Oct. 26, 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.
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We're having a good time tonight, 20 years to the day that I first took this microphone in hand.
And we're going to look back now on a couple of news items that we've never played before on this show.
Now, this one goes all the way back to our very first pop of news ever.
And it was local, local news, and it was in July of 2005.
So we had been on the air, what, October to July, eight, nine months, ten months, something like that.
And we had already made a little bit of a following and a name for ourselves in the local community.
And so in Memphis, when they were trying to rename the parks, the three Confederate parks, Jefferson Davis, Nathan Bedford, and Confederate Park, we were all over the local news standing in opposition to that.
This is just a quick, this is a very short clip, but just to give you an idea of what we were up against and what things sounded like back in the summer of 2005.
I don't know what network affiliate this is, if it was Fox or CBS or ABC or NBC, but they all covered it, and we were on all of them in the summer of 2005.
I don't even know if I have this queued up correctly, but we'll see what happens.
It's a public forum meant to let Memphians voice their opinions.
They certainly did.
It offends me when I have to look at Nathan Bedford Farms on Union in a par where this man helped created the Klu Klek clan.
To me, people like Walter Bailey are nothing more than civil rights hustlers and race agitators.
All right, so that was me.
You just heard in that clip.
I was pulled aside by the local affiliates for some interviews there.
And in my cryon, they listed conservative talk radio host, host of the political cesspool.
And this was back at a time when we were splitting the time on the show between local news and national news.
In the first few months of the show, we were engaged in local political conversations that were taking place in the city and in the county.
And obviously, a couple of months after this, in August of 2005, we had the big Confederate Park Vigil where we actually were able, through the radio program, to get more people to turn out for defending the parks than Al Sharpton with national media coverage could pull for his event to rename the parks.
And that's when we started making national news.
But actually, engaging in, I determined it to be a waste of time to engage in conversation about local politics.
And we went not long after that to just a purely national political show because the local Memphis politicians were so comical and just so ridiculous.
It was reckless.
Yeah, well, no, well, no, no, no.
I'm talking about the blacks.
Just so ridiculous.
I mean, if you watch this, Keith and I watched all the coverage of this.
We watched about 20 minutes of the local coverage, and we were featured in all of them.
And then the black elected officials, it was a menagerie of black elected officials and self-styled black preachers.
And none of them could even pronounce, they couldn't even pronounce words.
They couldn't even pronounce Nathan Bedford Forrest's name, Nathan Bedford Forrester.
And some guy came in and said, how would you like it if we're Jewish?
And I said, hell Hal Hitler.
And then just all of it.
And then one guy saying that Nathan Bedford Forrest founded the Klan at Forrest Park in Texas.
And one guy said that the Confederates engaged in the black Holocaust where they killed millions of blacks.
Where was Abe Foxman when we needed him?
He would have taken him to task.
It was so rank and so amateurish that we transitioned to being a purely national show because it was just, it was too disgusting to have to deal with these people so inarticulate, so ignorant, so vile.
And trying to take them seriously was just, we dissolved in laughter when we heard all these malapropisms.
We just couldn't help it.
It was bad.
It was bad.
But, you know, we were making a name for ourselves and we did it partly.
Actually, the political cesspool, early in its run, got a, we were named honorary city councilman because we brought to the city of Memphis, people are, I've never told this story before, but that's why we have hanging on the wall a certificate naming us honorary city councilman and another from the city of Memphis for outstanding contributions to the community.
We actually set up with the Memphis City Council a meeting with a guy from something called Clean Fuels Technologies.
Clean Fuels Technologies.
And they were going to try to retrofit the Meta buses with cleaner burning fuel.
And of course, that didn't go anywhere.
Why do anything that would be helpful if you could do things that would make things worse?
And that's always been Memphis' city motto.
And then, of course, we had so many people beginning to tune into us nationally to spend a considerable portion of any show on local politics would not be of interest to them.
It would have been hollow home.
Yeah.
So anyway, we moved on.
But that was one of the first things.
And through that, and then two months later, the rally that we had, we started to make national news.
And that was the rapid rally.
That was the rapid intensification that we're talking about.
Having a couple hundred people show up in 2005 from a local radio show to defend the city parks and outnumbering the number of people that Al Sharpton was able to draw was pretty interesting to say the least.
And then we started getting national news.
And it was only from, of course, when we got listed to the hate watch list in the spring of 2006, we got a lot of national news.
And from that point, we really started to get a lot of regular coverage, as I mentioned in the first hour.
But it also was the fact that from the summer of 2005, the spring of 2007, we had gone from being a fixture in local media to being a regular contributor to CNN.
That is a rapid intensity.
And we really owed a lot of that to the SPLC.
You know, as you said at the time, that's like your red badge of courage.
You really haven't arrived in our movement until you've hit Of the presses as a member of the SPLC hate list or hate watch.
And that's, you know, basically everybody took that same position after us that got put on it.
And that's, you know, so we made the SPLC into a laughingstock.
And their, you know, ascendancy ended and started going downhill, basically when they put James and the political cesspool on the hate list.
You know, I don't know about that.
I mean, you know, to be so downtrodden as to have, you know, a billion dollars in the bank as they do.
But certainly, I don't think you end up being regularly featured on primetime national news unless you have that controversy.
You have to be.
We had to have that particular credential, and we thank the SPLC for giving it to you.
Let me see what this is exactly.
I don't even know if I have this queued up properly.
Let's see here what they're talking about here.
Okay.
All right.
I think I did have it right.
All right.
Half of our country's children under the age of five are Hispanic, black, or Asian.
The changing face of America is also reflected in my first panel tonight.
CNN contributor Roland Martin, Paul Reyes, an attorney and columnist.
And James Edwards is a conservative talk radio host.
Glad to have all three of you with us tonight.
Thank you for having us back, Paula.
My pleasure.
So, James, I want to start with you tonight.
You have said that you believe this change in the number of minorities blossoming in this country will turn us into a third world country.
Why not accept the richness and the diversity that this brings to this country?
Well, first of all, because my primary interest is to protect and safeguard the interests of my own family.
I believe that white Americans are in for the fight of their lives here.
I think America is becoming balkanized and we are being robbed of having a future in the very nation that our ancestors carved from a wilderness.
And you've got to understand what's happening.
What are you losing right now, James?
What are you afraid of?
Well, let me tell you something.
The reason why America is a first world nation is because we have a first world population, and that is changing due to these illegal alien invasions as well as the explosive birth rates that these minorities bring with them.
What we're losing is that these people aren't assimilating.
The melting pot has gone from a boil to a dull simmer.
These folks aren't embracing our heroes and our traditions.
So they would always pair me up on CNN with this obese hyena.
He was a beast black guy named Roland Martin.
And he was like a blowfish.
Anytime you said something that got under his skin, he would start, well, you could hear him chortling and clearing his throat.
He was rather corpulent and ample.
And basically, when he started getting angry, his head would kind of blew out.
He would laugh.
He would just laugh boisterously at any sensible point that I would ever make on any of these appearances that I did back then.
And this was always the 8 o'clock Eastern, 7 o'clock primetime CNN show.
And he would do that, and then he would laugh and he would huff, and he would get all offended, but he would not blow your house down.
It was a typical argument with a typical black man who thinks that if he can talk louder than you, then that means he must be winning the argument.
If he just talks loudly enough, then that means his point is certainly more valid.
Let me see what we've got here.
Hold on a second.
He's frothing at the moment at this point.
Hey, not only that, Paula, the reality is the birth rate of whites is dropping.
So, James, if you're concerned, maybe what you ought to say is some whites will start getting together, having some kids to boost the population.
Well, I'm certainly doing my part in that, Roland, but I'll tell you, you know, it's interesting, the hatred and vitriol.
That's scary with your argument.
You know, I'm wondering why you're so offended by my message.
I figured a man like you would be very much in favor of the freedom of speech, but you know as well as I do that these folks are not fleeing the third world.
I'm in favor of third world culture with them.
I don't want to trade down.
Let's let Raw enter.
So, you know, very interesting, I think, to be able to go on national television at that time.
They don't, you'll never see, well, it's certainly for years you have not seen anybody like me or Jared Taylor or Peter Brimelow on these primetime national.
They stopped that.
But at the end of your time.
And that's a testament to the effect of how effective you were.
Well, there was a memo that was sent from the president of CNN who said, do not have, not just James Edwards.
He said no conservative talk radios could come back to CNN.
That was a policy at the time.
Because you were winning and you were supposed to be losing.
After a few appearances.
But certainly those opportunities don't exist anymore.
But at the time, they did.
And we were really able to plant a flag with this series of appearances.
You know, for a while there, we were regular contributors to CNN's primetime programming.
I mean, talk coming on for different issues and for different reasons to offer commentary.
And that was a long time ago, but obviously it made a lot of news and a lot of ancillary subsequent news spawned from that.
And we were really able to plant a flag during those early years.
Now, I've got this marked.
I don't know exactly what's going to be said here, but let's see.
Diego and El Paso that receive constant influxes of illegal immigrants, they have lower crime rates.
Paula, if I might be.
Hey, Paula, as a journalist.
Come on, Paula, as a journalist.
Hey, Paula, I think we have to correct something here.
First of all, we're talking about 100 million minorities.
Do not give the impression, because James will certainly try to do so, that most of these folks are illegal.
You're speaking of 40 million African Americans who are Americans.
You're talking about a significant number of Hispanics who are Americans, Asians who are Americans.
And so when James criticizes these 100 million, what he is doing, he is criticizing Americans, people who believe in the Constitution.
And as Barbara Jordan said when she was speaking about Watergate, she said, this Constitution initially was not meant for me.
She said, but I believe in it.
It is whole.
It is complete.
So, James, when you insult me, you don't like that.
If I don't say that, James, not everyone in the world can live in the United States.
Listen, not everyone in the world can live in the United States, and everything that is happening is happening at the expense of European Americans.
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Roland, you're a great hand.
James, you know what?
Just to throw this in.
The first two Americans who died in Iraq, they were illegal immigrants.
So if that's what you're afraid of, those who are on third world violence.
Legal immigration is hurting all Americans.
Americans first.
All right, gentlemen, I got to cut it off there.
Roland Mark will be back in a little bit, but we need to say thanks to Rollins and James Edwards.
And they're still talking.
What do they say?
Well, it was a fun experience.
All of those things were.
And, of course, you could never get a completely fair allocation of talk time.
They would interrupt and cut you off.
And sometimes you just had to make your own way in those things.
But yeah, again, that's all gone.
So you look at the media now.
And as I said in this interview with American Free Press, in a lot of ways, it's gotten worse.
There's no doubt about it.
Media coverage has gotten worse.
It was always bad, but it's gotten much worse and more hysterical.
There is no tolerance for the diversity of opinion from the establishment-controlled press anymore.
Back then, you could still have folks like us coming on.
They'll still talk about you guys.
It's always a charade, but it's not even a charade.
Now they've come out directly saying that they want to censor all opposing opinions.
You've got now, though, I think obviously an explosion, though, of content that content creators who have taken advantage of streaming.
Because of the internet, it's not under their control.
And this just, I mean, this enrages them to the point that they turn into sputtering mad frothing as a response.
You've got an explosion of content creators who have taken advantage of streaming platforms and podcasts.
And again, 20 years ago tonight, Twitter and YouTube weren't even online yet.
So it's a whole new ballgame now with this proliferation of talent that simply didn't exist 20 years ago.
And it's shifting the narrative in our favor.
But so what's interesting about this show is that we've been there for all of it.
We've seen all of this and have been a part of it in many ways.
And so we'll continue to take a look here and see what we can get into.
But Keith, continue on while I queue up this next clip and we'll see what we've got cooking in the oven here.
Well, James basically threw a turd in the punch bowl, basically, when he came to CNN.
He made sense.
He was attractive.
He was reasonable.
All of the other people looked bad in comparison to him, like Roland Martin or this Reyes guy or whatever.
Whenever they tried to pit a liberal against James, James won and they lost.
And they did not like that.
So guess what they did?
They canceled James, in effect.
They basically sent a memo around saying do not put on any conservative radio people, particularly James James.
They told me that because the producer that we were working with said, we can't have you on anymore.
We just got this memo in.
Now, I have all of these things marked, and I have no idea exactly what's going on here.
Now, this is the hour-long, this is the first time, the first CNN, the very first one.
And by the way, Roland Martin looks like the black equivalent of Lou Costello, okay?
He's kind of short and pudgy and foolish.
Well, we've got this.
This was a four-segment, hour-long interview.
It was a debate.
Yours truly and Jesse Lee Peterson.
And I think here we're talking about self-segregation in schools.
And let's see what I had to say about that.
And they interviewed kids in a pre-show clip that we all watched live from the studio in Manhattan.
And then we were asked to respond to what we heard these students saying.
It was basically black kids sitting at the black lunch table and white kids sitting at the white lunch table.
Let's see here.
Reverend Peterson's absolutely white.
As a right American, I think that what's portrayed throughout the controlled media is that self-segregation is something that we should apologize for when in fact the exact opposite is true.
I think that it's perfectly natural and healthy that one would choose to associate with members of their own families, people with whom they share the same values and traditions and heroes.
There's nothing enriching for white school children to be bussed across town to gang-ridden schools in which they have to walk through metal detectors before they can report to the kids.
This is a racially diverse school.
So the thing was in this one, they asked me to comment on self-segregation in schools, and so I get back to the whole heart of it.
They said, well, that's not what we're talking about.
You know what you should have said right there?
You should have said, Paula, you know you don't want your children to go to school.
I'm going to say exactly.
Hold on to your drink there, Keith.
I get into something nearly word for word on that in just a moment about segregated neighborhoods.
Let's add it, and then we'll go back to all of you.
Timeout, timeout.
James, you get the last word, and then you all get together.
Only liberal demagogues believe that human nature can be carried away on an integrated school bus.
There's nothing wrong with European Americans standing up for their culture and their traditions.
And you want that for minorities?
Well, we want it for ourselves.
And I think many white Americans are seeing through this charade, and I'm one of them that's beginning to speak out against it.
Do you consider yourself a racist?
No, I consider myself a man who's proud of his cultural heritage.
All right, we're going to take a short break.
Hold your thoughts.
Hold your fire.
We've got a lot more to discuss here tonight.
That was a good one.
And again, to be able to say these things on national television was a luxury that is not afforded to us anymore.
But at this point, it's not really necessary because as Sam Bushman, who we'll hear from in just a moment, the news media has now taken center stage, and you don't need their invitations anymore.
We have built something here with this radio program and this radio network.
And so many others, especially within the last 10 years, have done it as well.
Like Jefferson said, we're moving on up.
We took the opportunities they gave us and when we could get them.
And now there's really no containing a lot of these thoughts.
And you see now a lot of interlopers, even in the conservative incorporated establishment, beginning to sound more and more like us every day.
We were really trailblazers in all of this.
And as I believe it was the singer Jimmy Jones said, you got to have a tick of good timing.
And we came along and it just happened.
Take a ticket, ticket, ticket, talk to you.
Just happened to happen at the right time.
Because if I'd have been a little bit older, a little bit younger, I would have been too young to do any good, or perhaps I would already have been married and settled down and would have never had the time of life.
That's another song, Born Too Late Too Late.
So timing in God's hand always on us.
Okay, this is a good one.
This is a segment on this same scene program.
Obviously, we can't play the full hour, so we're just playing a few highlights where they asked me, well, they found an affluent black neighborhood where all the houses looked very clean and well-kept.
Now, I would have liked to have seen that neighborhood five years hence, a couple of years later.
But they asked me, now that's a neighborhood you could live in, right, James?
You know, what are you talking about here?
Well, let's hear what I had to say.
We continue our special hour now, Divided We Stand, self-segregation in America.
A minister we just heard is talking about an affluent and largely black suburb just east of Atlanta, but it could be anywhere in America.
Let's go back to our out in the open panel now.
Molly Sikour and Roland Martin, who think that self-segregation is natural, not always a reflection of racism.
Also with us tonight, Reverend Jesse Lee Peterson, who says blacks are often responsible for self-segregation and victimization, and James Edwards, who is a white separatist.
Welcome back.
Now, you have been highly critical of African Americans.
You think a lot of crime and poverty follows where they are.
Take a look at that community.
Well, look.
Is that a place where you could live?
Well, no, it absolutely does follow them, and you know that it does.
And I think CNN outdid themselves in finding the strong, affluent black community, because that is certainly the exception and not the rule.
Nine times out of ten, integration is a one-way street that runs directly through white neighborhoods.
And I think that we've seen that throughout the last 40 years as the failed civil rights movement has manifested itself in our daily lives.
You know what, Paul, let me make something very clear.
It is offensive for him to project this level of ignorance on national television.
First and foremost.
All right, so there's a black blowfish, Roland Martin.
All right, so what was entirely ignorant about what I had to say there?
It didn't correspond with what his narrative is.
That's what it is.
See, he assumes that he's intelligent.
Just take a look at that face compared to James' face and tell me which one looks ignorant and which one looks smart.
Let's see how we close up this particular segment.
But that's what he always did.
He would either laugh, shout, or come back with some sort of personal attack.
Okay, hang on.
Stay with me.
The conversation, I promise, will continue on the other side.
Save it.
There is still some time to let us know what you all think.
Go to CNN.com slash.
Something happened there with the way that one was queued up, and it wasn't queued up at the right spot.
And we'll try to – all right.
Well, I don't know what's going on.
Say something, Keith.
It looks like Paula Zahn is a traffic cop in the middle of a crazy roundabout or intersection because she's sitting there kind of bemused at the fact that she can't get the so-called black rights advocates to shut up.
That's what it really looks like.
We'll try to go and see if this next clip is queued up in the right spot because I know we're about to come up on a break.
Is self-segregation bad for race relations in the U.S.?
46% of you said yes.
37% said no.
17% says doesn't matter.
We should make it clear the results are not scientific.
What do you make of those results?
Well, I don't know what to make of the results.
I mean, obviously, the people who tune in to CNN probably wouldn't be of a conservative persuasion for the most part.
But getting back to the churches, as a Christian, it's not that we measure that by our questions.
Well, no, but listen, listen.
As a Christian, I've always been under the impression that it was the role of the church to bring people into the acceptance of Jesus Christ as their Lord and Savior, not to preach the failed social gospel of cultural Marxism.
And I reject the term segregationist.
I reject the term separatist.
I'm a man who is proud of his ethnicity.
Is Mr. Martin a black separatist because he's proud of his race?
No, I'm the one.
All right, we will take a break right there.
The man who's had a big hand in keeping us on the air all these years.
Sam Bushman up next.
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Down in the valley on the foggy hill rock stood a crazy little demon blowing his top.
Fire in his eyes and smoke from his head.
See, people don't know this, but before he was a commentator, Roland Martin actually was a singer, and that was him.
That's how he sounds actually when he's on TV.
That was that.
Having a little fun reviewing some of these media hits over the 20 years.
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The one more clip from this particular appearance on national television before we bring on the great Sam Bushman.
This is what I was pitted up against that night, folks.
It was Jesse was a good partner.
These other two.
Listen, listen to this.
This is a white woman who wrote for blackcommentator.com.
We've gotten a lot of email, and a lot of folks are really mad at you tonight, Molly.
So I want you to respond to this one.
Sam said Elizabeth, I take great exception with the woman on your show.
I hope they mean you, not me.
Yeah, this is you that said this.
That said, if you are white, you are born racist.
I think it is ignorant to think that everyone white is born racist, and I think it perpetuates the problems that we have with racism.
You cannot be raised in this country and not be racist.
That's what I'm saying: is we are raised as racists.
Are you saying that you're a white woman?
I am.
I'm becoming racist.
You can't get over that.
No, no.
The work that I'm doing.
Could I finish one sentence?
Why do you consider yourself a racist?
Because I. Jesse, let them talk.
Let me finish.
So, if you grow up in this culture, this is a white supremacist society.
We were founded on white supremacist principles.
The founding fathers had slaves.
We have not gotten by that living in the 1800s.
Okay, look at the criminal justice system.
Why is it that 70% of the jail space is taken up by African Americans?
And there are 14% of the population.
They committed crimes.
I love that.
Why are the blacks in the jail, Jesse Lee Peterson?
Because they're committing the crime.
Personal insult is the last recourse in an exhausted mind.
Only European Americans are called racists for wanting to look after their cultural interests.
Final word from you.
All right.
So that's how I ended up that particular one because all Roland Martin had was just he's an idiot, he's ignorant, he blows up in the face.
He looks like a black version of Lou Costello.
That was all good times.
And then I can take you a little bit forward.
So for the first couple of years, we were on Monday through Friday.
And then we switched to a once-a-week program.
And we were picked up by the Republic Broadcasting Network.
And at that time, for a few months, we were broadcast on Sundays.
And then around midnight, a guy, yeah, it was from 9 to midnight, just for a couple of months there.
In 2008, and then a guy that I got to know a little bit named Sam Bushman, I heard that Sam was going to be leaving RBN where he was a fellow host of his program and starting the Liberty News Radio Network.
And we had an opportunity to go over there with Sam.
And I can remember going to your law office, Keith, and we sat at your boardroom table, me and you and Eddie and Bill Rowland, and we weighed the pros and cons of sticking with RBN or going with Sam Bushman to this brand new network that was just getting started.
And, well, I think history has proven what decision was made and where we landed.
And we are still here on this network Saturday nights from 2009 through the present.
And we got to thank Sam Bushman for that.
Sam, 20 years on the radio, many of those, the majority of those, spent with you on this network.
We cannot thank you enough for having us and for continuing to be.
I'll tell you this, Sam.
It was a unanimous decision of the people there at the table.
Thanks for platforming us, not just for being our boss, but for also being a great friend.
Sam, it's all yours.
And I still praise Bill Rowland to this day.
A perfect gentleman.
Keith, no less.
James, we'll have to talk about.
I'm just kidding.
We love you all.
We're grateful for everything that you do.
You stand for what's right.
You're God-family country.
You talk about the things that our people need the most.
You focus on principles and issues above politics and personal vendettas.
I really appreciate and support that a thousand percent.
You know, you started out the show, the segment that I'm on with Little Demon.
I didn't really talk about Kamala back in the 50s.
We are having fun tonight and a few laughs as well.
Anyway, it's kind of interesting.
It's pretty ghoulish, though, when you think about this Halloween.
You got Kamala running.
I mean, literally, she can't even hardly talk, much less put together some pros of somebody who could be president of the free world, leader of the free world.
That is something to really behold and kind of consider as we talk about Halloween.
And this network has been really all about those issues of great importance.
You know, who are we?
Call me a racist.
Call me what you want.
My response to that is, I'm winning the race.
And so are you, ladies and gentlemen.
We are winning the race.
Not only the race between Kamala and Donald, but we're winning the race of God, family, and country.
We're winning the race of the new media taking center stage.
We're winning the race of we the people are now starting to own the media.
And so we, let me say that again, we make the rules.
And that's really kind of been the cornerstone of this network and the cornerstone of what you guys do, James.
Despite all the criticism that you get, you remain solid for who we are and what we do, what we believe in, what we stand for historically, as well as in our lives going forward today.
We bring the history forward for education.
We live in the present as we plan for the future, but we maintain those principles that those who fought and died for us gave everything for.
And we intend to do no less in our day with our cause and who we are and what we stand for.
And your stint on CNN, they used to call you a friend and a commentator.
Now they have a little bit more abusive language towards you.
But you've remained as solid and as stable as you've always done.
And that's why you're on this radio network because of who you are, what you stand for.
Not only you, but Keith and all the contributors to the Cesspool.
Well, Sam, I just got to tell the folks again, and we reiterate this because I think it's important.
We don't just work together.
We fellowship together.
We worship together.
We come together as friends.
We take vacations together.
I was with you and your wife, Danny and I, my wife and I, and your wife, and you were all together in Branson last year on your anniversary trip.
I mean, we just enjoy each other's James Edwards was promoting the North.
Well, now, I think we got seated in the northern side of Dixie's Stampede, but I think we were cheering for the other side.
We couldn't pick our chairs.
We totally got forced into the side of the North in our seating.
And me and James are promoting the South the whole time.
It was great.
We've had so many.
You've got to have this fun.
You've got to have.
And that's why I think, you know, we're a few days before the election, but you've got to have shows like this a couple of times a year where you just reflect on the journey.
You reflect on the struggle.
You reflect on the relationships and the friendships.
And I can remember, Sam, we'd already been on this network a couple of years before I met you in person for the first time, but I'll never forget that meeting.
Eddie and I drove up from Memphis to Nashville and you were giving a speech at the Constitution Party convention that year.
And we went to the Hermitage.
And I've been to the Hermitage twice, once with Pat Buchanan and once with Sam Bushman.
And I'm hard pressed to tell you which one I enjoyed more.
But we met Sam for the first time.
He gave a great speech.
And I actually ran into at that very Constitution Party conference, Peter Gemma, who was Pat's communications director when we were all working for the Buchanan campaign.
So it was just a wonderful weekend together.
And the rest is history, Sam.
And your family is my family.
And I know you have a great affection for all of us here, but it's just been a wonderful thing.
And I could not have 20 years to the day of us starting this program, you not be on the program.
I know you're out.
You're not in your studio.
You're out and about.
You're taking this on the cell phone as you're out with family.
So we don't have you for long.
But I had to have you on to thank you and to remember that first meeting and all of the times we've spent together since.
I'm there at a Halloween party and I'm dressed up as an Uno card.
Yeah, you're numero.
I was going to say you're number one.
Hey, Sam, hey, I got to ask this before you get back to the party.
You were saying Kamala Harris can't even talk, but we can.
And there's going to be a lot of talking going on.
Very special election night coverage.
That is the Tuesday, November 5th, Election Day.
You can get your coverage where, Sam.
LibertyNewsradio.com, ladies and gentlemen.
We issued a huge press release.
If you go there, you can read all about it.
But we've got some great commentators.
Myself, James Edwards, Dr. Scott Bradley, Lance Meliacho of the Big MIG Radio Show.
And we are putting together not only a radio side of the broadcast, it's going to be 7 p.m. to midnight Eastern Time, November the 5th, Tuesday night election coverage.
And we're going to be talking about this not only on the radio, but we're going to have a video site too.
It's going to be on Rumble.
So we're going to have George Valentin, Lance's partner, putting up all kinds of details and stats as we fly.
You can watch it or listen to it based on your circumstances.
But man, this is one of the biggest things we've ever done, James, in terms of partnering with radio and modern-day TV.
Now, the new media is indeed taking center stage, my friend.
So however you listen to the political cesspool, if you want to listen to Liberty News Radio's live election night coverage, where all of these commentators, including yours truly, will be offering opinions as the votes are coming in in real time from 7 p.m. to 12 p.m. Eastern.
Is that correct, Sam?
That is right.
7 p.m. to 12 midnight Eastern, 6 to 11 p.m. Central.
You can do the math if you're in the Mountain West or the Pacific time zones.
But that's what's going to be going on at LibertyNewsradio.com or whatever stream you listen to TPC.
You'll be able to access it there if you listen to TPC Live.
And it's going to be a lot of fun.
Sam, you're having fun tonight.
We'll have fun again next week.
And on election night.
Surprise guests coming up, too, that we haven't mentioned.
There'll be some surprise people checking in.
Think of the cesspool for a couple of them.
There you go.
And we'll be right back with another member of the team next.
Thank you, Sam.
Hey there, TPC family.
This is James Edwards, your host of the political cesspool.
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You know where the solution can be found, Mr. President?
In churches, in wedding chapels, in maternity wards across the country and around the world.
More babies will mean forward-looking adults, the sort we need to tackle long-term, large-scale problems.
American babies in particular are likely going to be wealthier, better educated, and more conservation-minded than children raised in still industrializing countries.
As economist Tyler Cowan recently wrote, quote, by having more children, you're making your nation more populous, thus boosting its capacity to solve climate change.
The planet does not need for us to think globally and act locally so much as it needs us to think family and act personally.
The solution to so many of our problems at all times and in all places is to fall in love, get married, and have some kids.
Who's that I see walking in these woods?
Why, it's Little Red Riding Hood.
Hey there, Little Red Riding Hood.
You sure are looking good.
You're everything a big bad wolf could want.
Listen to me.
Pound for pound and dollar for dollar, the best of the Halloween novelty songs, I think.
And it's got some stiff competition, as you've heard tonight.
But that one, I'm partial because Sam the Sham's a Memphian.
And by the way, he lives.
So was Jumping Gene Simmons who did Haunted House?
Memphis and Halloween must have a pretty rich connection there in pop music history.
But Sam the Sham is still alive.
And he's already already.
He's been a Church of Christ preacher for a while.
He lives out in Arlington.
I remember one time in the 90s driving by and he was out on his tractor mowing his grass.
Stop and talk to him.
I didn't do that, but should have.
I wish I had.
Let me put it that way.
But anyway, we're having a lot of fun tonight.
Our last show before Halloween.
We're looking back on 20 years of TPC, playing a few clips from a few interviews that really kickstarted the whole thing back in those early years of 2004, 5, 6, and 7.
And another man of the team here, Jack Ryan, who has been with us for quite a long time as well as a contributor and a friend and a colleague.
He's with us now 20 years ago tonight, Jack.
We first went on the air.
And thank you for being here with us.
How are you?
Time sure flies when Western civilization is collapsing and you can.
No, it just seems like just yesterday that I left War Tour in New York City after getting this worthless MBA degree from the number one MBA program in America, Stern New York University.
I left shortly before the Islamists bombed the World Trade Center the first time.
And I predicted it.
I just saw these people and I know the history.
And I felt when I left New York City, I wanted to go back and I wanted to warn the rest of the country about what was going on and what was happening with mass immigration, the welfare underclass, these neoconservative wars.
And I felt, you know, I was right.
Everything I predicted was true.
And did I change the course of Western civilization?
No, but I did meet some good people.
And the political cesspool has been the best ever.
And not only do they have good politics, see what's right, but they're nice people.
You guys are good people and good Americans.
And you have some fun.
You appreciate music and humor and the things that I like.
So it was good.
But no, did I change the course of civilization?
No, I did not.
But, you know, I met some good people and I'm still going on.
We're not dead yet.
We're going forward.
And I've been honored to be on the TPC show.
Well, we're honored to have you.
And as you said, the relationships that we have built and developed and fostered and maintained mean so much to us that more than anything that we've done is just being able to be relatable and for people to enjoy us and for us to enjoy people.
Let me tell you guys something.
There's a lot of weird folks out there.
There's a lot of weird folks in the general public.
And every now and then, you know, all we've proven is that there are a lot of non-weird folks.
That really is something, Keith, that we have been able to do, especially through our conferences, is the people who think like us aren't cooks and they're not cooks and cranks.
They are the best people in the country to be quite honest.
And then also, we have good sense of humor, good music.
And James is a really good-looking guy.
He's really handsome.
If I was a gay guy, I'd be sending him flowers.
But fortunately, I'm not.
But he's not.
I'll tell you what I'm looking at.
He doesn't have a good set of hair.
I thought he was boss.
I was worried his children were going to look like cancer survivors.
And I was like, they're all tasteful.
But no, they have a very good head of hair.
So if you got good genes, don't worry if you're losing your hair.
Well, James did this as a public relations thing.
I'm here.
I will tell you, he wanted to be the skinhead.
And they saw the skin head and they said, we got to get him off.
Well, Rachel Maddow actually said that.
They said, look at all these skinheads.
And he was talking about me and political statement.
I shaved my head.
I lost my hair.
But I lost your hair, but didn't lose your head.
Yeah, no.
I will say this.
I haven't watched these CNN things in a decade and a half.
And yeah, I thought I did actually look sharp back then.
You did.
Thank you.
You look great.
Well, thank you, John.
I appreciate it.
Thank you, Jack.
He's in good shape for the condition he's in.
I just dropped in to see what condition my condition is in.
No, but occasionally, all things are bad.
You got some unexpected good things come your way.
So the bald and short-bearded look is now in fashion.
So you don't see these advertisements for hair transplants like you did in the 70s.
So, you know, we get those things came our way, right?
Well, I think you're something.
Let me say this: there's nothing, in my opinion, that looks more ridiculous than typical male pattern baldness.
So if you're fronting that, you can go the expansive route and get a hair transplant, or you can go the cheap route and shave your head like James.
And James, you got to have a head that's not misshapen, which a lot of people don't have.
But James has a well-shaped head, so it works well with him.
You guys, I tell you what, you guys, y'all are really earning it tonight.
Oh, Keith, before I forget, and I will forget this.
I will forget this because I've forgotten it for three weeks in a row.
It is set here on my desk in the studio for three weeks in a row, and I forget to give it to you.
So I moved it up so close that I couldn't possibly miss it tonight.
And here we are, almost in the third hour, and I'd forgotten thus far.
So let's, I just glanced at it.
So pardon this interruption in the programming.
This is a signed copy inscribed to you, Keith, by Lou Moore, the former campaign manager for Ron Paul's 2008 presidential campaign.
It's a copy of the book Forerunner: The Unlikely Role of Ron Paul, signed by its author, Lou Moore, and inscribed to you.
And I've been meaning to give that to you for about a month.
Thank you so much.
We have delivered it live on the air 20 years.
I was a closet of support of Ron Paul back then, so I'm very glad to get that.
Thank you, Lou.
And I know you like Lou's appearance on the show.
Oh, yes, man.
He was great.
He was exceeded expectations.
And if we had high expectations to begin with, I can only take one show at a time.
As soon as this show's over, we're looking forward to next week's election preview show.
We'll have Jack back on.
And if we get lucky, maybe Lou will call in and we're going to have a lot of folks on.
But Jack, you know, it's been a minute.
I know you like to keep a low profile on election years.
That's why you haven't been featured as regularly as you usually are this particular year.
But hey, hey, listen, here we go.
It's a few days away now.
What are you looking at?
What are you thinking?
What are you seeing?
What stories have caught your attention?
We got three minutes left.
It's all yours.
Okay, so I've told this joke before.
I'll tell it once again.
And this joke is a bit dated, but it shows about the strengths and weaknesses of our own European people.
Okay.
So in European heaven, the cooks are French, the lovers are Italian, policemen are English, and the whole thing is run by the Germans.
In European hell, the cooks are English.
Policemen are French.
The lovers are German, and the whole things are run by the Italians.
Okay, so that, but it, you know, that's kind of the thing.
We have some strengths and weaknesses, but one of the things is our people are just really bad at American politics.
And we put all of our hopes and dreams and prayers in electing some white conservative that will run in on a white horse and restore the 1950s.
And the thing is, yeah, that is.
But the problem is, even the President of the United States is not dictator.
He doesn't control the media.
He doesn't control academia.
He doesn't even control the Federal Reserve, the central banking system.
So even when we get a landslide victory, like Nixon in 72 or Reagan in 80 or 84, it doesn't really change.
It changes everything.
So my view is, yeah, vote in national presidential elections, but we should be focusing on state and local elections.
And there's no reason we couldn't have won the mayor of Chicago or their county board chairman, or but we're just not going to.
You need to do what the Democrats do and vote early and often, right?
No, early and often, but just focus on local events.
Your county board chairman, the sheriff, and the teachers union and stuff like that.
And so we're putting all of our hopes into a president.
Yeah, of course I'm going to vote for and support Trump over that crazy woman who who does she sleep with?
She swept her way to the top.
She slept her way with Willie Brown, who was the state.
She's in bed, but I don't think she did much sleeping.
Yeah, she did.
And now look who she's sleeping with now, this Hollywood Macher lawyer.
So that's what it is.
So it's all identity politics, racial, ethnic, sexual politics.
And our people are going around on constitutions and that we're not doing well, but just stay in there.
It's a big country.
It's a big continent.
So even if we lose certain places, which I've been in, which have been completely lost, where civilization has collapsed, just don't give up and focus where you are in your local area.
So that's kind of my tip.
But I'm going to tell people what to do.
I've been trying to warn people about this stuff for the last 40 years.
Not many people listen to me, but yeah, that's what we do.
Well, they do now.
Okay, Jay, you made some comments about music that I really wanted to follow up on with you.
Okay.
First of all, I want you, if you hadn't heard it before, to look on your internet and get Little Demon by Screaming Jay Hawking.
Keith is really big on that one tonight.
And then another one you said, I ain't dead yet.
Well, there's another song that was played by a band from my high school that is a kind of underground hit called Don't Send Me No Flowers.
I ain't dead yet by the Breakers.
Want you to report back on those next time you're on.
That's actually a pretty good one.
I'm like writing it down.
I'm doing a couple things.
I'm cooking at things like, but your taste in music is very good.
My taste in music is good.
My taste in women is great.
That's why I'm usually alone.
You know, I need to lower my standards.
And you know, no, it's great because they'll ones turn you down, right?
No, they don't either.
I'll tell you that.
I know that's not right.
Listen, I love you, Jack.
We will talk next week's election preview show.
God saves you up in the Chicagoland area.
Yeah, we're in Memphis, so we got a lot of confidence.