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Fox News Declares War on President Trump · ToddCast Podcast with Todd Starnes

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  Speaker 1: Todd Starnes.
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  Speaker 4: Oh, yeah.
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  Speaker 5: All right.
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  Speaker 2: Well, hello, everybody. Happy Monday to you. Welcome to the
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  Speaker 2: Todd Starnes Radio Show. So there's a big kerfuffle over
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  Speaker 2: the weekend. And I'm loving this. I love every single
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  Speaker 2: bit of it, ladies and gentlemen. President Trump on Friday
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  Speaker 2: finally said, you know what, enough is enough. And the president,
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  Speaker 2: tired of the fake news and the propagandist, and, you know,
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  Speaker 2: it's really polite. I mean, the president's calling it fake news.
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  Speaker 2: But these people are liars. That's all they are. They're
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  Speaker 2: professional liars. And you can slather as much makeup as
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  Speaker 2: you want to on these people, these reporters and reporterettes,
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  Speaker 2: what we call the lady reporters. You can do all
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  Speaker 2: of that, but they're still, at the end of the day, liars.
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  Speaker 2: What is it that Sarah Palin said? You can put
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  Speaker 2: lipstick on a... Well, yeah, you know. So anyway, Trump said,
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  Speaker 2: I'm done. This is it. And the president... ended up
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  Speaker 2: banning PMS Now, CNN, and Politico. And so all you
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  Speaker 2: know what broke loose, and of course all of these
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  Speaker 2: people on Fox News are jumping in, the Brit Humes,
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  Speaker 2: the Guy Bensons of the world, and they're saying how
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  Speaker 2: inappropriate this is, harumph, harumph, harumph. And then just a
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  Speaker 2: little while ago, the other shoe dropped. Now, let me
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  Speaker 2: explain how this works, and I've got a lot to
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  Speaker 2: say about this because something has to be done with
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  Speaker 2: the broken news media. Now, every day, there are a
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  Speaker 2: group of reporters that travel along with the president, and
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  Speaker 2: they call themselves the pool. So basically, all the networks
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  Speaker 2: get together, and everybody's given a schedule, and And so
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  Speaker 2: like one day it'll be CNN, the other day it'll
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  Speaker 2: be Fox or whoever. So everybody volunteers a person and
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  Speaker 2: they call that the pool coverage. Well, today all the
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  Speaker 2: networks banded together and they said, fine, we're going to
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  Speaker 2: teach Trump a lesson. So the five networks that make
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  Speaker 2: up the White House TV press pool have banded together
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  Speaker 2: and they're basically boycotting the pool coverage of President Trump.
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  Speaker 2: A memorandum was sent to the pool subscribers by the chair,
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  Speaker 2: who happens to be, by the way, Fox News Washington
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  Speaker 2: Bureau Chief Brian Bowden. And Brian Bowden wrote, effective today,
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  Speaker 2: the TV pool will not be covering events designated as
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  Speaker 2: pool coverage of the president. This follows the White House's
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  Speaker 2: position preventing CNN from fulfilling its assigned pool duties. There
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  Speaker 2: will be no replacement pool put in place. So this
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  Speaker 2: is basically a big blank you to President Trump. And
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  Speaker 2: I'm just telling you right here and now, ladies and gentlemen,
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  Speaker 2: that President Trump ought to respond. And here's what the
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  Speaker 2: president needs to do. And I just want to address
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  Speaker 2: specifically Fox News Channel for just a moment. Because even
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  Speaker 2: while I was there, the dirty secret was that the
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  Speaker 2: news side, not the opinion side, but the news side
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  Speaker 2: of Fox News was just as liberal as anything coming
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  Speaker 2: out of CNN or PMS Now. That was the dirty
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  Speaker 2: secret back then. I can only imagine what it's become now.
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  Speaker 2: And I say that because they hired a lot of
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  Speaker 2: the people that do the hiring and firing at Fox
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  Speaker 2: were actually hired from PMS Now. And I've heard it
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  Speaker 2: is a miserable place to work right now because so
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  Speaker 2: many liberals and people, you know, again, there was back
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  Speaker 2: when Roger Ailes was alive and you had folks like
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  Speaker 2: Bill Shine and John Moody running the show, people towed
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  Speaker 2: the line. But now, well, they don't. And I'm just
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  Speaker 2: telling you right now that the news division at Fox
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  Speaker 2: is as liberal as anything you have seen. And this
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  Speaker 2: is a great example of it, and especially the Washington Bureau.
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  Speaker 2: And one of the things that just drives me insane
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  Speaker 2: is that this administration has been treating Fox News like
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  Speaker 2: they're somehow the official state TV network of the Trump administration.
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  Speaker 2: All the while, these people are seething because they hate
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  Speaker 2: Donald Trump. And any opportunity they get to go after
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  Speaker 2: Donald Trump and to stick it to shiv the president
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  Speaker 2: of the United States, Fox News will do it. And
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  Speaker 2: that's exactly what's going on here with Brett Hume and
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  Speaker 2: Guy Benson, all these other folks over there. And this
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  Speaker 2: Brian Bowton guy didn't know him. But by the way,
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  Speaker 2: and I will tell you, the previous bureau chief they had,
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  Speaker 2: one day I was working out of the Fox Bureau
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  Speaker 2: in D.C., and again, I worked there for almost 15 years.
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  Speaker 2: So I know a lot of people, and I've seen
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  Speaker 2: a lot of stuff. And I'm telling you, yours truly
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  Speaker 2: was stunned by how liberal the news division was. It's
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  Speaker 2: just off the charts insane. So if I were the president,
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  Speaker 2: I would tell Fox News, I'd call up Fox News headquarters.
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  Speaker 2: Jay Wallace is the guy who runs the news division.
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  Speaker 2: And I just say, you know what? We're done. We're done.
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  Speaker 2: We're doing all of our interviews with, you know what?
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  Speaker 2: We're going to do all of our interviews on the
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  Speaker 2: Todd Stearns radio show and Newsmax. but predominantly the Todd
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  Speaker 2: Stern's radio show. You know why? Because at least they're
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  Speaker 2: going to get fair and balanced coverage here. What are
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  Speaker 2: you going to do? Grifter's going to grift. It is
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  Speaker 2: what it is. But it's really frustrating because what's going
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  Speaker 2: to happen is, and you know this, is that Trump
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  Speaker 2: will go right back to Fox. And this is disgusting.
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  Speaker 2: What Fox News has done here is disgusting. partnering together
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  Speaker 2: with CBS and ABC and CNN, PMS Now. Unbelievable. Shameful.
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  Speaker 2: Just absolutely shameful. But that's who these people are. You
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  Speaker 2: should not be surprised, in the very least, by any
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  Speaker 2: of this, because these are very bad people. Now, let
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  Speaker 2: me explain what's going on here and what needs to happen.
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  Speaker 2: The Trump administration needs to think long and hard about this.
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  Speaker 2: You know, Trump is going around and he's renovating. He's
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  Speaker 2: making what was old new again in Washington, D.C. We
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  Speaker 2: got the arch going up, which apparently is going to
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  Speaker 2: be like a sniper's nest. We'll get to that story
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  Speaker 2: in just a little while. The fountains work. The reflecting pool. Well, anyway,
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  Speaker 2: all that to say that what Trump ought to do
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  Speaker 2: is this. He should announce... that in the spirit of renovation,
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  Speaker 2: that he is going to turn the White House press
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  Speaker 2: briefing room back into what it was supposed to be
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  Speaker 2: in the first place. And what was that, ladies and gentlemen? Well,
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  Speaker 2: it was supposed to be a swimming pool. As a
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  Speaker 2: matter of fact, they never filled it in, so the
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  Speaker 2: White House press briefing room was built on top of
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  Speaker 2: what was the old White House indoor swimming pool. And
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  Speaker 2: Richard Nixon, one of the worst decisions of his presidency,
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  Speaker 2: was not Watergate. It was letting the reporters inside the
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  Speaker 2: West Wing and giving them their own workspace. Now, here's
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  Speaker 2: another problem I've got. So it turns out... that none
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  Speaker 2: of these people are paying any bills. So we're not
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  Speaker 2: charging CNN or the New York Slimes or PMS. Now,
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  Speaker 2: we're not charging any of these people rent. They get
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  Speaker 2: to send their reporters, and those reporters have designated office
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  Speaker 2: space inside the White House At our expense, you and
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  Speaker 2: I are footing the bill. And let me tell you something.
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  Speaker 2: All of those big fancy lights they have and all
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  Speaker 2: of the cameras and the computers that suck up all
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  Speaker 2: of the electricity, you and I have to pay the
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  Speaker 2: light bill. That's on us, the taxpayers. So if I
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  Speaker 2: were President Trump, he's got some options here. First of all,
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  Speaker 2: he can turn around. Oh, and by the way, they've
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  Speaker 2: got outdoor spaces as well. They call it Pebble Beach.
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  Speaker 2: where they do the outdoor shops. Nobody has to pay rent.
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  Speaker 2: If I were the president, I would do one of
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  Speaker 2: two things. I would go to all of the networks
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  Speaker 2: and say, you know what, starting today, you're going to
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  Speaker 2: have to start paying us rent. And I don't know
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  Speaker 2: what the going rent is for office space in Washington, D.C.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know, $ 5, 000, $ 10, 000 a month sounds pretty good
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  Speaker 2: to me. They can afford it. So make them pay.
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  Speaker 2: And then they can pay for the outdoor space, too.
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  Speaker 2: They're like little journalistic food trucks, but you still got
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  Speaker 2: to pay. And if they don't want to pay, Trump says, fine,
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  Speaker 2: you know what? We're going to turn it back into
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  Speaker 2: a swimming pool. That's what it was meant to be.
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  Speaker 2: And you folks can go back to just walking around
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  Speaker 2: the hallways and trying to, you know, get your stories anyway.
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  Speaker 2: What was it over the weekend? CNN and PMS Now,
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  Speaker 2: they were actually They set up their cameras and their
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  Speaker 2: reporters on the sidewalk across the street from the White House.
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  Speaker 2: I guess, were they unhoused journalists? They weren't homeless. Were
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  Speaker 2: they undocumented? One of the reporterettes from PMS Now, she
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  Speaker 2: had a moment, an episode, when she recounted, she walked
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  Speaker 2: in and they said, hello, good morning, in the security shack.
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  Speaker 2: And she presented her credentials and They rejected those credentials,
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  Speaker 2: and she's, what do you mean? Orange man mean, he's
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  Speaker 2: a big meanie. And yeah, so they made her go
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  Speaker 2: across the street. That's where they worked all day. And
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  Speaker 2: by the way, thank you, President Trump, because If it
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  Speaker 2: hadn't been for Trump, you think those reporters or their
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  Speaker 2: equipment would still be there? No, somebody would have come
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  Speaker 2: along and stolen everything. The crime is just off the charts,
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  Speaker 2: but not anymore, thanks to President Trump. So anyway, there's
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  Speaker 2: a lot going on here, and the Trump administration cannot
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  Speaker 2: back down. Look, the president is just sick and tired
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  Speaker 2: of it, and I don't blame him. I do not
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  Speaker 2: blame him one bit. These people not once, not once,
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  Speaker 2: have these people apologized or tried to make good on
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  Speaker 2: any of the flat-out lies they've been spewing about this president.
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  Speaker 2: Going all the way back to, I mean, these are
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  Speaker 2: the news agencies that were breathlessly reporting that President Trump
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  Speaker 2: was taking golden showers with hookers in Russia. Nobody apologized
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  Speaker 2: for that. Well, I've got to read this to you.
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  Speaker 2: This is great. So this is what CNN had to say.
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  Speaker 2: I'm sorry, Fox News had to say. The public has
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  Speaker 2: a vital interest in receiving accurate, independent information about its government. Okay,
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  Speaker 2: that's great. But the problem is the networks are not
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  Speaker 2: providing accurate information about the government. So, by the way,
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  Speaker 2: why should Trump, you know, there's evidence.
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  Speaker 6: It's the Constitution.
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  Speaker 3: It's the Constitution.
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  Speaker 2: He's banning the press. It's the Constitution. No, it's not.
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  Speaker 2: And who's that little fat little dwarf guy?
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  Speaker 7: Stelter.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, a little Stelter, the bald fat dude on CNN. Why,
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  Speaker 2: the president is just, he's a very bad man. And
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  Speaker 2: this is not good for democracy. No, I think it's
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  Speaker 2: great for democracy. Trump's not banning anybody. As a matter
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  Speaker 2: of fact, if you go back over the weekend and
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  Speaker 2: watch the little reporterettes, they were outside on the sidewalk
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  Speaker 2: reporting the news. Nobody was stopped. Was Trump out there
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  Speaker 2: trying to stop them? No, not at all. But Donald
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  Speaker 2: Trump is under no obligation to require or provide designated
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  Speaker 2: office space for the national media. Good on the president.
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  Speaker 2: But let me just say this, and we're going to
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  Speaker 2: take a break, and I'm curious to hear your thoughts.
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  Speaker 2: Some of you may disagree. Some of you say this
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  Speaker 2: is a bridge too far for the president, but I
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  Speaker 2: don't think it is. But there is absolutely no difference
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  Speaker 2: between the newsrooms at Fox or CNN or PMS now.
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  Speaker 2: I'll even throw New York Times in there. The only
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  Speaker 2: question now is whether President Trump is going to pull
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  Speaker 2: the plug on on all of his administration officials doing
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  Speaker 2: interviews on Fox.
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  Speaker 8: 901-260-5926.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, don't forget Wi-Fi. We're footing the bill for the Wi-Fi, too,
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  Speaker 2: and the Internet access. What's up with that?
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  Speaker 9: 901-260-5926.
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  Speaker 2: This is the Todd Starnes Show. All right, so the
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  Speaker 2: very latest is that CNN, PMS Now, and Politico have
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  Speaker 2: filed a federal lawsuit against the president of these great
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  Speaker 2: United States, and they're demanding, they say they have a
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  Speaker 2: constitutional right to force taxpayers to pay for their newsrooms
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  Speaker 2: inside the West Wing of the White House. So we'll
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  Speaker 2: see how all of this plays out. But again, ladies
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  Speaker 2: and gentlemen, there is no constitutional guarantee or declaration that
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  Speaker 2: the President of the United States has to provide designated
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  Speaker 2: working space for reporters covering the White House. And if
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  Speaker 2: I were President Trump, what I would do right now
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  Speaker 2: is I would walk in there and I would kick
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  Speaker 2: everybody out, and I would immediately start the renovations to
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  Speaker 2: turn that back into the White House swimming pool. That's
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  Speaker 2: exactly what I would do. Because this has gone on
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  Speaker 2: long enough, ladies and gentlemen. This is simply outrageous. Here's
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  Speaker 2: the vice president just a few moments ago weighing in
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  Speaker 2: on all of this. Take a listen.
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  Speaker 10: The Obama administration, compare, let's say, Politico to Breitbart.
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  Speaker 2: If you actually look.
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  Speaker 10: At the objective analysis, Politico and Breitbart are, Politico is
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  Speaker 10: as anti-Trump as Breitbart was anti-Obama or anti-Biden. Now, why
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  Speaker 10: on God's green earth would Donald Trump be expected to
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  Speaker 10: give Politico special access when nobody in the media expected
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  Speaker 10: the Biden administration or the Obama administration.
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  Speaker 2: To give Breitbart special access?
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  Speaker 10: It's about basic fairness.
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  Speaker 2: They can still report.
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  Speaker 10: They still have the access to free speech. They're just
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  Speaker 10: not going to get an office in the White House anymore.
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  Speaker 10: And I think it's totally appropriate unless, of course, they
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  Speaker 10: start to behave like real news organizations.
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  Speaker 2: As a matter of fact, let's go back in time
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  Speaker 2: here because you've got Barack Hussein Obama. And by the way,
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  Speaker 2: here's President Obama weighing in on all of this. This
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  Speaker 2: guy hated conservative media. Cut number three.
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  Speaker 11: My imagination.
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  Speaker 8: Could not foresee some of the stuff that's going on
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  Speaker 8: right now. I believe there was just an announcement that the.
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  Speaker 11: White House decided.
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  Speaker 6: You know what?
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  Speaker 3: CNN, CNN.
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  Speaker 8: MSN, MSNOW, maybe the New York Times was included. You
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  Speaker 8: just can't come to the White House press briefings anymore
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  Speaker 8: because you're giving the current president unfavorable coverage.
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  Speaker 11: I'm trying to think what would have happened if I
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  Speaker 11: had said, you know.
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  Speaker 3: What, Fox News, get out of here.
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  Speaker 8: It's unimaginable.
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  Speaker 3: But the point I'm making here is that.
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  Speaker 8: If you have a certain cohort, let's call it 30
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  Speaker 8: to 35 percent of the country right now, which thinks
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  Speaker 8: that's okay. Well, what that means is we have not
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  Speaker 8: developed the kind of understanding of what democracy requires. And
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  Speaker 8: we've got to shore that back up. I don't think
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  Speaker 8: that's inevitable. I don't think all is lost on that front.
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  Speaker 8: But we have to roll up our sleeves and get working.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, so here is the Obama administration in 2009 talking
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  Speaker 2: about Fox News not being legitimate.
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  Speaker 12: Your colleague Anita Dunn told the New York Times this
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  Speaker 12: week that Fox News was undertaking a war against the
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  Speaker 12: White House and said the White House would treat Fox
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  Speaker 12: the way we would an opponent.
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  Speaker 4: The only argument Anita was making is that they're not
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  Speaker 4: really a news station if you watch even It's not
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  Speaker 4: just their commentators, but a lot of their news programming.
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  Speaker 3: It's really not news.
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  Speaker 4: It's pushing a point of view. And the bigger thing
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  Speaker 4: is that other news organizations like yours ought not to
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  Speaker 4: treat them that way, and we're not going to treat
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  Speaker 4: them that way.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, there you go. So Obama, lying to your face.
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  Speaker 6: Again, 901-260-5926.
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  Speaker 13: All right.
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  Speaker 2: Welcome back. Good to have you with us here. So
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  Speaker 2: the Trump White House has been doing a wonderful job
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  Speaker 2: of providing a database. So they're just not out there saying, no, no, no, no, no.
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  Speaker 2: These reporters are just that, you know, they they hate
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  Speaker 2: they hate Trump fake news. No, this is actually verifiable.
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  Speaker 2: And so good on the Trump White House for maintaining
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  Speaker 2: this media offenders database. identifying the stories that are false, misleading, biased,
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  Speaker 2: or lacking context. For example, ABC News' Jonathan Karl. The
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  Speaker 2: White House says that Karl falsely claimed Trump called him
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  Speaker 2: after the assassination attempt at the White House Correspondents' Dinner.
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  Speaker 2: Karl said that President Trump called him to see if
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  Speaker 2: he was okay, but according to the White House, that
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  Speaker 2: was not true. Unbelievable. CNN. Kristen Holmes. Jeffrey Zeleny, other
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  Speaker 2: CNN reported Trump officials were preparing a possible cabinet shakeup.
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  Speaker 2: Turned out to be a lie. Not true. Reuters, Courtney
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  Speaker 2: Rosen reported that Doge had effectively ceased to exist and
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  Speaker 2: Before the expiration of its charter, White House says, not true.
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  Speaker 2: New York Times, Peter Barker, Baker rather. Baker said that
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  Speaker 2: Trump's crackdown on crime was a non-existent crime crisis. Tell
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  Speaker 2: that to the 13,000 crime victims who can now breathe
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  Speaker 2: a sigh of relief in Memphis, Tennessee, Jonathan Baker, Peter Baker,
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  Speaker 2: because they're off the streets thanks to Donald J.
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  Speaker 7: Trump.
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  Speaker 2: The Washington Post, New York Slimes, Wall Street Journal, Politico
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  Speaker 2: all reported that there was a false narrative that Trump's D.C.
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  Speaker 2: law enforcement deployment was avoiding the Capitol's highest crime areas.
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  Speaker 2: Turned out not to be true. And it goes on
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  Speaker 2: and on and on. So I say good on President
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  Speaker 2: Trump for doing what he did, and I hope he
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  Speaker 2: stands by his decision. By the way, this is Brian Stelter.
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  Speaker 2: That's that little Dwarf King dude. Back in 2021, and again,
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  Speaker 2: just to show you the double standard here, because CNN
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  Speaker 2: was actually using its network airwaves to petition for facts
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  Speaker 2: news to be removed from the White House press pool.
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  Speaker 2: Take a listen to cut five.
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  Speaker 14: There are, you know, these questions about Fox's, as Fox
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  Speaker 14: radicalizes and as it becomes even more and more of
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  Speaker 14: a political tool. Zerwick, you wrote a column recently for
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  Speaker 14: The Sun about this, saying Fox should be viewed as
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  Speaker 14: a political tool. And that raises a question. Should it
• 21:43
  Speaker 14: be a part of the White House press pool? You know,
• 21:45
  Speaker 14: should it be afforded the privileges that come with news gathering?
• 21:48
  Speaker 14: Even though they do have some news reporters at the
• 21:51
  Speaker 14: White House, you're saying they're primarily a political tool. So
• 21:54
  Speaker 14: should that be reassessed, Zerwick?
• 21:56
  Speaker 15: Listen, I really do.
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  Speaker 3: I think it's a discussion we need to have.
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  Speaker 9: Look, you're not supporting democracy.
• 22:01
  Speaker 2: You're not supporting the larger values of this culture. They
• 22:04
  Speaker 2: don't even stand up as an opposition party.
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  Speaker 14: But there's nothing journalistic in what Lachlan Murdoch said.
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  Speaker 5: And you know what?
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  Speaker 16: I say, hey, you know what?
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  Speaker 2: Let's take them at their word. Let's not let them
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  Speaker 2: on the plane. You want to let the Proud Boys
• 22:16
  Speaker 2: on your plane.
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  Speaker 17: On Air Force One?
• 22:18
  Speaker 3: No, I don't think so. These guys are doing the
• 22:20
  Speaker 3: same thing.
• 22:21
  Speaker 2: Yeah, it's true. And let me just say this, that
• 22:27
  Speaker 2: Fox News, they are now officially propagandist for the left.
• 22:33
  Speaker 2: I remember a time when Roger Ailes was still running
• 22:36
  Speaker 2: the network, when Bill Shine and John Moody were there.
• 22:40
  Speaker 2: It was us against the world. There was a reason
• 22:45
  Speaker 2: why Fox News did not enter any of the journalism
• 22:48
  Speaker 2: competitions today. and that Fox News didn't participate in all
• 22:52
  Speaker 2: of these things that were happening out there with the
• 22:54
  Speaker 2: other networks because it was an us-versus-them mentality. And now
• 22:58
  Speaker 2: everybody's going to the same cocktail parties. There is a
• 23:02
  Speaker 2: literal pipeline. There is something called the LGBT Journalism Association.
• 23:08
  Speaker 2: There is a literal pipeline funneling LGBT journalists directly into
• 23:13
  Speaker 2: Fox News, and that was going on. It was very
• 23:18
  Speaker 2: effective into the last year or so when I was
• 23:22
  Speaker 2: at Fox. So the whole dynamic inside that building has
• 23:26
  Speaker 2: completely changed. I mean, they have huge gay pride celebrations
• 23:31
  Speaker 2: inside Fox News. That was happening when I was there.
• 23:36
  Speaker 2: It's a very different place, very different place. Let's go
• 23:39
  Speaker 2: to the phone lines here. Steve in Salem, Oregon, listening
• 23:42
  Speaker 2: to us on KYKN today. Steve, what do you think
• 23:45
  Speaker 2: about the president's decision here?
• 23:49
  Speaker 5: I think the president should reinstate the original Smith-Munt Act
• 23:56
  Speaker 5: that made it illegal for government to use propaganda against
• 24:01
  Speaker 5: the citizens. Obama undid that with his Smith-Munt Modernization Act.
• 24:08
  Speaker 5: President Trump should reinstate it in its original form and
• 24:13
  Speaker 5: extend it to cover private citizens using propaganda or lies
• 24:20
  Speaker 5: against the American people, especially when they have a large
• 24:25
  Speaker 5: platform like the media does.
• 24:28
  Speaker 7: Make it a crime.
• 24:29
  Speaker 5: It's like restricted speech. You can't yell fire in a
• 24:34
  Speaker 5: crowded theater. You can't call a black person the N-word.
• 24:39
  Speaker 5: It should extend, it should be punishable by I don't
• 24:45
  Speaker 5: know what.
• 24:47
  Speaker 2: So you want to, and this was an act that was,
• 24:51
  Speaker 2: this was going all the way back to the 1940s here.
• 24:55
  Speaker 2: So you want to just silence any speech that, the
• 24:58
  Speaker 2: question is, okay, are you going to silence speech you
• 25:01
  Speaker 2: just disagree with or factually inaccurate? How does that work?
• 25:06
  Speaker 2: How do you see this working?
• 25:09
  Speaker 5: No, not just speech you disagree with. An outright lie.
• 25:14
  Speaker 5: You have just stated how the media has printed and
• 25:19
  Speaker 5: published false accounts on their different platforms.
• 25:24
  Speaker 2: Yeah, they have, and it's irrefutable. It's irrefutable. They have lied.
• 25:29
  Speaker 13: All right.
• 25:29
  Speaker 5: That is a lie. It doesn't have to be just
• 25:33
  Speaker 5: something that I or some other person disagrees with. It
• 25:37
  Speaker 5: is a lie, and they have such a large platform,
• 25:41
  Speaker 5: they can disseminate this information and use it to influence
• 25:46
  Speaker 5: a huge number of citizens.
• 25:49
  Speaker 2: So what would the penalty be, and how do you
• 25:51
  Speaker 2: do it? Do you go in and just shut down
• 25:53
  Speaker 2: the networks? What do you do?
• 25:55
  Speaker 5: Well, you take the individuals that lied and give them...
• 26:01
  Speaker 5: So their punishment should be three times as bad as
• 26:06
  Speaker 5: what the supposed January 6th rioters received. What was that,
• 26:12
  Speaker 5: 20 years in prison or something? Something to get their attention.
• 26:17
  Speaker 2: Well, I'm not sure anybody would go along with that, Steve,
• 26:20
  Speaker 2: even on the Republican side of the aisle. And the
• 26:23
  Speaker 2: problem is that most of the good people up on
• 26:26
  Speaker 2: Capitol Hill are just as guilty as the national media are.
• 26:30
  Speaker 2: The propaganda spewing out of Washington, the anti-Trump propaganda, is
• 26:35
  Speaker 2: just off the charts. Steve, thank you for the call. 901-260-5926.
• 26:42
  Speaker 2: Let's go to Texas. Quinn is listening to us on
• 26:45
  Speaker 2: Patriot Talk 920. Quinn, I understand you've got a message
• 26:49
  Speaker 2: for the left-wing media.
• 26:51
  Speaker 16: I do.
• 26:53
  Speaker 6: I agree with the last guy. You know, I lived
• 26:56
  Speaker 6: here for 52 years. I have never watched those little
• 26:59
  Speaker 6: news because every time their mouths move, their lips move,
• 27:03
  Speaker 6: they'll lie. It's very dangerous for this country because if
• 27:08
  Speaker 6: this were caught on fire, they would say, oh, no,
• 27:12
  Speaker 6: it's beautiful outside. If we don't believe the news, who
• 27:16
  Speaker 6: are we going to believe? We trusted them before the truth.
• 27:21
  Speaker 6: But CNN and other liberal news, they're all lies. I
• 27:27
  Speaker 6: have never watched those stations, Todd. Never. Because I know
• 27:33
  Speaker 6: they're lies. The anti-drum, overall, it's the anti-America. That's against
• 27:42
  Speaker 6: everything I believe. I don't want them.
• 27:46
  Speaker 2: You know, Quinn, and again, it's a great point you make.
• 27:50
  Speaker 2: I remember when the George Floyd rioters were trying to
• 27:53
  Speaker 2: burn down Minneapolis, and you had the CNN anchor saying
• 27:58
  Speaker 2: that they were mostly peaceful protests as literal buildings were burning,
• 28:02
  Speaker 2: fully engulfed in flames behind him. To your point, These
• 28:07
  Speaker 2: are propagandists like you would see in Middle Eastern countries,
• 28:12
  Speaker 2: and they're nothing more than professional liars. Now, don't get
• 28:16
  Speaker 2: me wrong. I mean, when you look at the journalists
• 28:19
  Speaker 2: on CNN or PMS now, they're very attractive liars. They're
• 28:22
  Speaker 2: good looking. They got good bone structure, good hair, but
• 28:26
  Speaker 2: they're still liars, and liars going to lie. I mean,
• 28:30
  Speaker 2: it's really that simple. Quinn, thank you for that call,
• 28:33
  Speaker 2: and thank you for listening. 901-260-5926 is our telephone number.
• 28:39
  Speaker 2: That's 901-260-5926. I'm going to tell you a story, and
• 28:45
  Speaker 2: this goes back to the Obama administration before Obama became president.
• 28:52
  Speaker 2: So this would have been back in 2008, and I
• 28:55
  Speaker 2: was at the time a reporter for Fox News Channel.
• 28:59
  Speaker 2: And they put me on the plane to travel with Obama. Now,
• 29:04
  Speaker 2: here's how this works. If you're on the plane, you, well,
• 29:08
  Speaker 2: not you, but your network has to pay a fee.
• 29:12
  Speaker 2: And the network has to cover your travel. They cover
• 29:16
  Speaker 2: your lodging and all that kind of stuff. And the
• 29:20
  Speaker 2: campaign bills the networks for that. It's nothing unusual. That's
• 29:26
  Speaker 2: the way it's been done for a very long time.
• 29:29
  Speaker 2: So anyway, I was traveling with the campaign. It was
• 29:32
  Speaker 2: in the latter stages leading up to Election Day. Gosh,
• 29:36
  Speaker 2: I'd been on the road with them for a couple
• 29:38
  Speaker 2: of months. And so one day, and I believe, if
• 29:42
  Speaker 2: I am not mistaken, this happened right around Halloween, and
• 29:45
  Speaker 2: it happened in Missouri. So we were at the University
• 29:49
  Speaker 2: of Missouri. It was a small airport, sort of like
• 29:52
  Speaker 2: in the middle of nowhere. And I remember that everybody
• 29:56
  Speaker 2: was dressing up for Halloween. And so I went as
• 29:59
  Speaker 2: Joe the Plumber. So if you remember, Joe the Plumber
• 30:02
  Speaker 2: was like all the rage back in the day. So
• 30:04
  Speaker 2: I basically, one of the hotel staff gave me a
• 30:08
  Speaker 2: brand new plunger. And so I was Joe the Plumber.
• 30:12
  Speaker 2: And a friend of mine who was at the Washington Times,
• 30:15
  Speaker 2: and her name just escapes me. Anyway, she was a
• 30:19
  Speaker 2: spitting image of Sarah Palin. So she dressed up like
• 30:22
  Speaker 2: Sarah Palin. for Halloween. So we're all getting on board
• 30:27
  Speaker 2: the plane, and we had, I think, Jake Tapper was there.
• 30:32
  Speaker 2: I know Chuck Todd was there. Terry What's-His-Face from ABC News.
• 30:37
  Speaker 2: All of us were there. Don Gagne from NPR. Ann
• 30:41
  Speaker 2: Compton from ABC Radio News. And so we were all there.
• 30:47
  Speaker 2: All of a sudden, they called up the Washington Times reporter,
• 30:51
  Speaker 2: who was dressed like Sarah Palin, And Obama kicked her
• 30:54
  Speaker 2: off the plane. Then they called up the reporter for
• 30:59
  Speaker 2: the Dallas Morning News, and they kicked the Dallas Morning
• 31:02
  Speaker 2: News reporter off the plane. And there was one other
• 31:07
  Speaker 2: news outlet, and they kicked that reporter off the plane.
• 31:11
  Speaker 2: And we were all just sort of like, what the
• 31:13
  Speaker 2: heck is going on here? This is all happening in
• 31:16
  Speaker 2: real time, and it was very widely reported at the time.
• 31:20
  Speaker 2: So there were three news organizations. All three news organizations
• 31:25
  Speaker 2: that morning had endorsed John McCain instead of Barack Hussein Obama.
• 31:30
  Speaker 2: To retaliate, they canceled their press credentials and kicked the
• 31:37
  Speaker 2: reporters off the plane in the middle of nowhere, Missouri.
• 31:42
  Speaker 2: And they had to find their own way back home.
• 31:45
  Speaker 2: And that was harsh. But what was really funny at
• 31:48
  Speaker 2: the time, everybody on that, I mean, when I say everybody,
• 31:52
  Speaker 2: everybody on that plane turned around and looked at me.
• 31:55
  Speaker 2: And it was either Jake Tamper or Chuck Todd who said, Stards,
• 32:00
  Speaker 2: are you next? Or how could they didn't kick you off?
• 32:03
  Speaker 2: Which I have no earthly idea why, but yeah, they
• 32:09
  Speaker 2: let me stay on the plane. But the point is,
• 32:12
  Speaker 2: nobody pitched a fit in the national media. There was
• 32:16
  Speaker 2: some sort of a massive revolt. You didn't see the
• 32:18
  Speaker 2: entire press corps getting up and filing a lawsuit. You
• 32:22
  Speaker 2: didn't see any of that. Obama treated the press horribly.
• 32:26
  Speaker 2: Joe Biden hated the press. I mean, he hid in
• 32:30
  Speaker 2: a basement for an entire campaign. Nobody cared. Nobody cared.
• 32:37
  Speaker 2: But Donald J. Trump, who was, by the way, one
• 32:40
  Speaker 2: of the most, if not the most, transparent president in
• 32:44
  Speaker 2: American history. will answer reporter questions at the drop of
• 32:48
  Speaker 2: a hat, no matter where he is. And in return,
• 32:55
  Speaker 2: the media treats this man like garbage. So you know what?
• 33:00
  Speaker 2: If you're going to do that, if you're going to
• 33:02
  Speaker 2: spew the lies and the propaganda, you get to do
• 33:06
  Speaker 2: that on the sidewalk. You don't have the privilege of
• 33:09
  Speaker 2: saying that you work in the West Wing anymore. Because
• 33:12
  Speaker 2: let me tell you something, reporters, that's a privilege. You
• 33:14
  Speaker 2: don't have a right to It's a privilege. You know,
• 33:18
  Speaker 2: the freedom of the press, freedom of the press, freedom
• 33:21
  Speaker 2: of the press. You know what? Shut up. That just
• 33:24
  Speaker 2: shows you how ignorant so many people are. Freedom of
• 33:28
  Speaker 2: the press means that the government cannot stop you from
• 33:31
  Speaker 2: opening up your own newspaper. or a TV station, or
• 33:37
  Speaker 2: a website. That's what freedom of press means. Freedom of
• 33:41
  Speaker 2: press does not mean that you have a designated spot
• 33:45
  Speaker 2: to write your garbage inside the White House. Guess what?
• 33:50
  Speaker 2: President Trump, he lives there now. Give it some time,
• 33:54
  Speaker 2: and we'll see what happens. But right now, my recommendation
• 33:58
  Speaker 2: to the president, turn that thing back into a swimming pool.
• 34:01
  Speaker 2: Got to take a break. 901-260-5926. This is the Todd
• 34:06
  Speaker 2: Starnes Show. All right, welcome back. By the way, Tim Burchett,
• 34:21
  Speaker 2: a congressman from Tennessee, is calling for an immediate drop
• 34:28
  Speaker 2: in diesel prices. and Burchard is calling for Congress to
• 34:34
  Speaker 2: get back to work. You know, they're not, by the way.
• 34:37
  Speaker 2: That's just, well, you know, what are you going to do?
• 34:41
  Speaker 2: You know, we pay these people to go on vacation.
• 34:43
  Speaker 2: I mean, that's what they do. So anyway, diesel prices
• 34:50
  Speaker 2: are at an all-time high now. The price of a,
• 34:56
  Speaker 2: let's see, a gallon of diesel, $ 6. 51 a gallon. That's
• 35:01
  Speaker 2: the national average, which, by the way, is 60% higher
• 35:05
  Speaker 2: than the Biden administration averages. So there's just no way
• 35:10
  Speaker 2: around it, folks. It's just high prices. And let me
• 35:13
  Speaker 2: tell you something, high diesel prices, you better get ready
• 35:16
  Speaker 2: because grocery prices are about to skyrocket. Now, the White
• 35:21
  Speaker 2: House is suggesting that The war in Iran, which they're
• 35:26
  Speaker 2: not calling a war. What are they calling it? They're
• 35:29
  Speaker 2: not calling it a war, though. They're saying that it's
• 35:32
  Speaker 2: probably going to go on until maybe next year. Maybe
• 35:36
  Speaker 2: next year. And that's going to be tough, especially when
• 35:41
  Speaker 2: you've got an election coming up in November and people
• 35:44
  Speaker 2: are really struggling to pay their bills. And what was it?
• 35:48
  Speaker 2: Roger Marshall.
• 35:50
  Speaker 11: Wow.
• 35:51
  Speaker 2: That guy just needs to stop talking. Roger Marshall, who
• 35:57
  Speaker 2: is really struggling right now on the campaign trail, here's
• 36:00
  Speaker 2: what he said. This is the quote. I'm sorry gas
• 36:03
  Speaker 2: prices are going up, but your national security is more
• 36:06
  Speaker 2: important than your pocketbook. Okay, well, we get that. The
• 36:12
  Speaker 2: question is, the whole point of going over there was
• 36:14
  Speaker 2: to knock out their nuclear program. Did we do that?
• 36:18
  Speaker 2: Did we accomplish that? Yes or no? Very simple question.
• 36:22
  Speaker 2: Very simple answer. But the White House is not being
• 36:27
  Speaker 2: transparent on that issue. They don't want you to know
• 36:30
  Speaker 2: the answer to that question. And I don't, well, I
• 36:34
  Speaker 2: suspect I know why. But at the end of the day,
• 36:38
  Speaker 2: for a senator to come out and say, yeah, you
• 36:40
  Speaker 2: know what, sorry, guys, you know, the gas, sorry you
• 36:42
  Speaker 2: can't afford groceries, but you know what, your national security
• 36:46
  Speaker 2: is more important than a can of beans and weenies. Yeah,
• 36:54
  Speaker 2: I'm not sure that's a way to attract voters to
• 36:56
  Speaker 2: your campaign. Maybe wrong here. I don't think I am, though.
• 36:59
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• 39:05
  Speaker 2: Faithful God. also celebrating 40 years at the same church
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  Speaker 2: in Lancaster, California. Next week, a major national conference gets underway.
• 39:17
  Speaker 2: I'll be one of the people involved in that, and
• 39:20
  Speaker 2: my understanding is it is a massive crowd of folks.
• 39:23
  Speaker 2: Pastors from all across the nation are gathering in California. Dr.
• 39:28
  Speaker 2: Paul Chappell joined us right now on our Patriot Mobile
• 39:32
  Speaker 2: Newsmaker line.
• 39:32
  Speaker 7: Dr.
• 39:33
  Speaker 2: Chappell, you're a busy man these days.
• 39:36
  Speaker 7: Well, it's an exciting week, Todd, and we're busy getting
• 39:39
  Speaker 7: materials ready and the campus ready and most of all
• 39:42
  Speaker 7: getting our hearts ready to receive friends from all over
• 39:45
  Speaker 7: the country and from several dozen foreign countries as well.
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  Speaker 2: It's called the Spiritual Leadership Conference, and Dr. Chappell, I
• 39:53
  Speaker 2: understand this year's attendance is really off the charts.
• 39:57
  Speaker 7: Well, we've been really pleased with the response, and we're
• 40:00
  Speaker 7: excited just to welcome hundreds of churches and just a
• 40:04
  Speaker 7: great host of pastors and Christian leaders, and we love
• 40:07
  Speaker 7: the theme, God is able, because sometimes we look out
• 40:11
  Speaker 7: and see the landscape of what we're facing in our nation,
• 40:15
  Speaker 7: and we can feel overwhelmed, but In fact, with God,
• 40:19
  Speaker 7: all things are possible.
• 40:21
  Speaker 2: Well, amen to that. And again, if you'd like information,
• 40:24
  Speaker 2: ladies and gentlemen, slconference.com. That's slconference.com, and you'll get a
• 40:30
  Speaker 2: little taste of what it's like to attend Spiritual Leadership Conference.
• 40:35
  Speaker 2: You know, Dr. Chappell, it is a strange time in America,
• 40:39
  Speaker 2: and I think a lot of people have a lot
• 40:41
  Speaker 2: of concerns about the rise of the communists in this country.
• 40:45
  Speaker 2: Political Islam is starting to flex its muscle, and a
• 40:50
  Speaker 2: lot of people who say they are Christians are struggling,
• 40:54
  Speaker 2: I think, to understand how do we address these issues
• 40:58
  Speaker 2: in the public marketplace and also in our churches.
• 41:03
  Speaker 7: Well, fundamentally, we approach these issues with the gospel itself.
• 41:06
  Speaker 7: Only Jesus Christ can take a person that is bent
• 41:11
  Speaker 7: on hatred and anger and and turn their heart into
• 41:15
  Speaker 7: a heart that really reflects His character and love. And
• 41:18
  Speaker 7: that's what we call becoming a new creature. So we're
• 41:20
  Speaker 7: going to emphasize three kinds of leadership at the conference.
• 41:24
  Speaker 7: Spiritual leadership, meaning we must have God working through us. Secondly,
• 41:29
  Speaker 7: servant leadership. We want to serve our communities and show
• 41:34
  Speaker 7: them the love of Christ. And then what we call
• 41:36
  Speaker 7: soul-winning leadership, and that's where we emphasize taking the gospel
• 41:40
  Speaker 7: into our communities. No doubt there will be emphasis on
• 41:43
  Speaker 7: being salt and light, and the panel that you're leading
• 41:46
  Speaker 7: will be a panel that talks about religious liberty and
• 41:49
  Speaker 7: using our liberty to stand up for biblical truth. Just yesterday,
• 41:53
  Speaker 7: I preached from Psalm 139 on the truth that we
• 41:56
  Speaker 7: are fearfully and wonderfully made, that God is our Creator,
• 42:00
  Speaker 7: and that we don't need to surgically change children who
• 42:02
  Speaker 7: are going through a time of psychological confusion— But in fact,
• 42:06
  Speaker 7: we need to affirm that God is a great God,
• 42:09
  Speaker 7: a great creator. So we'll touch on those themes as well.
• 42:12
  Speaker 7: But we really want to encourage pastors and Christian workers
• 42:16
  Speaker 7: that with God's help and grace, that he'll give us
• 42:21
  Speaker 7: all grace that we might abound to every good work.
• 42:24
  Speaker 2: Dr. Paul Chample is joining us on the Patriot Mobile
• 42:27
  Speaker 2: Newsmaker line today. He is the pastor of Lancaster Baptist
• 42:31
  Speaker 2: Church and also president of West Coast Baptist College.
• 42:35
  Speaker 16: You know, Dr.
• 42:35
  Speaker 2: Chappell, over the weekend, it was a very special moment
• 42:39
  Speaker 2: in the life of your ministry, celebrating 40 years. I'm curious.
• 42:45
  Speaker 18: I know our.
• 42:45
  Speaker 2: Listeners would love to hear the story because it's very
• 42:49
  Speaker 2: unusual to see a church like Lancaster in a place
• 42:53
  Speaker 2: like Los Angeles County. Take us back. I mean, what
• 42:56
  Speaker 2: was it like when you and Mrs. Chappell showed up
• 42:58
  Speaker 2: in Lancaster so many years ago?
• 43:01
  Speaker 7: Well, we wrote about this in our newest book, God
• 43:04
  Speaker 7: is Able, but we showed up to 12 people, and
• 43:07
  Speaker 7: they said at the end of the service, we can't
• 43:10
  Speaker 7: offer you a salary, we don't have much, but we
• 43:13
  Speaker 7: really would love to have you come and be our pastor.
• 43:15
  Speaker 7: And in fact, we did not know that we were
• 43:17
  Speaker 7: even candidating for that church. We were just there with
• 43:20
  Speaker 7: a friend preaching, and at first there was no interest.
• 43:23
  Speaker 7: And then the Lord really began to burn in our
• 43:25
  Speaker 7: hearts and eventually call us to go to that corner
• 43:28
  Speaker 7: of L.A. County, and really the rest is history. He
• 43:31
  Speaker 7: began to provide the resources and the people, and God
• 43:35
  Speaker 7: just really has miraculously blessed. And that's one of the
• 43:39
  Speaker 7: things we want to say next week, is that if
• 43:41
  Speaker 7: God can do this in L.A. County, where four of
• 43:46
  Speaker 7: our five supervisors are, they mock God, they celebrate sin.
• 43:51
  Speaker 7: At Dodger Stadium, they stand with men who are dressed
• 43:54
  Speaker 7: as female nuns and celebrate their lifestyle. And if we
• 43:58
  Speaker 7: can see God doing something great in a county like this,
• 44:03
  Speaker 7: then it can be done anywhere. And that's the message
• 44:06
  Speaker 7: that we have, the power of the gospel. And we're
• 44:09
  Speaker 7: so thankful that we came by faith, and God has
• 44:13
  Speaker 7: honored that faith.
• 44:14
  Speaker 2: I remember when I drove up for the first time,
• 44:16
  Speaker 2: I had never been to, it's called the Antelope Valley,
• 44:19
  Speaker 2: and I don't know, I was thinking, you know, beautiful town,
• 44:23
  Speaker 2: antelope traipsing through lush green fields. I found there was
• 44:28
  Speaker 2: sand and giant tumbleweeds, and I thought, where am I?
• 44:33
  Speaker 2: I can't imagine what it must have been like for
• 44:34
  Speaker 2: you and your family showing up for the very first
• 44:38
  Speaker 2: time there in Lancaster.
• 44:41
  Speaker 7: Well, it was definitely windy and hot, and God bless
• 44:44
  Speaker 7: me with a wonderful wife who just has served right
• 44:47
  Speaker 7: there in the church with me for all these years.
• 44:50
  Speaker 7: And You know, a lot of people have said over
• 44:52
  Speaker 7: the years, it's not necessarily the location, L.A. County or
• 44:56
  Speaker 7: the high desert, it's the Church that has kept us together.
• 44:59
  Speaker 7: And last Friday night, we had a special dinner with
• 45:02
  Speaker 7: members who have been with us for over 25 years,
• 45:04
  Speaker 7: and there were hundreds of them. And, of course, we've
• 45:07
  Speaker 7: had a lot of folks come and go, and we
• 45:09
  Speaker 7: have graduates from West Coast Baptist College in all 50
• 45:12
  Speaker 7: states and in 50 foreign countries today serving the Lord.
• 45:15
  Speaker 7: So it's been a sending place as well. But I'm
• 45:18
  Speaker 7: thankful for those who've stayed faithfully. And this Sunday, we'll
• 45:21
  Speaker 7: mark the official 40th anniversary. And Todd, I've got to
• 45:24
  Speaker 7: tell you, the services are going to be amazing. And
• 45:29
  Speaker 7: we're just so excited to hear from the Lord and
• 45:32
  Speaker 7: really glad that you're coming. Our people love you. They
• 45:34
  Speaker 7: love your show. And we're excited to share the story
• 45:39
  Speaker 7: and encourage others to claim their cities for the gospel
• 45:42
  Speaker 7: of Jesus Christ.
• 45:44
  Speaker 2: Dr. Paul Chappell joining us on the Patriot Mobile Newsmaker line.
• 45:48
  Speaker 2: And again, folks, if you're looking for a blessing, you're
• 45:52
  Speaker 2: going to want to go to this conference. And I
• 45:55
  Speaker 2: look forward to it every single year. It's just such
• 45:58
  Speaker 2: a wonderful experience.
• 46:01
  Speaker 19: Dr.
• 46:01
  Speaker 2: Chappell, I want to talk real quick about the college,
• 46:04
  Speaker 2: because I think ultimately what you guys are doing there
• 46:07
  Speaker 2: is so vitally important is to get godly young men
• 46:10
  Speaker 2: and women into churches across the nation who are focused
• 46:14
  Speaker 2: on the gospel. I wrote in my book, The Golden Age,
• 46:18
  Speaker 2: which you were very kind to endorse, that ultimately the
• 46:22
  Speaker 2: problem facing America is not a political problem as much
• 46:26
  Speaker 2: as it is a spiritual problem. Tell us about how
• 46:30
  Speaker 2: people can get involved in the college. You guys don't
• 46:33
  Speaker 2: take any federal money, is that right? So, I mean,
• 46:35
  Speaker 2: you guys rely on the... rely on the good Christian
• 46:40
  Speaker 2: people of America to pay the bills?
• 46:43
  Speaker 7: Well, it's a challenge in these days with respect to
• 46:46
  Speaker 7: higher ed generally. My biggest prayer request, and I hope
• 46:50
  Speaker 7: that some folks will just cling on to this if
• 46:52
  Speaker 7: nothing else today, Jesus said, pray ye therefore the Lord
• 46:56
  Speaker 7: of the harvest that he will send forth labors into
• 46:58
  Speaker 7: his harvest. That was his one prayer request, pray for labors.
• 47:01
  Speaker 7: So please pray that God will touch the hearts of
• 47:04
  Speaker 7: young people beyond Christian college even for liberal arts studies,
• 47:09
  Speaker 7: but really to specifically open their heart to the ministry.
• 47:13
  Speaker 7: The Baby Boomer pastors are retiring, and so missionaries are retiring.
• 47:18
  Speaker 7: Our purpose as a college is training laborers for His harvest,
• 47:21
  Speaker 7: and we do that as we train preachers and teachers
• 47:25
  Speaker 7: and music ministers, but also folks that support in media
• 47:28
  Speaker 7: and folks that support in other capacities in the church.
• 47:32
  Speaker 7: We're happy to equip them, but it's really focused on ministry.
• 47:36
  Speaker 7: And so we are a fully accredited college, but we've
• 47:40
  Speaker 7: chosen not to receive federal funds. It may be somewhat
• 47:44
  Speaker 7: safer during a current administration environment, but in others, we're
• 47:48
  Speaker 7: not wanting to get into a situation where it's difficult
• 47:51
  Speaker 7: for the college or where there would be forced curriculum eventually,
• 47:56
  Speaker 7: and some are concerned about that. So we just step
• 47:58
  Speaker 7: aside from taking government money and trust the Lord. And
• 48:02
  Speaker 7: it is more expensive in California than in many other
• 48:05
  Speaker 7: places where Christian colleges exist. And so I would encourage
• 48:08
  Speaker 7: folks to check us out at wcbc.edu. We are truly
• 48:13
  Speaker 7: grateful for those who help us subsidize the educational cost
• 48:18
  Speaker 7: of students by supporting the college, and we'd love to
• 48:20
  Speaker 7: welcome guests out to let them see firsthand. It is
• 48:23
  Speaker 7: amazing to see the young people. I preached in chapel
• 48:26
  Speaker 7: last week. and several students responded at the end to say,
• 48:30
  Speaker 7: I feel like God is really calling me to serve.
• 48:33
  Speaker 7: and that's the answer to the need in our country
• 48:37
  Speaker 7: is those that will help get the gospel out.
• 48:39
  Speaker 2: And Dr. Chappell, for so many of our folks who
• 48:42
  Speaker 2: are listening, and maybe they can't come to California, but
• 48:46
  Speaker 2: there is a great online program, and I'm really intrigued
• 48:49
  Speaker 2: by the one-year Bible study certificate, and I suspect many
• 48:54
  Speaker 2: other people would be as well. Tell us real quick
• 48:57
  Speaker 2: about the online opportunities for our listeners.
• 49:01
  Speaker 7: Well, West Coast Baptist Online is a tremendous opportunity for
• 49:05
  Speaker 7: someone who's busy at home in the ministry or you're
• 49:07
  Speaker 7: working a secular job but want to be more equipped.
• 49:10
  Speaker 7: You can take the one-year Bible. We call it America's
• 49:12
  Speaker 7: One-Year Bible Program. It's going to give you 32 hours
• 49:16
  Speaker 7: of biblical study, Old Testament, New Testament, apologetics, tremendous courses
• 49:21
  Speaker 7: on sharing your faith. And then, of course, beyond that,
• 49:24
  Speaker 7: there's a master's in Bible as well. There's a four-year
• 49:28
  Speaker 7: degree in Bible. And all of this can be seen
• 49:31
  Speaker 7: at wcbc.edu. It's a fast-growing part of our program. The
• 49:37
  Speaker 7: teachers are all involved in local church ministry. They're all
• 49:39
  Speaker 7: committed to the doctrines of the Word of God, and
• 49:43
  Speaker 7: we have been blessed with the folks that teach online,
• 49:46
  Speaker 7: and I would encourage you to check it out at wcbc.edu.
• 49:51
  Speaker 1: All right.
• 49:51
  Speaker 2: Well, Dr. Chappell, we appreciate your time. I know you're
• 49:53
  Speaker 2: super busy, and I'll be flying out Saturday. I'll be
• 49:58
  Speaker 2: there for supper Saturday night, so just let Mrs. Chappell know.
• 50:01
  Speaker 2: Set an extra plate.
• 50:03
  Speaker 7: She's got that plate ready, and we're excited to see you, Todd.
• 50:07
  Speaker 2: It's going to be a lot of fun, Dr. Chappell.
• 50:10
  Speaker 2: And that's the other part of it. It's just a
• 50:11
  Speaker 2: lot of fun and fellowship as well. And, folks, you're
• 50:14
  Speaker 2: going to be blessed. I can tell you that. Can't
• 50:16
  Speaker 2: wait for the Spiritual Leadership Conference. All right, Dr. Chappell,
• 50:21
  Speaker 2: catch a nap between now and then.
• 50:24
  Speaker 7: I'll try. You have a great day, Todd.
• 50:26
  Speaker 2: All right.
• 50:26
  Speaker 19: Dr.
• 50:26
  Speaker 2: Paul Chappell, everybody, and I want to encourage you. Check
• 50:30
  Speaker 2: out what they're doing at West Coast Baptist College. There's
• 50:35
  Speaker 2: something happening there, and it's exciting to see the graduates.
• 50:38
  Speaker 2: These are young people. They're getting married. They're going, and
• 50:43
  Speaker 2: they're going to churches all across America. And that's really
• 50:48
  Speaker 2: the key here, is that we've got to get good,
• 50:50
  Speaker 2: godly men and women involved. into our churches across this country.
• 50:55
  Speaker 2: And also for you, what a great opportunity. Maybe you're retired,
• 51:00
  Speaker 2: or maybe you just want to learn some more about
• 51:02
  Speaker 2: the Bible, taking one of these online classes at West
• 51:06
  Speaker 2: Coast Baptist College. I wholeheartedly recommend it, so be sure
• 51:11
  Speaker 2: to check that out. 901-260-5926 is our telephone number. That's 901-260-5926.
• 51:14
  Speaker 2: This is the Todd Starnes Show. Over the weekend, I
• 51:38
  Speaker 2: was talking to some folks about the election, and there is,
• 51:45
  Speaker 2: believe it or not, I'm just, it's really shocking to
• 51:48
  Speaker 2: hear this to some extent, but Republicans are having a
• 51:52
  Speaker 2: hard time raising money right now. And this does seem, no,
• 51:57
  Speaker 2: I'm talking about the individual candidates. Republicans are having a
• 52:00
  Speaker 2: hard time raising money. there are growing concerns that some
• 52:05
  Speaker 2: candidates could actually be underwater in what were once very
• 52:11
  Speaker 2: strong red states. And this is all coming from Republicans,
• 52:16
  Speaker 2: by the way. So just so we're clear that there
• 52:20
  Speaker 2: are concerns among Republicans that things are not going well.
• 52:24
  Speaker 2: And one of the phrases I heard was, this is
• 52:25
  Speaker 2: going to be a bloodbath. Look, I still think there
• 52:33
  Speaker 2: is time to fix all of this. I really do.
• 52:37
  Speaker 2: But at the end of the day, that's going to
• 52:40
  Speaker 2: be up to you. And if the price of diesel
• 52:43
  Speaker 2: continues to rise, we still don't have any sort of
• 52:46
  Speaker 2: resolution in Iran. And let me just say that the
• 52:51
  Speaker 2: Iran situation is frustrating a lot of people. And there
• 52:55
  Speaker 2: is very little transparency over what we have done, what
• 52:59
  Speaker 2: has happened, what Iran has done to us. That's a concern,
• 53:05
  Speaker 2: and people can sense that. People can sense we're not
• 53:07
  Speaker 2: getting the full story on what's happening right now with Iran. So,
• 53:13
  Speaker 2: there you go. But anyway, the reality here is, that
• 53:20
  Speaker 2: there could be some challenges for Republicans. And we'll start
• 53:24
  Speaker 2: looking at some of the data. I want to hear
• 53:28
  Speaker 2: from the candidates themselves. 901-260-5926, our telephone number. That's 901-260-5926.
• 53:36
  Speaker 2: So I got a little bit of blowback. on Friday
• 53:45
  Speaker 2: because I posted an interview I conducted with a guy
• 53:49
  Speaker 2: who is a Democrat. He is the Democrat nominee for
• 53:52
  Speaker 2: the 5th Congressional District. And this guy is very normal looking.
• 53:59
  Speaker 2: He's been the longtime mayor of a city in Tennessee
• 54:04
  Speaker 2: that the city actually voted for Trump, but this guy
• 54:08
  Speaker 2: ended up getting reelected. He's very popular. He is a
• 54:13
  Speaker 2: member of the Blue Dog Democrat Coalition. The first video
• 54:19
  Speaker 2: ad he put out had his whole family, his wife
• 54:21
  Speaker 2: and the children, the three kids, they're sitting around the
• 54:24
  Speaker 2: dinner table, they're devout United Methodists, and they're sitting there,
• 54:28
  Speaker 2: they've got a lovely meal, they've got iced tea, and
• 54:31
  Speaker 2: they're holding hands and they're saying grace. And I'm sitting
• 54:35
  Speaker 2: here watching this thinking, my goodness, this could be a Republican.
• 54:41
  Speaker 2: Or at least that's what it looks like. But anyway,
• 54:44
  Speaker 2: the guy, his name is Chaz Mulder is his name.
• 54:49
  Speaker 2: And the guy actually supports President Trump's efforts on crime
• 54:55
  Speaker 2: and also securing the border. And he's a Democrat. What
• 55:01
  Speaker 2: do you make of that, ladies and gentlemen? So I'm
• 55:04
  Speaker 2: just telling you, that the Republicans need to make sure
• 55:09
  Speaker 2: they have a solid message going into the midterms. And
• 55:13
  Speaker 2: I'm not sure what that message is for many of them.
• 55:15
  Speaker 2: I really don't. Because right now, Congress hasn't done all
• 55:18
  Speaker 2: that much. It's sad to say that, but it's true.
• 55:22
  Speaker 2: All right. Hang tight, everybody. Got to take a quick break.
• 55:25
  Speaker 4: 901-260-5926.
• 55:25
  Speaker 2: That's 901-260-5926. We'll be right back. Dylan, is it tomorrow?
• 55:59
  Speaker 2: Tomorrow is fall, right? That's what they're telling us.
• 56:03
  Speaker 11: Yeah, supposedly.
• 56:05
  Speaker 2: Yeah, so it's been like 100 degrees for like the past,
• 56:09
  Speaker 2: I don't know, month, month and a half now. And
• 56:12
  Speaker 2: there's a giant heat dome that has somehow settled over Memphis, Tennessee.
• 56:18
  Speaker 2: But here in the broadcast booth, don't get me wrong,
• 56:20
  Speaker 2: you know, it's 68 degrees year-round. But people are really suffering.
• 56:25
  Speaker 2: It just doesn't feel like fall. I see all these
• 56:27
  Speaker 2: pictures over the weekend, football games, folks wearing sweatshirts. I'm like,
• 56:31
  Speaker 2: what's wrong with these people?
• 56:33
  Speaker 11: Yeah, they don't have it like we have it right now.
• 56:36
  Speaker 11: I mean, my sweater box is sitting out in my
• 56:38
  Speaker 11: room right now. I'm just yearning after the moment that
• 56:41
  Speaker 11: I get to grab one of those things.
• 56:43
  Speaker 2: Yeah, well, that being said, there are some people that
• 56:48
  Speaker 2: are starting to get in the mood for Christmas. We're
• 56:51
  Speaker 2: just not there yet here in the southern states because
• 56:54
  Speaker 2: it's too hot. However, I do think that we might possibly–
• 56:59
  Speaker 2: be able to get in the spirit of Christmas. Our
• 57:03
  Speaker 2: next guest on the Patriot Mobile Newsmaker line, she is
• 57:07
  Speaker 2: a very well-known author, best-selling author, TV personality, actress, and
• 57:12
  Speaker 2: she has a brand new book out, which, trust me,
• 57:14
  Speaker 2: makes a perfect Christmas gift. And the reason why is
• 57:18
  Speaker 2: because the book is titled The True Gifts of Christmas.
• 57:23
  Speaker 2: Megan Alexander. Megan, it has been far too long. Welcome
• 57:26
  Speaker 2: back to the show, and congratulations.
• 57:29
  Speaker 17: Thank you, Todd. Good to see you.
• 57:31
  Speaker 15: I bring you greetings from a 100-degree Nashville, Tennessee.
• 57:35
  Speaker 17: I feel your pain, my friend.
• 57:37
  Speaker 2: You're just right up Interstate 40, Megan. I'm just wondering,
• 57:43
  Speaker 2: how do you write a Christmas book when it's so
• 57:45
  Speaker 2: hot outside? I'm very impressed by this.
• 57:48
  Speaker 15: Well, I do what you do. I put the studio
• 57:52
  Speaker 15: on low on the AC. I try to do all
• 57:55
  Speaker 15: my photo shoots inside, but then I have to go
• 57:57
  Speaker 15: pick up the kids from school. And I have literally
• 58:00
  Speaker 15: gotten recently tied in the pickup line with my Christmas
• 58:03
  Speaker 15: sweater still on.
• 58:05
  Speaker 17: Bad mistake.
• 58:06
  Speaker 15: Not a good idea in this 100 degree heat.
• 58:09
  Speaker 17: So you put on the music, you do what you
• 58:11
  Speaker 17: can to get in the spirit early.
• 58:12
  Speaker 2: Well, look, I love Christmas, and about this time of
• 58:17
  Speaker 2: year is when I actually start cranking up the Christmas music.
• 58:19
  Speaker 2: I'm not one of the people that starts decorating right away.
• 58:22
  Speaker 2: We'll wait and do that after Thanksgiving. But there's something
• 58:27
  Speaker 2: about the Christmas spirit. I'm excited about your book. First
• 58:29
  Speaker 2: of all, it's an absolutely beautiful book. I got an
• 58:32
  Speaker 2: advanced copy, and it's just so well done. And this
• 58:36
  Speaker 2: is really a perfect gift for somebody for Christmastime.
• 58:41
  Speaker 17: Thank you so much, Todd. I put my heart and
• 58:44
  Speaker 17: soul into the book.
• 58:45
  Speaker 15: I'm a mama of three, as you know, and I
• 58:47
  Speaker 15: am constantly fighting that battle that so many of us
• 58:51
  Speaker 15: find ourselves fighting, and that is the spiritual and what
• 58:55
  Speaker 15: seems like the secular side of Christmas, right? We get
• 58:57
  Speaker 15: caught up in the lights, and I'm somebody that loves
• 58:59
  Speaker 15: to decorate, and I love the music, but I also
• 59:02
  Speaker 15: want my kids to know the true meaning of the season,
• 59:04
  Speaker 15: which is the birth of Jesus Christ. Nothing matters except
• 59:08
  Speaker 15: for the fact that our Savior was born on Christmas.
• 59:11
  Speaker 15: And so I'm trying to bridge that gap. And Todd,
• 59:13
  Speaker 15: this became a labor of love for me to research.
• 59:16
  Speaker 15: And what a blessing to find out that many of
• 59:18
  Speaker 15: our seemingly secular Christmas traditions really have deep, deep spiritual
• 59:24
  Speaker 15: roots and have such a Christmas meaning tied to them
• 59:27
  Speaker 15: that goes back to faith.
• 59:29
  Speaker 17: Even St. Nicholas himself, on which Santa Claus is based.
• 59:32
  Speaker 15: So that was my gift to other families and to
• 59:35
  Speaker 15: really anyone that feels like they're trying to bridge the
• 59:37
  Speaker 15: gap between, again, the spiritual and the secular.
• 59:40
  Speaker 17: It's very possible. And Christ is alive and well.
• 59:42
  Speaker 2: I think what I love about the book is you're
• 59:45
  Speaker 2: telling stories and you're a terrific storyteller. But these are
• 59:50
  Speaker 2: opportunities to teach your kids. And it's not like the
• 59:53
  Speaker 2: kids are going to be learning something without having to
• 59:55
  Speaker 2: sit them down and saying, okay, kids, it's time to
• 59:57
  Speaker 2: learn something. These are really well-written, well-crafted stories that I
• 1:00:02
  Speaker 2: think are really going to draw the attention of kids
• 1:00:05
  Speaker 2: and pretty much family members of all ages.
• 1:00:09
  Speaker 17: Thank you, Todd. That was my goal.
• 1:00:10
  Speaker 15: That was my hope, that this would be accessible and
• 1:00:13
  Speaker 15: available to all ages. But it is my hope that
• 1:00:15
  Speaker 15: families will treat it as an Advent devotional. We've got
• 1:00:18
  Speaker 15: 25 entries for the 25 days leading up to Christmas.
• 1:00:21
  Speaker 15: And so it's my hope that families will think about
• 1:00:24
  Speaker 15: reading an entry a night and And for example, you
• 1:00:27
  Speaker 15: mentioned kids.
• 1:00:28
  Speaker 17: We have long.
• 1:00:29
  Speaker 15: Held a flashlight candy cane hunt in our backyard during December.
• 1:00:33
  Speaker 15: We invite all the kids from the neighborhood. We sprinkle
• 1:00:35
  Speaker 15: candy canes in the backyard. When it's dark, the kids
• 1:00:38
  Speaker 15: get out their flashlights and search for as many candy
• 1:00:40
  Speaker 15: canes as they can. Todd, researching something as simple as
• 1:00:43
  Speaker 15: the candy cane, I discovered that it was created in
• 1:00:46
  Speaker 15: the 1800s by a candy maker in Germany called who
• 1:00:50
  Speaker 15: wanted to keep the kids quiet in choir as they
• 1:00:54
  Speaker 15: were preparing for their Christmas festivities.
• 1:00:56
  Speaker 17: And peppermint sticks used to just be straight. It used
• 1:00:59
  Speaker 17: to just be a.
• 1:00:59
  Speaker 15: Straight white peppermint stick. And so the local candy maker
• 1:01:02
  Speaker 15: that was working with these children bent it into a J,
• 1:01:06
  Speaker 15: which stands for Jesus. But if you flip it upside down,
• 1:01:09
  Speaker 15: it also represents a shepherd's staff, right?
• 1:01:11
  Speaker 17: Jesus is our shepherd.
• 1:01:13
  Speaker 15: And then the white is that we are washed pure
• 1:01:16
  Speaker 15: as snow when we are forgiven by our Lord and Savior,
• 1:01:19
  Speaker 15: and the red is his blood. You know, he died
• 1:01:21
  Speaker 15: for us. And I had no idea that that's the
• 1:01:24
  Speaker 15: origin of the candy cane, deep spiritual roots there. So
• 1:01:27
  Speaker 15: at the end of our candy cane hunt, when the
• 1:01:28
  Speaker 15: kids are munching on their candy canes, I just take
• 1:01:31
  Speaker 15: a second and I go, hey, do you know what
• 1:01:32
  Speaker 15: the candy cane is all about? And I just make
• 1:01:34
  Speaker 15: it a little teachable moment. That's what I'm hoping the
• 1:01:36
  Speaker 15: book will do.
• 1:01:38
  Speaker 2: And by the way, that's on day two of the book.
• 1:01:40
  Speaker 2: And day three, we can't give away the whole book here.
• 1:01:43
  Speaker 2: But I just want to illustrate what people are going
• 1:01:46
  Speaker 2: to discover here. You tell the story of gingerbread. And
• 1:01:50
  Speaker 2: like I said, whoever your photographer is, it's an incredible photography.
• 1:01:55
  Speaker 2: But you talk about why do we love gingerbread and
• 1:01:58
  Speaker 2: some ideas to involve your kids. And then you provide
• 1:02:01
  Speaker 2: a great gingerbread cookie recipe. So, I mean, there's all
• 1:02:04
  Speaker 2: sorts of great things in this book.
• 1:02:07
  Speaker 17: Yeah, it's the sights and sounds and smells of the holiday. Todd,
• 1:02:11
  Speaker 17: you mentioned gingerbread.
• 1:02:12
  Speaker 15: We also have an entry about just bread in general.
• 1:02:15
  Speaker 15: Jesus is the bread of life. And why do we
• 1:02:17
  Speaker 15: break bread as a community during the holidays? You know,
• 1:02:20
  Speaker 15: thinking of hospitality as worship. That was a theme that
• 1:02:24
  Speaker 15: came out from this book in terms of why we
• 1:02:26
  Speaker 15: do the Christmas festivities and why we celebrate and invite
• 1:02:29
  Speaker 15: neighbors over. And then just a couple more that were
• 1:02:32
  Speaker 15: really powerful for me was, as I mentioned, St.
• 1:02:34
  Speaker 17: Nicholas, an incredible man that loved the Lord.
• 1:02:37
  Speaker 15: He was a bishop in the Catholic Church in what
• 1:02:39
  Speaker 15: is now modern-day Turkey. He devoted himself to serving his community,
• 1:02:44
  Speaker 15: serving his church. The idea of hanging stockings above the
• 1:02:48
  Speaker 15: fireplace goes back to St.
• 1:02:50
  Speaker 17: Nicholas.
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  Speaker 15: And his neighbors, a father and their three daughters, didn't
• 1:02:54
  Speaker 15: have a lot of money for their dowries to get married.
• 1:02:56
  Speaker 17: Nicholas knew this.
• 1:02:58
  Speaker 15: Legend goes, in the middle of the night, he slipped
• 1:03:00
  Speaker 15: gold coins into their stockings through a window, and they
• 1:03:03
  Speaker 15: woke up in the morning and discovered this the father
• 1:03:05
  Speaker 15: had a feeling it was Nicholas, went and found him.
• 1:03:08
  Speaker 15: And Nicholas said, please don't tell anybody. Just go, you know,
• 1:03:10
  Speaker 15: enjoy and be happy. He was doing things like that
• 1:03:13
  Speaker 15: all over town. And so those nuggets are just so
• 1:03:16
  Speaker 15: important to me, Todd, because again, I often thought, oh,
• 1:03:19
  Speaker 15: Santa Claus is just the Coca-Cola Santa Claus, right? No,
• 1:03:22
  Speaker 15: it really goes back to a Christian man that loved
• 1:03:25
  Speaker 15: the Lord. And that is true with so many of
• 1:03:27
  Speaker 15: these traditions that we have throughout the book.
• 1:03:29
  Speaker 2: Megan, you brought up Coca-Cola. I do have to mention
• 1:03:31
  Speaker 2: there's one thing I'm I think I'm a little disappointed in, Megan.
• 1:03:34
  Speaker 2: I think you missed the mark on something here. You know,
• 1:03:38
  Speaker 2: at our church in Germantown, Tennessee, we do a living
• 1:03:42
  Speaker 2: Bethlehem village. It's kind of like our gift to the community.
• 1:03:45
  Speaker 2: And we have these huge cauldrons that are filled with
• 1:03:49
  Speaker 2: hot Dr.
• 1:03:50
  Speaker 7: Pepper.
• 1:03:51
  Speaker 2: I'm not seeing the hot Dr. Pepper recipe anywhere in
• 1:03:54
  Speaker 2: the book here, Megan. Maybe that's for book two.
• 1:03:57
  Speaker 17: That is book two, Todd, and you must tell me
• 1:03:59
  Speaker 17: why Dr.
• 1:04:00
  Speaker 20: Pepper?
• 1:04:00
  Speaker 17: Why hot?
• 1:04:01
  Speaker 2: Megan, I don't know. I don't get it. But apparently
• 1:04:06
  Speaker 2: it's a thing.
• 1:04:08
  Speaker 17: I've never heard that before, but I now need to
• 1:04:10
  Speaker 17: go research that. You tell me if you learn the backstory.
• 1:04:12
  Speaker 16: All right, yeah.
• 1:04:12
  Speaker 2: Well, if the Alexander family makes it to this side
• 1:04:15
  Speaker 2: of Memphis, we'll give you a tour of the Bethlehem Village,
• 1:04:20
  Speaker 2: and you can try the hot Dr.
• 1:04:22
  Speaker 13: Pepper.
• 1:04:23
  Speaker 17: I would love it. That's great. You learn something every day.
• 1:04:26
  Speaker 15: I tell you what, Todd, that is what's so special, too,
• 1:04:28
  Speaker 15: about discussing Christmas traditions with people is everybody has something
• 1:04:31
  Speaker 15: slightly different.
• 1:04:32
  Speaker 17: And I have gotten the question from some people. They're like,
• 1:04:35
  Speaker 17: we don't really have many traditions in our family. And
• 1:04:37
  Speaker 17: I say, hey, maybe this is the year to start.
• 1:04:39
  Speaker 16: Them, right?
• 1:04:40
  Speaker 15: Maybe this book will ignite a desire to begin a
• 1:04:43
  Speaker 15: family recipe.
• 1:04:45
  Speaker 17: I spoke about bread.
• 1:04:46
  Speaker 15: My husband's aunt is known for making cinnamon rolls in
• 1:04:49
  Speaker 15: the family. And just the past couple years, we've rolled
• 1:04:53
  Speaker 15: up our sleeves and said, well, we're going to tackle
• 1:04:55
  Speaker 15: this too so we can pass it down through the generations.
• 1:04:58
  Speaker 15: So anybody out there that's overwhelmed, just start with one.
• 1:05:01
  Speaker 15: Pick one tradition that you can try this year.
• 1:05:03
  Speaker 2: Megan Alexander joining us. The book, The True Gifts of Christmas.
• 1:05:08
  Speaker 2: And to that point, again, the small town traditions. And
• 1:05:14
  Speaker 2: you do a holiday special, Small Town Christmas Day. that
• 1:05:17
  Speaker 2: really celebrates what's happening in those smaller communities. Everybody kind
• 1:05:20
  Speaker 2: of looks at New York City and Rockefeller Center, but
• 1:05:23
  Speaker 2: it really is special, I think, especially in the southern states.
• 1:05:27
  Speaker 2: All of those great southern Christmas traditions, Franklin, Tennessee, a
• 1:05:31
  Speaker 2: beautiful community just south of Nashville, one of the prettiest
• 1:05:35
  Speaker 2: Christmas towns around.
• 1:05:38
  Speaker 17: Oh, I agree. I agree, Todd.
• 1:05:39
  Speaker 15: I think there's something very special about our small towns. And,
• 1:05:42
  Speaker 15: you know, in so many of our small towns across
• 1:05:44
  Speaker 15: this country, the church is still the focal point for
• 1:05:47
  Speaker 15: so much. And we really discovered that when we filmed
• 1:05:50
  Speaker 15: our episodes of Small Town Christmases. The church is the
• 1:05:52
  Speaker 15: meeting place for, you know, beyond just church services, but,
• 1:05:56
  Speaker 15: you know, coat drives, helping the poor, tending to the sick.
• 1:06:00
  Speaker 15: And you see that reflected. And one of the traditions
• 1:06:03
  Speaker 15: that I really enjoyed discovering and researching in this book
• 1:06:06
  Speaker 15: is the legend of the poinsettia, you know, the Christmas
• 1:06:08
  Speaker 15: flower that we all see around the holidays. That goes
• 1:06:12
  Speaker 15: back to the legend of a church in Mexico and
• 1:06:16
  Speaker 15: a young girl named Pepita, who in her town, we
• 1:06:19
  Speaker 15: often see this in small towns, they put on a
• 1:06:22
  Speaker 15: pageant or have a processional on Christmas Eve where they
• 1:06:26
  Speaker 15: all walk to the church and Maybe they have a
• 1:06:28
  Speaker 15: candlelight service and sing Silent Night. I know we've done
• 1:06:31
  Speaker 15: that in Franklin, Tennessee, in a sweet small church that
• 1:06:33
  Speaker 15: we've attended.
• 1:06:34
  Speaker 17: But they all brought presents.
• 1:06:36
  Speaker 15: And in the Hispanic culture, oftentimes they will bring bread
• 1:06:39
  Speaker 15: or goodies or something to lay at the altar, and
• 1:06:41
  Speaker 15: it's their gift to the baby Jesus. Legend has it
• 1:06:44
  Speaker 15: this sweet girl, Pepita, did not have anything to give
• 1:06:46
  Speaker 15: to the baby Jesus. And her brother said, well, just
• 1:06:49
  Speaker 15: grab something if you can. And so she grabbed some
• 1:06:53
  Speaker 15: weeds by the side of the road. walked to the church,
• 1:06:56
  Speaker 15: was so discouraged that this was all she had to
• 1:06:58
  Speaker 15: give the baby Jesus. She laid it at the altar
• 1:07:00
  Speaker 15: and Todd, they say that overnight they transformed into poinsettias.
• 1:07:05
  Speaker 15: And that is how we get the Christmas flower. You know,
• 1:07:07
  Speaker 15: it's a legend, not entirely sure, but I thought that
• 1:07:10
  Speaker 15: was a beautiful representation of God just wants our best
• 1:07:14
  Speaker 15: and he wants us to just show up and be
• 1:07:16
  Speaker 15: available to him. And so those nuggets were so fun
• 1:07:19
  Speaker 15: to discover as I researched this book. And it's our
• 1:07:22
  Speaker 15: small churches, I think, that really bring that out in community. closeness,
• 1:07:25
  Speaker 15: keeping it simple.
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  Speaker 19: Agreed.
• 1:07:28
  Speaker 2: And folks, there's a little something for everybody, including Grandma's
• 1:07:32
  Speaker 2: Christmas Punch. There is a recipe. So I'm not going
• 1:07:36
  Speaker 2: to divulge that, but you'll have to buy the book
• 1:07:38
  Speaker 2: to get it. Just all sorts of wonderful stories. And again,
• 1:07:41
  Speaker 2: a beautiful, beautiful Christmas gift to give someone in your family. Megan, congratulations.
• 1:07:48
  Speaker 2: And folks, where do people go if they want to
• 1:07:52
  Speaker 2: see what you're up to and how to get copies.
• 1:07:54
  Speaker 7: Of the book?
• 1:07:56
  Speaker 17: Oh, thank you so much, Todd. Well, MeganAlexander.com, my website.
• 1:07:59
  Speaker 15: I'm on social media, probably Instagram the most, MeganJAlexander1.
• 1:08:04
  Speaker 17: And the book is available everywhere.
• 1:08:06
  Speaker 15: Obviously, Amazon, but I try to support our local independent bookstores.
• 1:08:10
  Speaker 15: Many have picked it up across the country. So I
• 1:08:12
  Speaker 15: just say thank you to all of you and happy
• 1:08:14
  Speaker 15: to personalize one. If you find me on my website
• 1:08:17
  Speaker 15: and we have time, I'll sign it to somebody special
• 1:08:19
  Speaker 15: and pop it in the mail to you.
• 1:08:21
  Speaker 2: What a great, that's a very kind thing. And again, folks,
• 1:08:24
  Speaker 2: go check it out. Get a copy of this book, MeganAlexander.com.
• 1:08:28
  Speaker 2: And again, go support. We love supporting independent bookstores here
• 1:08:31
  Speaker 2: on this program. So be sure to get yourself a copy. Megan, congratulations.
• 1:08:36
  Speaker 2: Great to see you again.
• 1:08:38
  Speaker 6: Thank you, Todd.
• 1:08:39
  Speaker 17: Merry early Christmas.
• 1:08:41
  Speaker 2: Merry Christmas. Crank up that AC, Dylan. Oh, my goodness.
• 1:08:46
  Speaker 2: All right. We're going to take a quick break and
• 1:08:48
  Speaker 2: pay some bills. It's been a while since we've had
• 1:08:51
  Speaker 2: a chance to talk to Megan. She is just a great,
• 1:08:54
  Speaker 2: great lady. All right, 901-260-5926, our telephone number. That's 901-260-5926.
• 1:09:03
  Speaker 2: We'll be right back. All right, this is a crazy
• 1:09:14
  Speaker 2: story out of Nebraska. So a volunteer firefighter was told
• 1:09:20
  Speaker 2: that he is not qualified to be a full-time professional
• 1:09:24
  Speaker 2: firefighter because he graduated from homeschool. This kid, 22 years old.
• 1:09:30
  Speaker 2: Cut number seven, please.
• 1:09:32
  Speaker 1: A career out of it would be the goal to
• 1:09:34
  Speaker 1: get paid to do what you love.
• 1:09:37
  Speaker 18: But Andrew's application to the Fremont Fire Department has been
• 1:09:40
  Speaker 18: rejected by the city because his high school diploma shows
• 1:09:43
  Speaker 18: he's been homeschooled, which is an unaccredited education in Nebraska.
• 1:09:48
  Speaker 13: We're not mad about one applicant, my application.
• 1:09:51
  Speaker 21: I think now it's turned into we want to make
• 1:09:53
  Speaker 21: sure that every homeschooler has an equal opportunity.
• 1:09:57
  Speaker 18: And Andrew argues he's more than qualified to become a
• 1:10:00
  Speaker 18: paid firefighter because he has a state license to be
• 1:10:04
  Speaker 18: an EMT. The Fremont application rejected in April only said
• 1:10:08
  Speaker 18: graduation from high school. The city's HR director says an
• 1:10:12
  Speaker 18: accredited high school is implied.
• 1:10:15
  Speaker 3: I would say it's a standard understanding.
• 1:10:20
  Speaker 8: That when someone requests a high school diploma or GED
• 1:10:23
  Speaker 8: that they're asking for an accredited diploma.
• 1:10:26
  Speaker 18: But after denying Andrew's application, the city added graduation from
• 1:10:30
  Speaker 18: an accredited high school to the job description. So backed
• 1:10:33
  Speaker 18: by some 30 homeschool supporters, Andrew appealed to the Civil
• 1:10:37
  Speaker 18: Service Commission.
• 1:10:38
  Speaker 9: I feel that the city of Fremont is really missing
• 1:10:42
  Speaker 9: out here. In my mind, because of his homeschooling, you
• 1:10:47
  Speaker 9: guys are discriminating against him.
• 1:10:49
  Speaker 18: Commissioner Doug Backens disagrees.
• 1:10:52
  Speaker 3: I don't think there was any discriminatory against him.
• 1:10:55
  Speaker 11: And when they used that word.
• 1:10:56
  Speaker 9: I didn't care to hear that word out there.
• 1:10:57
  Speaker 18: The commission did voice concern.
• 1:10:59
  Speaker 8: The posting of the original requirements for the job and
• 1:11:05
  Speaker 8: the ambiguity with what a diploma is.
• 1:11:08
  Speaker 18: But the commission ruled it can't address city policy.
• 1:11:11
  Speaker 11: Motion passed.
• 1:11:12
  Speaker 5: Just means that the.
• 1:11:14
  Speaker 10: Civil Service Commission is not going to step in and
• 1:11:18
  Speaker 10: protect Andrew.
• 1:11:19
  Speaker 18: Andrew hopes another paid department will give him credit for
• 1:11:23
  Speaker 18: experience as a volunteer.
• 1:11:24
  Speaker 3: I do this job for a living, so that would
• 1:11:28
  Speaker 3: be the dream.
• 1:11:31
  Speaker 2: Wow, that's insane. And it's unacceptable. They've got to get
• 1:11:35
  Speaker 2: that figured out. But look, let me tell you what's
• 1:11:37
  Speaker 2: really going on here. This is a way for the
• 1:11:41
  Speaker 2: state education folks to step in and say.
• 1:11:44
  Speaker 3: Okay, fine.
• 1:11:45
  Speaker 2: You want to homeschool your kid? Great, no problem. Well,
• 1:11:48
  Speaker 2: we're going to require and we're going to lobby for
• 1:11:53
  Speaker 2: organizations like the fire department, police department, wherever, that you've
• 1:11:58
  Speaker 2: got to graduate from an accredited taxpayer-funded school or else
• 1:12:05
  Speaker 2: you're not going to be able to get a job.
• 1:12:07
  Speaker 2: You understand what they're doing here. So they're trying to
• 1:12:10
  Speaker 2: discourage parents from homeschooling their kids. I mean, of all places, Nebraska...
• 1:12:17
  Speaker 2: You know, this poor guy, and by the way, he
• 1:12:19
  Speaker 2: meets every single criteria. The only problem, at least in
• 1:12:22
  Speaker 2: the minds of the state, is that he was homeschooled. Unbelievable. 901-260-5926,
• 1:12:27
  Speaker 2: our telephone number. That's 901-260-5926. Coming up in the next
• 1:12:30
  Speaker 2: segment of the program, we're going to be checking in
• 1:12:32
  Speaker 2: with Chad Connelly. The founder of Faith Wins, he has
• 1:12:43
  Speaker 2: been traveling all over the country trying to rally churches
• 1:12:48
  Speaker 2: to get out the vote in advance of the midterm election.
• 1:12:53
  Speaker 2: So we'll check in with Chad, see how his efforts
• 1:12:55
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  Speaker 2: Tuesday in California, C-SPAN is going to be filming a
• 1:13:03
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• 1:13:07
  Speaker 2: I'm going to be talking. We're doing a back-and-forth Q &
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  Speaker 2: A with the audience. It's going to be a lot
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  Speaker 2: of fun as we promote the Golden Age, How Trump
• 1:13:16
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  Speaker 2: bring the message of the book to the C-SPAN Book
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  Speaker 2: Club audience. I hope you'll be praying for us as
• 1:13:26
  Speaker 2: we travel out to the West Coast and prepare for
• 1:13:29
  Speaker 2: this really great opportunity to take the conservative message, to
• 1:13:33
  Speaker 2: take the Christian message to the C-SPAN audience. That's going
• 1:13:37
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• 1:13:39
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• 1:13:43
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• 1:13:47
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• 1:13:50
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• 1:13:54
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• 1:13:57
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• 1:14:02
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• 1:14:04
  Speaker 2: All right, got to take a quick break here.
• 1:14:06
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  Speaker 1: From Memphis, Tennessee, it's Common Sense Conservative Commentary from Todd Starr.
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• 1:14:50
  Speaker 2: Hello, everybody. Welcome to the Todd Starr Radio Show. Great
• 1:14:53
  Speaker 2: to have you with us. Remember Chris Matthews back in
• 1:15:00
  Speaker 2: the day? No, he's still alive. No, he's doing well.
• 1:15:03
  Speaker 2: Looks pretty healthy. Has good color in his face. Anyway,
• 1:15:08
  Speaker 2: Chris Matthews, he's the guy who, Dylan, you may not
• 1:15:12
  Speaker 2: remember this. Chris Matthews, when Barack Hussein Obama delivered a
• 1:15:17
  Speaker 2: speech for the first time, Chris Matthews on national television
• 1:15:22
  Speaker 2: said that there was a thrill going up his leg.
• 1:15:27
  Speaker 11: I don't remember that, and I'm glad that I don't
• 1:15:29
  Speaker 11: remember that.
• 1:15:30
  Speaker 2: A tingle in his thigh, if you will. We don't judge.
• 1:15:35
  Speaker 2: We just simply report. That's all we do. Anyway, Chris Matthews,
• 1:15:40
  Speaker 2: they hauled him back out onto PMS now, and there's
• 1:15:43
  Speaker 2: a lot of fear. among the traditional liberals of the
• 1:15:49
  Speaker 2: Democrat Party. And so Chris Matthews was laying out the
• 1:15:54
  Speaker 2: ultimate plans of these DSA folks, the communists, that have
• 1:15:59
  Speaker 2: taken over his beloved party. Take a listen.
• 1:16:02
  Speaker 20: Here's what I think. And I've been thinking about this
• 1:16:05
  Speaker 20: for days now. The DSA has done a favor to
• 1:16:08
  Speaker 20: non DSA Democrats, to regular Democrats who are regular members.
• 1:16:12
  Speaker 3: Of the party.
• 1:16:14
  Speaker 20: They've listed what they believe in. Their chair made that clear.
• 1:16:17
  Speaker 20: It's in Peggy Noonan's column this week. It's very clear.
• 1:16:20
  Speaker 20: We're going to get rid of ice, not just ice.
• 1:16:22
  Speaker 20: We're going to get rid of the border. We're not
• 1:16:23
  Speaker 20: going to have a border anymore. We're not going to
• 1:16:25
  Speaker 20: effectively read control people coming in and out of the country.
• 1:16:30
  Speaker 20: And so I think we're going to get rid of prisons.
• 1:16:33
  Speaker 20: You know, we're going to get rid of the Pentagon.
• 1:16:35
  Speaker 20: We're going to negotiate. Well, what happens when your hostages
• 1:16:38
  Speaker 20: are your former diplomats, like what happened with President Carter?
• 1:16:42
  Speaker 20: People take your hostages, your diplomats hostages. What do you
• 1:16:45
  Speaker 20: do then?
• 1:16:45
  Speaker 11: You need an army.
• 1:16:47
  Speaker 20: You don't like to like to have an army, but
• 1:16:49
  Speaker 20: you do need to have one. All these positions can
• 1:16:52
  Speaker 20: be denied by any regular Democrat. All you have to
• 1:16:55
  Speaker 20: do is go out there and say, thank you, DSA,
• 1:16:57
  Speaker 20: for telling us what you believe in.
• 1:16:59
  Speaker 2: I don't believe in that stuff.
• 1:17:00
  Speaker 20: And discriminants because you can't follow AOC. I like AOC generally.
• 1:17:06
  Speaker 20: But she came out and said, we're just a big
• 1:17:07
  Speaker 20: tent party with a problem with the big tent defenses.
• 1:17:11
  Speaker 20: Every Democrat has to defend all this crap coming from
• 1:17:13
  Speaker 20: the left. They've got to say, I believe in all
• 1:17:15
  Speaker 20: this crazy stuff. And that makes me a Democrat. You've
• 1:17:18
  Speaker 20: got to say, no, no, I'm not a member of
• 1:17:19
  Speaker 20: the DSA. And here's why. And make it very clear.
• 1:17:22
  Speaker 20: So it's going to require politicians to be good politicians
• 1:17:25
  Speaker 20: and say, here's where I stand. Right. This is what
• 1:17:28
  Speaker 20: I'm a regular Democrat. I'm for labor unions. I'm for
• 1:17:30
  Speaker 20: opportunity for everybody. I'm for civil rights. I'm for all
• 1:17:33
  Speaker 20: the things I believe in as a Democrat. But I'm
• 1:17:35
  Speaker 20: not with this crowd. And I think that's going to
• 1:17:38
  Speaker 20: be a line that has to be drawn by Democrats,
• 1:17:40
  Speaker 20: because I'm telling you, the last six weeks of this
• 1:17:43
  Speaker 20: election is going to be an attack on El-Sayed and
• 1:17:46
  Speaker 20: the DSA in New York and the Mandani. And it's
• 1:17:49
  Speaker 20: all going to come out and blame every Democrat for
• 1:17:51
  Speaker 20: everything the DSA is doing. I don't believe in a
• 1:17:54
  Speaker 20: DSA plan. I don't believe in their checklist of what
• 1:17:56
  Speaker 20: they believe in. I'll say so. But running for office
• 1:17:59
  Speaker 20: is going to require that, I think, before now, before
• 1:18:02
  Speaker 20: the election.
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  Speaker 2: All right, there you have it. Chris Matthews laying it
• 1:18:08
  Speaker 2: all out there. But they've got a big problem. And
• 1:18:11
  Speaker 2: the problem is that DSA now represents the party. They
• 1:18:15
  Speaker 2: are the mouthpiece of the party. And I would point
• 1:18:19
  Speaker 2: back to a race in Tennessee, the 9th Congressional District race.
• 1:18:24
  Speaker 2: where the Democrat candidate, a guy by the name of
• 1:18:26
  Speaker 2: Justin Pearson, palling around with Hasan Piker. This is the
• 1:18:31
  Speaker 2: same guy that's palling around with Abdul El-Sayed up in Michigan.
• 1:18:36
  Speaker 2: So we had an opportunity to sit down with Brent Taylor,
• 1:18:41
  Speaker 2: who is the Trump-endorsed candidate in that race. Let's take
• 1:18:46
  Speaker 2: a listen to some of that conversation. Can we talk
• 1:18:48
  Speaker 2: about this race? First of all, how's it going? You've
• 1:18:51
  Speaker 2: been literally out there. I know you've been getting some
• 1:18:54
  Speaker 2: blowback from the local folks who miss you because they
• 1:18:57
  Speaker 2: haven't seen you. And the reason why is it is
• 1:19:00
  Speaker 2: a freaking big district here in the 9th.
• 1:19:03
  Speaker 15: It is.
• 1:19:03
  Speaker 11: It's 200 miles long.
• 1:19:04
  Speaker 3: When I.
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  Speaker 22: When I go to Fayetteville, for example, we were just
• 1:19:09
  Speaker 22: in Fayetteville over the weekend.
• 1:19:11
  Speaker 11: You go all the way over there.
• 1:19:11
  Speaker 22: It is a four-hour trek from Memphis all the way
• 1:19:15
  Speaker 22: over to Fayetteville, and then you turn north and you
• 1:19:18
  Speaker 22: go all the way up to Williamson County. So it
• 1:19:20
  Speaker 22: is a very big district, and it's 750,000 of the
• 1:19:26
  Speaker 22: finest Tennesseans you ever want to meet.
• 1:19:28
  Speaker 2: What is something that maybe you did not know that
• 1:19:30
  Speaker 2: you know now about the district?
• 1:19:32
  Speaker 22: Well, just how diverse it is. I mean, it literally
• 1:19:35
  Speaker 22: looks like Tennessee. It stretches from Whitehaven at Graceland. It
• 1:19:40
  Speaker 22: has an urban core. It has a suburban area to
• 1:19:43
  Speaker 22: it and suburban Shelby and Fayette counties. And then you
• 1:19:47
  Speaker 22: go up to Williamson County. There's a suburban area there.
• 1:19:50
  Speaker 22: And then there's a lot of rural area. So it's
• 1:19:54
  Speaker 22: been interesting to see how this district really does look
• 1:19:57
  Speaker 22: like Tennessee, and I think that will make me and
• 1:20:01
  Speaker 22: Charlie Hatcher, who's running the 5th District, make us better
• 1:20:04
  Speaker 22: congressmen because we will have to really represent much of
• 1:20:09
  Speaker 22: what Tennessee looks like.
• 1:20:10
  Speaker 2: I think there is a lot of concern here locally.
• 1:20:13
  Speaker 2: We had a black pastor call in, and he is
• 1:20:18
  Speaker 2: very concerned that Justin Pearson— is gaining ground. I think
• 1:20:22
  Speaker 2: everybody's seen the polling that allegedly said he was within
• 1:20:25
  Speaker 2: four points, pointing out you've got to do your research
• 1:20:28
  Speaker 2: into the polls, and that's a left-leaning poll. But still,
• 1:20:31
  Speaker 2: four points. What do you make of that? What's going
• 1:20:34
  Speaker 2: on there? Because people are scared about having a DSA
• 1:20:38
  Speaker 2: candidate elected in the ninth.
• 1:20:40
  Speaker 22: Well, first of all, the polling that Democratic Socialist Justin
• 1:20:45
  Speaker 22: Pearson put out, it does not match our polling. However...
• 1:20:49
  Speaker 22: I will say it is a bad environment, Todd, for Republicans.
• 1:20:52
  Speaker 22: I mean, if you look at districts all across the country,
• 1:20:56
  Speaker 22: Democrats have the advantage going into this election. So there
• 1:21:00
  Speaker 22: are headwinds for Republicans. So we have to treat that
• 1:21:03
  Speaker 22: poll as if it could be accurate. And that's why
• 1:21:06
  Speaker 22: we're out every week campaigning, getting our message out that, look,
• 1:21:11
  Speaker 22: the way to– and we know, by the way, Todd,
• 1:21:15
  Speaker 22: that people are feeling the pinch now. At the gas pump,
• 1:21:18
  Speaker 22: we know that they're feeling the pinch at the grocery store.
• 1:21:21
  Speaker 22: But to get inflation down and to help improve the economy,
• 1:21:26
  Speaker 22: you can't elect a democratic socialist. What you need to
• 1:21:29
  Speaker 22: do is elect somebody who has a record of making
• 1:21:32
  Speaker 22: sure that we cut wasteful spending and that we cut
• 1:21:37
  Speaker 22: regulation on our family farms and our family businesses. And
• 1:21:41
  Speaker 22: those are the types of things you need to look
• 1:21:43
  Speaker 22: at to reduce this inflation and improve our economy. And
• 1:21:48
  Speaker 22: look at the record that I've got. I have done
• 1:21:50
  Speaker 22: that in the state Senate. And you look at the
• 1:21:52
  Speaker 22: record of Democratic Socialist Justin Pearson, who has not even
• 1:21:55
  Speaker 22: been able to pass gas.
• 1:21:56
  Speaker 11: In the state legislature.
• 1:21:58
  Speaker 2: He's wanting to debate you.
• 1:22:00
  Speaker 22: Well, look, he can keep wanting to debate all he wants,
• 1:22:03
  Speaker 22: but I don't share the debate stage with anybody who
• 1:22:06
  Speaker 22: gets up nose to nose with a law enforcement officer
• 1:22:09
  Speaker 22: and calls him a stupid MF-er and calls him an
• 1:22:12
  Speaker 22: MF boy. I just don't share the debate stage with
• 1:22:15
  Speaker 22: people like that. And, uh, and we're going to care,
• 1:22:18
  Speaker 22: carry our message out to the people of the ninth
• 1:22:20
  Speaker 22: congressional district, Tennessee Niners, as I call them. And I
• 1:22:23
  Speaker 22: suggest he focus on them and getting his vote out
• 1:22:26
  Speaker 22: and reaching voters rather than trying to get me to
• 1:22:29
  Speaker 22: help his campaign.
• 1:22:30
  Speaker 2: You mentioned that the headwinds here, what is it that's
• 1:22:33
  Speaker 2: concerning voters? You with, I mean, when you look at
• 1:22:35
  Speaker 2: the president's agenda, it looks like a winning agenda. What's
• 1:22:38
  Speaker 2: the problem out there for Republicans?
• 1:22:40
  Speaker 11: Let's, let's face it.
• 1:22:41
  Speaker 22: It, you go, uh, there are $ 4 a gallon gas, uh,
• 1:22:45
  Speaker 22: People want gas prices down. People don't like the fact
• 1:22:49
  Speaker 22: that we're embroiled in this war in Iran. And we
• 1:22:52
  Speaker 22: thought that this war should be over by now. We
• 1:22:55
  Speaker 22: have to finish it over there. And once we do
• 1:22:57
  Speaker 22: that and we can keep the Strait of Hormuz open,
• 1:23:01
  Speaker 22: that will help bring gas prices down and improve the inflation. But, Todd,
• 1:23:07
  Speaker 22: what we have to do is we have to quit
• 1:23:08
  Speaker 22: depending on these Middle Eastern tyrants for our energy. We
• 1:23:12
  Speaker 22: need to unleash American energy today. here in America, and
• 1:23:16
  Speaker 22: then we don't have to be dependent on what the
• 1:23:17
  Speaker 22: hell happens over at the Hormuz Strait.
• 1:23:19
  Speaker 2: You know, another big issue for farmers has been bringing
• 1:23:22
  Speaker 2: in the Argentinian beef, bringing in foreign beef. The cattle
• 1:23:27
  Speaker 2: farmers up in arms over that.
• 1:23:29
  Speaker 11: They are.
• 1:23:30
  Speaker 22: And look, we have to be clear. These tariffs are
• 1:23:35
  Speaker 22: hurting some industries in Tennessee. And I support the president
• 1:23:40
  Speaker 22: on the issue of tariffs. I believe it is a
• 1:23:42
  Speaker 22: way to make sure that Americans understand aren't continuing.
• 1:23:45
  Speaker 11: To be ripped off.
• 1:23:46
  Speaker 22: But what we have to do and what I want
• 1:23:48
  Speaker 22: to do in Congress is I want to work with
• 1:23:50
  Speaker 22: the administration and where there are Tennessee farmers, Tennessee businesses,
• 1:23:54
  Speaker 22: Tennessee industries that are feeling the pinch of these tariffs
• 1:23:58
  Speaker 22: and the pain that they could cause. I want to
• 1:24:00
  Speaker 22: work with the president to help get our Tennessee businesses
• 1:24:03
  Speaker 22: on the exclusion list. And so I support the president's
• 1:24:08
  Speaker 22: effort on the tariffs, but I want to also work
• 1:24:11
  Speaker 22: with him to exclude much of what is going on
• 1:24:14
  Speaker 22: here in Tennessee so we can protect our farmers, our
• 1:24:16
  Speaker 22: cattle farmers, and our Tennessee industries, and right here in
• 1:24:20
  Speaker 22: Memphis with FedEx.
• 1:24:21
  Speaker 2: I think one of the big challenges here is just
• 1:24:25
  Speaker 2: how radical Justin Pearson is. And I don't think the
• 1:24:28
  Speaker 2: average person living in the 9th Congressional District understands that.
• 1:24:32
  Speaker 2: This is a guy who sat on a couch with
• 1:24:34
  Speaker 2: Hassan Piker, the guy who believes America deserved what happened
• 1:24:38
  Speaker 2: on 9-11. This I mean, why is it that Justin
• 1:24:42
  Speaker 2: Pearson is sharing a couch with this guy?
• 1:24:45
  Speaker 22: Well, that would be a good question for radical Democrat
• 1:24:49
  Speaker 22: socialist Justin Pearson. He says he's not DSA, but yet
• 1:24:54
  Speaker 22: he shares the couch with Hassan Piker wearing a mouse suit,
• 1:24:58
  Speaker 22: I might add. And if you look in the background,
• 1:25:02
  Speaker 22: there are signs behind Democrat socialist Justin Pearson that say
• 1:25:07
  Speaker 22: Democratic Socialist of America. So he can't hide from it.
• 1:25:12
  Speaker 22: He shared the couch with Hassan Piker, a known radical
• 1:25:17
  Speaker 22: who said that the United States was the worst country
• 1:25:20
  Speaker 22: in the world and that America deserved what happened on 9-11.
• 1:25:25
  Speaker 22: Radical Justin Pearson shared the stage with Hassan Piker, who
• 1:25:28
  Speaker 22: was wearing a Mao suit on that podcast. And I
• 1:25:33
  Speaker 22: think it's disgraceful, and I think the Tennessee Niners need
• 1:25:36
  Speaker 22: to look into Justin Pearson, they will see that he
• 1:25:40
  Speaker 22: really is radical.
• 1:25:41
  Speaker 2: It is interesting when you think about it, because here
• 1:25:44
  Speaker 2: he is, Pearson, sharing, and surely he had to have
• 1:25:47
  Speaker 2: known about the things that Assange Piker had said in
• 1:25:50
  Speaker 2: the past, but instead of calling him an M-effing boy, saying,
• 1:25:56
  Speaker 2: what do you mean you hate America? He didn't do that.
• 1:26:00
  Speaker 2: He was all smiles and giggles with this guy.
• 1:26:04
  Speaker 22: Yeah, he was so far up Hassan Piker's rear end
• 1:26:06
  Speaker 22: that his feet were dangling out.
• 1:26:09
  Speaker 11: Yikes.
• 1:26:10
  Speaker 22: And I think it's important that people hold him accountable
• 1:26:14
  Speaker 22: for sitting on a couch with Hassan Piker after saying
• 1:26:19
  Speaker 22: that America deserved 9-11 and that the United States is
• 1:26:22
  Speaker 22: the worst country on the planet. And he is there
• 1:26:26
  Speaker 22: like a fanboy sucking up to Hassan Piker wearing a
• 1:26:30
  Speaker 22: mouth suit.
• 1:26:32
  Speaker 2: I want to play some audio here. Memphis Mayor Paul
• 1:26:34
  Speaker 2: Young went to the Congressional Black Caucus gathering in D.C.
• 1:26:38
  Speaker 2: I wouldn't wish that on anybody, but it was rough
• 1:26:41
  Speaker 2: because they came after him. Angela Rye was just a,
• 1:26:46
  Speaker 2: she was basically a Congressional Black Caucus version of Karen.
• 1:26:50
  Speaker 2: And here's how she spoke. She really spoke dismissively of
• 1:26:55
  Speaker 2: our mayor, the issue, Elon Musk, and these data centers.
• 1:27:00
  Speaker 2: Let's take a listen real quick to what the mayor
• 1:27:01
  Speaker 2: had to say.
• 1:27:02
  Speaker 21: Like, while all of these other civil and human rights
• 1:27:05
  Speaker 21: are at risk, to be doing a business deal with
• 1:27:09
  Speaker 21: a fraud, I think is probably the biggest, or I
• 1:27:12
  Speaker 21: shouldn't say, I don't want to speak for folks in Memphis,
• 1:27:14
  Speaker 21: but it's probably one of the largest concerns. Then when
• 1:27:17
  Speaker 21: you're also talking about water, you think about Flint, you
• 1:27:20
  Speaker 21: think about Jackson, you don't want to put your city
• 1:27:23
  Speaker 21: in the same position there when there's already such, you know,
• 1:27:27
  Speaker 21: economic depression.
• 1:27:28
  Speaker 3: So, first of all, I don't have to be coached
• 1:27:31
  Speaker 3: on not trusting dudes. I ain't no fool. Like, I'm
• 1:27:37
  Speaker 3: not stupid. I understand. This is a trillionaire. It's not
• 1:27:41
  Speaker 3: about trusting him. I'm for Memphis. I'm not for dude.
• 1:27:45
  Speaker 3: I'm for Memphis. Remember, our community has been shrinking. Everything
• 1:27:51
  Speaker 3: that our community needs.
• 1:27:52
  Speaker 17: Who operates the data center?
• 1:27:54
  Speaker 11: They do.
• 1:27:55
  Speaker 22: Who is they?
• 1:27:56
  Speaker 3: SpaceX AI.
• 1:27:58
  Speaker 17: Who owns SpaceX AI?
• 1:27:59
  Speaker 3: Elon Musk.
• 1:28:00
  Speaker 7: Okay.
• 1:28:00
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 1:28:01
  Speaker 19: All right.
• 1:28:02
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 1:28:04
  Speaker 17: I'm just saying.
• 1:28:06
  Speaker 3: But that has nothing to do with me trusting him.
• 1:28:09
  Speaker 3: He paid for a piece of property in our city,
• 1:28:12
  Speaker 3: a transaction that me as mayor, I don't stop a
• 1:28:16
  Speaker 3: transaction between two private parties. So I come in after
• 1:28:20
  Speaker 3: the transaction and try to negotiate things that we can get,
• 1:28:25
  Speaker 3: like a $ 200 million graywater facility, like investments in the
• 1:28:31
  Speaker 3: community around us with schools, Who knows what's going on?
• 1:28:35
  Speaker 3: The biggest thing happening in the global economy right now
• 1:28:38
  Speaker 3: is data centers. This is the biggest thing happening in
• 1:28:42
  Speaker 3: the global economy. So it's up to us to figure out,
• 1:28:46
  Speaker 3: are we going to just say, put a fence around
• 1:28:48
  Speaker 3: our communities? We don't want to play a part in
• 1:28:51
  Speaker 3: the global economy or the future. Or are we going
• 1:28:54
  Speaker 3: to say, let's figure this thing out. We had to
• 1:28:57
  Speaker 3: figure it out in real time.
• 1:28:58
  Speaker 2: I want to stop this for a second. You get
• 1:29:00
  Speaker 2: the gist of it here. I appreciate the mayor. I
• 1:29:02
  Speaker 2: think he's got the right point here. And, yeah, there
• 1:29:06
  Speaker 2: are some issues with the data centers. Looks like they're
• 1:29:08
  Speaker 2: trying to figure them out. But the idea that we're
• 1:29:10
  Speaker 2: just going to push Elon Musk and say, you know what,
• 1:29:12
  Speaker 2: we don't want you here in Memphis.
• 1:29:14
  Speaker 22: But, you see, this goes back to just like my opponent,
• 1:29:17
  Speaker 22: Democrat Socialist Justin Pearson. They don't understand capitalism. They don't
• 1:29:22
  Speaker 22: understand free enterprise. They think, if you heard her question,
• 1:29:26
  Speaker 22: or her statement, they talk like government owns the means
• 1:29:31
  Speaker 22: of production, that somehow the mayor can force SpaceX AI
• 1:29:38
  Speaker 22: to do something that they want. The mayor has it
• 1:29:42
  Speaker 22: exactly right. SpaceX, XAI bought that property. They did not
• 1:29:46
  Speaker 22: get a single dime in government incentive money.
• 1:29:49
  Speaker 11: They built that.
• 1:29:50
  Speaker 22: They built their data center. And the mayor is doing
• 1:29:53
  Speaker 22: what he can as our government allows, local government allows
• 1:29:58
  Speaker 22: him to do. But look, data centers, there is a
• 1:30:01
  Speaker 22: headwind against data centers. And the only data center bill, Todd,
• 1:30:06
  Speaker 22: that came out of the legislature last year that regulated
• 1:30:08
  Speaker 22: data centers was a bill that I sponsored that basically
• 1:30:12
  Speaker 22: addressed a lot of the concerns that people have. And
• 1:30:14
  Speaker 22: that is that if they produce, if they require infrastructure
• 1:30:19
  Speaker 22: improvements to that the data centers have to pay for
• 1:30:22
  Speaker 22: that infrastructure improvement. They can't pass that on to taxpayers
• 1:30:26
  Speaker 22: and the people who pay rates at the utility. Also,
• 1:30:30
  Speaker 22: it says that if they generate too much electricity, they
• 1:30:33
  Speaker 22: have to generate their own power. And I supported that.
• 1:30:37
  Speaker 22: I got that passed in the legislature.
• 1:30:39
  Speaker 11: It's now a law.
• 1:30:40
  Speaker 22: But you know who voted against it? Democrat socialist Justin Pearson.
• 1:30:45
  Speaker 22: He voted against the one bill that would have regulated
• 1:30:48
  Speaker 22: the industry that he is railing against. It shows that
• 1:30:51
  Speaker 22: he wants the issue more than he wants a solution.
• 1:30:54
  Speaker 22: And so I think that's important. Now, the other thing
• 1:30:57
  Speaker 22: is it ought to be up to local communities across
• 1:30:59
  Speaker 22: the state and across the country to decide where data
• 1:31:03
  Speaker 22: centers go. It should be local input, but we should,
• 1:31:07
  Speaker 22: you know, all of us are dependent on the data
• 1:31:10
  Speaker 22: centers for the phones that we use and the computers
• 1:31:12
  Speaker 22: and the artificial intelligence that Really will make our life
• 1:31:15
  Speaker 22: better if we can put guardrails around it.
• 1:31:17
  Speaker 2: All right. Senator, we got to leave it there. Where
• 1:31:19
  Speaker 2: can people go if they want to get involved in
• 1:31:21
  Speaker 2: the campaign? They want to make a donation. Where can
• 1:31:23
  Speaker 2: they do that?
• 1:31:24
  Speaker 11: Yeah.
• 1:31:24
  Speaker 22: So BrentTaylorForCongress.com. BrentTaylorForCongress.com. Go there if you'd like a yard sign. Look,
• 1:31:33
  Speaker 22: we spent every dime we raised in the primary. And
• 1:31:36
  Speaker 22: my opponent, he is that ActBlue network. He can send
• 1:31:40
  Speaker 22: out a text message, raise a quarter of a million dollars.
• 1:31:43
  Speaker 22: And we're out here, we're trying to raise money to
• 1:31:46
  Speaker 22: get our message across so that we can make sure
• 1:31:47
  Speaker 22: that we defeat Democratic Socialist Justin J.
• 1:31:50
  Speaker 11: Pearson in November.
• 1:31:51
  Speaker 2: There you have it, ladies and gentlemen. State Senator Brent
• 1:31:55
  Speaker 2: Taylor running in the 9th Congressional District. The choice is
• 1:31:59
  Speaker 2: very clear. All right, a little bit of breaking news
• 1:32:10
  Speaker 2: to share with you.
• 1:32:12
  Speaker 1: Breaking news now on the Todd Starnes Show.
• 1:32:15
  Speaker 2: Well, the FAA is now issuing ground stops pretty much
• 1:32:21
  Speaker 2: along the entire eastern seaboard. Boston, Philadelphia, all of the
• 1:32:26
  Speaker 2: airports in New York City are impacted. That means flights
• 1:32:31
  Speaker 2: are being held on the ground due to some sort
• 1:32:34
  Speaker 2: of a major FAA equipment outage. So we'll keep you
• 1:32:40
  Speaker 2: updated on that. But it looks like it's going to
• 1:32:43
  Speaker 2: be a really bad day to travel across the eastern seaboard.
• 1:32:47
  Speaker 2: So hang tight, everybody. Hey, don't go anywhere. Chad Conley
• 1:32:51
  Speaker 2: coming up next. All right, just to remind you of
• 1:33:08
  Speaker 2: this crazy story out of, well, New York City and
• 1:33:12
  Speaker 2: the Eastern Seaboard. The FAA issuing ground stops at all
• 1:33:16
  Speaker 2: major airports, Boston, Philadelphia, New York City airports, due to
• 1:33:21
  Speaker 2: an equipment outage. What's really interesting is you've got hundreds
• 1:33:25
  Speaker 2: of foreign leaders coming to New York City for the U.N.
• 1:33:29
  Speaker 2: General Assembly, which starts today. So, yeah, a lot of... Oh,
• 1:33:35
  Speaker 2: New York also in that list. What a mess. So
• 1:33:40
  Speaker 2: we'll keep you updated. Anyway, there was some sort of a– oh, well,
• 1:33:44
  Speaker 2: here we go. This is the problem. There was a–
• 1:33:47
  Speaker 2: they lost their primary communication circuit, and then the fiber
• 1:33:52
  Speaker 2: optic cable backup system, well, there was a break. Apparently
• 1:33:57
  Speaker 2: a construction crew tore right through it. So all that
• 1:34:00
  Speaker 2: to say some of you might want to try Greyhound.
• 1:34:03
  Speaker 2: Let's go to the Patriot Mobile Newsmaker line. Say hello
• 1:34:06
  Speaker 2: to our good friend. He is the founder of Faith Wins,
• 1:34:09
  Speaker 2: Chad Conley. Chad, where are you today, and what's happening
• 1:34:13
  Speaker 2: where you are at?
• 1:34:16
  Speaker 16: Hey, Todd, how you doing, brother? I actually just landed
• 1:34:19
  Speaker 16: in Norfolk. As you know, there are two contested congressional
• 1:34:23
  Speaker 16: districts here. We're doing a large pastor meeting here tonight.
• 1:34:27
  Speaker 16: In the middle of that, and if we just get
• 1:34:29
  Speaker 16: Christians to come out in numbers they can, We moved
• 1:34:32
  Speaker 16: the needle here, and I just left Iowa this morning.
• 1:34:35
  Speaker 16: We were in that congressional district on the eastern border
• 1:34:39
  Speaker 16: of Iowa and Illinois, the Moline area, Davenport, Iowa. And
• 1:34:44
  Speaker 16: so we did a big meeting there last night, and
• 1:34:47
  Speaker 16: we leave here tomorrow morning to go to Austin, Texas. There,
• 1:34:50
  Speaker 16: of course, are four congressional districts down there that if
• 1:34:53
  Speaker 16: Christians just vote in the numbers that they can, then
• 1:34:56
  Speaker 16: the communists don't win these key congressional seats.
• 1:35:00
  Speaker 2: Jan, I'm wondering what you're hearing out there. In Tennessee,
• 1:35:04
  Speaker 2: I was talking to a well-known conservative operator here in
• 1:35:09
  Speaker 2: the state, and they're really concerned, genuinely concerned about how
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  Speaker 2: the Republicans are going to do in the fall. I'm curious.
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  Speaker 2: You've been out there literally all over the country. What
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  Speaker 2: are you hearing?
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  Speaker 16: Yeah, 19 states since July 15th, Todd. And last time
• 1:35:25
  Speaker 16: you and I talked, I think I told you if
• 1:35:27
  Speaker 16: the election were held that day, the conservatives, the Republicans
• 1:35:30
  Speaker 16: would get shellacked. I am getting a little more hopeful.
• 1:35:33
  Speaker 16: I do think people are waking up. The great thing
• 1:35:36
  Speaker 16: is the election's not today. And the second great thing
• 1:35:39
  Speaker 16: is our side has just begun to define the left.
• 1:35:44
  Speaker 16: But I think what's been amazing to people is the
• 1:35:47
  Speaker 16: progressive left, the Democrats, have openly embraced things that 99.999%
• 1:35:52
  Speaker 16: of the people not that long ago would have run
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  Speaker 16: away from. Let's trans your kids. Let's run as open
• 1:35:58
  Speaker 16: communists because we need communism. Open borders and illegals are okay.
• 1:36:04
  Speaker 16: but innocent Americans who were killed, they're the ones who
• 1:36:07
  Speaker 16: are the problem. The left embracing all those issues, as
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  Speaker 16: you know, has been surprising to people. I've seen an awakening.
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  Speaker 16: We've had bigger numbers in our meetings, and Todd, you've
• 1:36:17
  Speaker 16: been in my meetings. I like to do a small
• 1:36:20
  Speaker 16: connect with them, breakfast and lunch, and then do a
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  Speaker 16: community meeting at night. I was in La Crosse, Wisconsin
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  Speaker 16: last week, and I thought we'd probably have a couple
• 1:36:29
  Speaker 16: hundred people one night. I took my buddy Rob McCoy,
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  Speaker 16: We had over a thousand people at a church in
• 1:36:34
  Speaker 16: La Crosse. And as you know, that's not a big town.
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  Speaker 16: And so I was very encouraged by that. And then
• 1:36:40
  Speaker 16: I was in Detroit last week. I had met with
• 1:36:43
  Speaker 16: some black and Hispanic pastors who were on our side
• 1:36:46
  Speaker 16: and who felt the way we did. We did have
• 1:36:49
  Speaker 16: an infiltrator come in and try to hijack the meeting.
• 1:36:52
  Speaker 16: That was very interesting. But people are waking up. They
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  Speaker 16: know that communism, socialism, those are terrible ideas.
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  Speaker 5: They've never worked.
• 1:36:59
  Speaker 16: This transing of the kids, that's the one to keep
• 1:37:02
  Speaker 16: our eye on. The more the left embraces that, the
• 1:37:05
  Speaker 16: more flag waving, normal moms and dads. I don't care
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  Speaker 16: where they're from or what their background is or what
• 1:37:11
  Speaker 16: church they go to or what color they are. They
• 1:37:13
  Speaker 16: think that's nonsense. That's stupid. It's stupid bad. And you
• 1:37:17
  Speaker 16: probably saw last night in Delaware, the Republican guy wouldn't
• 1:37:20
  Speaker 16: call Tim McBride by his correct quote unquote gender and
• 1:37:24
  Speaker 16: was ejected from the debate. So they can't handle truth.
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  Speaker 16: I think our people are waking up. We do have time.
• 1:37:31
  Speaker 16: Here's what scares me, Todd, and you and I are
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  Speaker 16: going to talk about it, I'm sure, next week when
• 1:37:34
  Speaker 16: we speak together. We're relying too much on having a
• 1:37:38
  Speaker 16: lot of money. And we're relying an awful lot. And
• 1:37:41
  Speaker 16: if anybody could pull it off, it's President Trump. But
• 1:37:44
  Speaker 16: we're relying a lot on President Trump getting out in
• 1:37:47
  Speaker 16: these places. And like all midterms, this is an uphill climb.
• 1:37:51
  Speaker 16: But this one, this is going to be interesting because
• 1:37:54
  Speaker 16: of gas prices and because of the war in the
• 1:37:56
  Speaker 16: Middle East. Those things have to simmer down to pull
• 1:37:59
  Speaker 16: in that undecided independent voter. And that's where I'm concerned,
• 1:38:02
  Speaker 16: right there.
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  Speaker 2: Well, yeah, I'm... there are just there are some things
• 1:38:07
  Speaker 2: that are out of the control of the candidates uh
• 1:38:10
  Speaker 2: high gas prices one of them diesel it's the diesel
• 1:38:13
  Speaker 2: prices that are going to get you because uh those
• 1:38:16
  Speaker 2: are the those are the ones delivering your your eggs
• 1:38:19
  Speaker 2: and your your bread uh and and the sunbeam and
• 1:38:22
  Speaker 2: all that kind of stuff And those prices are off
• 1:38:27
  Speaker 2: the chart. So again, the war, how is that going
• 1:38:31
  Speaker 2: to go? Will it continue to simmer? Will we be
• 1:38:35
  Speaker 2: in full-blown hostilities? And of course, the current war with
• 1:38:40
  Speaker 2: the media, that'll be interesting to see how all that
• 1:38:42
  Speaker 2: plays out.
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  Speaker 7: I think so, too.
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  Speaker 16: And I think what concerns me If the Democrats acted normal,
• 1:38:49
  Speaker 16: I think they'd squash us.
• 1:38:51
  Speaker 7: I really do.
• 1:38:52
  Speaker 16: But the way that they're embracing the crazy.
• 1:38:54
  Speaker 19: I think they may be giving us the best voter
• 1:38:59
  Speaker 19: suppression ever done on the side of the Democrats ever before,
• 1:39:02
  Speaker 19: because they're crazy and everybody knows it.
• 1:39:05
  Speaker 2: Chad Conley joining us from Faith Wins. He's the founder
• 1:39:08
  Speaker 2: of this terrific organization, Getting Christians, Getting Churches Engaged in
• 1:39:13
  Speaker 2: the Political Process. Yeah, this debate, I was going to
• 1:39:16
  Speaker 2: ask you about this debate. This is in Delaware, and
• 1:39:19
  Speaker 2: they've got one congressional district, and this dude, his name is,
• 1:39:24
  Speaker 2: he goes by Sarah McBride, and he wears a dress,
• 1:39:28
  Speaker 2: he cosplays as a woman. Anyway, the Republican nominee, Joe Arminio,
• 1:39:33
  Speaker 2: and he was at the debate, and you're right, they
• 1:39:35
  Speaker 2: pulled him off the stage because he kept calling him
• 1:39:38
  Speaker 2: the gentleman from Delaware.
• 1:39:41
  Speaker 6: I love it.
• 1:39:42
  Speaker 5: I love it.
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  Speaker 16: Listen, every debate's got to begin with some sense of truth, right?
• 1:39:46
  Speaker 16: And McBride's a liar. He wants us to believe that
• 1:39:49
  Speaker 16: long hair and a dress make him a woman.
• 1:39:51
  Speaker 14: He's a liar.
• 1:39:52
  Speaker 16: And so Arminio did the right thing by just saying
• 1:39:54
  Speaker 16: the gentleman, and they went nuts. This goes back to
• 1:39:57
  Speaker 16: the whole thing, truth always exposes and overcomes error. It's biblical, right?
• 1:40:03
  Speaker 16: And so truth is always gonna be suppressed by error
• 1:40:06
  Speaker 16: and lies because it doesn't just reveal it and expose it,
• 1:40:09
  Speaker 16: it overcomes it. So these people can't even handle the supposition,
• 1:40:14
  Speaker 16: the declaration of anything that opposes them because truth defeats
• 1:40:18
  Speaker 16: and destroys the lie every time. They probably created more
• 1:40:22
  Speaker 16: media for that Arminio guy that he would have done
• 1:40:25
  Speaker 16: by himself by kicking him off the debate stage.
• 1:40:28
  Speaker 2: Yeah, look, it's a great point you're bringing up here.
• 1:40:32
  Speaker 2: So what a crazy story. I'm curious, though, about Christian votes.
• 1:40:38
  Speaker 2: Are people responsive? Are you guys signing up? Are you
• 1:40:41
  Speaker 2: getting people to register to vote?
• 1:40:43
  Speaker 13: We are.
• 1:40:44
  Speaker 16: We're doing our QR code, and if you do the
• 1:40:47
  Speaker 16: QR code at our meetings, and of course we're pushing
• 1:40:49
  Speaker 16: that out in states through our known media, pastor lists
• 1:40:52
  Speaker 16: as well. And as you know, states are different. Sometimes
• 1:40:55
  Speaker 16: you could register right there in the churches. We're doing that.
• 1:40:58
  Speaker 16: And it leads them straight to the state's registration stuff.
• 1:41:02
  Speaker 16: In some states, you've got to collect ballots. In some states,
• 1:41:05
  Speaker 16: you can have ballots in the back of the room,
• 1:41:08
  Speaker 16: not ballots, but registration forms in the back of the room.
• 1:41:11
  Speaker 16: So the rules vary by state. but our QR code
• 1:41:15
  Speaker 16: leads them directly to it. So we're doing an all
• 1:41:17
  Speaker 16: the above approach. And I'm telling pastors, listen, it's not
• 1:41:21
  Speaker 16: just about you doing voter registration. That is a big
• 1:41:23
  Speaker 16: deal because there are too many people not registered. But
• 1:41:26
  Speaker 16: the other real big deal is that all the people
• 1:41:29
  Speaker 16: who are already registered, who don't have a high propensity
• 1:41:31
  Speaker 16: to go vote, they get reminded, hey, this is an
• 1:41:34
  Speaker 16: important thing. Remember what our friend George Barna says. The
• 1:41:37
  Speaker 16: number one reason people vote is somebody they respect tells
• 1:41:40
  Speaker 16: them it's important. It can be a friend.
• 1:41:41
  Speaker 13: It can be a buddy.
• 1:41:42
  Speaker 16: It can be a family member. But the most powerful
• 1:41:44
  Speaker 16: is probably the pastor who they respect. And he's got
• 1:41:47
  Speaker 16: an audience that's already paying attention out there who knows
• 1:41:51
  Speaker 16: what a big deal this is. Everything we care about
• 1:41:53
  Speaker 16: is at stake this fall, everything. So we're just pushing hard. Look,
• 1:41:57
  Speaker 16: I can tell stories to you all day long. I'll
• 1:41:58
  Speaker 16: tell some more next week when we're together. But there
• 1:42:01
  Speaker 16: are encouraging signs everywhere because I do believe there's an
• 1:42:04
  Speaker 16: awakening among Christians. And everywhere I go, like last night
• 1:42:08
  Speaker 16: was a pastor who's never been involved, who got involved
• 1:42:10
  Speaker 16: because he saw me speak last time I was through Iowa.
• 1:42:13
  Speaker 16: And he decided I got to do something about this.
• 1:42:15
  Speaker 16: He had never talked about it in his church before,
• 1:42:17
  Speaker 16: and now he's all in to talk about, hey, we've
• 1:42:19
  Speaker 16: got to get everybody registered to go vote biblical values.
• 1:42:22
  Speaker 7: It's essential.
• 1:42:23
  Speaker 2: Faithwins.org is the website, folks. If you'd like more information
• 1:42:28
  Speaker 2: on Chad and what they're doing, Faith Wins, when people
• 1:42:31
  Speaker 2: of faith vote their values. I mean, it really is
• 1:42:34
  Speaker 2: that simple. Again, you can find more information at faithwins.org.
• 1:42:40
  Speaker 2: All right, Chad, good hearing from you. Safe travels, my friend.
• 1:42:43
  Speaker 3: Love you, brother.
• 1:42:44
  Speaker 7: See you next week.
• 1:42:45
  Speaker 2: All right. Chad Conley will be joining us at the
• 1:42:48
  Speaker 2: Spiritual Leadership Conference next week in California. Let me give
• 1:42:52
  Speaker 2: you a lay of the land. So I'll be speaking
• 1:42:55
  Speaker 2: twice on Sunday. Then the conference begins. We'll be leading
• 1:43:01
  Speaker 2: a workshop, doing some panel discussions. That Tuesday, C-SPAN is coming,
• 1:43:06
  Speaker 2: and they're going to be filming the book conversation there
• 1:43:11
  Speaker 2: on campus at West Coast Baptist College. From there, heading
• 1:43:15
  Speaker 2: up the coast, and we'll be at Heritage Baptist Church
• 1:43:20
  Speaker 2: right outside of San Francisco, San Leandro, California. That's going
• 1:43:25
  Speaker 2: to be a lot of fun. Dylan, I decided I'm
• 1:43:27
  Speaker 2: taking a day or two, and I'm driving the coast
• 1:43:31
  Speaker 2: all the way up.
• 1:43:32
  Speaker 6: Oh, wow.
• 1:43:32
  Speaker 11: That's not a bad idea.
• 1:43:34
  Speaker 2: May even get a convertible.
• 1:43:37
  Speaker 11: You hit up Joe Messina for that.
• 1:43:38
  Speaker 2: Well, I mean, Joe, let me tell you something. That
• 1:43:41
  Speaker 2: guy's got a Jaguar, and you have not lived a
• 1:43:46
  Speaker 2: life on the edge until you've ridden with Joe Messina
• 1:43:49
  Speaker 2: in rush hour traffic in downtown LA.
• 1:43:52
  Speaker 11: Yeah, it sounds like a blast and terrifying.
• 1:43:54
  Speaker 2: And there's not much to hold on to in the Jaguar.
• 1:43:56
  Speaker 2: You're just like, sweet mercy. So when you go, you're
• 1:44:00
  Speaker 2: going to go quickly. That's... pretty much it. So there
• 1:44:05
  Speaker 2: you go. All right. 901-260-5926, Daytona, Florida. Gary, listening to
• 1:44:10
  Speaker 2: us on WOCA. Hi, Gary. What's going on?
• 1:44:13
  Speaker 13: It's a great day to be in the free state
• 1:44:17
  Speaker 13: of Florida. But just a couple of quick comments, Tom.
• 1:44:21
  Speaker 13: That is the voting time. And I tell everybody that
• 1:44:25
  Speaker 13: I know around here, please, you know, different people in
• 1:44:29
  Speaker 13: different states, if you look at what we elected in
• 1:44:31
  Speaker 13: Virginia for a governor and the attorney general in Virginia,
• 1:44:36
  Speaker 13: who wouldn't mind seeing his opponent's children be killed and
• 1:44:40
  Speaker 13: the people that have in New Jersey, the people that
• 1:44:42
  Speaker 13: are promised to be independent, moderate and help, you know,
• 1:44:46
  Speaker 13: work with president Trump and ice, they all turned out
• 1:44:49
  Speaker 13: to be liars. And, uh, we just, we, we can't
• 1:44:53
  Speaker 13: forget about the promises on how they said that, you know, uh,
• 1:44:57
  Speaker 13: people were just, uh, the smurging them and that, you know,
• 1:45:01
  Speaker 13: they were going to be such great moderate, uh, people.
• 1:45:04
  Speaker 13: So that, that's my one point. The other point is
• 1:45:07
  Speaker 13: earlier you had, uh, the gentleman was talking about, you know, uh,
• 1:45:12
  Speaker 13: when I brought here the word education and money, I
• 1:45:16
  Speaker 13: always chuckle because it is important to finance and to
• 1:45:20
  Speaker 13: make sure we have good schools. But the joke of
• 1:45:22
  Speaker 13: it is if money is, would have produced results. Every
• 1:45:30
  Speaker 13: one of our students would be Rhodes Scholars. We've thrown
• 1:45:33
  Speaker 13: so much money at the education system.
• 1:45:38
  Speaker 2: Gary, it's shocking the amount of money that we're spending
• 1:45:41
  Speaker 2: per student in many of these school districts. And the
• 1:45:45
  Speaker 2: kids are graduating. They can't read. They can't write. They're
• 1:45:49
  Speaker 2: functional illiterates. And nobody seems to care about that.
• 1:45:55
  Speaker 13: I appreciate letting me voice that out there. Yeah. And
• 1:46:00
  Speaker 13: have a great day.
• 1:46:01
  Speaker 2: Gary, God bless you. Thank you. And, of course, WOCA
• 1:46:04
  Speaker 2: is Randy Fine Country, ladies and gentlemen. So there you go.
• 1:46:08
  Speaker 2: I've got to take a quick break. We'll be right back.
• 1:46:10
  Speaker 2: We'll be right back. So there have been a couple
• 1:46:23
  Speaker 2: of horrible stories involving people who have been found. There
• 1:46:28
  Speaker 2: were two instances where people were found and they were hanged.
• 1:46:35
  Speaker 2: And the narrative coming out of the professional race grifters
• 1:46:40
  Speaker 2: of America was that white people are out there lynching
• 1:46:45
  Speaker 2: black people again. Well, now we can confirm, and this
• 1:46:50
  Speaker 2: story coming out of Maryland, upper Marlboro, where a black
• 1:46:55
  Speaker 2: man was found hanging from a tree. The officials there,
• 1:47:01
  Speaker 2: all of whom are black, have announced that the– The
• 1:47:08
  Speaker 2: man killed himself. It was a suicide. The medical examiner
• 1:47:12
  Speaker 2: ruling the death officially a suicide. Now, the other one
• 1:47:16
  Speaker 2: in Mississippi, and this was a pretty heinous thing, and
• 1:47:23
  Speaker 2: the professional race grifters of America have been all over
• 1:47:26
  Speaker 2: this story. And it turns out that this, in fact,
• 1:47:30
  Speaker 2: was a homicide. A 29-year-old to see a fortune.
• 1:47:38
  Speaker 2: Was found hanging from a tree in August. It turns out,
• 1:47:43
  Speaker 2: ladies and gentlemen, that the suspect arrested was an ex-boyfriend
• 1:47:47
  Speaker 2: who also happens to be black. So the narrative once again.
• 1:47:55
  Speaker 2: Is completely blown up by the truth, by the facts.
• 1:48:00
  Speaker 2: Here's the problem, though. Nobody goes back and corrects the record.
• 1:48:04
  Speaker 2: Nobody goes back because that doesn't fit the mainstream media's
• 1:48:07
  Speaker 2: narrative at all. Period. I mean, horrible situations, horrible stories,
• 1:48:14
  Speaker 2: and these professional race grifters go in there and they
• 1:48:18
  Speaker 2: cause all sorts of trouble.
• 1:48:20
  Speaker 11: For the families.
• 1:48:21
  Speaker 2: It's really just a horrible, horrible tragedy. And the race
• 1:48:26
  Speaker 2: grifters see this as an opportunity to line their pockets. And, well,
• 1:48:30
  Speaker 2: that's exactly.
• 1:48:31
  Speaker 11: What they did.
• 1:48:34
  Speaker 2: Unbelievable. Unbelievable. By the way, I want to give you
• 1:48:40
  Speaker 2: an update here. There have been some speculation that we
• 1:48:43
  Speaker 2: were going to blow Iran off the face of the
• 1:48:45
  Speaker 2: earth over the weekend. Trump came back early from Camp David.
• 1:48:50
  Speaker 2: Hegseth came back in from running stadiums down with one
• 1:48:54
  Speaker 2: of the Texas A & M, I believe. And anyway, back,
• 1:48:59
  Speaker 2: and everybody rushed back in. So nothing happened. Now Fox
• 1:49:04
  Speaker 2: News is reporting that that President Trump held off on
• 1:49:08
  Speaker 2: planned military airstrikes because of great unrest within his inner circle.
• 1:49:16
  Speaker 2: Most of the president's inner circle fiercely opposed joining the
• 1:49:21
  Speaker 2: Saudi-led fight against the Houthis. Fox News now citing the
• 1:49:26
  Speaker 2: New York Times. Regardless, nothing happened, and President Trump says
• 1:49:32
  Speaker 2: he's trying to figure out what he's going to do,
• 1:49:35
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• 1:49:39
  Speaker 2: the Iranians don't want to fight us. That's true. Also,
• 1:49:46
  Speaker 2: the United States has denied visas to members of the
• 1:49:50
  Speaker 2: Iranian president's delegation, including members of his communication team. By
• 1:49:55
  Speaker 2: the way, why are we letting the president of Iran
• 1:49:58
  Speaker 2: into the country in the first place? Somebody want to
• 1:50:01
  Speaker 2: explain that one to me? I don't get that at all.
• 1:50:05
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• 1:50:08
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