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Ed Vitagliano 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 this Wednesday, February 18th. Tim Wildmon here with Ed Battagliano, Wesley Wildmon, and now Steve Paisley Jordow joins us. Good morning, brother Steve.

Steve Jordahl Good morning everybody again, folks.

Wesley says people should download American Family Radio app for free

Tim Wildmon before we go to the news, Wesley, people want to, get our AFR app where they can listen to American family radio anywhere in the world as long as they have high speed.

Wesley Wildmon Internet, $1.99 a month.

Tim Wildmon We don't charge for that. It's free.

Wesley Wildmon It's completely free. Yeah, we haven't, there are, there are other podcasts out there that charge for different reasons, but we don't, we.

Tim Wildmon Can go to, we could charge.

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Tim Wildmon I just know a lot of people have told me the last few years I used to listen on your radio station, but now I've switched over to listen on the app.

Ed Vitagliano Right.

Tim Wildmon A lot of people take advantage of that.

Wesley Wildmon It has CarPlay. That's why, that's, that's one, one other reason. So if you, if you download the AFR app and you have a smart car, as soon as you get in a car, it's going to pull up, the radio network on your screen as if it's Apple CarPlay.

Ed Vitagliano What if you have a dumb phone or a dumb car or a dumb driver?

Wesley Wildmon Well, you know what, Actually I, you just call in and ask for, for Wesley could, I probably could help them with that because I'm, I'm not very tech techn.

Ed Vitagliano That's always surprised me. You got a young guy like you.

Tim Wildmon And he's old school.

Wesley Wildmon I just did just enough.

Tim Wildmon Yeah, he of 70s music.

Steve Jordahl Yes.

Wesley Wildmon I did just enough with technology to do my job.

Ed Vitagliano Hey, all right. Sound like us baby boomer.

Wesley Wildmon I got tired of keeping up with the changes. Yeah, I Just gave up. I was like, no, not another update.

Steve Jordahl I'm out.

Tim Wildmon Steve Paisley, door. Good morning, Steve.

Steve Jordahl Good morning.

The left is trying to start defending Alexandria Ocasio Cortez

Tim Wildmon What do you got?

Steve Jordahl You guys had all the fun without me. I was gone the first two days of the week, and I come back, I wasn't able to, talk much about AOC in Munich, and. But everybody's starting to try to defend. The left is trying to start defending her. The View.

Tim Wildmon Tell us her. Her real name.

Steve Jordahl Alexandria Ocasio Cortez. Or some people call her Sandy Cortez.

Tim Wildmon Okay. Oh.

Steve Jordahl Because that's what she was before she was.

Tim Wildmon But, we call her AOC for short. But that's. Yeah, that.

Ed Vitagliano Her.

Tim Wildmon She does have a real name.

Steve Jordahl Ocasio Cortez.

Ed Vitagliano All right. Okay. Wait a second now. This is brand new to me.

Steve Jordahl Yeah.

Tim Wildmon What?

Ed Vitagliano She had a name before she was, ah, Alexander Casio.

Steve Jordahl When she was a bartender, she was Sandy.

Ed Vitagliano Sandy.

Wesley Wildmon Oh, yeah, I forgot about.

Ed Vitagliano Maybe that's just easy.

Tim Wildmon Nobody wants a bartender called AOC okay, you want Sandy?

Ed Vitagliano Sandy.

Tim Wildmon All right.

Ed Vitagliano I didn't know that. So that was just. That was kind of like stage name, though, right? that wasn't her real name.

Steve Jordahl I think it's her real name. And Sandy is a shortening of, you know, Sandy.

Tim Wildmon Bring me a brandy. See how that works?

Ed Vitagliano Yeah. You were waiting to say that.

Tim Wildmon Yeah. All right, go ahead.

Ed Vitagliano Sorry for the interruption.

Ben Shapiro weighed in on the controversy surrounding the View regarding Taiwan

Steve Jordahl Anyway, a lot of people are starting to defend the View, and CBS News had a panel on that was saying, well, she's not that, you know, she. You can't expect her to know everything. I want to play a couple of things because I thought that Ben Shapiro had the best take that I have heard yet. So if you'll permit me, let me remind people what she the one of the many flubs that she made, and it was the answer to her question on Taiwan. Let's just briefly, briefly rehearse this.

Monty Lewin Cut to would and should the US Actually commit US Troops to defend Taiwan if China were to move? you know, I think that, this is such a, you know, I think that this is a, this is, of course, a, ah, very long standing, policy of the United States.

Tim Wildmon Let me just say that she was texting. I mean, you got to give her a break.

Steve Jordahl Okay.

Tim Wildmon At the time she was answering, sounds.

Steve Jordahl Like she was, you know, she wasn't.

Ed Vitagliano But it sounds like she was, well, doing something else.

Steve Jordahl Ben Shapiro, kind of weighed into this on his show, and I wanted to play a little bit what he had to say because I thought it was pretty Good.

AOC falls all over herself on basic questions on international stage

Cut four.

Ben Shapiro She goes abroad. She, she says a bunch of incredibly stupid things. And that's leaving aside her general message, which was that there has to be class solidarity across countries between people who are poor and people who are rich. But put that aside. I'm sorry, but if you proceed to give an answer reminiscent of that famous clip of Miss South Carolina attempting to answer a question about the Iraq war from 15 years ago and you're on a national international stage, that is your fault. Right? She apparently prepared for this for months. According to Politico, she'd had multiple sessions with Matt Das, who is Bernie Sanders is foreign policy adviser. Leave aside the, advisability or inadvisability of going to Bernie Sanders is foreign policy adviser for your actual takes on the world. The fact that AOC spent months preparing for this and then proceeded to fall all over herself on basic questions and to place Venezuela below the equator again, that is your fault, lady. It's nobody else's fault. You were the one who went. And obviously, look, she was taking her 2028 bike out for a spin, she hit the embankment, she flipped head over heels and went all the way down the mountain. It's her fault.

Wesley Wildmon Talking about personal responsibility.

Steve Jordahl Yes.

A fifth of Americans can't locate the US on a world map

Ed Vitagliano I wish we had the, Teen Miss South Carolina.

Steve Jordahl Cut 17, please.

Ed Vitagliano oh.

Monty Lewin Recent polls have shown a fifth of Americans can't locate the US on a world map. Why do you think this is? I personally believe that US Americans are unable to do so because some people out there in our nation don't have maps. And I believe that our education, like, such as in South Africa and Iraq everywhere. Like, such as. And I believe that they, should, our education over here in the US should help the US or should help South Africa.

Tim Wildmon That is a classic. I mean, I don't know how many times that's been video streamed. And listen, I, I saw that lady.

Ed Vitagliano she's a good sport about.

Tim Wildmon Yeah, she's a good sport about it. She's. Now, that was 15 years ago or something.

Steve Jordahl 2007.

Tim Wildmon So I don't want to give her a real name. oh, I do.

Steve Jordahl It's K. It's Kate Upton.

Wesley Wildmon There you go.

Ed Vitagliano She, I, I have seen her and she, she kind of makes fun of herself and she says, listen, I was, I sounded like a deer caught in the headlights. I'm not sure what the deer would sound like. Circumstances. But she said, I just, I blathered.

Steve Jordahl I think she sounded like a congresswoman from, NewSong York, NewSong York.

Tim Wildmon I think she sounded like she had three Beers.

Ed Vitagliano And Sandy sold them to her.

Tim Wildmon Yeah, and Sandy gave them to her.

Steve Jordahl anyway, yeah, so, I had to. To chime in a little bit with that.

Ed Vitagliano I'm glad you brought that.

Tim Wildmon That.

Ed Vitagliano That was funny.

Tim Wildmon But that. That Such a. As. Such as. Such as. Such as.

Steve Jordahl Do you think about which one is more cool?

Tim Wildmon Well, I think the meaty part of what she just says was such as the Iraq that. That got me. She was.

Ed Vitagliano That was just stream of consciousness for.

Tim Wildmon Those who don't know what we're talking about. There was a Miss Teen America contestant, usa And I'm sure she's not the first to. The last one to stumble over a question. You got to give her credit for that run on sentence she's got going, whereas it's just complete stream of consciousness and she doesn't have any idea what words are coming out of her mouth next. But she. At least she can't sit there and say nothing.

Ed Vitagliano Right.

Tim Wildmon You got this. Such as the Iraq.

Steve Jordahl Who did it better, Sandy or Kate?

Ed Vitagliano I, still think that AOC comes out a little better than that poor, teen teenage girl. Listen.

Tim Wildmon Yeah.

Wesley Wildmon The reason is because she didn't give anything. Well, that's better to give nothing.

Tim Wildmon South Carolina didn't know what was coming her way. She had to answer that question impromptu.

Ed Vitagliano Well, that's a good point.

Tim Wildmon AOC Knew what was going.

Ed Vitagliano Six months worth of preparation. And it wasn't an obscure question. The question about our US Involvement if China invades Taiwan.

Wesley Wildmon That's been discussed.

Ed Vitagliano Maybe number, maybe the, ah, number one foreign policy slash military question that you would need to answer.

Steve Jordahl And the whole, the, the larger. I heard the whole context of that thing, the larger, question from the reporter was, when you are president or when you run for president, how are you going to handle Taiwan? she hummed and hawed. And after this, what she did, she gave an answer that basically said, we want to make sure that that problem never comes up. So we're not gonna. So I don't have to.

Tim Wildmon Yeah.

Steve: I think we milked this for about all

All right, next story. Steve, I think we milked this for about all. It's. All it's worth.

Steve Jordahl But I had to get my worth.

Tim Wildmon Yeah. Such as.

Steve Jordahl Such as.

Tim Wildmon Such as the next story, Steve.

Why do all immigrants come to America? Are they coming because they are

Steve Jordahl All right, the next story. I actually found this lady's name. why do all these immigrants come to America? Are they coming because they are. They are such fans of our Constitution, and they see that we have a.

Ed Vitagliano Superior greatest country in the world.

Steve Jordahl Greatest country in the world.

Tim Wildmon That's right. Okay, can I answer that question in a serious way? You may, and I haven't done a, survey, but I'm just going with the question that, the answer that almost probably everybody thinks of, first and foremost, the whole world wants to come to the United States. I use that. Generally speaking, the reason that the entry into the United States is such an, such an envious position is because so much of the world wants a chance at the economic opportunities that America provides and freedom and the freedom and liberty and our way of life, the freedom to move and to travel and to do things, you know, where you're not, you know, in a communist country or you're not in a country that's, that's run by drug cartels, are impoverished. So it's, it's, it's, it's your best chance at a better life. That's the reason most people come to the US Illegally. They're willing to risk it because they want a chance at a better life for them and their family. Go ahead.

Ed Vitagliano Well, and I was going to say even people from European countries, which are. These aren't failed states. These are good countries. But the amount of freedom. Wesley mentioned that. The amount of freedom you have in this country where you can say what you want and not like the uk get a visit from the cops.

Steve Jordahl Well, there was a, there is an Hispanic immigrant to this country. Her name is Monsieur Lewin. L E W I N Doesn't sound very Hispanic because. Well, I'll tell you why later. But she said the quiet part out loud. I want you to hear. This is cut.

Tim Wildmon She an, influencer or something?

Steve Jordahl Yeah, yeah, she's got a. She's got a fairly popular Tick Tock just like you. So maybe a few more, m. subscriptions that you do for your Tick Tock channel. But listen. Listen to what she has to say. This is Monty Lewin, cut 16.

Monty Lewin Let me hold your hand when I say this. We do not move to America because we think it's a better country. We move here because it's a little less, worse than our other countries because you're stupid to think that we moved to this country for some hot dogs and some baseball. We have better vibes, music, food, culture, history, literally all of the above. We just move here because we are looking to make more money and offer a better chance for our families. If you support ice, you support people getting destroyed. If you support families getting dumped out of it.

Steve Jordahl Sorry, I was going to cut the end of that.

Tim Wildmon That was pretty interesting what she said, though, that, that ICE part. Well, so what's your, what's your point?

Steve Jordahl Well, my point is she said the quiet part out loud, which is they think that it's. They love the culture. They. White culture is such anathema to people that you're not supposed to believe in it, you're not supposed to like it. She disparages white, by the way, she took a white husband. I saw her on her bed. She just had a wedding throat, very good looking white guy. But she can't stand America. She's only here to take our money.

Ed Vitagliano Well, go ahead.

Wesley Wildmon Well, I was going to also say she said what the, what I got out of the clip is that the first portion of it or the majority of the beginning was that she's, not coming to America because of the culture. Her, where she comes from, she's got better music, better culture, better, way of life. but then the only reason she's coming to. Only reason people come to America is to make more money and to start a better life for their family. And we have maps and maps.

Tim Wildmon Which is what I said.

Wesley Wildmon Right, exactly.

Tim Wildmon I don't know why she had to put down, what you called white culture. I mean, I think it's just American, American culture. because, by the way, I don't, I don't think she's representative of the majority of people who come to America who are more appreciative.

Ed Vitagliano I think you're right.

Wesley Wildmon I think you're right about that. But what's funny is though, the liberal far left Democrat party is teaching that and that's what they believe.

Tim Wildmon Isn't it ironic with a capital I that all these people who want to say America is systemically racist and yet they want to tell everybody to come to America. M. I think that experience and experience the systemic racism.

Ed Vitagliano I think that's what she's trying to answer. She sounded upset, angry at people who say, well, if America is so bad, why are people coming here from other countries? She's trying to answer that, but it's an epic fail because she says our culture is better where we come from.

Tim Wildmon Right.

Ed Vitagliano And my answer would, I would stop her and say, then why did you come?

Steve Jordahl Money.

Ed Vitagliano Because what we can do here is better. And and you know what, lady? That's part of our culture.

Tim Wildmon Right, exactly. She says our music's better, our food's better. And I'm going like, well, you know who said, how do you know that? I mean, I think everybody's food, is wonderful.

Ed Vitagliano Yeah.

Tim Wildmon I think everybody's music from around the world. I can listen we got to clip that up.

Wesley Wildmon It just sounded fun. Everybody's food.

Tim Wildmon Everybody. I enjoy food from different countries. I enjoy music from different countries. And actually, America is a melting pot.

Wesley Wildmon Yeah, yeah.

Tim Wildmon now, do we have a. Do we traditionally have a European influence that's been more dominant?

Steve Martin: American culture is far superior to socialism in Latin America

But even Europe is broken into several different. You got Germany, you got Italian, you got British. I mean, you got all kind of cultures that are celebrated here in the.

Ed Vitagliano U.S. i've seen this, on Facebook, these little short videos, the reels. These guys from, the uk they take American food over there. They have someone prepare it and to, like, British high schoolers.

Steve Jordahl I've seen that.

Ed Vitagliano And the British high schoolers are trying, you know, food from Popeyes or biscuits, and gravy.

Tim Wildmon Love that chicken.

Ed Vitagliano And. And listen, these young people go, oh, my goodness, that is so good. That is so much better than our food.

Steve Jordahl Well, it is England. Well, to an English restaurant. Got Italian. We got German. We got English.

Ed Vitagliano We got good stuff here.

Wesley Wildmon Oh, yeah.

Ed Vitagliano it's good food. It's good. Ah, we talk about music from the 70s.

Steve Jordahl This is a lot of discussion on white culture, though, because everybody's allowed to say. She's allowed to say that my Latina culture is superior, and nobody says anything. A lot of people out there in the, like, the, BLM people would say my black culture is far superior to white supremacy.

Tim Wildmon When that's dangerous, that's supremacy itself.

Steve Jordahl Well, I know, but you're not allowed to be proud of white.

Tim Wildmon We are, Steve. we're proud of everybody.

Ed Vitagliano I'll say that.

Tim Wildmon Right. Yellow, red. We're proud of you all.

Ed Vitagliano I'll say this probably. American culture is far superior to socialism and communism in Latin America. How's that?

Tim Wildmon Right?

Steve Jordahl Preach.

Tim Wildmon Including red and yellow, black and white. They are precious in his. That is slam dunk.

Ed Vitagliano That's a slam dunk.

Tim Wildmon Okay. Right. there we go.

Ed Vitagliano We missed our. We missed our.

Tim Wildmon I was growing up. First time when I was growing up, I was six years old, we sang that, and I was going, well, where are the yellow. Where are the yellow people?

Ed Vitagliano You know, didn't know anything.

Tim Wildmon Red and yellow, red, red and white. you know, and black. I knew who they were.

Ed Vitagliano Right.

Tim Wildmon No, but, where these yellow people were talking about, so. But anyway, yellow refers to Asians, right? Yeah, I. Go ahead, Steve. What's your next story?

Gavin Newsom compared American law enforcement to Nazis at Munich conference

Steve Jordahl All right, one of the other people that showed up in Munich at the security conference was Gavin Newsom.

Tim Wildmon Oh, yeah.

Steve Jordahl And, ah, he brought the real cream. He had almost as much wonderful, things to say as aoc.

Wesley Wildmon Yeah, that's right.

Steve Jordahl and take, Cruise took a little notice of this, and he had something to say about, Gavin Newsom, his time in Munich. Let's listen to cut 14.

Tim Wildmon Let's be very clear, center.

Wesley Wildmon That is Gavin Newsom comparing American law enforcement to Nazis.

Steve Jordahl Yep. Yep. Which. Which, by the way, is what Obama was doing, too. By. By the way, just like AOC and Whitmer, Newsom is apparently thoroughly historically illiterate. He said, we've never seen National Guards federalized in the states. I guess his history book does not discuss the civil rights movement. He's never heard of a president named Dwight D. Eisenhower. He's never heard of sending the National Guard into Southern states. When Democrats who refused to desegregate schools resisted, Eisenhower sent the National Guard in. The pattern is the same in this instance. You have Democrats who are saying, we refuse to comply with federal immigration law. Then you had, in the 50s and 60s, you had Democrats saying, we refused to comply with civil rights law. you know, Gavin Newsom is proudly following the tradition of Bull Connor, another Democrat politician.

Tim Wildmon Let me ask you this question. That was Gavin Newsom. The illustrious. That was Ted Cruz comedy on the.

Steve Jordahl Historical illiteracy of, Gavin Newsom.

Tim Wildmon I'm getting just. I've been tired of this Nazi.

Steve Jordahl Yeah.

Tim Wildmon This Nazi comparison that the left. They bring that out at the. Just a. That's their. Almost their first reaction.

Wesley Wildmon If you don't even get to finish this.

Tim Wildmon No. If you get pulled over for a parking ticket, they say, hey, that's a Nazi going after. Going after a, minority. You know. Absolutely. The Nazis murdered 6 million people. They sent them to gas chambers.

Wesley Wildmon Yeah, that's right.

Tim Wildmon They, Well, I say 6 million people. They murdered more than that. That's the 6 million Jews and the Holocaust. The Nazis under Hitler were ruthless killers with no regard for. I mean, you had to be a. You had to be committed, to the Third Reich or you were, You could be put to death. So this. This just throwing out the word Nazi all the time. Ed, it just. Just. I think people lose their. They get desensitized to the word almost. But they want to say, Right. Gavin Newsom and others want to say that people on the right support Nazis. Like.

Ed Vitagliano Right.

Tim Wildmon Like the. They say ICE is the Gestapo.

Ed Vitagliano Yeah.

Tim Wildmon which is a secret police.

Ed Vitagliano Right.

Tim Wildmon Of the Nazis.

Ed Vitagliano I think they do this because Nazis are the one villain that we can all agree on. Everyone. Everyone thinks the Nazis were bad guys. That they were evil. And since we can all agree on it, that label has tremendous power. The problem for the left is they continue to call everyone with whom they have a political disagreement a Nazi, and therefore, that word actually loses its power.

Tim Wildmon Right, right.

Ed Vitagliano Because the conservatives aren't Nazis like you're talking about. But if you call them that, then you lose credibility on the left. It's a poor strategy, but they're going for the gut level reaction of the low information voter who goes, well, I guess they are. I guess they are. Because they don't know what real Nazis.

Steve Jordahl They don't know what Nazis are. They call and fascist. Nazis were fascist. And that's another word that gets thrown around and people don't know what it means. If you ask one of these protesters on the street that's calling white people fascist and ice fascist, what is fascism? They wouldn't be able to. They have no clue there.

Ed Vitagliano They.

Steve Jordahl You'd get an AOC answer out of them.

Tim Wildmon Yeah, right. We got about a minute or two left.

Steve Jordahl All right.

Australian couple gets ticket for car theft because thief didn't buckle up

Tim Wildmon Got any happy news?

Steve Jordahl Well, it's not happy for an Australian.

Tim Wildmon McLean wanted happy news is that it's.

Steve Jordahl Not happy for an Australian couple. But it is kind of interesting, kind of funny. a couple in Australia had their house broken into and someone stole their car. And, they called the police, but the police weren't able to make it that night. But police had traffic cameras out and they did catch this guy, going, driving. And so they have a picture of the guy. unfortunately, the Australian governor sent. The Australian, government sent them a ticket for 6,258 Australian dollars, about $4,400 because the thief didn't buckle up. And it's their responsibility to make sure that everybody in the car is always buckled up.

Wesley Wildmon That, sounds like Australia to me.

Tim Wildmon They sound like Nazis.

Steve Jordahl might be.

Tim Wildmon am I right?

Ed Vitagliano So they're holding the couple responsible for the guy, for the criminal being not being buckled up in the car that he stole from.

Tim Wildmon Can you imagine them calling down to the Department of Transportation and, they get somebody on that. Yes, how can I help you?

Wesley Wildmon Yeah, I'm not paying this ticket.

Tim Wildmon Yeah, well, sir, you're gonna have to call this number and hit extension four. But they're going to launch.

Is American culture better than Australian culture?

Ed Vitagliano Well, so let me ask about is American culture better than Australian culture? Yeah, yeah, I'm saying.

Wesley Wildmon Yeah, well, they lost me on mandatory gun buyback. Yeah, that, that's when they.

Ed Vitagliano And they were putting people in prison for not masking.

Wesley Wildmon That's right.

Tim Wildmon Yeah, they lost me at Vegemite sandwich.

Ed Vitagliano And they deserve that. That's. I've never had it, but it's pretty rough. Sounds terrible.

Steve Jordahl It is.

Wesley Wildmon I, would like to say we would do better tomorrow.

Tim Wildmon But tomorrow's Thursday.

Steve Jordahl How can you do better than.

Tim Wildmon Tomorrow's a new day. Everybody take advantage of the opportunity before you. Friday, Ed. Is that what you always say?

Ed Vitagliano Every day is a Friday.

Tim Wildmon Hey. Wednesday, February 18th. We're done here. See you tomorrow.