Nov. 11, 2017 - The Political Cesspool - James Edwards
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Here we go.
Another hour.
I was trying to add up how many hours we've done since we've started.
I mean, it's several thousand, obviously.
Thousands of hours on the radio.
And here comes another one, the latest, I guess you could say, this Saturday evening, November the 11th.
James Edwards, Keith Alexander, first hour.
We talked about the church shooting in Texas.
We talked about how you can't even go to church now to try to right the wrongs going on in this country because the church just gives you the anti-for-world view when it comes to social justice, or we say that in quotes, of course.
Talks a little bit about Roy Moore, the absurd accusations facing him.
We'll talk a little bit more about that this hour.
But first, I got a message today, Keith, from a listener in England.
And here's what he writes.
Hi, James.
I live in Yorkshire in the north of England and look forward to listening to your show every week.
It's great to hear analysis from you and Keith.
It is an antidote to the rubbish from the biased BBC about Trump, etc.
Best wishes to all of you, Patrick.
So I told Patrick we were going to give him a jolly good show tonight, Keith, and let's do that.
And it's interesting that Patrick brought up Trump because I had already had on the docket tonight on the agenda to talk about the fact that it has been now a year to the week that Donald Trump won the election.
In fact, as I mentioned to two people last night that we had the chance to go out with, Chris and Marie, I really enjoyed spending some time with them.
My wife and I went out to dinner with them.
And I was telling Chris and Marie that there is a new documentary that has just been released on Netflix.
The title of it is 11-816.
11-8-16.
That was Election Day last year.
And it's not the best documentary in the world.
It's definitely watchable.
If you've got an hour and a half free, I would say it's worth your time.
But basically what it does is it follows about 12 different people from different racial and ethnic and religious backgrounds in different parts of the country, from coal miner in West Virginia to a Sikh in New York to a black in Alabama.
I mean, it has everybody is represented there.
And it follows them throughout Election Day from morning, from the morning of Election Day, except for Christian white people.
No, they're not represented.
But from the morning of Election Day until after it was announced that Donald Trump was the president-elect.
And I got to tell you, they didn't really follow the people who, well, the coal miner in West Virginia would have been somebody that probably contributed to his election.
They had some of the staff at the L.A. Times that followed them throughout the day.
It was pretty interesting.
It was pretty interesting.
I thought it could have been better, but it was pretty interesting.
And I got to tell you, even though Trump is underwhelmed when compared to candidate Trump, President Trump hasn't really measured up, I got to tell you, a year later, watching that footage, watching these communist heathens, these evil people, watching them cry when Hillary, when we were, when God saved us from the evil of Hillary Clinton, watching that moment all over again, even though the Trump campaign denounced me several times, watching that again this week,
I felt absolute, absolutely euphoric.
It felt like a drug.
I tingled.
I tingled.
I literally felt euphoric watching these evil people cry because that evil woman lost.
And I was so happy that Donald Trump won because of that and that alone.
It reminded me of the scene where the witch in Wizard of Oz is melting after water is thrown on her.
That's what it's like.
The left, you can tell a leftist by their reaction to Trump's election, and you can tell an authentic conservative by the opposite reaction.
And if somebody who professes to be a Republican or a conservative is dismayed with the election of Trump, that's telling you that they are not authentic.
They are not the real deal.
That's basically one of the functions that Donald Trump served.
He was a way to separate the wheat from the chaff regarding who is authentically a person of the right, a person who is a nationalist, who is a populist, who is a conservative.
People who find trouble with him, neoconservatives, for example, they aren't real conservatives.
They're not authentic.
They're not the real deal.
That's one thing that Trump has accomplished.
Regardless of anything else you might say about him, he has drawn a line in the sand.
Now, Trump has been able to accomplish some things through executive order, but the fact that his legislative agenda has been bogged down in the Senate, particularly less so in the House, shows you that there is still work to be done.
What he needs to do is probably wait for the next election, see if he can get 60 votes in the Senate.
If he cannot, and of course they're doing everything they can to make sure that doesn't happen by running cutservatives like Ed Gillespie in Virginia and the Republican candidate for the New Jersey Senate seat.
Those are governorships.
But in Alabama, Roy Moore being the Republican nominee for U.S. Senate to replace Jeff Sessions and the fact that he is almost certain to win the general election in Alabama, that really has these people in a tizzy.
If they're really in a tizzy, then that is a very good sign.
That's what we need to be focused on, causing them as much discomfort as possible because they will holler and shout when their ox is gored.
That's what we need to be doing because the left has been very comfortable.
They owned both liberalism and neoconservatism.
They own both the Democratic establishment and the Republican establishment.
Trump came in as an outsider.
Now, Trump is being subverted.
Who is subverting the Trump revolution?
The usual suspects, the members of the tribe.
As you see, people like Steve Bannon and others have been made to walk the plank.
For example, Jeff Sessions is always getting blamed by Trump for not for recusing himself from the Russia investigation.
And quite frankly, if he had not recused himself from it, that would have been monopolizing every moment of his life as the Attorney General.
But no one wants to mention the guy that actually appointed the duplicitous leftist Robert Mueller to be the special counsel in charge of the Russia investigation.
That was Robert Rossenstein, PopQuiz.
Robert Rosenstein is a Southern Baptist, an Episcopalian, a Presbyterian, or a Jew.
Now, you know, if you can't answer that question, then you haven't been listening to this show long enough.
This is what's happened.
Basically, his inner council now is like a bar mitzvah.
He's got all these guys from Goldman Sachs.
He's got his son-in-law, Jared Kushner.
He's got Gary Cohn.
He's got Robert Rossenstein.
He's got all these other people that are basically getting him into these foreign policy misadventures.
As Ann Coulter said recently, forget China, forget North Korea, build the wall.
All right, we've got to take a quick break.
When we come back, quick final, we're going to give Keith 60 seconds to give us his full assessment on the first year of the Trump administration.
60 seconds or left.
If Keith's going to do that, I'm going to circle back to Roy Moore very quickly.
And then before the end of the next separate, we're also going to touch on all of the everybody's raping everybody in Hollywood.
At least that's what they're saying.
We'll be back.
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Okay, folks, believe it or not, it has been just about exactly a year since Trump was elected president-elect, and I will never forget watching the returns that night.
I'll never forget being so happy.
So happy that Hillary lost.
I'm glad Trump won.
There's a few things that I'm excited.
We covered it live that night.
I was on with Sam Bushman for a live extravaganza of the Liberty News Radio Network.
I did a show with Red Ice live that night.
And I just, I'll never forget where I was when Trump won, what I was doing, that whole experience.
Part of it was because I had some faith that he would be a better president than I've ever had in my lifetime.
And part of it, a big part of it was because Hillary lost and we were able to spare ourselves that evil.
And her evil supporters were able to feel that pain.
And I enjoyed that.
I got to admit, that's a guilty pleasure of mine.
Keith, 60 seconds.
Go.
The first year, give him a grade.
He's one year in.
Give him a grade.
Successes and failures.
60 seconds.
Solid C is the grade I would give him.
He's got to wake up and smell the coffee about Jewish power and influence.
He needs to start reading the Occidental Observer.
He needs to figure out that Jews are the most liberal part of the white population.
They will always subvert a gom like him unless you are acutely aware of their influence not only today but throughout history.
This is what needs to be done.
He needs to get Jew-wise in a hurry.
And if he does that, if Donald Trump will do that, then there is hope that he will accomplish what it is possible to accomplish through his presidency.
Give me, I think we all know the shortcomings he's had as a president when compared to the promises of his candidacy, but give us one thing or a couple of things very quickly that he gave us that we wouldn't have had otherwise.
Well, one thing he's doing, he's going to replace the Yenta, Janet Yellen, as head of the Federal Reserve Board and replace it with a goam, which is one good sign.
I don't know how in the world people like Gary Cohn allowed that one to slip past their camp, but that's one of the things.
I think anything policy-wise, other than appointment, because his appointments have been pretty bad.
Is there anything he's done politically that we can feel?
Obviously, we don't have a wall yet.
We don't have the first brick on that wall.
No, we don't have that, but he's, you know, the appointment of Jeff Sessions was one of the best things.
Okay, Jeff Sessions is not his only good appointment, but yes, but it was a good one.
That was a good appointment.
And I think that some of these other people are falling by the wayside.
Maybe the scales will be falling from his eyes.
All we can do is hope and pray that that's what happens because the success or failure of the Trump presidency will depend entirely upon liberating himself from Jewish power.
Okay, now, if you want to celebrate his victory all over again, watch 11816 on Netflix.
And even if he's fallen short of your mark, you'll at least be happy to see these people so upset that Hillary lost.
I know I was.
Now, I have in the archive notes, and I can't change it now, the archive notes that I'm going to post after the show airs tonight when you go to the broadcast archives and listen.
I have it listed here that we are going to cover the absurd allegations facing Roy Moore.
Now, we actually sped through the pace in the first hour a little more quickly than I anticipated.
So if you want to hear our commentary on Roy Moore, go to the last segment of the first hour.
We covered it.
Give him a 60-second recap on that.
Where do we stand on more?
Roy Moore is a perfect example of Jonathan Swift's observation that if a true genius appears in the world, you will know him by this sign.
All the dunces are in a confederacy against him.
Jonathan Swift was an 18th century English writer that if you used to be an English major back in the 50s, 60s, 70s, or before then, you would be required to read what he said.
He is the author of Gulliver's Travels, among other things.
Well, that's what Roy Moore represents.
Roy Moore is an authentic, conservative voice, a man of the people, a populist, a nationalist, and therefore totally toxic to the establishment, both Republican and Democrat, that runs our government and particularly runs the legislative branch of the United States government.
That's why he is drawing all this fire.
The charges made against him are absurd.
They can never be substantiated in a court of law.
And we need to ignore them.
The idea that somebody should fold his tent and get out of politics if some unbalanced individual or some mendacious individual makes those type of charges against him.
Basically, all you have to do is make this type of charge against anybody from Mitt Romney to Chuck Schumer to anybody.
And they all have to get out of politics according to the rubric that they're trying to foist on the rest of us here in America.
Roy Moore is a white heterosexual Southern Christian male.
That's why he's hated.
That's why it's opposed by the establishment, the media, all of his detractors.
I would vote for Moore twice now because of this.
I would vote for him.
I support him 100%.
I don't believe the allegations.
And I would vote for him regardless.
As I said on Amos and Andy, I don't only deny the allegations, I resent the allegator.
Well, again, if you want a little more of our take on that in our archive notes, it's going to look like we've talked about it extensively this hour.
We actually talked about it mostly at the end of the first hour.
So you can go back and check that out.
Now, where there is undoubtedly some sexual misconduct is in Hollywood.
Everybody's raping everybody.
Somebody's doing the raping.
It all started with Kevin Spacey.
And I read something now.
It's something new.
Richard Dreyfus' son wrote some.
He came out as saying Kevin Spacey molested him with like some homoerotic novel.
It said, there was Kevin's hand on my thigh and it's cinematered by centimeter until he had all of my manhood in his hand.
I mean, what kind of confession is that?
Is that like, is he like, well, you know, let's get right down to it.
But it's everybody.
I mean, everybody in Hollywood is casting these allegations against each other.
Every actor is a good person.
Well, it's true.
Well, the thing is, I'm inclined to believe them.
The casting couch has been going on for aspiring female movie stars since before the 1920s.
Look up Fatty Arbuckle, for example, and his history.
Look at a book called Hollywood Babylon 1 and 2 if you want to read about this.
The casting couch for males who were required to succumb to the homosexual advances of directors and producers began in the 1950s with all these elaborately lamed stars like Tab Hunter and Rock Hudson, Rory Calhoun and whatnot.
That basically now, today, I don't feel particularly sorry for any of these starlets or stars, male or female.
Well, some of these claims, because quite frankly, I really truly believe that they would not have been cast as stars in movies had they not succumbed to the casting couch.
It's that pervasive in Hollywood.
And quite frankly, I would hope that this scandal spins out of control and that basically Hollywood goes broke trying to defend this.
Maybe then we can get a moral film industry in place that will provide wholesome films like we had before the mid-50s in America when you had censor boards like the one we had here in Memphis run by a Christian gentleman named Lloyd Binford that policed what Hollywood was doing.
Hollywood has been free to run amok morally ever since the late 50s and they have.
This and all these stars that are claiming that they were violated in this situation, quite frankly, they would not be stars or starlets today had they not succumbed to it.
So basically, they were willing participants in this in order to raise their star and to become a big shot in front of the camera in Hollywood.
They played along with the game.
And now it's become very fashionable to tut-tut about this.
But on the other hand, they know what they were doing.
They knew that that was the price of admission into Hollywood stardom.
But they did it anyway.
So I'm not, I think that the whole group of them, both producers, directors, and people in front of the camera, are as corrupt as you know what.
And as a result, I have no sympathy with any of them.
I think that they all are getting what they deserve.
And I think that it's time for the rest of us to sit in judgment of them and say, we're not going to support this immoral enterprise called the movie and television industry.
We'd love to see Hollywood and the NFL go bankrupt.
And maybe they will.
Maybe they will.
But I'll tell you what, this has been like a train wreck.
You can't stop watching.
And all of these, there are new allegations by the A-list actors every day flying back and forth about each one molesting the other one.
What a sick world.
But they're not getting confessed by the public.
It's the real world.
We don't call it Hollywood Babylon for nothing, folks.
We'll be back.
We're going to switch gears.
Last half of the show, updates on what happened in my court case.
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Okay, folks, if you know what movie that song is from, you're going to get an autographed copy of Racism's Macism.
Anything goes, that's for sure, at least in our judicial system after my experience in court was decided on Halloween.
Actually, a lot has happened since then.
Last week in the first half of the show, we talked about that president-setting decision.
Now, for the remainder of the show, we're going to do the same and give you some of the updates on what's happened since last Saturday night.
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So, as you know, the Michigan Court of Appeals decided that I am, in fact, or can at least be called a leader of the Ku Klux Klan because I have said things on the show that Klan people, if they listen, may agree with.
Well, what did I say on the show?
They don't really get into that.
Did I say that?
Or at least the people who populate the Michigan Court of Appeals thinks like.
You say something that they think is Klannish, I suppose, for lack of a better term, then you are appropriately called a Klansman, not only a Klansman, but a leader of the Klan, and you have no defense against that particular slander.
But they didn't go into any detail as to what I may have said.
If a Klansman was listening, that he may agree with.
I believe in God.
Does the Klan believe in that?
I believe we should have secure borders.
I believe that the sun rises in the east.
I mean, I guess all of those things a Klan member could agree with.
Then they said, of course, I'm associated with Klan figures.
Well, you know, if you are looking to how many hours have we been on the radio?
Thousands of hours over 13 years, and you have this biased opinion.
Yes, you can probably find a couple of things I've said and a couple of people I know out of the world.
Hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of people that I know and have interviewed.
Well, they picked Sam Dixon, a great man, one of my best friends, who had once upon a time, once in his life, one time, defended a Klansman in court.
And then, of course, David Duke, another man I won't distance myself from, who was in the Klan and has regretted it ever since.
So, yeah, okay, those two.
If we get to this whole thing where through guilt by association, everybody's guilty of everything.
This is what somebody on Twitter wrote.
Unfreaking believable guilt by association is now enshrined in case law.
And where does it stop?
Two degrees of separation?
Three?
We're all six degrees separated from Brad Pitt.
Isn't that what they say?
So where does it stop when you start down this slippery slope?
Anything that you say that a liberal would disapprove of apparently now justifies you being called a leader of the Ku Klux Klan.
Incredible, but true.
That has been passed down.
And I will tell you what makes this so significant.
Really, a lot of things.
NPR reported on it last week, as you know.
The Detroit News, the very paper that wrote the article that spawned the lawsuit, they did a victory lap celebrating it.
Although they did give me the courtesy of a call, and I gave them a quote.
And ironically, in this article, now that they won the right to call me a Klan leader, they refer to me as a conservative radio host.
Go figure.
You know, and again, what was the authority, the legal authority upon which they hung their hat?
Not a U.S. Supreme Court case, not a reading of or recitation of the First Amendment or any other part of the Constitution.
They rested it, lo and behold, upon Aesop's fables.
I don't think that has ever been done before.
Legal precedent based on Aesop's fables.
Well, I got something, Keith, that you don't even know because this just broke today.
And I hadn't had a chance to talk to you yet today until you got to the station tonight.
So here's what's going on.
There is a publication called Michigan Lawyers Weekly.
This is obviously a trade publication that goes out to officers of the court in Michigan, right?
And so they're doing a featured piece on the Edwards versus Detroit News decision.
And they asked my attorney, Kyle Bristow, for a comment.
And they asked him a couple of questions pertaining to the judge's opinion.
And this is what Kyle wrote back in part.
I believe the Edwards opinion radically alters Michigan defamation law by one, creating a guilt by association affirmative defense whereby innocent people can now be slurred simply because of their loose associations with third parties.
And two, disregarding the letter and spirit of the law as far as the restatement of torts is concerned when it comes to what constitutes defamatory statement and how defamatory statements published in opinion pieces are to be treated.
Kyle goes on to write that I was shocked that Aesop's fables was cited by the Michigan Court of Appeals and tweeted as a quasi-persuasive legal authority.
I disagree with the assessment that calling someone a leader of the Ku Klux Klan is ambiguous.
If 1,000 people were polled, every single one of them would understand that designation to mean but one thing.
And that was his comment to the Michigan Lawyers Weekly, which is doing a big piece on this decision.
And here's what it comes down to.
The Ku Klux Klan is a membership organization.
You have to affirmatively act to become a member.
You have to apply.
Your application needs to be accepted.
And you have to pay dues, from what I understand.
Now, James did none of those things.
And if you're not a member of the organization and James certainly wouldn't qualify as a member, then how can you be a leader?
Well, they said it in the opinion, which you've read.
They said, no, he never was a member.
He never was technically a leader, but he was an opinion leader because Klan people could listen to his show and maybe agree with some of the things he says.
Plus, he knew Dixon.
So there you have it.
And Duke.
But see, this is the type of, you know, what were these opinions that he shared with Klansmen?
Again, the silence is deafening.
Nothing is said about that.
This is the most intellectually bankrupt court decision that I think I've ever read.
Well, as someone put it, this, I'm not going to say, look, I don't know those judges' hearts.
If this was their honest interpretation of the law, God bless them.
But I know another lawyer.
I have actually been contacted by several lawyers who I've never previously heard from before.
This case made big news, right?
I mean, it made a lot of news in Michigan.
National Public Radio, other organizations have done stories on it, and there's still more stories being written about it.
And this was a published opinion, meaning it was a precedent-setting opinion, as we mentioned last week.
And I have had lawyers from different parts of the country write to say that this is an embarrassment to their profession, that regardless of what they may feel about my politics, this flies in the face of all previously accepted law concerning defamation.
So that actually, I mean, for what it's worth, made me feel good.
Well, look, in practical terms, this is a very worrisome opinion because despite the best efforts of groups like the Southern Poverty Law Center to create equivalent defamations and slanders against right-wing thought and exponents of right-wing thought, basically the only two that have any traction with the general public is to call somebody one, a Klansman, or two, a Nazi.
Both are membership organizations.
The left throws these terms around like confetti at a wedding, okay?
This is their favorite slur, and they continue to go back to it.
Groups like the Southern Poverty Law Center have tried to come up with the hate group registry, but the hate group registry contains groups like the American Family Council of Tony Perkins and James Dobson's focus on the family.
Now, when people hear that, they know just exactly how absurd and how far out into left field, no pun intended, these type of claims are.
But when you call somebody a Klansman, particularly a southern white male, you call them a Klansman, for some reason that gets people's attention and they give credence to it, even when it's a totally false charge.
I have no idea exactly what the Ku Klux Klan believes, but on the other hand, I think that the three justices, two Jews and a black woman, that rendered this opinion in James Edwards' case, have even less of an idea of what those offending thoughts might be.
But nonetheless, they fashioned, cobbled together, you know, an opinion based on supposition and suspicion and Aesop's fables and all sorts of other non-traditional sources upon which to.
Have you ever heard of Aesop's fables being consulted to help provide to help a judge render his decision?
No, I have not.
But then on the other hand, the Brown decision relied on doll studies by a sociologist.
So, you know, this is the type of absurdity that the left resorts to when they're desperate.
More on this in a second.
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Okay, so we told you in the last segment about how this legal trade journal in Michigan now doing a featured piece on this.
My attorney copied me, CC'd me in this email responding with this statement, which is what I just read to you very by the book.
And I think very sound.
I want to tell you one more thing.
We want to take a caller in Canada.
This is another thing that I did not know until this morning.
Basically, this decision has rewritten officially Michigan defamation law.
To show you how radical the Michigan Court of Appeals opinion is regarding Edwards versus Detroit News, the organization ICLE, which publishes legal guides for Michigan lawyers, similar to how Westlaw and LexisNexis publishes guides for lawyers in other states, this entity, which again publishes guides to help inform the opinion of lawyers and judges going forward, saw fit to immediately update its overview of Michigan defamation law.
This case was decided a week and a half ago, and already the guides that inform lawyers has been updated.
And that was an immediate updating.
And it's not even a Michigan Supreme Court decision.
This is an intermediate appellate court decision.
And I've got here, Keith, a screenshot of ICLE's introduction to defamation in its official torts book.
There are five paragraphs to introduce the reader to defamation law in Michigan.
And they saw fit to dedicate one of those five paragraphs to the Edwards opinion.
This is what it reads, and then we'll take our call.
In Edwards v. Detroit News, Incorporated, the Michigan Court of Appeals decided on October 31st, 2017, that the plaintiff was a radio show host who brought down based on a newspaper opinion piece asserting that he was a leader of the Ku Klux Klan.
Although there was no evidence showing that plaintiff is or was a leader or member of the KKK, the Court of Appeals noted that plaintiff shared consistent views on his radio show and publicly supported individuals associated with the Klan.
The court held that the statement in the opinion piece was there for open to several plausible interpretations and constituted protected opinion speech.
30 seconds and we got to take our call.
Your response to that.
It goes to show, though, hey, history's going to remember this as a precedent-setting decision.
Not only could it be cited and will it be cited going forward, now in their official book, it's in there.
It's already in short.
It's like that song you were playing, Anything Goes, is what they're saying.
Basically, a newspaper can say anything they want to about you and defend it under that flimsy rubric.
That's why you need to appeal this on a written surferi to the Michigan Supreme Court and give them a chance to clean up this rubbish.
Otherwise, they are going to be the laughingstocks of the legal community when this thing eventually winds its way to the U.S. Supreme Court and the U.S. Supreme Court knocks it down.
Yeah, well, I don't know.
Right now, my name can live in infamy forever.
You've got Brown, Rowe, Loving, and Edwards.
I think those are pretty much the...
Let's go to Thurston in Canada.
What do you got for us, Thurston?
Yeah, I just wanted to attempt your trivia question.
Ah, yes, indeed.
Yeah.
Is the film Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom?
You got it.
That is exactly it.
And I was watching that recently.
I said, right, anything does go.
Anything goes in court.
Anything goes.
I don't think that was exactly what Kate Capshaw was hitting at in that opening montage.
But very good, Thurston.
I appreciate it.
How about that?
He was listening and actually took the, I meant it seriously.
I wanted somebody to get that.
Well, it shows he spent his time watching modern movies.
I love the Indiana Jones.
Well, it's not a trilogy now.
But we do need to have people that watch it so they can expose them.
I like the Indiana Jones stuff now.
I got to be honest with you.
So, hey, thank you so much for calling in and getting the answer.
If you can email me, go to our website contact page, email me your address, and we'll send you a couple of goodies, all right?
Okay, great.
Thank you.
Thank you, buddy.
I appreciate that.
I'll have to point out to you the poison that is laced through the Indiana Jones.
Look, I know all of that, but it's still good acting and it's good fun.
I mean, I've seen them all, so I know what you're getting at.
You know, remember what the immortal Alexander Pope said.
He said, vice is a monster of so monstrous, frightful a mean, M-I-E-N, in other words, appearance, that to be hated needs but to be seen.
But seen too oft, familiar with her face, we first endure, then pity, then embrace.
Okay, I think I got something.
You have been warned.
Okay, well, getting back on point, Keith, a lot of other press coming out this week.
I'm going to read you a couple of statements.
You respond, it's going to have to be rapid fire.
So, again, the Detroit News, which was the newspaper who wrote the original column that prompted the lawsuit, called me this week and asked for a comment.
But I'll tell you how their opening sentence reads.
The Michigan Court of Appeals rejected a claim this week by a conservative Memphis radio host, which is a lot more accurate than the other, that they had called me in the past, who said he was defamed by the Detroit News and columnist Van Cole Thompson.
The three-judge panel of the appeals court upheld a lower court ruling that Thompson's column was protected opinion under the First Amendment and that the complaint by James Edwards could not proceed to trial.
So they quoted me as saying I had no immediate plans to appeal.
They quoted me as saying, of course, I'm not a Klan member.
They quoted me as saying I am, in fact, a conservative Christian pro-white advocate.
They also quoted the defendant's attorney by saying, this is a case, this case was an attempt by someone with white supremacist views to silence courageous people like Van Cole Thompson who will criticize them for their views, said news attorney Lynn Niehoff.
He also said that this decision is a testament to how important the work of journalists is and how important their contribution to the democratic process is.
Would you like to respond to that?
Yes, absolutely.
Apparently, you can resist them by any means necessary, like that bogus group.
You can say any slander about them.
You can defame them.
You can misrepresent facts.
And all that is all right as long as you are engaged in the holy task of trying to resist right-wing opinion and thought.
So that was in the Detroit news.
And I got to tell you, I'd be lying to you if I told you that this miscarriage of justice doesn't sting.
I don't think this stands up to legal scrutiny, but the law is what a judge says it is, right?
I mean, we've learned that all the way down before.
You're finding out what has happened now.
There is a good article, at least largely good, in Faith and Heritage, which we link to at our website, about this decision.
And the header to it says, 70% of federal judges are now liberals.
This is another shortcoming of Donald Trump.
There are plenty of vacancies on the federal court, and he needs to move post-haste to fill those vacancies with hard-headed conservative justices that will at least provide a differing opinion to the type of opinions that are emanating from sewers like the Michigan Court of Appeals.
You don't have to worry about it, Keith, because you've got journalists making sure that democracy is protected.
That's what the defendant's attorney said in this piece.
And you've got courageous, honest justices who will make sure people like me are locked out.
Hey, I do want to say I did an appearance with Red Ice this week about the case.
You can check that out on our website.
One interesting thing, a media ethics organization investigated this court ruling.
So I thought that was pretty interesting.
So earlier this week, I agreed to an interview with the watchdog group iMedia Ethics.
It's a not-for-profit, nonpartisan news site that publishes the latest media ethics news and investigations into ethical lapses.
So I thought it was very interesting that they thought this case was worthy of their attention and had a very good exchange with them and that they start out their article by writing, it was not libelous for the Detroit News to call Memphis radio host James Edwards a leader in the Ku Klux Klan.
The Michigan Court of Appeals ruled, according to Courthouse News.
In an email to iMedia Ethics, Edwards called the ruling a miscarriage of justice.
They also quoted me as saying this, in my opinion, it is a miscarriage of justice when a media outlet is allowed to libel a conservative activist by blatantly violating the legal definition of what constitutes defamation, according to the restatement of torts.
It's amazing that someone who is not a member of a terrorist organization can be alleged to be its leader.
This goes above and beyond the free speech protections that sanction rhetorical hyperbole.
And then I mentioned, of course, that Donald Trump spoke on the campaign trail about loosening the libel laws that shield renegade news agencies so that the victims can seek recourse in the courts.
And I now call on the president to deliver on that promise.
I should add that the first interview I gave about all of this was to Sam Bushman Liberty News Radio, Liberty Roundtable Live.
We did that, I think, the day after the decision was handed down at the end of October.
So check that out for a great two-hour episode with Sam Bushman and Kurt Crosby.
But Occidental Dissent covered it, as you mentioned, Keith, Faith and Heritage.
But I was very pleased to see that this media watchdog group that focuses on ethical lapses by the press, well, I wanted to cover this case, and they did about the most objective job you can imagine from somebody that's not a friendly.
Quite frankly, somebody named Beehole Thompson, you could expect something like this from what is really alarming is that a court of appeals populated by supposedly learned judges would come to the defense of this type of defamation and render such a startlingly intellectually bankrupt opinion as this.
Well, that's where we're at.
So I want to remind everybody we've got a very special surprise in the third hour.
Please stay tuned for the third hour tonight.
It's coming your way in just a couple of minutes.
You don't want to miss it.
You're not going to regret it.
Keith, a final word to you before the music starts.
Well, folks, this shows you the type of struggle we're in.
We're fighting people that have control of our institutions.
The cultural Marxists, long marched through the institutions, apparently gone through the federal courts and other courts, just like it has the news media, the entertainment industry, our churches, academia, you name it, if it's an institution that helps form what is called our culture.
The cultural Marxists are in firm control.
That's the task we have ahead of us, but we're not going to shirk from it.
But we need your support, folks.
We do need your support.
Emily Rogers, I want to thank you for your article on this topic.
Got to take a break.
Keith will be back next week.
Eddie has the night off, and we got a surprise for you in the third hour.
Stay tuned for that.
We'll be right back.
There's more to come right here on the Liberty News Radio Network.