July 17, 2021 - The Political Cesspool - James Edwards
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Ladies and gentlemen, we have put aside the third hour of programming this evening, this Saturday, July the 17th, as a tribute to my friend William H. Regnery II.
And as I told you earlier in the broadcast tonight, I struggled with this decision because Bill was a private man.
But after reading such hatred directed towards him by the controlled press, the regime media, I felt as though, firstly, it's never improper to honor and pay your respects to a member of your fellowship who has departed.
And also, if they can denigrate him, we can celebrate him.
So that's what this hour is going to be about.
And so I found out earlier this month from his friends and family that Bill Regnery had passed away.
And we're going to use this hour to eulogize him with some of the people who knew him best.
And they'll be coming up later this hour.
But I'll tell you what you can find out with just a cursory internet search.
That was that Bill Regnery was born on February the 25th, 1941, passed away earlier this month.
I'm not going to read the denigrations that have been bestowed upon him, but I will tell you that he was a political activist and a donor.
And of course, the heir to a multi-million dollar fortune.
He was born in 1941.
His paternal grandfather, William H. Regnery, was a textile magnate, a banker, a philanthropist in Chicago.
His uncle Henry in 1947 founded Regnery Publishing, that iconic conservative imprint.
His grandfather and namesake was a founding member of the so-called infamous America First Committee.
And of course, you know, it must have been terrible that there were this group of Americans who at the time considered it might not be a good idea to enter into a world war that would make the world safe for communism.
Pat Buchanan, who has been a guest on this show several times, and one of his appearances, Pat was on with me to talk about Churchill, Hitler, Hitler, and the unnecessary war, which may have been actually published by Regnery.
I know Pat's book, A Republic, Not an Empire, was.
But in any event, I read a piece from the Huffington Post this week.
And it was really incredible, even by the lack of standards that so-called media has.
There was one internet commenter who really nailed it.
He said that this piece reads as though it was published by Pravda, but only if Pravda had been written by middle schoolers.
Since then, of course, the press did pick up nearly two weeks after the fact of his passing.
So perhaps they're not as innipped as people like to believe.
The New York Times, the Washington Post, everybody's talking about it now, some more hysterically than others.
But it's like I've said, and I said it earlier tonight.
What do you call a man who's a black man who's proud to be black?
You call him a black man.
What do you call a white man who's not ashamed of his cultural heritage?
Well, you call him a white supremacist.
But none of these people who are writing these hit pieces on Bill, they didn't know him.
In fact, never once did any of these authors actually even speak with him.
But I did know him, and I knew him for a long time.
So I'm going to offer some of my personal testimony about Bill Regnery.
And, you know, this celebratory festival they're having over the fact that a good man have died, they'll do the same thing when I pass away.
I was talking to my wife about that today.
And I said, you know, when I die, it'll be the same thing.
And she said, well, you know, it's more of a reflection on them than it is on us.
And that's true, and that's good to remember.
But I never have concerned myself with what the world thinks of me, and neither did Bill Regnery.
We are in this world, but we are not of this world.
And these lies, these hateful responses can never be allowed to stop us from honoring our others.
And in fact, as I said a moment ago, it was because of just such gutter journalism and ill-informed and nasty responses that I decided ultimately late last night to share with you my personal reflections and experiences with Bill.
And, you know, as I've said with all of the people that we talk to on this program, if I know a man to be trustworthy and honorable, I'm going to go all out for him.
I'm going to remain loyal to him, as men should be, regardless of what this sick and degenerate world may think about it.
Bill was my friend, and he was the best among us.
Just before we bring on Kevin McDonald and Jared Taylor and Sam Dixon, I'll tell you that the first time I met Bill, which was many years ago, more than a decade ago, he came across to me as the most unpretentious and the least ostentatious multimillionaire you'd ever find.
And he was kind, exceedingly kind and humble.
And if you didn't know already who he was, and if you didn't recognize the family name, you would have never guessed that he was the scion of such an iconic American family.
He didn't crave the spotlight or any attention at all, really, to me.
He was always just Bill.
And over the years, we got to know each other well, and we worked together on various projects behind the scenes, namely the Occidental Quarterly.
And I know that there was something that Kevin McDonald did a couple of issues ago.
Kevin and I talked about this, and he put on the masthead of the Occidental Quarterly, founded by William H. Regnery II.
And I included a handwritten note with the first copy that we received of the first issue that had Bill's name listed as the founder on the masthead.
We wanted that to be a living tribute to him because we knew that obviously he was in declining health.
And I remember mailing that down to him at his home in Florida with a handwritten note.
And it really meant a lot to me to be able to do that.
That was, in fact, one of the very least things I could have done in return for all the things he's done for us and so many others.
I guess Bill is most publicly known, and I'm not revealing any information here that's not already known, for establishing the Occidental Quarterly and the National Policy Institute.
But you know that.
What do you not know?
I was able to spend some time with Bill in different settings on vacation, at conferences.
And we were on vacation one time down in the Keys.
And we were having ice cream together.
My wife was there and a couple of other people.
And we were just joking.
I was like, man, this ice cream.
And we were talking about, you know, maybe putting on a little weight.
And I said, well, Bill, do you believe in the nobility of liposuction if it ever gets out of hand?
And he looked at me with a sly grin and he said, you know, James, lipo won't get it off your organs.
But he gave me tips on fundraising.
He gave me, you know, there was just, he always had information.
And we were going to visit him at his home down in Florida just a couple of years ago.
And we were actually already packed.
We were packed to go down there.
And he called me up about a day or two before and he said, you know, I got some bad news at the doctor.
And we're going to have to postpone.
And then COVID hit and he had to postpone again.
And then, you know, we ran out of postponements.
But I'll tell you, I'll tell you more about my experiences with Bill Regnery and others will share their reflections as well.
Sam Dixon's coming up next.
Stay tuned.
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All right, everybody, welcome back.
We are doing a tribute to the late William H. Regnery II, and I'm going to be joined for the rest of the program by TPC mainstays Sam Dixon, Kevin McDonald, and Jared Taylor.
I could spend the rest of the hour sharing with you stories and personal interactions with Bill, but there are people who knew him much better than I, and I want to cede the majority of the time going forward to those people.
Sam Dixon is certainly one.
Sam, we found out about this obviously a few days ago.
Your reactions, your reflections on Bill, the kind of man he was, and the sacrifices and the bravery that he exhibited in his life.
Bill was loyal to his ancestors.
He comes from an illustrious family that anyone who is concerned about the destiny of white people in America should be very grateful to.
When I was a youngster, it was very difficult to find books that disputed the official history.
And one way to find them was to look for certain publishers.
And one of them was the Regnery Press.
And I was able to learn a lot in high school by looking for books that they had published and reading them.
And I believe his grandfather was a co-founder of the America First Committee.
And Bill never wavered.
He came from, like I said, from a very, very prominent family.
He had a lot to lose.
He worked quietly.
He did not try to be a prima dhamma, a center of attention.
And he worked steadily.
He worked steadily throughout his whole life for our cause.
And there are very few people who are like that.
And our race has lost a great friend and a magnificent person in Bill Regner.
And we wish the best to his family and a comfort for them and a glorious entrance into the afterlife for Bill.
And we give thanks for his life and for the legacy that he leaves to us and the example that he gives us.
At the grave of a hero, you draw certain lessons.
And we draw many lessons from his life.
And one of constancy, of devotion, of clear-sightedness, and the willing to face hard issues instead of pursuing silly, marginal issues like most people have done.
And we will miss him.
But we all will go that way.
And let us hope that when that time comes for all of us, we can die with a sense of having fulfilled what we owed our people.
It's a Victorian tale about Admiral Nelson.
I'm sure modern historians would dispute it, but supposedly, as he was dying on the deck of his ship, having defeated the French at Trafalgar, he said, thank God I have done my duty.
And Bill can say that he did his duty, and I hope that he was thankful, and we are thankful.
Well, you know, and Sam, we shared a friendship, you again longer than I, but me for well longer than a decade, and we were always emailing with one another, email chains and group emails.
And of course, Bill was a regular participant in those emails, and the emails got less and less frequent in recent days, and for obvious reason.
But he was always matter-of-fact about what he was facing.
He never was fearful, and he just addressed it like this.
I don't know.
I drew inspiration from the way he faced life and the way he faced death, to your point just a moment ago.
But I did post a simple statement on social media.
He was my friend.
He was a hero to me.
He set a sterling example for the rest of us to follow, and it is upon his shoulders that we stand.
Gregory Conti, though, Greg Conti, another contemporary of Bill's who worked with him in some shape, form, or fashion in the past, he wrote something that I think was quite moving.
I'd like to share it with you and get your reaction because I think this is something you can pick up on and run with.
And that is that the notion is pushed that the so-called hard right is awash with money from ultra-conservative aristocrats.
Of course, this isn't true at all.
Almost all moneyed aristocratic conservatives are cowards and charlatans.
The one exception was Bill Regnery, who died on July the 2nd.
Bill came from a rich publishing family, Greg Conte writes.
He always had money.
He could have led a life of ease and adventure.
Instead, he chose to risk his money and his reputation fighting for his people.
Sam, that's something that really, really, really makes me respect, admire, and salute a man.
He didn't have to suffer any of this.
He could have been lauded upon his passing instead of being subjected to the gutter hatred that we are seeing tonight.
Yes, if he had confined himself to the silly, marginal issues that the con artists push, the don't burn the flag amendment and the balanced budget amendment and all this stuff that these issues that don't matter, he would have been celebrated and accepted among the other scoundrels and fundraisers.
But he didn't do that.
He talked about what mattered, and he addressed what mattered.
And there are very few people who have done that.
Our enemies certainly saw him.
You may have told your medical what he was.
They hated him.
And I'm sure you have probably shared with your listeners the filth that you see on the Huffington Post.
I hope Ariella Huffington is proud of herself.
I hope she can't see just how diseased her soul is to preside over such a cacophony of incredible hate as has been poured out in the article covering Bill's death and the incredibly obscene comments that have been put up by these people.
Well, you know, Sam, I mentioned this earlier just in passing, but all of the articles out there are to some varying degree of hysterical, overzealous hatred.
But the Huff Post piece was really, there was a comment that was written that this was something that would have appeared in Prada, had Pravda been written by an eighth grader.
There were no less than 40.
I had to go back and count them.
Now, you and I have been subjected to a lot of media in our lifetimes and throughout our careers, but there were 40, no less than 40 slurs.
And by slurs, I mean white supremacist, white nationalist, neo-Nazi, Nazi, Klansman, bigot, extremist.
40 times words like this were used to reference Bill or his associations in a single article.
Almost every sentence contained at least one such slur.
Some sentences included multiples variations thereof.
That's an incredible thing.
Well, these people that we are fighting are simply diseased.
They are mentally and spiritually diseased people.
They don't know themselves.
They have no past the moral intersection.
They're just like a rabbit, like rabbit dog.
And we should be grateful to them for telling us and the whole world what they are.
Well, getting back to who Bill Regnerier was, and that's the point.
I mean, we don't want to draw focus to what's unfortunate tonight.
Let's go back to who he was, his character, who he was as a man, who he was as a friend.
What more could you say before we bring Jared on in just a few seconds?
I think I've said it.
There's just nothing more to say.
He was a very steady person.
We have many people in our movement, as I said before, who say they would die for us.
And I think many of them would.
We have very few that will work for us.
And he worked steadily.
He's always working on some other project.
Many of them failed.
Some of them succeeded.
But he kept at it.
He was a tortoise.
He wasn't a hare.
And we really need people like that.
He was also thoughtful.
I mean, I don't want to go into just anecdotal things, but just to give you some personal recollections, I can remember he called me one time.
That was, of course, his number in my phone, which has grown in numbers of people who have passed away, as happens when you get old.
But I remember he called me one time and he just said, I just wanted to let you know I've got your Christmas card.
And it was a Christmas card of my children on his desk.
And to me, with the amount of respect that I had for him, for him to call, just to call out of the blue to say, hey, I just got your card.
I want you to let it know it's on my desk.
You've got a beautiful family.
That meant a lot.
Now, he was, of course, a friend, so that's not out of character, but still, you know, we all recognize our betters, and we had no better than Bill Regnery.
We'll be back.
Sam Dixon's going to stick with us, but we're going to be joined also by Jared Taylor in the next segment.
Stay tuned.
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We're remembering Bill Regnery, and we've been doing that throughout the night, but we're certainly putting a larger focus on it.
And this, our third and final hour, being joined by three mainstays of the broadcast tonight, people who knew him well, Sam Dixon, Jared Taylor.
And Jared is with us now.
I was sharing just a short anecdote about Chris Carter that were sending them the correspondence that I had in the meetings and the phone calls.
And of course, Sam and Jared for longer than I had.
There was one story that was actually shared to me, shared with me by a listener in Texas.
And this particular listener said, when I first found out about your program, I was interested, but I wanted to check in with other people who knew you.
And this was a mutual friend of Bill's.
And he said, he went to Bill and he said, you know, what do you think about James Edwards?
And he said, Bill just looked at him and said, James is good people.
You know, and to me, Jared, when it comes from someone who is your better, and I think it is important that we recognize our betters.
And as I said before the break, we had no better than Bill Regnery.
To me, especially at that point in my life, which was some years ago when I was just getting started, that meant a great deal.
What did Bill Regnery mean to you?
What do you think his legacy is and should be?
His legacy, certainly, in my mind, and in the mind of anyone who knew him and who respected his position was of a man who fought very hard for the people and for the things that he believed in.
And I think that is the most we can ask of anyone, someone who did his duty.
And you and I have talked frequently of Robert E. Lee's comment that that's the most beautiful word in the English language.
Duty is the most beautiful word in the English language.
And Bill Regnery did his duty as he saw it.
And I certainly see my duty in similar terms.
But that is my abiding sense of what Bill Rignery was.
I can remember, of course, Jared, not too long ago, and we've seen it change in real time, how the media would present our side.
We were always brought on to be the villains, of course.
And you've had so much experience with media, and I've had my fair share as well.
But I can remember both you and I both separately being featured on television networks back in the mid-2000s.
They would bring us on.
They would bring me on and introduce me as a conservative talk radio host.
And now, of course, there is no access there at all.
But what I've seen today, the only reason I bring that up is what I've seen this weekend with regards to the coverage and the comments spawned from that coverage directed towards a man like Bill Regnery, we have really crossed something that there is no going back on with regards to the absolutely contempt and unbridled hatred that the purveyors of the media have towards people who exhibit a diversity of opinion.
We thought diversity was supposed to be some great virtue, diversity of opinion, apparently not.
No, I often like to joke that the people who are great champions of tolerance and diversity certainly tolerant, are intolerant of any diversity of opinion.
There's no question about that.
But yes, the utter contempt that people have been heaping on Bill Regnery's memory, I happened to see a young Turks video in which this young white girl is talking with such supreme superiority and sarcasm about Bill Regnery and just what a moral inferior he was.
I can't stand it.
I just can't stand that view that they take.
But yes, it has all been turned into a moral question rather than any kind of attempt to examine something from a different point of view or to look at the facts, see what makes sense historically or morally, what's in conformity with human nature.
No.
The book is closed.
And anyone who disagrees is absolutely a moral leper and no better than an insect.
And this attitude towards a man of Bill Regnery's statue is just contemptible to me.
You know, we knew him.
The people who are deriding him probably never spoke with him once.
He was generous.
He was kind.
He was a gentleman.
He was a friend.
He was a hero.
I never heard him personally say, and this was after years of gatherings, never heard him say a foul word.
I never heard him speak ill of anybody or anything.
I'm sad he's gone.
I'll miss him.
I do miss him.
But I feel as though so much of what the left says about us is actually projection because they are the ones who seem to be truly inspired by hatred.
I have never heard any of our contemporaries say something about someone who has passed as I have seen.
And Sam, you were talking about this, I think, last night when we were on the phone.
This is the exact same way they treated the Tsar, Tsar Nicholas and his family, that they would wish this not only upon our beloved, but on our families and on the families of those we know.
Well, the reference was that when the 100th anniversary of the murder of the Tsar and his children came around, the comments on the internet and elsewhere were full of people gloating and expressing their pleasure that the children were killed too.
And, you know, we have to put these people in perspective.
Jared was just talking about how intolerant they are.
And you were talking about all the appropriate words they use toward people like Bill Regnery or you or Jared.
This is how they would regard Thomas Jefferson.
If Thomas Jefferson were alive today, this is how they would treat Thomas Jefferson.
He would not be able to be on Facebook.
He would not be able to be on YouTube.
He would be censored out of Twitter.
And he would be denounced as a racist, a hater, a terrible person.
That's how far down we have come.
Jared?
James, I think you make an excellent point.
These are people who never met Bill Regnery.
But my suspicion is that even if they had met him, even if they did know that he was a man of generosity, a thoughtful man, a reflecting man, they would still, because of this ideology that absolutely blinds them to anything else, they would still take this view.
No, I don't doubt that at all.
You're quite right.
It's more than ideology, Jared.
It really borders on a true mental problem.
When you become so deluded that you think that everyone who disagrees with you on your point of view is full of hate, that you have a monopoly on virtue, and that disagreement can only be hate.
I think that someone like that has a really serious problem.
Well, ironically, though, it was because of this hatred that they are showcasing that led me to the decision at the last hour to do this because I really struggled with it.
I really did.
I didn't want to come across as being showy or using Bill's passing as an attraction for an interesting hour of radio.
And I really went into the very last minute, but my decision was made for me by seeing this.
If they can do that to him, the people who knew him can certainly honor him in a public way.
And if people want to search out the truth, here will be a record for it.
Jared, last word to you this segment.
Well, James, I certainly respect your scruples in that matter, but I would urge you to completely set them aside.
I don't believe anyone would, by any stretch of the imagination, think that this program was exploited in any way in bad taste.
And we definitely do have to speak up for a man that we knew and respected and who worked so hard for things he believed in.
So, no, I hope you will not reproach yourself in the slightest for this decision.
Well, you know, I try to be conscientious, and it crossed my mind.
But I'll tell you this, because Bill was such a private guy, I think that was the thing.
He was such a private guy.
He didn't seek the spotlight.
He didn't seek any recognition.
But I'll tell you this, my friends.
If I should suffer the misfortune of you going on to your eternal reward, Jared, or you, Sam, before I do, it'll be a full three-hour tribute.
That I can guarantee you.
So I won't have any such qualms if that should happen in such a way.
But boy, I sure don't want to think about that.
I give you a plan with all of the ecclesiastical authority vested in me, and you know how much that is, I give you a plenary indulgence to exploit my memory for whatever you can get out of it.
There would be no better send-off than people sending you money and supporting your work.
Well, thank you so much, my friend.
Yes, Jared, please.
No, well, Sam, as you know, is very generous.
And when he gives you his plenary indulgence, that's something to cherish.
But one of the things that they have been absolutely deriding Bill Rignery about is this idea of establishing a dating service for white people.
And, Jared, we have just seconds remaining.
I know you're at a dinner party.
We only have seconds remaining.
I want you to be able to work this in.
Go.
Okay, certainly.
And I think this is a very important thing.
There are Jewish dating services, Asian dating services, black dating, homo dating services.
And it's the most obvious and logical thing.
And this is something I wish it had gotten off the ground.
It never did.
But that, I think, could have been one of the aspects of his legacy as well.
But James, thank you so much for inviting me.
And good luck.
I know that you know that I'm a great admirer of yours.
And keep up the good work.
And thank you so much for inviting me.
As always, brother, I appreciate you at such a late hour agreeing to be on the program, even though you had a conflict tonight.
You stepped away from where you're at to join us for a segment.
It's always great to have you on the program, and we'll have you back soon under better circumstances.
But this was important, and I appreciate you making the time.
Oh, it's been my pleasure, and it's a great honor to be able to talk about Bill Regnery in this way.
So, thank you so much.
Indeed.
Indeed.
And Sam Dixon will be back with us for one more segment when we'll be joined by Kevin McDonald, the editor of the Occidental Quarterly, the scholarly and intellectual publication founded by Bill Regnery.
And that's how we'll close the program tonight, ladies and gentlemen.
I know V-Dare will be soon publishing an article about the life of Bill Regnery, and they will be, Peter Bremelo, will be attaching this program to that.
And Peter was going to be with us tonight, too.
He too had a conflict.
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All right, sharing more reflections and memories of Bill Regnery.
What an honor it's been, not only to have known him, but to be able to do this hour with the likes of three of my greatest friends and peers, Kevin McDonald, Jared Taylor, and Sam Dixon, Kevin McDonald, the editor of the Occidental Quarterly.
And the Occidental Observer is with us now.
Sam Dixon's still on the line as he is with me for the bulk of this hour.
Just a couple of very, very, very quick things.
This will be my final piece on this.
Bill Regnery listened to this show, and I can vividly remember him emailing me one night last year when a particular guest was on.
He said, you know, this is a great, great show, but this is, you know, ask him this, or how about this idea?
And it was coming in in real time, the email, and we were working that into the program.
And that was something that stands out to me.
I said earlier in the hour, my wife and children and I were going to go visit him at his home.
And it was just a couple of days before he got some bad news from the doctor.
We postponed it for a year, and then COVID hit, and it was another year.
And then, you know, eventually there was just no more time.
So, ladies and gentlemen, respect and admire and spend every time you can with the people out there that are important to you while the time is available.
Two more things that stick out, and this will bring up Kevin McDonald.
There was one time, not too long ago, that I was participating in a French television documentary, and it conflicted with another documentary that was going to be piloted here that I wasn't going to be on, but that others, I think Sam Dixon actually appeared on that.
And Bill was saying, you know, if you need me to be an advocate for you, you know, I'll tell them this is what you need, and this is what they're going to do for you.
He was just that kind of guy.
I mean, he didn't have to do that.
I mean, to me, Bill Regnery was like, wow.
Even though I knew him as a friend and a contemporary, it was still somebody that I had so much respect for.
And, you know, here is this guy, you know, saying he cared about what I was doing and he would come into the battle for me.
And that led up to the Occidental Quarterly.
Now, obviously, Bill founded this incredible publication that Kevin serves as the editor for.
But one of Bill's ideas, Kevin, was TOQ Live, which we had the opportunity to do for about a year and a half before YouTube nuked us.
And in the 17 years that I've been in media, those were some of the most fun things.
That was entirely Bill's idea.
He put it all together and he put the team together.
And I just really enjoyed that.
I really, really enjoyed that.
Those episodes that we did together on YouTube, kind of focusing on the articles and the authors that were appearing in the Occidental Quarterly each quarter, that would have happened without Bill.
So what do you remember about Bill Kevin and what can you share with us about his life, his legacy, and the example he set for the rest of us to follow?
Well, it's certainly true that he had lots of great ideas about what to do to the various things he started, the Occidental Quarterly and the National Policy Institute, and the interview show that we did with a bunch of really good people.
So he had the idea that we had to have a lot of different sort of sources of media, types of media, different strokes for different folks.
So Occidental Quarterly is rather academic, but we have other things as well.
And so we're appealing to a lot of different audiences.
And I think the other thing, I mean, I certainly met him several times.
And we talked.
And he's a very knowledgeable guy, very proud of his family and his ancestry and the role of his family, like in the America First Committee and everything.
And a very interesting guy.
It really illustrates, I think, the importance of people who have quite a bit of money, as he did.
We need people like that.
And he understood that he had an obligation to his people to use some of that money for a good cause, put it out there and really get things done.
And it was critical to do that.
The first time I met him probably was down in Florida where he had that conference where he set up Oxford Quarterly and other things.
And there was a lot of good people there, a lot of ideas floating around.
And I think he's, you know, I think one of the last things he wrote, published Oxford Observer, and I put it in the Oxford Quarterly.
I think you put it on your website, Political Cesspool.
But we have to think about some kind of separation.
At this point, things are so far gone that we have to think in terms of enclaves and being able to politically organize our own ethno-state of some kind.
I'm so glad you brought that up, Kevin.
Pardon the interruption, my friend.
I'm so glad you brought that up, though, because that was, in fact, the very last thing.
It was just August of last year, the very last thing that Bill Regnery wrote.
And it was an article for the Occidental Quarterly entitled Surviving the Contemporary Black, Racial, and White Intra-Racial Conflict.
Anti-millenarian whites must seek political separation.
That was probably the last thing that he ever wrote.
I believe it was publicly.
And it was for TOQ, and you published it, and that's it.
Yeah, and so that was it.
I didn't realize I sort of heard that his health was failing.
He hadn't been to very many Charles Martel Society conferences lately.
But I was surprised and saddened to hear that he actually had died.
Very, very sad to hear that.
Well, it's always tough.
I mean, these men are irreplaceable.
We can't spare them, and there's not that many of them.
But indeed, there is obviously things we can take away that we'll want to emulate going forward.
And to me, it was just a great honor to have known him and worked with him in the capacity that I was able to.
But Sam, I don't know exactly what more we can say than has already been said, but perhaps Kevin may have been able to do that.
Well, Kate, Kevin, Kevin has jogged my memory of Dr. McDonald.
That should not be so disrespectful as to despite him of his well-deserved title, has reminded me of something.
And that is that Bill continued to grow.
And as he grew, he was willing to part company with people, which very few people are.
He was on the board of directors of the Institute for the Intercollegiate Studies Institute, which is a very respected, stodgy, conservative group.
And they found out that he actually wanted to talk about serious issues.
And so they severed connections with him.
Most people, I suspect Bill included, are really hurt when friendships end and people snub them.
But he didn't waver.
And I'm blessed.
I don't have the need for friendship and adulation that some people have.
I don't think Bill has it either, but I know that it was not easy.
He did not walk away from that experience without a sense of sadness that an organization to which he had devoted much of his life and to which he had given generously was that cowardly.
So he was willing to place the opprobrium and have the false friends drop away and to continue steadily on his course.
Yeah, it really struck me some of the articles that came out about him after he died, you know, like on the Huffington Post article, just vilifying.
You know, you just have to get used to that, I guess.
And I'm sure he was by the time he died.
He didn't expect any better than that, you know, just being called a Nazi, racist, vile, and pseudoscience.
We're so used to that, you know.
And we're the only people that are really trying to get the story right, really trying to get the science right.
And it's very depressing to hear these people just so confidently call pseudoscience, no matter what it is, you know, as long as it doesn't go along with their political narrative, it is pseudoscience.
And, you know, it's very, very sad to see that.
Well, I think it was Robert Burns who said the gift of gifts to see ourselves as others see us.
And these people have no ability to see themselves as what they are.
They see themselves like people like the victim of the Stokes monkey trial, but they're anything but.
These are the people who wanted to burn Galileo at the stake.
They are people that were in the witch mobs murdering some old woman that had a cat.
That's what these people are.
They are truly evil, hate-crazed, spiritually, and mentally sick people.
And I think that word hate, I think that's what I see.
I see these people just filled with hate and they're unhappy.
And they just want to be else to be unhappy.
And they want to condemn everyone else and morally inferior and all that.
They loved, you know, so when Bill died, they just had a feast of going over and using all their favorite slurs, you know, and it's just, it's just sickening to see it.
And I'm just fed up.
I just can't process it.
Yeah, I agree with you.
Obviously, Kevin, I agree with you.
I read all of these.
I can't even repeat them.
I mean, what you saw in the articles was nothing like you would have seen in the comments on social media from people who never knew Bill, never heard of him before.
All they knew was this article and the responses that it elicited.
And, you know, I looked at him and I didn't laugh.
I didn't get angry.
I just looked at him and said, this is to be expected.
It was a very matter-of-fact reckoning as I read this thing.
I was sharing them with my wife.
My wife only met Bill in passing a couple of times.
She didn't work with him as I did or as we did.
And I said, you know, when we die, when I die, it's going to be the same thing.
She said, well, it reflects more upon them than it does upon us.
So maybe my sweet little wife has the right perspective there.
But what an honor it has been, gentlemen, to spend this hour with you honoring one of our heroes for Sam Dixon and Jared Taylor and Kevin McDonald.
I'm James Edwards.
To Bill Regmery, Godspeed, brother.
We'll see you on the other side.
And I look forward to it.
We'll talk to you again next week.
And gentlemen, thank you for being a part of this program tonight.