Feb. 8, 2020 - The Political Cesspool - James Edwards
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You're listening to the Liberty News Radio Network, and this is the political cesspool.
One, two, three.
Away, look away, away, Dixie Land.
I was born in frosty morning, look away, look away, nixie man, and I wish I was a nixie.
Hooray, hooray.
In Dixie's land, I'll take my stand.
Dixie, away, away, away downside the Dixie.
Away, away, away downside the Dixie.
Well, folks, there's nothing that will bring a goosebump to my arm, make hair stand than Dixie.
Too shaky.
I do have it on my arm, though, not my head.
But no, truly, a glisten to the eye anytime I hear that song.
That is our national anthem.
And Keith, you see the flag that we have that was given to us from a listener, a longtime supporter from Arkansas to this show.
It's a custom-made Confederate battle flag.
A variant, the political cesspool variant Confederate flag, which needs to be marketed throughout the nation.
In fact, we need to get Kyle Rogers at Patriotic Flags to start running this and selling it because it's really great.
It says a political cesspool at the top, on the other three margins, no retreat, no apologies, no surrender.
And it has our legions march upon crimson sod in the first like pie-shaped red part at the top, then fighting like titans, striking like gods in the left-hand side, then on the bottom one.
No, no, no, go to the bottom.
Go across, go across.
It rhymes if you go across.
And then the battle for our homeland shall never abate until every tyrant is crushed and every wrong is set straight.
So that's it.
That's something that one of our listeners in Arkansas came up with, and it's a beautiful flag.
It really needs to be, it needs to be sold and it needs to be displayed everywhere.
Well, we got to get to our guest, but yeah, I'll read it in sequence.
Our legions march upon crimson sod, fighting like titans, striking like gods.
The battle for our homeland shall never abate until every tyrant is crushed and every wrong is set straight.
Well, it's not Confederate History Month yet, but we will warming up for it in April.
That's right.
Our guest, though, this hour is on for a very special reason.
Gene Andrews, the former commander of the Tennessee Division of the Sons of Confederate Veterans and current caretaker of the Nathan Bedford Forest Boyhood Home, is back with us this evening to share news about the restoration of the Forest Equestrian Monument and a very special event coming up later this spring.
Gene, we talked about this a couple of weeks ago on the phone.
I am really excited to be able to present you tonight to share the word with the audience at large.
Where do we go from here, team?
Thank you very much, sir, and thank you for playing those two versions of Dixie, one on the commercial and one as a lead-in.
Only on TPC.
That's right.
To paraphrase the old saying, you can never be too thin, too rich, or have too many versions of Dixie.
So that's great.
All right.
Amen.
Well, anyway, as our audience knows, and we'll let you go with this until the break, and then we'll come back in the next segment and let you fill us in with all the details.
The Nathan Bedford Forrest grave and equestrian monument, which I believe is the most magnificent equestrian monument ever constructed, has been under assault here by the city of Memphis for some time, and we are about to reach the conclusion of this whole ordeal.
How's it going to play out, Gene?
Well, they finally reached an agreement with that green piece, green space, whatever it was, the tax-exempt organization that was set up that got the parks.
And the equestrian statue of General Forrest and the statue of Jefferson, President Jefferson Davis, have been moved out of Memphis, and they are being held at an undisclosed location in Columbia, Tennessee.
And they will be placed at the new or close to the new Confederate museum that the Sons of the Confederate Veterans are building at the SCV headquarters there at Elm Springs, right outside Columbia.
Now, the other part of the good news is— Columbia, Tennessee, right?
And Columbia, Tennessee.
Yes, sir.
And then the other good news is that it's in the final negotiation stages between the Forrest family and the city of Memphis to have the body of General Forrest and his wife, Mary Ann Montgomery Forrest, removed from the grave site, which was underneath the statue there, and they are still there.
And then have those two caskets brought back to Middle Tennessee and be reinterred at the SCV headquarters at Elm Springs on Saturday, May the 23rd.
And it'll be at 10 a.m. in the morning.
And then at 2 o'clock that afternoon, they're going to have the dedication of that new Confederate museum there at Elm Springs that they've been working on for the last couple of years.
So two really big events.
And then once the bodies and the caskets have been reinterred and the concrete base poured over that, they are going to rebuild the base, the plaza around the base and the upright, I believe that was either polished marble or granite, the white material that was used there for the base, get that built over the grave sites and then place the statue back on top.
So it would look just like it did at Forest Park in Memphis.
Only we'll hopefully be having a Confederate flag rather than a U.S. flag flying over it now.
Can we hope for that, Gene?
Yeah.
Why did you even bring that up?
That's not even.
Well, it didn't used to even here in Memphis.
But of course, the Memphis of the 1960s is a far cry from where it is today.
And that's where we are.
And that's why we are where we are, because when the demographics change, everything changes.
Culture changes.
Heroes change.
And Nathan Bedford Forrest is our hero.
And this one ordeal really proves our whole point, why we do this show, why we have done this show for now going into our 16th year.
But listen, Nathan Bedford Forrest is the patron saint of the political cesspool radio program.
He is, there was an article about this high school coach who was asked who's the one person he would have dinner with if he could have dinner.
I think mine would be Nathan Bedford Forrest.
I mean, this is my guy.
He's a Tennessean.
I'm a Tennessean.
He lived and died in Memphis.
I was born and raised and am living in Memphis and fighting in Memphis.
I do, though, Gene, of course, of course, I hate to see that it has come to the point where his body has to be exhumed and moved to where it can rest in peace.
But I don't consider this cup.
Everybody agrees with you.
Well, this is the thing.
I mean, people shouldn't think we see this as a celebration.
It is sad, but as I told you on the phone, I don't consider this to be a selling out on behalf of the Forrest family.
If it was my ancestor, I would say yes.
I don't want him being in a place where he's going to be desecrated as his grave so often is.
No, it's having something in the middle of a territory held by ISIS.
They're going to, when they went through in Syria and places like that, they just destroyed these artifacts that were 3,000 years old in these museums.
And why have something out in a place like that where it will be destroyed?
Put it where you can preserve it.
We're going to go right back immediately back to Gene Andrews, the former commander of the Tennessee Division of the Sons of Confederate Veterans, the current caretaker of the Nathan Bedford Forrest boyhood home.
He's going to be back with us to give you the who, what, where, when, and why, the dates of where you can pay your respects to Nathan Bedford Forrest.
Stay tuned.
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All right, folks, I want to encourage those of you not driving in a car listening to us right now to take out a pen and paper and write down dates and locations.
This is something extremely significant that we're about to tell you.
And Gene Andrews is going to give you those details.
But as we were talking about during the break, for all the people who say we're paranoid, it's paranoid.
Diversity just brings everybody up.
You're not going to lose anything.
No, we lose everything.
We lose everything.
Cultural monuments are the first to go.
It's sad.
I mean, think of what they're going to do to the last of our children.
It's chilling, and no one will be there to move them.
I mean, but Nathan Bedford Forrest is a family member to us, a hero, as it should be, as he should be.
But it's a sign of lost ground.
You know what hatred?
This hatred, Keith, of our dead and our statues.
No one is safe from their hatred.
Well, here's what's happened in Memphis.
They are taking down monuments to genuine geniuses and military heroes like Nathan Bedford Forrest.
And what are they doing in return for themselves?
They are naming streets after drug-sodden musicians or something.
Like they named a street last week after a member of the Bar Kays.
The Bar Cays was a band that had one hit song called Soul Finger back in the 60s.
That's their new version of General Forrest in a place like Memphis.
Well, here's what people need to know, though.
Gene, I talked to you, as you know, two weeks ago, and you told me this, and I heard it for the first time from you two weeks ago on the phone, what we're about to share with the audience.
But if you can believe it or not, and I guess you would believe it knowing our audience, there was a listener in Pensacola, Florida, who simultaneously, before I made mention of this on the air, shared with me exactly what you had shared with me.
And here are the details that he gave.
I'm actually going to read, I read this last week.
I'll read it one more time.
This is from a listener in Pensacola, Gene, that I've never met with or spoken to.
But this is what he wrote.
And I want you to confirm or correct what I'm about to read.
Dear James and Keith, knowing how much y'all care about General Forrest, I'm writing to advise you of an upcoming event dealing with General Forrest.
The Sons of Confederate Veterans has agreed to provide a final resting place for General Forrest, his wife, and his equestrian statue.
The SCV has already acquired the equestrian monument and the Jefferson Davis statue.
They're being repaired.
You just mentioned that, Gene.
The SCV, the Forrest family, and Health Science Park, quote unquote, have negotiated an agreement.
The general and his wife are to be disinterred on or around May 18th.
The general will lie in state at Chapel Hill.
This is the property that you are the custodian over, Gene, his boyhood home for two days, May the 19th and the 20th.
The general will lie in state at Elm Springs.
Now, this is the SCV headquarters in Columbia, Tennessee, not Elm Springs, Tennessee, on the days of May the 21st through the 22nd.
Then he and his wife will be interred at Elm Springs at 10 a.m. on May the 23rd.
His equestrian statue will once again adorn the grave.
Another statue honoring his men will be erected too.
Looking forward to seeing y'all at this occasion.
Event will be bigger than the CSS Huntley funeral you attended.
I hope it's not.
Look, I have one question from all that.
You can't type Elm Springs into your Google box or into your Garmin or your finding device on your automobile or motor vehicle and come to this.
Elm Springs is apparently the name of a house.
It's not the name of a place.
It's Mooresville Pike, Columbia, Tennessee.
And I will have to get the 50, I can't remember the street address for that.
It's Mooresville Pike, Columbia, Tennessee.
I'm looking that up as fast as I can here.
Well, listen, Gene, we'll have you back between now and May when this is scheduled to occur.
But I mean, the bottom line, and we'll put it on the website too.
But this is people will actually be able to come and pay respects to the casket holding the body of General Forrest.
They will be able to attend a funeral for General Forrest.
Forrest Boyhood Home, Chapel Hill, Tennessee, which we can give that out right now.
4435 Powells Road, P-Y-L-E-S, Chapel Hill 37034.
It'll be there Tuesday, the 19th of May, the 20th of May on Wednesday, and then Thursday be taken over to the SCV headquarters, 740 Mooresville Pike, Columbia, Tennessee.
So everything that I read from our listener in Pensacola is accurate.
Absolutely 100% on it.
He nailed it.
Got it.
And here's what.
I'll tell you what, we got some good listeners.
You got to have that 740 Mooresville Pike if you want to put this into your Garmin or something.
Yeah, that's it.
You can actually go to the place you're supposed to be.
Yes, sir.
And here's one thing.
There is a town or a hamlet named Elm Springs, Tennessee.
And believe me, you'll be a lost ball in high weeds if you put that in.
It's north of Knoxville.
That's not where you want to go.
But listen.
We'll get this up on the website.
People who want to come, email me.
We'll get this up.
It's a lot of time between now and May.
But, Gene, people, let's put a fine point on this.
People will be able to attend a funeral of Nathan Bedford Forrest.
I mean, we're talking the casket with his remains.
And here's, we just had about a three-hour meeting this morning out at the Forrest home.
And this was the majority of what we were talking about.
We were talking about the homecoming event there on June the 20th, but the majority of it was about this when he's there at the home.
We want to emphasize to all of our listeners out there, all of our Forrest fans and people that really respect the general and the history and what this is going to be.
Somebody said this is a once-in-a-lifetime event.
I don't think so.
It's a once in three or four lifetime events to have something like this happen.
But we want to remind everybody, this is a funeral.
And so we expect people to be very courteous, very respectful, and dress appropriately.
And not in blue jeans and tank tops and cut-off shorts and flip-flops.
But you're going to a funeral.
And if you're going to go there, be respectful and present yourself as if you were attending a funeral service.
I would suggest a coat and tie in a dark gray or black suit.
Let's do it in gray.
Yeah.
Let's do it.
So that's what we're asking.
And we even had people suggest, well, you ought to send out some kind of card or something to identify people together.
Well, I don't know.
That's getting too complicated.
And we want to make sure that Southerners that want to come there and pay their respects to General Forrest and his wife are able to do that.
And we were also discussing the security, the Highway Patrol, the Marshall County Sheriff's Department, undercover plainclothes people, our own security.
Because in this climate that we live in today, this Tifa, anti-fi, whatever you want to call it, the communist terrorist, who knows what those crazy idiots are going to try.
It's just amazing, though.
It's amazing to try to wrap your mind around the fact, Gene, that they are going to reinter the body of General Nathan Bedford Forrest and his wife.
And we, our audience, all of us, will have an opportunity to go and pay our respects before he is put back into the ground.
That is something that I wouldn't miss for anything in the world.
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Well, Gene, let me ask you this.
How close is that to Bedford County?
You know, I had a great-grandfather, IES Alexander, that was in Forest 15, Tennessee, Calvary.
Yes, sir.
And he signed up with him when he went through there, and he said he signed up with him because he wanted to fight with his fellow Bedford County.
Right.
Bedford Forrest got the name Bedford from Bedford County, which is where he was born.
He was in Chapel Hill in 1821 when he was born.
That was a part of Bedford County.
And then I believe, if I'm not mistaken, 1836, part of Bedford County, part of Murray County, and I believe a little bit up north of Williamson County were taken and made Marshall County.
So when he was born, it was still Bedford County.
But then, like I said, I think it's 1836, 38, somewhere along in there.
Marshall County was created with the county seat of Lewisburg.
Well, is there still a Bedford County?
I thought that Shelbyville was the county seat of Bedford County, but am I?
How have I, what's happened?
And Lewisburg is the county seat of Marshall County.
So, yeah.
Now that's all very interesting, to be sure, but we're talking about a funeral of Nathan Bedford Forrest.
The last time he was buried, we weren't around.
No.
But we will be around for this.
And so we're going to reiterate for the point of emphasis all of the facts, the dates, the times, the locations with Gene Andrews, an authority on all things Forrest, the former commander of the Tennessee Division of the Southern Confederate Veterans, caretaker of the Forrest boyhood home in Chapel Hill, Tennessee, where his body will lie in state before it is reinterred in Columbia, Tennessee at Elm Springs this spring.
Late spring, early summer, in May.
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Well, it's a bittersweet thing that's happening, ladies and gentlemen.
So we know that the Nathan Bedford Forest Equestrian Monument will be reacquired by the good guys.
It has been held hostage now for a couple of years by the city of Memphis.
Unless a rising tide of color reaches rural Middletown.
We've bought a few more generations.
A few more generations at the very least, and I think probably longer than that.
This is really what everything is coming to, James.
It's coming down to this.
It's urban versus rural.
Urban areas like Charlottesville, Virginia, like Richmond, Virginia, are leftist bastions, same ditto from Memphis.
On the other hand, the vast majority of the geographic landmass of America is our type of people, people that have the same values, people that would preserve historical monuments and things like this.
That's the way things are breaking down.
And that's why I think that what is happening in Virginia and the proposal by West Virginia to let these rural counties join them is maybe the wave of the future, because we've got to do something to.
We can't let these cesspool, these urban cesspools, basically destroy our culture and our heritage.
Well, here's the thing I got to say before.
You're right.
And when the forest uh, general Forest and his wife were reinterred and and put there at Forest Park in 1909, that was a really nice part of the city.
But from 1909 to 20, you know, 2020 things have changed a whole lot.
And uh, same same thing for Nashville, where I live.
Uh, you know, Nashville used to be a nice town to live in, but overcrowded drugs crime, everything else that's gone on here uh, you know that our cities are just being destroyed, they're just rotting.
Demography is destiny, as we say, sir.
Well, Here's the thing, Gene.
I mean, for me, it's obviously bittersweet.
Sure.
We revere and we respect our hero, Nathan Bedford Forrest.
And as a Memphian, I have been proud all my life of the fact that that monument was there.
His grave was there.
How many times have we featured that?
Well, a lot of times we, you know, I used to go down there all the time.
I mean, all the time.
Several times.
We used to take all sorts of people.
Anybody who would ever come into town, we took them there.
If we took them to one place in Memphis while they were here visiting us, we took them to Forrest's grave.
We had several demonstrations down there or counter-demonstrations.
Well, let me say this.
You're right about that.
Keith, you're right.
We cut our teeth as a radio program.
We started this show in October of 2004, as so many of our listeners know, but we cut our teeth in 05 holding vigils at Forrest Park when Al Sharpton was coming into town.
See, these parks have been under duress.
There used to be three Confederate lightning rod for years.
For years, but we really cut our teeth and made our first entry into national news as a result of us being a local AM radio program that was standing in defense of our Confederate parks.
There used to be three in Memphis.
Now there's zero.
But of course, the one that was so often featured was Nathan Bedford Forest Park because the general was buried there along with his wife.
And so we cut our teeth with that.
And so, yes, of course, as a Memphian, it's bittersweet.
I hate that the grave of General Forrest will no longer be in my town, that he has to be moved because of population change and demographic change.
However, talking about it being bittersweet, there's a bitter and a sweetness to it.
I am glad that he will now be able to lay at rest in peace in a place where he will be honored and revered and not being splashed with red paint and cuss words.
Well, there's a larger importance to this.
This shows you where we're welcome and where we're not.
And these cities are festering sores on the body politic of America.
And basically, everything bad, everything liberal finds an incubator in the cities of America, and everything wholesome is finding likewise an incubator in the rural areas of America.
Well, we've got to go back to Gene.
But, Gene, here's the question.
Again, people will have a chance to come and pay respects to Nathan Bedford Forrest himself.
I mean, you know, for all intents and purposes, this is his funeral, and he will be reinterred.
This isn't a carbon copy.
This isn't, you know, a reproduction.
This isn't something that we're doing as a ceremonial type of tribute.
This is the real deal.
And I remember being there for the Hunley burial in Charleston when they finally found the crew of the Hunley and they brought them up from the depths.
And I was there, and there was a long stretch of road, and there were tens of thousands of people there.
You'll never see that again.
That was in 2004.
I was there.
A lot of real estate on Rainbow Road, Rainbow Row in Charleston.
Let's talk about the logistics for the people who want to come to this.
Now, we'll get them the exact address.
Don't worry about the details.
The fine details.
We'll get them that.
We'll post that to the website.
We'll have you back on a couple of times between now and May.
But let's do the dates and the city and the logistics for people who want to come.
Okay, here's what we're planning this.
We're talking about this morning.
When he's at the forest home, we're going to try as best we can to have parking provided on the grounds there.
That Tuesday and Wednesday, the 19th and 20th of May.
Over at Elm Springs, the SCV headquarters, not the town, the SCV headquarters in Columbia.
And Elm Springs was the name of that Antebellum home that's built up there on the hill.
It was called Elm Springs.
And so that's where the SCV headquarters are now.
So that they don't have the parking facility for, say, I don't know, 5,000, 10,000 people, however many are going to show up.
They have several sites around town that they're going to run a shuttle service.
Buses will bring you there to the forest home.
And they will be posting those sites between now and that May 23rd date on that Saturday.
So people can park in Columbia.
We'll have buses set up to bring people over to the interment ceremonies there at the SCV headquarters on Morrisville Pike.
So folks, if you want to pay your respects to the general as he lies in state at his boyhood home in Chapel Hill, Tennessee, those dates are May the 19th and the 20th.
If you want to go to the actual reinterment of the general, that will be in Columbia, Tennessee, May the 23rd.
Is that all right, Gene?
Yes, sir.
10 a.m. that morning, May the 23rd, at Sons of Confederate Veterans Headquarters in Columbia, Tennessee.
And then 2 o'clock that afternoon, they're going to have the dedication service for the new Confederate Museum that's also built on the grounds there at the SCV headquarters in Columbia as well.
We'll get them all the details, but Gene, I got to ask you this with only two minutes remaining.
What does it mean to you?
It's a fancy funeral.
Our reenactment unit went down there and we marched from the battery up to Magnolia Cemetery.
And it was so impressive to see 5,000 or 6,000 reenactors, just a sea of great, marching up that street there in Columbia to the cemetery.
But this, for a Tennessee hero, somebody that meant so much to the defense of Tennessee, I cannot imagine the feeling that I'm going to get just standing there on the porch of the Forest Home and seeing that casket brought inside there.
I've worked down there a lot of times at the Forest Home and put a lot of blood, sweat, and tears into that.
And to see something like this is just going to be absolutely amazing and overwhelming, really.
He'll be back where he lived.
I mean, you cannot even begin fault.
Well, I mean, right, but at the home, to have his body be back there, it's unimaginable.
It almost, and I don't mean this to be glib, it almost makes me happy that all of this happened so we have the opportunity to be at the end of that over the long run.
If he had stayed there, the statue and the base, the monument would be constantly vandalized and splattered paint on it and vulgar language of being painted on it would have gone on and on and on and on.
But once this thing blew up and it was illegally removed, and remember these people broke five felony laws with what they did, and the district attorney down there refused to prosecute.
The state attorney general refused to.
The governor, you know, it was a setup deal.
But in the way, in a way, in the long run, it's almost like they were working for us to get the bodies out of Memphis and the statue out of Memphis, where they weren't respected.
And now we can get them on private property.
And somebody asked me, well, what do you feel about somebody coming on and trying to do something whether they're at the forest home?
I said, well, I was on sentry duty in the Marine Corps, and they told us when somebody came on Marine Corps property, you ordered them once to halt, and if they didn't halt, you shoot to kill.
So I don't know if they're going to take that advice for security there, but anyway.
Well, Gene, let me just say this.
This whole thing has been a lesson in just how bad the situation is for people like us nowadays.
We had a law in Tennessee that supposedly prohibited this.
Yep.
That was ignored by the mayor of Memphis, by the city council of Memphis, by the County Commission of Memphis, by the Attorney General of the state of Tennessee, and the appellate judgeship of the Court of Appeals of Tennessee.
Well, we'll talk about this in the next segment.
I want to thank Gene for coming on tonight.
Gene, we will have you back on to reiterate all of this, but we gave folks some dates to save.
If you want to go see the general pay respects as he lies in state at his boyhood home in Chapel Hill, Tennessee, May 19th through the 20th, if you want to go to his reinternment in Columbia, Tennessee, May the 23rd.
Gene Andrews, we love you, brother.
Godspeed.
We'll talk to you again soon.
It's an honor to be on.
Why don't we say to the government writ large that they have to spend a little bit less?
Anyone ever had less money this year than you had last?
Anyone 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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Well, it's not every show, Keith Alexander, that we inform the audience how they can make arrangements to attend the funeral of Nathan Bedford Forrest.
This will, of course, not be his first funeral, but it will be, hopefully, God willing, his last.
And, you know, we talked about the history we have with this park and this grave and this hero and how we first, our first claim to fame here at TPC was fighting to defend these parks back in 2004, 2005.
And, you know, the very last public gathering that was ever held at Forest Park was a political cesspool gathering in late October 2017.
It was just a little more than a month later in early December of 2017 that the Forrest Monument was taken against state law, as you said, and against all decency and all of that.
And we know that that's what happens.
But the last public gathering that was ever held was a TPC gathering at Forest Park in Memphis, and it was presided over by none other than Gene Andrews.
Well, what this shows you is the dire straits that our country has come to now.
Basically, we are the only race that has race traitors abundant in government.
You know, the state of Tennessee is a majority white state.
Most of the elected officials in Tennessee are white.
Most of the judges are white.
Most of the attorney generals are.
But out of that group, not one would stand up publicly and fight for the pro-Southern supporters of General Forrest or Jefferson Davis' statute.
They just, you know, they roll over and play dead.
You know, when they said, what are you, a man or a mouse?
They all collectively said, pass the cheese.
This is what America is coming to, folks.
We're going to have to demand that our elected leaders do what is right and support our interests.
I think we need to find out all the people that could have acted to save that statue and to enforce the law that was on the book and chose to stand down and make sure they have opposition and when they come up for election, because even the courts of appeals are elected offices here in Tennessee and run people against them.
You know, until we can show that there are political consequences for selling us out, people will continue to sell us out.
Well, that's all true, Keith, but I have to say again, the last time there was a public gathering at Forrest Park in Memphis, before it was shut down and before the monument was toppled and before they put chain link fins and before weeds overtook the grounds, it was us and it was Gene and it was our audience.
And God bless our people.
We're the last men standing, basically, that were supporting General Forrest.
And General Forrest will always be near and dear to our hearts.
Every Tennessean should realize.
And also, it's really good because Middle Tennessee is where Forrest did most of his really important fighting during the Civil War at Chickamauga, at Franklin, and places like this, at Shiloh.
He is a very, very important figure, and really central Tennessee, Middle Tennessee is a very important thing.
But of course, that's where he was born.
He lived and died here, but he was born there.
Anyway, we'll talk more with Gene about that between now and then.
But, you know, talking about our heroes in Tennessee, it makes me think of Davey Crockett, Keith.
And you know what that makes me think of?
The State of the Union address, which we promised our audience we would chime in on this hour.
So let's do it very quickly.
Donald Trump, the rhetoric is still okay.
It's still maybe even good.
There were two different takes on the State of the Union address that Trump delivered a few days ago.
Brad Griffin's take at Occidental Dissent was quite dismissing.
Gregory Hood's take at Anwin was more favorable.
I do appreciate the fact that Donald Trump paid homage to Davy Crockett as a hero.
He made mention of his sacrifice at, as Trump put it, the beautiful, beautiful Alamo, as only Trump could put it.
Trump also talked in a very Eurocentric point of view about the founding of America, how we discovered it, how we carved this nation from a wilderness, so on and so forth.
And I think now as we enter into the reelection cycle, the second term of Donald Trump, this presidential election season, that's what you have to vote for.
Do you want a guy who will give you that rhetoric and nothing else, or do you want Bernie or Pete Buddege or whomever?
Because at this point, I think that's all we're going to get from Trump.
We're going to be able to say, you know what?
I voted for a guy who said Davy Crockett was a hero.
He didn't do anything else, but he did do that.
On the other hand, he's going to point a head of the FBI who has said that white nationalists are the equivalent of ISIS.
Well, you jump right into it.
You jump right into it.
White nationalists, you know, basically, if you support the Alamo or you support Nathan Benford Forrest, you're a white supremacist.
You're the problem.
You're the guy that the new head of the FBI is going to be scrutinizing first and foremost.
So that's where we're at, actually.
So Donald Trump hasn't really governed any different than a Marco Rubio or a Jeb Bush, but he does give speeches that are much different than you would get from a standard Republican.
So yes, of course.
Of course, I like to hear him praise Davy Crockett.
Nobody else.
And it is true.
No one else but Donald Trump would have done that.
Nobody in the Republican Party that had a chance at being the president.
Certainly not Mitt Romney.
Well, nobody would have done that but Trump.
So is that enough, though, for us to continue to support him into this new presidential election season?
Because you're right, Keith.
He has appointed a guy to the FBI.
What's his name, Christopher Wray?
Christopher Wray.
Christopher Wray, who has now said...
Has his Wray gun pointed at us.
That white nationalists, whatever that means, I don't even know what that means, but whatever it is, it isn't good for whites.
White nationalists are now on the same level as ISIS with regard to the terror threat to America.
And I think what they are probably talking about are people like Dylan Roof or even James Field, if you take the media narrative on all that, people who have killed people.
James Field.
But you know, the thing is, I get all that, but I'm going by the media's narrative and their take on this.
But, you know, there was a single Black Lives Matter supporter in Dallas that I think killed more cops than either of these guys.
I mean, but yet, no, it's white nationalists, so-called white nationalists.
And who isn't a white nationalist these days?
Well, look what's happened up in the New York area.
All these anti-Semitic outbursts and killings of Hasidic Jewish people is being done by black people.
This just is cognitive dissonance for the left.
Finally, the message.
Good or bad?
What'd you make of the speech?
Well, it's better than I had hoped for, but not good enough.
But here's what I'm hopeful of.
After going through the fires of impeachment and seeing that there is no making peace with the left, maybe, just maybe, Donald Trump will come out strongly in support of his supporters.
He will find that he really needs to put the interests of the white Gentile majority that voted him into office first and foremost for his policy.
He's got to, you know, he can't be dumb enough to not realize that his enemies, it doesn't matter what he does to try to appease them, they will not be appeased.
Well, you know, we're talking about our Confederate heroes this hour.
I mean, of course, Donald Trump even praised Robert E. Lee.
I mean, he did do that.
Who that knew the truth about Robert E. Lee versus Martin Luther King?
Nobody did not do it.
Well, I'm not sure.
There's not one person, not one person in Congress, in the Senate, in the House.
Nobody would praise Robert E. Lee except Donald Trump, and he did do that.
But what I'm thinking to you is that is, look, it's time now to act on that and drain the swamp, as he promised.
Drain the swamp of all those congressmen.
All those senators and all those bureaucrats.
I think this is it, is that we point to that and say, well, you know, he's different because he said this and he said this and he said there was good people on both sides at Charlottesville, which was true.
But unfortunately, we still have, what, 10 miles of fence built and a bunch of promises.
Well, 100 miles if you listen to the Trump supporters.
But you know what?
Key up some music here.
This is the time for.
Well, we ain't got time for that.
Well, the music is Elvis singing too much conversation, not enough action.
That's exactly what he's saying.
Why don't you just sing it for us?
Too much conversation, not enough action.
That's it.
That's Elvis.
You know, thank you very much.
This is what Elvis.
Sound is just like him.
Yeah, I know.
Well, see, this is what we have from Trump.
That needs to be his new campaign song.
And we need to get him.
All right, it is the rhetoric, and it is red meat.
And again, it even makes me say, that feels good, you know.
But that's it.
It stops there.
Because as you said, as he praises a guy like Davey Crockett, which no other person would do, I give him that.
He appoints a guy to the FBI that says people who think like us are as big of a domestic terror threat as ISIS.
Well, what he's done is make James K. Burnham, the conservative thinker of the 30s, basically a prophet because he said that the new elite will be a technocratic managerial class of people who have convinced the rest of us that the government cannot operate unless they're in charge of it.
I think that Donald Trump truly believes that.
That's why he keeps appointing people out of the deep state to replace the fifth colonists that are riddled throughout the deep state.
Would you take him over Romney?
Yeah, I would have to take Donald Trump over.
I would say at least taking over anybody on the Democratic group slate of potential nominees.
But basically, he needs to learn that basically his first term was too much conversation, not enough action.
We need action and traction in the second term of Donald Trump.
I think there's less of a chance of getting that in the second term than there was four years ago.
I think that's obvious.
But yes, if he gets control of, if the Republicans get control of Congress and they had all of that and he didn't eject.
Well, I know that was the first time, but back then he was naive.
Hopefully he is older.
He's sadder, but wiser and knows that he's got to take the gloves off of the left.
I don't think he does.
But on the other hand, maybe he does.
I'll tell you this.
He has said things we agree with, even if he has done things we agree with.
Mitt Romney has said or done nothing we agree with.
He's completely worthless.
I guarantee Obama was probably better than Mitt Romney.