American Family Association has an app that can be downloaded anywhere

>> Today's Issues continues on AFR with your host, Tim Wildmon, president of the American Family Association.

>> Tim Wildmon: Hey, welcome back everybody, to Today's Issues on the American Family Radio Network. Thanks for listening to afr, American Family Radio. Hi. By the way, we have an afr, app that travels anywhere and everywhere. So you don't even have to have one of our stations in your area. Our radio or terrestrial radio stations. I'm talking about, you know, the towers and the whole bit. Now you can just download the AFR app and listen anywhere you travel around the world as long as you have high speed Internet access. Isn't that right, Wesley?

>> Wesley Wildmon: That's right. I'm looking at mine right now. And on the app there's a couple features there that you can't get just listening on our radio network like you're doing right now. We have our music station app or on the app we have, Christian contemporary music, a whole separate, button where that's all, that's all that plays. We've also got our most recent podcast, our radio programs archived. And then also there's a couple programs that we have that we don't have room for podcast on our radio network. So we podcast those and we put them on the app as well. And you can see those. One of my favorite ones I've mentioned over the, over the last year or so, America's Providential History. That's a podcast. It ranges from 20 minutes to 40 minutes depending on each, podcast. And that's done by Steve McDowell. M. That's something that you can get on the app that you can't get.

>> Tim Wildmon: Yeah, the content, we have content on our app that you don't hear on the radio.

>> Wesley Wildmon: That's right. And to your, to your main point, if you get out of your vehicle or you're traveling from state to state, or you just get outside of range of the radio network that you're listening to in a car, that's the app. It keeps going. I would say in all 50 states,

>> Tim Wildmon: I know there are people out there who, terrified. They get in their 50s, 60s, 70s and beyond. And the word app just makes them start sweating.

>> Wesley Wildmon: Yeah.

>> Tim Wildmon: You say app. so I would say if that's the case, you, you need to find your grandchild, one of your grandchildren, and tell them your situation, that you're scared of apps and. But, but that you want to have the American Family radio app on your phone or on your iPad so that you can listen like I'm talking about, anywhere you go, anytime Anywhere. So, it takes literally about 60 seconds to download the AFR app. And it's so simple, a caveman could do it.

>> Wesley Wildmon: And hey, there's a commercial with that. Remember that?

>> Tim Wildmon: Yeah, they got it from me.

>> Wesley Wildmon: Yeah, I bet they did.

>> Tim Wildmon: Yeah.

>> Wesley Wildmon: All right, so real quick on that, on that note, there's a couple of different ways you can go search it up and download it. I have found the easiest way. If you go to afr.net@the bottom of the screen or at the top. In both cases, top and bottom, it says apps. You click. Once you click that, it will redirect you to download the app. So it's that easy. So it'll actually take care of it for you. You don't need a grandchild if you go to afr. Really, it will redirect for you.

Our app actually works on medium speed Internet too, Tim says

>> Tim Wildmon: All right. Steve Paisley, doordog. Good morning, Steve.

>> Steve Jordahl: Hey, everybody. Hey, Tim. I think our app actually works on medium speed Internet too.

>> Tim Wildmon: Oh, does it? You don't have to have high speed.

>> Steve Jordahl: If it medium speed, it'll probably work.

>> Tim Wildmon: Going 65, 67.

>> Ed Vitagliano: You do have to have a smartphone. You can't have a dumb phone.

>> Steve Jordahl: And no dial up. We're beyond dial up now.

>> Tim Wildmon: I love that dial up sound. You know, m we all.

>> Ed Vitagliano: You can get that as your ringtone for your phone.

>> Tim Wildmon: You really.

>> Steve Jordahl: Well, that's funny.

>> Tim Wildmon: Oh, man. Go ahead, Steve. What do you got?

Terry Moran admits ABC News has a liberal bias against conservatives and conservative viewpoints

>> Steve Jordahl: Hey, let's talk about the, network news and whether or not our news stations are liberal. There's a. You may recognize the name Terri Moran. He's a former ABC News correspondent. Well, he was on a, podcast called the Fifth Column, and he was asked by host Micah Moynihan, is, ABC News biased? Listen to this. Listen to cut 11.

>> Ed Vitagliano: Is ABC News a liberal institution?

>> Tim Wildmon: Yes, but I think like a lot of mainstream media, it's because of lack of viewpoint diversity. That was one of the problems in covering Trump. Nobody had voted for. Because I sent out these, hey, we should be fair to Trump. Internal emails. I heard from people, engineers, maybe the occasional producer who said, thank you. Yeah, atta boy. That was Terri Moran. So just, for people who don't know, and I know who he is because he's been around a long time political correspondent for ABC News. It's a big deal because, I know network television isn't viewed by as many people as it once was, but still, that's a pretty weighty position. And for him to admit publicly that, yes, ABC News had a bias against Trump and a pro liberal bias, there really, it's more, more than Trump. They're, they're, they're opposed to conservative. They have a liberal bias against conservatives and conservative viewpoints. And that's what he was admitted to. You know, that was really the genius of a guy named Roger Ailes and Rupert Murdoch.

>> Tim Wildmon: Who started the Fox News Channel. So I'm thinking, I don't know the exact day. I'm thinking this Fox News started in the 90s.

>> Steve Jordahl: I'll get you the date.

>> Tim Wildmon: Check me on that. Because they realize Rupert Murdoch being the. Was it the 90s? Brent. October 7th, 1999. Okay, so 96.

>> Wesley Wildmon: 96.

>> Tim Wildmon: 96, 96.

>> Steve Jordahl: My fingers aren't fast enough. I was trying to.

>> Tim Wildmon: Why? You're a boomer.

>> Steve Jordahl: I don't, your boomer fingers don't work.

>> Tim Wildmon: So, but Roger Ailes, excuse me, Rupert Murdoch was the money. He's behind the idea of a conservative, of a. At least a news channel. 24 hour news channel, which was an alternative at the time to CNN that also included a lot of conservative viewpoints because there were millions and millions and millions of people who watched television and enjoyed news, but their viewpoints were being ignored or they were being mocked. And so when Roger Ailes was the guy, he was also, I guess the brains behind bringing, Rush Limbaugh to the country. so they've tapped into the fact that there were probably a majority of Americans who weren't interested anymore in listening to ABC News, for example, because they're. Liberal bias. And so Fox News became a major, player in the media world.

>> Steve Jordahl: Yeah. And the fact that it has such a receptive audience, shows kind of how out of touch and in a bubble the networks were in and are still in. I was talking with some of our friends over at Media Research center and they are saying, that it hasn't gotten a whole lot better. Terri Moran was among those that was just as biased as everybody else at the time.

>> Tim Wildmon: but he said there were no alternative voices inside their company. It was just, it was group think. Yeah, we all think like we're all progressive liberal Democrats. And so there any. Anybody, offering, an alternative voice, we're going to get rid of you because you're siding with the enemy, basically. And this is. But yet they proclaim to be an objective news agency.

>> Ed Vitagliano: Well, and listen, it all depends. Your mission is. Now if someone were to ask me, is afa, is American Family News, American Family Radio? Are you guys biased? I would say yeah, we we are a Christian ministry.

>> Steve Jordahl: Right.

>> Ed Vitagliano: We are going to promote Jesus Christ. We are going to proclaim a biblical worldview. and we make no bones about that. We don't apologize for that. But that's our mission. Our mission is to do those things. Now, we're going to cover the other side, but we're not going to pretend like the other side. We're not going to pretend like pro abortion is just as valid as pro life. We're going to say pro life is the way God views it. Pro abortion is the other guy. Okay. All right. Now the problem for ABC and these other, networks was their mission was not to pick the Democratic Party and promote their views initially for decades. Their, their mission was to report the news and let people know what's happening and leave the viewer or the listener for things like NPR to make up their own mind. And what happened was, as Terri Moran says, the mission was we're going to just report the news. But it turned into we're picking winners and losers and we're taking sides. And that's why people said, I'm tired of that. That's not why I'm tuning in.

>> Wesley Wildmon: Right.

>> Ed Vitagliano: I don't want you telling me what to think. I want you to tell me what happened.

>> Tim Wildmon: If you think you're going to be, tuning into something that's objective.

>> Ed Vitagliano: Yes.

>> Tim Wildmon: That is balanced.

>> Ed Vitagliano: Right. So why Fox chose the kind of the, the motto of fair and balanced, right. Now you can argue about whether that's true or not, but at least people know what they're going to be getting. And they were getting a bait and switch with NBC, CBS and abc. And people want. And you know what?

Fox News' numbers tanked after the COVID misinformation controversy

And I'm not sure they'll ever get, get the trust back that they lost from people.

>> Steve Jordahl: Oh, the, the COVID misinformation that they, the way that they painted, anybody who didn't buy the mask thing or the vax vaccine thing.

>> Ed Vitagliano: Six foot distance.

>> Tim Wildmon: Oh, I mean, yeah, but they've been very liberal long before Cove Yes.

>> Steve Jordahl: Yeah.

>> Wesley Wildmon: But I think what Steve is saying, and you correct me if I'm wrong, that that was the issue though. If you go look, their numbers really, they've always been biased, but their numbers tanked.

>> Steve Jordahl: That might be the play, the one thing that they can't recover from that. Yeah.

>> Tim Wildmon: Yeah. Well, I just know that FOX News opened up in 1999 and just blew through CNN. CNN and some of the. And you know, I don't think there's CNN was the, that was the gold, Standard for news television, cable news forever. They kind of the only one. Then the MSNBC or whatever came along but then Fox News said hey you know what, there are millions of people who won't watch cnn but they'll watch us if we treat conservatism with respect.

>> Ed Vitagliano: Yes.

>> Tim Wildmon: So, all right, you're listening to today's issues on American Family Radio and also Fox, news has done a good job over the years of treating Christianity with respect. Yes, with respect.

>> Ed Vitagliano: Which the major networks did not do.

>> Tim Wildmon: No they did not.

President Trump honored a California lifeguard who saved a young boy from drowning

Alright, next story.

>> Steve Jordahl: Steve, remember last week we talked about this storm that happened in California and this lifeguard that went after the 10 year old kid.

>> Ed Vitagliano: Saved a 10 year old kid?

>> Steve Jordahl: Yeah, saved a 10 year old kid. The lifeguard's name was Ryder Williams and he was lifeguard at Seacliffe beach in Santa Cruz where I grew up. One of the beaches that I've been to many, many times. And he saved this 10 year old kid whose name was Nathaniel Ray. Well they ah, were invited by President Trump into the Oval Office yesterday and they went. I want you to hear a little bit of the discussion between President Trump and and the Ryder Williams, the lifeguard cut 12.

>> Ed Vitagliano: Shannon Williams, that's the mom. So you did a good job. It's good genetics. When you look at him you can see really good.

>> Tim Wildmon: Best we can. So I really am just thinking about

>> Steve Jordahl: how to get the boy out of

>> Tim Wildmon: the water as fast as I can

>> Ed Vitagliano: and for shaping my future I

>> Tim Wildmon: want to be a firefighter in the future.

>> Ed Vitagliano: Hopefully go through paramedic school and he's

>> Tim Wildmon: off to a good start.

>> Ed Vitagliano: We'll give them recommendations. They have some good recommendations. You get a recommendation?

>> Steve Jordahl: Yeah.

>> Ed Vitagliano: From the President of the United States.

>> Steve Jordahl: That would be worth something wouldn't it?

>> Tim Wildmon: Well it depends on what college you're talking about.

>> Ed Vitagliano: Well that's, that's, that's true. Listen we, we talked about how this kid was, this young man, was heroic, selfless, risking his own life and I'm glad the president did this and honored him and he really

>> Tim Wildmon: did save this kid's life.

>> Steve Jordahl: Yes, oh yes.

>> Tim Wildmon: and I don't know, you know. So how old was the, is the lifeguard?

>> Steve Jordahl: He's 16. 16.

>> Tim Wildmon: 16. How old was the kid?

>> Steve Jordahl: 10.

>> Tim Wildmon: Okay.

>> Ed Vitagliano: And this 16 year old lifeguard, this is like a superhero name. Ryder Williams. I ah, mean that's just this kid's got a lot going for him.

>> Steve Jordahl: He goes to App House High School, where he was on ah, Aptos High School. Which is, one of the rivals to the high school that I went to.

>> Ed Vitagliano: I don't know what you're saying. What are you saying?

>> Steve Jordahl: I'm, giving you background.

>> Ed Vitagliano: No, I know what. Pronounce that against Aptos. Aptos.

>> Steve Jordahl: Aptos.

>> Ed Vitagliano: All right.

>> Steve Jordahl: A P, T, O, S. I think

>> Tim Wildmon: Ryder's also on paw patrol.

>> Steve Jordahl: Could be.

>> Tim Wildmon: Am I right, Wesley?

>> Wesley Wildmon: He is.

>> Tim Wildmon: Okay, so.

>> Ed Vitagliano: Hey, well, you guys, you guys actually pay attention to what the grandkids are watching.

>> Tim Wildmon: Ryder's the main dude. He's the main human. Oh, yeah, always.

>> Ed Vitagliano: Oh, man. So singing. Don't. Just don't.

>> Tim Wildmon: Check it out.

>> Ed Vitagliano: Baby shark.

Democratic Socialists of America purportedly want to overthrow U.S. Constitution

>> Tim Wildmon: Next story. We're not,

>> Steve Jordahl: we keep saying that the democrat socialists of America hate, hate America. Well, they're saying the quiet part, which isn't that quiet out loud anymore. This was a zoom call, by leaders of the dsa and I, want you to listen to what they have to say about, their agenda. This is, cut 14.

>> Speaker E: So the two things that we're famous for, is our commitment to a program and our hatred, of the United States constitution. And what the program does is it gives us a roadmap to revolution and it gives us the obstacle that we finally will have to get over to have a revolution, which is the United States constitution basis of the United States government.

>> Ed Vitagliano: Government.

>> Speaker E: And what the minimum, maximum program specifically. What that format specifically gives us is, that roadmap. It gives us the minimum, circumstances under which we would be able to take power and govern. And it gives us the maximum program, which is the goals that we're actually aiming for. It also, clarifies democracy as both the end goal and as part of the process to get there, ensures the internal party democracy that we want to see in dsa. So it really wraps up, the revolutionary tradition of democracy that I think socialism and abolitionism in the United States have always been a part of, and aims it, you know, at a future that we can live in as a human species. Because I think absent a revolutionary democratic, ah, socialist republic in North America, we may not have a livable future.

>> Ed Vitagliano: where do I go to sign up for the civil war?

>> Steve Jordahl: Yeah.

>> Ed Vitagliano: Because I'm ready to.

>> Steve Jordahl: You ready to fight?

>> Ed Vitagliano: I'm ready to find out. I don't know how this is legal. Okay. I, I don't know how it's legal to discuss overthrowing the U. S. Constitution now. Maybe. I know, I know I've looked this up because I am, I'm curious about this. It is apparently legal to discuss the hypothetical end of the U. S. Constitution. But I think technically you would have to, publicly advocate for violence right there on the spot for it to be illegal. But I don't know how this is legal, in terms of speaking and is free speech.

>> Tim Wildmon: You can't apply free speech to this.

>> Ed Vitagliano: That's what I'm asking. How is it legal to say, here's my free speech idea, I want us to overthrow the U.S. constitution. I don't, I don't know how that,

>> Tim Wildmon: what is, what is, what is it? What. There's a word for what he's.

>> Wesley Wildmon: Yeah, it's treason.

>> Tim Wildmon: Treason. Treasonous, sir.

>> Ed Vitagliano: Yeah, that's, that's stunning. Now are, we going to post that on our Facebook page so people can watch this kind of stuff?

>> Steve Jordahl: Yeah, I will send it.

>> Ed Vitagliano: This is, this is the, this is what these DSA people when we talking about Democratic Socialists of America candidates. Okay, they, who was this that was saying this? This is, I'm just looking for his name.

>> Steve Jordahl: I wrote it down.

>> Ed Vitagliano: Okay.

>> Steve Jordahl: Writer, I think. No, that's no right.

>> Ed Vitagliano: No, that's the, that's the hero.

>> Steve Jordahl: Yeah. Cliff Connolly.

>> Ed Vitagliano: And is he, is he a,

>> Steve Jordahl: he's part of the leadership team, the steering committee of dsa.

>> Ed Vitagliano: This is not some low life, you know, brand new guy on the dsa, you know, circuit who's on a zoom call saying, well, I'll tell you what I think we ought to do. This is someone who's an officer, so to speak, in the dsa. They hate the Constitution. They hate the Constitution because the Constitution calls for separation of powers. And you can't run a good communist government without concentrating power in the hands of a few radicals.

>> Steve Jordahl: I have a program in my hands that they're talking about.

>> Ed Vitagliano: you got to tell, you got to tell our listeners some of this stuff.

>> Steve Jordahl: These are what they are after. They are after universal, equal and direct suffrage for every. Everybody over 16.

>> Tim Wildmon: Oh, ah, we're going to suffrage if they get in control.

>> Ed Vitagliano: So this is the right to vote.

>> Steve Jordahl: The right to vote 16 year olds for everybody under 16. Universal Citizen citizenship for long term residents within the boundaries of the United States. So everybody gets to vote. Everybody's a citizen. Abolition of the presidency and the electoral college. How about this? The right to expropriate property for the public good without compensation for the private owner.

>> Tim Wildmon: The two exfoliate.

>> Wesley Wildmon: This would be a lot, this would be a lot more simple and easier to understand if they would just say we're for no rules.

>> Ed Vitagliano: Well, they got rules they got rules, Jerry. They got rules. And it's, you lose your property, they

>> Steve Jordahl: want to be able to take it without paying you for it. They want to end state recognition of the gender binary and the nuclear family.

>> Ed Vitagliano: So, no. No preference.

>> Tim Wildmon: Where'd you get this? where'd you get this? These things we believe, whatever you call.

>> Steve Jordahl: This is the draft program for the usa. I got this off of the Marxist un. this is what the program that he was talking about in that clip.

>> Tim Wildmon: So this is what you're. You're reading from the, manifesto of the things that the Democrat Socialists of America believe.

>> Steve Jordahl: Correct.

>> Tim Wildmon: Okay, gotcha. And they're saying you bare. Similar to Black Lives Matter.

>> Wesley Wildmon: Their websites got.

>> Tim Wildmon: They're the same with.

>> Ed Vitagliano: That was a socialist group.

6 in 10 Democrats have a favorable view of socialism, poll shows

>> Tim Wildmon: All right, well, the only reason we're talking about these folks is they are winning some elections across the country and their profile is very much, in the news. And they are challenging the Democrat Party establishment. And the Democrat Party establishment are terrified. Most of them aware this is going to. They're not terrified necessarily because the ideas these people promote, although I've had some heard people condemn the ideas who are Democrats that these Democrat socialists have. But I think it's more they're worried that, these people are so, so far left that it's going to hurt Democrats in the midterms.

>> Wesley Wildmon: That's right.

>> Tim Wildmon: in elections that are in purple, states that, you know.

>> Ed Vitagliano: So what was it you had mentioned or we've talked about here in the last couple of days? A poll that shows that 60% of Democrats. Is that something we talked about this morning?

>> Steve Jordahl: I think, yeah, there's a poll that says that a majority of Democrats think favorably. About 6 in 10 Democrats have a favorable view of socialism. Only 18% view it negatively. This is CBS, ah, news YouGov poll.

>> Tim Wildmon: All right. You're listening to today's issues on American Family Radio. We got to end this show by talking about really one of the most important things in American life.

>> Ed Vitagliano: You talked about the hockey season coming up.

>> Tim Wildmon: Well, I'm talking college football.

>> Ed Vitagliano: Yeah, I knew what you were talking about.

>> Tim Wildmon: Okay, so the rankings are out. The preseason rankings are out. The season's about to start.

>> Steve Jordahl: Yeah.

>> Tim Wildmon: Kick off. Right. College football.

>> Ed Vitagliano: When's the first game? Isn't it sometime in August before they usually play the.

>> Tim Wildmon: Yeah, some kind of classic.

>> Steve Jordahl: End of October, end of.

>> Tim Wildmon: Give me the top 10.

>> Steve Jordahl: All right, top 10.

>> Tim Wildmon: Start with number 10.

>> Steve Jordahl: All right, going backwards, the top 10. This is the preseason poll. Okay, top 10.

>> Ed Vitagliano: Number 10 is this college.

>> Tim Wildmon: College football.

>> Ed Vitagliano: I mean, is this.

>> Wesley Wildmon: Oh, my word.

>> Ed Vitagliano: No, no, no. Ap Guys, let me finish here. Is this the, college coaches, poll or the ap?

>> Wesley Wildmon: Okay, let them finish.

>> Ed Vitagliano: I got you. That's right.

>> Steve Jordahl: Number 10, Oklahoma Sooners.

>> Tim Wildmon: Okay.

>> Steve Jordahl: Number nine, Ole Miss Rebels.

>> Tim Wildmon: Okay.

>> Steve Jordahl: Number eight, Texas A&M.

>> Tim Wildmon: Okay.

>> Steve Jordahl: Seven, Miami Hurricanes. six, Indiana Hoosiers. Defending national champions. Five, Texas Longhorns. Four, the Notre Dame Fighting Irish. Yeah, baby. Three, the Georgia Bulldogs. Number two, Oregon. And number one. And don't let Chad get. He'll get a big head here. Chad Proning.

>> Ed Vitagliano: I'm Chad.

>> Steve Jordahl: Ohio State Buckeye.

>> Tim Wildmon: Oh, we got several Ohio State Buckeyes fans in our building.

>> Steve Jordahl: I don't hear Alabama. They're not green.

>> Tim Wildmon: this is a sign. It's mentioned in the book of Revelation. When the year cometh that the Alabama Crimson Tide is not preseason number 10 in the top 10, then the.

>> Ed Vitagliano: I wouldn't even think the end of

>> Tim Wildmon: man to the end of 13th.

>> Steve Jordahl: They're number 13. And, by the way, the first game weekend is the weekend of the 29th of August, but now 29th of August.

>> Ed Vitagliano: Opening weekend.

>> Steve Jordahl: Opening weekend.

>> Tim Wildmon: So did you ever think you'd live to see the day where Alabama wasn't top 10 preseason?

>> Ed Vitagliano: Thinking about Alabama, I'm kind of stunned by that.

>> Tim Wildmon: Yeah. Well, they may. They'll probably be in the top 10 by the time it's all said and done.

>> Ed Vitagliano: Yeah.

>> Wesley Wildmon: Yeah. But who's going to fall out. Who are you predicting is going to fall out of the top 10?

>> Tim Wildmon: That's a. That's a good list right there.

>> Ed Vitagliano: Some good football teams.

>> Tim Wildmon: Yeah. And the state of Mississippi. Ole Miss is number nine. can they.

Can Mississippi State maintain that without Lane Kippen

Can they maintain that without Laine Kippen? That's the question.

>> Wesley Wildmon: Well, they return. They return the best running back in the nation. Quarterback, probably their quarterback gets his eighth year.

>> Tim Wildmon: This is painful. And this is painful for Wesley and I to admit because we're Mississippi State fans.

>> Ed Vitagliano: I know it.

>> Tim Wildmon: But, gee, are you.

>> Ed Vitagliano: Are you Mississippi State fan shocked?

>> Tim Wildmon: Ring that cow bell.

>> Wesley Wildmon: Ring that.