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Bartlett High Under Fire Over Offensive 9/11 Post · ToddCast Podcast with Todd Starnes

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Speaker 1: From the principal Toyota studios, it's Morning in Memphis with
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Speaker 1: Todd Starnes.
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Speaker 2: And good morning, everybody, and hope you are ready for
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Speaker 2: a very busy Friday. A lot of news happening across
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Speaker 2: the Mid-South, and we're going to get to all of it. And,
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Speaker 2: of course, today marks the 25th anniversary of the 9-11
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Speaker 2: terrorist attacks. That is the day that Muslim terrorists waged
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Speaker 2: jihad on American soil, something that your kids are not
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Speaker 2: learning in their local public schools. We're going to get
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Speaker 2: to all of that today, but a number of services
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Speaker 2: and memorials happening across the Mid-South. And the most poignant
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Speaker 2: one is expected to happen later today, later this morning,
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Speaker 2: in just about 90 minutes at the Firefighters Museum in
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Speaker 2: downtown Memphis. They're expecting hundreds of people to come out.
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Speaker 2: for that memorial service. It starts at 8.30, so if
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Speaker 2: you're anywhere near the downtown area or if you want
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Speaker 2: to drive out to downtown to be a part of
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Speaker 2: that 25th anniversary commemoration, I would encourage you to do that.
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Speaker 2: Commander Chuck will have your report on the roadways here momentarily. Also,
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Speaker 2: we're going to be taking your calls. Do you remember
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Speaker 2: what you were doing? Where were you during the 9-11
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Speaker 2: terrorist attacks? Our telephone number this morning, 901-260-5926.
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Speaker 3: That's 901-260-5926.
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Speaker 2: And we're going to be taking your calls this morning
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Speaker 2: here on the morning show. here in the principal Toyota
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Speaker 2: Memphis studio. Now, there was a lot of political news happening.
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Speaker 2: Of course, last night, the final night of the Republican
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Speaker 2: National Convention, the midterm convention. And I'm just going to
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Speaker 2: tell you, it was a pretty powerful experience. Two nights
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Speaker 2: of powerful speeches, great messages, an enthusiastic crowd. People are
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Speaker 2: fired up. But here's the problem. Not many people were
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Speaker 2: actually watching on their TVs. So the question is, will
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Speaker 2: this actually make a difference? Will this will this motivate
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Speaker 2: people to get out and vote on Election Day? And
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Speaker 2: that's the big unknown, because, again, there were so many
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Speaker 2: other things competing for eyeballs over the past couple of nights,
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Speaker 2: including two big NFL games. that most people were not watching.
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Speaker 2: And the rating numbers, ratings numbers coming out, and it
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Speaker 2: was just not a good time to hold this convention. Nevertheless,
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Speaker 2: there was still a lot of enthusiasm and a lot
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Speaker 2: of excitement. Now, I want to get to a story
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Speaker 2: locally here that's causing quite a bit of controversy, and
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Speaker 2: this actually involves Bartlett High School. Now, there have been
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Speaker 2: a number of schools around the nation that are teaching
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Speaker 2: a skewed version or a whitewashed version of what happened
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Speaker 2: on 9-11. As a matter of fact, in Fairfax County, Virginia,
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Speaker 2: teachers were actually given instruction not to mention anything about Islam,
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Speaker 2: not anything about Muslims during 9-11. As a matter of fact,
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Speaker 2: they were told specifically, do not assume students' feelings, ignore
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Speaker 2: statements rooted in bias, hate, and racism, center the extremist
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Speaker 2: or the acts of the extremist, and create an emotionally— do
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Speaker 2: not create an emotionally stressful— learning environment for any student.
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Speaker 2: So what Fairfax County is trying to do, and keep
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Speaker 2: in mind, 25 years. So anybody who is, let's say,
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Speaker 2: under the age of 30 really has no true concept
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Speaker 2: of what happened on that day. They cannot relive the
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Speaker 2: horrors of that day that all of us went through.
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Speaker 2: Memphis International became one of those places where travelers were
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Speaker 2: stranded and It was just really a shocking moment for
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Speaker 2: all of us. And I think every person, every adult
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Speaker 2: and teenager in this country at that time knew exactly
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Speaker 2: what they were doing the moment they heard about the
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Speaker 2: terrorist attacks. And people just had no idea. We had
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Speaker 2: no idea what was coming next, none whatsoever. And it
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Speaker 2: was a scary time for this country. So 25 years later,
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Speaker 2: now a Muslim, a Ugandan national, is the mayor of
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Speaker 2: New York City. The entire city has been overrun by
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Speaker 2: foreign nationals, and the families of the 9-11 victims are
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Speaker 2: so enraged that Mayor Mamdami is going to be at
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Speaker 2: the event today, and not because he is a Muslim,
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Speaker 2: but because he has associated himself with radical Islamists, some
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Speaker 2: of whom have actually defended the The 9-11 terrorist attacks,
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Speaker 2: as a matter of fact, Hassan Piker, a close ally
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Speaker 2: of the mayor, actually said that America deserved 9-11. And
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Speaker 2: so that's why and so the schools are not telling
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Speaker 2: this story. And so that's why this is important. And
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Speaker 2: what just happened at Bartlett High School is a great
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Speaker 2: example of that. So yesterday, someone at Bartlett High School
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Speaker 2: posted on the official page, and we have to imagine
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Speaker 2: it was some sort of a school administrator, but regardless,
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Speaker 2: a Bartlett High School person, whoever that person was, posted
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Speaker 2: something that was just absolutely bizarre. Instead of noting a commemoration,
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Speaker 2: they were going to make today a celebration. They called
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Speaker 2: it Happy Fourth of July. And I'm just going to
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Speaker 2: read to you what they were planning to do at
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Speaker 2: Bartlett High School today. Join us as Bartlett High School
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Speaker 2: celebrates Independence Day Recognition Day.
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Speaker 3: What does that mean?
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Speaker 2: They go on to say on September 11th, students will
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Speaker 2: take part in activities focused on the history, meaning and
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Speaker 2: impact of Independence Day and the birth of our nation.
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Speaker 2: To help celebrate, we invite all students and staff to
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Speaker 2: wear red, white, and blue as we recognize the freedoms
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Speaker 2: and opportunities that have shaped our country. Let's learn, reflect,
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Speaker 2: and celebrate together. Okay, well, first of all, there's nothing
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Speaker 2: wrong with celebrating the 4th of July. There's just one problem.
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Speaker 2: There's already a holiday for that. It's called the 4th
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Speaker 2: of July. Today is really about a time of mourning
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Speaker 2: and reflection and remembering. And that's the big thing here
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Speaker 2: is that this country has a memory problem. We forgot.
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Speaker 2: We forgot what actually happened. You know, George Bush is
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Speaker 2: out there doing an interview, former President Bush, and I
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Speaker 2: like President Bush. I thought he did a lot of good.
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Speaker 2: I also thought he did a lot of bad. One
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Speaker 2: of them getting us involved in wars we had no
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Speaker 2: business getting involved in. But President Bush came out in
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Speaker 2: an interview and said that they did their very best
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Speaker 2: not to say anything about Islam in the aftermath of
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Speaker 2: the attacks. Well, that was a problem because the Islamists,
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Speaker 2: the radical Islamists, are at war with the United States
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Speaker 2: of America to this day, by the way, to this day.
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Speaker 2: And for Bartlett High School not to acknowledge that, for
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Speaker 2: Fairfax County Public Schools not to acknowledge that, not only
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Speaker 2: does it do a great disservice and it makes the
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Speaker 2: kids more ignorant, but it also puts all of us
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Speaker 2: in grave danger. And this is why you have a
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Speaker 2: lot of these LGBT folks with the nose rings and
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Speaker 2: the magenta hair. And they're marching in solidarity with the Palestinians.
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Speaker 2: They don't understand and they don't know that overseas they
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Speaker 2: would throw those people with the magenta hair and the
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Speaker 2: nose rings off of building tops. That's the reality. But
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Speaker 2: nobody wants to talk about that. So we understand that
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Speaker 2: parents raised holy.
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Speaker 3: You know what?
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Speaker 2: I am so proud of the Bartlett community because you
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Speaker 2: guys stepped up to the plate and you said, hey,
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Speaker 2: wait a second. We're not doing this at Bartlett High School.
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Speaker 2: We're not going to allow the radical leftist to do
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Speaker 2: something like this. I don't know what was really behind this,
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Speaker 2: but I have my suspicions, folks. And you would do
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Speaker 2: well to make sure, ask your kid, your grandkid, if
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Speaker 2: you're a teenager listening to us this morning, we'd like
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Speaker 2: to know exactly how your school commemorated 9-11, the 25th anniversary.
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Speaker 2: All right, we've got a lot to talk about today.
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Speaker 2: Lane Provine is going to be here. Also, we have
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Speaker 2: some other special guests coming up as well, along with
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Speaker 2: your calls, 901-260-5926.
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Speaker 1: That's 901-260-5926.
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Speaker 3: We'll be right back.
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Speaker 2: All right. Welcome back, everybody. This is Morning in Memphis.
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Speaker 2: I'm Todd Starnes, and we're broadcasting in the Principal Toyota
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Speaker 2: Memphis studio. And by the way, big, big show happening tonight.
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Speaker 2: Collierville High School, the theater department, one of the best
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Speaker 2: theater departments in the country, by the way. They do
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Speaker 2: some great work out there, and it's a great family-friendly show,
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Speaker 2: How to Train Your Dragon. That's starting tonight, opening night
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Speaker 2: at Collierville High School and their great theater program. So
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Speaker 2: if you want to have a great evening, go out
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Speaker 2: to eat somewhere and take the kids and have a
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Speaker 2: fun night and a very inexpensive night as well. So
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Speaker 2: good luck to the kids down there at Collierville High School.
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Speaker 2: I also want to remind you about the big event
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Speaker 2: happening at 830 this morning. This is at the Memphis
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Speaker 2: Firefighter Museum. That's in downtown. And they're expecting several hundred
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Speaker 2: people there. to attend the Fire Museum of Memphis. This
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Speaker 2: is the 25th anniversary remembrance ceremony. Admission, by the way,
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Speaker 2: to the museum is free today, and they're going to
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Speaker 2: be serving refreshments following the service, which, again, starts at
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Speaker 2: 8.30 this morning. Also, I want to remind you, well,
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Speaker 2: as a matter of fact, if you're driving anywhere around
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Speaker 2: the Tennessee Air National Guard base, you will see a
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Speaker 2: lot of people running. Well, that's because at this moment,
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Speaker 2: the 9-11 Memorial 5K run is happening. This is sponsored
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Speaker 2: by the 164th Airlift Wing of the Tennessee Air National Guard.
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Speaker 2: So be sure to look out for those folks. They
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Speaker 2: have a lot of runners and walkers. to honor and
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Speaker 2: remember what happened on 9-11. All right, 901-260-5926. We're taking
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Speaker 2: your calls as well.
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Speaker 3: Where were you?
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Speaker 2: What were you doing on September 11, 2001? We're going
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Speaker 2: to be talking about that and also talking to a
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Speaker 2: reporter who was the very first to announce the attacks
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Speaker 2: on America. Robin Walensky joins us at 11 o'clock right
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Speaker 2: here on The Mighty 990.
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Speaker 3: All right.
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Speaker 2: I want to move to politics here. There is a
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Speaker 2: crazy story involving the gubernatorial race. Now, Senator Marsha Blackburn
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Speaker 2: has made it official she will not be doing any
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Speaker 2: debates with any of her opponents in the general election.
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Speaker 2: So she's not going to be debating the Democrat nominee,
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Speaker 2: Jerry Green. She will not be debating anybody, including the
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Speaker 2: independent candidates who are in the mix as well. And
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Speaker 2: that includes David Hatley. Now, Hatley is an independent. He
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Speaker 2: has a lot of money. He is an incredibly wealthy
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Speaker 2: businessman and entrepreneur. And what's really interesting about Mr. Hatley
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Speaker 2: is that the Blackburn campaign is very concerned about about
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Speaker 2: what he could do and the fact that he could
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Speaker 2: draw Republican votes away from Blackburn. And so the Blackburn
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Speaker 2: campaign has launched a website called deadbeatdave.com. And they're making
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Speaker 2: all sorts of accusations going all the way back to
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Speaker 2: the 1990s, and laying out the fact that he committed
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Speaker 2: criminal acts, that he was a bad guy, that he's
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Speaker 2: been married and divorced several times. I mean, laying it
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Speaker 2: all out there, all of the dirt has been released
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Speaker 2: by the Blackburn campaign. And they make no bones about it.
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Speaker 2: As a matter of fact, the deadbeattape.com website, if you
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Speaker 2: scroll down to the bottom, you will see that it
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Speaker 2: is paid for by Marsha Blackburn's campaign. So Hadley is
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Speaker 2: coming out now, and he's responding to all of these
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Speaker 2: vicious attacks coming from the Republicans. Cut 45.
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Speaker 3: Hello, everyone.
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Speaker 4: I wanted to hop on here and address something that
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Speaker 4: my opponent did in the last few days. She's now
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Speaker 4: created a website that's trying to smear my reputation. I
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Speaker 4: would like to say I'm surprised, but this is how
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Speaker 4: politics works. And this is why I'm in this race.
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Speaker 4: She's talking about things that I already wrote a book about.
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Speaker 4: Mistakes that I made as a young kid. Old tax
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Speaker 4: disputes that have long been settled. She's not talking about
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Speaker 4: issues for Tennesseans. I'm out here in Greenbrier, Tennessee. I
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Speaker 4: just met with people that have real problems, and they
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Speaker 4: need real solutions. So while Senator Blackburn wants to sit
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Speaker 4: around and spend money trying to demolish me and tear
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Speaker 4: my reputation down, she can't take away from what I've
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Speaker 4: done after I made that mistake. The jobs that I've created,
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Speaker 4: how I've taken care of my people, my family, and
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Speaker 4: now how I have a plan to take care of Tennessee.
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Speaker 3: Marsha.
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Speaker 4: You've just started a fight that you better be ready for.
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Speaker 4: Let's see who the people of Tennessee choose as their
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Speaker 4: next governor.
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Speaker 3: Thank you. All right.
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Speaker 2: There you go. So the website that Marsha Blackburn created
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Speaker 2: here shows Dave Hatley wearing prison garb. So they're all
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Speaker 2: AI generated photos and everything. However, what is not AI
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Speaker 2: generated is the fact that this guy has a he
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Speaker 2: has a record.
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Speaker 3: He does.
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Speaker 2: And by the way, David Hatley is going to be
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Speaker 2: in studio with us either next week or the week after.
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Speaker 3: And he's open to talking about all of this.
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Speaker 2: But again, Marsha Blackburn is alleging that Hatley was convicted
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Speaker 2: of federal bank fraud. He passed bad checks for two years,
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Speaker 2: and he lied to an FBI agent. Whatever he did,
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Speaker 2: if that was when he was 21 years old, he
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Speaker 2: went to jail and lost his voting rights. Hatley served
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Speaker 2: federal prison time, was ordered to pay $ 37, 958.
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Speaker 3: 13 in restitutions.
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Speaker 2: And this was back in the 1990s. And Blackburn is
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Speaker 2: saying Tennessee cannot afford a felon to run the state.
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Speaker 2: She goes on to say Hantley lost his right to
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Speaker 2: vote after the felony conviction, and he did not get
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Speaker 2: those voting rights back until 2025. So none of this
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Speaker 2: is in dispute, by the way. Everybody acknowledges. And so
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Speaker 2: the Blackburn campaign is saying we don't need a felon
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Speaker 2: running the state. So my question is, why in the
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Speaker 2: world is the administration, or rather the Blackburn team, why
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Speaker 2: are they worried about this guy?
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Speaker 3: 901-260-5926. Let's go to Orange Mound this morning. Doug is
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Speaker 3: on the line. Hi, Doug. What's going on?
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Speaker 5: Hey, I wanted to thank you for making... making a thing,
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Speaker 5: a deal out of this 9-11 thing. There are over
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Speaker 5: 3,000 of our citizens that have lost their lives in
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Speaker 5: that event. And the tragedy that these families that had
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Speaker 5: to experience the loss of a loved one from our
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Speaker 5: country because of that event and their lives need to
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Speaker 5: be memorialized and remembered, not made fun of and basically
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Speaker 5: cheapened because of people wanting to sensationalize or to not
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Speaker 5: offend other people. The truth is, it would be wonderful
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Speaker 5: if those who don't know over the last 25 years
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Speaker 5: because of their age or otherwise, if they could know
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Speaker 5: the facts of what occurred through a venue like your venue.
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Speaker 5: And I appreciate that, that you're doing that. And then
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Speaker 5: maybe give a moment of silence to remember these people,
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Speaker 5: over 3,000 Americans And think of all the families.
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Speaker 3: Yes.
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Speaker 5: I appreciate that because this is a big, big event.
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Speaker 2: Doug, this was the worst attack on American soil. And
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Speaker 2: this was a heinous thing. And just, you know, we
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Speaker 2: cannot allow this to go and just be forgotten. And
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Speaker 2: that's really what the media wants. And that's what the
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Speaker 2: nation's education system wants. And that's only because the nation's
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Speaker 2: education system has been co-opted by the political Islamist movement.
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Speaker 2: as well as the communist. So, all right, we've got
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Speaker 2: to skedaddle. Doug, thank you for those kind words. We
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Speaker 2: would do a moment of silence, but in radio, if
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Speaker 2: you have a minute of silence, bells and whistles and
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Speaker 2: warnings go off, so we can't do that. But we
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Speaker 2: are remembering today, and we're taking your calls.
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Speaker 5: 901-260-5926.
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Speaker 3: That's 901-260-5926. I'm Todd Starnes in the principal Toyota Memphis studio.
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Speaker 2: All right, lots of high school football games underway tonight
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Speaker 2: across the Mid-South.
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Speaker 3: Be sure to bring plenty of beverages.
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Speaker 2: With you wherever you go. It's going to be a
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Speaker 2: hot one out there tonight. All right, we've got an
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Speaker 2: update to a story we first told you about yesterday,
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Speaker 2: and we have the actual video now at kwamradio.com. Last night,
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Speaker 2: several hundred students at UT Knoxville turned out on campus
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Speaker 2: to celebrate the assassination of Charlie Kirk, the one-year anniversary.
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Speaker 2: It was really despicable. As a matter of fact, this
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Speaker 2: is what a little bit of the event sounded like.
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Speaker 3: Take a listen. We are Charlie Kane! Okay, we're done here. Yeah,
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Speaker 3: we're done. We're done.
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Speaker 2: Those are your kids being educated at a taxpayer-funded school. Now,
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Speaker 2: the university yesterday put out a statement condemning the planned party.
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Speaker 2: They said they didn't know anything about it. That's ridiculous.
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Speaker 2: They literally had a band set up and a stage
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Speaker 2: set up on campus where So I'm not sure what
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Speaker 2: the university administration is trying to sell us or pull
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Speaker 2: one over on us, but this is outrageous. And quite frankly,
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Speaker 2: every state lawmaker needs to rise up. They need to
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Speaker 2: haul the chancellor down, and we need to figure out
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Speaker 2: if our tax money needs to fund stuff like this.
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Speaker 2: This is outrageous that you had students at the University
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Speaker 2: of Tennessee, Knoxville, celebrating someone's murder. By the way, could
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Speaker 2: you imagine if that had been, I don't know, MLK,
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Speaker 2: and you had a bunch of white kids out there
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Speaker 2: celebrating the assassination of MLK? It would be wall-to-wall national
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Speaker 2: news coverage. And by the way, this was not the
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Speaker 2: only school that this was happening at, but this was
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Speaker 2: the one in our state that we've got to pay for.
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Speaker 2: By the way, Mississippi State University, they had celebrations as well.
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Speaker 2: Shame on you folks.
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Speaker 3: Unbelievable.
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Speaker 2: Your phone, you ought to be lighting up, lighting up
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Speaker 2: the phones at UT Knoxville today. And you also need
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Speaker 2: to be calling your state representatives. That would be John Gillespie,
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Speaker 2: Mark White, who is chair of the Education Committee, State
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Speaker 2: Senator Brent Taylor. Give them a call. Tell them that
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Speaker 2: you don't want your tax money funding this sort of garbage. 901-260-5926,
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Speaker 2: our telephone number. Let's go to Collierville. Justin is on
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Speaker 2: the line. Justin, good morning. What's on your mind today?
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Speaker 6: Good morning. First off, I want to say how far
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Speaker 6: and fast we have fallen since Charlie Kirk was martyred
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Speaker 6: for his freedom of speech. But that's not why I
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Speaker 6: called this morning. But equally disturbing is today of 9-11.
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Speaker 6: I was a senior in high school at Millington Central
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Speaker 6: High School. I just walked into my economics class. If
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Speaker 6: you can remember the big old TVs we used to
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Speaker 6: hang up on the wall, I walked in and, you know,
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Speaker 6: the second tower is getting hit by a plane. And
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Speaker 6: everybody in my class started crying because, you know, Millington, Tennessee,
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Speaker 6: the majority of the kids there were military kids. They
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Speaker 6: knew at that time that our country was at war there.
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Speaker 6: And then as soon as that happened, they came over
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Speaker 6: the intercom. Uh, they said the base was closed. They
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Speaker 6: were sending buses. None of the kids could return because
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Speaker 6: at that time the bases were open. You could just
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Speaker 6: drive on them. So we were at a high alert.
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Speaker 6: So me being motivated as I was, because I've seen
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Speaker 6: how much, you know, those kids, uh, it emotionally affected
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Speaker 6: them or how much sacrifices are going to be asked
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Speaker 6: out of their parents. I went to the recruiting station
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Speaker 6: and I, uh, I joined the Marines because of that event.
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Speaker 6: And the majority of the people that I went to
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Speaker 6: boot camp were from the East Coast. I was one
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Speaker 6: of the very few Southern boys there. And they were
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Speaker 6: pissed off. They were mad. And these are all kinds
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Speaker 6: of different kids from New Jersey, New York, you know, Dominicans, whites, Italians, blacks.
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Speaker 6: We were all pissed off, and we made a vow
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Speaker 6: that we would take vengeance on the people that did
23:17
Speaker 6: that to our country.
23:18
Speaker 5: So I don't know where that's at.
23:21
Speaker 6: It may have been because right after that, we did
23:24
Speaker 6: the whole invasion of Iraq. But how dare we let
23:27
Speaker 6: people spit on us, talk down to us? When they
23:33
Speaker 6: came over here and killed 3,000 of our own people,
23:37
Speaker 6: that was the most united moment I've ever known as
23:40
Speaker 6: a citizen of the United States. We were all united
23:43
Speaker 6: because we understood we were all Americans.
23:47
Speaker 2: Justin, it really amazes me. And I remember those days
23:54
Speaker 2: and the number of young men who the next day
23:57
Speaker 2: or some of them actually went that day down to
24:00
Speaker 2: the military recruiting station and they signed up to fight.
24:03
Speaker 2: They didn't even know who they were fighting.
24:05
Speaker 3: It didn't matter.
24:05
Speaker 2: Our country had been attacked and these young men were
24:09
Speaker 2: going to do something about it.
24:10
Speaker 3: And I you know, it's.
24:13
Speaker 2: I don't know what happened to those days, but the
24:16
Speaker 2: idea now that you've got schools that are somehow teaching
24:20
Speaker 2: kids that America was to blame for what happened, that's outrageous.
24:25
Speaker 6: No, we weren't to blame at all, but there's a
24:28
Speaker 6: big generation that is my age, you know, they're late 30s,
24:32
Speaker 6: early 40s, that we remember. So eventually that generation is
24:38
Speaker 6: set to rise up and take over and put this
24:42
Speaker 6: whole America first, first. Like, protect our citizens. If anybody
24:47
Speaker 6: wants to do us harm, you need to get them
24:50
Speaker 6: the hell out of this country so this never happens again.
24:52
Speaker 6: I just worry, and this isn't talked about as much
24:55
Speaker 6: as again, like, we are still, you know, it's still
25:00
Speaker 6: a possibility we could have another terrorist attack on our soul.
25:03
Speaker 6: We're not that far removed from it. We need to
25:05
Speaker 6: take all these things seriously, especially if there is a
25:08
Speaker 6: radical group within our country that wants to do us harm.
25:12
Speaker 6: And we've invited half of the world to live here
25:15
Speaker 6: that hates our guts.
25:17
Speaker 2: You know, Justin, I've had about two dozen members of
25:19
Speaker 2: Congress on our show nationally, 11 o'clock to 2 o'clock. 201,
25:25
Speaker 2: they tell me it's not a matter of if but
25:27
Speaker 2: when because, as you pointed out, our open borders, we've
25:31
Speaker 2: had some very bad people, sleeper cells, that have been
25:34
Speaker 2: able to get into the country. So it's a very
25:38
Speaker 2: dangerous time.
25:38
Speaker 3: And you're right.
25:39
Speaker 2: I mean, this is a very real possibility, which is
25:43
Speaker 2: why we've got to make sure. that we have strong borders,
25:46
Speaker 2: and that if there's somebody here illegally, they need to
25:49
Speaker 2: go back to where they came from. It's really that
25:52
Speaker 2: simple for me. Justin, thank you for serving, and thank
25:56
Speaker 2: you for being a great American patriot. And we appreciate
25:59
Speaker 2: all the great work you're doing in the Mid-South as well,
26:02
Speaker 2: my friend. All right, Justin Johnson out of Collierville, Tennessee. Again,
26:09
Speaker 2: we're taking your memories today, your calls, remembering back to
26:12
Speaker 2: that day when the Muslim terrorists waged jihad on American soil.
26:17
Speaker 2: 901-260-5926 is our telephone number. That's 901-260-5926. You know, a
26:25
Speaker 2: lot of folks may not realize that Memphis International Airport,
26:30
Speaker 2: actually now Fred Smith International Airport, played a very important
26:35
Speaker 2: role in the aftermath, the immediate aftermath of the attacks.
26:40
Speaker 2: At some point, there was no way of knowing how
26:44
Speaker 2: many airplanes had been hijacked. And so the decision was
26:49
Speaker 2: made by the FAA, and this was right around, it
26:52
Speaker 2: would have been 8.42 a.m.
26:54
Speaker 3: Our time.
26:55
Speaker 2: The FAA ordered every civilian aircraft in U.S. airspace to land.
27:01
Speaker 2: And anybody coming from overseas, they had to divert to Canada.
27:05
Speaker 2: And it was interesting because Memphis International at the time,
27:09
Speaker 2: they were expecting, I think, 11 flights arriving that day.
27:14
Speaker 2: More than 40 aircraft within 100 miles of Memphis landed
27:18
Speaker 2: at Memphis International Airport. Unbelievable the amount of traffic coming
27:23
Speaker 2: into Memphis International. And those controllers in the tower really
27:27
Speaker 2: were extraordinary heroes on that day. because they had to
27:31
Speaker 2: organize a massive flow of aircraft into the airport, bringing
27:37
Speaker 2: down all sorts of jetliners. So it's an amazing story
27:43
Speaker 2: and one that really hasn't been, you know, it's not
27:45
Speaker 2: well known, the role that Memphis International played on that day.
27:49
Speaker 2: And of course, the other big story coming out of 9-11,
27:52
Speaker 2: the entire FedEx fleet was grounded on September 11th and
27:57
Speaker 2: September 12th. So It was just one of those rare moments.
28:01
Speaker 2: 901-260-5926 is our telephone number.
28:03
Speaker 3: That's 901-260-5926. As we remember, 9-11 here in the Mid-South.
28:04
Speaker 3: We'll be right back. We'll be right back.
28:23
Speaker 2: All right. Welcome back, everybody, on this 25th anniversary of
28:27
Speaker 2: the Muslim terrorist attacks on America. I'm Todd Starnes. We're
28:31
Speaker 2: broadcasting in the principal to Memphis studio today. Just a
28:35
Speaker 2: reminder of the ceremony that's happening at 830 this morning
28:40
Speaker 2: in downtown at the Memphis Fire Museum. They're expecting hundreds
28:45
Speaker 2: of people. I would encourage you to get there. We
28:47
Speaker 2: need to have a big crowd out there to remember
28:51
Speaker 2: and to show our support for the families of those
28:54
Speaker 2: who lost loved ones on 9-11 25 years ago. And
28:59
Speaker 2: you do wonder if there's also a role for all
29:03
Speaker 2: of us to play, making sure that our children and
29:06
Speaker 2: grandchildren understand what actually happened on that day. It would
29:12
Speaker 2: almost as if it would be almost like schools back
29:16
Speaker 2: in the 1940s teaching the children that America was responsible
29:20
Speaker 2: for Pearl Harbor and not the Japanese. So, again, there
29:25
Speaker 2: is an education problem here in this country as evidenced
29:29
Speaker 2: by whatever was going on at Bartlett High School. And
29:32
Speaker 2: we understand that the offensive post has been taken down
29:36
Speaker 2: off of social media. But for me, that's not the
29:39
Speaker 2: end of the story. We need to know who was
29:41
Speaker 2: responsible for posting that message, who was responsible for signing
29:45
Speaker 2: off on that. Was this something that was just randomly
29:48
Speaker 2: done by a teacher or an administrator? And we need
29:52
Speaker 2: to find out if there is some sort of a
29:54
Speaker 2: radical employed in the Bartlett school system. because clearly something's
30:00
Speaker 2: not right at Bartlett High School based on the message
30:05
Speaker 2: that was posted marking today as the 4th of July
30:08
Speaker 2: and a celebration. Come on now. 901-260-5926 is our telephone number.
30:15
Speaker 2: That's 901-260-5926. We had the chance to sit down with
30:21
Speaker 2: Lane Provine, one of the great Republican strategists here in
30:25
Speaker 2: the Mid-South. Let's take a listen. President Trump mentioned to
30:29
Speaker 2: a very— that crowd, they were fired up last night. The
30:33
Speaker 2: president mentioned John Thune, the Senate majority leader, and here's
30:37
Speaker 2: how the crowd responded.
30:39
Speaker 3: Fine person, too.
30:41
Speaker 1: And John Thune is here from the Senate. Where's John?
30:45
Speaker 1: Where's John? No, no, John is working hard. He's got
30:50
Speaker 1: great opposition. He's got great opposition from the— Democrat Schumer
30:56
Speaker 1: and these guys, they're terrible.
30:59
Speaker 2: Yeah, Elaine, I don't think they were trying to buy
31:01
Speaker 2: what the president was selling last night. But I do
31:05
Speaker 2: think that the response to that name is one of
31:09
Speaker 2: the reasons they're holding this convention, because the base needs
31:12
Speaker 2: to be rallied right now. They're a little frustrated and
31:15
Speaker 2: a little upset.
31:16
Speaker 7: I think that's absolutely the case. Senate Majority Leader is
31:21
Speaker 7: a challenging job. We've all heard that it's like herding cats.
31:25
Speaker 7: And I think that's really true. Whoever the Senate majority
31:28
Speaker 7: leader is, he's typically not going to be particularly popular
31:32
Speaker 7: with the public. But obviously, he doesn't run in a
31:35
Speaker 7: nationwide election. He runs in one state. And as long
31:38
Speaker 7: as he's popular in that state, then he's likely to
31:41
Speaker 7: get reelected. But it is a very difficult job in
31:44
Speaker 7: Senator Thune's defense.
31:46
Speaker 2: Lane, it's unusual to hold a midterm convention like this.
31:51
Speaker 2: What do you think the strategy behind it is? And
31:53
Speaker 2: do you think it's going to work?
31:55
Speaker 7: You know, I think the strategy is twofold. I think,
31:58
Speaker 7: first of all, it's to define some of these Democrat
32:00
Speaker 7: candidates like Tallarico in Texas, Al Sayed in Michigan, maybe
32:06
Speaker 7: to a lesser extent a Nixon in Florida. Those of
32:10
Speaker 7: us here in Tennessee, you know, you kind of look
32:11
Speaker 7: like a Justin Pearson running for the House. I think
32:15
Speaker 7: that is much of the reason behind the convention is
32:18
Speaker 7: to define a these far-left Democrat candidates so that the
32:23
Speaker 7: voters have a better idea of who these people really
32:25
Speaker 7: are rather than who they want to package themselves to
32:28
Speaker 7: the voters, try to sell themselves as moderates. I think
32:31
Speaker 7: much of the goal of this convention is to define
32:34
Speaker 7: them as people who are captive of the far-left. It's
32:38
Speaker 7: also designed to motivate Republican voters, to boost Republican turnout.
32:43
Speaker 7: So both to define the Democrats being further to the
32:47
Speaker 7: left in their rhetoric, and to energize Republicans and thus
32:51
Speaker 7: boost Republican turnout. We heard the president talk a lot
32:54
Speaker 7: about the fact he's not on the ballot, but encouraging
32:58
Speaker 7: his voters to vote as if he was on the ballot.
33:01
Speaker 7: And that is much of the objective of the convention
33:04
Speaker 7: is to generate interest and to boost Republican turnout.
33:08
Speaker 3: How do you think they've done thus far? So far,
33:11
Speaker 3: so good.
33:12
Speaker 7: You know, it's a unique idea. I don't believe Republicans
33:15
Speaker 7: have ever had a midterm convention. And I think the
33:17
Speaker 7: last time the Democrats did, you and I were kids
33:20
Speaker 7: in the 1970s. And so it's unusual, but I think
33:25
Speaker 7: it fits Donald Trump's style. He likes the rally. He
33:28
Speaker 7: likes the big crowd. He likes to share his mind
33:33
Speaker 7: with those folks. And so I think this is very fitting.
33:37
Speaker 7: And the timing is good. Eight weeks before the election,
33:40
Speaker 7: a good opportunity to try to generate turnout, generate interest
33:44
Speaker 7: and motivate Republicans who haven't been particularly motivated so far
33:47
Speaker 7: in the spring and the summer of this year.
33:49
Speaker 2: I know that the state of Tennessee is front and center,
33:52
Speaker 2: of course, redistricting. And there's a chance for the Republicans
33:56
Speaker 2: to pick up a new That would be out of
34:00
Speaker 2: the old 9th Congressional District where Steve Cohen was the
34:06
Speaker 2: outgoing congressman there. There was some polling data that came out. Elaine,
34:12
Speaker 2: one of the rules of thumbs when I talk about polling,
34:15
Speaker 2: I always find out, okay, does this polling company skew
34:18
Speaker 2: to the right or to the left? And this is
34:21
Speaker 2: a left-wing polling company, Hart Research. And they have the
34:25
Speaker 2: race with Brent Taylor and Justin Pearson. They have Senator
34:29
Speaker 2: Taylor at a four-point lead there. Just curious to hear
34:33
Speaker 2: your thoughts on that. And again, I think Senator Taylor
34:37
Speaker 2: is going to do very, very well on Election Day.
34:40
Speaker 2: But your thoughts thus far in the race?
34:43
Speaker 7: I don't think the race is that competitive. I think
34:45
Speaker 7: it is somewhat competitive, probably more competitive because we're in
34:49
Speaker 7: a presidential midterm. We have challenges of inflation and the
34:53
Speaker 7: conflict in Iran. not only as a presidential midterm, but
34:56
Speaker 7: as the midterm of the president's second election. So for Republicans,
34:59
Speaker 7: many of these racers are going to be closer than
35:02
Speaker 7: they normally would be. But I don't buy that that's
35:05
Speaker 7: a four-point race. I think it's two or three times
35:08
Speaker 7: that much of a margin in that race. And I
35:11
Speaker 7: think that's what you're going to see out of a
35:12
Speaker 7: lot of the Democrat polls that are going to try
35:14
Speaker 7: to make races appear more competitive than they are, or
35:17
Speaker 7: perhaps a race where the Democrats are leading They may
35:21
Speaker 7: try to make people think that the race is not competitive,
35:24
Speaker 7: that the Democrat has an insurmountable lead. And I don't
35:28
Speaker 7: buy that.
35:29
Speaker 2: Well, I love the messaging that Speaker Johnson spoke about
35:33
Speaker 2: in the last hour, where he said that we really
35:36
Speaker 2: do need to be concerned about the rise of communism
35:39
Speaker 2: in this country. And it was very evident that this
35:42
Speaker 2: is happening right here in the 9th Congressional District in
35:46
Speaker 2: in Tennessee, where you had Justin Pearson leading a rally
35:50
Speaker 2: of about 1,000 people with AOC, members of the squad.
35:53
Speaker 2: The pastor got up and said that Jesus was a socialist,
35:56
Speaker 2: and all of us ought to be socialists, too. That
35:59
Speaker 2: is dangerous rhetoric out there, and the idea that even
36:03
Speaker 2: in Tennessee, red Tennessee, you've got that kind of ideology,
36:08
Speaker 2: that ought to light a fire under the voters here.
36:12
Speaker 3: Absolutely.
36:12
Speaker 7: And we're seeing it all over the country. We're seeing
36:14
Speaker 7: it in red states and pink states and blue states
36:17
Speaker 7: and purple states. You're seeing it literally everywhere, whether it's
36:19
Speaker 7: Talrico in Texas, who's tried to walk back some of
36:24
Speaker 7: his past comments here in the last day or so,
36:27
Speaker 7: comments he made over the last few months or years.
36:29
Speaker 7: He's tried to walk those back. We're seeing that across
36:32
Speaker 7: the country. Democrats who are to the left or perhaps
36:35
Speaker 7: way to the left who are playing like they're moderates now.
36:40
Speaker 7: I don't know that that will work. It may work
36:41
Speaker 7: in some places, but I think in red districts, I
36:46
Speaker 7: think the voters will come home as we get closer
36:49
Speaker 7: to the election.
36:50
Speaker 3: All right.
36:51
Speaker 2: That, again, Lane Provine, and you can listen to the
36:53
Speaker 2: entire interview at kwamradio.com. We're going to have to leave
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Speaker 2: it there, ladies and gentlemen. 11 o'clock, The Todd Stern Show,
37:02
Speaker 2: remembering September 11th.
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Speaker 3: Have a great morning.