test of time.
And it couldn't have happened without you, ladies and gentlemen.
And of course, without a few very special people that I couldn't do without, either on the show or in life.
And one of them is Keith Alexander, my dear co-host.
He's with me every week.
Keith, how are you tonight?
Doing great.
Of course, we found out we'd missed out on the barbecue of the century over at the Bushman.
Yeah, I can't even recount that story.
Sam was telling us when we got connected to the network about the barbecue.
So we were having a birthday party here in Memphis for my daughter, and Sam was having a Bushman family barbecue.
And I would tell you the spread they had, but we've only got a three-hour show.
But it was making my mouth water.
When you host a party like we did, I mean, I didn't eat.
I didn't even get cake today.
There's just so much to do.
So I'm hungry, even though we've had a party.
But Sam had a party, if you know what I mean.
It's almost worth that round trip to you, Tom.
James's favorite food of all, which is no vegetables.
Well, no, he had all sorts of different meats.
He had all sorts of vegetables.
It was like Texas Day Brazil.
I don't know if everybody has a Texas Day Brazil in there.
Well, that's what Sam had at his house.
Anyway, that's, hey, Families Being With Families.
This is a family-oriented, Christ-centered show, and we'll give you the genuine article when it comes to traditional, it's hard to say conservative anymore.
I know that because you think of Cuck Paul Ryan and all of that ilk, but we give you the genuine article.
You can call it whatever you want to.
You can call it nationalism, populism, paleoconservatism, ethno-nationalism.
It's all baked into the blender.
It's all put into the cake.
It's all part of what we consider true conservatism.
That's right.
Anyway, hey, let me tell you something.
The media interest in our show is spiking once again.
Hey, in 13 years, it ebbs and flows.
Last year, it was, what's the Righteous Brothers song, Ebb Tide?
Last year, it never stopped.
It was a tidal wave for about 12 straight months of media interest.
We always get a little media interest every month.
Last year, it was incessant.
And normal years, though, hey, we do our show every week.
We're still out there.
We're still doing things.
Every now and then we'll get a shot of publicity above and beyond what we create on our own.
And that's just the way it goes.
But right now, for whatever reason, we're back on a crest.
So in the past month, this is just in the past 30 days, folks, we've received offers to appear in a History Channel series.
Now, you know, we declined that.
We talked about that a few weeks back.
We declined that.
I gave you the reasons why on that show.
We're not going to go through that again.
But we declined that offer from the History Channel.
Got a new offer in this week, since the last show, from a Warner Brothers production.
Yes, that is the Warner Brothers.
Now, Warner Brothers has worked with this show before.
Now, we don't like Warner Brothers politics, and God knows they probably don't like ours.
But when they re-released the movie Gods and Generals for the 150th anniversary of Lincoln's War, they asked us to help them promote it because they know we'd reach an audience that would buy a movie like that, and that is a great movie.
And by the way, Confederate History Month starts on the Political Cesspool next week, and it'll run all through the month of April.
But anyway, Warner Brothers reached out.
Now, I can't go into details about that, but we are considering involving ourselves in that project.
We'll keep you posted as it is appropriate.
But, of course, last week we talked about being smeared once again in the Washington Post.
And also, just since last Saturday, we were featured in a magazine article attacking alt-right Christians, quote unquote.
And we posted highlights from that article at thepolitical cesspool.org earlier in the week.
So we're going to start the show tonight by breaking down that article.
Now, you'll remember last week in the third hour, Keith and I spent the entire hour talking about the apparent uprising in the Southern Baptist Convention against the anti-white, anti-Southern, anti-Trump charlatan Russell Moore.
Well, wouldn't you know it, on Tuesday, two days after we air that show, there's this article written by what I will presume to be, now anyone can correct me if I'm wrong, Miss Sarah Posner.
I'm going to guess, I'm not saying this is good or bad.
I'm just guessing that she's a Jewish atheist.
Well, she took us to task while defending Russell Moore.
So I think that should probably tell you a lot.
And we're going to break down that article.
That article was released on Tuesday.
A little update, though, before we break down that magazine article.
I believe it appeared in The New Republic.
Russell, the board of directors for the Southern Baptist entity that oversees Russell Moore, voted in favor of keeping him this week.
But wouldn't you know it, Russell Moore chairs that board.
He's the chairman of that board, so I don't know if it's much of a shocker that his handpicked men would give him an endorsement, but you poll the people in the pews.
If they know who Russell Moore is, you probably get a different take.
But anyway, we talked about that for an hour last week.
I didn't want to bring it back up this week.
I had not intended, of course, to bring it back up.
But we got to talk about this article.
Keith, you read it.
Give him a teaser before the first break, and then we'll sink into it.
Well, Ms. Posner is the typical usual suspect that we would find on the other side.
One, she's Jewish.
Two, she's feminist.
And three, if she's not a lesbian, she missed a wonderful opportunity.
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Meeting to work on that, but you heard how busy we are.
It's hardly just a three-hour a week job.
I mean, there's the website, the correspondence, and then all of this other stuff.
And that's a busy month.
History channel, Warner Brothers, Washington Post, this magazine.
I mean, we've got to respond to all of this when it happens and be a part of it.
Not to mention the appearance at Northwestern.
We've been in the middle of it, okay?
As we always are.
But so this magazine article.
And we, by the way, were responding to an article that came across the Newswire about the Southern Baptist Convention basically making decisions about Russell Moore.
Russell Moore is running into choppy C's over there at the Southern Baptist Convention.
So we didn't make that up.
We felt compelled to comment about it.
And then our comments last week have provoked a backlash from not the Southern Baptist Convention, but from the organized leftist media.
Well, this woman had emailed me some months ago, and she's attacked us in the past.
And every time she, I don't think she's ever written my name in an article in any article she's written about me or any tweet she's sent about me that didn't include the words white supremacist before James Edwards.
So she's that type.
And she's worked for all of the worst publications.
The Washington Post, Rolling Stone, The New Republic, Mother Jones, New York Times, The Nation.
It's just bad news.
Now, I don't wish her any ill will, of course.
I want to throw her off.
I'm going to go to the people like James.
I want to take a picture of you with a yarmica on your head and send that to her.
That'll blow her away.
Yeah, I'm sure.
Well, anyway, she's reported on us in the past.
I got an email from her, really, it might have been a couple of months ago saying, I want to interview you about the interview requests are always incredibly polite and cordial.
And that's not just her, that's everybody.
And then, of course, the final product.
The worse the people are, the more polite the invitation typically is.
Well, the final product is all the same, which is why I almost never, almost never consent to any print interview anymore.
It's just not worth my time.
These people are beneath me.
But she emailed me a couple of months ago about this piece.
I figured it had just been dropped or whatever.
But then all of a sudden, we do this segment third hour last week, and here's the article, just like that.
Finally out.
Could have been a coincidence, but who's to say?
Okay, so this is, it was published in the New Republic this week.
It's extremely tedious, and it is a screen, and it's long.
This is a full-length feature piece.
I mean, it's an extra long article.
We put some highlights up on the website.
What I'm going to do here, Keith, I'm going to read a couple of paragraphs at a time, and then I'm going to point at you.
And you break it down piece by piece.
We'll just chew this elephant up one bite at a time.
And we've got a lot of other things to cover this show, including in the second hour, more terror attacks in Europe, the rape in Maryland, these two illegal aliens raping this 14-year-old girl at school.
In the bathroom.
Listen, all that's coming up in the second hour.
The third hour is going to be just as good, but we've got to get through this article first.
Wonder if it was a transgendered bathroom.
Yeah, I don't want to find out.
Okay, so here's the article.
Excerpts from it.
Things I fucked out.
You can read the whole thing.
We linked over to it at our website.
If you want to read the whole thing, you'll need about an hour and a half.
But here we go.
Back in 2015, Ms. Posner writes, when Donald Trump's presidential ambitions were widely considered a joke, Russell Moore was worried.
A prominent leader of the Southern Baptist Convention, the nation's largest Protestant denomination, Moore knew that some of the faithful were falling for Trump, a philandering, biblically illiterate candidate from New York City whose lifestyles and views embodied everything the religious right professed to abhor.
The month before, a Washington Post poll had found that Trump was already being backed by more white evangelicals than any other Republican candidate.
Moore, a boyish-looking pastor from Mississippi, had positioned himself as the face of the religious right, a bigger-hearted, diversity-oriented version that was squarely opposed to Trump's us versus them rhetoric.
Speaking to a gathering of religious supporters in a hotel ballroom in Philadelphia, Moore said that his first priority was to combat the demonizing and depersonalizing of immigrants, people he pointed out, were created in the image of God.
Only by refocusing on such true gospel values, Moore believed, could evangelicals appeal to young people who had been fleeing the church in droves.
Well, I can tell you why they've been fleeing the church, and you know why.
And expand its outreach to African Americans and Latinos, which is really Moore's only purpose.
She didn't write that, I did.
Evangelicals, I should quit editorializing while I read this nonsense.
Evangelicals needed to do more to win elections.
Their larger duty was to win souls.
Moore, in short, wanted the Christian right to reclaim the moral high ground, and Trump, in his estimation, was about as low as you could get.
So let's stop right there and turn it over to Keith.
Keith, what I find in these opening sentences of this article is that, number one, you have someone who is, look, we can, she can email me if we're wrong.
I would say Jewish, I would say atheist.
We'll just leave it at that.
If I'm wrong, somebody tell me.
I would bet the house that she's not a born-again Christian.
She's not.
So, but here she is presuming to lecture Christians on what is and isn't a good Christian.
And the fact that somebody like this, writing for publication, it was like when Pope Francis was hailed as the greatest thing to ever hit America in the Rolling Stone magazine, when Rolling Stone is propping up Pope Francis, and when someone like Sarah Posner for the New Republic is defending Russell Moore, really tells you a lot about more.
Well, what it tells you is that the cultural Marxist long march through the institutions has marched right through Southern Baptist denominational headquarters.
No surprise there.
It's marched right through the Vatican.
It's marched right through every other denomination, Christian denomination's national headquarters, the Episcopal Church, United Methodist Church, the United Churches of Christ, former Congregationalist Church, Presbyterian Church, USA, you name it.
Lutherans, Disciples of Christ.
They're all liberal down at their headquarters.
This is the plan.
This is the blueprint of cultural Marxism.
It's called the Long March Through the Institutions.
Now, Russell Moore is the primary man on the scene, the left's man in Havana at the Southern Baptist Vatican in Nashville, Tennessee.
And he basically covets a flock that God hasn't given him as a Southern Baptist.
Southern Baptist, you know, people have freedom of association in the United States.
And, of course, a lot of black people have their own churches.
That's natural and normal.
That's their affinity group.
And they like to be with their own kind, just like most people do.
Likewise, there are other ethnic groups that have their own preferences and their own churches.
The Roman Catholic Church, years ago, it was established back when Roman Catholics first started coming to America.
They had separate churches for Irish Catholics versus Italian Catholics versus Lithuanian Catholics versus French Catholics.
They had all of these subdivisions, and nobody thought anything about it.
At least nothing negative.
They said it was perfectly natural and normal.
The Southern Baptists tend to be, big surprise, white Southern Gentiles.
Those are the people that populate the pews, and those are the people that apparently Russell Moore hates with a passion.
Well, and here's another thing, Keith, to your point.
I don't recall ever reading an article about some black pastor at some black megachurch wringing his hands over how can we give more money of our tithes to help whites or a mission trip to white Europe, to Christian Europe.
How can we get more whites in our pews?
They don't do that.
Well, it's like Winston Smith had said famously years ago, and we've always picked up on it.
He said, at any point in time, any day or night, somewhere in the world, there is a group of white people meeting, wringing their hands, gnashing their teeth, rending their garments, thinking about what they can do for non-white people.
In the meantime, there is not at any time a group of black people or Orientals or whatever similarly wringing their hands about, wondering and pondering what they can do for white people.
When we come back, we really got to pick up the pace on this so we can get through it all because we've got so much more unrelated to this in the second or third hour.
So buckle up.
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Okay, we really got to go a lot quicker on this because it is such a long article, and I want to hit the highlights.
But basically, this woman in defending Russell Moore and his essentially his liberal left-wing approach.
Well, as she's putting it, his religion.
His need to be a real Christian.
And to be a real Christian, it's got to be all about so-called racial reconciliation.
There you go.
There you go.
And so she's defending Moore and talking about how Moore rightly opposed the Donald Trump nomination and the support of fundamentalists of Donald Trump.
But in the end, as she writes, conservative Christians backed Trump in record numbers.
Listen to this.
This is from the article.
We've talked about this, of course, too, but Donald Trump won 81% of the white evangelical vote, which is a higher share than George Bush, John McCain, or Mitt Romney won.
So as a result, the religious right, which has for decades grounded its political appeal, she writes, in moral values such as life and family and religious freedom, has effectively become a subsidiary of the alt-right, yoked to Trump's white nationalist agenda.
Who is the alt-right Christian mirror mirror on the wall?
Who is the alt-rightest Christian of them all?
You guessed it.
My friend and yours, James Edwards.
Well, so according to this person.
Now, I think it's a little bit outlandish to presume.
We talked about what, last week, last year, we talked about this last week.
Last year, Tennessee Baptist churches, just Southern Baptist churches in Tennessee, donated $34 million to the REACH Third World Nations Mission Fund.
$34 million just for that one little offshoot fund.
If we got $100 during the show tonight, we'd do a great day.
So I don't think we are controlling or the alt-right is controlling the religious right, but she says that we are.
Let me tell you this.
James Edwards and this program and even me, who's not a Southern Baptist, are much more in step with the average member of the Southern Baptist Convention, the average church member, than Russell Moore or the leadership at the Southern Baptist Vatican there in Nashville.
We fought this war.
We fought this war last year, Keith.
I made it loud and clear that I've been born and raised as a Southern Baptist, very proud about that spiritual heritage.
And I said, I am telling you.
The difference is this.
One, James is not getting an extravagant paycheck from the Southern Baptists or any part of the Southern Baptist Convention, any church or anything else, unlike Russell Moore.
And two, James is a much better representative or a much more consistent representative with the viewpoint of average Southern Baptist church members than Russell Moore or anyone else down there at the Southern Baptist Convention.
Ergo, for example, the outreach that they have to the third world, millions upon millions of dollars going out to non-whites.
Meanwhile, you have somebody like Russell Moore, the big spokesmouth for the Southern Baptists now, telling the world and Southern Baptists in particular that these black people and non-whites all over the world are better Christians than you are.
Well, that begs the question then.
If they're better Christians than the white people that are populating the pews at Southern Baptist churches, what in the world are Southern Baptist churches doing sending missionaries over there?
Those black and brown people ought to be sending missionaries here so they can improve our Christianity or the quality of our Christianity.
But of course, that would unmask the great charade of them all, which is that these mission trips and all of this missionary outreach has nothing to do with the Great Commission or evangelizing.
It has everything to do with transferring wealth from the white community to the black community.
Well, I appreciate everything you said right there, Keith.
I did say this last year because we fought this battle.
Russell Moore was absolutely intense in his condemnation of not just Trump, but any Christian who would dare vote for Trump.
He came after you personally.
He did come after me personally.
He wrote in the New York Times that basically you couldn't be a Christian and vote for Trump.
I mean, did he say that about Hillary or Bush or any of these others?
Well, he hasn't recanted any of that.
He hasn't admitted that he's the one that's out of touch with the Southern Baptist membership.
James is the one who is in touch with them.
Basically, James is a typical member of the Southern Baptist convention.
I think that they would have more in common with me politically than him, to be sure, especially on the Confederate flag and many other things.
But the bottom line is this, I said Moore is wrong.
This is not how the people in the pews believe.
And of course, on election day, we found out that I was right.
Evangelicals overwhelmingly rejected Russell Moore.
81% of white evangelists voted for Trump.
So the more Christian they were, the more pro-Trump they were.
And fundamentalists probably voted for Trump in a larger percentage than any other denomination.
Well, I would say Christian denominations.
I bet Southern Baptists voted even greater than 81%.
This is just evangelicals.
But listen, we can't break down this whole piece.
As you can see, we're getting caught up in some things, and it's important to talk.
But I will tell you this, and I'll leave this on the cutting room floor.
I'm going to do to my friends what the media does to me.
There are some good quotes in there from Richard Spencer, Brad Griffin of Occidental Descent, and Nathaniel Strickland of the Faith and Heritage webzine, a pro-Christian, pro-white website that we link to every day at our website.
That's right.
Now, if you want to read the quotes from Richard Brad and – now, Richard is an avowed atheist, but he had some good quotes that were germane to this topic.
But Brad and Nathaniel are both Christians, and they have some great quotes in there as well.
Go check it out.
But we'll cut to the chase here and go down to the part of the article that features, well, you know.
Moore has become a popular target among alt-right Christians, writes Sarah Posner.
The white supremacist and popular alt-right radio show host James Edwards, himself a Southern Baptist, regularly disparages Moore on his program.
In June, after the Southern Baptist Convention banned displays of the Confederate flag, Edwards hosted Nathaniel Strickland, proprietor of the Faith and Heritage blog.
In a recent post, Nathaniel Strickland had argued that white Southerners have faced a widespread and determined assault on our heritage, symbols, monuments, graves, and identity by secular and governmental forces.
and likened such supposed attacks to what Hitler claimed in Mein Kampf, that Germans faced cultural extermination and ethnic cleansing.
Edwards seconded that analysis, declaring the Confederate flag a Christian flag and arguing that to attack it is to deny the sovereignty, the majesty, and the might of Lord Jesus Christ in his divine role in Southern history, culture, and life.
Well, I guess that certainly makes me a lot of privilege.
You know, you're just telling the truth when you said that the Confederate flag is a Christian cross.
It's called the St. Andrew's Cross.
Look it up.
The same cross appears on the national flag of Scotland.
So, and it's blended into the Union Jack along with the British flag or the English flag.
So consequently, all you're saying is what is undeniable historical fact.
But Sarah Posner, the so-called religious expert.
That is what she's billed as.
Keith isn't engaging in hyperbole here.
They built her as a religious expert.
I guess we would be an expert in lesbian.
She's probably a Jewish atheist lesbian, but she's nonetheless an expert on Christian fundamentalism.
That shows you just how unhinged and out of touch the mainstream media is with middle America.
Well, and Brad Griffin wrote a response, as I wrote a response on my website.
Brad Griffin wrote a response on occidental descent.
He points out that's another thing that Moore and I had a conflagration over last year is that he wrote that the cross and the Confederate flag couldn't coexist without one setting the other on fire.
But the truth of the matter is that they coexisted just fine at the time for generations before and afterwards the war.
The Methodists, the Baptists, and the Presbyterians even split along racial lines during the Antebellum era because our religious identity was so interwoven into our sense of racial identity.
Well, I tell you what, I don't see how Russell Moore can approach the cross without bursting into flames myself.
That's good.
That's good, Keith.
Well, back to the article, though.
Oh, let's see.
After Trump's victory, Edwards ferociously attacked the president's elect critics, Bible in hand.
Now, you're probably wondering, how does she get all these quotes if you didn't interview with her, James?
Well, it's the same as they all do.
They know that she's not going to be able to make it up as they go along.
And hey, listen, I'll tell you this.
I'll give her some credit for this.
At least she was dogged.
Make it up as you go along.
No, they actually will.
If we don't consent to an interview, they'll go and they'll put in a little work.
And I'll give her some credit for being dogged.
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Well, come on.
Well, she'll listen to a show.
A lot of these reporters will do that.
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And never let the facts get in the way of a good story, that's for sure.
I did say this stuff, but on the air, not in an interview with her.
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After Trump's victory, Edwards ferociously attacked the president-elect's critics, Bible in hand.
Quote, the Bible said there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth, and I want there to be that, he said on his show.
Now is the time for retribution, and I want them to suffer.
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Hey, I said that.
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I gotta say this.
I gotta give a quick shout out to two listeners who have contributed to the show.
You know, we're in our first quarter fundraising drive right now, and we actually only have a week left.
It's getting down to the nitty-gritty, and it's been a little slow, I'll be honest.
We have had some listeners, such as Jan in Middle Tennessee.
God bless you, dear lady, who gave just way above and beyond the usual amount.
We know that Sarah Posner's pulling out her checkbook right now to write your check.
We've had a couple of listeners who really stepped up and increased their normal quarterly donations.
But overall, the total number of contributors we've had this quarter is lower than normal and certainly lower than what we enjoyed in the fourth quarter.
Of course, the Christmas fundraising drive, you kind of, it's a contribution to the show.
It's in the Christmas spirit.
Well, you're in the Christmas spirit.
It's sort of like a gift to the program.
Well, it's always a gift, but anyway, Christmas is a time for that.
But we normally have pretty successful fourth quarter fundraising drives.
But this one has been a little slow, especially the last few days.
I'm hoping we have a real strong finish to the first quarter fundraising drive.
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And Paul was on last week to talk about that.
But anyway, I got to wrap this up and get back to the conclusion of the story here.
Two listeners have donated since the program started.
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Speaking of New York, Keith, before you chime in, I got to say this.
New York, happy birthday to Matt the Copperhead.
That's what I was going to say while we're giving shout outs.
Matt the Copperhead's birthday today.
A day after my daughter's, although we celebrated her birthday today with the party.
Matt's an integral part of our show.
We have so many working parts here in this show that it's, you know, we don't ever want someone's birthday to go by without keeping, without making the recognition public to our family.
But Matt, one of our men in Havana, one of these top people, is 39 years old today.
Matt was up with Sam Bushman of yours truly when we were credentialed and covering for this network and our respective programs at the Republican National Convention last year in Cleveland.
I'll never forget that trip.
Had a great time with Matt and, you know, certainly forged the bonds even tighter.
So happy birthday, Matt.
We love you.
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We share it blindly.
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Well, back to this story.
So we're back in the news again this week.
Sarah Posner wraps up my piece of the story with Edwards called on the degenerates, perverts, and freaks and other criminals who shield for Hillary to make good on your promise and leave the country.
They can take Russell Moore with them on the way.
That's for sure.
Good riddance, please leave.
Yes, I did say that.
Isn't it funny how all these people that were threatening to leave, all of a sudden the silence is deafening?
Nobody is going to leave.
I would love for Hollywood to move to Canada and let them try to cope with cold weather.
Well, I'll tell you, Canada, they would really fit into Canada.
Canada is so cucked, it's really beyond belief.
Canada, just this week, a couple of days ago, actually passed a law.
It is Canadian law now that you cannot criticize Islam.
That is scary, Keith.
And so, yes, they would be very happy up there.
But I'll tell you this, though.
You had all the media against Trump.
You had all of the celebrities against Trump.
You had all of the church leaders against Trump, just not the people in the pews.
And what happened?
81%, as far as the church goes, wasn't it?
Well, it shows you just what a minuscule part of the population the left-wing elite represents.
Russell Moore, Hollywood, what do they have in common?
They're both part of the left-wing elite.
They're both out of touch with America, and they all need to leave.
This article wraps up with this.
Alt-right Christians like Edwards see their movement as part of a global battle for ethnic nationalism with the religious right now at the service of the alt-right.
Conservative evangelicals who oppose Trump find themselves at odds with the movement they helped to build.
Again, really giving the alt-right.
Hey, if we were pulling in 34.
Russell Moore is one who is at odds with the fundamentalist Christian zeitgeist.
Not Trump supporters, not the alt-right, and certainly not James Edwards, Keith Alexander, and the political system.
I wish we were in charge of the religious right.
Number one, it'd be a lot more closer.
It'd be a lot more religious and a lot more righteous.
Right.
And we'd be doing a lot better in the bank if we're talking about literally, hey, God bless them.
Hey, if you go to church, you're a Christian, you should tithe.
Now, I hate to see all of this tithe money being wasted in this wealth redistribution, as Keith calls it, and rightly so, but you're talking about billions of dollars in tithes.
I have to disagree with you on this.
You should not tithe if your money is being used to subvert Christianity.
And that's what Russell Moore and his people are doing.
You know, I hear from fundamentalists all the time that you just can't lose your salvation.
Once you have been converted, you know, it doesn't matter what you do.
You can be a triple axe murderer and you're still saved.
But somehow there's an exception.
And the exception is if you don't tithe, then that's the way to lose your salvation.
You should tithe, but you should go to a church that is properly interpreting the scripture enough.
You need to be very judicious about the money that you give in the name of God.
And you don't need to give money in the name of God to support the devil.
All right, quick, quick, quick.
So it just goes to show Moore went all in and the flock rejected him wholeheartedly.
Why he is still in a position of leadership.
He obviously is not on the level with his flock.
And so there's that.
But do you really believe the conclusion of this article that the alt-right is pulling the strings of the religious establishment evangelically?
You know, I would say this, that the conservative majority of Americans is finding an expression, one, in the Trump campaign, two, in their natural setting in Southern Baptist churches.
People believe like we do.
And three, the alt-right is not this fringe movement that the left would have you believe it is, but instead, it basically taps into the mainstream of American thought, politically, culturally, and otherwise.
And people in Hollywood, the out-of-touch left-wing elite throughout the world, represented in the national news media, the entertainment industry, and alas, church denominational headquarters throughout Christendom, all need to pay attention.
They need to wake up and smell the coffee.
Otherwise, they're going to become even ever more irrelevant.
Just like, for example, the United Methodist Church has all these magnificent edifices throughout the South that are virtually empty because people have voted with their f.
Now, are the Southern Baptist churches going to be the next ones to follow suit and to lose membership?
We'll find out.
But when people ask for a fish and are given a serpent, ask for a loaf and are given a stone, they will go elsewhere for spiritual sustenance.
I think, Keith, that just as Trump is trying to uncuck the political establishment, I think that there will one day be a forceful advocate of traditional Christianity that will clean the cucks out of the pulpits.
But I'll say this.
Maybe that's you, Jane.
Well, I don't know about that.
But I will say this with regard to Sarah Posner.
Now, she wrote an article last year: Trump Vangelicals are the new evangelicals.
And it, once again, called me a white supremacist and an anti-Semite and all this stuff, like she always does.
Like they all always do.
I'll say this, though.
Why don't we call her an anti-white Gentile, anti-Christian spokesperson?
Well, that would probably only further her career.
But I would say this, and this is coming from the heart.
I don't hate Sarah Posner.
I don't hate any of these people.
I'm not going to talk to them.
But I do hope that she and all of these others that are just so filled with hate towards people like us that she would become more than an expert on religion and actually come to know the Lord Jesus Christ.
That's my sincere hope.
As we say in the Episcopal liturgy, and I'm an Episcopalian, God wishes not the death of a sinner, but rather that he may turn from his wickedness and live.
Sarah, we have you in mind when we quote that.
I know you're listening.
Hopefully, rather than trying to undermine the church and God's people, you will see the light someday.
That's our fervent wish.
That's actually sincere.
I mean, you're probably waiting for a punchline, folks, but we mean that.
And we mean that for all of them.
But in the meantime, listen, we've got to, we can't give in any ground.
And we're going to dig our heels in, and we're going to stand on the rock.
We're going to stand on the truth.
We're going to stand with the fierce defiance and determination.
We're right.
They're wrong.
What we want is right for America.
What they want is wrong for it.
They can call us names.
They can hate us.
And we're going to keep on teaching people.
You know, if you're going to be in charge of a church, if you're going to be in church leadership, you should be a good shepherd.
And a good shepherd loves his sheep.
He doesn't despise his sheep.
Russell Moore despises his sheep, the people, the average Joe and Jane that belong to the Southern Baptist Church.
This is a guy that literally wrote on his website, Russell Moore, that he cried.
He cried actual tears of joy when the Southern Baptist Convention denounced the Confederate flag, which is, of course, a Christian flag that flew over a Christian nation.
So once again, honor that father, that mother.
He talks about having Confederate veterans for ancestors.
So you cry when your ancestors are a person that hates their ancestors is a sick puppy.
Does he really think that he is a better Christian than his grandfather or his great-grandfather?
If he does, he is sadly mistaken.
Basically, what he is, he's a fake Christian.
He is a wolf in sheep's clothing, people.
Don't ever doubt it.
All right, we're done with that.
That's two hours in a row.
The third hour last week, the first hour this week.
But we had to respond to that magazine article because that's fairly significant news.
Terror attacks and illegal aliens, rape in the second hour.