The following is a transcript from the Pro America Report.
Welcome, Welcome, welcome. Ed Martin here on the Pro America Report. Great to be together.
Have a very special interview coming up. I’ve dedicated ah, 2 segments to it. I’ll go as long as the conversation goes. James Rosen, who is the Chief White House correspondent for Newsmax, has a new book out. It’s called Scalia: Rise to Greatness. Regnery Publishing. We’re going to talk about that book. I’ve spent the last couple of days finishing reading it. It’s really extraordinary about Justice Scalia and his early life, his early career, and then his ascension to the Supreme Court. That’s where it stops, which is, reminds me, by the way of my friend John Cribb, who wrote The Railsplitter. About Lincoln. And all the way up until Lincoln decides to run for president. But the difference is the Scalia book is a biography. The other, Cribb’s book is a is a historical fiction, so very interesting we’ll talk with James Rose, in just a moment.
But first, what you need to know today is what you need to know is about the Archives, the United States Archives, and they are about how the archivist of the United States is a political hack, a political hack. Now, here’s why this is interesting. Not it’s not interesting, because there’s a political hack in government.
What’s interesting is the is the ongoing exposure of otherwise what you’d call ministerial jobs, jobs that are supposed to be done by people that you know care about the archives. But once you go from the archives being a place where the president drops his papers to the archives being, playing a role in choices on what you take, I think the I think the Library of Congress, another one of these entities actually purchased some of the Black Lives Matter notes from that historic organization. Black Lives Matter from five years ago. That’s now defunct.
But so here’s the here’s Colleen Shogan. Colleen Shogan, who is the executive director or executive? I guess she’s the VP of the White House Historical Association and she’s being nominated to serve as the archivist. And she says in her application, it’s a confirmation required job. I think it’s a term of years like 10 years or or maybe it’s maybe it’s a lifetime tenure, but it’s a longer time. It’s not just like a two year term. And in her test, in her applications and all she said she would not turn over her Twitter feed because all of the tweets were about her dog, her Pennsylvania sports teams and personal stuff. Well, this was a mistake. This was a mistake because she found herself in front of Senator Josh Hawley of Missouri and Josh Hawley went through, and I don’t know how, they had the Wayback machine or whatever, and they were able to look at her tweets. They had to do with hating Trump. They had to do with pro far left wing positions. They were some nasty personal stuff. And so she got grilled and basically got told you lied to us. Now my point here is I have no great affection for the archivist, the United States, the previous man who left the job, and the reason why it’s open, had been archivist for a long time, and he was quietly encouraging people who were hoping that the Equal Rights Amendment would be ratified, even though it failed. And it’s out of time. He was quietly or not so quietly, encouraging them to submit it to him because, as the archivist, he was the last step in an amendment to the bill of, to the Constitution, because once he got it, he could put it into the Constitution. Now, this was always silly to me, but because we found him, acting politically, partisan, or at least having positions on issues but acting politically, we actually helped encourage the Tru Department of Justice to put out an an a ruling that said the archivist has no role, has no right, cannot accept out of time ERA applications. And so we actually went to a lot of trouble to make sure that people understood that the archivist was out of line and ultimately he retired, he’d been there a long time. Well, the new woman that’s been nominated, this new person nominated, happens to be a woman. She’s clearly clearly a partisan hack. I and I I think that term was used. Maybe I should be a little more generous. She clearly is someone who is playing partisan politics and hardball. And hardball.
But two points, one.) Isn’t it interesting now to find out how how regularly they put people in these positions that are political hacks? But second) if you watch the coverage of her of her appearance before the Senate. Committee, where Josh Hawley grilled her. The coverage is all the headline. Here’s one headline Biden picked for US archivist caught up in controversy over missing presidential documents. That’s not what she’s caught up in. She’s not caught up in any of that. That’s not her issue. She works over at the White House Historical Society. That’s not at all, what she’s actually caught up in is, She’s getting criticized for lying about her Twitter feed. So she’s. I don’t know. She’ll probably still make it. To be honest. I mean, I she’s probably gonna still get through. I don’t know if everyone, if anyone, is really gonna fight for it, but why it is that we put people in those positions.
Isn’t there a historian who’s not? And maybe this is the fact this is. Maybe this is the reality. Maybe this is what I have to bring my head around. And maybe this is what you need to know. If you think fake news is being served up every single day, and it is.
So is fake history.
Why were the same people, intellectual types who think they know everything, who run our journalism and run our newspapers and and TV? Many of them are become historians and become political scientists. I saw that guy Sabato, you know, he’s been over at UVA for years and years and years. He’s supposed to be this great expert, Larry Sabato on politics and polling, and he just was rejoicing that they hired Liz Cheney. Liz Cheney, that she’s gonna be this great. She’s around a 4 four term, congresswoman, other than her last name is she supposedly. Is she an expert? No, she’s an expert because she blasted Trump. She’s an expert on things because she blasted Trump. So I guess one more fruit of the Trump era. Is the exposure of fake history. And as just like fake news.
And therefore, when you see the archivist is so blatantly a a political player, I won’t call her a hack again. You just say to yourself, I guess that’s how these always are, how this always is. And what you have to do is suspend your belief that any of these people are actually going to be serious and just realize they’re coming at it from a viewpoint. The viewpoint is going to be to, to be against the right, against conservatives. It seems like a lot of the time they’re just against the country. But certainly they’re partisan political players, and I suppose they always were. It’s just we lied to each other about it or we hid it from each other.
But I hope she doesn’t get confirmed. I hope she gets blocked fully. I hope she doesn’t get that position. I think that it would be terrible and it again it would be another example of the institutions that you can’t have trust in. So good, good, by the way. Oh, by the way, watch the video. Watch the video of Josh Hawley asking her about her tweets. And here’s the thing.
When you coach a witness or when you coach a in this case a nominee, you give them a phrase that they have to use over and over again. In this case, her response is, my tweets, My Twitter feed is my personal capacity or some phrase like that, and she repeats it. The problem is, she repeats it. Without any emotion or any nuance, and so you can tell she’s just stonewalling. And that’s exactly what Hawley jumps on.
You know what you have to do is say, well, I just wanna say the tweets are in my own personal capacity and then he asks again, do you mean are you saying that I, you know, I don’t know the specific one you’re saying, but you know, they’re my they’re on my personal opinion. But she just went the same thing over and over again. It’s a little bit like, I hate to say this, when people plead the 5th and they say I plead the 5th. I plead the 5th. You want to answer in a way that lets you sound not like you’re defensive. And so she sounded defensive, like she was stonewalling and she was. And she just got pummeled by Josh Hawley for it.
So what you need to know is all these institutions now are corrupted. Maybe they always were, but they’re blatantly and obviously corrupted, not even hiding it. And 2nd, watch the media spin. They’re blaming it on the presidential documents. No, she’s on the hot seat cause she lied and cause she’s a partisan hack. Ohh I did it again.I don’t know. I never met her. Maybe she’s a lovely person, but her, her Twitter feed and her handling of things sure looks like a partisan player. Alright, we’ll take a break.
When we come back, as I mentioned, James Rosen, his book Scalia: Rise to Greatness. We’ll talk. Be right back. Ed Martin here on the Pro America Report. Back in a moment.
