Today's Issues continues on AFR with your host, Tim Wildman
>>: Today's Issues continues on AFR with your host, Tim Wildmon, president of the American Family Association.
>> Tim Wildmon: Hey, good morning, everybody, and welcome to Today's Issues. Welcome back, I should say, to the radio program Today's Issues. Tim with Fred. And now, Steve Paisley. Jordan joins us. Good morning, brother Steve.
>> Steve Jordahl: Good morning. It could be that someone's just now tuning in, in which case, welcome.
>> Tim Wildmon: Yes, that's right.
>> Steve Jordahl: You never know.
>> Tim Wildmon: You never know.
>> Steve Jordahl: Where have you been the last hour is what I want to know.
>> Tim Wildmon: Well, thank you for listening to American Family Radio, wherever you may be joining us from. and, have a good weekend, did you?
>> Steve Jordahl: Yeah, yeah. we're with my mother in law, who lost her husband, earlier. And so, she's, she's staying with us on the weekends, staying with her other daughter on, the week. And so whatever we do, we, we do it with her. And she's just a wonderful, such a wonderful lady. and so, not every man.
>> Tim Wildmon: Can say that about their mother in law.
>> Steve Jordahl: I don't have to. My wife might be listening. No, but it's true. It's true.
>> Tim Wildmon: She's, I'm just kidding.
>> Steve Jordahl: A joy to have her on.
>> Tim Wildmon: Mother in law jokes. Right.
>> Steve Jordahl: This weekend was Decoration day at the family church in, western Alabama.
>> Tim Wildmon: Okay.
>> Steve Jordahl: You know what Decoration Day is? It's where they go and they put flowers on the graves of family members that have been long deceased. They have a barbecue. It used to be a whole thing. The church would get together and have a sing and then they'd go out. Now it's just, you know, like five or six families get together, have a, have a little picnic, on the lawn of the church and then go place the flowers and everything.
What's the difference between a cemetery and a graveyard
>> Tim Wildmon: So I had this question last Friday.
>> Steve Jordahl: Yeah.
>> Tim Wildmon: On trivia.
>> Steve Jordahl: Yes, I think I remember.
>> Tim Wildmon: What's the difference between a cemetery and a graveyard?
>> Steve Jordahl: Oh, no, I didn't hear.
>> Tim Wildmon: Know the difference. No, you, Fred. so a cemetery is that. Now a graveyard is attached to a church. Oh, oh, I say attached. Adjacent to owned property. Owned by property owned by the church because people who go into that church who deceased buried there, over, you know, over time. But a cemetery is a standalone burial site.
>> Fred Jackson: Okay.
>> Tim Wildmon: Yeah, I didn't know that either till I found that out for the show.
>> Steve Jordahl: Can't get too much of Learning University. that's good stuff.
>> Tim Wildmon: Good point, Steve.
>> Steve Jordahl: That's good.
>> Tim Wildmon: Very well said.
>> Fred Jackson: I've not, I've never heard of that difference between the two. Yeah.
>> Tim Wildmon: A graveyard and a cemetery. Yep. all Right.
President Trump is planning a military parade on June 14, which is Flag Day
So what's your first story, Steve?
>> Steve Jordahl: Well, I want to build off what's going on in Los Angeles, as we've been. You guys have been talking about just horrific riots going on.
>> Tim Wildmon: You mean even now, right now?
>> Steve Jordahl: No, no, it's early yet. It's nine o' clock. I don't think anything's popped up.
>> Tim Wildmon: But the rioters haven't got up yet.
>> Steve Jordahl: Probably not.
>> Fred Jackson: it's California.
>> Tim Wildmon: they got to have their coffee.
>> Steve Jordahl: There doesn't look to be a whole lot of stopping it, this day. And I want. The reason I'm bringing it up is because I don't know if you know, but President Trump is planning a military parade on June 14, which is this Saturday, I believe, a week. It's Saturday. And, there's a bunch of activist groups, more than 100 of them, getting together to organize what they're calling a no Kings event. And they have, they claim, and they have a map out that shows more than a thousand protests, actually 1500 cities across all 50 states. They, the organizers say they'll get millions, probably won't get that many. But my concern is that the protest, that the violence, the antifa violence kind, of melds over into this m. Nationwide city protest thing. And, so I'm just putting that out there. I'm not wishing for it, for what it's worth. Why I'm a little worried.
>> Tim Wildmon: I did not know. I'm sorry, I don't know where, how I missed this story. So President Trump is having a military parade.
>> Fred Jackson: A military parade where, army equipment, etc. Etc.
>> Tim Wildmon: That's what they do in communist countries.
>> Steve Jordahl: I was going to say. You've seen it in other countries. I was going to say that, though.
>> Fred Jackson: They'Ve had to do a lot of work in D.C. for this. A lot of work. But like for tanks rolling down streets and that sort of thing. What?
>> Tim Wildmon: Yeah, we're going to have tanks rolling down the streets in D.C. and get afraid.
>> Fred Jackson: They were shipped a couple of weeks ago from various places in the country.
>> Tim Wildmon: Did you know about this?
>> Fred Jackson: Oh, yeah.
>> Tim Wildmon: How long you know about this? Are you going to attend?
>> Fred Jackson: no, no, we'll be busy. It's been out there.
>> Tim Wildmon: Okay, so it's Flag Day.
>> Fred Jackson: Yes.
>> Tim Wildmon: On Saturday, June 14th. Flag Day. We're. This is Trump talking on Saturday, June 14, which is Flag Day. We're honoring the 250th anniversary of the greatest fighting force in history, United States Army. Oh, it's just the army.
>> Fred Jackson: Yes.
>> Tim Wildmon: Okay, okay.
>> Fred Jackson: It's the 250th anniversary of the Army.
>> Tim Wildmon: This we will celebrate with a spectacular military parade in Washington D.C. okay, that makes sense. I mean it's a, but there.
>> Steve Jordahl: Will be tanks and, and here's the thing. You have what, 500 soldiers and pieces of military equipment marching in Washington D.C. and you have a whole bunch of antifa activists gathering to protest it.
>> Tim Wildmon: That could, I'm more worried about tearing up the roads.
>> Fred Jackson: They laid down some metal, metal or something where the tracks of the of the tanks will, will be. So they're prepared for this.
>> Tim Wildmon: All right, but you understand what I'm saying about most of the time you see military parades in communist, or dictator run countries and it looks, I wouldn't advise Trump to do that, because it looks bad. That's me talking. But I can understand if it's a celebration of the 250th birthday of the United States Army. So that's different and it's Flag Day. But if you want to have a celebration of the army over the 250th, anniversary, then that's different than just having a, you know, arbitrarily called military parade to, to you know, I don't know, to make, make the Commander in Chief look good or something.
>> Fred Jackson: Yeah. And I, the. Tomorrow the president is going to Fort Bragg. All part of this 250th anniversary of the Army. So he'll be going to Fort Bragg tomorrow, give a speech.
>> Tim Wildmon: Is it still called Fort Bragg?
>> Fred Jackson: It sure is. Trump, changed it back the first, month or so of the, of his latest, presidency.
>> Tim Wildmon: Now Trump said about the parade, the military parade again, when is that coming up?
>> Steve Jordahl: Saturday.
>> Fred Jackson: Saturday.
>> Tim Wildmon: I think it's gonna, he said, I think it's gonna be better and bigger. You don't ever hear Trump say this. This is unusual language for him.
>> Fred Jackson: it's going to be huge, Tim.
>> Tim Wildmon: But he said, he said, I think it's going to be better and bigger than any parade we've ever had in this country.
>> Fred Jackson: There you go.
>> Tim Wildmon: It's going to be something very, very special. I don't think we've ever done one quite like this. So get ready people. Saturday, the better and bigger than any parade in the history of our country is going to be happening.
>> Steve Jordahl: I'm going to ask, Brent to post this map. And Brent, you could probably Google but what you're wanting. King's riot or protest map.
>> Tim Wildmon: Excuse me, what you're warning against as it relates to this parade. You're saying there's a, there's protest around the country in response to this?
>> Steve Jordahl: Is that the parade? But if they're still rioting in LA on Saturday, which could be. And. Or if they decide to renew it, there are a lot of people who are saying this, is going to be a,
Tupelo has a protest planned against Trump's military
>> Tim Wildmon: I don't think this is going to happen, but we'll wait and see. This parade map, I mean, this, protest map. Protest map you gave me.
>> Steve Jordahl: Yeah.
>> Tim Wildmon: I don't think in Cheyenne, Wyoming, they're going to be protesting Trump's military.
>> Steve Jordahl: They got a protest organized here. Tupelo.
>> Tim Wildmon: Yeah. We'll see how many people show up.
>> Steve Jordahl: That's right. I'm hoping you're right.
>> Fred Jackson: Yes.
Israeli forces detain Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg on Monday
>> Tim Wildmon: All right, next story.
>> Steve Jordahl: All right, our favorite climate activist from Sweden is in the news again. How dare she be absent from our, public spotlight for so long?
>> Tim Wildmon: He's been practicing.
>> Fred Jackson: Had any friends been waiting to do this?
>> Tim Wildmon: Who. Who and who. Who might be Steve B. Imitating Greta Thunberg.
>> Steve Jordahl: Okay, Greta Thunberg. Thunberg, is, strangely, not doing climate activism now. She's doing pro Palestinian, pro, Hamas, stuff now. So Israeli forces on Monday detained a boat that was, sailing to Gaza and, Israeli Defense Force. The, boat was named the Madeline, and it says that the. Using, an international civilian communication system, the Israeli navy instructed the. What they're calling the selfie yacht because everybody down there is taking selfies to change its course due to its approach toward a restricted area. Now, they say they're doing this to protest the fact that Israel is occupying it and that there's no. There's no aid being delivered. They're delivering aid. Patently false. But I want you to hear what Ms. Greta Thunberg is saying now that she, has, been stopped by The Israeli, IDF. Cut 11.
>> Fred Jackson: My name is Grifa Tymber and I am from Sweden. If you see this video, we have been intercepted and kidnapped in international waters by the Israeli occupational forces or forces that support Israel. I urge all my friends, family and comrades to put pressure on the Swedish government to release me and the others as soon as possible.
>> Steve Jordahl: She's been kidnapped, Fred?
>> Fred Jackson: yes. she's been kidnapped. Yes. And, you know, we're. I tell you, it's really interesting, by the way, they're telling people they're delivering aid. The Israelis said they may have had half a truckload of food on that ship for people in Gaza.
>> Steve Jordahl: It's not a big ship, and they've been. Israel's been delivering tons and tons and tons a day.
>> Fred Jackson: Yes. The Israeli army says, quoted at least in stories this morning as saying what they want to do with Greta and her 20 friends.
>> Fred Jackson: is sit them down in a theater and make them watch what Hamas did on October 7, 2023 to those 1200 Israelis who they massacred men, women and children and they took 250 hostages.
>> Steve Jordahl: We can't even tell you half the things they did.
>> Fred Jackson: That's right. So absolutely horrible. And so they want to expose Greta Thunberg and her friends to that. This is just nonsense. It's nothing but public relations. She hasn't been kidnapped. those waters, Israel has cordoned off because they don't want anybody going in and delivering our arms to the Hamas terrorists. So this, this is just theater.
>> Steve Jordahl: It is exactly what it is.
ABC News reporter Terry Moran tweets scathing attack on Stephen Miller
>> Tim Wildmon: Next story.
>> Steve Jordahl: All right, well, one of the reporters at ABC News, I, think, I think he heard he had maybe been in bipartisan just a little bit, and had, a late night tweet, a couple of them. And he tore into Stephen Miller. This is Terry Moran, who is, you guys might know, is, political correspondent at abc. And he was tweeting and this is what he tweeted, he said, miller, Stephen Miller is an advisor to the President. He's really one of the most articulate defenders of the President's, policies. so Moran tweeted out, miller is a man who is richly endowed with a capacity for hatred. He's a world class hater. You can just see this just by looking at him because you can see that his hatred are his. His hatreds are his spiritual nourishment. He eats hate. Trump is a world class hater, but his hatred is only means to an end. And that end is his own glorification. That's his spiritual nerd, nourishment. Well, ABC said, no, no, no, this is, does not reflect us. And you cut. You should, stop tweeting and you're suspended.
>> Tim Wildmon: What's the fellow's name?
>> Steve Jordahl: Terry Moran.
>> Tim Wildmon: He's been around a while.
>> Steve Jordahl: Yeah.
>> Fred Jackson: Oh yeah.
>> Tim Wildmon: I mean, I've seen his reports of probably a decade or more.
>> Fred Jackson: yeah, going back.
>> Tim Wildmon: He's a veteran ABC News guy.
>> Steve Jordahl: So this morning on Fox, Dana Perino said that when she was White House correspondent for George W. Bush, he was the White House correspondent back then.
>> Fred Jackson: Yeah.
>> Tim Wildmon: So, abc, which is, by the way owned by Disney, has suspended him.
>> Steve Jordahl: Yes.
>> Tim Wildmon: Wow.
>> Fred Jackson: Yes.
>> Tim Wildmon: I'm kind of surprised. But he just decided to go unleashed in his criticism of Stephen Miller. Again, President Trump's one of his top aides and then Trump himself. Is it a wonder these news agencies have lost their credibility with the American people? Some of these mainstream news, they're not mainstream anymore. People aren't watching them. M. Like, they used to be. Can. Obviously some of that can be attributed to the rise of, the Internet and social media, you know, taking where people are getting their news more than they are, if they're getting news at all. A lot of Americans are ignorant of everything but TikTok. But, these news agencies have. Just like CNN and the Washington Post and the New York Times, they're just going so far left. And many of them have Trump derangement syndrome like this fellow does, that they can't, even be objective at all anymore in their commentary.
>> Fred Jackson: No, even if you felt like.
>> Tim Wildmon: This, you wouldn't say it like that. If you're a newsman.
>> Fred Jackson: If you're a newsman. But this doesn't surprise me at all. when you read, when you view the way they cover the Trump White House, they hate Donald Trump, they hate the policies of conservative government.
>> Tim Wildmon: Right.
>> Fred Jackson: That's the bottom line in all of this. they have become nothing more than lap dogs for the Democratic Party. That's the bottom line in all of this. Caroline Levitt, by the way, responded to this, Moran story. Cut number nine. This is unacceptable and unhinged rhetoric coming from someone who works at a major television network. But I think this speaks to the distrust that the American public have in the legacy media. And it's why in the White House press shop and in President Trump's White House, we have made so many significant and much needed changes to press access and transparency at the White House. Yeah, they're not going to allow the mainstream media to control the message anymore. By the way, President Trump, if you view, you know, when he does these live events at the White House, he'll take questions from anybody, but he's not afraid to call them out right on the spot, whether it's cnn, abc, NBC, he'll look right at the reporter. Live television. You are a terrible reporter and you work for a terrible news agenc. The worst.
ABC News losing audience is costing them money, Fred says
>> Tim Wildmon: All right, so you're listening to today's issues, but yeah, ABC News, they, they've lost a lot of folks, as have all the mainstream news media.
>> Fred Jackson: Yes.
>> Tim Wildmon: because the reasons you mentioned, Fred.
>> Fred Jackson: But you know, it's costing. Here's what I don't understand. It's costing Them money.
>> Tim Wildmon: Yeah.
>> Fred Jackson: They're losing viewers, they're losing readers if it's a newspaper. And when you lose audience, you cannot charge as much for your commercials.
>> Tim Wildmon: Right, I know.
>> Fred Jackson: it doesn't make sense.
>> Tim Wildmon: It's like self, defeating.
>> Fred Jackson: Yes.
>> Tim Wildmon: You know, all right, next story, Steve.
Cortez: We keep documenting the disarray within the Democrat Party
>> Steve Jordahl: All right, we keep documenting the disarray within the Democrat Party and it goes all the way to the top, at least to the Democrat Party or, infrastructure. You remember, that the dnc, the Democrat National Committee, which is the organization responsible for fundraising and setting priorities for, for elections, getting candidates and funding them, they elected two co presidents. One was a guy named Ken Martin and the other was a guy, well, he's actually the vice chair, David Hogg, if you remember that name. David Hogg was, is a anti gun, activist who was, was, on campus at the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School shooting. And it kind of sent him off on this path of. And no guns. And, and since then he's branched out to just about everything radical and liberal he's embracing. So he's kind of the squad that's not in Congress, but he's in the dnc. Anyway. he has been promising to raise money to run against incumbent Democrats who he doesn't think are left wing enough. This is the DNC that is getting the co chair of the DNC that wants to raise money to unseat Democrats because he doesn't think that they're left leaning enough. Well, we're getting a little peek inside the drama. Someone got a copy, of a, zoom call, some kind of online conference that they were having. And Ken Martin, who is the other chairman, now, David Hogg was on the call, but you won't hear him in this, particular, cut. But this is, this is the, the disarray that's going on within the DNC. Cut 12.
>> Speaker D: I, I'm just quite frustrated to be in this position because what you've done, whether you like it or not or know it or not, David is. I'm trying to. No one knows who I am. Right. I'm trying to get my sea legs underneath of me and actually, develop any amount of credibility so I can go out there and raise the money and do the job I need to, to put ourselves in a position to win. And again, I don't think you intended this, but you essentially destroyed any chance I have to show the leadership, that I need to.
>> Tim Wildmon: Who is that?
>> Steve Jordahl: That is a gentleman named Ken Martin. He he is the chairman of the dnc, the Democratic National Committee.
>> Tim Wildmon: Feels so bad for him.
>> Steve Jordahl: I know.
>> Fred Jackson: This is the great divide in the Democratic Party right now.
>> Tim Wildmon: Yeah. Oh, between the, the liberals and the ultra liberals. Yeah.
>> Fred Jackson: That's what it comes down to.
>> Tim Wildmon: Or I would say between the whacked and the wackadoodles.
>> Fred Jackson: Yes.
>> Steve Jordahl: Yes.
>> Tim Wildmon: They got. They got serious problems, and I don't think the Republicans should try to help them.
>> Fred Jackson: No.
>> Steve Jordahl: If you see your opponent digging a.
>> Tim Wildmon: Hole, let them be.
>> Fred Jackson: Yeah.
>> Tim Wildmon: Yeah. The Democrats, their brand right now is in the toilet, so to speak. And, now that that may turn around, I mean, you have ebbs and flows and, you know, we've seen, people say, well, this party's over. It'll never recover. And then they recover, and then the other party goes down. So, you know, the American people are fickle, today when it comes to Republicans and Democrats. Seems like.
>> Fred Jackson: But the radical left in the Democratic Party right now, it's like David Hogg.
>> Tim Wildmon: It's hurting them.
>> Fred Jackson: It's aoc. AOC ain't gonna shut up anytime soon. She's just gonna go out there.
>> Tim Wildmon: Right.
>> Fred Jackson: She and her friends. They are out there, and they are as radical left as possible. They don't. They honestly believe that they will take over control of the Democratic Party. They believe that. That their brand of politics is able to defeat the, Republicans right now.
>> Steve Jordahl: Go ahead.
>> Tim Wildmon: The people like her, Alexandria Ocasio Cortez. the people on the far left in the Democrat Party. If there's any lifeblood or energy in the party, they're the ones. That's where it is.
>> Fred Jackson: Yes.
>> Tim Wildmon: because. And that's what they view the establishment of the Democrat Party, like people who are real conservatives, view the establishment of the Republican Party. Don't trust them, and would, rather have people who are truly committed to the cause rather than people who are paying lip service to it. See what I'm saying?
>> Fred Jackson: Yep.
>> Tim Wildmon: So they had the. The, That's what's going on with the Democrat Party right now. They're trying to figure out who is in charge, because the old guard, the establishment, they are, They see the causes that the far left represents as causes that are not acceptable to the American people and to the American voters. And it's going to cause them to lose elections. I'm just saying that's, that's. And I, say if you flip that over to the Republican Party, that fight's also been going on for decades between people who really are conservatives and people who are just Republican, as they call them, rhinos in name only.
>> Fred Jackson: So it seems on the Republican side. The big issue, though, is money is going to cut taxes, cut, spending, et cetera, et cetera. On the Democrat side, it's this worldview.
>> Tim Wildmon: Oh, yeah.
>> Fred Jackson: I mean, the radical left is all in, for instance, on biological males playing in female sports.
>> Tim Wildmon: Oh, yeah.
>> Fred Jackson: Even though the poll from AP and.
>> Tim Wildmon: The mainstream Democrats know that that's a loser.
>> Fred Jackson: That's right.
>> Tim Wildmon: For them.
>> Fred Jackson: That's right.
>> Tim Wildmon: That's the same problem they also have with Israel.
>> Fred Jackson: Yeah.
>> Tim Wildmon: The far left, they're against Israel. M. And the. But the mainstream Democrats. There's a lot of Jews.
Tell our listeners if they want to get the daily news brief from you
>> Fred Jackson: Yes.
>> Tim Wildmon: Who make up. Chuck Schumer is a Jew.
>> Fred Jackson: Yes.
>> Tim Wildmon: And he's the leader, of the Democrats in the Senate. So there's a lot of. You know what I'm saying? There's some tension there. Yeah, definitely. on that side. Well, we're just about out of time, Steve. Tell our listeners if they want to get the daily news brief from you and Fred and the team, how they do that.
>> Steve Jordahl: Go to afn.net you can sign up and, we will send you a daily news brief written and compiled by Jody and. And Billy. And our, And our.
>> Tim Wildmon: Who doesn't want a news brief?
>> Steve Jordahl: I know, right?
>> Tim Wildmon: Compiled by Jody and Billy. Come on, huh?
>> Steve Jordahl: It's all you'll get from us. By the way, we're not sending your emails out to anybody else. All the stories we talk about here on this show, plus, more Jody.
>> Tim Wildmon: And Billy and the boys. Why am I hearing that song? That Willie Nelson. Who is that?
>> Steve Jordahl: That would be Willie.
>> Fred Jackson: yeah.
>> Tim Wildmon: All right. Thank you.
>> Steve Jordahl: My pleasure.
>> Tim Wildmon: Willie Nelson and Waylon Jennings. Yeah.
>> Fred Jackson: Yes.
>> Tim Wildmon: All right, have a great day, everybody. You'll see you back here tomorrow.
