The Political Cesspool Radio Program is the only mainstream, AM/FM talk radio show in the country that dedicates a portion of each live broadcast in April to the celebration and preservation of Confederate history and heritage.
We have used our media venue to honor Confederate History Month each year since our very inception back in 2004. A parade of Southern celebrities have found their way to our studio in April, including:
Dr. Thomas DiLorenzo – Author, Lincoln Unmasked
Richard Flowers – Curator of Beauvoir, The Jefferson Davis Home and Presidential Library
Michael Andrew Grissom – Author, Southern by the Grace of God
Dr. Michael Hill – President, League of the South
Clint Johnson – Author, The Politically Incorrect Guide to the South
Senator Glenn McConnell – South Carolina State Senator
Dr. Thomas Naylor – Professor Emeritus of Economics (Duke University)
S. Waite Rawls – President, Museum of the Confederacy
Be sure to browse through our broadcast archives, particularly our incredible Confederate History Month series in 2007, to learn more about this wonderful chapter of our cultural heritage.
It has once again been our honor to present to you this year’s on-air tribute to the boys in gray. As April comes to a close, we leave you with a little video we shot awhile back.
I vividly remember filming this in December 2010. It was very cold and very windy. Even so, we did our best to show proper respect to one of the greatest Americans to ever live.
Political Cesspool Radio Program host James Edwards, and TPC co-host Eddie “The Bombardier” Miller, share a moment of reflection at the grave of Lt. General Nathan Bedford Forrest (C.S.A.) in downtown Memphis, Tennessee.
The inscription on Forrest’s tomb reads:
Those hoof beats die not upon fame’s crimson sod,
But will ring through her song and her story;
He fought like a Titan and struck like a god,
And his dust is our ashes of glory.
Facts about Nathan Bedford Forrest:
1) He became a self-made millionaire despite being born into poverty and having no formal education.
2) Invested a great deal of his personal fortune to aid the Confederate cause.
3) Despite being one of the wealthiest men in the South, he enlisted as a solider of the lowest rank in order to further serve his country. As a major planter, Forrest was legally exempted from having to serve, but chose to serve anyway.
4) He had no formal military training, but went on to become the greatest tactician in the history of mobile warfare. He retired as a Lt. General and his maneuvers are still studied today.
5) Personally killed over thirty enemy combatants.
Forrest was the living embodiment of a “man’s man.”
Compare the character and heroism embodied by General Forrest to that which can be found in today’s business and political heavyweights.
He makes me proud to be a Memphian. Proud to be a Southerner.
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