Feb. 24, 2024 - 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.
Welcome one and all to another live broadcast of TPC this Saturday evening, February the 24th, our last week of regular programming before we enter into that special time of our broadcast calendar.
Two months of special series coming up.
March Around the World kicks off next week, followed by Confederate History Month in April.
But first, tonight, we are covering the Conservative Political Action Conference, CPAC.
It held its annual gathering in Washington, D.C. this week.
Our correspondent, Scoop Stanton, was there for the full ride, and he's still there now.
President Donald Trump spoke on the scene earlier today where Scoop is reporting as we speak.
Scoop, thanks for being with us.
Thanks for doing us this favor and leading off tonight's broadcast with coverage from the ground in D.C. How's your week been?
Well, first of all, James, good evening, political cesspool family.
I am doing very well.
James, currently I am at CPAC at the Gaylord National Resort in Oxen Hill, Maryland.
I am currently in a hotel room with two beautiful ladies.
And I know one of them is very special to you indeed.
Perhaps both, but at least one, right?
Well, they're both very special.
They're both 7-5 radio fans.
Anyways, I'll save that for the political cesspool after.
Never mind.
I thought one was your daughter.
I don't even know where I got that from.
Keith might have been giving me erroneous information there a second ago.
Okay, never mind that audience.
Well, they're still very special.
Oh, you know, the 75 Radio Fan Club joining Scoop on Radio Row this week with this press credentials, I might add.
Now, Scoop, you've been covering CPAC for the Liberty News Radio Network for how long has it been now?
It's been over a decade.
And first I was a political cesspool correspondent, and then I was a 7-5 radio host.
But this year was something a little bit different.
First, myself, our spokesman, Al Danello Rodriguez, also Ed Huberner.
I was going to have him in production with 7.5 Radio because it is a major operation.
And we were denied credentials.
I was like, okay.
So then it opened back up for media credentials again.
So I applied under the name Liberty News Radio Network as I am a part of this show.
And my show is syndicated by Libby News Radio Network.
And I'm a correspondent for Liberty Roundtable.
And surprise, surprise, I was granted credentials for CPAC.
Well, we just got Keith miced up.
He brought out the point that it's been hit or miss for you over the course of the last decade.
Sometimes you get in, sometimes you don't.
Sometimes you don't get in, and then you do.
Right.
And I think it depends on the election year.
Like this year was a major election year, obviously, with Donald Trump.
So I was first denied credentials, and then we didn't have a lot of participants on what they call Media Row.
I still call it Radio Row.
But last year, it was off-election year, and it was empty.
And of course, you know, 7-5 Radio with Libby News Radio Network just rolled on in, and I did what it did best with squat on Radio Row.
Have you met any real celebrities up there?
All right, that's the question on everybody's mind that we got to get to the bottom of.
Now, I know you met Robert Davi there one year who played one of the villains in James Bond.
And yes, folks, we are going to get to some serious content here in just a second.
But I actually thought that was pretty cool.
He was the bad guy in what movie was it?
Which Bond was that?
License to Kill.
License to Kill, of course, Timothy Dalton.
All we can claim is Sonny Landham from Predator.
No, we do.
Well, yeah, but you can't do any better than that.
Here's the thing about Davi.
I mean, here he is.
He's one of the most famous James Bond villains ever.
People root for him in that movie because, frankly, Timothy Dalton could not wear the shoes of 007.
And he's walking around the Gaylord Resort just by himself.
I was walking, he was standing by the Ela Veras walking through to CPAC.
I said, excuse me, sir.
Are you Mr. Davy?
Robert Davi?
He's like, yes, Sam.
Hey, how you doing?
Big fan, blah, And he just couldn't have been any nicer.
And you have a lot of other people now, pseudo-celebrities of who gives a hoot.
Well, you met Lady MAGA this week.
Oh, yes.
And I gave her your phone number, James.
All right.
Well, let's get down to brass tacks here.
Now that all the monkey shines are out of the way, we always like to open up the show with a little bit of levity or at least some announcements tonight.
We went with levity.
But Scoop, you've done a great job.
I heard you on Sam Bushman's show a couple of times this week reporting live from the scene.
Now, as you said, they used to call it Radio Row.
Now it's called Media Row because you have the proliferation of podcasts and live streams and a lot of video content now.
It's not just radio there in the media circle, which is where you've been hanging out with all of our peers in the media.
Let me ask you this to get started.
Well, I'll ask you this first, and then I'll go back to the one I was going to ask.
What was your overall impression of what you've witnessed?
Ladies and gentlemen, he has been there all day, every day, all week.
CPAC ran from, what, Thursday to Saturday?
It's been a week-long event.
Well, James, James, you know, typical political accessible fashion, today was the big day.
You had President Trump, Vivek Ramaswamy, Steve Bannon, Mike Lindell, a whole bunch of other heavy hitters.
But unfortunately, me being the band that I am, I had to go home and take care of my children.
So I watched my man extraordinary.
He was there.
I asked Scoop this earlier today.
He was there for all of these also rans.
And today Trump is there speaking.
He's like, well, I had to go take my daughter around.
That's the kind of man he is, folks.
You should be thankful.
Handpacked.
Ah, come on.
I'm kidding you.
Hey, Keith, just let the record show.
I am happily divorced.
But once again, all right.
Also, Keith, remember, I am in the Gaylord NASA Resort in a hotel room with two beautiful ladies.
There you go.
Well, too bad we don't have a video feed.
Yeah, well, he can get it.
He sends me pictures all the time.
It wouldn't be suitable for this family show.
But again, wait till 10 o'clock.
We'll be doing political accessible after dark.
Oh, yeah, that's right.
So if you stay tuned, folks, of course, immediately following our show on this network, so if you're listening live on the live stream, go straight into Scoop and Walter Yerku's 7.5 Radio.
And yeah, they really let their hair down there.
So that follows us immediately here every night, of course, every Saturday night.
Well, anyway, Scoop, again, general observations.
Let's get to that, and then we're going to get to the serious questions as this hour proceeds because it was a big event.
CPAC's always a big event.
All the big Republican movers and shakers are there.
We got a lot of questions for you, so let's get serious.
General observations of your week at CPAC.
General observation was that it wasn't as crowded as it should be Because, again, it's an election year.
Donald Trump is running for president once again.
He is one of the most popular presidents in U.S. history, but it wasn't as crowded as it should be.
I mean, I've been here 2016.
I came to CPAC when they told Donald Trump he's got to come at 8 o'clock Saturday morning.
Now, if anybody's been to CPAC, you know, at 8 o'clock Saturday morning, 90% of the people cannot drive a car legally in the state of Maryland.
But I was kind of disappointed because there wasn't as much mainstream media, as much media is usually here.
We didn't see anything from Fox News, CNN, MSNBC, the other alphabet networks.
SiriusXM didn't even come.
Our old buddy Andrew Wilkow wasn't here.
I remember seeing him at Radio Row at the Republican National Convention in Cleveland in 2016.
Yeah, that's right.
Well, let me ask you this, Peter.
This is Keith.
What do you attribute the poor attendance?
You know, just to break through to it, too.
Is it that CPAC is now been unmasked as being conservative, or is it, you know, people are afraid to show up because they're afraid of retribution from the governmental authorities?
Let's get an answer.
And then I want to follow up on that.
Go, Scoop.
Well, I was talking to a bunch of insiders yesterday about how over the years, CPAC has just gone downhill.
Like in Florida, when they had it down in Florida, I heard it was a blast.
But since it's back here in D.C., I guess people don't want to come to D.C. Also, a lot of blame is put on the shoulders of Matt Schlapp.
Every single person I spoke to said, well, you know, ACU, the American Conservative Union, need to get rid of Matt Schlapp.
He needs to step down.
He needs to retire because it doesn't have the oomph or the influence that it has in the past.
Even though you had people like Donald Trump, Vivek Ramaswamy, and other people here.
I would just say, Scoop, to your point, the American Conservative Union is the organization that hosts the Conservative Political Action Conference.
The ACU hosts CPAC.
And, of course, Matt Schlapp, as listeners of this program may recall, is embroiled in a lot of homosexual sex scandal allegations.
He hasn't been charged with anything criminally, but there is a civil lawsuit for, I think, $13 million that he supposedly fondled at length someone who used to appear on the political cesspool.
Where do we find these leaguers for the conservatives?
Well, and so, but there is a lot of scandal.
And I do believe, I think it's two things, if I just had to guess.
Number one, the Republican Party base has moved on the kind of conservatism they get at CPAC.
They're a lot more hungry for the red meat that shows like this provide.
And also, the scandal surrounding Schlapp, I'm sure, had played a role in it too.
I think it's those two things that might have had the attendance a little depressed in 2024, even in a presidential election year.
We'll be right back with Scoop.
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Back live, Keith Alexander and yours truly, James Edwards, here in the studio.
And Scoop Stanton reporting live from just outside Washington, D.C., in the suburbs of Washington, D.C., at the Conservative Political Action Conference, CPAC.
He's been there all week on Radio Row with media credentials, taking it all in, reporting live for shows on this network, including obviously TPC and Sam Bushman's Liberty Roundtable.
Talking about attendance being depressed, I'll just reiterate what I said before the break.
If I just had to guess, I would guess it's because of all of the scandals surrounding schlap, and also because I think the base has moved on from the kind of establishment, mainstream, sanitized, wimpy conservatism that CPAC is known to put on offer.
Another reason might be people are gun-shy of going to D.C. as conservatives.
You see what happened to the last large group of conservatives that came to D.C. That's a good point.
Very well could be.
But I want to get back to Scoop.
Scoop, but you've been there all week.
Again, let's talk about what you did, what you saw.
Well, I saw the usual bunch of self-righteous conservatives.
A lot of people don't realize that what happens at CPAC happens on Media Row.
Scoop, can you, pardon the interruption, brother?
Can you just turn your mic up just to smidge and by all means continue?
I mean, if I, how do I sound now?
You are perfect.
Okay.
Thank you.
But how do I sound?
Also perfect.
But anyways, like, I've been coming here for about a decade, and most of the action happens on Radio Row.
You know, you don't see what happens on Radio Row.
You got people politicking, trying to get on different shows and podcasts and so on and so forth, wheel and dealing.
I got a friend whose business is to wheel and deal and get clients media attention.
Of course, there's a lot of people with their staffers or whatever walk around like they're, you know, what doesn't stink.
And I'm looking at, I'm like, who are you?
But then, again, you got Mike Lindell, who everybody knows.
He's just walking by himself, just being Mike Lindell.
You went up and talked to him, right?
Yeah.
I went and talked to him when I was around Sam's show on Thursday, and I came in just unprepared.
I was running late.
I had to bring my youngest son to the doctor's, and I was running late, had nothing prepared.
And there's a big difference between Thursday shows and Friday shows.
So I'm looking over.
There's Mike Lindell on the phone by himself.
Now, his outfit, Frank TV, was a couple feet away, but he wanted some privacy to talk whoever he was talking about, and he looked intense.
So during commercial, I ran over, and he's on the phone.
He looked at me, he looked at me as I'm about to mug him.
I said, oh, how are you doing, sir?
My name is Pete Stanton.
I'm with Living News Radio.
You're a sponsor of the network.
And we'd love to have you on.
We're on live right now.
He's like, where are you at?
I was like, pointed right over to pointed over to Squatter's Row, which is just me.
And I had at the time, I just had just my t-shirt in a whole bunch of mess.
It looked like a homeless guy lived there.
So he's like, all right, I'll come over if I can.
So we're still doing the show while I'm looking at Lindell in the beautiful view of the Potomac River.
But we ended before Mike Lindell came over.
Then he went on his way as well as I did because the idea was I was going to record about an hour of people coming through and trying to get interviews for Sunfire Radio or just for like a non-live show just put out there on a podcast.
But where it was, there's actually nobody walking up and down unless they're using the men's room.
And one thing about CPAC.
I got you posted up next to the men's room, huh?
Yep.
So one thing about CPAC, for the most part, gentlemen use the men's room and ladies use the ladies' room.
I guess that's one thing we can say about it.
But looking here at the speakers, I don't know if there's.
Because you're not Matt Slapp, but most of them.
I don't know if there's anybody I'd pay to see, but there's some people I would see if I was there.
Let me ask you about that.
And had the access that Scoop did.
Yeah, go.
I was going to say, are any of the so-called luminaries of our movement or among the usual suspects like Mark Levin and Ben Shapiro and all those people?
Yeah, Levin was there.
Now, here's who they had.
And I know you said that in jest, Keith, what you just said.
But you got about three rows of, I meant CPAC.org, okay?
You got about three rows, four profiles to a row of people that are names.
And then it gets down to a lot of people.
I've never heard their name before.
I have no idea who they are who were speakers there this week.
Donald Trump, obviously, Matt Schlapp, of course.
Vivek Ramaswamy, Ben Carson, Jim Jordan, Nigel Farage.
You can take or leave some of these people.
How about Sebastian Gorka?
I didn't.
He wasn't a speaker.
Now, Tulsi Gabbard, I ran into Tulsi Gabbard at an event last year.
We talked for a few minutes.
Actually, we talked about anti-white racism.
And she said it's a very important issue.
I'm going to continue to talk about it.
But she was there.
I would watch her.
And then it gets into a lot of people.
Mike Lindell, who Scoop mentioned, nice guy.
Then you get real, well, there's Tommy Tuberville.
I mean, again, these are all established.
Matt Gates, Steve Bannon, Jack Pasobiak, Mark Levin, Megan Kelly, Christy Noam.
And then you get deep, deep, deep into the bitch.
Ben Ferguson, Keith.
I mean, that's what we're talking about.
There's Sebastian Corka.
Never mind.
I was wrong.
He was a speaker.
Of course he was.
How could he not be there?
Carrie, like Rick Santorum.
See, this is the kind of wimpy conservatism.
I remember actually Rick Santorum being there some years ago and a bunch of college guys, Scoop, running to him like they were little girls chasing Paul McCartney and John Lennon trying to get a selfie with him.
And I'm like, what, you know, we're not going to win with these kind of guys.
Right.
Todd Starnes.
I like Todd Starnes.
And then it could go on and on.
So that was, those were the biggest names that you would know.
And then it gets to a lot of third and fourth tier people.
Go, Scoop.
Right.
And that's what gets me is that you have politicians, people running up like they're Rock, like they're, again, like they're Paul McCartney or for me, like Robert Plant.
I was like, they're politicians.
They probably, you know, they probably got self-defense.
Peter Newton for me and Keith.
And they'd be dudes.
And I understand if it was Sheriff David Clark, who's been on this network and a close confidant of Sam.
But even I met Sheriff Clark, but I didn't take a selfie with him.
And oh, speaking of selfies, who is there?
Elizabeth Kucinich, who's just an absolute doll.
Just absolutely gorgeous.
Nice as can be.
Easy on the eyes, if you know what I mean.
But I did not want to take a selfie with her.
There's only two people I take selfies with, and one works on my show.
The other one introduced me to this show because he wants to take selfies.
But, you know, people want to take selfies.
People, oh, it's Congressman so-and-so and such-and-such.
Yeah.
It's like, I understand this is like this is Nerdfest for political junkies, but I mean, they're politicians.
I mean, and we have disdain for lots of people running for public office, except those who come on our show for the most part, except for people like Paul Babiu.
Well, let me ask you this, Peter, if I could.
Are there any guests there that are stirring up the powers that be there, people they don't want there?
Is it having any of that action this year?
What do you mean by that?
Are there anybody there that's kind of speaking our language?
Is that what you're asking?
Right, yeah.
Somebody that's not, you know, board certified.
I would say no, because, again, you know, the thing about CPAC, and we talked about this years past, is that, you know, they're against cancel culture, but they cancel people left and right.
Talk about that.
I got to say, folks, I want to encourage you to go back to Sam Bushman's show, LibertyRoundtable.com, for the last couple of days.
Scoop did some great on-the-scenes reporting there, kind of breaking it down.
You brought this up that they have, you know, they're against cancel culture, but they'll cancel you real quick and easy.
And you gave some examples of that.
Nick Fuentes, Richard Spencer, and others who have been thrown out.
Or a Loomer.
You're true.
Or a Loomer, who's on the Trump campaign de facto.
Right.
And then, you know, they pick and choose who they want from the media to represent them.
Now, for us, I've been very fair to CPAC.
You know, I thank them profusely for letting me come on as a member of the media.
But I remember it was either 2020 or 2022.
Everybody and their brother was here, and they gave people anti-Trump, anti-conservative, anti-Republican bloggers.
They gave them media credentials.
But here you have somebody who's part of conservative media priorities.
I've been doing this for a long time.
Yep.
But not only have I been part of conservative media, prior to law enforcement, service country in the honor belief with the U.S. Navy, but I get nothing.
But some college kid with a blog, it's like anti-gOP.com or whatever.
Hey, look, you're there, though.
I mean, you've gotten them as much as you've not gotten them, as far as that goes.
You've got credentials, probably more than you haven't.
And you're beating the rap because they charge a grossly inflated, exorbitant amount of money to come to this thing.
You get to just roll in there.
You can go sitting there with President Trump.
Right.
Which I plan to, but unfortunately, the former.
I'm going to go pick up the kids.
Yeah, I got to deal with the kids.
But here's a girl.
Good thing, real quick.
She still has my last name.
So my goal in life is to outlive her.
So when she gets called home to the Lord, I go to the cemetery and make sure her marker has my last name.
But moving right along.
All right.
I'm glad you got that in, that dig in.
But, all right.
So, yeah, so, I mean, again, CPAC, we've always called it the conservative political action committee.
I mean, this isn't our people.
Some of the people there may be our people.
And then you got some of these, again, posures.
Well, you got a lot of these college guys who you're not going to mistake them for men.
You know, the kind of people that go up to Santorum for a selfie, and that's the kind of ones that you don't know which bathroom they'll go to.
Definitely establishment conservatism for the most part.
Although, now, has there been any trend?
Peter Brimlow has spoken there before, so it's not an entirely lost cause.
I like Todd Starn.
Todd Starnes is from Memphis.
He's defended the Nathan Bedford Forest, former Nathan Bedford Forrest grave here.
There's some, you know, people there I'm sure we could find common ground with.
Did you run into any of those, either on the stage or on Media Row or just in conversations with passerbys?
Look, just attendees.
I mean, the real conservatives are not the people on the stage, not the people wheeling the dealing, but the people who paid their harder money to come here because they want to save this nation, including the two very lovely ladies in this beautiful hotel room.
They're performing CPR on him as they're speaking.
I'm sending Keith on a bus to DC right now to get a load of this.
We'll be right back.
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The 26-year-old man, an illegal alien from Venezuela.
Police saying it's a crime of opportunity.
The investigation suggests that they had no relationship.
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Scoop Stanton joining us live from DC at the CPAC 2024 gathering.
Just a couple of announcements before we toss it back to Scoop, of course, who is operating there with press credentials, which you can get by working for this network.
All praise to Sam Bushman for giving us, how was it that the Southern Poverty Law Center once put it, the veneer of credibility?
Thank you, Sam, for doing that.
The veneer that the SPLC does not have.
And anyway, a couple of quick announcements.
Scoop giving us the honor of reporting for us tonight, leading off tonight's broadcast for an hour live from CPAC.
A couple of things coming up, and that is: I heard the American Free Press ad got a couple of great things coming up in the American Free Press.
A few people had emailed me asking if I quit writing for them, if I'd been fired.
It wasn't either of the two.
Actually, what happened was I was out of town for two weeks, down for four days with Steve King in Orlando.
We did a show together, spoke on a panel together, gave a talk at a conference together.
And I actually forgot what week it was.
I was gone for so long.
I was gone for about 15 days, and I missed my deadline on one.
And another one, an interview with Kevin McDonald, was so lengthy that they repurposed it for the Barnes Review.
And there was another interview with Sam Dixon, which is incredible.
You're going to love it.
But it's also going to appear in the Barnes Review.
But I got something coming up: a recap of the conference that King and I were at in the next edition of American Free Press.
And the one following that, a QA with Virginia Aberdathy that I think you'll like.
So a lot of stuff happening there, a lot of stuff in the pipeline.
It's sort of like sometimes when you film a movie, you film a movie and then you don't, the movie doesn't come out for another year.
That's like sometimes these articles are like that.
Who praytail was the King and I that you just mentioned?
What do you mean?
Oh, Steve King.
Oh, Steve.
Not Martin Luther.
Yeah, Steve King.
Anyway, so that's coming up in AFP and TBR, and we'll be back every week in the paper.
I was out of town and missed one.
And let's see.
Yeah, we're down there for a speech.
We've got events coming up and more.
Coming up in the next hour, we're talking about CPAC.
And I really think, Scoop, that the Republican Party voting base, the Trump voter, has moved beyond the kind of conservatism, so-called, that CPAC has put on offer.
We're going to talk more with Jason Kuna in the next hour about how the rhetoric from establishment conservatives up to and including Charlie Kirk and Matt Walsh has become a lot more like the kind of content they'd hear on this program and Sam Bushman's show and Scoop Stanton's show than you're going to get at CPAC.
I would say this, James.
Their sphere of influence, the type of people that typically have spoken at CPAC, is diminishing.
Ours is growing.
We are ascendant.
There is no doubt about that.
Not just we, not just this program and our well, really, I'm just saying, everybody who thinks like us, everybody who's been toiling in the vineyards for all these years, we're the ascendant ones.
We're the ones with vision and with the passion to see it through.
Scoop, did you go into any of the speeches this week?
Yes, I tried to get into the speech with Matt Gates, but as usual, CPAC was running late.
So I was waiting for Matt Gates.
It was this lady, Katie Palvich, talking about cybersecurity.
It was a snooze fest.
But they also had something, Mrs. Gucenis was with a group that teamed up with CPAC to go against the World Health Organization.
And I was talking to her, obviously, a very nice, very nice lady.
But it was called the International Crisis Summit.
And they had all these medical professionals in a separate ballroom giving talks on Friday all day long because the World Health Organization wants to implement an international law that supersedes any law from any sovereign nation concerning health care when disease X number two comes out.
And it's some real garbage.
So Mrs. Kucinis' group, I don't know what name of the group, but everybody's walking around with buttons with the WHO with a red line through it.
So I attended this lecture in these two medical doctors, both oncologists, talking about what that so-called vaccine does to people.
And if you look at the patent, it's not even called vaccine.
Called gene products.
Not a vaccine, but gene products.
And the things that this vaccine did to kids, the cancer rate in children since the vaccine was implemented, up over 1,000%.
Cancer for adults, up over 1,000%.
Heart problems through the roof.
Tumors, ginormous, people are getting ginormous tumors after they get the jab.
And it just made my jaw drop.
And as I was sitting there, I was like, oh, my God, this should be CPAC.
It shouldn't be, you know, we all know Joe Biden sucks.
He's a bumbling, fumbling, mumbling old man who's not run the country.
Somebody behind the curtains, probably Obama, who lives in the Calorama neighborhood of Washington, D.C. He's not running the country.
He's just a puppet head.
But talking about this vaccine, and these were not two idiots on a radio show.
These were guys who were certified oncologists, which is a study of cancer in the blood.
And it's like, oh my God.
Scoop, this is Keith.
Let me just say this.
If they pass that law they're proposing and discussing, I guess we can call this the great kill-off because, you know, the only people that seem to be dying of COVID are people that have had the original shot and the boosters.
And I'm just wondering, you know, they would not get any positive response if people like you and us were in their audience rather than a bunch of medical professionals.
Scoop's really on to something here, though, because what he's talking about is exactly some of the issues that were discussed at the event that Steve King and I were at earlier this month in Orlando, the Restore Freedom Rally, which is an article I've written about summation along with Rick Tyler for the American Free Press that'll be coming out in the next issue.
Yeah, so I think, again, what's the old phrase?
Politics flows downstream from culture or is it the other way around?
Yeah, culture downstream from culture.
Right.
So we change the culture and then, you know, people like CPAC are going to be singing our tune and increasingly they are.
But, you know, there's still got a lot to be desired there.
I saw on their website that they want you to know that they proudly and ardently stand with Israel.
They did have a statement on the website declaring that they oppose BLM, but only because BLM is anti-Semitic.
So, Scoop, how much of that did you run into?
Very little of it, surprisingly, but a lot of Trump, a lot of Make America Great Again, a lot of red hats, a lot of red shirts, a lot of conservative women for Trump shirts.
A lot of red, white, and blue.
Not a lot of that other stuff, but it's around.
And of course, that idiot sheriff, he's walking around, asked me about legalizing heroin.
I didn't get a chance to talk to him.
It's like, well, you want to legalize drugs?
Are we going to legalize fentanyl?
So he's just an idiot.
And then I talked to him last year, and we're going to talk about it.
Are we talking about?
There's a sheriff from, I believe, Arizona, New Mexico.
His name's Howard Summer.
He's here every single year dressed up as a cowboy, wearing a shirt that says, cops for legalizing drugs.
Now, personally, I think I've asked Larry Ray Hardin, who we're going to have on in a couple weeks.
Oh, yeah, he's great.
Former DEA agent, been on our show.
Yeah, good guy.
Right.
Anyways, so you got this guy.
Oh, yeah, asked me about legalizing drugs.
You know, I don't care, you know, it's a personal choice, but, you know, we all see these neighborhoods absolutely destroyed by narcotics.
And now the fentanyl is coming in by a truckload.
And, you know, now's not the time to say, all right, you know, let people legalize drugs.
So, you know, in D.C., weed is legal.
And, you know, people still commit crimes because they need the cash to go buy weed.
If you get more than one of the people who are in the middle of the money, on the border, legalizing drugs.
But what about the border?
Right, but his talk.
But, James, his talking point is drugs.
You don't have his prepared statement.
Even though he's from Arizona or New Mexico, the border is not a problem.
Somewhere down south.
Because, you know, sheriff's up in New York, Connecticut.
Massachusetts don't wear us 10 gallons Stetson's.
But, you know, he's going to be a little bit more.
Let me ask you this, Peter.
Peter Keith, let me say this.
There are two big issues I think that are going to cause the Democrats a lot of heartburn in the upcoming election if we have, and that's a big if, a fair and free election.
They are, one, their efforts to make sexual perversion a civil right, and two, the blowback from people that are appalled by what the Israeli government is doing to the Palestinians.
Is there any of that being addressed at the conference?
Well, I know Scoop told me that's a good question.
I know, Scoop, you told me there was an anti-Hamas video, which is fine to be anti-Hamas, but the correlation is you're pro-Israel.
And you're going to turn a button down.
Has anyone there got the courage to be anti-Israel?
I can answer that not having even been there.
Scoop, take it.
That's a negative.
A big negative.
That's a big NO.
Right.
So my thing is that we have too many problems here at home.
And, you know, our big cities just are flooded with gangbangers.
And we got all these people from God knows where to do God knows what.
And we're worried about something happening halfway across the world.
But then again, we got billions headed to the left.
Hold on.
One Israel, the other in Ukraine.
All right.
Hold on, boys.
One more segment with Scoop and what is a busy night.
I mean, he's still got his own show to do later tonight, and we're going to ask him what he's going to be doing in the meantime.
Well, actually, I should not, because I know, and he better not answer that truthfully.
We'll be right back.
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I should clarify, ladies and gentlemen, and I will clarify when I said I know what's happening next for Scoop and he better not answer.
That was not, he keeps mentioning, you know, he's got these two beautiful women in the hotel room with him.
It has nothing to do with that.
He's actually going to an event.
And I will say, and we're not going to ask him to tell you publicly what event it is.
You would be surprised at the people who are in touch with us behind the scenes, okay?
And the kind of connections we have.
Now, one day we hope that those things can be made manifest.
But in the meantime, there is a considerable amount of network building and cooperation happening, even if some folks aren't quite ready to come out and take off the mask and say, yeah, we know these guys and we're in with them.
But back to CPAC.
Again, I think Scoop, the day for this kind of stuff is over.
It is moving beyond that, and it has to.
I think even in the past, they had, what, Van Jones speak there?
I mean, this guy is the most anti-white, rabid, Marxist cultural communist you can imagine.
And he's a speaker at CPAC in the past, if I'm not mistaken.
That's not even as bad as, you know, Sam and I had press credentials to the Freedom Fest last year, this libertarian adjacent type of thing.
And they're having iced tea as their speaker, this black rapper who's most well known for rapping about killing cops, and he's their speaker this year.
This is supposed to be some sort of a quasi-conservative thing.
So we're moving away from that and into something better.
And I'll tell you, we're tying all of this together tonight.
Coming up next, even a lot of the establishment conservative talking heads are moving in our direction.
We're going to have Jason Kuna on in the next hour to give you some more evidence of that.
And then, Scoop, you know, there's one thing we're doing here this year.
And since you were on tonight, I decided to make this the selection.
So we're doing a 12-part series in honor of TPC's 20th anniversary year.
One hour per month, we're having a showcase of a classic interview, TPC at 20, a retrospective.
This series will run throughout the year, one hour per month.
And tonight's selection is the interview that you and I did with Anthony Coumia.
We're going to be revisiting that to give you just an example of one of the first guys who really kind of broke bad and came out on our issues as early as 10 years ago, Anthony Coumia.
We're going to revisit that interview with fresh reaction and commentary in the third hour.
So stay tuned for that.
And then if you haven't gotten enough Scoop yet, and how could you, to know him is to love him, he's going to be doing it all over again two hours from now when his show kicks off with Walt 7.5 Radio live still from the CPAC.
So, Scoop, we will ask you this.
Without divulging too much information, what are you going to be doing for the next couple of hours?
You really don't want to know, James.
Yeah, clean it up for all your people.
No, no, no.
No, I was listening.
Listen, there's a possibility that 7.5 Radio spokesman, I'll Danella Rodriguez, might be coming down.
We have a friend of hers I actually met here going to an after-party.
And I told the person who was trying to get me in, hey, listen, if I go, I got to run back to this lovely hotel room, these lovely ladies, and conduct 7-5 radio because I'm that dedicated to radio at night.
But you know, you could take a cell phone.
We've done that before.
I doubt because, again, it's one of these wild after parties.
A lot of people dancing.
Booze.
Right.
This is radio, not television.
You can get away with some things.
Right.
But I like to, trust me, there's been plenty of shows I've done on the Cesspool and 7-5 Radio where I've done it on the telephone.
It sounds like garbage.
Sounds like I'm doing it from outer space.
So even though even though this night I talked to this nice gentleman, you know, I said, listen, I got to do radio at 10 o'clock.
Even though it was a great party, Danelle might show up.
Hopefully she shows up.
So I take a couple dozen selfies and hug her till no end.
That poor woman.
But I will be back to do the political Cess Pool after dark.
Well, yeah, also known as the fourth hour, also known as 7.5 Radio.
Now, I will tell you this, talking about the people you've rubbed shoulders with or elbows or whatever you call it, just yesterday, Friday, on Sam Bushman's show, you brought over Caroline Levette, who is Trump's national campaign press secretary.
And I listened live to that interview that Sam conducted with Caroline.
And at first, she said, you know, we've got to make America great again, you know, the regular platitudes.
It was great until Biden.
And I'm thinking, okay, is this how this interview is going to go?
I mean, America was not great.
America did not just become ungreat in the last four years.
It's had some systemic issues for generations now.
But she started off with that, and then she got surprisingly strong.
She talked about opposition to forced DEI, getting away from merit-based promotions and scholarships and things like that.
Immigration, election afference, she addressed everything.
She said this, and I took note.
Everything they say about Trump is what they are talking about, you know, being so-called authoritarians and defenders of democracy.
They're the exact opposite of that.
Open borders equals a loss of national identity.
So this is good.
And if people don't know who Caroline Levett is, and she was on Sam's show yesterday, Scoop was standing right there with her when she conducted the interview there live from the media row at CPAC.
Number one, she's a beautiful young lady.
I believe she's 28 years old, 26, 28 years old.
She is the national press secretary for the Trump campaign on with Sam yesterday.
And she formerly ran for a congressional seat.
And it was a good interview.
What did you make of it, Scoop?
It was a great interview.
I was shocked how eloquent and to the point she was.
It didn't sound like your typical talking points that all these other politicians and press people and spin doctors make, but it's very to the point and very eloquent.
And for some reason, when we were getting this together, Sam said, listen, Scoop, if we get her, all you need to do is just stand there.
Don't say anything.
Don't do anything.
Dress appropriately.
Don't stare at her.
Just stand there in case something goes bad.
And then I got a text from one, James Edwards.
He's like, Scoop, don't mess us up.
Don't do anything.
Just stand there.
Don't be yourself.
Scoop's the best.
Scoop's the best.
Hey, you know what?
That's funny.
And here's the thing.
All of our fans for Summerfire Radio was there, and I put them to work.
I had one give me a bottle.
Another one had to give up the chair for our guest.
And they're waiting with bated breath for me to do what I do best, which is just stand there and do nothing and look sexy.
I'll tell you this, Scoop.
It has been a privilege and continues to be to work with you.
Scoop's been on here, I think, officially, even maybe a little bit longer than Keith.
I mean, coming up on 19 years, first as our international correspondent, now for so many years as our D.C. correspondent, and for so many years before he started his own program, he sort of— Wasn't he over in Spain at one time?
He was in Rota, Spain.
And for so many years, he always had the last segment of the third hour to himself.
And the last few years, we have talked to him more sparingly because he's been doing his own program.
But tonight, starring in the show tonight and featuring here in this first hour, live from CPAC.
Always good to reconnect with Scoop, who is still our official D.C. correspondent and always will be.
And he is certainly coming through tonight.
Scoop, final word to you.
We've got about two minutes left, as you know.
You well know the clock here at Liberty News Radio.
Final reflections, observations from CPAC.
Well, to me, this was the best CPAC I've been to.
And I always say things happen for a reason.
We got this great guest who just knocked it out of the park.
We were able to do this with no money, no support, no love from anybody.
And I walked in, I set up shop in Squatters Row.
I put my little flag up, little t-shirt, and we knocked it out of the park.
And the best thing about CPAC is meeting the people because I met two awesome fans for 7-5 Radio, and they know our media director, Mike Rakebrand.
So things happen for a reason.
This is my best CPAC for the simple fact of the people I've met.
So I met these two wonderful people from Long Island.
Another friend, his name's Jen, who's local.
And then one of Danella's friends is also was here as a conservative.
I met her friend, and he's really interested.
And, you know, hopefully we're going to get together and do some things.
But, you know, forget all the speakers and all the hoopla and the people making asses of themselves, including the sheriff, but it's the people I meet here at CPAC, which really makes us special.
And when I met my two fans here, within two seconds, I knew, hey, they're good to go.
I'd rather hang out with them, drink some beers, and then, you know, do CPAC-y things, you know, kiss people's ass and ask for an interview or a picture or whatever, whatever else.
You know, do what I do best.
Some groupies now.
This is it.
This is what he's saying.
I mean, we won't use that word, but I mean, here's Scoop just walking around doing his business for the network, and people recognize him, and they are listeners of 7.5 Radio, and I think that's fantastic.
Yeah, they're friends with Mike Rakebrand, and then we followed each other on Facebook, and somebody posted, hey, I'm going to CPAC.
I was like, me too.
So they came in, and I met up with them, and just within two seconds, I knew they were good people.
Standing glove.
Right.
We've been just hanging out with them ever since.
All right, so give people now, again, folks, don't go anywhere because the guy who motivated Scoop to get into radio to begin with, Anthony Kumia, we're going to revisit that classic interview as part of our retrospective series tonight.
Jason Kuna coming up next to talk about how mainstream conservatism is moving in our direction, even if CPAC is lagging behind.
Scoop, 10 seconds.
What can they expect on 7.5 Radio tonight?
I know you've already given it a little bit of a warship.
We get more of CPAC.
We got Mike and Walter on.
I can ask Walter why he put Whiskey Tangle Foxtrot on a Facebook post that I poured my heart out for everybody to get this done.
Interview with Ms. Levitt.
Whatever that means, but whatever that means, we'll find out together.