April 7, 2018 - The Political Cesspool - James Edwards
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You're listening to the Liberty News Radio Network, and this is the Political Cesspool.
The Political Cesspool, known across the South and worldwide as the South's foremost populist conservative radio program.
And here to guide you through the murky waters of the political cesspool is your host, James Edwards.
Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to Confederate History Month.
And welcome to the Political Cesspool Radio Program's celebration of our men who fought to preserve their families and their land from tyranny.
This is the Political Cesspool.
I'm James Edwards, and it's Saturday evening, April 7th, and we have been on the air for 14 years.
And for 14 years, we have dedicated the month of April, by and large, to our celebration and remembrance of Confederate history.
And I'm very proud to kick off our annual on-air celebration this year, tonight, when we welcome back to the program Kirk Lyons and Gene Andrews.
Those are going to be our special guests this evening to help us get things kicked off this month.
And we'll tell you more about each of those guests when they appear in the second and third hours, respectively.
Now, just a quick reminder, as we always give you at this point in our calendar, Confederate History Month, that's not something we made up.
It is a month that has been officially designated by several state governments in the South for the purpose of recognizing the history of the Confederate States of America.
April has traditionally been chosen because Confederate Memorial Day falls during that month in many of these states.
Confederate Memorial Day, also known as Confederate Decoration Day in Tennessee and Confederate Heroes Day in Texas, is an official holiday and or an observance day in the South as a day to honor those who died fighting for the Confederate States of America.
And as you know, ladies and gentlemen, the brave sons of the South were always outnumbered, always outsupplied, but never outfought.
But there is actually a little more history to Confederate History Month than that.
The war between the states, the war of northern aggression, officially began in April, and it ended in April.
It was the Battle of Fort Sumter, which took place April 12th through the 13th, 1861.
That was the official beginning of the war.
And of course, for all intents and purposes, the ending of the war also occurred in April of 1865 with General Lee's surrender at Appomattox.
So the war began and ended in April 1861, 1865.
And for those reasons, that is why April has been selected as Confederate History Month.
Now, if you're wondering, just as a point of fact, when was the first state to secede from the Union?
What was that state?
When did it happen?
It was South Carolina.
South Carolina was the first state to secede on December 20th, 1860.
But here in the Political Cesspool, we certainly do our part to contribute to the festivities of Confederate History Month.
Are the only AM talk radio show in the world that celebrates and remembers and recognizes and designates on air April as Confederate History Month?
And here's what we're going to do this month, ladies and gentlemen.
During each live episode of TPC aired during the month of April, you're going to expect two full hours of program to be devoted to all things southern.
Now, we're going to leave an hour to cover the news, as we typically do.
But not tonight.
Tonight, it's all three hours as we kick things off.
All times there are not forgotten here in Memphis.
Sometimes the calendar affords us five Saturdays in April.
This year, it only affords us four.
So with only four shows during our Confederate History Month series this year, we're going to be doing two hours a night, except for tonight.
It's going to be all three hours.
And in this first hour, I'm basically going to be telling you why we choose to do this every year and reminding you why it is important.
But if you want to go back in our broadcast archives, in the past years, we have had star-studded lineups during our Confederate History Month series featuring everyone from the celebrated author friend of mine, Michael Andrew Grissom.
He wrote the opus, Southern by the Grace of God.
We've had everyone from him to former South Carolina Lieutenant Governor Glenn McConnell on the show.
But why do we, why do we celebrate Confederate History Month each year on our award-winning show?
It is because, of course, well, there's several reasons, but not the least of which is, of course, our genuine pride of Southern heritage and our deep love and respect for those ancestors who fought to preserve the American way of life from 1861 to 1865.
And make no mistake about it, ladies and gentlemen, that is what they were fighting for.
And as I've said before, and I always love sharing this with you every year, we should never forget that the South was right.
There's no shame to bear.
In fact, I personally consider myself having won the genetic lottery when God allowed me, blessed me to come into this world as a Southern male and to have been born and raised in the former Confederate state of Tennessee.
That is my birthright.
It's something that I wouldn't trade for any amount of money.
It's an affirmation of pride that we should all share in the South.
And as I've made mention before, my great, great, great grandfather was a member of the Confederate Cavalry.
And on this day, ladies and gentlemen, hear me.
On this day, 156 years ago, my great-great-great-grandfather was fighting the Battle of Shiloh.
That happened 156 years ago today.
156 years later, here I am fighting in the best way that I know how to honor his legacy and his sacrifice.
I was born 115 years after Lee's surrender at Appomattox, but I tell you that I feel something deeply spiritual that comes over me when I hear Dixie being played.
My eyes still swell with emotion when I read of the gallant sacrifices that these brave men made in their attempts to stave off federal oppression.
And it is perhaps a feeling that only a Southern can truly and fully know, but I will reimpress upon you.
This is a show, of course, the political cesspool after 14 years has become a worldwide phenomenon.
We have listeners all over the world, and of course, in every region of the United States.
And we're going to share with our listeners outside of the South what they can gain and take from our Confederate History Month series this month.
That's going to come up a little later on in the show tonight.
But what is love?
What is love of not loving your own family and standing at the ready to defend their honor when need be?
And so that's what we're doing this month on TPC.
And we don't want you to miss a single installment of our show this month as we pay tribute to our voids in gray each week.
So we told you we're going to be doing it for two hours every week this month because we only have four Saturdays to do it.
And of course, there's not enough time to profile every hero.
A full accounting of the life of someone like Robert E. Lee or Stonewall Jackson, that alone could dominate every hour of available airtime we have throughout the month.
So we don't have enough time to profile every hero or every battle.
So here's what we're going to do.
What we're going to do is we're going to have a great lineup of guests on this month.
And each of our guests that appears on TPC during the month of April will be, of course, on as part of our Confederate History Month series.
Tonight it's Kirk Lyons and Gene Andrews.
And what we're going to be asking most of our guests tonight, Gene Andrews is an exception, and we'll tell you a little bit more about that when we come back from the break.
But we're going to be asking our listeners, what does Southern Heritage and Confederate History Month mean to them?
What does, well, I'll tell you a little bit more.
I'll tell you a little more when we come back because they're playing the music.
Oh, by the way, we mentioned that 156 years ago was the Battle of Shiloh.
Also, Eddie the Vomidere's birthday.
He's 156 years old today.
April 6th, happy birthday, Eddie.
We'll be right back.
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Okay, so what we're doing this first hour, ladies and gentlemen, is basically just reminding you what we do here on the Political Cesspool during the month of April and why we do it and what you can expect.
Now, once the calendar flips to May, which will come all too soon, it will come in four weeks, as it always does.
Then we'll get back to our more traditional programming and everything will go back to normal.
But this month is a special month.
And you know what our recipe here is at the Political Cesspool?
Our recipe is we talk about the things that we're most passionate about.
And that's the only way we can get through the rigors of being a dissident in this corrupt and insane society.
And so the recipes that you put into Blender each week of the Political Cesspool is, of course, a healthy amount of honest talk about racial realities and Jewish power and influence.
That is our bread and butter.
That is why people tune into this show, and that is why this show has made a name for itself by and large.
But also, there are near-equal parts that go into the mix of our Southern heritage, which, of course, we're showcasing this month for reasons you already know.
And then matters of faith, which we showcased, we had a heavy hand on last week, which was the show right before Easter.
So last week almost entirely dealt with matters of faith.
This month will be matters of southern heritage.
And for most regular weeks, we're talking about racial realities and Jewish power and influence.
But you put all that in a blender, you serve it up on the radio, and you've got our broadcast.
But I'll tell you again why we do it.
I am, as Eddie the Bombardier Miller is, as Keith Alexander is, as most of our staff here is at the Political Cesspool.
We are direct descendants of this noble line of brave and fighting men.
Now, to me, that is the highest honor that I could receive.
Other than my own wife and children, there is nothing in the world that could make me more proud than to say I am a direct descendant of a man who fought for something worth fighting for.
To have the branches of my family tree filled with lineal and collateral ancestors of those who fought for the Confederate States Army is just incredible.
It's one of the reasons I fight so hard to preserve and protect the memory of the Confederacy, because listen to this, ladies and gentlemen, a man who doesn't defend his family's name and honor is not a man at all.
And so I mentioned before the break, 156 years ago, my great-great-great-grandfather fought to protect his home and family at the Battle of Shiloh.
I am honored and privileged to have his blood in my veins.
He lives in me, and I will always defend his honor.
Now, I have said before, I would rather be on a dirt road in Mississippi than strolling through the streets of Times Square.
I mean it, and that is why those who hate us cannot understand our unwillingness to abandon our customs and our symbols.
This is who we are.
It goes to the very fiber of our being, the very marrow of our bones.
It is personal.
And it goes, of course, to the very DNA of this radio program.
The very first claim to fame this show ever had was back in 2005, 2006, when we stopped Al Sharpton from marching through the streets of downtown Memphis.
We stopped that from happening by hosting a vigil at one of the Confederate parks in downtown Memphis.
And then, of course, in 2015, this show played a big role in doing something that no one has done in this movement.
We rallied 500 people.
We helped rally 500 people at Nathan Ved Ford's grave in about two weeks' notice.
That's what we did.
Now, I'm about to bring Eddie the Bombardier Miller on.
There is something I posted on Twitter.
At James Edwards TPC is our Twitter handle.
If you're not following us on Twitter, join the party at James Edwards TPC.
There was something that I posted this week that ties into our regular weekly work here on the show, but also ties in certainly to our Confederate History Month celebration and remembrance.
And it's just a meme or a graphic that reads, if I wanted to destroy a race without killing them myself, I would promote race mixing.
I would promote homosexuality.
I would promote the irrelevance of a family.
I would promote feminism and divorce.
I would promote abortion.
I would teach them that race doesn't exist.
I would teach them to feel guilty and to be ashamed of their own heritage and their own family.
I would allow mass immigration into their country.
I would call them racist whenever they try to defend themselves.
So that's what's going on here.
And that is why we will never forget who our family is.
That is why we will never forget what our heritage is.
And for us here in the South, I was born this way.
And I wouldn't want to have been born any other way.
And so that is why the Political Cest Pool recognizes April as Confederate History and Heritage Month and our content on the show, via Twitter, on our website.
And the radio program itself, of course, will predominantly shift to all things southern.
Now, two out of three hours after this week, it's going to be dedicated to the Confederate History Month showcase.
But there on Twitter, folks, listen, on Twitter and on our website, you've got to check out what we're doing there.
It's really great.
I'm going to talk in the next segment about some of the content we posted to the website.
But I'll tell you, there is one picture on our Twitter that we posted this week.
It is an Associated Press photo of combat veteran, Southern Baptist, political co-host, Eddie the Bombardier Miller holding the Christian cross of the Confederacy.
And that is a picture that has appeared in over 100 newspapers around the world since 2015.
They even use it to illustrate stories about Klan rallies, which had nothing to do with where you were when that picture was taken by that reporter.
But nevertheless, it is a great picture, and it is a great flag.
It is my flag.
It's a flag that was on display at my own wedding.
It's a flag that my father gave me many, many years ago.
And it is a big flag.
And you can check that picture out at James Edwards TPC.
But now, without further ado, let's get Eddie the Bombardier Miller on.
Eddie, happy Confederate History Month.
Happy birthday.
Your birthday was yesterday.
And tell us what you have to say.
Yeah, my birthday.
I was born on the birthday.
I was born on the same day, April 6th, that the Battle of Shiloh began, by God.
And folks are getting ready to turn me up, so hang on.
The Bombardiers get ready to come right back with you.
Yeah, you're good.
Oh, good.
I'm good now.
Folks, by the way, thank you so much for tuning in to our radio show.
You're the people.
You're the blood that goes through our veins.
We could not possibly do it without you.
We wouldn't do it without you.
If we couldn't help you people out there, try to bolster your spirits, we would chuck it up today.
But what James said, me and him and Keith have talked many times.
I cannot tell you how many people I have, friends, good friends have told me, you know what, y'all need to quit refighting the Civil War all over again.
You need to forget all this old garbage about the Confederate History Week and all that stuff.
In other words, I say, well, just dig a grave and put our history in there along with our dead ancestors.
That's what you're saying.
Well, me and James are Keith talk about this.
I'm getting ready to bring this point up.
Karl Marx himself, and I've told James about this not long ago.
Karl Marx himself, none other than the biggest communist that ever lived.
Said, if you can give me your children, if I can cut them from their loose from their history, if I can sever all memories, all ties they had to family and history and their genealogy, I can turn them, their little empty heads of mush.
I can turn them into anything I want them to be.
I can make them the greatest communist in the world.
And James pointed out already.
You know, the reason we're hated so bad, people of the Bible cesspool, people that are, or you know what?
You don't have to live in the South to be pro-Confederate.
We have a guy named Matthew Copperhead.
He's born and raised in New York.
He is as true blue Confederate as you can get.
But the Confederacy fought for everything we hold dear.
They were biblical.
They fought for the King James Bible.
They fought for Christianity.
They fought for law and order as handed down by God Almighty Himself.
They fought for, like James said, they didn't want homosexuals being teaching our children in school.
We didn't want them.
We don't want our kids being taught.
And I heard this just yesterday, James, and my other brother here.
They're teaching the children.
Get this.
They're teaching children in kindergarten, in grammar school, how to do oral sex.
They're teaching them how to masturbate.
They're teaching them how to do all this stuff under the guise of sex education.
And they sneak this in under the rug where nobody can see it.
None of the parents are allowed to know about this, but parents all over the country now are seeing this and they're raising, they're raising holy hell about it as they should.
Well, you know what?
You can think all this crap that's happening here because we lost the Civil War.
Patrick Claiborne said that.
Patrick Claiborne said the North would write our history books.
They would write our textbooks if we lost.
He was a man of quotes.
Same state my grandpa's from.
My grandfather's from Arkansas, got one from Kentucky.
Hey, we'll be right back because stay tuned, everybody.
We haven't even started yet.
I would say we're just getting started.
We haven't even started yet.
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We'll be right back.
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Well, Eddie the Bombardier Miller, who shares a birthday with the anniversary of the beginning of the fighting, a day we won that first day of fighting, April 6th, 1862.
Yeah, Eddie is very old.
He's 156.
I'm very, very old.
But running has kept him alive this long.
Anyway, but I'll tell you, how old are you?
I was 71 years old at 845, April the 6th.
You've got decades left in you.
All that running has never been done.
Yes, it has.
71 and run a marathon.
I ran nine miles today.
And it's like 30 degrees.
It's April, but it's 30 degrees in Memphis today.
It's colder today than it was the last week of February.
It's freezing cold.
Anyway, you talked about listeners in other parts of the country.
You know, I have received, first of all, a lot of people really love what we do because obviously it's very unique.
We're the only A.M. show that does Confederate History Month series.
And I get emails from all over the world who say that they enjoy it.
I get emails from some people who say they only tune in there in April.
So I don't know what that is, but we hope everybody will stick around all 12 months.
But we do have listeners across the country who appreciate what we're doing.
But as you said a moment ago, if you can separate a people from their family, from their heroes, from their history, those people are already dead.
I mean, they may be physically alive, but they're already defeated.
They've already lost.
And so we're never going to allow ourselves to be separated from our family, our heroes, our history, especially when our family, our heroes, and our history were right and they were righteous.
Well, I'll tell you a little bit more about some of the listeners we have out there, Eddie.
You know, we had a very special fundraising drive last month to help lead into Confederate History Month.
And that first quarter fundraising drive that we had featured as an incentive offer a piece of Jefferson Davis's home.
And anybody who's going to contribute to, and you know how strapped for cash I am.
I'm not tooting my own horn.
I was out $310 just today for my St. Jude flags.
But come hell or high water, I'm contributing to our cause.
If I can't do that, you know, I can't consider myself a man.
I appreciate that, Eddie.
You're all man, though.
Well, thank you very much.
Anyway, the point is, anybody who donated in the month of March received or will receive.
We still have a few we have to send out.
Most of the people have received it.
Some of the people who donated late, they're going to go out on Monday.
But you're going to get an authentic piece of Jefferson Davis' home, President Davis, the only president of the Confederate States.
And it comes with a certificate of authenticity.
I think it's a meaningful and a unique gift that we were able to offer.
And we've had some people, even since the end of the fundraising drive, that have contributed.
And I want to read out, as we've done the last couple of weeks, the cities from which some of these listeners come from, Eddie.
Tallahassee, Florida, Loves Park, Illinois, Bodark, Missouri.
You know what Bodark means?
I don't.
It's Osage Orange.
It's a tree.
It's named after a tree that the Indians used to make their bows out of.
In fact, the Spanish named it Bodiark.
There you go.
Well, we learned something.
Everybody learns something on TPC, even the host, Irvine, California, just came in today.
Thank you, listener, in Irvine, California, Beltsville, Maryland.
We had a listener in Jersey City, New Jersey, who donated for the first time in a while specifically to get the piece of Jefferson Davis' home.
This is a listener all the way up in Jersey City, New Jersey.
But I got a big kick out of this.
Every holiday, we get a lot of cards and letters from listeners.
And this one came in from a listener in Greenbelt, Maryland.
And every time we have a fundraising drive, this man sends in a generous contribution inside of a greeting card of some sort.
And so for this last month, it was an Easter greeting card.
And he wrote, Happy Easter.
When I was at the Dollar Tree buying this greeting card, it came up at one cent.
So I asked the cashier, one cent?
Is that right?
And the woman behind me in line was laughing and said, you better get going, brother.
She's going to change her mind.
So I gave the cashier a penny and went on my way.
So since I've got an extra dollar, I'm going to add that to my usual contribution.
Keep fighting for our children's, keep fighting for our children's future.
And he actually included the receipt here from this Dollar Tree store, store number 4347 in Greenbelt, Maryland.
And look at it.
It's a receipt for one cent.
That's what this card costs.
And he sent in a generous contribution.
So to you, my friend, in Greenbelt, you're going to be receiving a piece of Jefferson Davis's home this week when they go out.
We've got listeners all over the country, all over the world that are celebrating Confederate History Month with us.
And I want them to celebrate it on our website.
Now, you mentioned, of course, the faith of our fathers was such a big motivating factor in our Confederate heroes.
And last week we had Pastor John Weaver on, Pastor Weaver.
Oh, he knocked out of the park.
Not only was he on to share a special Easter message, he was also on last week to help us conduct a soft launch of our Confederate History Month series.
And as we just mentioned, a large number of listeners in our beloved audience have just received or will soon be receiving from us an authentic piece of Jefferson Davis's home as a result of our first quarter fundraising drive.
And to help you better appreciate that piece of Confederate history that's going to be in your possession, we ask you to go to our website, thepolitical cesspool.org, thepolitical cesspool.org.
Take the time to watch Pastor Weaver's video about Jefferson Davis.
So Pastor Weaver was on with us last week to share an Easter message, and we talked a little bit about Southern history and heritage with him during that appearance.
But he has a video entitled Jefferson Davis Revisited that we want you to go look at, especially all of you who received a piece of that home from us.
Go and watch that at our website this week.
It was posted earlier this week.
And I've got something, Eddie, if you haven't been to our website since Thursday, you got to go.
I posted a collection of rare audio and video interviews with Confederate veterans.
Oh, wow, man.
And it is rare and riveting interviews featuring three of the brave Southern men who fought for us.
One, his name is Julius Franklin Howell.
He joined the Confederate Army when he was 16.
And after surviving a few battles, he eventually found himself in a Union prison camp in Maryland.
But in 1947, at the age of 101, He made a rare recording at the Library of Congress in which he described his enlistment, his capture, and his experience in the Union prison camp, and what it was like for him the morning Abraham Lincoln died.
And so you can go check that out.
We've got that full interview at thepoliticalspool.org this week.
Please go to thepoliticalcesspool.org every day during the month of April.
And we're going to have some articles that talk about other topics because we've still got to keep an eye on the current news.
But we're going to have some Confederate history articles as well.
And this one, there's also, I love this one.
You know what, James?
By the way, quick comment.
You talk about current news.
Really, there is no, and I'll tell you this, people, and you people may know, I've lived to be 71 years old, so I've learned this.
There is no current news that you cannot trace back to happenings in the past.
You know, everything that we talked about earlier, and I'll make this quick, I don't want to interrupt James, but everything that we see happening right now, all the trash, all this coming out of Hollywood, all the hatred come out of the newspapers, the media, the control media, can be traced back to us losing the war.
It's a battle between good and evil.
I just want to throw it out there, James.
So, you know, like Solomon said, there's nothing new under the sun.
Well, that's right.
I think everything that we cover today is a result of the domino effect of things that happened in the past.
That's a good point.
One last thing.
And I've heard people say, well, why do you keep fighting this war?
You know what, people?
The Civil War never ended.
And I tell my friends this.
Our enemies never ended the Civil War.
They're punishing this South every single day.
They're punishing like-minded people that think like us every day.
If you're a Christian, I don't care if you live in Bangor, Maine, or if you live in Dalton, Georgia, you are suffering the brunt of the attack from the same satanic forces that invaded the South in 1860.
And that's why we're not continuing to fight.
We're just trying to defend against a never-ending attack.
I mean, it never ends, James.
Well, as I said, whatever good and whatever decency is left in this God-forsaken country, it still exists in the South.
Whatever pulse remains of whatever was good about America, it exists in the South.
Now, there are good people, obviously, in other parts of the country because they listen to us.
And we have listeners all over the country.
But whatever's left of the government on a nationwide level is still in the South.
And it's, I think, personified in this other clip that we've posted.
Please, ladies and gentlemen, thepoliticalasspool.org, that's our website at James Edwards TPC on Twitter.
And we're going to be complimenting our on-air coverage of Confederate History Month on our official internet headquarters and on our Twitter page.
But we have there posted for you an interview with Confederate veteran Robert P. Scott.
He spoke at the 75th anniversary of the Battle of Gettysburg.
Obviously, that was a long time ago.
And you've got to listen to this clip where he is recorded and speaking about what he remembers.
And he said, I went up to one and shot the Yankee and said, can I do anything for you?
So there you have an example of Southern hospitality even in war.
After he shot his enemy, he went to ask him if there was anything he could do to him.
And he said the Yankee began to curse at him, so he left.
One other item, James, and I'm going to point this out.
None other than General Grant himself, Ulysses Grant.
Guess what he complained about?
The same thing is going on today.
He complained about the Jews.
The Jews coming in with their carpetbaggers, following the Union armies, doing their money-changing bit, getting contracts to buy and sell as mineral men of Union supplies that the Union Army needed.
He wrote an order kicking all the Jews out, but then that order was countermended by Abraham Lincoln and some other high-up politicians.
But even General Grant complained about the Jews he had to put up with, you know, following his lines like vultures.
That's who is attacking us today.
And not just not all Jews, but that Jewish mentality, James.
I'd just like to point that out.
General Brant himself complained about the Jews in the Second World War.
Well, there you have it, ladies and gentlemen, when we come back.
That is just a precursor.
That's just a preview.
I don't even think that's the official start of our Confederate History Month coverage.
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And then in the second hour, Kirk Lyons, chief trial counsel for the Southern Legal Resource Center.
And then third hour, Gene Andrews, former commander of the Sons of Confederate Veterans.
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Hi everybody,
welcome back.
Welcome back to TPC as we're just now beginning to kick off our annual coverage of Confederate History Month 2018.
And I asked Jack Ryan, Jack Ryan, such an asset to this show.
And I asked Jack, I said, with what we've got coming up in April, can you have a segment be somewhat southern related?
And you know, Jack always has an intro song, book, and movie recommendation for the week.
And so he said he wanted to play the Andy Griffith theme to kick as we kick off History Month.
Jack, welcome to the show.
Andy Griffith, why'd you pick that particular song?
Well, I think that the Andy Griffith Show is the best television show that promotes a southern culture as well as in heritage.
A lot of folks of us, we'd like to live in that world of Mayberry and of the 50s, 60s where it's a southern town where everyone knows each other.
No one's too rich or too poor.
They hell for it.
And our enemies, they know that.
They acknowledge it, Tim Wise or Russell Moore.
They write stuff about the Andy Griffith show that it's a fascist show of hatred and horrible things.
So that's sort of the idealized world that we like.
And I just think it's, I don't know, maybe the deukes of the hazard, but I think that's the best Southern show.
It's my favorite one.
I am very impressed, Jack, that you knew that Russell Moore had actually attacked the Andy Griffith show.
Russell Moore this week said they had a big Martin Luther King celebration here in Memphis.
The Southern Baptists did, the so-called Southern Baptists.
And Russell Moore said, when Martin Luther King walked the streets of the South, he looked at steeples of our churches and wondered what God did they worship.
Meaning, of course, that Martin Luther King was the real Christian and the white southerners of his day were not Christians.
And Russell Moore even also said, to get to Jack's mentioning there, that Mayberry is the road that leads to hell.
That culture, that culture of the old South, the 50s, the iconic 50s.
And it should, pardon the interruption, Jack, but the South, even after we endured the horrors of Reconstruction, we were still so strong of a people that all the way through 100 years after the war, I think the Halcyon days of America may have even been the 1950s.
That was almost 100 years after we lost the war, but we still had such a strong culture and Christianity and sense of identity that the 1950s America was probably the best that America ever was in some manner of speaking, even though we had already lost the war, even though we had already suffered so tremendously.
But now you see people saying that was actually the road to hell, Jack.
Right.
Well, that is.
And it wasn't just in the South that the 1950s was the best time.
Other places like Detroit, Michigan, Detroit, Michigan in the mid-50s had the highest standard of living of any city, not just in the United States, but in the world.
And they actually had good race relations.
They had high income for black workers.
My mom lived in Detroit, Michigan during that time.
And so that world is being attacked.
It's being brought down.
It's being insulted.
You see the things that Russell Moore got published in the New York Times.
He stole his work right from this terrible Ashkenazi J anti-racist guy, Tim Wise, where he just says the Andy Griffith world is a world of fascism and hatred.
Like, I think a good Christian should oppose hardcore pornography instead of the Andy Griffith show.
Why are you opposing the Andy Griffith show?
It's a good show.
It's nice people.
And so that's the kind of people that we're dealing against.
It's not just Southerners.
It's good Americans and just good people from all the world that are trying to oppose these cultural Marxist people that are attacking our people and our culture.
Hey, Jack, is Jenny right here?
I've got a quick question and a little statement.
You know, I think, and I'm going to run this by you, get your opinion.
You know, the South is fair game.
We're the little kicking boy.
We're the punching bag for all the world that hates Christian values.
Do you think the reason they don't attack St. Paul, Minnesota, Lorraine, Ohio, Vermillion, Ohio, where my ancestors left Arkansas in the late 50s to go to work for the Ford Motor Company up there?
They were Christians.
They lived in the Christian community.
The reason these people do not attack Manhattan, they don't attack Detroit, they don't attack Chicago, because they're not going to take on a big, if they start attacking the big South, the big North with all that huge population, they can't get by that with impunity.
The impunity they do, they get by with by attacking the South.
Because, you know, we're prostate.
We're a smaller in population.
We're like we said with the punching bag.
Why do they not attack the North?
Why do not not attack the Northern people who have the same Christian values people in the South do, Jack?
Okay, my view on that is that that was true when I was in grade school and in high school in the 70s, that they did attack the South.
They did roots.
They smashed them and said, these are the worst people that are racist.
They didn't do a lot of anti-German stuff there.
They had Hogan's heroes and stuff.
That came later.
But now all of white, heterosexual Christian people throughout the United States or the world are under attack.
So it's not just the South.
White South Africans are being attacked.
There's genocide.
Russians are being attacked.
I'm 25% Russian.
My grandfather fought in the white army against the communists.
They are assaulting the Russians and saying the Russians stole the election from Hillary Clinton.
And these Russians are the worst people.
Well, screw that.
There's no, if you are a white Christian, heterosexual, anywhere in the world, you're under attack.
So it's not, we shouldn't be moderate.
It's not just the South.
You guys have been bashed.
I'm a Midwesterner, but you guys have been bashed for a long time, but all of us are.
So there's no saying, well, it's just us or it's not fair.
We're all under attack.
So that's my view.
So true.
So true, Jack.
One final comment from me.
I would vote for Valid Bureau Putin any day of the week over any politician we've had in my life.
He's a tough Russian guy.
If they stole the election, thank God they did.
I'm a tough Chicagoan.
So, you know, we like the South and stuff, but we've been some brutal places.
And, you know, other things are going bad, but we've got some good people in Hungary, Poland, Russia, Ukraine.
So it's not all.
We're not losing everywhere.
So I don't want to do this gloom and doom.
Oh, we're all going to go.
We've got some good people where things are better, where we run the government, where we run the media.
If you're depressed about life, things going on in the air, just watch the video of the Cossacks whipping Pussy Rod at the Russian winter.
Put that together.
The Cossacks are bad.
Ducos oil in a public cage and then send him to hard labor in Siberia.
Okay, so things, we got some other places where we're doing okay.
And, you know, we're dispossessed.
We got some up, but we can't whine and moan and say it's only us or, you know, these are Yankees.
It's not Yankees running Hollywood or the like.
So we gotta, we have to do what we can.
And, you know, hopefully we're gonna do better.
But I'm optimistic.
I think we're gonna be good.
Jack, I hope you live 100 years because I appreciate your contributions each and every week on the show.
I look forward to every show in part because you're going to be an element of it.
And I'd like to ask you now with only a couple of minutes remaining of this segment and this hour.
And remember, ladies and gentlemen, in the next hour, you're going to hear from Kirk Lyons Esquire, the chief legal counsel for the Southern Legal Resource Center.
This is a legal arm that defends advocates of Southern heritage.
So you're going to want to learn more about his work and hear what he has to say about Confederate history.
And then in the third hour, our very good friend, dear friend, Gene Andrews, who has spoken at both of the political cesspool conferences that we held in 2014 and 2017, respectively.
Of course, Jack was at both of those conferences, so he'll well remember Gene.
But Jack, before we get to our official guests tonight, you are, of course, a member of the regular crew, the family.
Tell us your song.
I guess the song was Andy Griffith tonight, but your book and movie recommendations very quickly.
Okay, very quickly.
My movie recommendation is the Andy Griffith movie from 1957, A Face in the Crown, directed by Leah Kazan.
It's very much, it's similar to the Andy Griffith that there's this populist guy who takes Griffith, but he's the bad guy.
And he's a manipulator and he gets manipulated in fascists.
Aaliyah Kazan is a tremendous director east of Eden on the waterfront.
But he did dabble and get into communism and stuff.
So that's the other side.
Andy Griffith, we love Sheriff Taylor like he's like, but he's an actor.
He went a lot of ways.
He went in and he did liberal leftist politics ever.
So that's my recommendation.
A face in the crowd.
My book recommendation is the 1962 British Encyclopedia Britannica Expedia from best of British and United States when we're best.
So those are my recommendations.
Jack, a true Renaissance man.
He always comes armed with a piece of music, a piece of literature, a piece of motion picture or film, if you will.
And Jack, I tell you, I am so glad.
And Jack was a last-minute edition, really, to, and delightful historical commentary, too, we might add.
Jack was one of the last people to sign up for our conference last fall, that sold-out event that was so heartwarming and meaningful.
Jack was one of the last people to sign up for that.
And I'm so glad he did because it was at that conference that we rekindled our acquaintance and became friends.
And that led to him contributing each week to the political cesspool.
A quick word.
Well, the man's got Russian blood, so he can't be all bad.
He's got to be pretty dang good.
It's a little Slavic when we don't have deals with liberals or libertarians.
There's like one liberal in the history of Russia, Kerensky, after the Tsar fell.
They're there anymore.
There's like Russian, you know, and then Soviets.
There's Islamic terrorists terrorizing, killing Europeans or Russians.
We're going to kill them, so we don't.
We'll just deal with that shit.
All right, Jack.
Jack, we'll talk to you next week.
If you're not here, I'm not going to come in.
So we'll talk to you then.
Hey, stay tuned, everybody, for our guest tonight.
Thank you, Jack.
We'll be back.
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