The following is a transcript from the Pro America Report.
Welcome. Welcome, welcome. It’s Ed Martin here on the Pro America Report. It’s, I have to smile and laugh as I think about what I’m about to tell you. You know it is. It is important to listen and think and listen to and read people who are smart and have thoughtful ways of thinking about things. And Phyllis Schlafly, my old boss, is one of those people. She’s a extraordinary writer, and if you go to phyllisschlafly.com, you can see an extraordinary archive of her writings. Just if you if you read, she wrote a weekly column for almost 50 years. She wrote a monthly column for over 50 years, a monthly newsletter. The Phyllis Schlafly report, and I still remember my friend Jordan Henry, who worked with us for a number of years. He had a project to go back and read every Phyllis Schlafly Report year by year, over the course of weeks and months coming forward from 1967 all the way till today and when it was done, he would do a summary of each one. We were celebrating the Phyllis Report. When it was done he had this extraordinary education. I mean, just extraordinary. And he admitted that he talked about it. It was just amazing to have read her stuff over and over again. Well, so it’s important to read smart people who can see down the field and can give you ways to understand what’s happening.
That is what John and Andy Schlafly do, and I mentioned before that when I was with Donald Trump, he reminisced about his time with Phyllis Schlafly, and then we talked about, he mentioned that he had just read one of Andy and John Schlafly’s columns. I mean, what? What better? What better recommendation than that and and especially because Trump said it was good read, good read and so.
Here’s why I laugh about that is one of the more sort of outrageous and funny and wild characters in American life is Ann Coulter, Ann Coulter. Ann Coulter is extraordinary, and now she publishes. She used to write a weekly column. And it published all over as a syndicated column. Now she writes over its substack. Substack.com and but she she sends out an e-mail and it’s it’s about once a week, I guess. Well, this week’s e-mail was called Expel Them Again. And the subtitle was Dems cry racism, you say, “show us the video” and she goes through a series of examples.
And so the context for this one is that the two Democrats in the Tennessee House of Representatives who last week acted like real jerks, really unpleasant. Nasty unbecoming behavior and they were expelled from the chamber. And now. Now they are being made to sound like heroes, that they are somehow civil rights heroes and people that have done something incredible, and what Ann Coulter says is, you know, when they say you are, when they say, oh, no, look at you, you’re being racist. Racism, then, say, play the video, show the video, and if you watch the video of these two Democrats, they they’re just, it’s terrible. They deserve to be expelled, and then she goes through examples. And she basically says every time they say That you’re being racist, just say play the video and there always exists. The video always exists. There was the Princeton professor who said she was the racist policeman, had pulled her over in 2016, and she went on and on about that. Well, they played the video, the Dash Cam video. They showed that the officer was totally polite. In fact, as as Coulter says, comically polite. Same thing in 2015. Same thing with one of the hilarious things.
And the point here is nowadays. They can’t hide. Behind the ohh this is what happened and lie about it. So flash forward to the Elon Musk went on what’s called Twitter spaces, which is a place to go on Twitter and have these sort of group conversations. He also videotaped an interview with a BBC reporter and so when the BBC reporter was done being destroyed by Elon Musk. There was nowhere to hide. They could. He couldn’t. The reporter couldn’t then say, oh, you know, it went like this. Whatever, because Musk had all, not just the description, not just witnesses, but the actual audio Tape as well as videotape and the most compelling part of that. It was hysterical to listen to. I didn’t hear it live. I heard it after the fact, was when the BBC reporter said, you know, there’s a lot more racist stuff on Twitter and and Elon Musk said give me an example. And the guy said, well, I’m not sure, you know, just people are saying that he said, well, give me one example and the guy couldn’t give an example and he said. Well, then you’re just lying. You’re just saying things that you want to believe and you’re not even checking them. And the guy was destroyed. It was amazing.
But I I think that’s right in this day and age. You no longer have to believe when someone says X happened, you say let’s see the video.
Now what’s coming next, of course, is doctored videos. And that’s what you see the left do, they take videos out of context, but I am reminded also when I was a candidate for office, someone told me never do an interview where you don’t tape it yourself because otherwise they’ll lie about you and you won’t be able to be saying That’s not what I said, and they’ll say that’s what I took down. And they’ll never share their their their recording. If they took one. So it’s an interesting time but but back to my point.
If you get a chance read and sign up for Ann Coulter’s Substack. She’s an exceptional writer. She’s an exceptional writer and she’s someone who is thinking down the field pretty far in advance. She’s pretty good at looking further out. I don’t agree with her. She’s still mad at Trump over stuff, but she’s really thoughtful, so you can go to Ann Coulter. Her sub stack is Ann Coulter’s Substack, it’s called Unsafe. And you can. You can sign up there. I don’t think that her substack requires that you pay for it. It’s at least part of it is distributed free of charge, so it’s AnnCoulter.substack.com and this one in particular is a really good one. So there you have it. Alright, that’s what you need to know.
And speaking of that coming back, we’re gonna talk with Bill Donahue. The guy who heads up the Catholic League, who’s been a fighter and standing up and fighting back often, and then Karen Garnett. We’ll get an update. On the National Prayer luncheon for life, the National Prayer luncheon for Life, which is coming up in just a few days. It’s next week, and they’ve got a contest that they’re running online. So you want to check it out.
Alright, we will take a break. We’ll be right back. It’s Ed Martin here on the Pro America Report, back in a moment.
