April 8, 2017 - The Political Cesspool - James Edwards
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And here to guide you through the murky waters of the political test pool is your host, James Edwards.
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our national anthem, that's for sure.
Welcome back to Confederate History Month 2017 on the Political Success Pool Radio Program.
Dr. Michael Hill helping us kick things off for this year's installment.
As we were mentioning, and as we've mentioned before, anyone wishing to celebrate Confederate History Month should take a look at the 2003 film Gods and Generals.
It's among my all-time favorites and portrays the South in a very fair and objective light, especially for a major Hollywood movie.
In 2011, you may remember this, folks, an executive at Warner Brothers actually contacted me to ask if they could partner with this program in order to promote the re-release of that film in commemoration of the 150th anniversary of the war.
Now, I would, of course, normally choose not to associate my good name and work with any Hollywood movie studio, but in this case, we were happy to help raise awareness about the movie Gods and Generals, which stands alone among major motion pictures as one that favorably depicts the Confederacy and rightly casts Robert E. Lee and Stonewall Jackson, among others, as heroes.
It's probably the best movie made about the War Between the States, at least the best one I've seen.
It's exciting, fast-paced, and the characterizations, especially of Stonewall Jackson, will move anyone who is not made of stone himself.
So we've done this before.
There's four clips from the film that we like quite a bit.
And we've played them on the show before.
I think last Confederate History Month we aired these things.
We're going to air them again tonight.
And what makes this airing different is that we're going to have Michael Hill respond to what he hears.
Now, of course, these are dramatizations.
This isn't the real Robert E. Lee or Stonewall Jackson speaking, but they were capably played by Robert Duvall and Stephen Lang, respectively.
First clip here, Robert E. Lee explaining why he cannot lead the Union Army.
Let's hear it.
Allow me to get to the point, sir.
I have been authorized by President Lincoln himself, with the full blessing of the War Department, to offer you full command of the Army with the rank of Major General.
This Army being raised to quell this rebellion and, of course, to preserve the Union.
I assume this army is to be used to invade those areas to eliminate the rebellion by force.
Yes, sir, the federal government has been challenged by these rebels who have been most effective in changing the sentiments of various state legislatures, challenging our Constitution and challenging our central government.
The attack on Fort Sumter cannot be ignored.
General, my home is right there across the Potomac.
Why, you can see Arlington House from your front door.
My family is spread all over this part of Virginia.
If you invade the South, your enemy territory will be there right across that river.
Well, sir, there is no great outcry for secession in Virginia.
It's not a foregone conclusion that Virginia or Tennessee, Arkansas, or Kentucky will join the rebellion.
My friend, may I humbly submit that you're mistaken about Virginia.
As you know, the legislature is convening in Richmond this very day to discuss the very issue of secession.
Now, perhaps you know their mind better than they themselves.
And I regret to say the president's hasty calling up of 75,000 volunteers to subdue the rebellion in the cotton states has done nothing to ameliorate the crisis.
It has only deepened it.
I trust you're not being too hasty yourself, Colonel.
This is a great opportunity for you to serve your country.
My country, Mr. Blair?
I never thought I lived to see the day that the President of the United States would raise an army to invade his own country.
No, Mr. Blair, I cannot lead it.
I will not lead it.
I'm sorry to hear you say that, sir.
I fear you're making a most dreadful mistake.
Would you please convey my deepest sense of honor and gratitude to the President, but I must decline his offer.
Please tell him, please be clear, I have never taken my duties lightly, but I have no greater duty than to my home, to Virginia.
Dr. Hill, that's the way it was.
When you hear that clip, what do you think of?
Well, I think of a man who understood the basic idea of a man's home being his people, his immediate surroundings, in our particular system, that political entity we call the state.
When people ask me, you know, what's your country?
My country is Alabama.
I think a whole lot more like the general.
Amen.
You know, that to me is the difference between a true American at that time and one who had bought into perhaps another ideology or was certainly buying into it.
But Lee knew that his home was Virginia.
His home was not some entity called the United States.
I mean, what is the United States?
What is America if it's not its constituent parts?
And those are the states.
And the distinctive character of a state is, of course, determined by the people who live there.
And General Lee understood that.
He talked about, you know, his family lands being all over the place there.
I mean, that conveys the sense that he understood that he was a Virginian.
He was not an America, an American.
You know, America is a continent.
Virginia is a place of the heart, you know, like Alabama or Tennessee or Mississippi.
You know, it's something real.
It's not an abstraction.
It's not a government.
It is a place.
It is a people.
And Lee was a humane gentleman, as were most southerners.
And when I say humane, I mean that they understood things from a human perspective.
And one of the most fundamental things for human beings is to have a home.
And he made it clear where his home was, where his country was, where his people lived.
And that, to me, is just an amazing, amazing insight that we so often take for granted.
But I think it's always been the southern way of viewing our place in the world.
And that's the most sublime articulation of it.
Or one of the most ever heard.
Absolutely.
And it came from a movie.
Imagine that.
But it was historically accurate.
Those were the words and sentiments of General Lee.
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And now, back to tonight's show.
Welcome back to the Political Cesspool as we honor Confederate History Month 2017.
Dr. Michael Hill, president of the League of the South, a retired university professor of history, author of two books on Celtic warfare, staying with us through the end of this final hour of tonight's broadcast.
And we're having a little fun with Dr. Hill, playing some clips that we played before last year, but getting his take on them.
Of course, in the first segment, we played the clip from the dramatization in Gods and Generals, the 2003 film of Robert E. Lee, played by Robert Duvall, who is actually descendant of Lee, I think collaterally,
if not linearly, but refusing the command of the Union Army, refusing such a powerful and prestigious post to go and fight against overwhelming odds with his kinsmen and his countrymen in Virginia.
Now, that is a real man, and the Confederacy was full of him.
You had John Breckinridge, who was at one time the Vice President of the United States.
He dropped the vice presidency so he could command cadets with no shoes at the Battle of Newmarket from VMI.
And you had Tennessee Governor Isham Harris, a sitting governor fighting in the Battle of Shiloh.
That was the kind of men that fought for the South.
That was the kind of men that built America.
And, of course, Robert E. Lee right there was the creme de la creme.
Dr. Hill, we're going to play another clip in just a second, but Eddie wanted to make one quick comment from the last segment and a follow-up question.
If you could answer it quickly, we can get on to this next one.
Go, Eddie.
Well, you know, James, what they did, you know, Hillary Clinton, Bill Clinton, and Sunboy Bush, they would do the same.
Yeah, I ask all the time, you want to talk about rhetorical questions.
What happened to the nation that used to produce men like that?
Our people produced Robert E. Lee, produced Stonewall, Patrick Claiborne, Nathan Bedford Forrest.
What happened to the nation that used to produce men like that?
The unknown soldier.
All right, the other question.
Dr. Hill, I'm so proud of General Lee.
You know, General Lee, he was a great Christian.
I'm sure you know that.
He was a general.
A great, great Christian, hardcore Christian, as was Stonewall Jackson, who taught Christianity to churches to the blacks.
He really did.
They had church for the blacks.
I think that that colored their entire vision of the nation, like you talked about, blood and soil, so to speak.
You said that as far as you're concerned, the nation was Alabama.
Now, this quick question.
Do you think they could see Stonewall, General Lee, do you think they could foresee Little Rock, Arkansas, 1957, Oxford, Mississippi, 1961, Tuscaloosa, Alabama, 62, James?
World War I, World War II, all of the calamities that would come after their defeat.
Do you think they could see that once the South, even when we lost, they would never end the punishment.
We'd be punished until Jesus returns?
Well, yes, I think they could see it, to use a biblical phrase, through a glass darkly.
I don't really think that they could see all of the outworkings of it, all the particular details, but I do think that they, along with prophetic voices like Robert Louis Dabney, could see that it was going to be a true revolution, a turning of the society upside down, meaning American society in general, and nothing good can come out of that.
It was almost like America's version of the French Revolution.
And I think they were smart enough to realize it.
After all, Pastor James Hindley Thornwell, who died, I think, first couple of years of the war, but he was there at the beginning, and he said very clearly, he said, this war is between basically the forces of Red Republicans, Jacobins, Communists on the one side, and Christians on the other.
So I think Southerners in general realized the stake for which they were fighting, and the stake was, we might say, Christendom, the survival of Christendom.
And I think that the South's defeat was irreparable, caused irreparable harm, at least from a temporal, earthly standpoint, to what we call Christendom.
I hope we can get it back.
I pray that we can get it back.
We must fight to get it back.
But I think those men did realize what their defeat meant.
And I think that's why they fought so hard.
And I think that's why they were so brave.
Well, absolutely.
And I'll tell you, I think you're right.
Through a glass darkly, they knew it would be bad.
But even in their wildest nightmares, they could have never imagined how bad America would become, forcing Christians to serve homosexuals, homosexual marriage to begin with.
I mean, what an abomination.
I don't think they could have ever seen it.
And if they could have, it would be impossible for them to fight harder, but they would have.
We got to play this clip.
Stonewall Jackson.
This is the clip Eddie's been wanting to get to.
You talk about being prophetic.
Stonewall Jackson in this movie Gods and Generals, played by Stephen Lang, prophetically explains what will happen if the South loses.
And that's what we're talking about this segment.
And here it is.
Lieutenant Colonel Stewart, reporting for duty, sir.
Colonel Stewart.
That's an impeccable hat, sir.
Thank you, sir.
Tell me, Colonel Stewart.
Use tobacco?
No, sir.
Not in any form.
Neither do I. Find I like it too much.
Sit down.
Understand from your record that you are West Point, class of 54.
Served since in the cavalry.
Fort Clark, Texas, operations against Apache, Comanche.
Most impressive, you are Native Virginian.
Fought with Longstreet and you, sir.
Nasty business.
Merciless climate.
Glad to be home, sir.
The Apache were defending their homes as we will be defending ours.
If we fight as well as the Apache, I pity the Yankee invader.
General Stewart.
If I had my way, we would show no quarter to the enemy.
No more than the Redskins showed your troopers.
The black flag, sir.
If the North triumphs, it is not alone the destruction of our property.
It is the prelude to anarchy, infidelity, the ultimate loss of free and responsible government on this continent.
It is the triumph of commerce, the banks, factories.
We should meet the federal invader on the outer verge of just and right defense and raise at once the black flag.
No quarter to the violators of our homes and firesides.
Our political leadership in Richmond is too timid to face the reality of this coming war.
You should look to the Bible.
It is full of such wars.
Only the black flag will bring the North quickly to its senses rapidly in the war.
Well, Colonel, one way or the other, the South will give them a warm reception.
You'll be in charge of the cavalry in the Harpers Ferry District.
Your experience and your zeal will be invaluable.
Thank you, sir.
And, Colonel, know that I will tell my men always to gallop toward the enemy, but trot away.
Dr. Hill, we only have seconds remaining this segment.
We'll carry it over to the next.
Your reaction to that.
Amen and amen.
Raise the black flag, kill them all.
Amen.
Chills go up and down my span, Dr. Hill.
Well, I was having a conversation with someone who recognized me on the street a few days ago, was a fan of the show.
And he said, I don't know how we got on this, but he said, I told this story on the air a couple of weeks ago.
He said, oh, I can't stand Glenn Beck.
He always talks about his union great-grandfather or great-great-grandfather.
I said, well, I hope mine killed his.
And I meant that.
You know, in war, I mean, obviously, we can't go around killing Yankees now.
But in the war, in that just and righteous war in wartime, when someone's invading your land, invading your nation, you certainly have a moral and biblical right to defend it.
And, you know, and Stonewall Jackson wanted to do that to the fullest extent of his capabilities, Eddie.
Two quick comments.
Talking about Christianity, obeying God.
As we know, King David was a man after God's own heart.
And what was he famous for, people?
He was famous for not killing his thousands like Saul did.
He was famous for killing his tens of thousands.
Also, Dr. Hill referenced the French Revolution.
Correct me if I'm wrong.
French Revolution was carried out by the same godless Jewish bankers that persecuted us in this country, and they made it hell on the Christians in France during the French Revolution.
All right, we've got to take a break.
Eddie the Bombardier Miller, James Edwards, and our special guest, featured guest and good friend, Dr. Michael Hill, president of the League of the South, as Confederate History Month rolls on tonight on the political cesspool.
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Of course, I do think it makes for good radio to have these great actors voicing these scenes.
Now, of course, it was made for a movie, so it's video, but to have these accents and these characters sort of come to life on the radio, I think kind of spicens up the broadcast.
Dr. Hill, I want to take a short pause here before we continue to ask you two questions, and then we'll play our next clip and get your response to it as we're doing each segment this hour.
Number one, how can people find out more information about the League of the South and join?
Because you've got your newest member sitting right across the studio from me tonight, Mr. Eddie Miller.
Wonderful.
Well, thank you.
I've got a website, which is Leagueofthesouth.com.
And you can click across the top bar there, there is a place there, an icon that says support the league.
And you can click on that, and it'll take you to the page to join.
Or you can scroll all the way down to the bottom of the front page and click a little button that says join the league.
So you can do it online or you can call me at the office at 256-757-6789 and ask me for an information packet for prospective members and I will put you one in the mail.
We have a Facebook and Twitter present, so you can check us out that way.
But there are many ways of contacting us and we'll get you the information you need to join.
And I'm glad to hear that we've got a new member there.
There you go.
You may have more than that before the show's over with.
We certainly hope so.
And I wanted to get to that.
Now, I like to ask everybody this.
It's a difficult question.
So many Confederate heroes.
I mean, of course, everybody knows the big ones, Lee, Jackson, Forrest, the unknown slaves.
There's so many unknown, like our ancestors.
No books have been written about my Confederate ancestors, but they were all heroes.
And, of course, my personal heroes, my personal favorites.
So outside of the big ones.
We can go to where they're buried, though.
Outside of the big ones.
Outside of our family members, which I think any of us would rightly say are our personal heroes, you had people like D.S. Job, who we've talked about before.
He was a Confederate scout who had his eyes gouged out, his tongue cut out.
He was dragged to death behind a galloping horse, and he never gave away the position of the Southern forces in the area.
He was tortured, murdered, never gave away the position.
You had, well, we call her the Southern Boudica.
This woman, the Yankees came through her town, and she nearly took out an entire unit by herself before she was gunned down.
And she just kept coming after she was being shot.
I mean, this is just an incredible story.
Dr. Hill, who would you say, not using a family member who fought, not using one of the established legends, who would you say is your favorite Confederate hero and why?
Well, the gentleman, and I'm having, you know, I guess I can excuse this by my old age, from Kentucky, I believe he was, and he was a sharpshooter, and he didn't want anything to do with the war at first until the heads of his two sons ended up on his gatepost, courtesy of the Yankees.
And he decided to have himself a sniper rifle made.
And he hit the woods, and by the time the war was over, he had killed over 100 Yankees sniping at him, particularly up along the Tennessee and Ohio rivers.
And he gained a great deal of notoriety.
And there was a book published about him here several years ago.
And we have actually named a shooting class that we have in the League of the South after him.
And here I am on your radio show, and I can't recall his name.
So how's that?
Well, I tell you what, it doesn't matter.
It's his actions that made him a hero, not his name.
God knows his name.
God knows his name.
That's right.
And then so many others, like the crew of the Hundley, imagine getting in that submarine.
Horace Hundley, George Dixon.
Just incredible.
So many.
It's too many to cover.
I want to go to the next clip, though.
This is, again, Stephen Lang playing Stonewall Jackson, rallying his troops with a stirring speech.
Let's give it a listen.
Men of the valley, citizens, soldiers, I am here at the order of General Robert E. Lee, commanding all Virginia forces.
On April 15th of this year of our Lord 1861, Simon Cameron, the Secretary of War of the United States, sent a telegram to our Governor, John Letcher, directing him to raise three regiments of infantry to be sent to assist in suppressing the Southern Confederacy.
Governor Letcher's answer is well known to you, but perhaps not his words.
His wire to Washington stated, you have chosen to inaugurate civil war.
And having done so, we will meet you in a spirit as determined as the Lincoln administration has exhibited toward the South.
Two days later, the Virginia legislature voted for secession.
Just as we would not send any of our soldiers to march in other states and tyrannize other people, so will we never allow the armies of others to march into our state and tyrannize our people.
Like many of you, indeed most of you, I've always been a Union man.
It is not with joy or with a light heart that many of us have welcomed secession.
Had our neighbors to the north practiced a less better form of persuasion, perhaps this day might not have come.
But that day has been thrust upon us Like it was thrust upon our ancestors.
The Lincoln administration required us to raise three regiments.
Tell them we have done so.
Dr. Hill?
Yep.
Take it away.
Well, I'll tell you what.
I'd like to just say this about this particular segment.
You know, when a man has been pushed to the wall and he starts getting ordered around to raise troops, to put down his own people, and this goes back to what General Lee was saying in the first clip.
There's only one thing that a man can do, and that's exactly what General Jackson in the prior clip said, raise the black flag.
You know, this whole conflict that we remember every April, and thank God that we do, because it's a conflict that still is ongoing.
And those words, I mean, I just had chills running up and down my spine when I was listening to those words.
I mean, it's almost like this man is talking straight to me, a descendant of these men who've got their blood running through my veins, and the enemy is still out there, and the enemy is still going to have to be dealt with.
Still the same general people, the same, and it's not Yankees.
It's just that Yankees are a subset of this whole group.
I mean, these are today the globalists, the progressives, whatever.
I mean, by whatever name you want to call them.
The spirit of evil in high places?
Exactly.
The evil in high places.
That's a good way of putting it.
But they're going to have to be rooted out.
They're going to have to be destroyed.
And they're going to have to be dealt with under the black flag.
This is not going away until we destroy it.
Because God, yes, could come in tonight and through a miracle could destroy all these people.
But he does not usually work that way.
He works through human agency.
And our ancestors understood it, and they were standing up at that time for a godly nation and godly principles and statutes and commandments of God.
And if we stand up today under those things and continue this fight, we will have to do the same thing as our ancestors were called upon.
And they were men who knew what to do and had the courage then to go and do it.
And the consequences be damned.
And that's why we honor them.
Go ahead.
Dr. Hill.
I'm saluting you, Dr. Hill.
I salute you.
I'm clapping for you.
I have some of my best friends have told me, Dr. Hill, why do y'all keep talking about trying to refight the Civil War?
Why can't you cover more pertinent subjects?
And I tell them, and Dr. Hill, I know I'm preaching to you, the preacher, if we can't cover our ancestry, if we can't go back to our genes and our roots, we will be doing what the communists, the Marxists want to do.
They want to sever our people from our roots so we will know not who we are.
And Dr. Hill, you mentioned the Bible, going all the way back to Jericho.
These people were killing for Christ.
I mean, for God, so to speak.
They told Joshua.
Just wars.
Just war.
They went in and God told them to wipe out every single living thing in Jericho.
That same war was repeated a thousand times in the Old Testament.
The Philistines, you know, the barbarians that worshiped the Poles.
I'm wound up now, Dr. Hill.
But I salute you, Dr. Hill, for keeping history, true history alive, for educating our people, our young people, who would know nothing but to hate themselves before being white and to worship the trans best sites, the homosexuals, or what have you.
But I salute them.
And Dr. Hill, we're trying to do the same thing in this show, but I salute you, Dr. Hill, for what you're doing.
We got one more.
Again, folks, you see why we wanted to have this particular guest on for an hour and a half rather than the standard hour that we have for long interviews.
One more clip, and we'll be out of time, so we can't keep him any longer than that.
James Edwards, Eddie, the Bombardier Miller.
We can get him back.
Hopefully, Dr. Michael Hill will be back.
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It's not worth the ticket from somebody, you know.
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Well, we're having a fun time tonight.
It's passionate.
It's intense.
Hopefully, you're enjoying it as well.
Dr. Hill, let me ask you this.
Just a very quick answer.
Sure.
Are you enjoying these clips?
Do you think it trivializes to go to a Hollywood accentuate our points?
Or do you think you're adding something to the broadcast tonight?
No, I really think it does because these are historical.
These are historical conversations.
I mean, it just happens to be in a movie, but these are things that men really said.
I'm glad you agree.
I'm glad you agree because I certainly don't want to trivialize the importance of everything we're talking about by going to a Hollywood film, no less.
But I think this one is just, if it wasn't so authentic, we wouldn't be using it.
And with that being said, last clip of the night, it's an emotional speech that Stonewall Jackson gave to his troops after the last victory he ever commanded.
Here it is.
Throughout the broad extent of the country through which you have marched, by your respect for the rights and property of others, you have always shown you a soldier, not only to defend, but able and willing both to defend and protect.
You've already won a brilliant reputation throughout the army of the whole Confederacy.
And I trust in the future by your deeds in the field and by the assistance of the same kind Providence who has hitherto favored our cause, you will win more victories and add luster to the reputation you now enjoy.
You already gained a proud position in the future history of this, our Second War of Independence.
I shall look with anxiety to your future movements.
And I trust whenever I shall hear of the first brigade on the field of battle, it will be of still nobler deeds achieved and higher reputation won.
In the army of the Shenandoah, you are the first brigade.
In the army of the Potomac, you were the first brigade.
In the second corps of this army, you are the first brigade.
You are the first brigade in the affections of your general.
And I hope by your future deeds and there, and you will be handed down to posterity as the first brigade in this our second war of independence.
Godspeed!
Absolutely chilling.
Absolutely chilling.
And he was talking about, of course, the legacy that these brave, good, godly men would have.
And of course, it's not the legacy that they deserve the way they are presented now, nor is the legacy of that flag that they fought under accurate.
I read this last week, and I got to read it one more time.
The Confederate flag, that is a symbol that represents opposition to tyranny.
It is reviled by those who hate America and hate Christ.
It was the flag of my fathers, and it is first and foremost a Christian flag.
The red field represents the blood of Christ.
The white border represents the protection of God.
The blue X represents the Christian cross of St. Andrew, the first disciple of Christ Jesus and patron saint of Scotland, from where our people came.
The 13 stars represent the 13 states of secession.
Thus, the message of the Confederate battle flag is through the blood of Christ with the protection of God, we, the 13 states, are united in our Christian fight for liberty.
Now, that is a belief and message that was also found on the great seal of the Confederate States, which displayed the motto Deo Vendus, which means under God, our vindicator.
The Confederate states made repeated proclamations to this effect.
Confederate Senator Thomas Sims, in proposing the motto, took pains to stress that the Confederate States of America had, quote, deviated in the most emphatic manner from the spirit that presided over the Constitution of the United States, which is silent on the subject of deity.
The Confederacy wanted the world to know that it was a Christian nation.
Amen.
Dr. Hill, how does the South in this day and going forward preserve and protect its integrity, its decency, its goodness?
Well, we stick to God's word, first of all.
I mean, you know, if you want the fundamental underpinnings of what it means to be a southerner of the South, it's God's word.
We are a Christian people, first and foremost.
And the minute we forget that, we cease to be southerners.
And getting back to the clip there of Jackson, I would be honored.
I'm not going to say I would have.
I will, would, and will be honored to fight, kill, and if necessary, die under a man, a godly man like that.
Amen.
And may he raise up such godly men in our own day because we are going to have to fight the third war for American independence, as it were, southern independence, to get ourselves out from under what we've got here.
There is absolutely no question in my mind that those people are going to destroy us if we don't destroy them.
And they will not leave us alone.
You know, President Davis said, all we want to be is left alone.
Well, President Davis, we're not going to be left alone, sir.
They have proven that, and they intend to destroy us.
What does a man do when he's found out finally, conclusively, without a doubt, that his enemies mean to destroy him?
He does exactly what our Confederate ancestors did.
And may God raise up men like Lee and Jackson and Forrest and Stewart and Mosby and Jack Henson, the man I couldn't remember his name earlier, the Kentucky sharpshooter, and bloody Bill Anderson even.
Raise up men like this who will raise the black flag, pull the sword out of the sheath, and not put it back until the job is done.
A just war under God's law.
If it has to come to that, then it comes to that.
As long as it's fought under the biblical principles and guidelines of a just war, listen, our people did it before.
If it has to be done again, no one wants it.
But if it happens, then the good men need to step forward.
Dr. Michael Hill, thank you so much for staying with us for an extended period tonight in a very emotional kickoff to Confederate History Month 2017.
We're going to have a tough job the rest of the month matching tonight.
We're not going to be able to beat Dr. Hill.
Well, we're out of time with him for right now.
He's a great guest, a great man.
Thank you for your friendship, Dr. Hill, and we will talk to you again soon.
Thank you all.
It's been my pleasure.
Thank you, Dr. Hill.
All right, Eddie, a quick comment, and I want to read something that somebody sent to you.
Oh, great.
Hey, I would like to, too bad Dr. Hill had to go.
I would like to congratulate him for carrying on the mission that we try to do.
He probably does a better job than we do.
But General Jackson, Stonewall, said he was so proud of his troops because they protected the rights and the lives and the property of the people, even if they were fighting in the occupied territory, the territory they were invading.
They didn't come in there and trample and kill and mutilate and destroy private property like the Yankees did.
Second, they did it in a Christian way.
I'm so proud of that.
Secondly, I'd like to say, may God let me live long enough to participate in the war that comes as Dr. Hill's talking about it.
Because I still have my bayonet and I'm not turning it into no friggin' plowshare.
Thirdly, I'd like to say, well, at the risk of repeating myself, thank you, James Edwards.
Thank you, Sam.
Thank you, Scoop and Keith, and Dr. Hill, for we have a sacred mission in keeping this knowledge alive because our people are being denigrated every day with homophobes and, you know, chauvinist pigs, you name it.
And I'll shut up and let, because I know we're running out of time.
All I wanted to read was this, Eddie.
And again, a radical departure.
But ladies and gentlemen, as you may know, if you went to our website, just on Thursday, Eddie the Bombardier Miller celebrated his 70th birthday.
And so we have a nice birthday post for Eddie at TPC.
And Scoop, Scoop, who wasn't on the show tonight, sent in a nice email saying that Eddie was born into a rough life.
But he earned his master's degree with honors and race relations in the streets of Memphis.
Drafted into military service, Destination Vietnam, despite being tough as nails, Eddie became a combat medic.
He had the daunting task of patching up boys in some godforsaken hellhole on the other side of the world.
And after his service, Eddie still chose to heal and comfort people as a registered nurse.
Later in life, Eddie met James Edwards, and his life, and all of ours, changed forever.
It was the political cesspool where Eddie earned the nickname the bombardier for never mincing words and never being politically correct.
Sometimes he's even too hot for the cesspool.
Despite being an asset for all of us, Eddie still struggles.
But don't we all?
What does he do?
To cope, he runs marathons in his late 60s and now into his 70s to benefit children of all ages and races at St. Jude.
To me, this comes from Scoop.
Eddie is a father figure, a mentor, and a friend.
He is a true southern gentleman and one of a kind.
Happy birthday.
Thank you so much, Scoop.
You're an artist.
I mean, thank you so much.
I don't deserve that praise, but I'm not turning it down, Scoop.
Thank you, my brother.
Thank you, my brother.
I admire you just as much, my fellow serviceman.
Guide to work that in at the tail end of the show.
Happy birthday, Eddie.
We love you.
70 years young.
We'll be back next week when Confederate History Month continues on TPC.