Feb. 23, 2019 - 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.
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The man who shot Liberty Valence, he shot Liberty Valence.
He was the bravest of them all.
Welcome, everybody, to tonight's live broadcast of TPC.
That was the immortal Gene Pitney, who has sadly gone on to his eternal reward.
But Gene Pitney with tonight's opening music, the song from the movie of the same name, The Man Who Shot Liberty Valence.
And we dedicate tonight's show to John Wayne.
And we'll tell you why in a minute, if you don't already know why, we'll tell you.
But let me first tell you how great it is to be back with you tonight, this Saturday evening, February the 23rd.
We are live on your radio tonight.
I'm James Edwards, Keith Alexander.
Joining us on the phone tonight, you know, Keith needs old miss athletic events like a sailor needs his rum.
So he's traveling back from Mississippi, having gone to a basketball game earlier today.
But we got him over the phone, and we're going to get to Keith in just a minute.
We're going to tell you why we're dedicating tonight's show to John Wayne.
But it is great to be with you tonight.
And I really mean that, folks.
I had the opportunity to appear with Jason Kuna on The After Party last night.
And we were talking a little bit about TPC's history.
It was a great show.
And I made mention of the fact that still, after 15 years, I look forward to every Saturday night that we get to be together.
Around midweek, late week, I start to get anxious with anticipation over the fact that we get to share this three hours together every week.
I still look forward to coming to work every Saturday night as much as I did 15 years ago.
Now, that being said, we've got an especially busy show for you tonight.
We're going to be talking about a variety of current news stories, including the fake outrage over an interview that John Wayne gave to Playboy Magazine nearly 50 years ago, as well as an interesting lawsuit that rings a bell, among other topics.
Our featured guest this evening is Ramsey Paul, Paul Ramsey himself.
He's going to give us the details on that Jussie Smollett hate hoax that has really been making news now for consistently for a couple of weeks.
I'm going to dive into the TPC mailbag and read a sampling of listener correspondence from around the world later in the show before shifting gears and letting Jack Ryan take us into that long good night.
But Keith, this is where we're at now.
I guess this is what they would call progress using the parlance of our times.
Now the media, if they can't find enough people that say things that offends their sensibility in the current year, they are now digging up interviews given by dead people 50 years ago and retrying them in the court of public opinion.
So the headline read, John Wayne revealed as a white supremacist in recently rediscovered 1971 interview.
So the media has just been going crazy with this fake outrage based upon the comments that John Wayne gave to Playboy in 1971.
Now, what did he say?
Nothing at all that would be considered controversial to an honest person.
I read all of the allegedly shocking comments, and it appeared to me to be basic, well-reasoned common sense given by the Duke.
Now, they asked him his opinion on three of the now-protected classes of American people, blacks, homosexuals, and Indians.
I'm on the radio.
And...
Blacks, homosexuals, and Indians.
And we're going to get to those comments in turn.
I'm going to be talking about this a lot this first hour.
So we're setting the stage.
But Keith, first, before we get into what he actually said and how reasonable it all was, your thoughts on the fact that now the media is going back and digging up.
I guess it started with Northam.
They're going back now in yearbooks.
And the Tennessee governor had a yearbook photo come out this week that we're going to talk about later in the show, too.
But they're going back now.
They're looking through yearbooks.
They're looking through old interviews.
There's no statute of limitations.
And everybody would be guilty of something because what offends their sensibilities evolves each and every week.
So what might not offend them today will offend them tomorrow.
And what offended them today didn't offend them yesterday.
Your thoughts on this whole John Wayne situation, Keith?
Go ahead.
Well, I remember John Wayne.
I was an adult, or just barely an adult.
I was a college student when these comments were supposedly made in an interview with Playboy magazine in 1971.
And at the time, John Wayne was not considered particularly conservative.
I remember that he was all for the United States selling or giving away the Panama Canal.
And if there was ever a strategic interest militarily in anything that we have done, it would be to keep control of the Panama Canal.
But he was selling that.
He also was, you know, just a kind of general me-too type of person on the civil rights movement and things like that.
So he was not considered some type of arch conservative ever.
But here's the whole thing.
The demographic complexion of Orange County, California, from which he hailed has changed.
It's now Majority Chicano.
It used to have more John Burch Society chapters within Orange County than in any other place in the world.
So it was a bastion of Republican conservatism back then, and he was a Republican conservative.
Of course, the Republicans were the liberals on things like the civil rights movement before the Democrats were.
I'll tell you what, I'll tell you what, by any standard of measurement, if he was an arch conservative based upon the comments that I read, which again were just basic common sense and nothing that any reasonable person would find offensive.
But he was speaking truth to power in this Playboy interview.
I don't know if he evolved by the time 1971 rolled around, but this is some pretty stout stuff.
Well, really, let me just tell you, by 1971 standards, it wasn't.
That was pretty moderate stuff.
I read the same things you did.
You know, this was not some closet Klansman or something.
He was just mainstream in every way.
With the American people, of course, that might have made him a little conservative by Hollywood standards at the time.
But the reason is this.
There is an airport in Orange County named the John Wayne Airport after him, and that has a statue of John Wayne.
Well, the Chicanos don't like that, particularly because of movies like the Alamo that he made in which the brave Anglo-Texans came in and defeat, you know, were defeated by an overwhelming number of Mexicans and then eventually went on to win the war for Texas independence.
Keith, if you don't know, Keith, I got to interrupt you.
I'm sorry to do that, but our friend Rich in Nashville made mention of the fact, and I think you would like to know this.
Let me pull up my text message here.
It's germane to what you're talking about, that today is the anniversary of the beginning of the Siege of the Alamo.
Can you believe it?
Yeah, I can, and this may have been time for that purpose because they want to take down that statue.
They want to rename that airport, and they want an excuse for it, and this is how they go about it.
All right, hold on right there, my friend Keith Alexander, joining us via telephone tonight.
I, James Edwards, in the studio.
We've got three fantastic hours of radio coming your way, and we're just getting started.
We're going to talk about John Wayne for quite a bit this hour and what he said.
Get Keith Alexander's response to that.
We're going to talk about another lawsuit, a libel lawsuit levied by Mr. Sandman.
Later, stay tuned.
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Hey, folks, there was a time when men were men, and I think John Wayne was a man.
John Wayne was a man's man.
He played it on TV.
I think there was he certainly had some redeeming qualities in real life.
But those movies, he always played the, he played the good guys in a lot of his movies, too.
I mean, let's not forget, he played Confederate soldiers in so many of those movies, and now he is under fire because apparently it is the cause du jour now of the left to go back and now try historical figures by today's degenerate standards.
And as you said earlier today, Keith, when we were talking on the phone in preparation for tonight's show, anybody that was born more than 50 years ago will be found guilty by their standards now.
And even people alive today will be judged by their grandchildren if trends persist as being a heretic.
Even people like Russell Moore, I think, will be judged by his grandchildren if things don't turn around as being someone who was a despicable person because what offends them changes indeed so often.
But let's get to this, Keith.
I want to get your response to this.
So the Playboy interviewer that was talking to John Wayne in this interview in question asked him his opinion on blacks, on Native Americans on homosexuals.
This is what he said about blacks.
With a lot of blacks, this is John Wayne speaking, there's quite a bit of resentment along with their descent, and possibly rightfully so.
But we can't all of a sudden get down on our knees and turn everything over to the leadership of blacks.
I believe in white supremacy.
Now, of course, by modern day standards, you would never put I and white supremacy in the same sentence, but listen to the context here.
I believe in white supremacy until the blacks are educated to a point of responsibility.
I don't believe in giving authority and positions of leadership and judgment to irresponsible people.
Now, the person asked him how is he equipped to judge who was responsible or irresponsible.
And John Wayne responded that it's not judgment.
The academic community has developed certain tests that determine whether the blacks are sufficiently equipped scholastically.
But some blacks have tried to force the issue and enter college when they haven't passed the test and they don't have the requisite background.
I don't know why people insist that blacks have been forbidden their right to go to school.
They were allowed in public schools wherever I've been.
Even if they don't have the proper credentials for college, there are courses to help them become eligible.
But if they aren't academically ready for the step, I don't think they should be allowed in.
Otherwise, the academic society is brought down to the lowest common denominator.
Boy, was he ever right.
And then he said, what good would it do to register anyone in a class of higher algebra or calculus if they hadn't learned to count?
There has to be a standard.
And finally, Keith, on the issue of blacks, he said, I think that Hollywood studios are carrying their tokenism a little too far.
There's no doubt that 10% of the population is black or colored or whatever they want to call themselves.
They certainly aren't Caucasian.
I'm reading this verbatim, John Wayne's words.
Anyway, I suppose there should be the same percentage of the colored race in films as in society, but it can't always be that way.
There isn't necessarily going to be 10% of the grips or the sound men who are black because more than likely 10% haven't trained themselves for that type of work.
He went on to say that the most qualified person should get the position, as we say, but that didn't make all of these news stories.
That was left out of quite a bit of that, if you read the whole article and the whole interview.
But anyway, Keith, all of that is basic, fundamental common sense as far as I see it.
I don't see how anybody could possibly be offended by one word that he uttered in that response on the issue of blacks in society.
Well, you can describe what he said in one word, meritocracy.
When the 1964 Civil Rights Act was passed, that's what everyone assumed we would go to rather than any type of system that discriminated against any racial group, including whites.
But of course, that period of time lasted about 15 minutes after the passage of the Civil Rights Act of 64, and they immediately started to prepare the way for 1969 when affirmative action became the policy of the EEOC, which was the federal agency created by the 64 Civil Rights Act to enforce the 1964 Civil Rights Act.
And as a result, we have all sorts of unqualified people, people that are not the best and the brightest, getting into Harvard, Yale, and places like this, selective colleges and universities, professional schools like medical schools, selective or highly prestigious law schools and things like this, and getting jobs that they wouldn't otherwise qualify for.
And that is causing serious problems to America's position in the world because the rest of the world is running their first team or their varsity against our third string because of affirmative action.
And as a result, we are gradually losing position to the Chinese, the Russians, and numerous other nations that haven't fallen for this affirmative action fallacy.
That's what he was trying to address there.
And he basically said, we need to have the same standard applied to everybody, and then we will find out how many blacks are truly qualified, for example, to go to Harvard Law School or to go to medical school.
But of course, the left couldn't satisfy itself and couldn't satisfy blacks with having a system where they still remained lesser represented or at the bottom of the totem pole because of merit.
So they had to basically change all of that, which means that white people, white youngsters like at the time that had, you know, were trying to move up the ladder, so to speak, their ambitions are going to be thwarted unfairly because some lesser qualified black, brown, or other person is going to be leapfrogging them up the totem pole because of affirmative action.
Keith, that's not saying in commentary that is, again, sensible and reasonable.
Commentary, do you see any reason whatsoever for a thinking person to be offended by anything John Wayne said?
And also in answering that, talk about judging today's, or rather, judging historical figures by today's so-called standards.
Well, you cannot judge historical figures by today's standards.
There was nobody, for example, in antebellum, that's pre-Civil War America, who thought like a modern liberal does about race.
If he had, or if she had, they would have been considered insane and under lock and key.
By today's standards, Abraham Lincoln was a racist and Frederick Douglass was an Uncle Tom.
But that doesn't seem to get through to the left.
They can dig up anything about anyone who is over 50 right now and probably over 40 that they could use to disqualify them from elected office or from a position of power and authority in the economy or elsewhere.
It's basically like a life imitating art.
There was a movie in the late 60s called Wild in the Streets, in which the hippies, the young hippies, took over and basically were executing everybody over 30 years old.
It's just that now it's 50 rather than 30.
You see what happened to the governor of Tennessee who was a picture.
Save that.
Save that.
We're going to talk about that in the third hour.
I'm going to give a little teaser.
The point I'm trying to make is that everybody in public life, every white male, has something that they could dig up about him or her that would disqualify them.
And that's what they want.
They want to disqualify white people from positions of leadership so they can be filled by non-white people.
And when they do that and they have total governmental power, guess what the next step will be?
You guessed it, total dispossession and maybe even death.
You know, it's really that dire.
People don't understand what's going on.
The canary in the coal mine is the former ODG now is Zimbabwe and South Africa.
What has happened to the white minority in those places?
Well, it hasn't been pretty.
It's not being reported on the way it should be.
But basically, that is our future if we don't wake up and smell the coffee game.
Well, let me tell you something.
They needed more John Wayne's in those societies.
They did ask him about the issue of slavery.
You know, here's the thing.
They asked him about these.
It wasn't that he was just rapping about these issues.
They asked him his opinion and he gave him an honest answer.
Now, people today wouldn't, outside of the political cesspool and scant few other places, would never give an honest answer about these issues.
We do speak honestly here on this broadcast.
That's why we've built a basically what we do, we give back the John Wayne moderation of his day.
You know, most people in the United States who are white or otherwise would have said a loud and hearty amen to everything John Wayne said.
We're going to tell you what he said about Native Americans and homosexuals when we come back.
Stay tuned for that.
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The man who shot Hurley Buddy Balance.
He shot early body balance.
He was the bravest of them all.
The man who shot early body balance.
He shot everybody balance.
He was the bravest of them all.
Thank you, Gene Pitney.
And if you don't know why we're playing that song, of course, the man who shot Liberty Valence stars none other than John Wayne.
Keith, we've got so much ground to cover in this segment before we shift gears.
So I have to ask you to keep your responses to five seconds or less so we can work it all in.
But let me ask you this.
Did you like the movie, The Man Who Shot Liberty Valence?
And what was your favorite John Wayne movie?
Go very quickly.
Okay, my favorite, I did like that movie.
Nanny Shot Liberty Balance, and my favorite movie was Red River.
Okay.
Now, they did ask him about slavery in that much talked about Playboy interview in 1971.
Here's what John Wayne said about the practice.
I don't feel guilty about the fact that five or ten generations ago, these people were slaves.
Now, I'm not condoning slavery.
It's just a fact of life.
I will say this, though.
I think any black who can compete with a white today can get a better break than a white man.
I wish they'd tell me where in the world they have it better than right here in America.
Keith, a 10-second response to that.
Oh, absolutely right.
In fact, the whole thing about slavery being some unique invention by white people to torment and torture black people is ridiculous.
All of our relatives, somewhere in our family tree, there were slaves.
Slavery used to be the humane alternative to the other answer to the age-old question of what do you do with a conquered people.
The other solution was to put them all to the sword.
So consequently, my ancestors, there are slaves in my family tree.
There are slaves in your family tree and everyone else on the planet.
So we need to get over this silliness that somehow this slavery was uniquely a crime from white people against black people.
And of course they use it to drive a wedge.
Now, if anybody knows that what it's like to say that they have it better here than anywhere else, it's me.
I'm up there as a result of agreeing with this columnist from the Jamaican newspaper some years ago that was recycled and used again in the Trump campaign.
But John Wayne, I tell you, Keith, if that was John Wayne would be, well, he is being crucified now 50 years after the fact, but imagine a modern-day Hollywood celebrity, one of the leading men in Hollywood, saying something that honest like he just said.
I mean, my God, what Liam Neeson said that's cost him perhaps his career was nothing compared to that.
Too much truth.
All right, Keith, I got to go very, very quickly because I want to wrap up this segment on John Wayne.
They asked him about so-called Native Americans.
We call them Indians.
For years, American Indians have played an important, if subordinate, role in your Westerns.
Do you have any empathy with them?
This is what John Wayne said.
I don't feel we did wrong in taking this great country away from them, if that's what you're asking.
Our so-called stealing of this country from them was just a matter of survival.
There were a great number of people who needed new land, and the Indians were selfishly trying to keep it for themselves.
Way to go.
I love the Duke.
Everybody needs to go out and order a John Wayne box set after this show tonight.
What happened between their forefathers and our forefathers is so far back, right, wrong, or indifferent, that I don't see that we owe them anything.
I don't know why the government should give them anything that it wouldn't give me.
I'm not going to give you one of those.
I was a poor boy and pulled myself up by the bootstrap stories, but I've gone without a meal or two in my life, the Duke continues.
And I still don't expect the government to turn over its territory to me.
Hard times aren't something I can blame my fellow citizens for.
Years ago, I didn't have all the opportunities either, but you can't whine and bellyache because somebody else got a good break and you didn't like these Indians are.
We'll all be on the reservation soon if the socialists keep subsidizing groups like them with our tax money.
My God, John Wayne.
Yeah, go, Keith.
I mean, he was the Nostradamus of his day, apparently.
Yeah, I agree.
I mean, you say that if that wasn't hardcore for 1971, I'd like to know what hardcore was in 1971.
I wasn't born until 80, so I missed it.
No, believe me, that is not even.
That was middle of the road.
And I'd go even further.
The best thing that ever happened to Indians was Europeans coming to America.
Because if we hadn't, they would still be stuck in the new Stone Age, killing one another, dying each other, having an average lifespan of probably about 30 years or maybe 40.
This is, you know, they've got the benefits of Western civilization because they were taken over.
Now, if they haven't, for example, on Indian reservations, if they haven't taken advantage of it, they have themselves to blame and not the European Americans that basically conquered this wilderness and turned it into a garden spot.
See, our friend of the barrel in Europe, and what we showed is that given ample opportunity, fertile land, and freedom from an oppressive class system, we could turn a wild wilderness like the United North American continent into a garden spot.
Same thing for Australia.
Keith, I have just received word from a listener in Missouri that John Wayne was a member of the Spotlights policy board.
So that's very interesting.
I tell you, he was working with Willis Carno, and Willis was a good friend of mine before he passed on.
Well, you know, he's not.
Now, the Spotlight newspaper.
Yeah, so the Spotlight newspaper is basically, well, I mean, I don't know what you want to call it, a conservative or right-wing, a truth-telling publication.
I mean, it was a great publication.
But in any event, it was something that John Wayne apparently was involved with.
Now, it's now the American Free Press.
Yes.
Now, John on homosexuals.
John Wayne said in this Playboy interview, movies were once made for the whole family.
Now, with the kind of junk the studios are cranking out, these perverted films.
Playboy asked him what kind of films do you consider perverted?
Oh, John Wayne replied, Easy Rider, Midnight Cowboy, that kind of thing.
Wouldn't you say that the story of those two men and Midnight Cowboy, a story about two homosexuals, qualifies as perverted?
And indeed it does.
Indeed, it does.
Now even the churches won't even go that far.
Now you have even the Southern Baptist Convention laying the groundwork for acceptance of sodomy.
But so there you have it, Keith.
Playboy asked him for his opinion on three different minority protected special groups, and he spoke truth to power.
The Bible also does that.
You can't argue with God on this.
The book of Ecclesiastes, chapter 10, verse 2.
I'm reading the NIV translation.
I normally don't like to do that because we all know God spoke it in the original King James Version.
But NIV says, Ecclesiastes 10 to the heart of the wise inclines to the right, but the heart of the fool to the left.
I think John Wayne was no fool, Keith.
Absolutely.
And see, this is, you can't get into an argument with God because you will always lose.
And that's what the left is doing.
But I do agree with that.
What's her name?
Ibon Omar, the new congresswoman from Minnesota.
She did speak the truth, albeit inadvertently, when she said about Jewish power and influence being in control of our ideas and whatnot.
It's all about the Benjamin.
Basically.
I don't think she was originally from Minnesota, if you know what I mean.
No, right, exactly.
But then on the other hand, you know, it was Voltaire who said, if you want to know who rules over you, ask who you are not allowed to criticize.
And that's it.
See, this has been a planned degradation and demoralization of the United States and Western civilization.
And, you know, John Wayne came from an earlier generation.
He was certainly not a racist.
Nobody would have ever imagined calling him that at the time in 1971 when he gave this interview to Playboy Magazine.
But, you know, they keep moving the target, you know, and they keep moving things to the left.
And basically, you cannot, you can run, but you can't hide.
There are a lot of whites that have what they call Passover syndrome.
They think that if they are left-wing enough, that somehow all the bad consequences will pass them over.
Well, what they're showing now with the demonization of John Wayne is that they're living, the space for your ideas is shrinking daily.
And obviously, basically, until you get to the point where you basically are resigned to committing Harry Carey, they won't be satisfied.
Keith, we again dedicate tonight's show to John Wayne.
We salute you, John Wayne.
Been a long time since we had a major actor in Hollywood who was frank about important issues.
So God bless you.
Of course, the LA Times this week, the L.A. Times, just a couple of days ago, Keith, the headline reads, it's time to take John Wayne's name off the Orange County Airport.
Subtitle of that headline reads, The Resurrection of John Wayne's 1971 Playboy Interview reminds us that his name does not belong on a civic monument.
Your reaction to that, Keith?
I thought it was just a Robert E. Lee.
It was part of this taking down statues of dead white males.
And it's not going to be limited to competitive heroes.
It's going to be, it's already gone to Columbus and Washington and Jefferson and the name.
And now John Wayne.
And now it's John Wayne, and pretty soon it's going to be Abby Hoff, but he's not left-wing enough for them anymore.
Okay?
It's crazy.
All right.
Stay tuned, folks.
Stay tuned.
We're going to talk about a very interesting lawsuit that certainly rings some bells.
When we return, we're going to get Attorney Alexander's comment on this.
Stay tuned.
Why don't we say to the government writ large that they have to spend a little bit less.
Anybody ever had less money this year than you had last?
Anybody better have a 1% pay cut?
You deal with it.
That's what government needs, a 1% pay cut.
If you take a 1% pay cut across the board, you have more than enough money to actually pay for the disaster relief.
But nobody's going to do that because they're fiscally irresponsible.
Who are they?
Republicans.
Who are they?
Democrats.
Who are they?
Virtually the whole body is careless and reckless with your money.
So the money will not be offset by cuts anywhere.
The money will be added to the debt, and there will be a day of reckoning.
What's the day of reckoning?
The day of reckoning may well be the collapse of the stock market.
The day of reckoning may be the collapse of the dollar.
When it comes, I can't tell you exactly, but I can tell you it has happened repeatedly in history when countries ruin their currency.
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I'd advise Mr. Trump to stop whining and go try to make his case to get votes.
The press has created a rigged system.
They even want to try and rig the election.
Well, I tell you what, it helps in Ohio that we got Democrats in charge of the machines.
And poisoned the mind of so many of our voters.
At the polling booth, where so many cities are corrupt and voter fraud is all too common.
And then they say, oh, there's no voter fraud in our country.
I come from Chicago.
So I want to be honest.
It's not as if it's just Republicans who have monkeyed around with elections in the past.
Sometimes Democrats have to.
You know, whenever people are in power, they have this tendency to try to tilt things in their direction.
There's no voter fraud.
You start whining before the game's even over.
Whenever things are going badly for you and you lose, you start blaming somebody else.
Then you don't have what it takes to be in this job.
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Okay, so we've been spending the bulk of this hour talking about the John Wayne fake outrage.
Anybody will be found guilty of offending those sensibilities.
Now, if you go back, well, I mean, we're guilty of it this day.
I guess you could say I'm proud of it, by the way.
I am proud.
I said this on an interview just a couple of days ago.
There's no one else I would rather be than me.
And that's not to say that I couldn't have more money or there are certain attributes that people have that perhaps I don't.
But I am proud of my career as a truth teller and as a trailblazer in talk radio.
And I am proud of that legacy and I'm proud of the relationships that we have here with you, ladies and gentlemen.
And I wouldn't trade it for anything in the world.
Now, interesting lawsuit.
So Nick Sandman, this was the kid who faced off against that Indian shaman last month.
We talked about that on this show.
They said he was smirking at him, and that was like some sort of basically the equivalent of lynching someone, according to the press.
Well, now he's suing Washington Post for $250 million.
Now, in my libel suit, I think we were suing them for a few thousand dollars.
$250 million.
Good luck, kid.
But what I find so interesting is that in his lawsuit, his attorneys claim that he was, quote, vilified for being white, end quote.
That is pretty remarkable to me.
So I do hope that he receives the just verdict that was denied to this commentator.
I hope that Aesop's fables don't outweigh the law in his case, as it did in the case of this commentator.
But here's the story.
Lawyers for 16-year-old Nicholas Sandman, the Covington Catholic High School Jr., who faced off with, now I'm reading the controlled press's version of this story here, so bear with me.
Who faced off with the Omaha Nation elder, Nathan Phillips, on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial last month, have filed a $250 million lawsuit against the Washington Post, one of the many newspapers to report on the viral video of the incident.
This is another thing I find interesting, Keith.
This is only the beginning, said the attorneys, Lynn Wood and Todd McMurdy, on their firm's website, noting that it was the first lawsuit on Sandman's behalf, but presumably not the last.
The suit was filed in U.S. District Court in Kentucky, and they're seeking compensatory and putative damages, $250 million.
A video of the youth standing, well, we know what happened.
We know what happened there.
In the lawsuit, they say Sandman was vilified for being white.
Keith, again, that's pretty remarkable to me that they would say that and include that in a lawsuit.
Your reaction to that.
Well, if I were his lawyer, I would have filed that suit in a friendlier venue than Washington, D.C., the District of Court.
No, they filed it in federal court in Kentucky.
Well, that's good.
That's better.
Shelbyville, Tennessee would have been even better, you know, because basically you could file this anywhere that the Washington Post is, you know, circulated to, I think, probably.
You could get venue on it.
But that's what he needs to do.
He needs to do what the left does.
And if you want to know how to succeed in the culture wars, do what the successful people, i.e. the liberals, have done.
They shop venues to find the proper place to file a suit to give it the biggest prospects of success.
And we need to do the same thing.
Now, that's all right.
He's done it.
And he needs to be committed to take it all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court because I believe that he will have to do it.
The problem with lower courts is that the judges that are in there are ambitious.
They would like to be elevated to the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeal, for example, or to the U.S. Supreme Court.
And if they have some favorable verdict for a conservative or for a person on the wrong side of the racial divide, then their future has evaporated before their eyes.
So that's why you have to be committed to take it all the way, just like the Frank Sinatra song in 1957.
Now, I think that he has a very good point because after this, you think he could ever get into a selective college or university like Harvard, Jail, Stanford, Northwestern, Vanderbilt, something like that.
He probably wasn't going to get it.
He probably wasn't going to be as a young white heterosexual male.
He probably wouldn't have been accepted in any of those schools anyway.
But certainly now at zero.
But for sure that, you know, even if, let's say, he were in the top 100th of 1% of people taking SAT, for example, schedulastic aptitude test, which still I think is a benchmark for where you go to college and how admission decisions are made on that.
He's not going to go there.
He's going to not have, this is going to be like an albatross around his neck for the rest of his life.
And it's appropriate that he has recognized that and that he's going to, you know, he's probably going to be, he's probably going to wind up going to State U at the best and some community college at the worst, because opportunities are he's not going to be the type of person they want in their.
If he gets he doesn't have to get 250 million.
If he gets a couple of million from the Washington POST and some more money in these subsequent lawsuits, he doesn't have to do anything.
He doesn't have to do anything then because really it's not to compensate him, it's to punish them.
They need to be punished for infringing upon the rights of a totally innocent young man who didn't do anything wrong, and he is going to be punished and vilified for the rest of his life because of this.
There will be somebody somewhere that remembers this.
It's probably going to cost him jobs.
It's going to cost he's going to have to be a freebooter, like I suggest all of us uh, prepare our children to be, because he's not going to be able to be part of some large organization and have a career like at IBM or Google or any of these other big companies nowadays general electric, forget about it.
As they said on the Godfather, okay okay Keith, now how about this?
So that's interesting, but what do you think now?
Very quickly, because I want to move on to something, uh, Supreme Court justice Clarence Thomas said this week, but very quickly, your thoughts about the fact that his lawyers included in their argument that their client, Nick Sandman, was being vilified for being white.
I thought that was uh remarkable.
Well, they is.
It's the truth that's.
That's the long and the short of it.
If he had been black or Hispanic or something, or a native American, this story would never have seen the light of day.
As we said, the motto of the NEW YORK Times used to be all the news that's fit to print.
Now its motto should be modified to all the news that fits.
They're looking for the great white defendant as uh uh, what was the guy uh that wrote?
Uh, Malmounting The Flag Head?
Thomas Wolf, Tom Wolf wrote in the 70s.
Basically, they're still on the hunt for the great white defendant and that's That's who they think they had here.
Just like all of these racial hoaxes like Justin and others, they're basically the only way they'll have legs is if there's a white defendant.
If there's not a white defendant, then never mind, forget about that.
Let's run a story about the Kardashians instead.
Keith, here's what Clarence Thomas said.
Now, this goes back to Trump, even in 2016, the same year we filed my libel lawsuit.
Clarence Thomas has called for there to be a reconsideration of that landmark libel case.
Here's the news.
Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas on Tuesday, this is last Tuesday, called for reconsideration of a landmark First Amendment precedent criticizing the 1964 decision that the Constitution creates a higher barrier for public figures to claim libel.
Now, I'd love, of course, to see that happen.
I wish Thomas had presided over my libel suit in 2016 and 2017 instead of, again, the judges who decided that Aesop's fables outweighed the restatement of torts.
But do you think there's going to be any traction to that?
It was interesting that.
But it was interesting that, or maybe it was vice versa.
I don't remember.
But it was interesting that Clarence Thomas made these comments on the same week that this kid or his lawyers filed a lawsuit alleging that he was victimized for being white.
I don't know if there'll ever be any movement on that, but I do hope that people, subsequent people, will stand on the shoulders of giants and succeed where we were denied.
Well, let me tell you about the case that the Supreme Court senior talking about is Sullivan versus Hunt.
That was a case in which a bad old conservative who was pro-segregationist basically had the left-wing media buy a certain part of their anatomy and had it in a 210 twist.
And they had to find some way that the bad old racists wouldn't win and the forces of progressivism and justice would prevail.
So basically, they made an impossible standard.
No one important in public life has any protection from defamation and libel ever since the Sullivan decision came down.
And for that reason alone, it needs to be turned around.
Again, this is another situation of justice not for all, but justice for just us, which would be the liberal media and the liberal hierarchy.
Okay.
I love that.
Sam Dixon says that too.
The just us system.
Yeah, that's right.
And that's who us is, and we ain't us.
And that's why we absure the realm here at TBC and celebrate the fact that, yes, indeed, in 2015, we were denounced on the record by the United States Congress.
You say, well, James, how would you, why in the world would you celebrate being denounced by name by the United States Congress?
Well, I am glad that a group of degenerates and criminally corrupt individuals would identify us by name as being someone fundamentally different than them.
So we're not part of the us, but we are part of the.
Guess what, James?
It's their turn next for too very long.
They'll be up in the dock and they'll be led to the guillotine along with us, okay?
Well, I hope that we're able to change things around, not for their sake, but for the sake of our future descendants.
How many of these big shots in government and in Hollywood and whatnot are going down?
They are being hoisted by their own batar by the liberal institutions that they have created.
For example, Harvey Weinstein.
You know, the Me Too movement got him.
I love to see it when different factions of the left wind up cannibalizing.
I wish somebody would cannibalize Lincoln.
If anybody needs to go in the public square, it's Lincoln for his savage tyrannical.
It may not be too far off that that actually happened.
I would join the chorus on that one.
I think we may have lost.
I'll give it to him.
Hey, listen, Keith, Keith, charge your phone.
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