April 22, 2017 - The Political Cesspool - James Edwards
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U.S. You're listening to the Liberty News Radio Network, and this is the Political Cesspool.
The Political Cesspool, known across the South and worldwide as the South's foremost populist conservative radio program.
And here to guide you through the murky waters of the Political Cesspool is your host, James Edwards.
We are a band of brothers and native to the soil, fighting for our liberty with treasure, blood, and toil.
And when our rights are threatened, the cry rolls near and far.
Hurrah for the bonny blue flag that bears a single star.
Hurrah, hurrah, for southern rights who are.
Hurrah for the bonny blue flag that bears a single star.
Hurrah, hurrah, for southern rights who are.
Hurrah for the bonny blue flag that bears a single star.
As long as the Union was faithful to her trust, like friends and like brethren, kind were we and just.
But now when northern treachery attempts our rights to mar, we hoist on high the bonny blue flag that bears a single star.
Hurrah, hurrah, for southern rights who run.
Hurrah for the bonny blue flag that bears a single star.
Hurrah.
Well, that's the bonny blue flag, ladies and gentlemen.
If you didn't figure that out, that is, of course, an 1861 marching song associated with the Confederate States of America.
The words were written by Ulster Scots entertainer Harry McCarthy.
The song's title refers to the unofficial first flag of the Confederacy, the bonny blue flag.
Behind Dixie, the song was the most identifiable Confederate anthem.
The song premiered during a concert in Jackson, Mississippi in the spring of 1861 and performed again in September of that same year at the New Orleans Academy of Music for the 1st Texas Volunteer Infantry Regiment mustering in celebration.
The New Orleans music publishing house of A.E. Blackmar issued six editions of the Bonnie Blue Flag between 1861 and 1864, along with three additional arrangements.
The band of brothers mentioned in the first line of the song recalls the well-known St. Crispin's Day speech in William Shakespeare's play, Henry V. Well, it's Confederate History Month if you didn't know that, and our coverage of that continues now.
We are the only AM radio show to celebrate Confederate History Month and we're very proud of that fact.
It's been an honor for us to present to you Confederate History Month series going back to 2004.
And this week and one more will wrap up our coverage of 2017.
We hope you've enjoyed it so far.
We hope you'll enjoy it tonight.
And we hope that you'll remember the gallant sacrifices made by our heroes each and every month going forward throughout the year, although we celebrate them and highlight them no more than in April, the year in which the Confederacy began and fell.
Rather, the month.
Keith, you have the body blue flag at your house.
I do.
It's displayed in my stairwell, along with the first national Confederate flag and, of course, the very highly recognizable rebel flag.
That's the one that is in the place of honor.
We have no qualms whatsoever about embracing our southern heritage and our Confederate ancestors.
That's something that is natural to us.
It's something that we grew up with, and there's no one that can shame us out of it.
We're going to be Confederates till the day we die, James.
I know you feel that way, Eddie feels that way.
Everybody on our staff is a descendant of a Confederate soldier.
My direct descendant was IES Alexander, who is in the 15th Tennessee Cavalry of General Forrest.
Fought with him until the end surrendered at Selma along with the rest of Forrest's contingent.
And basically, he lived until 1910, and he had a cobbler shop.
He was a cobbler, a guy that made shoes and repaired shoes.
It was on Exchange Avenue right across the street from Forest Park.
And the last year of his life, General Forest's statue and the bodies of General Farrell and his wife were placed over there right adjacent to his place of business.
You know, we, and you have similar tales from your family.
Eddie has those from his as well, but we may as well name them and claim them because this is the time for all good men to stand up and be counted, come to the aid of their section of the country.
This is a part of American history.
It's as American as apple pie, as they like to say.
And people that want us to disclaim this are basically anti, not only anti-Confederate, they're anti-white.
White people, they do not like the idea of white people standing up and defying the federal government when the federal government gets to be tyrannical.
Now, they're the ones that are chafing under the yoke of what they consider to be a tyrannical federal government.
And what are they doing?
They're talking about secession in California and other parts.
They're talking about interposition, which is basically what they're doing with this sanctuary cities movement.
In fact, they're even having sanctuary college campuses.
I hope they do because Jeff Sessions has indicated very clearly that his response will be to cut off all the federal money coming into these cities, these sanctuary cities and sanctuary federal governmental campuses.
I mean, college campuses.
And when that happens, boy, you talk about squealing like a stuck pig.
That's what these leftists in the academic establishment and in the governmental establishment in the places that decide they're not going to enforce the federal law.
It's going to be fun to watch.
Now they're going to understand what John C. Calhoun felt like down in South Carolina in 1828.
Hey, Keith, you know, we don't just celebrate Confederate History Month on the air.
We celebrate it in the flesh and on the streets.
Tell the people where you were at just last night.
I was in Holly Springs, Mississippi.
Holly Springs, like many other Mississippi towns and cities, have pilgrimages in which they celebrate their antebellum and Confederate history.
I went to what's called the Juleps and General Celebration at Montrose, which is the primary antebellum mansion in Holly Springs, Mississippi.
It is owned by the Garden Club, which sponsors their pilgrimage at Holly Springs every year.
And I was greeted at the door by a person portraying General Beauregard, another one, General Earl Van Dorn, who was actually killed in Holly Springs, and General Grant, Jefferson Davis, all these period people in period costumes that basically did a presentation, an historical presentation, as if they were sitting there talking with us.
So you see, some things never change.
In the deep south, reverence for the Confederacy, reverence for their ancestry, and the way of life that was represented by the Civil War, by the Southern cause, that hasn't gone out of style down there.
There are all sorts of people that have tried to jump the boat, but the vast majority of people in places like Holly Springs or Natchez or Vicksburg feel just like their ancestors did.
And that is heartening because blood is thicker than water, as I say, James, and it certainly applies here in the South.
Well, it absolutely does.
Here, more than anywhere else in this country.
I truly believe that.
And one of the reasons for that is, without a doubt, the suffering that our people have done.
And the ancients knew this.
The ancients knew that when a people suffered together, those bonds and bands of brotherhood are forged together like steel cable.
And even though it's not as distinct today as it was in the years immediately after Lincoln's war, it still exists today.
The South still exists as a separate nation with a separate culture and a distinction.
And you know, this is an important thing to understand about the Civil War, too.
The South was like Greta Garbo.
We didn't want to make war on the other parts of the country.
We just wanted like Greta Garbo to be left alone.
But it's too much fun to torment and torture us.
That's what the left, that's why the left and the Puritans from New England brought war to our doorstep.
It's going to make our eventual victory that much more delicious, though.
And we'll be back with more right after this.
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Okay, Keith, you brought something to me when we were having our weekly lunch show prep meeting yesterday that absolutely floored me.
Tell us very quickly what it is, and then I'm actually going to read it.
Well, I was going through some family archives, and we have all of this old memorabilia going all the way back to the Civil War and beyond.
And I found the call to arms that had been prepared by Captain Ed Porter, who was an ancestor of the Alexander family.
He was the pastor of Third Presbyterian Church in Memphis, which still exists.
It's called the Old Brick Church at the corner of Chelsea and 7th Street in Memphis.
And it was basically, I have also a letter that he has from Judah Benjamin, the Confederate Secretary of War, authorizing him to raise a company of cavalry troops.
I actually held that in my hand tonight, ladies and gentlemen.
Not a replica, not a Xerox copy.
The actual letter written and signed by Judah Benjamin, Secretary of War of the Confederate States, to Keith's ancestor, Captain Ed Porter.
So I actually held that in my hand.
We were talking about it.
I was looking at it.
I'll take a picture of it.
He fought with Forrest throughout the war.
By the end of the war, he was Colonel Ed Porter.
He returned to Memphis, returning to his ministry at Third Presbyterian Church.
He died, unfortunately, within two years in 1867 as a result of the lingering effects of war wounds he got in battle in the Civil War fighting for Forrest.
All right, so here's what we've got.
So how about Keith's family, ladies and gentlemen?
How about a big round of applause?
And their blood still courses through Keith's vein as my ancestors' blood courses through my veins and the same for Eddie.
And we're still fighting in every way that we can.
They fought with the means available to them in their time, and we're doing the same here.
Isn't it interesting how that works?
Well, I do believe that there's genetic predisposition to that.
I absolutely do.
Well, this call to arms that the family member of the Alexander clan put forth, Captain Ed Porter at the time, this is what it reads.
Independent scouts, the last opportunity.
The iron hand of the North is closing down upon us.
We must rally to the rescue promptly or stand idly by and see gallant and brave patriots drive back the base foe from our own firesides and altars.
Shall we not rather share with them their toils and honors?
Have we homes?
Let us ourselves defend them against the threatened invasion of the ruthless foe.
An opportunity is now offered healthily, sober, and brave men to engage in a service in which they can almost daily harass and injure the enemy.
I am duly commissioned by the Honorable Secretary of War to receive and muster into service men singly in squads or by company, which company shall not be attached to any battalion or regiment.
Every man must provide himself with a good and serviceable horse and double-barrel shotgun.
All other equipment will be furnished by the government.
Fathers, husbands, if you are prevented by age or disease from entering this service, as I know many of you to be, can you not, will you not send a good horse to represent you?
What you do, do quickly.
Even if delays were dangerous, they are doubly so now.
Soon it may be too late.
Your horses will be pressed into the enemy's service, your cotton taken for northern mills, or by your own hand turned into ashes.
Give or lend to me now, and I will speedily convert it into horses.
Put men upon them who will make some of the black-hearted wretches wish they had never been born.
Try me.
All letters of inquiry promptly and fully answered.
Captain Ed Porter.
Keith, that's one of your family members going back to the war.
How about that for a call to arms?
That was written by Keith's ancestor.
And we have the original called on, the original paper printing.
It's not a Xerox copy either.
This is real McCoy.
I have touched it with my own hands, not through plastic.
I have actually held the paper and the letter from Judah Benjamins, Confederate Secretary of War, commissioning Captain Ed Porter, Keith's relative to – Giving him the green light to go ahead and raise truth.
I have held them both in my hands.
How about that for the Confederate ancestry of one Keith Alexander of the Political Cessbo Radio Program?
Now, that is, that is what it means to be an American.
And that's what it means to be a son of a Confederate veteran.
So I tell you, that's what I say.
People call us heroes.
People send us fan letters and make contributions to the show.
And God bless you, we wouldn't be here without it.
And I will say that there is no doubt that we are doing more than just about any American out there to continue this fight.
But even our best efforts are filthy rags compared to Captain Ed Porter and our Confederate ancestors who really represented the best that America had to offer.
Now, Keith, I want to make a very quick transition.
We only have a minute or two, and we've got to get back onto the Confederate History Month series for the remainder of this hour.
But Bill O'Reilly is out at Fox News.
Bill O'Reilly represented the typical baby boomer.
He was concerned with status, with his own wealth, with himself rather than his collective community.
I did enjoy him as an entertainer.
If I was to watch cable news, I would tune into him over any of the others because I liked his style and his presentation.
But he had for 20 years the biggest television news program in the history of the medium, and he never did one thing to reinforce the historic majority of this nation to stand up for the rights of his audience.
His audience is almost all white.
You know it.
And now he's out.
And what's going on there?
Is flirting with a woman the same as raping them?
Well, I guess I didn't like O'Reilly necessarily.
I did watch him more than the others.
But to see all of these radical feminist whores celebrating his demise, I do feel a little sympathy, I think.
Well, I think it was Chris Rock, the black comedian, that said that sexual harassment is when an ugly guy asks you out for a date.
That's the double standard that males need to live with day in and day out due to the sexual revolution and radical second wave feminism.
Basically, women hold all the cards in their hands now, and they can destroy a man's career.
First of all, they're thrust into situations with men that men haven't had to cope with in the past.
You didn't have all this multiplicity of women in the workplace unless they were secretaries or typists or something like that.
Now, you're having to deal with them as equals.
But most women, quite frankly, when it comes to most of the men in the world, wish they would disappear.
Now they're having to deal with them as business confederates or as business peers.
And as a result, men find these friendly, attractive women, and they do what men have typically done through the Asian, friendly, attracted women.
They try to link up with them.
And if they link up with the wrong feminist, they have lost their job.
They've lost their career.
They are cast into the outer darkness like one Bill O'Reilly.
Now, you say friendly and attractive women.
Apparently, that wasn't the case if you would believe his alleged.
Well, you're always going to have one people, one in the woodpile, as they say.
And we have this one black woman that says that he called her hot chocolate.
I mean, he needs to go see an optometrist, if that's what he calls her.
She was on the view this week, and she was 250 pounds if she was announced.
She's what blind Lemon Jefferson, the black bluesinger, called a heavy hip mistreater with a behind on her the size of a number 10 washtub.
Do you believe Bill O'Reilly came onto that action?
If he does, man, he needs serious help.
He is a sick man.
Anyway, I don't lament the demise of Bill O'Reilly.
He had a position that didn't use it.
He never came out with anything but an orthodox position on race issues or Jewish power and influence.
So as far as I'm concerned, good riddance to bad rubbish.
I think he gave conservative.
He gave conservative lip service and rhetoric on some issues.
There were certainly some of the things that we had.
He was the kept opposition, okay?
The left could make sure that he never challenged the essential parts of their dogma that if you don't challenge those, then you're just spinning your wheels.
So he can take issue with Roe versus Wade, or he can take issue with men using women's bathrooms, but that's okay.
They will allow that, but they won't allow him to talk about race and the Jewish question.
That he would have been gone a lot longer.
That's a great taboo of political crack.
All right.
Well, Keith, thank you for your service tonight, brother.
We're going to get back on the Confederate track, but I wanted to get Keith to chime in on O'Reilly before he left.
Eddie's going to slide in more Confederate History Month this hour, and then in the third hour, even more to come.
Something different, though.
We'll be back.
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Well, with that, welcome back to the Political Cesspool, everyone.
James Edwards here with you, as I've been with you every week since the fall of 2004.
Doesn't time fly when you're having fun.
I was on Twitter this morning and I just, well, I should say I was working in my office this morning preparing for this evening's show, going through the outline and kind of coming up with a general plan.
Not that it ever gets followed to a T, but a general plan for what we would cover segment by segment.
And I was just sitting there happy to be able to look forward to coming in and doing the work tonight.
I put out a short tweet in my office right now prepping for tonight's show.
I love my job.
And I do love my job because I love the people who appreciate the work.
I love you, ladies and gentlemen.
I should have asked Keith to chime in on this.
We're talking about Confederate history and celebrating Confederate heritage this month.
Elmwood Cemetery is here in Memphis, and it's a very distinct cemetery.
It's one of these cemeteries that is, in fact, its own tourist attraction.
I was in Portland, Oregon, a few weeks ago, and I went to the grave of Virgil Earp, Wyatt Earp's brother.
And it's one of these cemeteries that you go to as a tourist attraction because it's just so beautiful and so sprawling.
Well, Elmwood Cemetery is the same thing here in Memphis, and they do walking tours, historical tours.
Keith's wife is actually laid to rest there, God bless her soul.
And Keith visits with her often or visits her grave often.
But Elmwood Cemetery is notable for being the cemetery that has more Confederate generals buried there than any cemetery in the world except for Hollywood Cemetery in Richmond, Virginia.
So there is a lot of history at Elmwood Cemetery in Memphis.
That's where Nathan Bedford Forrest was first interred before they moved him to his own park as a way to forever celebrate and highlight his legacy.
Well, Eddie, the Robiner Miller is slipping into the studio now.
And while Eddie's getting mic'd up, we will go to Gary, who's been waiting patiently to get on the line.
Gary, what can we do for you?
Hey, James, how are you doing, buddy?
I'm good, man.
Good.
And I was just curious.
You tweeted the other day about getting set for a whole new studio.
Do you have a time frame for that, or is it still in the works?
I was just curious.
No, we addressed that in passing at the top of the show tonight.
We should be completely set up in it.
I missed the first step.
Oh, no, no problem at all.
No problem at all.
I'm happy to talk about it again.
I'm glad that you asked because this is something that we're very excited about.
So it won't appear as me being self-indulgent now to bring it up for a second time.
She will be in there.
Of course, when you're talking about construction and then there's some painting going on in there now and we're refurbishing the unit, we plan to be in there.
We're going to do our live show as regularly scheduled next week.
Then there may be one week while we're transitioning all of our equipment from the radio station to our new studio the following week.
So it would be three weeks from tonight is what we're shooting on to have our first show in the new studio.
And we'll take pictures and we'll take pictures and we're going to do videos and it's just going to really equip us to.
Please do.
Thank you for your care and concern.
I tell you what, three weeks, James, it's not bad at all.
I tell you what.
Well, it's been a bit.
Well, if it was starting from scratch, if it was starting from scratch, that would be ambitious because we secured this property.
But it's actually been in the works for a while.
We've had people working on it for about a month, but the finish line is close enough now where we can actually see it and we can get a better idea of when we'll actually be in there.
And it looks like about three weeks, but it's been a project we've been working on for about the last month, and we're excited about it.
I think it's going to open up some more opportunities for us as we reach a bigger audience.
And we've completely redone our website.
Not all of our website, but our broadcast archives, and we've made the show accessible to more devices.
So we've really tried to take some proactive action in expanding the reach of the show.
And of course, having a bigger studio, which will also serve as an office in addition to where we will broadcast from.
The radio stations that carry us will actually pick up our link from our studio now rather than us going in to the radio station as we've done these last 13 years.
And it's going to be great.
A lot of boxes there right now.
If you looked at it right now, you'd say, what are you so excited about?
This looks like hell.
But when we get finished with it, it'll be ours.
Fantastic.
Hey, thanks for answering my question, James.
I appreciate it.
Bombardier.
What's up, buddy?
Hey, fella, how you doing?
I've just been in here rummaging around looking for the hooch.
He's joking, FCC.
He's just joking.
Take care.
Yeah, man.
Thank you, buddy.
Eddie, how are you tonight?
Man, I tell you what, it'd be hard to be any better.
I can tell you.
That's what I've been saying all night tonight.
Just, you know, the people I've turned 70 years old not long ago, just still running and enjoying life.
I have my ups and downs like everybody in our family, you know, like you do, and every living human being does.
But I really can't complain.
I'm really looking forward to the future.
I love this studio.
You're going to love the new place that we get into.
I know we're going to miss the studio we're in now, but when we get to the new studio, I've got to tell you something because we're not there yet.
But when we get there, I got to tell you this.
I actually tweeted a picture about this.
Listen to this, ladies and gentlemen.
Now, what are the odds?
It'd be too fancy for me, though.
Oh, no, no.
I thought it was the best for my boys.
Nothing but the best.
I actually took over some personal effects to our new studio.
We can go ahead and move some stuff in there now.
And I put this on Twitter.
So again, folks, listen, I mean, the internet headquarters for the Political Cessible is, has always been and always will be thepoliticalcessible.org.
But if I just have a quick thought, a quick passing fancy, and I want to get it out to you, go to our Twitter account at James Edwards TPC.
Last week, I rented a U-Haul.
And I was taking some stuff in to where we're going to be, what's going to be our new studio.
And I was taking some personal effects, some personal boxes, some pictures, some stuff that'll go up on the wall when we get everything set up there.
I rented a U-Haul.
Now, if all the people and all the U-Haul units, what are the odds?
That I would be matched with this U-Haul unit.
I went into U-Haul and they gave me the key and they said, here's your U-Haul.
And you know, on the side of U-Hauls, they have different pictures from across America, different tourist attractions.
If you've ever seen a U-Haul now, the side of them has trivia about a specific location in America that you might want to go see.
On the side of my U-Haul was a graphic of the CSS Hundley.
And it said, explore submarine mysteries in Charleston, South Carolina.
It said, using revolutionary technology ahead of its time, the HL Hundley became the first ship to sink an enemy combatant, the first submarine.
Why did she mysteriously sink in 1864?
Well, I saw that and I said, my God, what are the odds that I, of all the people that would run a U-Haul and all of the U-Hauls that could be assigned to a person, what are the odds that I would drive one that has the Hundley on the side?
Because as you know, Eddie, I went to the burial of the Hundley crew.
They sunk in 1864, but they weren't buried until 2005 because they were finally, that submarine was lost for 150 years almost.
And I went to their funeral.
I laid cedar on the grave of Lieutenant George Dixon, the commander of the Hundley.
The first submarine to ever sink an enemy ship.
Who created submarines?
This is Confederate history.
The Confederates invented Horace Hundley, a Confederate, created the first submarine.
We're supposed to be these stupid, backwards, you know, people.
No, we created the first submarine.
That's just one thing.
But yeah, I mean, what are the odds I get that unit?
James.
And James, can back me up on this.
That's just one.
People, you can say exaggerate, but we have had so many direct interventions from God Almighty in this show.
And I don't know how big get me getting that U-Haul was, but it was pretty niche.
It was pretty niche.
It's huge.
I mean, you know, the smallest of miracles is a huge miracle.
I'll tell you this, people.
Just, for instance, oh, Sinise, Gary Sinise.
And this, it has nothing to do with me.
Get this, people.
Gary, one day, what's it two years ago, James?
Three years ago, four.
I can't keep up to it.
They all blur together now.
I'm down in Midtown here.
It's like Hippieville in Tennessee, in Memphis.
And my phone rung, and it's the information manager, you know, for Gary Sinise.
He's trying to find the political cesspool.
And I thought, how on earth?
How?
I don't even think James had the number of this phone.
My phone rung, and he went, no, can he come on the cesspool?
And I called James, and James thought, I was, you know, hallucinating or something.
I said, no, I swear to God.
And that's just one, I can't think.
And you and I did an excellent interview with Gary Sinise.
That's just one.
I mean, what were the odds?
How on earth did he find?
It was a throwaway phone.
And he enjoyed it.
Yeah, who knows?
But I'm just saying.
It was a throwaway phone.
But you're right.
If we ever sit down and write an autobiography of this show, but of course, we've got many years to go.
You write your autobiography when the show's over.
You write that at the end of a life.
We've got a lot of victories before we can write an autobiography.
But that'll be a story.
What were the odds you get that U-Haul?
I mean, it's just...
During Confederate History Month, no less.
And you know what?
And we've escaped so we dodged so many bullets, James.
You know this.
So many bullets we've dodged.
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From now, it's to something bigger and better.
We're excited about this new studio, but that's just the least of it, folks.
There's so much more going on behind the scenes that we'll tell you about as time presents itself, permits itself.
We got to take a break.
More confederate history when we come back.
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Hey, I mentioned this a couple of weeks ago when we kicked off Confederate History Month, but the governor of Mississippi, God bless Mississippi, my favorite state, even though I'm a native-born Tennessean, and I love Tennessee.
I love all the South, but Mississippi is my favorite.
That's where my grandparents came from.
They were born there.
My parents were first-generation Tennesseans.
I'm a second-generation Tennessean.
But before that, it's Mississippi as far back as we can trace.
And I love being in Mississippi.
I love going down there.
I've said this many times, and hosting this show has given me the opportunity to travel and see places all over the country.
I've been to the inauguration set front row.
I've been to the Republican National Convention in Cleveland.
I've been to Washington more times than I can count.
I've been to New York to do interviews with the CNN.
I've been around.
I would rather be on a dirt road in rural Mississippi than any of those places any day of the week.
And I want to thank Mississippi Governor Phil Bryant.
He has again proclaimed April to be Confederate Heritage Month.
Bryant spokesman Knox Graham confirmed to the Associated Press that the document was signed and issued by the second term governor.
Without naming the Civil War, Bryant's resolution notes that the Confederate states began and ended a four-year struggle in April, which is why April has been designated in some southern states as Confederate History or Heritage Month.
Mississippi is, of course, the last flag in the nation that prominently features the Confederate battle emblem.
The state has had the same flag since 1894, and voters chose overwhelmingly to keep it in 2001.
Bryant has said that if the flag design is ever to be reconsidered, it must be done by another statewide election.
I love Mississippi dearly.
Here is the proclamation signed by Mississippi Governor Phil Bryant.
What governor would do this now except a Mississippi governor?
God bless you, Mississippi.
Whereas April is the month in which the Confederate states began and ended a four-year struggle, and whereas Confederate Memorial Day is recognized for those who served in the Confederacy, and whereas April 24th, 2017 is set aside as Confederate Memorial Day to honor those who served in the Confederacy now.
Therefore, I, Phil Bryant, governor of the state of Mississippi, hereby proclaim the month of April 2017 as Confederate Heritage Month in the state of Mississippi.
Has his signature.
The Sons of Confederate veterans added this to their website in an article celebrating the proclamation.
Here's what the SCV wrote.
The citizen soldiers who fought for the Confederacy personified the best qualities of America.
The preservation of liberty and freedom was the motivating factor in the South's decision to fight the Second American Revolution.
The tenacity with which Confederate soldiers fought underscored their belief in the rights guaranteed by the Constitution.
These attributes are the underpinning of our democratic society and represent the foundation upon which this nation was built.
You know, when you said that, James, and this may be going down a small rabbit trail, but you know, when we had the political Sesspool birthday party, there was a Marine Corps.
He was a former Marine Corps officer.
I think he was a lieutenant colonel, retired, and he had his own business.
He said something I'll never forget.
You just mentioned how tenacious the Confederate soldiers were, and God knows they were.
But he said, amateurs study tactics and professionals study logistics.
Well, see, it did the South no good to study logistics because we didn't have any.
We didn't have one cannon factory in the South.
We didn't have one steel mill, no one iron mill.
We had nothing in the way of industry.
We had a fraction of the population that the North had.
And it could be compared, well, not so much to Germany during the Second World War because Germany was an industrial giant.
But the South, yeah, you're absolutely right.
We were basically just farmers, man, fighting an industrial giant.
And the fact that we held on six months was, I don't see how we held on six months.
It was a miracle.
Much of us come very close to actually winning the war on more than one occasion and, of course, stringing it out for years.
Well, that same Marine colonel that you mentioned actually gave a speech at our event in 2014, the 10-year anniversary celebration on Nathan Bedford Forrest to, I mean, he's an easy pick for your favorite Confederate, but he's mine for a number of reasons that we always mention on this show and that I'm happy to mention again.
He's a Tennessean, number one.
He's a Memphian.
And, of course, we put up a video, you and I did, Eddie, some years ago.
And we've gone to Nathan Bedford Forest Park many times.
We had that historic chills.
That rallies chill.
That rally in 2015 that drew 500 people that we helped promote.
Wow, what a moment that was in our careers.
But we did a video some years ago during which we honored Forrest.
And in that video, which you can find on YouTube, we read the inscription on Forrest's tomb.
It's a beautiful, simple.
And here it is.
Those hoof beats die not upon fame's crimsoned sod, but will ring through her song and her story.
He fought like a titan and struck like a god, and his dust is our ashes of glory.
Does that make your spine chill?
I got it.
I felt it by the third line, and I was just hoping to get through the fourth.
Every hair.
You know, James, I'd like to repeat something I've said on the last show when I was on before we had, we've been under so much moving and financial duress and work and things we can't even mention here on the show.
It's happened to us all.
It's a miracle we've been on the show.
But I'd like to say this, and you people, please don't get tired of me saying it, but I've had some good friends of mine to think that we waste our time talking about the Confederacy and the Civil War.
They'll say, why do you want to refight the Civil War?
Well, we don't.
And we're going right back to Karl Marx in Communist Manifesto.
They said that if you can separate the young people from their history, if you can separate them from their genealogy, then they can fall for anything.
Yes, and that's why I think that the alt-right, it's as much good as they're doing.
And to many people, and even to ourselves, we're part of it in some capacities.
But any movement will be limited if it's detached from its history and its faith.
Race alone isn't going to be enough to come to give us salvation.
And I think that's the appeal of the political cesspool to our audience.
Our audience is unique and it's underserved.
And we try to serve it.
Now, back to Forrest very quickly.
Why do we celebrate Confederate History Month?
Is we want to have more men like this.
Forrest was the living embodiment of a man's man.
You compare the character and heroism embodied by General Forrest to that which could be found in today's business and political heavyweights, and it's not even in the same league.
It's not even in the same universe.
Forrest, bullet points, here they are, as we say time and time again.
He was born into poverty and became a self-made millionaire in business despite being born into poverty and having no formal education.
He invested a great deal of that personal fortune he made in business to aid the Confederate cause.
Despite being one of the wealthiest men in the South, he enlisted as a soldier of the lowest rank, even though he was exempted from having to serve as a major planter.
But he chose to serve anyway, enlisted as a private to serve his country.
Could you imagine Fred Smith or Bill Gates or any of these people doing that?
He had no formal military training, no education, became a millionaire, a self-made millionaire.
No military training and became one of the greatest tacticians in the history of mobile warfare.
Retired as a lieutenant general and his maneuvers in combat as a cavalry commander are still studied today.
Killed over 30 enemy combatants.
An incredible man.
Yeah, right.
Makes me proud to be a Memphian, proud to be a southerner.
Now, in our previous Confederate history months, particularly when we were on five days a week, we used to have guest after guest after guest.
One of those guests was a man by the name of Rick Revel.
And if you go back some years, you can find his song.
It's called Ride with the Devil.
General Grant and General Sherman, may they burn in hell, both refer today to Bedford Forrest as that devil Forest.
Well, Rick Revel had four ancestors who rode with General Forrest, two on his father's side and two on his mother's side.
And he wrote a song about General Forrest, Ride with the Devil.
Here it is, and it's going to take us into the break.
15 years after the Mexican War, many of those same West Point officers would answer the call of duty once again.
Political differences so divided our nation that a war between the states was inevitable.
Brother against brother, North against South.
One of the greatest military geniuses of all times had no formal training, yet he rose from the rank of a private to lieutenant general.
His name was Nathan Bedford Forrest.
That devil forest must be hunted down and killed if it costs 10,000 lives and bankrupts the federal treasury.
On the day after the Battle of Shiloh, rebels were falling back real slow.
And old William the Compton, with three brigades of men, thought he might attack those rebels once again.
You know he wants to fight, and he's about to get one.
There's one man that stood in Sherman's way.
He said, Yankee, this just ain't your day.
Old Nathan Bedford Forrest, 300 by his side, said, boys, it's time to ride.
Come line, ride with the devil, for your sins, Yankee will pay.
Come line, ride with the devil.
You can shout it from over here Said, boys, give him hot lead and cold steel.