Aug. 19, 2017 - The Political Cesspool - James Edwards
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That was,
of course, the music to when Eddie comes marching home.
That little number dedicated to our co-host and former combat medic, Eddie, the Bombardier Miller, who put himself in harm's way last week so he could provide for this audience an eyewitness report from the Unite the Right rally.
Eddie didn't march back home, but he sure drove back home, and he's here with us now in the studio along with Keith Alexander.
If you missed last week's show, ladies and gentlemen, it was a program of record for TPC.
About a dozen eyewitness reports from the Unite the Right rally, including Gene Andrews, who was on the front page of the Tennessee and newspaper in Nashville today as the caretaker of Nathan Bedford Forrest's boyhood home.
I had intended to spend tonight, all of this show, and perhaps even the next few weeks, breaking down what happened on the ground in Charlottesville.
But, of course, that was before the fallout from last week's rally has become unimaginable.
And that fallout will have a lasting impact on many.
So we ask you to sit down, pull up a chair, tune in tonight as we unpack the events that followed Charlottesville and tell you where we stand today.
Welcome to this week's live broadcast of the Political Assessment Radio Program.
James Edwards here, Keith and Eddie, in the studio, all three of us for the full three hours tonight, this Saturday, August 19th.
Like I said, we were prepared to give Eddie a hero's welcome back to Memphis after he traveled all the way to Virginia and back to report on that event as an eyewitness for this listening audience.
But the political landscape has been altered as a result of the setup in Charlottesville and the maliciously dishonest narrative being propagated by the controlled media.
Some people will fall as a result of this.
Heroes will rise.
But make no mistake, everything has changed.
Henrik Palmgren, who was on the program last week, wrote, a witch hunt of unrivaled proportions has begun against anyone who attended the protest of the removal of Robert E. Lee's statue.
He's right about that, but that's not even the half of it.
So much has happened since we were last live on the air seven days ago, I hardly know where to start.
We're going to try and cover as much of it as we can this evening under the constructs of constraints of three hours of commercial a.m. radio.
I had considered booking another all-star lineup this evening like we featured last week.
I was going to call Richard, have him come on the show tonight.
But there's no time for guests tonight.
There's just too much to talk about.
As I mentioned, though, Keith Alexander, Eddie, the Bombardier, both in studio for the full show this evening.
So we'll go to Eddie first since he's already mic'd up and then we'll go to Keith.
Your perspective on the situation as it stands right now, Eddie, we've had a week to reflect on what happened last week, and of course so much has happened since then, and that's what we're going to be spending the show breaking down this evening.
But the lying press is, of course, out of control.
Every bit of establishment news coverage is identical.
I'm glad we had an eyewitness like you on the air to set it straight, or else it would have just been, well, we would have had to rely on their narrative, I guess.
I want to read this to you, Eddie, and then you tell me whether or not this is accurate.
Well, why don't you go ahead and say something while I pull it up?
I'll tell you what.
First of all, I would like to, I will try not to cover too much of the same ground we covered last week, but I'll touch the high points on some of it.
But before I go any further, I would like to thank one more time our generous donors that made it possible for the Cesspool to have a representative on the ground at Charlottesville.
Secondly, I would like to say what I've said before.
I was with, embedded with some of the finest men I've ever seen in my life.
Gentlemen, you were absolutely magnificent up there.
You were magnificent.
I've never witnessed such bravery and such control and such Christianity put in motion as I did those witness, those brave people up there under Dr. Michael Hill, the League of the South, and you mentioned Gene, Mr. Gene, Maureen Gene, as I call him.
I had to break down and cry a few times when I saw some of our young guys, 18, 20, 19, 21 years old.
Well, this is really the only segment we're going to spend tonight reflecting back on what happened last week because from this segment forward, it's going to be about everything that's happened since then.
But I would like to ask you this, because this is an article that's come out since you returned, Eddie, from CNN, Donald Trump's incredibly unpresidential statement on Charlottesville.
This is what they wrote, and I want to see if you agree with this or would like to set the record straight.
CNN writes, a group of white supremacists screaming racial, ethnic, and misogynistic epiteths rallied in Charlottesville, Virginia on Saturday.
One person was killed.
19 others were injured when a car sped into a group of counter protesters, as they like to call them.
And this is what CNN says that I thought was one of the most reprehensible of the establishment media's news coverage.
And believe me, it's been the worst I've ever seen.
It wasn't both sides that screamed racist and anti-Semitic things at people with whom they disagree.
No, it wasn't.
It was one.
Hold on.
They don't base a belief system on the superiority of one race over others.
One side didn't get into fistpipes with people who don't see things their way.
They didn't create chaos and leave a trail of injured behind them.
I agree that both sides did that.
Deeply misunderstands the hate and intolerance at the core of the Unite the Right rally.
So here you have CNN blaming everything that happened exclusively on one side.
One side was angelic.
One side was evil.
And there was no in-between.
And that's the narrative.
And that's not just CNN.
That is the entire controlled press across the board speaking in one identical voice.
Like I called and all of our representatives here in Tennessee said, you're a bunch of liars.
I was there.
I invited them to call and debate me and ask me for the truth.
It was one-sided.
We had a permit to meet peaceably in the park.
We're the only people that had a permit.
And like we said last week, we were fought from the minute we stepped out of that parking garage going to Lee Park.
And it wasn't just a killbox.
It was a gauntlet all the way to the park.
And we were met by the most vivulent, most hated people you've ever seen in your life.
You news people, you're lying.
You know you're lying.
And I don't know why.
I don't know how you can sleep at night.
But yes, you're all total liars.
Like I was telling Keith and James before the show, these magnificent people I saw that had the greatest restraint I've ever seen in my life.
Now, one missile was thrown by them.
Dr. Michael Hill, the six foot six giant from the League of the South, told our people, if you throw one object, if you do anything to show shit, dishonor on our people, I'm going to deal with you when we get back.
And I said, right on, Michael Hill, right on.
It wasn't that our people were out there spoiling for a fight.
Our leadership.
That's right.
Lisa, what you saw with your own eyes and ears.
We're telling them, whatever you do, do not do that or you'll answer.
Or the sergeants.
Absolutely.
He was just a hit hunter.
hit other people we were all these guys were all super controlled acting like christians would News media, you're liars.
You know you're liars.
All right, here's how we're going to run tonight's show.
No guests tonight.
Too much to cover.
James Eddie and Keith the whole hour, or the whole show, I guess you could say the whole three hours.
We're going to go Eddie Keith, Eddie Keith, Eddie Keith throughout the program tonight.
Alternating segments as we continue to break it down.
We're going to stay on the media's treatment of this before unpacking so much more tonight, folks.
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I've reassessed my previous statement just before the break.
I think what we'll do tonight is because of the nature of having this much news to present to you, what we'll do is we have Eddie and Keith in for the full show, which we don't normally do.
They normally split the time, but they normally come in in shifts.
Keith has the first shift, Eddie has the second shift.
But tonight I wanted them both in for the full program.
And we've actually been in the studio tonight two hours early to brainstorm for this.
And I think what we're going to do is we're going to go segment to segment, but I'm going to make sure they have equal time while assigning them segments that I think they'd be each better suited for.
So it may not be alternating one by one, but we'll just see how it goes.
Anyway, what we're going to be covering this hour is the media's treatment of Charlottesville as we continue to focus on the fallout from Unite the Right that's occurred in the seven days since we were last on the air.
We'll cover Trump's press conference this hour, his defense of the Confederate monuments, interesting new poll, a brand new poll on what the American citizens believe about the Confederate monuments.
You don't want to miss this.
And we're also going to share a very interesting personal observance that I made this week.
That's all coming.
That's just the first hour.
And then it gets more wild.
Folks, I'm going to present to you one of the most bizarre segments we've ever had in the second hour tonight.
And in the third hour, Jim Lancey is going to be with us, our criminal justice correspondent, to share his thoughts on Charlottesville and the developing unrest that took place today in Boston.
All that coming tonight.
Please listen to the full three hours.
You don't want to miss it.
Well, we're talking right now about the media's treatment, and I'm going to get Keith in on this.
So USA Today had an article.
Let me read all of this, Keith, and then you can take it any which way you want because I know you have a lot of thoughts you want to share.
USA Today had an article condemning racism in which they presented the Black Lives Matter terrorist group as moral exemplars.
So this was just one example.
And then Wall Street Journal, I saw the headline of the Wall Street Journal, page A1 above the fold.
The headline read, Trump fuels race terror.
All right, so this is what we're getting.
The media coverage of Charlottesville, ladies and gentlemen, has been the most vile and dishonest I have ever seen in my life.
And when I say that, I want you to pause for a minute and consider my career.
Consider all we've been through in the political cesspool and let that sink in.
For this to be the most vile and dishonest, we have seen a lot.
So that is a hell of a statement.
All of the establishment media across all platforms have spoken with a single voice with regard to Charlottesville.
And for whatever reason, interestingly, because we didn't have any hand in organizing the event, we sent a correspondent to cover it, as most news outlets did.
There has been a huge resurgence of interest in the media in the political cesspool.
The Fox News affiliate just the other day, there is a hate group operating in your city, and it's the political cesspool.
The media matters.
They wrote an autobiography.
If I ever write an autobiography, I'm going to copy and paste what Media Matters posted this week about me because it was the most comprehensive thing.
They have to hang.
They have to actually have somebody out in the yard right now.
I mean, they know everything we've said and done, which it's fine because we have nothing to hide.
But the creeps there have really comprehensively detailed some of our actions.
And so CNN, though, came out with a story this week in which they Recited a Southern Poverty Law Center report on hate groups operating in the United States.
And of course, the political cesspool was one of the hate groups.
I guess we're a hate group of three.
It's a small hate group or a radio show, not even a group, but whatever.
They say we were hateful.
But so that was interesting for CNN of all people to report that because CNN, of course, as you remember, for a very short time many years ago, but it still happened, regularly featured yours truly as an on-air correspondent, specifically because of my racial views.
So is CNN now linked to hate?
Of course, every time they hosted me, I was introduced as a conservative talk radio host instead of the white supremacist nonsense.
But they treated me to first-class airfare, chauffeur limousine service, the whole nine-yard.
So what are they?
So we have to talk about that.
Now, there was a New York Times reporter by the name of Campbell Robertson.
Now, I know I told people that I would do more interviews, but God help me, I reverted back to form.
New York Times interview Campbell Robertson tweeted to me this week, James, what's the best way to get in touch with you to set up a phone call?
And I responded to him publicly.
I don't give the dogs that which is sacred, and you're lower than a dog.
And so, as Keith has advised me to do to all reporters who have called, emailed, and otherwise messaged me this week to get my comments on Charlottesville, I only do paid interviews and it's $500 an hour.
And why do them at all?
Because my extensive experience has taught me that they can call me a Nazi without me having to waste my time talking to them.
The key is building our own media, not trying to reach the masses through their biased slants.
Keith, the rest of the segment is yours.
Your response to the media's treatment of this and anything else you'd like to share with the audience?
Well, I think it's time for us to do a post-mortem on Charlottesville.
Charlottesville was a very valuable experience for the Unite the Right organizers and the people who were represented among the protesters at the Unite the Right rally.
Basically, what we've done is we have smoked out the left.
We now know what their strategy is for dealing with right-wing dissent.
They're going to basically pull out the program from 1962.
It's like the New York Giants are playing the Green Bay Packers today, but they've got a program from 1962.
They tell you that Bart Starr is a quarterback for the Green Bay Packers, that Charlie Connerly is a quarterback for the New York Giants, and they're just misreporting the whole thing.
That's what they've done basically by saying that the Ku Klux Klan and the Nazis are supposedly the primary members of the Unite the Right coalition.
I would venture a guess that they're less than 5% of the participants in the Unite the Right rally.
The reason they were allowed to come is because we have learned the lesson that apparently Donald Trump is learning at the same time, which is this.
The primary distinction you make in life with dealing with other people is how to distinguish a friend from an enemy.
And what the people in the Unite the Right movement said is: if you are opposed to the removal of Robert E. Lee's statue from Lee Park in Charlottesville, you are welcome to join us in this protest.
We're not going to do the work of the left and fracture and marginalize our opposition to this outrageous anti-First Amendment initiative to rewrite the history of the United States and to destroy Southern white Gentile culture in the process.
If you, you know, you might say, I want to preserve Robert E. Lee's statue, but they can take down Nathan Bedford Forest statue because he was a bad guy or something.
We'll let that person come in here and object to the removal of Robert E. Lee's statue.
On the other hand, you can say that I think that the Civil War was wrongly decided, that the South should have won, and everybody that fought for the Confederacy was a hero.
And that goes for Rock, for General Forrest, and every lowly private up to the highest people.
Well, you're welcome to come in too.
You can even have Nazi views or, you know, Ku Klux Klan views.
Everybody who supported it could come in.
That's not a good look, though.
I will be the first to say that is not a good look if we're serious about trying to get the people.
Well, the thing is, look at what they did.
I told you they took the 1962 program.
Who did they interview?
The one person they interviewed is David Duke, the one person that they can reach to from back in the days of yesteryear.
They won't even mention the names of the current prime movers like Henrik Palmgren and Lana, like Richard Spencer, like...
Richard doesn't suffer for a lack of press.
Well, he gets in there, but believe me, they did everything they could not to identify the primary actors in that.
Jason Kessler's name wasn't really mentioned until that night.
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The point Keith was making before the last break was that the media went to David Duke because they think that they could present him as a former Klansman and this, that, like they always do.
Nothing wrong with going to David Duke.
He's one of the most eloquent and accomplished spokesmen our movement has.
He's a very good friend of ours, a very close personal friend to me.
And he was, of course, on our show last week.
But the point Keith was trying to make, of course, is that they're just trotting out the same old canards.
And you're right.
I mean, some of the principles were not even mentioned until later.
It was just Unite the Right terrorist, blah, blah, blah, David Duke.
And I'm surprised George Wallace wasn't interviewed by CNN because, see, this is what they do.
What this shows is just how completely the SPLC, the Southern Poverty Law Center, has failed in its mission.
Its mission for the past 25 plus years has been to create alternative organizations that will replace the Nazis and the Ku Klux Klan in the minds of the public.
They are to think that the political cesspool or American Renaissance or Red Eyes TV are just the same.
Well, they've had no effect on that whatsoever.
So they have to go back to their old playbook, and they will.
And everybody that opposes the left-wing agenda or the so-called progressive quote-unquote agenda is a racist, a bigot, an anti-Semite, a, in other words, and when they call you that, they have transformed you in the eyes of the public, they think, into a cockroach.
And as a cockroach, you can be stepped on and squashed with impunity, and that's what they are intending to do.
Okay, I want to transition now again, so much to unpack in the fallout from Charlottesville since last Saturday night when we were last together, ladies and gentlemen, Trump's press conferences.
He at least made three statements on this.
The first one was lukewarm.
There were extremists on both sides.
We condemn hate across the board and violence from both sides.
That was fine.
That was fine.
It was okay.
Then he came back with, well, it was, we condemn KKK, Nazis, white supremacists, and that's fine.
We do too.
but he pretty much put all the blame on Charlottesville at the feet of the people who were there to rally in defense of the great Christian General Lee.
And then after that only invited more media attacks and apparently made Trump feel weak, he came back with an incredible assist.
He spoke the truth.
He said, you have a group on the other side that came in charging in without a permit, and they were very, very violent.
When it was asked if he was comparing the alt-left to neo-Nazis, Trump said not all of the people there were neo-Nazis.
He followed up by saying this week it's Robert E. Lee and Stonewall Jackson.
I wonder is it George Washington and Thomas Jefferson next week?
Where does it stop?
Folks, we don't have time to play excerpts from his press conference tonight, but we have posted the entire press conference that he held at Trump Tower at thepolitical cesspool.org.
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It was the most amazing thing.
I will tell you that Donald Trump showed more courage this week than any American president has since Jefferson Davis.
That's what he did for any shortcomings Trump has had as a president since his inauguration, which I was at with Jared Taylor front row.
He absolved himself of it, in my opinion, with his statements this week on the Confederate monuments.
He compared Robert E. Lee to George Washington, and rightly so.
He said the statues were beautiful and wouldn't be replaced with anything comparable.
Boy, was he prophetic, because guess what happened?
The city of Baltimore went in the middle of the night a couple of nights ago and removed two beautiful monuments of Robert E. Lee and Stonewall Jackson, threw them in the city dump and replaced them with a statue of an anonymous black woman, pregnant black woman.
Okay, so there's that.
And I did read one story where people who were going around these mobs that are going around desecrating Confederate monuments, they actually sandblasted the face off Abraham Lincoln thinking he was a Confederate.
So for any of you that maybe tuned in tonight, you're so stupid, first of all.
But if you are listening, I just want you to know Abraham Lincoln was the greatest Confederate that there ever was.
So please go after his monuments first.
Last thing.
Hey, but hey, the Yankees have actually come out more equivocally in favor of the Confederates than any of these scallywag and carpetbagger mayors in the southern townsburg.
Charlottesville.
Gettysburg officials.
Confederate monuments are here to stay.
Period.
Full stop in the story.
And then I read another article, Donald Trump is a Nazi sympathizer because of his defense of the Confederate monuments.
Nazi is, of course, now defined as anyone who the lying press hates.
But the last thing I want to share before I toss this back over to Keith, there was a poll that was put out after Trump's press conference in which he defended the Confederate monuments and said that they needed to stay, that we shouldn't remove the monuments and their beauty.
A poll was conducted by National Public Radio, the public broadcasting system, and Marist, hardly friends of conservatives.
Are you in favor of keeping Confederate monuments?
62% said yes.
62% in this polarized political climate, not 62% of Southerners, 62% of all Americans said yes, keep the monuments.
27% said no.
11% said no.
From flyover country no, say our elites.
They are going to say, like Rousseau said, sometimes people need to be forced to be free.
So that's what the know-it-alls on the left think about all of this.
The thing that I think is most important about the whole fallout from Charlottesville is that we now know they've lifted their skirt.
We know what their tactics are.
First of all, they cannot let authentic voices of the alt-right or the Unite the Right coalition speak because they know that if they are allowed to speak, they will convince people and they will change them.
Now, Donald Trump, my two Southern Baptist friends here will appreciate this analogy, had altar call this week.
Basically, he had a true conversion experience.
I think he now knows that there is no future in cucking to the left.
There's nothing to be gained except showing your throat to a wolf when you try to concede the positions that the left takes, like the Nazis and the Ku Klux Klan were in charge of the Unite the Right rally.
The main reason to oppose that is that it simply was not true.
What was actually going on there is that the people from the Unite the Right were people like the League of the South, even Sons of Confederate Veterans people were there.
People from National Policy Institute, people from Red Eyes TV, people from all other types of groups across the whole panoply of right-wing activism.
Occidental Dissent had people there.
There are all sorts of Matt Heinbach's traditional workers' party.
For the most part, good, wholesome people.
Now, if you have thousands of people at any game, a movie theater, a political rally, you're going to have people that you wouldn't invite into your home.
There might be a burglar or a murderer out there.
You know, remember Phil Collins found a murderer at his concert one day.
Well, if you go to an NBA game, I'm sure there's a pedophile in the crowd of 20,000.
Does that mean everybody in the NBA arena is a pedophile?
And that's what we got to do.
Or if there's a Nazi or a Klansman attending a New York Knicks basketball game, are you going to say that the New York Knicks basketball game was a game of Nazis and Klansman?
Well, that's exactly what the press is doing here.
But Keith, I want to ask you quickly, because I'm coming up on a break and head.
He's got the next segment, and you don't want to miss it.
But your response, your reaction to Trump's incredibly inspiring press conference.
I tell you, that's the man I voted for.
That's the man I was proud to fight for, even while he was denouncing the fight.
Well, when he's got all his handlers out, I tell you what it was like.
It was like Goldilocks and the Three Bears.
His first press conference was too cold.
His next one was too hot.
And the third one was just right.
Hey, I was inspired beyond measure.
There is no other candidate, no other president in the last 150 years.
Well, there's nobody on our side except the most powerful man in the United States, the president of the United States.
He's come around now.
And I think he's had a transformation.
Hopefully Jeff Sessions has too.
Jeff Sessions cooked pretty hard.
He did at first, but then on the other hand, he hasn't had another press conference, but he's obviously watching Donald Trump, and he's seeing the great response, the validation he's getting from flyover country and most Americans to his hardline position against the liars of the left.
The left is basically seeing their world dissolve before their eyes.
People no longer believe anything that CNN, MSNBC, ABC, CBS, whatnot says.
And for example, his comments about Jefferson, on Monday night, PBS had an interview with Charlie Rose, that little simpering snob, and Al Sharpton, where they actually discussed taking down the Jefferson Memorial in Washington, D.C.
And Charlie Rose never registered any opposition to it.
And that's what got Trump on his jag against this.
He's absolutely right.
If, you know, the thing wrong with the Confederate cause was slavery, well, guess what?
Washington, Jefferson, and Madison, and all these founding fathers.
Everybody before 1965 was a white supremacist by the standards of the current year.
We got to take a break, folks.
Oh my goodness.
You got to listen to the whole three hours tonight.
We haven't even started.
We'll be back with more.
You've got to hear the next segment, too, though.
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When I was 12, I went to a party and everybody was drinking, and so I just grabbed me a beer and started drinking.
The first time I drank, you know, it was fun.
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Old times are not forgotten.
Look away, look away.
Look away, Dixie Land.
Sing and verse.
Shining For Dixieland That's where I've
was born.
Early Lord Frosty Morn.
Look away, look away, Dixieland.
All right.
Hey, listen, folks.
Let me tell you something.
Let me tell you something.
Did you hear that song?
You know that's American Trilogy by Elvis, his rendition of Dixie included.
This week was Elvis Week in Memphis.
Now, let me develop my thoughts, and I'll tell you how this ties into everything we're talking about.
So it was Elvis Week in Memphis.
Elvis Presley died 40 years ago this week on August 16th, 1977.
So this was Elvis Week and much more than a regular Elvis Week, which is held every year in Memphis on the anniversary of his death.
This one was the 40th anniversary of his death.
So it was an extra big production.
There was a concert on the night of his death this week on Wednesday at the FedEx Forum, which is the big NBA arena here.
It was Elvis live in concert.
Now, you may be asking, how is he live in concert when he's been dead 40 years?
Well, what they did was, here you go, Keith's making it.
Okay, I'm not going to say that.
Anyway, what they did was they have videos of him live in concert from other shows from when, of course, he was alive.
And they pull out all the music.
And what it is, is just Elvis' vocals of him live in concert, different songs from different performances, backed by a live orchestra.
So the music you heard was live.
It was the Memphis Symphony Orchestra live in concert, playing the music live with Elvis, Elvis' vocals on the big screen.
It sold out.
20,000 people were there.
Priscilla Presley was there.
Priscilla Presley came out to introduce the concert.
She came out after intermission, and she came out before the last song.
The last song.
Now keep in mind, this happened three days ago, this Wednesday.
She came out before the grand finale in this politically charged environment with the Confederate monuments being under such attack.
Priscilla Presley came out in downtown Memphis this week and said, Elvis loved this song more than any other because he loved the South.
And then they played, the band played American Trilogy.
I was there.
How do I know this?
I was there.
We actually had people come in town this week, lifelong friends of ours who are big Elvis fans.
They wanted to come in town for the concert.
So we hosted them and we took them to the concert.
I was there.
I saw this with my own eyes.
I saw people across the crowd there in the audience standing up with their hand over their heart during Dixie.
I saw them saluting and they went nuts for it.
And that happened this week.
And let me tell you what else happened this week with our friends in town, the big Elvis fans that they are.
We went to Sun Studio, where Elvis recorded his first record, where he got made by Sam Phillips.
If you don't know this, Sun Studio is immediately adjacent to Nathan Bedford Forrest's grave.
If you walk out of Sun Studios facing Union Avenue and walk one block to the left, you are at Nathan Bedford Forest Park, where his grave is.
And let me tell you what else I observed this week.
In addition to the fact that at the Elvis Live concert, they played Dixie and the crowd went wild with approval, that Priscilla Presley came out to endorse it to say that Elvis loved this song because he loved the South.
What else did I see this week?
At Forest Park, I went to Forest Park.
I saw, I went there twice actually with my company.
We went downtown to buy tickets to the Sun Studio tour because it was very crowded this week because of all the Elvis fans in town.
And we walked over to Forest Park and I saw a stream of Elvis fans who had come into Memphis as tourists for the events from all over the world.
I saw a stream.
And I know they were Elvis fans because they were wearing Elvis t-shirts and hats and paraphernalia coming over to Forrest's grave to take pictures of it, to take pictures with it, to honor it.
And I know that they were there in full respect and admiration because of the way they carried themselves and because of conversations I had with them.
Then we went back and took the tour after we had lunch several hours later, and we went back to Forest Park and there were still a stream of Elvis fans coming out of Sun Studio, going and honoring Nathan Bedford Forrest.
Folks, what the media is presenting to you is not at all a reflection of what the general public feels about our history, our music, Dixie, our monuments.
We know that it's not because of this poll that we cited the last segment.
And I am sharing with you a very personal observance of what I saw at this concert and at Forest Park, not once, but twice in the past week.
Now, I understand there's some people down there today probably getting paid $25 an hour to desecrate the monument.
Oh, and what I also saw was police protection at Forest Park.
Not that they needed any because there were no demonstrators there that were in opposition, but the police were there keeping watch over our general.
Anyway, incredibly encouraging personal observances on multiple occasions this week from how the general public reacted to Dixie and to Forrest.
Eddie, respond to that, and then you've got the rest of the segment.
Well, I'll share, since you started off that way, sometimes we have to switch gears coming into the radio station.
I had a lot of notes prepared, but when you're in the news business, you have to be able to react.
You have to be able to react and overcome.
Anyway, I'll share a personal experience with you, James, and you and Keith may not know this either.
But the worst sunburn I ever had in my life was when I was nine years old, and it just so happened it was in Forest Park.
There used to be a waiting pool there back in the 50s.
And I slipped off from home, which I often did.
And I went down there, and I stayed in that waiting poo all day.
And you don't realize that you're getting sunburnt like that.
It's kind of like, you know, the old proverb when you put a frog in the pot and you start turning the water up, you know, turn the heat up real high.
Well, anyway, when I got home, I was so sick, I had fever, I was vomiting, everything like that.
But you're right.
And also in those days, I remember when, getting back to Elvis, James, I remember when Elvis Presley was a nobody, when they used to come around these, they looked like laundry trucks, kind of like vans.
They used to use them to haul groceries and laundries in it.
And I remember, once again, when I was about eight or nine years old, Living Old East Mortal, the interstate runs there now in Memphis.
You people in Memphis know what I'm talking about, but the rest of you won't.
But I remember playing this song, and I was young enough.
I went into rock music, but our older friend was talking about it.
He said, Well, who is that guy?
And they said, Well, some guy named Elvis Presley, you know, went to Hume's High School.
And also, James and Keith, as you well know, Humes High School, where Elvis Presley went to school, is not that far from Forest Park.
And one reason why Elvis Presley might have loved the South so much is because he was born and raised in the South.
And everybody here knows he was born and raised dirt poor in a town called Tupelo, Mississippi, which is, I guess, it's about 100 miles southeast of here.
And later on, when he was old enough to go to school, they came to Memphis.
And pretty much the rest is history.
But, y'all, Elvis came from a different era.
I've never heard anybody speak ill of him.
He was very generous.
And, you know, I'll tell you another thing about Elvis.
Not to interrupt you, Eddie, because we only have two minutes left.
I want to give you your time.
But one thing about Elvis that I always loved, not only was he born in the same county as my maternal grandparents and all of that that you just mentioned, but he made it bigger than anybody who's ever made it big.
He was probably the preeminent celebrity superstar that there's ever been, as far as an entertainer is concerned.
And he never left Memphis.
He didn't trade in Memphis to go to New York or L.A. or anywhere else in the world.
He lived and died in the South.
He's been dead for 40 years, and people still come here, but thousands come from all over the world.
You know, I'd like to also chime in about what you and Keith talked about the last segment.
If there's one thing we found out here recently with Charlottesville and what's happening with the attacks on the President Trump, on our president, is we smoked out all these fake conservatives, all these fake Republicans, senators, like, for instance, Senator Corker here in Tennessee.
Senator Corker has come out and said that Donald Trump is incompetent.
We have a lot of other attacks, probably for the same ones like McCain.
Hopefully, McCain won't be around with us much longer.
It looks like.
Because we hope he lives forever but loses the next election.
Of course, what that's talking about.
But, you know, amen to that, son.
But, you know, we see these people coming.
We've been smoked out.
And people, that's your cue right there, who not to vote for.
Anybody that's attacking Trump right now for supporting the South for telling the truth.
He wasn't just attacked for supporting for the South.
He was attacked for telling the truth, like James said.
He told the truth.
He told almost the truth.
There was not two bad sides in Charlottesville.
I was there.
We had one good side.
Did we have a few clowns down there?
Maybe.
I didn't see them because I couldn't see the whole thing.
But he told pretty much that he told the truth closer to the truth than anybody else has said it.
And the people that are attacking him know they're lying.
And so you need to take notice of all these so-called Republicans that attack him, and you need to destroy them at the ballot box in the next election.
And of course, Eddie, everybody's focusing on the death, and we're sad that that occurred, but that wouldn't have occurred had it not been for the setup by the conspiracy between what we believe the Charlottesville City government and the governor standing down and making sure that there was no police protection and safety.
Anyway, we're going to come back with Eddie at the next segment.