Today's Issues features Steve Paisley Jordan on American Family Radio
>> 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 the American Family Radio Network. Thanks for listening to afr. Tim add. And now, Steve Paisley Jordan.
>> Steve Jordahl: Good morning, everybody.
>> Tim Wildmon: Going to. Good morning, brother Steve. Good weekend for you there.
>> Steve Jordahl: I got it. Well, I wasn't feeling really hot this weekend. I was at home during the hockey, game.
>> Tim Wildmon: Yeah.
>> Steve Jordahl: And I'll tell you honestly. Honestly, I have a.
>> Tim Wildmon: You mean you could have been at church?
>> Steve Jordahl: my wife was at church. I had a chest cold.
>> Tim Wildmon: you didn't want to give it to other people?
>> Steve Jordahl: I didn't.
>> Tim Wildmon: That's.
>> Ed Vitagliano: That's very, very nice of you, Steve.
>> Steve Jordahl: I tuned into the hockey game literally three seconds or so after that goal. The winning goal. Yeah. Because I heard the announcer say the first time in 46 years. 46 years. that was something. And I tell you, I watched a little bit of the coverage, and I wept. And the reason I wept is that it had been so long since I had heard anybody speak so positively about America. You guys played Jack Hughes. Yeah, we did. So positively about this country. I want to play just a couple little things. Ed, you. You brought up the Kurt Russell introduction to the, to the game, which I had. I didn't watch. I didn't hear, but I did.
>> Ed Vitagliano: The actor.
>> Steve Jordahl: He's the actor.
>> Ed Vitagliano: And he's. He's famous for a number of roles, but he played the part of R. Coach Herb Brooks, who coached the 1980 team that beat the Soviets. Right. And so he's well known for that role by hockey fans.
>> Steve Jordahl: Yeah. And so he, NBC asked him to do an introduction to the game, and this is what that sounded like. Cut 13.
>> Kurt Russell: The United States has not won an Olympic gold in men's hockey since 1980. 46 years have gone by. Treasuring a miracle, wouldn't you say? It's about time to celebrate something else.
>> Steve Jordahl: When here shoots, he scores.
>> Kurt Russell: His team isn't lucky to be here. They've earned it, but so have they. This isn't David and Goliath. It's a clash of the titans. It's Kong versus Godzilla. and if you love this sport as much as I do, you know how rare and how precious this is watching the two best hockey teams in the world face Off.
>> Steve Jordahl: Yeah. So that was a good.
>> Ed Vitagliano: Gave me chills listening to it.
>> Steve Jordahl: So what gave me chills is, after the game, they took a camera into the locker room of the Team America, and they Caught them singing. It's a Toby Keith song from years ago, but it's a patriotic song and, you can hear a little bit of it. I don't recommend the whole song. It's got some imagery that may not be family friendly.
>> Ed Vitagliano: Right.
>> Steve Jordahl: But.
>> Ed Vitagliano: But, these are hockey players after all.
>> Steve Jordahl: Right. But what I'm gonna play for you is cleaned up a bit.
>> Ed Vitagliano: So. And these. But members of the Team USA men's hockey team.
>> Steve Jordahl: This is Team USA moments after they were awarded their gold medals in the locker room celebrating cut 14. That just you could hear. You might not be able to say in the words, but you can hear the excitement of patriotism and pride in
>> Ed Vitagliano: their voice, which is extraordinary nowadays. That's what's strange about where our country is. You have, Now, I think it's probably a fairly small percentage of people in this country who seem to hate the nation. They get an inordinate amount of influential and they. And they get a lot of press. And there were a couple of athletes who had already won medals at the Olympics for the US and when they were in front of the media, they took that opportunity to take a shot at some of the problems and some of the things that they think are wrong with the country. This was so refreshing. And like you said, this is inspiring. and the. The. I don't know what the women did. They. They won the gold against Canada as well.
>> Steve Jordahl: In overtime.
>> Ed Vitagliano: In overtime. So, I'm gonna just toss this in.
>> Tim Wildmon: Yeah.
>> Ed Vitagliano: The one thing I didn't like about social media in the. In the aftermath of this game, I did see a lot of Americans. Remember when I was growing up, my parents said, you can't be a poor sport if you lose and you can't be a poor winner.
White House put out meme mocking Canadian fans ahead of Yankees-Red Sox game
And I saw a lot of people, who were, ugly towards Canadian fans. So I don't like to see that that's unnecessary.
>> Tim Wildmon: I don't either. But this is. This is Yankees, Red Sox. That.
>> Ed Vitagliano: That is true.
>> Tim Wildmon: This is like,
>> Ed Vitagliano: some of it was funny.
>> Tim Wildmon: The.
>> Ed Vitagliano: The White House put out. They put out a meme or something with a bald eagle, you know, the, symbol of America, having already pounced on a Canadian goose.
>> Steve Jordahl: Oh, yeah.
>> Ed Vitagliano: And that would. That came from.
>> Tim Wildmon: I think a lot of what people come back with in sports is when the other side taunts them prior to the game.
>> Ed Vitagliano: And that did happen.
>> Tim Wildmon: And then, like, we're going to bury you. And then they don't. Yeah, they actually lose to the team. They. Everybody said that we were going to
>> Ed Vitagliano: bury you, that did happen.
>> Tim Wildmon: Okay then, then you're not going to get any grace at all.
>> Ed Vitagliano: That's true.
>> Tim Wildmon: If you get, if you get beat because it's going to be, be back in your face. That's just the way sports works. Right?
>> Ed Vitagliano: That is true.
>> Tim Wildmon: But you're, you're right. There used to be, see some decorum some before the social media advent of social media used to be reserved just to radio and things like that.
Man from North Carolina shoots and kills himself at Florida resort early Sunday morning
All right, next story, Steve.
>> Steve Jordahl: All right, this weekend, Sunday morning, early Sunday morning, about 2 o' clock in the morning, a 21 year old man from North Carolina, his name was Austin Tucker Martin, penetrated the fences at Mar a Lago. He was carrying a shotgun and a can of gasoline. The Secret Service and Florida, Sheriff's office engaged and shot and killed the man. we're, we are still trying, I mean a lot of people are still doing.
>> Tim Wildmon: Was President Trump even there?
>> Steve Jordahl: He was not.
>> Ed Vitagliano: Not. Neither was the First Lady.
>> Steve Jordahl: No one under Secret Service protection was at the Mar a Lago at the time.
>> Tim Wildmon: So he, this guy drove from North Carolina down there?
>> Steve Jordahl: Yeah.
>> Tim Wildmon: What was wrong with him?
>> Steve Jordahl: Well, they're trying to figure that out. he I don't know. Do you, have you looked into that ad at all?
>> Ed Vitagliano: Well, nobody knows right now. In fact the only thing I've read by the way, he showed up with a gas can and a shotgun, which they believe he purchased on the way. But the only thing is, I have read is that family members and friends describe the 21 year old Austin Tucker Martin as being an individual who's afraid of guns and comes from a family of pro Trump Republicans. So, but they did say he was quiet and so who knows what was going on.
>> Steve Jordahl: They also notified he was gone less than 24 hours when they put an APB out on him, which for 21 year old seems a little quick.
>> Ed Vitagliano: Yeah.
>> Steve Jordahl: And also they notified the Secret Service or federal agents that he was gone. And why would they do that unless they thought that there might be some kind of a threat?
>> Ed Vitagliano: So I'm looking at a story right here on our very own American family news website, afn.
>> Steve Jordahl: I recommend it.
>> Ed Vitagliano: You recommend it?
>> Steve Jordahl: I do.
>> Ed Vitagliano: And so it says the, the investigation is ongoing. So this is going to be another one of these things where we're going to have to wait and hopefully we do find something out and that it is released without having to pull a tooth, you know where you have to file a freedom of information request, to get some info on it.
>> Steve Jordahl: Well he was white, so that helps. That's the first paragraph on all the stories.
>> Ed Vitagliano: Well, all these guys have been, a lot of these shooters, they're all white.
>> Steve Jordahl: Well, and what does that matter? I'm just saying, if it. The media is not going to hesitate to let you know what was wrong with this guy, if there's something wrong with him. the fact that his family was a Trump supporter. I mean, all of that is grist for the mill for the media. They'll release that information.
>> Ed Vitagliano: There's no indication that he's transgender, but if he is trans, that's when you get it. Then that becomes difficult. You don't get any info.
This is the third assassination attempt on President Trump
>> Steve Jordahl: I want to play something because Lara Trump was on Fox this morning, and she had, an interesting point, very emotional about this. To cut five, you know, you have
>> Lara Trump: to ask yourself, whenever you just casually throw around terms like Nazi, like fascists, like Hitler and racist, what do you think the consequences of that ultimately will be? We are better than this as a country. And I'll tell you, as a family member, I keep wondering, how many chances does one man get he's not going to be lucky enough at some point. Thank God he wasn't at Mar A Lago and the first lady wasn't there this. This weekend. But you don't get lucky every single time that.
>> Tim Wildmon: That she. What do you.
>> Ed Vitagliano: What is she, saying? Escaping assassination attempts, I think is what she means.
>> Steve Jordahl: I mean, this is the third assassination attempt on the man.
>> Tim Wildmon: I'm not, I'm not. Yeah, I'm not denying. But he wasn't even there. No, but can you have an assassination attempt that the guy isn't even on premises?
>> Ed Vitagliano: Well, depends on. That's what that person intended.
>> Steve Jordahl: That's one of the arguments. But I don't know why you would bring a shotgun to Mar A Lago.
>> Tim Wildmon: Yeah, I know, but the guy. The guy was nutso. He, didn't even know he wasn't there. He hadn't even checked.
>> Steve Jordahl: No, no, but if he didn't know, it was still. Then he was still attempting to kill the man. If he didn't know.
>> Tim Wildmon: Okay.
>> Steve Jordahl: I doubt he was looking for geese on the property.
>> Tim Wildmon: Thank God he wasn't there.
>> Steve Jordahl: Right.
>> Tim Wildmon: You know, but I mean, I mean, it's just this guy was. Anybody who attempts to kill the President, by definition, is not so.
>> Steve Jordahl: Right.
>> Tim Wildmon: Okay, I would say that. I'm just saying the guy was not aware enough to even plan it out, to know as much that President Trump wasn't even there. It sounded like, to me, he was some sort of mentally ill person or.
>> Steve Jordahl: Yeah. I don't know. I mean, I'm thinking if it's my house, if someone has tried to,
>> Steve Jordahl: I don't know, do harm to my wife, and they almost succeed once and they almost succeed twice, and then someone. We're at church, someone breaks into our house, and they have a shotgun and a can of gas. It doesn't take much for me to assume they're. Someone's taking a third shot.
>> Tim Wildmon: Yeah.
>> Steve Jordahl: So I don't know.
>> Ed Vitagliano: but that. That's certainly what Lara Trump was saying, right?
>> Steve Jordahl: She was up.
>> Tim Wildmon: She was saying. What was she saying?
>> Ed Vitagliano: She was saying. She was talking about the fact that, the atmosphere being created by the language used by the left in characterizing President Trump as a Nazi, a fascist, a racist, a threat to democracy, all those kind of things. She says, I'm putting words in her mouth. She's saying, I'm afraid that that language is going to continue to drive people to try to kill the president, and that at some point, I'm afraid they may succeed. That. Is that a fair.
>> Tim Wildmon: In this case, I did read where family members said, or some people who knew this man said, how is this guy 25, 21. 1, 21. That he was obsessed with the Epstein files? Okay, did you see that?
>> Steve Jordahl: I did not.
>> Ed Vitagliano: I didn't see that. Yeah, that could be.
>> Tim Wildmon: That was his motivation. That's what I read. So, the. The. I'm just saying this guy was right. Something was wrong with him, mentally. All right. You're listening to Today's issues on the American Family Radio Network. well, the. The use of those inflammatory words to describe President Trump, you know, and the rest of us. They've been using Christians, and they've been using it for. Yeah, they've been using that. And you're right. It does. It is, I guess, for somebody who's off balance, you know, it is a. It is a, It doesn't help when you call people Nazis because Nazis deserve to be killed.
>> Ed Vitagliano: Yeah. You got to save the nation, right,
>> Tim Wildmon: from the Nazis, from the. From the, fascist. Are you listening to today's issues on afr Next story.
A video meme that has been going around Britain recently is anti illegal immigrant
>> Steve Jordahl: Steve, there is a video meme that has been going around Britain, recently. I want to play you a little bit of it. This is an AI video. Every bit of this is AI, but it makes a point.
>> Ed Vitagliano: And by the way, before you, this is. This is becoming a thing in the UK it's called Amelia. Right, right. Is that it? That's that's the AI creation, who is anti illegal immigrant, you know, anti Islam. Anti Islam. M and groomer gangs and pro, uk. Pro England.
>> Steve Jordahl: I was going to get there.
>> Ed Vitagliano: Okay, I'm sorry.
>> Steve Jordahl: All right.
>> Ed Vitagliano: I thought you were going to jump in.
>> Steve Jordahl: No, no. but it is, It's a lady that. A meme of a lady they have, dubbed Amelia. It's totally an AI creation, but this is the point that she is making. Let's listen to a little bit of this. Cut 12.
>> AI Character "Amelia: Hi, I'm Amelia. I'm English and I love England. I like having fish and chips at the local pub. I like Shakespeare and Dickens, Tolkien and Lewis. I like pork, sausage and dogs and fashion.
>> Ed Vitagliano: Haram.
>> Tim Wildmon: M. Haram.
>> AI Character "Amelia: But I don't like that. Brits are famously polite, but it mustn't mean we're willing to commit cultural suicide. Sadiq Khan, the mayor. This is London, mate, not Afghanistan or Star Wars. How did we go from Churchill to you, you git? Our government won't even protect our schoolgirls from grooming gangs. The police won't help. They're too busy confiscating garden tools and suppressing free speech.
>> Steve Jordahl: That's right, miss.
>> Ed Vitagliano: What have I done? Officer, you've tweeted rudely and you're under arrest.
>> AI Character "Amelia: Curry is fine, but we have several recipes already. We don't need 2 million Indians here to make it for us. There are 50 Islamic nations in the world. Muslims don't need to be on our island. They want to conquer it.
>> Ed Vitagliano: I love Amelia, by the way. In the middle of that, a man was shouting, haram. Haram.
>> Steve Jordahl: Yeah.
>> Ed Vitagliano: Which I just looked up. I kind of knew what it meant, but it's unclean. Specifically means sinful or forbidden according to Islam. And you see this in real videos in London and elsewhere in Europe, where they will shout haram. to, people of that nation who are practicing and doing what they want simply because it's forbidden by Islam.
>> Steve Jordahl: Right. And this is the point. there are, A lot of people are saying that this is not just. They're not just looking for a place to live, that they are purposefully.
>> Tim Wildmon: What would she talk about the Indians for?
>> Steve Jordahl: That's part of the, part of the.
>> Tim Wildmon: They're not mostly.
>> Ed Vitagliano: No, but it's the illegal immigration. But not. Not illegal. I'm sorry. In Europe, it's mostly legal immigration, but they've imported. But they're changing the culture is what she's saying.
>> Steve Jordahl: No one that no immigrant in England or Europe or frankly, anymore in the United States understands the word assimilate.
>> Ed Vitagliano: Right.
>> Steve Jordahl: That's not in the vocabulary.
Hundreds of Muslims disrupted Times Square over the weekend with evening prayer
I want to tell you that there was over the weekend, hundreds of Muslims took over Times Square, laid mats down and said an evening prayer, disrupting everything, because they think that their religion is better and more important, and that they can just do this because they feel special as Muslims. And they are, it can be argued. I've heard several. Many. And you probably have, too, Ed. Tim, several imams that have been posted online saying we're not interested in assimilating. Every household in America will bow the knee to Allah, whatever.
>> Ed Vitagliano: That's part of their religion.
>> Steve Jordahl: It is.
>> Ed Vitagliano: Their religion is a religion of conquest. And, there are. In Islamic, religious doctrine. There are two houses. There is the House of Islam and the House of War. The House of Islam is. And it's called Dar Al. Islam are nations that are under Sharia law, Ah. Under control of Muslims. And everything else is outside of that, and it's called the House of War. And there they are told, they are commanded by their religion to conquer all these other countries and bring them into subjection.
>> Steve Jordahl: And it'll start peacefully as immigrants and by, birth rates and. And such, but it won't end peacefully.
>> Ed Vitagliano: Now, by the way, this, in Times Square, these were Muslims who. They didn't have a, A, Not a license, Ah. What do you call it when you have to get a. From the permit. Permit, yeah. Thank you. They, didn't have a permit to do this. They just. Right. They just. They just did it. They blocked the traffic.
>> Steve Jordahl: Yeah.
>> Ed Vitagliano: And I want to know why they weren't arrested. I mean, if Christians. I keep going back to this. If Christians decided without a permit, we're going to block traffic and have a worship service. I mean, maybe they wouldn't. Maybe they wouldn't make a scene, but there would be legal consequences, I feel sure.
>> Steve Jordahl: I got to tell you, if I had happened upon that, you might have heard the Lord's Prayer several times, very loudly.
>> Ed Vitagliano: Yeah.
>> Steve Jordahl: Out of me. it's. It's happening. We know it's happening in Minnesota. We've kind of documented that. we know. Also we found out that about 50 mosques have opened up in Dallas, Fort Worth area in the last 24 months because of an increase in Muslims there.
>> Ed Vitagliano: That seems to be a targeted area.
>> Tim Wildmon: Yeah.
>> Steve Jordahl: yeah.
>> Ed Vitagliano: For, these Islamic leaders.
>> Tim Wildmon: So you got 7 million people that live there.
>> Ed Vitagliano: Yeah.
>> Tim Wildmon: In the metroplex. So you're going to have some Muslims.
>> Steve Jordahl: They're Increasing. They're coming abnormal.
Tim Goodman: I'm for a religious test for Muslims entering the United States
>> Tim Wildmon: Let me ask you guys. So you guys for forbidding Muslims from immigrating to the US Is that what you're for? I think a religious test.
>> Ed Vitagliano: Oh no, you can't legally do it. but here's what I am in favor. I was just kidding about forbidding them. I, I could probably be convinced at some point. What I am in favor of is the US Government. And culturally you're not going to get this on universities understanding that Islam is not just a religion, it is an ideology that is also political. And I'm for educating everyone in America that Islam is, as currently being practiced, is a threat to Western values. And while they may have the legal right at this point to practice their religion, if they continue to, as we have seen in places like around Minneapolis, insist on Sharia law, all that's got to be broken up. You know, Western culture and Western civilization has never been able to live with Islam. And Islam up until the 1600s when they try to conquer Vienna. 1683, but starting all the way back to sweeping across North Africa, turning some of the most Christian nations in the world into Islamic, part of the Islamic movement, trying to go up, and conquer France. Stopped by Charles Martel in the 700s, 732 I think it was. They have been trying to conquer the west since their inception. And this is simply in my opinion, the way they're doing this, by flooding into Europe and now coming into the United States. I take your point. It's a good point, Tim. There's still a very small percentage here in this country, less than 1%. But I have no doubts that they are trying to take a shot at the United States. And if they started, if they started to gain momentum converting college students, young people to Islam, that percentage could grow very quickly.
Chicago sixth grader found wandering alone after walkout protesting ICE
>> Steve Jordahl: My wife, one more story I'd like to get to if I can.
>> Ed Vitagliano: Okay with me. My rant is over.
>> Steve Jordahl: This is a sixth grader in Chicago, his school. They allowed the students to walk out of class for an anti ice raid. And this was a special needs.
>> Ed Vitagliano: The school allowed these students to do it.
>> Steve Jordahl: The school allowed these students to do it. This is a special needs child. His name was Richard Harley. Got caught up in this thing and they left him. He got lost. And I want you to hear this cut 11 this afternoon.
>> News Reporter: A mother says she just wants answers after her special needs son is found wandering miles away from his school when he was supposed to be in class.
>> Richard Harley: I don't feel safe. I'm just Scared to go back. There's something could happen that same day again.
>> News Reporter: 11, year old Richard Harley says he doesn't want to go back to class after he was found wandering, scared and alone, miles away from school grounds, following a student led walkout protesting ICE.
>> Richard Harley: They're supposed to stay on 72, like by the school, but they did the, they did the exact opposite. It went just way more farther. And no, one even knew, like, how far they were going.
>> News Reporter: So you kind of got.
>> Richard Harley: I was like. I was like the last one, so I was like, all alone.
>> News Reporter: His mother says she was not notified about the walkout. And because her son has special needs and an individualized Education program, or iep, takes issue with him being allowed to leave campus without superv provision or parental authorization.
>> Steve Jordahl: There was ABC 7 News in Chicago. It was Dundee Middle School.
>> Ed Vitagliano: I don't know how you get. I mean, when I was growing up. I know, I know that sounds totally old, Manish, but we had to have. We had to have permission slips to leave the school and go on a class trip anywhere. I don't know how they. They're just. A lot of these schools are just taken over by leftists. How do you take a whole class out of school off campus without parental permission?
>> Steve Jordahl: You just do it. And there's probably a lawsuit coming.
>> Ed Vitagliano: Wow. Well, happy Monday.
>> Tim Wildmon: We're out of time, people. That's probably a good thing.
>> Ed Vitagliano: Unfortunate.
>> Tim Wildmon: Thank you, Steve.
>> Steve Jordahl: My pleasure.
>> Ed Vitagliano: No, this was good. This was good information.
>> Tim Wildmon: Yep.
>> Ed Vitagliano: We had some fun.
>> Tim Wildmon: Yeah. we know that you don't like to handle rattlesnakes.
>> Ed Vitagliano: If you didn't know something about. You learned something today.
>> Tim Wildmon: We did establish that.
>> Ed Vitagliano: Yeah.
>> Tim Wildmon: How long did you stay there at that guy's apartment?
>> Ed Vitagliano: that was probably five minutes. When it became clear that this young man was not going to put the snake up.
>> Tim Wildmon: Right.
>> Ed Vitagliano: I was gone.
>> Tim Wildmon: You were gone.
>> Ed Vitagliano: Yep.
>> Tim Wildmon: so was that a church visitation?
>> Ed Vitagliano: It was church visitation.
>> Steve Jordahl: So you deemed him and doomed him to hell.
>> Ed Vitagliano: I didn't. Wherever he is now, it wasn't on M. Me.
>> Tim Wildmon: No, it's not on Ed.
>> Ed Vitagliano: That's right.
>> Tim Wildmon: All right, we'll see you tomorrow, everybody.
