Today's Issues continues on AFR with your host, Tim Wildman
>> Ed Vitagliano: Today's Issues continues on AFR with your
>> Steve Jordahl: 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. Tim, Ed, Fred. And now, Steve. Steve Paisley. Jordan. Good morning, Steve.
>> Steve Jordahl: Hey, good morning, everybody.
The Democrat National Committee blocked an autopsy of their election loss of 2024
>> Tim Wildmon: so, Steve, I want to ask you. I got a survey to do here.
>> Steve Jordahl: Okay.
>> Tim Wildmon: I've seen a news story today, very important news.
>> Steve Jordahl: Yes.
>> Tim Wildmon: On Fox, America's favorite pizza.
>> Steve Jordahl: That was going to be my kicker. That's what I was going to save for the end because I thought Ed would like it. But, yeah, we could do it.
>> Tim Wildmon: We're going to revisit that at the end. That's.
>> Steve Jordahl: No, we didn't.
>> Tim Wildmon: Because people want to eat pizza.
>> Steve Jordahl: That's right.
>> Steve Jordahl: That's right.
>> Ed Vitagliano: At the end of the day, at the beginning of the day, every day, too much pizza. Well, you believe me, you can.
>> Tim Wildmon: We'll save this story. I didn't know that was your closing.
>> Steve Jordahl: I just thought it would be an interesting, conversation.
>> Tim Wildmon: So don't look at my.
>> Ed Vitagliano: Okay, I'm not looking.
>> Tim Wildmon: Okay, go. What do you got? What are you leading with?
>> Steve Jordahl: All right, you want to do something other than that?
>> Tim Wildmon: Not pizza. What? What? Tell me what's better.
>> Steve Jordahl: In, December of, 2025.
>> Ed Vitagliano: Uh-huh.
>> Steve Jordahl: The Democrat National Committee blocked an autopsy of their, election loss of 2024. They had a paper written up about why we lost so badly in 2024. This was when President Trump was elected for the second time.
>> Tim Wildmon: Yes.
>> Steve Jordahl: And, they blocked the release of it. They didn't say why. They just said they weren't releasing it. Well, now there's a debate going on in the Democrat Party over whether they should release it. We need to know because they're coming up on midterms. They're coming up on 2028. Coming up. They got to know what to do differently. Right. Well, there's a disagreement within the party about whether that should be released and what it will say. And I wanted to let you know a little bit about this. This is, cut seven. We're going to hear. First person we're going to hear is going to be Rashida Tlaib, who's,
>> Tim Wildmon: so looking forward to hearing from her.
>> Steve Jordahl: I know we haven't had her on in a while.
>> Tim Wildmon: It's been a while.
>> Steve Jordahl: It has been too long.
>> Tim Wildmon: An old familiar voice.
>> Steve Jordahl: She is going to double down on crazy and say, that's what we're about to hear. That's what we're about to hear. Cut 7.
>> Fred Jackson: They don't want people to know the truth. They messed up. They didn't listen to their Democratic base who's, you know, anti war, anti genocide, anti corporate greed. I mean, some of the conversations I've had with the Democratic base, and these are people that have voted with us for decades, who are tired of, our party taking money from the same people that hurt us. And so it's a combination, of course. I know a lot of people think it was obviously about the genocide and what's going on, as, of course, the devastation. That is true. But I also think it's also a combination of, like, when we had the trifecta, we didn't do what we promised to do. So I think it's a combination, and I think we need to face the fact.
>> Ed Vitagliano: Why?
>> Steve Jordahl: I have no idea.
>> Tim Wildmon: And whether they should. I don't know.
>> Steve Jordahl: Jerry Nadler.
>> Tim Wildmon: I don't have no idea. What. I mean, I know that I've heard some of you guys talking about it.
>> Steve Jordahl: Why haven't we put it out? I think it's going to be embarrassing, apparently, to some people. Do I think we should put it out? Absolutely. The only way we can learn from what we did wrong in 2024 is if we all know what it was and then work to correct it.
>> Tim Wildmon: Let, me just tell you something. You know the old expression, it doesn't take a rocket scientist?
>> Steve Jordahl: I do know that expression.
>> Tim Wildmon: I'm about to bring that out right now.
>> Steve Jordahl: Because you were a rocket scientist, I believe.
>> Tim Wildmon: Well, you started it. No, I was in astronaut school and I had a little back thing going on, and I really don't want to talk.
>> Steve Jordahl: Okay. Sorry, I didn't mean to bring up.
>> Ed Vitagliano: It's even painful to talk about it.
>> Tim Wildmon: What might have been, really. That's what it's a story of. so she. I mean, to leave.
Rashida: Democrats will not release autopsy report on why they lost
Okay. Rashida, I can tell you what, why the Democrats lost. Kamala Harris was a horrible candidate. Next story. Yeah, I mean, she was absolutely. They could have put up, three or four others. They don't have a deep bench now. I will. I will say that the Democrats. But if they'd have put up somebody like Josh Shapiro, the governor of Pennsylvania, he would have had a decent chance, to win. People say, well, I never heard of him. Well, I'm just saying that the country's 50, 50. It doesn't matter whether you've heard of the other guy or lady running or not. People are going to vote their party first and foremost. It's just how much enthusiasm they have for their candidate. And I think he would have carried Pennsylvania, being the governor of that state and help and probably presented a better challenge than Kamala Harris. But back to my original statement. Kamala Harris was just terrible. She was, she was not even in. She wasn't an improvement on Biden. so I don't know who ever thought she would be President Obama, remember, he warned. He. I don't know if he said this in a press conference, but he, mean, it was well known that he warned Democrats, hey, we need to have a primary here or something. We don't just need to crown her because there's a good chance she loses and we can't lose to Trump. That was their thinking. If you're on the Democrat side, Fred.
>> Fred Jackson: Well, what I find interesting about this story that Steve has brought us, these are Democrats willing to talk to reporters that they are upset that their party will not release this report on why they lost in 24. So, you know, when your own party will not tell its members who are up for reelection why they lost in 20, that's mind boggling in itself.
>> Tim Wildmon: Yeah, but you don't think they know what I know. What I just said is true?
>> Fred Jackson: Well, according to what they just said to reporters, I think what they're looking for is a document that will back their contention. Either that the party has to move further to the left or, or that we were so bad because we were bad on the border. We left 15 million people in illegally.
>> Tim Wildmon: That is true.
>> Fred Jackson: American, people did not like our stance on allowing boys to go into girls bathrooms and play in girls sports.
>> Tim Wildmon: And we let a dead man walking be president exactly four years.
>> Fred Jackson: So I think, I think the DNC report is being kept a secret, because of all of these things.
>> Ed Vitagliano: Yeah, well, they didn't.
>> Tim Wildmon: Let me just say this. I don't mean to make fun of president, Former President Biden in the sense that I hope he's dead. I don't mean that. I meant. But as a functional president, he was not there. And we all know that's what I mean by dead man walking.
>> Ed Vitagliano: Yeah, all you guys are right. Yes, Kamala Harris was a bad candidate, but the party that is now known as the Democratic Party, is primarily driven by hatred for Donald Trump. They could not present a coherent plan for America going forward.
>> Tim Wildmon: This is true.
>> Ed Vitagliano: And the things they did advocate for was in the realm of crazy open board. All the things you just said. So all of this is right. And I think that's what the, what this autopsy was going to reveal. But they can't reveal it because the strongest, most energetic part of their party wants more crazy.
>> Fred Jackson: Yes.
>> Ed Vitagliano: And they want to basically, whoever their candidate would be in 2028, they want to run on hatred for Trump and, you know, like the old Saturday Night Live famous skit, more cowbell. They want more crazy, and that's what they want. While the autopsy is saying, no, we've got to go back to what made the Democratic Party the Democratic Party, which is, let's try to help the poor, all those kinds of things that traditional liberalism was for. Those people aren't running the party.
>> Steve Jordahl: I agree with everything you guys have said. As a data point, to back up what you guys are saying is, what's one of the first things that happened after Donald Trump got into the White House for the second time? We started reversing the crazy. Woke, took a nap, kind of went away. And that's what I think the American people are gonna want, and I think that's what the report says. We shouldn't have gone that far out on a limb. The other thing is the Democrats are telling you, the crazies are telling you what they're gonna do. Kamala, Harris just came out with this. Let's have a no bad ideas discussion. What are they gonna do? They're gonna stack the Supreme Court. They're promising. They're promising to make Puerto rico and Washington, D.C. states.
>> Tim Wildmon: They did that last time, though. They've done that before.
>> Steve Jordahl: Promise those things.
>> Tim Wildmon: Yeah. I mean, that's what they try to whip their.
>> Steve Jordahl: Do away with, the filibuster. Well, they're saying they're going to do it again.
>> Ed Vitagliano: So, you know, when you ever see a video of a Karen, on social media, she comes up and someone's, you know, they're running with the dog on a leash or whatever, and Karen starts to go crazy. You can't do this. So you can't. I'm calling the police. The person who's filming, it's going, lady, please. You're, you know, you're acting like you're an insane person. Then the cops come, and the lady goes after the cops. She doesn't find some humility and calms down. She goes ballistic on the cops. And as she's being dragged away, she's continuing on with her tirade. This is what the crazies in the Democratic Party are like. You confront them with the truth, and they go double down on it. They're two times the crazy.
>> Tim Wildmon: Let me just say. And I know you didn't mean anything by this, Ed, but there are a lot of Karen who are hurt. Their name has been just dragged through the mud the last five or ten years.
>> Ed Vitagliano: I see what you're saying, since
>> Tim Wildmon: it became a verb.
>> Ed Vitagliano: Yeah, you know, I should, I should be more careful.
Ed: We sympathize with Karen's out there who listen to our show
>> Tim Wildmon: Karen, how would you like Ed to be used? Hey, they were edited. You know that. Did you see that guy going full head on the, on the reason never go full Ed.
>> Ed Vitagliano: I don't think. I don't think that we're in danger of having my name be a verb.
>> Tim Wildmon: Edward.
>> Ed Vitagliano: Yeah, Edit.
>> Tim Wildmon: Okay, Edit.
>> Ed Vitagliano: But anyway, to your point, to all
>> Tim Wildmon: our all, I want you to do sympathize with Karen's out there.
>> Ed Vitagliano: All the caring Karens out there who listen to our show. We love you, we support you, we
>> Tim Wildmon: don't want to lump you.
>> Ed Vitagliano: We're talking about the crazy Karen.
>> Tim Wildmon: Crazy Karen's out there. All right. You're listening to today's issues on American Family Radio. Tim, Ed, Fred and Steve. What's your next story, Steve?
San Diego police are investigating mosque shooting as a possible hate crime
>> Steve Jordahl: All right, we're getting a little bit more down the road on. They finally have released the names of the two, guys that shot up the, mosque in San Diego.
>> Tim Wildmon: When did that happen? I missed that story till this morning.
>> Fred Jackson: About 24 hours ago.
>> Steve Jordahl: Yeah, it's been about 20. It was after the show.
>> Tim Wildmon: So tell us what happened. For those who don't know, two
>> Steve Jordahl: young men, got together.
>> Tim Wildmon: Teenagers.
>> Steve Jordahl: Teenagers, Yep. They took guns from one of their parents house. They went down to a mosque, an Islamic center in San Diego, walked in and they started shooting.
>> Tim Wildmon: Wow. Mosque. Do we know you?
>> Steve Jordahl: Well, this is part of the debate. I have audio which we can play where the chief of police of San Diego says they're investigating. This is a hate crime.
>> Tim Wildmon: Okay.
>> Steve Jordahl: the mother of the, one of the kids, said that she called the, San Diego police saying her son was going to commit suicide. He was acting strangely. Going to commit suicide. do you want to hear any of these audio?
>> Ed Vitagliano: I'd like to.
>> Steve Jordahl: Okay, let's listen to the, the, the chief of police of San Diego first. Scott, Ball. Scott Wallbuilders is his name. Wahl Cut nine. She believed her son was suicidal and she began to share information that several, several of her weapons were missing, her son was with a companion and that they were dressed in camo. And that is not consistent with what we would typically see from somebody that is suicidal. It's being investigated as a hate crime at this point. There was definitely hate rhetoric that was involved.
>> Tim Wildmon: Why can't you just investigate Something as a crime. Why do we have to tag it?
>> Steve Jordahl: Well, it is interesting that, what
>> Tim Wildmon: is it better or worse that somebody's kill by somebody who's motivated by hate or just blows them away because they want to rob them? I mean, what's. You know what I'm saying? Why don't we. Why do we tag things with hate? that just makes it.
>> Ed Vitagliano: Well, we. Early on in the. In the 90s, when hate crime laws were being pushed, this was from. Primarily from the LGBTQ crowd. AFA opposed, and most of the Christian groups, including legal groups, Alliance Defending Freedom and others. We were opposed to hate crime legislation for precisely the light. For the reasons you're given, Tim, which is if a person kills someone because they hated them, that doesn't make the crime any worse than if they killed them because they were in a bad mood. And there was too much of a risk of using this hate crime legislation to silence people for their political or cultural views. I do think it is sometimes helpful to know what motivates. What motivates.
>> Tim Wildmon: I agree with that.
>> Ed Vitagliano: But when this police chief said, we're investigating it as a hate crime, that is going to add additional. If they were. If the perpetrators were still alive, it would add additional penalties, which you go, well, it doesn't matter if you murder a Christian or a Muslim. Nobody should get away with it and the penalty should be the same.
>> Steve Jordahl: Fred, I think.
Steve Starmer: I don't think we need to assign a motive
You tell me if you agree with this. I think that the media and the left is looking so hard for this white, supremacy. You know, white men are the danger, the piranha here, and they're the cause of all this evil. They're looking so hard for racism and anti everything that they're going to immediately jump to that. Do you think?
>> Fred Jackson: I think this story is worth watching.
>> Tim Wildmon: Teenagers.
>> Fred Jackson: Yeah. this 17 and 18 year olds. This story is worth watching, what the media does with it.
>> Steve Jordahl: Yeah.
>> Fred Jackson: there are some unknowns. This police chief used a term m yesterday. these suspects were engaged in generalized hate rhetoric. What does that mean? Generalized?
>> Tim Wildmon: I never heard that expression.
>> Fred Jackson: No. And they actually went looking for them. They went to a mall first, these two guys, and then they went to, I believe another school. And then they went to this Islamic center finally.
>> Tim Wildmon: So, well armed.
>> Fred Jackson: So the cops were tracing them.
>> Tim Wildmon: Okay.
>> Fred Jackson: Catching up with them as they went. They, they, they. Sadly, they killed three people inside this school, this mosque, which had a school as well. and then they went to a vehicle and they took their own lives. So what happens if they had motivations other than Anti religious in general. There's just a lot of questions with this one. And that's why I'm inviting people be, watching for how this story evolves because we may find that the shooters had.
>> Steve Jordahl: There could be a plot twist coming.
>> Fred Jackson: Other motives.
>> Tim Wildmon: Well, listen, guys, I don't hold these young youngsters responsible, at all. This is clearly the gun's fault.
>> Steve Jordahl: Well, yeah, there's that.
>> Tim Wildmon: You have gun violence that is out of control. And so I don't think we need to assign a motive to their actions. I don't think that matters yet. Do you think. Because it's done by. This is.
>> Ed Vitagliano: To this. Tongue in cheek. Yeah, because this is. This is something that.
>> Tim Wildmon: The leftist argument all the time. this kind of thing.
>> Ed Vitagliano: Yeah, they. They'll say gun violence. Almost implying that the guns are the problem. That. Well, that is. That's. They're not implying it, they're saying it. The guns are the problem. If the guns didn't exist, this kind of thing wouldn't happen. That's what they're arguing.
>> Tim Wildmon: Unless it's a police officer using a gun, in which case they flip from gun violence to police violence. Oh, yeah. So a person's, accountable for their actions. Unless they're a criminal.
>> Ed Vitagliano: Yes. That's that twisted argument that they make
>> Tim Wildmon: on the left all the time. That's what you hear. It's gun violence. But if it's cop. No, it's cop violence.
>> Ed Vitagliano: And they're doing it because they're racist. A lot of times. That's the argument. So in that case, it's the motive of the person wielding the gun.
>> Tim Wildmon: Right.
>> Ed Vitagliano: Not the fact that the guns exist in our society.
>> Tim Wildmon: All right. You're listening to today's issues. We'll see what happens in that case. Go ahead, Steve.
>> Steve Jordahl: There's just a couple things that I wanted to mention here. The way the media covers this, as Fred was talking about just there, someone pointed out the difference. This was, back when there was a shooting at an Austin bar. A guy named, Diaga Diagny, shot the bar up. He was wearing a T shirt that said Property of allah. He killed two wounded 14 days after the shooting. the paper, at least one outlet, ABC News, pushed a headline that says Search for Motive ongoing after the.
>> Tim Wildmon: Oskar, he's wearing a T shirt that said what?
>> Steve Jordahl: Property of Allah.
>> Tim Wildmon: Imagine if it said Property of Jesus Christ and he had been the killer. Then it would have been the fault of Christians everywhere.
>> Steve Jordahl: Right, Right. Well, and so immediately, though, because it was an Islamic cent, they're Saying that it was a hate crime. Also interesting that Keir Starmer.
>> Tim Wildmon: Unless. Unless. All right.
British prime minister condemns San Diego mosque attack, says many Muslims will be shaken
They said anything about what we talked about at our meeting?
>> Ed Vitagliano: No, no, no.
>> Tim Wildmon: There's been no public.
>> Fred Jackson: Not yet talking about that.
>> Tim Wildmon: Okay.
>> Steve Jordahl: Keir Starmer, the prime Minister of, England, put out a statement on this.
>> Tim Wildmon: For some reason, Crime in America.
>> Steve Jordahl: A crime in America, he said. I condemn the deadly attack on the mosque in San Diego. My thoughts are with those affected. I know many Muslims in the UK Will be shaken by this goes on. he's m. Muslims have wrecked that country, and he's standing up for them.
>> Tim Wildmon: If you have. Listen, Muslims, over there. Muslim men stab people every day.
>> Steve Jordahl: Yeah.
>> Tim Wildmon: In Britain. And it's a big problem, the crime in the Muslim community there, especially among young men, in Britain's way I understand it. And does he come out and say, I know this is going to shake up native Englishmen. Right. What's happening to their. To our people, you know, our. Our native English.
>> Ed Vitagliano: That's not the way the left operates.
>> Tim Wildmon: No.
>> Ed Vitagliano: They don't have to be, intellectually honest or ideologically consistent.
>> Tim Wildmon: Yeah.
One of the potential candidates for president came down to Alabama to speak
All right, good.
>> Steve Jordahl: One of the potential candidates for president, in 2028, came down to Montgomery, Alabama, to speak. Xander Ogazio Cortez was making a speech behind a bulletproof glass.
>> Tim Wildmon: So we've heard from Rashida Tlaib.
>> Steve Jordahl: Yeah.
>> Tim Wildmon: Earlier. So now we're gonna bring in.
>> Steve Jordahl: We're gonna bring in Ocasio, Cortez, DiMaggio, and Mantle. She was down here. Exactly. She was down here talking about the Supreme Court decision to. On redistricting and how unfair it was because the Democrats, lost that one. And I just want to let you hear what she had to say, about this. This is cut 8.
>> Fred Jackson: They're afraid of us coming together. They're afraid of us protecting one another. Alabama is the crucible. Georgia is the crucible. Tennessee, Louisiana, Mississippi is the crucible. So if you are not from here, it is time to pull up. Because what they thought was the final blow is actually just the opening silo.
>> Steve Jordahl: She opened the silo, and all the grain came out.
>> Ed Vitagliano: She meant opening salvo is what she meant. Meant to say.
>> Tim Wildmon: She doesn't know the difference.
>> Ed Vitagliano: She doesn't know the difference. The opening silo.
>> Tim Wildmon: That's her heart. She said. She also said multiple states. She said Alabama, Mississippi, Tennessee is the crucible.
>> Steve Jordahl: Yeah.
>> Ed Vitagliano: Yeah.
>> Tim Wildmon: Anyway, so she.
>> Fred Jackson: Anyway, may she keep on speaking. On speaking.
>> Ed Vitagliano: I just want to say, before we get. We got to get to the people story, I'm Just going to say your DiMaggio mantle comment is a top 10 insult of all time. That was. I'm going to be laughing about that all day. All right, let's go to pizza.
>> Steve Jordahl: Yeah.
Pizza Hut remains America's favorite pizza chain according to YouGov survey
>> Tim Wildmon: Now back to Steve and pizza YouGov.
>> Steve Jordahl: did a survey of more than 44,000 people to find out what America's favorite pizza chain was. It ends up who ends up on top. Pizza Hut remains the favorite pizza chain according to the survey. And, it got 19.1% of the votes. Domino's second. at 17, Papa Jon's little Caesars Marcos Pizza rounded up the top five.
>> Ed Vitagliano: Do we have a Marcos in our.
>> Tim Wildmon: Do we do. I never tried that down the street here.
>> Ed Vitagliano: I'm just gonna say I'm just gonna do a little commercial. I like our lost pizza. That's. That's good pizza.
>> Tim Wildmon: I don't think that's local establishment.
>> Ed Vitagliano: That's a local establishment. I've had Fox's pizza once. That was good. Let me ask you this. Didn't somebody buy a bunch of Pizza Hut here recently?
>> Fred Jackson: There's a guy that has bought about 80.
>> Ed Vitagliano: Yeah.
>> Fred Jackson: Of those. And he's bringing them back to where they were. He's bringing back the, buffet. Buffet. The salad bar, the red cups, the whole thing.
>> Ed Vitagliano: I'm going to tell you, I don't mind Pizza Hut at all. Their pizza. Now, I haven't been to a Pizza Hut in forever because they just kind of dried up and disappeared around here. There's. I'm not sure there is one anymore in existence.
>> Fred Jackson: There's one.
>> Ed Vitagliano: There's one.
>> Steve Jordahl: We got one in Amory.
>> Ed Vitagliano: But their, their thin crust pizza was pretty good.
>> Steve Jordahl: They had a pizza. I think it was a pizza, that had a hot honey pepperoni pizza a year or two ago.
>> Ed Vitagliano: Didn't sound too bad.
>> Steve Jordahl: Just fantastic, I've ever had.
>> Tim Wildmon: Sounds bad to me.
>> Steve Jordahl: Oh, my God. So good.
>> Ed Vitagliano: Honey, any pepperoni anymore is just so much sodium. Yeah, but if pepperoni is good, hot honey pepper.
>> Steve Jordahl: Oh, this is really good.
>> Ed Vitagliano: I would try that. Yeah, I would try.
>> Steve Jordahl: I ate a whole little medium pizza one day.
>> Tim Wildmon: Put me down as. I won't try that. The words honey and pepperoni do not go together in my opinion. But we're. Listen, we can agree to disagree. Disagree. The pizza I grew up on. Pizza Hut. Thin and crispy sausage, pork sausage.
>> Ed Vitagliano: Their thin crust was.
>> Tim Wildmon: That will forever live in my, taste bud's memory. All right, have a great day, everybody. See you back here tomorrow.
