Dec. 30, 2017 - The Political Cesspool - James Edwards
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I sang
that hymn in church many, many, many times growing up.
To God be the glory for everything, for our year in broadcasting 2017.
To our audience be the glory as well.
Welcome to tonight's live broadcast of the Political Assess Pool Radio Program.
James Edwards and Keith Alexander looking back on the year that was tonight, this December the 30th, our last broadcast of calendar year 2017.
And what a year it was.
We're going to recount in this, our first hour, the top 10 moments of TPC's 2017.
If I do say so myself, I believe it's been another incredible year of battles and triumphs.
So we're going to try to revisit the highlights this first hour and really for the remainder of the show.
You deserve it, ladies and gentlemen.
Now, listen, I mean it when I say this is not a self-indulgent hour of backpacking, back patting, backpatting, patting our muscles on the back.
Thank you, Keith.
It's not that.
This is, listen, nothing we accomplish is done without God's goodwill and your generosity, ladies and gentlemen.
So what we do this evening is, as we do every year on our last show of the year, we are presenting to you a return on your investment for your prayerful support, for your financial support.
We are going to highlight some of the things that you have made possible through us.
We are your proxy.
We are your servants in everything that we've done and been able to do, accomplishments included, as a result of, of course, our Heavenly Father and our heavenly audience here on earth.
They are most certainly that.
So that's what we're going to do.
That's the first hour.
We're going to get into it at the top of this next segment.
I would just quickly say it's been a busy week off the radio as well.
About an hour ago, if you're listening to us live tonight at 6.11 p.m. as we broadcast from our flagship station here in Memphis to the CAM 1600, an hour ago, I was on the air with Red Eyes TV.
Henrik Palmgren and Lana Lochtiff, two of our good friends, they are having a year in review extravaganza on Red Eyes tonight with I think no less than 20 incredible guests.
And we were able to come on and give a quick review of some of the things we've been able to do.
Basically a snapshot of what you're going to be hearing on the show tonight.
And it was great to be on with Henrik and Lana.
Did a video for altright.com and Richard Spencer about the forest, Nathan Bedford Forest situation.
Of course, we covered that at length last week on TPC.
So for the comprehensive coverage, you can go back to our archives and listen to last week's broadcast.
But we did one for Richard, and that got a quick 10,000 views so far in the first couple of days on YouTube.
So we've been busy.
Tonight's already been a busy night.
It's going to be even busier before we get done.
So here's what's coming up, and then I'm going to toss it over to Keith for a word.
And when we come back at the top of the next segment, we're going to start counting down from 10 to number one, the top 10 moments of TPC's 2017.
So that's what's happening this hour.
Next hour, hour two, Keith and I are going to offer an update on the Nathan Bedford Forest situation, things that have happened since last Saturday's broadcast.
Okay.
And we're going to continue to read the response that has poured in.
I mean, literally poured into the show from listeners around the world this Christmas season.
Now, we spent an hour doing that last week, and we didn't even scratch the surface.
And then we've had another week of correspondence come in since then.
So thank you, dear audience, for all your love and support.
Third hour, TPC contributor Jack Ryan is going to be offering his Trader of the Year awards, and Scoop Stanton is going to offer his very own top 10 moments of TPC, which differ slightly from the official version, but he's got a good list too.
So that's all coming up throughout the show tonight.
Now, I know a lot of people have been wondering where in the hell is Eddie.
Eddie's fine.
He ran a marathon, and he'll be back next week.
We've said that before, talking to Eddie earlier tonight.
He misses everybody.
Everybody misses him.
He's back next week to kick off the new year.
So, Keith, that being said, you were talking about all the media we've done since last week.
I was on with Sam Bushman a few days ago.
You were on with the Sonny Thomas show.
Give us a quick Sonny Thomas is an AM TV simulcast, I think, up in Ohio.
You were on with Sonny.
Give us a quick snapshot of what you talked with Sonny about.
I know it was also year-in-review observations and reflections.
Yeah, that's it.
Basically, he got some of the people that are on his network.
A lady named Kat, somebody named Izzy, other people like this.
And we all shared our reflections about what was the most important thing last year.
What do you see the trends for the future to be?
Yada, yada, yada, just like everybody's doing this time of year.
And it was interesting.
Very, you know, I really wasn't aware of a lot of the people that are part of his network before, but I can tell you that they're first rate, and he's got a good operation going on up there in Ohio.
A lot of people doing a lot of good work.
And, of course, to be able to work with all of these people: American Renaissance, V-Dare, Red Eyes, Altright.com.
You're talking about Sonny Thomas' work up there in Ohio.
He does a show.
And we're right here in the middle of all of it, ladies and gentlemen, here at TPC.
And of course, the tip of the spear when it comes to the constitutional movement is Sam Bushman, deeply connected into that.
We're very fortunate to have a monthly spot on his Liberty Roundtable show.
And then, of course, Sam's producing us in the network studio in Utah every Saturday night.
It's just a wonderful collaboration that we have with so many good people.
And so that's what we're celebrating tonight as we look back on the year that was and make plans for the year to come.
TPC is healthy and strong thanks to your support, ladies and gentlemen.
Again, I say it has poured in.
Our cup is overflowing.
And it has just been a wonderful, wonderful, wonderful Christmas season with you.
It's been a wonderful year with you.
And we're going to start with number 10, go down to number one when we come back.
And I guess the cat's out of the bag a little bit because we did post it to our website yesterday.
We posted it to Twitter, the top 10, earlier this afternoon.
But if you haven't been on our website or on our social media at Twitter, you're going to hear it here.
And we'll offer you, of course, some thoughts that we didn't work in on either of those two mediums or outlets, if you will.
So it's been busy.
One last show, and then I'll tell you, coming up, we're going to get very aggressive in 2018.
We are going to get very aggressive.
Not that we were not aggressive in 2017, but after all the press and all the artillery that we were subjected to in 2016, one thing we wanted to do this year was to host our conference.
We wanted to have another conference, and we did have that incredible sold-out event.
It was an event that spared no expense.
It was an event that we put about $15,000 on the line to make that happen.
And I think we showed all right how to do it without unnecessary complications and problems.
And we've been a fixture in the news again this year, as you're about to find out.
But we wanted to keep a relatively low profile to ensure the integrity of that event that we held in October.
So the people could actually enjoy themselves at our conference.
That's right.
So we balanced it all, and we'll see how the year came out.
You tell us how it came out after you hear the end of this hour.
We're going to come back with a top ten right after this.
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All right, let's get after it, ladies and gentlemen.
Let's start in earnest with number 10 on our countdown.
The political cesspool, of course, mainstays in the press, but there was a particular magazine article that came out this year entitled Amazing Disgrace in the New Republic, written by an atheist Jewish woman, because nobody knows more about Christianity, Keith, than someone like that.
But it was entitled Amazing Disgrace, and we were presented as leading alt-right Christians, quote unquote, who quote unquote regularly disparage Russell Moore.
So with this show being a Christian show on top of everything else, that was an article that was particularly gratifying to me.
A special honor, I guess you could say.
Well, what can you say?
I mean, that's pretty much it.
It is.
So let's go to number nine on the countdown.
Andrew Fraser's book launch party.
We always enjoy getting out and meeting the people.
So when we were able to make public speaking appearances, it's always an annual highlight.
But I particularly enjoyed helping Drew promote his book about the role of faith in ethno-nationalist politics.
And of course, the name of that book was Dissident Dispatches, an alt-right God to Christian Theology.
And that was our incentive for the third quarter fundraising drive.
And Drew, of course, was on our show for an hour during that month.
And you did a fantastic interview with him.
It was a great meeting.
It was a lively exchange, a good crowd, and we were able to be there for the book launch party as part of a panel discussion about the content of the book.
And that's number nine on our list, Keith.
Well, we need to get Drew back, too, because he writes good articles on things like marriage and mating and things like that.
He's got a great article on the effect of the No Fault Divorce Initiative on white children, and particularly white children as opposed to children generally.
He links it up to the KR reproductive strategies for those who are genetically literate out there.
And we'd love to have him on.
We're trying to arrange that for you sometime here in the near future.
It's going to happen.
I mean, of course, it's busy around the Christmas season because we've got the countdown show.
We've got the Christmas show.
We've got some plans for 18 that's a little bit different than what we've been doing, not radically different.
We're going to do everything you know and love about the show, but improve upon it in 18.
And that includes with some dedicated time for guests and a featured guest each and every week.
Now, we typically do have a guest every week, but not always.
We're going to work on making things a little more structured going forward.
And Drew's going to be at the top of that list.
So we'll get him back.
The thing is, he's in Australia, so when it's Saturday night here, it's like Wednesday morning over there, so it's difficult.
Okay, number eight on the countdown.
Number 10, of course, this amazing disgrace article.
That was an article of all the press we received this year.
That was special to me.
Magazine article.
And I tell you, it's something to go into a store and see yourself in a magazine article.
You go to Kroger, or I don't know if everybody has a Kroger, but you go to your local grocery store and you can pick up a book with your name in it.
Number nine, Drew Fraser's launch party.
Number eight, Red 42.
So, of course, Keith, we got our very own spin-off show this year when correspondents Scoop Stanton and retired police officer Jim Lancia launched Red 42, which, of course, immediately follows TPC every Saturday night on the Liberty News Radio Network.
It's sort of our de facto fourth hour, but not entirely because they offer their own unique take on the issues.
That's a little bit separate and independent from the way we do business here.
But, you know, you've made it when you have your own spin-off show.
When you're big enough to birth a spin-off, that's something.
And 2017 saw that happen for you.
Well, Peter and Jim Lance here are working the kinks out of it, or maybe they're trying to work the kinks into it.
I don't know which one it is.
But anyway, it's coming on fine, and it's going to be a mainstay, I believe, eventually.
It takes a while to make a name for yourself in this business, and it took us a couple of years.
And, well, and we're still doing that, and we're still improving upon our craft.
So it's definitely a Herculean effort, and we wish them the best.
And of course, while they're working on that, they still have their roles here on TPC.
So number seven.
Okay, number seven.
You know, last year we redefined March Madness after conducting that interview with Donald Trump Jr. on Super Tuesday of 2016.
And by the time the dust had settled, everybody that had ever covered us and people who had never covered us before were covering that.
Everybody took a swing out.
That's for sure.
And we have a little more information about that.
Of course, everybody remembers that.
But we have more information about that.
You're just getting the poster boys for the alt-right and everything that was wrong with Donald Trump and his zeitgeist and his campaign.
You can read more about that.
Revisit that at thepoliticalasspool.org.
Everything we're talking about right now in the countdown is talked about at a greater length and to more extent at thepoliticalasspool.org.
So you can revisit that if you want to.
But it continued.
It continued in 2017.
And remember the initial burst last year?
Every time Donald Trump did something the press didn't like, we were brought into it.
Anytime Trump Jr. did something we didn't like, they were reminded of his interview.
You know, I figured it out, though, James.
Just like the smartest thing that Elvis ever did was dye his hair black, the smartest thing you ever did was shave your head.
Because then you became the skinhead, the resident skinhead of America.
And Rachel Maddow actually made mention of that on her TV show one night.
We've been attacked by Rachel Maddow a few times, but there was one night.
That's no fun.
Well, I don't like when guys like her say things about me.
It's like a woman being attacked by Harvey Weinstein.
A boy named Sue.
But she one night said, well, look, you've got skinheads like James Edwards doing blah, Well, I'm not a skinhead per se.
I lost my hair, you know.
And it's cheaper than buying a wig, right?
On the testosterone, burning off.
Get it out of here.
Anyway, we're getting off topic here with Donald Trump Jr.
What's number seven on the list?
Number seven on the list, the Boston Globe this year, after all of that attention, Donald Trump Jr.'s interview with Sam Bushman.
It was actually Sam Bushman's interview.
He was kind enough to bring us on to it, and everybody remembers that.
But Sam Alas is not a skinhead.
So, yeah, we got the press for it.
Anyway, the Boston Globe this year, this is number seven on the list.
We were included in Donald Trump Jr.'s biographical timeline.
I mean, can you imagine this, ladies and gentlemen?
Our interview with Don Jr. was such a recurring headline in 2016.
It resurfaced again this year when the Boston Globe, one of America's biggest and most well-known newspapers, listed it as a defining moment in Donald Trump Jr.'s life.
So if you read this biographical outline that the Boston Globe published, you see this timeline in Trump Jr.'s life.
And it has, oh, this is the year he was born.
This is the year he got his first job.
This is the year he got married.
This is the year he talked to James Hispania.
It's a modern version of the devil and Daniel Webster.
This is Donald Trump and the alt-right.
I have a healthy ego, Keith.
And it was a good interview.
Thanks largely in part to Sam Bushman.
But to have that included is one of the biggest and defining moments in the life of the when Don Jr. looked at pure evil face to face.
That definitely was worthy of the top 10.
They even tell the truth once in a while.
That's right.
Okay, so, well, we should all be proud of that because you made it happen.
All of this stuff, you made it happen.
Yeah, you would think that it was, you know, a satanic ritual, but just go back and listen to that interview.
And I can't think of a more mainstream-sounding interview ever being given by Donald Trump Jr.
Well, he agreed with everything that was said, whether it be by Sam Bushman, myself, or Kurt Crosby, who was participating in that as well.
Kurt is Sam's top lieutenant and a great guy.
And he agreed with everything, and he doubled down on everything, and he loved it.
And look, there's no doubt that he meant to be on because we got the invitation to have him appear on the political steppe pool a day after we were credentialed to cover his rally and brought past the people.
He definitely didn't perceive us to be the demonic force that the alt-left thinks that we are, or the New Republic, or Rachel Maddow and MSNBC or the Boston Globe does.
Well, and again, a lot of that stuff was 2016, but what was 2017 with the fact that it got included in this biographical timeline by major United States newspaper.
Okay, that brings us down to number six on our countdown.
What's that going to be?
What's number six?
We're going to get down to the top five in this next segment.
It's been a big year, bigger years to come still on TPC, so stay tuned.
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This first hour, and don't go anywhere before the end of the show tonight, ladies and gentlemen, because every hour is going to be a good hour, as they always are.
But this first hour, we are counting down the top 10 moments of the Political Cesspools year.
We're down to number six.
Now, if you tuned in late and you need to be reminded what numbers 10, 9, 8, and 7 are, you can go to our Twitter at JamesEdwards TPC, or it's comprehensively documented at our website, thepoliticalcesspool.org.
Check out TPC's Top 10 Moments of 2017.
Number six on our list is our Unite the Right broadcast.
Now, literally just hours, just a couple of hours after all of that mayhem took place, we broadcast live interviews with more than a dozen eyewitnesses from Charlottesville whose powerful testimony about what really happened that day stood in stark contrast to the maliciously dishonest narrative propagated by the establishment media.
Keith Alexander and I anchored the show from our home studio here in Memphis while co-host Eddie the Bombardier Miller reported live from the scene where he welcomed numerous participants on the air, including but not limited to Gene Andrews, David Duke, Brad Griffin, Michael Hill, Evan McLaren, Henrik Palmgren, Simon Roche, and several other names that you don't know that were there for that battle.
And we basically put together the story about what really happened.
Remember the killbox was our metaphor for what they did to the alt-right protesters.
And by the way, the name Unite the Right was coined because we decided we were tired of letting people that meant us no good to divide us.
We said, if you are objecting to the taking down of Robert E. Lee's statue, it doesn't matter whether that's the, you know, you want to reinstitute slavery on one hand or if you think that Robert E. Lee is the only Confederate hero that needs to be honored.
Anyway that, you know, if you're against taking down his statue, you're welcome to join in the protest.
And that's, you know, that's the real explanation behind the term Unite the Right.
And our people, all the right-wing protesters were funneled into a killbox by the police of Charlottesville.
The one thing, that all, basically what we said about it has been confirmed by the independent investigation that was chartered by the state and the local government to find out what actually happened.
Their version is very, very much like the version that we reported.
there on the very day when all this happened.
And the one thing that they are still trying to perpetrate the big lie about is the prosecution and persecution of James Fields.
They're trying to say that somehow he was trying to be like a Muslim terrorist and get up on the sidewalks and mow people down.
Nothing could be further from the truth.
And he's being held without bond.
And his charges have been increased from murder two to murder one.
And if that happens, this is something that is worthy of Stalinist Russia.
It was the biggest story of the year for the alt-right.
And the way we covered it, what we were able to do that night, thanks to, once again, to you, ladies and gentlemen, you were the people who sent in additional funding above and beyond the quarterly budget to help send Eddie there to report live on the scene.
So we had our man on the ground there.
Our man in Havana.
Nobody does it like the political cesspool.
And that show was referred to by many in our listening audience as the best we've ever done.
Now, keep in mind, we've been on the air for 13 years.
There are people who tune into this show every night.
Some people who tune into this show occasionally, if it's a topic or a guest they want to hear.
I heard from so many people who fall into either of those two camps that this was the best show we had ever done.
And so it was a very important show, certainly one of the most important episodes that we've ever produced.
And keep in mind that this top 10 list.
It was first-class journalism, too.
It really was.
I mean, from those of us here in the studio that night, you and I, Keith.
And Eddie getting us access to all of the reality.
And Sam Bushman, by the way, because we were bouncing back and forth in the studio to Charlottesville to other people taking phone calls, calling guests.
Sam Bushman anchored that show like a champion, too.
So he deserves producer of the year award for that.
But that's what we do here.
So that was a show, if you have to point to what's the value of TPC on the radio, there's an example right there.
So this top 10 list really is mostly things outside of the studio, above and beyond what we do on the radio every week.
But that show was so good, it deserves a spot.
Now, number five.
I'm going to go through number four and five quickly because they're both things that have happened recently and we've covered them extensively in the last few weeks of the show.
But of course, returning to that European television show is unique when you factor in our interesting relationship with Warner Brothers and SVT1, which were the two organizations that banded together to produce it.
But it reached millions of people throughout Scandinavia, and it ginned up quite a bit of press over there in Northern Europe.
And so appearing on that television show, we taped our parts in, I guess I'm doing third person now.
I went up there and taped my parts on April 25th.
It aired on December 6th.
But it got seen by a lot of people and brought a lot of new listeners to the show.
And as I said, of all the press we got in 2016 from the Trump campaign, I got more of a response from that one TV show than any single article or television report that we got last year.
So that was significant.
Number four on the top 10 countdown, James Edwards versus the Detroit News.
Now, everybody knows that story because that, again, was something that happened very recently.
I think that would have been ranked higher on this top 10 list had justice been served.
But my contentious court battle was one for the record books and literally rewrote defamation law in the state of Michigan.
But it's like I told Red Eyes today because they asked about it when we were on their TV show just moments before driving to the radio station to get on the radio tonight.
We're going to fight for our people.
We're going to fight for our cause in the court of public opinion, in the court of law, on the streets, on the airwave, wherever we can take the battle to the enemy, to the enemy of our God, to the enemy of our people, to the enemy of our culture, we're going to do it.
And so I would have rather delivered a win for our people, but there is still something to say for the man who will stand up and fight and fight it all the way to the wall.
And we did that, and we came up short, but better men than us have tried and failed also, Keith.
As Tennyson said, it is better to have loved and lost and never to have loved at all.
I guess it's better to have fought a court case and lost and never to have fought it at all.
Well, and I got to say this about Kyle Bristow, talking about number four on the top 10 list.
Even though it was a defeat, it was just an incredible, an incredible journey and an incredible experience.
Nobody could imagine how corrupt the American judicial system has become if they had not experienced what you experienced in that lawsuit.
It was an important lesson learned, and I'll also say no one could have, except for perhaps Keith Alexander, of course.
Outside of Keith, no one could have represented me better in court than Kyle Bristow did.
He argued it brilliantly.
He argued it flawlessly.
But when you're going up against three judges who are going to rule against you, it's like three judges who are to the left of Vladimir Lenin.
The way the judicial system works now is these judges have their political biases, and then they tell their clerks, their pages, their interns to go and find a law that will back up their opinion.
Yeah, this is actually now being codified as a way to handle appellate cases.
It's called legal realism.
In other words, you pick before you listen to the legal argument who the winners and the losers are, and then you rationalize the result.
Of course, that's just the opposite of what the proper method is, which is called starry decisis.
You base your opinion on prior decided case law or statutory law, and you try to make your ruling as narrow as possible and just fit to the particular case rather than making broad sweeping pronouncements about what social policy ought to be in America.
But of course, that isn't convenient for the left.
So the left, ever since the Brown versus Board of Education decision, has been doing the latter, and now they've come out of the closet and actually admitted to what they're doing.
Well, again, I channel talking about Nathan Benford Forrest here.
I'm one with my Confederate ancestors to have fought valiantly, but come up a little short, so there's no shame in it.
Well, as Theodore Roosevelt said, former president of the United States, a man who will not defend the graves of his ancestors is beyond redemption.
We did it, but we live in a world where the authorities think that they can dispense with normal judicial standards, normal legal standards.
They can do whatever they want to.
A group of people with poor impulse control, like the Memphis City Council, just finds a guardian angel with $250,000 to give them the money to do their dirty work.
And they say, the law and the legal procedures and the pending case be damned.
We're going to take these things, spirit them away in the night, and defy People who are opposed to this to do anything about it.
And again, you know, when you get right down to it, James, the key to that criminal conspiracy was the person that put up that money.
Without that money, there would have been a lot of poking holes in there with your finger by the other side and nothing done.
We're going to get to more of that in a second hour.
We are going to have an update on things that have happened on the forest front since last Saturday when we spent most of the show talking about that unfortunate conspiracy that circumvented state law.
But before we do any of that, we're going to tell you the top three moments of the political cesspools year in the very next segment.
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and keeps taking private calls on company time.
I think he is actually live on the phone right now.
Maybe we can go see who he's talking to and what he's talking about.
I told him to check in the mail as we come out of break here.
Okay, we're doing the top 10 countdown of most members.
Always be aware of a phone call where somebody says, I'm from the government and I'm here.
Yeah, that's right.
I let that one go to voicemail.
Anyway, top 10 moments at the Political Cess Pools 2017.
We're all the way down to number three.
Now, we're going through these a little bit more quickly than we do on normal years.
I think we normally take a couple of hours, if not the entire show, to talk about the top 10.
But we're only doing an hour tonight because we've got other things we've got to cover before the end of the year, really.
I mean, this is it for us.
And then we come back next year.
Brand new year in TPC, next Saturday.
Number three on the list.
Again, you want the entire list?
It's at Twitter at James Edwards TPC.
It's at our website, thepolitical cesspool.org.
Read more about each and every event.
Now, we're just giving you a thumbnail sketch of each item, but we go into more details about why they were so monumental to our year at the website, thepoliticalaccessible.org.
Number three, though, down to the top three.
People forget, I think, and this didn't make any news, but I gave a talk at Northwestern University earlier this year, had the opportunity in March to speak to a class of students at Northwestern University's prestigious Medill School of Journalism.
Now, what makes this appearance even more interesting was the fact that it happened as the result of a joint invitation issued by a professor and a student.
And after giving a short talk about my work on the radio and what was at the time our pending lawsuit against the Detroit News, I engaged in a lengthy Q ⁇ A session that ended with a round of applause.
Imagine that.
So we talk about, hey, we do conferences.
We do these appearances.
We do rallies like the one at Nathan Bedford Forest Park in 2015 that drew 500 people.
We go to the RNC.
We go to the inauguration.
We go to presidential rallies as credentialed members of the press.
We interview interesting people.
We interview congressmen, governors, senators.
And this was a talk at Northwestern.
And how that happened was there was this young girl named Anna Waters who is in that class.
And she had done a couple of interviews with me about the alt-right.
And she's already been published in the Washington Post and other newspapers.
But she said, you know, we really want you.
I'd like to invite you to come and speak to my class.
I said, well, your professor is never going to allow that.
And she said, no, no, no, I think he will.
We're learning about libel, and this is a media ethics class.
And sure enough, I got the invitation from the professor, and it was a great appearance.
So Northwestern University, very prestigious school, and it was great to be able to go there and talk.
So that's number three.
Number two.
I'm surprised they didn't have you chained on the stage like King Kong when you came into it.
Hey, they couldn't have, the professor, the students, they couldn't have been more accommodating.
And it's a little bit different than some of the other college appearances some of our friends made this year.
But it was a great experience.
And really significant, I think, because, again, what are we doing here?
We want to present our cause well.
We want to go to where the action is.
And speaking at universities is something that we need to do to shape minds.
I mean, these are going to be the people that were in that class are going to be the people we're reading about, the people whose articles we're reading in all of these publications in the years to come.
So this is, that was important.
Number two, on the top 10 countdown.
Number two, going to the inauguration.
Now, anybody can go to the presidential inauguration, but thanks to our work here on the Liberty News Radio Network and Sam Bushman, we received front row tickets to the inauguration.
Now, you say, well, James, you must have gotten there very early and gotten at the front of the line.
No, that's not how it happened either.
How this happened is, now, yes, you could have gone there and it was open to the public, of course, but we were in actually the VIP area.
I mean, front row.
I mean, you don't get those seats unless you're ticketed to have those seats.
And so I guess being on the AM radio still has its perks.
And receiving those tickets to sit on the front row at Donald Trump's presidential inauguration was certainly a memorable moment, not just in this year, but in my life.
It was a great week in Washington, shared with Sam Bushman and Kurt Crosby once again.
Jared Taylor was our plus one for that particular event.
I actually stayed at Jared's house and had a great time doing that.
Jared wasn't even at home when I got there.
He didn't get into the next day, but he left the key under the mat, and I trashed his house and had a big party and all that.
But it was a great event.
I tell you, the thing that I remember most about that week, or the thing I guess that was most special to me wasn't any of that other stuff.
It was me and Sam and Kurt meeting a supporter who is an attorney in Washington, D.C., who has a picture of us framed on his wall on his law office.
And he took us out for one of the best stakes I've ever had.
And it was just a great weekend of brotherhood and fellowship.
And, of course, to be there on the front row for all the arrows we took for Trump was a nice consolation.
And we've got some pictures from that event for you.
But as good as that was, what would you say was better?
The inauguration or the convention?
You're talking about the Republican National Convention?
Yeah, right.
I think, well, I think the Republican National Convention was probably more fun because it was a week-long event.
But I think a lot of people can go to a convention.
If you're in the media and you're in the mainstream media, now, I differentiate between mainstream and establishment.
Mainstream media, we're mainstream media.
We're on AM radio.
Establishment media is the corrupt oligarchy in media.
So we're not establishment, but we are mainstream.
A lot of people can go to a convention.
But to be front row at the inauguration is something that few people in the world can ever say that they have experienced.
And we were able to experience that.
That happened this year, and that's why it's number two on the list.
If I had to pick one or the other, what's to say?
I mean, it was.
The inauguration more prestigious, but the convention was more fun.
Yeah, I guess you could say that.
Overall.
They were both fun, though.
But I'll tell you, the most fun I had this year was not even being there with the president.
It was our anniversary conference.
That's the number one thing on my list.
We could spend a whole show talking about it.
God knows we did.
We did the live show from the event that week.
The following week, we spent the entire three-hour show looking back on that event and talking about the significant takeaways.
But the number one thing on my top 10 list for TPC this year was the 13th anniversary conference in celebration of 13 years on the radio.
Of course, we hosted that sold-out invitation-only.
It was just for our top financial contributors.
Sold-out invitation-only event that featured great speakers, incredible food, and Jared Taylor in concert.
I tell you, ladies and gentlemen, I have never seen anything like Jared in concert.
I've never seen that many women before in one place.
And they are all screaming and throwing their hotel keys at him.
It was just a sight to behold.
I must have slept through that.
Jared on the clarinet.
You know, and that was an event.
You want to talk about doing things first-class and first-rate?
That event was it.
Not only was it sold out, not only was it with the finest people in the world, the core of our listening audience, it was at a first-class facility.
And again, we didn't cut any corners on that.
We wanted it to be the best thing we could produce for our audience because we would go through the gates of hell for you, ladies and gentlemen.
I really would.
I would die for you.
I've already sacrificed my career for you.
I would do that and much more for you.
And I will continue to fight for you as long as you give me the trust and the faith to do so.
But we wanted that to be the nicest event it could be.
So we rented a, what, we spent $700 renting a piano.
We brought in this incredible, talented musician.
We won't say his name or where he's from, but he knows who he is because he listens to every show.
He's one of the finest men in the world.
A great friend.
I'm glad to call him a brother.
And he on the piano and Jared on the clarinet and Jared on vocals they put together.
That was a nice little add-on to the event, and it was memorable.
But the real star of that event was, of course, the spirit, the essence, the people there, us and the audience together, enjoying each other in person.
It was a nice departure from the front lines to share those familial bonds and strengthen those bonds and to feel the love.
If anything motivates this show and our work and all that we've done over the 13 years we've been on the air, it's love and sense of duty and honor to our brothers and our sisters.
And it was all there very palpable in October.
It wasn't until this conference that I realized that Liberace was a secret supporter of the political cesspool.
It was a great event, Keith.
Of course, it had to be.
You spoke there.
Well, one of the lowlights of the show.
Oh, come on now.
False modesty will get you nowhere here.
But it was a great event.
I can't remember everybody who was there.
But Sam Bushman spoke.
Of course, you and I spoke.
Eddie Michael Hill among the speakers.
Jared Taylor.
He doesn't just sing.
He can talk too.
And our maestro was a speaker.
Probably gave the best.
And probably gave the best presentation.
I think so.
I think so.
Virginia Abernathy, Dr. Abernathy, Gene Andrews, of course.
Brad Griffin.
God help me now if I'm leaving anybody out that was a speaker.
I don't think I am.
I think that covers them all.
Great meals, great camaraderie.
That's number one on the list.
Anytime I can spend a minute with our audience, it's got to make the list.
But I'll tell you a couple of other things that were right there that should have made the list.
Our show with Simon Roche.
We were talking about the Unite the Right broadcast.
Our great friends, Rich and Janice in Nashville, the Nashville area, brought Simon Roche to town, came down to Memphis to do a live three-hour show in the studio, raising awareness about the plight of our brothers and sisters and cousins in South Africa.
Then we had a private event at your house honoring Simon Roche, where he gave a speech.
You had an incredible spread and a get-together at your house, another private event.
And that certainly should make the list, too.
That was a memorable part of our year.
Wow, this hour went as fast as the entire year did.
That's the top 10.
Read more about it at thepolitical cesspool.org on Twitter at James Edwards TPC.
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