Today's Issues continues on AFR with your host, Tim Wildman
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. We got 24 and a half more minutes of, just, I don't know what to say. Just banner analysis of world events and issues, going on in our country.
Ed Vitagliano: Top notch right up there.
Tim Wildmon: Yeah, top notch. Ed. And we're not trying to brag.
Ed Vitagliano: We're not.
Tim Wildmon: But if you, you know, if you can do it. Any bragging.
Ed Vitagliano: We were just speaking facts.
Tim Wildmon: Like Muhammad Allie. You know.
Ed Vitagliano: That's right. Like a butterfly. Sting like a bee.
Tim Wildmon: Sting like a bee. Tim. Ed. And now Steve Paisley.
Steve Jordahl: It's about to get better.
Ed Vitagliano: There you go.
Tim Wildmon: Steve's about to bring it. Steve, we have a, The World Cup.
Steve Jordahl: Yeah.
Tim Wildmon: Is going on in the United States.
Steve Jordahl: Yeah.
Tim Wildmon: And, by the way, President Trump
Steve Jordahl: was talking about that this morning, and he said it's because of me. I brought the World cup here. It's my doing.
Ed Vitagliano: He actually did.
Steve Jordahl: Oh, he did.
Ed Vitagliano: He did this way back in 2016 or something.
Steve Jordahl: It was. He was. Everybody knew it this afternoon, this morning when he was talking. Anyway. Yes, Tim M. The World cup is going on. I just upset my boss.
Tim Wildmon: Well, I'm just taken aback that Trump would brag about anything.
Steve Jordahl: I know.
Tim Wildmon: He's such a humble man.
Steve Jordahl: That is odd.
Tim Wildmon: So, all right, so, and he may be right. I don't know.
Steve Jordahl: He may be right.
Tim Wildmon: So, ah, is he going to ensure that the US Wins?
Steve Jordahl: He's doing his best. He's doing everything he can to ensure that the US Wins. I don't know, if that'll.
Tim Wildmon: So I just. Most people, I would guess most of our listeners are not and have not been paying attention to the, world.
Steve Jordahl: And frankly, I haven't a whole lot either.
Tim Wildmon: I haven't either. I haven't either. Because I don't follow.
Ed Vitagliano: I've been deep into it.
Tim Wildmon: I don't follow. I don't follow. There's only so much stuff you can put in your head.
Steve Jordahl: Right?
Ed Vitagliano: That's right.
Tim Wildmon: So. But now you're talking about, you're getting down to, of all the countries in the world now you're narrowing the field to,
Ed Vitagliano: Is it going to move from, 16 to 8.
Tim Wildmon: 16 to 8 by the end of what tomorrow?
Ed Vitagliano: Us, and Belgium played probably a couple other. Other games maybe. Maybe today.
Tim Wildmon: So the US Is, not. Does not have a good history. They're winning in the World Cup.
Steve Jordahl: They've Never come close.
Tim Wildmon: Okay? Never come. But now they're, they're within. If they beat Belgium today, they move on to the round of eight, right.
Steve Jordahl: Whatever they play. Yes, they would move on.
President Trump asked FIFA to review red card against Norwegian soccer star
Tim Wildmon: President Trump, there was a, controversy because one of America's star players got suspended for the game against Belgium today. But now for a, violation on the field. For those who understand soccer, he got a red, red card, which means he did something so egregious, like a personal foul in football or basketball, and he got tossed out of the game. That's basically what happened. Am I right? Yes, like targeting.
Steve Jordahl: He got, he got. Yes, he got tossed out of the game and the penalty.
Tim Wildmon: But now he's been reinstated. And, President Trump was. Did make a phone call to the person who decides this. Right.
Steve Jordahl: President Trump, said he spoke with the FIFA chief, Infantino, and asked that that be reviewed the red card against this soccer, player. His name is Valorian. and the FIFA chief said, okay, we'll review it. And they reviewed it and they made a ruling that said, oh, yeah, that was a bad red card. So below the game. Well, then Belgium gets involved. Belgium is the team that the United States is playing tonight. And, Belgium said, wait a minute, if there's a chance that we play this team without their star player, we'd like that to happen. So they're appealing, the decision and they're asking, they're saying that the review of the red card wasn't done Right. And they want him, re banned from the game.
Tim Wildmon: Steve, have you, have you reviewed this video footage of the red.
Steve Jordahl: I have seen the. I have seen the footage.
Tim Wildmon: Where do you, where do you come down, Steve?
Steve Jordahl: Oh, it's clearly a bad call.
Tim Wildmon: Okay, clearly.
Steve Jordahl: It was clearly bad call. Although, like most, calls in sports, you just generally can't go back after the, after the event and correct it.
Ed Vitagliano: By the way, today at 2:00 clock is Portugal and Spain. The US and Belgium played tonight at 7. And then, Norway and England have already advanced, as have France and Morocco. And then tomorrow, two more games. Argentina and Egypt and Switzerland and Colombia.
Tim Wildmon: Switzerland. I thought they were neutral.
Ed Vitagliano: Not in soccer.
Steve Jordahl: No.
Tim Wildmon: So they want to win very much.
Ed Vitagliano: And Norway has this 6 foot 5.
Tim Wildmon: Talk about this guy. This guy's. He's going viral, isn't he? What's his name?
Ed Vitagliano: It's, Holland, Erling Holland.
Tim Wildmon: And he's like a Viking.
Ed Vitagliano: He looks like a Viking. He's tall, blond, long hair. He has scored 56 goals in 51 games. He's got, seven goals, I think, in this tournament. Adam Suttath, our producer today, mentioned that there's only two other players in the tournament who have got seven goals. And he is just. Just a force of nature.
Tim Wildmon: Yeah.
Ed Vitagliano: And. And there's been a lot of videos because his celebrations are very unique. And so there's people imitating this guy. There's a song out. I listen. Over the weekend, I was watching some of these videos, and usually it's Norwegians over here in the United States. People will tell them, do the Holan, and there's a song for this guy, and they all do this walk. It's pretty entertaining.
Tim Wildmon: Yeah.
Steve Jordahl: I'm very proud right now of my Norwegian heritage. Jordan is a Norwegian name. It is.
Tim Wildmon: It really is. So you're pulling for Norway?
Steve Jordahl: Well, yeah, until they play the U.S.
Tim Wildmon: well, you know what's amazing to me is, again, these tiny countries, relatively speaking, like. Like Norway. Norway is five million people. Okay. Five and a half million people.
Ed Vitagliano: That's the population of Norway.
Steve Jordahl: Yeah.
Tim Wildmon: It's about, like, the size of Atlanta, maybe.
Ed Vitagliano: Oh, my goodness. Wow.
Tim Wildmon: And they're taking on Brazil, one of the preeminent soccer powers in the world. They got 220 million people live in Brazil. So you got your tiny little. And yet they beat him.
Ed Vitagliano: They beat him. Well, this Guy Holland scored two goals in a 21 victory over Brazil, who I'm, sure was favored to win.
Tim Wildmon: Yeah, Brazil. I don't know what they're paying Holland.
Ed Vitagliano: His name Allen, but he couldn't.
Tim Wildmon: maybe. He's probably going to cash in after this thing's over with and go international with his stardom.
Ed Vitagliano: Steve said, would you. What did you say in our story meeting that. He said when this is done, he's gonna just go to farming.
Steve Jordahl: I didn't say that.
Tim Wildmon: Yeah, we'll see about that one. That sounds so nice.
Norway will play England because England knocked off Mexico
Until somebody's gonna throw some bucks at that, dude.
Ed Vitagliano: Oh, they'd be foolish not to. He's become, like, a international phenomenon.
Steve Jordahl: Like a Norse God.
Tim Wildmon: He is. He does look like a Viking, though.
Steve Jordahl: Yeah.
Ed Vitagliano: Yeah, he does.
Tim Wildmon: All right, you're listening to today's issues. We'll see what happens today with the Americans versus the Belgium. The boys from Belgium.
Ed Vitagliano: The boys are back in town.
Tim Wildmon: Boys are back in town. And, I don't know who does Norway advance to play? They play in England. They play England because England knocked off Mexico.
Ed Vitagliano: England. that must have been an upset. I don't know. England's pretty good with soccer. that's July 11th. So that's that. That, that next round gets started in, you know, four days. Four or five days.
Tim Wildmon: All right, Steve, next story.
Iranian President Ayatollah Ali Khamenei to have multi day funeral
Steve Jordahl: All right, so in Iran right now, they have started on July 4th, a multi day funeral. Iranian President Ayatollah Allie Khamenei.
Tim Wildmon: Well, it takes sweet time, don't they?
Steve Jordahl: Well, yes.
Tim Wildmon: When was he knocked off?
Steve Jordahl: He was in February. This is one of the first strikes during this war. Remember how he took out the first level of leadership and then we found out when the second level was meeting, we took them out.
Tim Wildmon: This normal in that culture. Culture to wait six months to have a funeral.
Steve Jordahl: I think the start date, July 4, was not a coincidence. I don't know how normal it is. I think there are, In a normal individual, death. I think Islamic law requires you bury them that night. because I don't think embalming.
Tim Wildmon: So he was not buried.
Steve Jordahl: I don't. Well, they're having him.
Tim Wildmon: Listen, I don't mean to sound disgusting.
Steve Jordahl: I don't know if his body is there or not, but they're having the celebration of his life or whatever, the memorial.
Tim Wildmon: That's what I'm saying. Supposedly he was blown up.
Steve Jordahl: Yeah, he probably would.
Tim Wildmon: Yeah. Yeah. So. So this may be like a, like you said, Maybe it's on July 4th to.
Steve Jordahl: I have a feeling they want to
Tim Wildmon: poke, you know, poke America in the eye.
Steve Jordahl: And they're getting.
Ed Vitagliano: What. What is the point of that?
Tim Wildmon: What's that?
Ed Vitagliano: They. They. Is that some kind of a, a cheap shot they're taking at the U.S. that would be.
Tim Wildmon: That would be a.
Ed Vitagliano: Yes, I know, but they, they. We bombed as the leader. We killed their leader.
Tim Wildmon: Right.
Ed Vitagliano: And they're gonna say, well, I'll tell you what we're gonna do. We're gonna bury him on your Independence Day. How do you like that?
Tim Wildmon: Yeah, I don't know what the point of that anyway. Sorry.
Steve Jordahl: Well, hundreds of thousands or maybe millions of mourners have gathered, probably under duress, because they're not.
Tim Wildmon: Under what duress?
Steve Jordahl: remember?
Tim Wildmon: You mean they're paid mourners?
Steve Jordahl: Pressured. Let's say they were pressured.
Ed Vitagliano: You better show up.
Tim Wildmon: You better get out there and mourn.
Steve Jordahl: This was the theocracy, that shot hundreds of thousands of their. Tens of thousands of their protesters in the streets. So I don't think that there's millions of people who feel that bad, but they are out in line, and there's a whole lot of people celebrating or remembering Khamenei. Among them is, a former as An American by the name of Kala Walsh who was a former staffer of Elizabeth Warren. And she's a Democrat socialist, all in on how she hates the United States and how loves Iran.
Tim Wildmon: And was she over there?
Steve Jordahl: She was over there. And wouldn't you know that Iran stuck a camera in front of her face to see what she had to say. And this is what she had to say. Cut 13.
Speaker D: All people of the world who struggle against imperialism, against arrogance, against Zionism, against genocide. To me he was the greatest, anti imperialist leader to have lived during my lifetime.
Ed Vitagliano: And this is former staff. What was her position with Senator Warren?
Tim Wildmon: ELIZABETH WARREN STAFF MEMBER.
Steve Jordahl: She was a staff member. I don't know what she did for. Was it.
Speaker D: Yeah.
Ed Vitagliano: So she's a fan of Khomeini.
Tim Wildmon: Yeah. The Iranian.
Ed Vitagliano: And that he was, he battled against imperialism.
Steve Jordahl: Oh, he was boy. Her hero.
Ed Vitagliano: Yeah.
Steve Jordahl: And anti Semitic.
Ed Vitagliano: Anti Semitic. And it just makes you wonder. I, I almost say this tongue in cheek. Makes you wonder the Senator Elizabeth Warren not know that her staffer was a, hater of Israel.
Tim Wildmon: Oh. Oh, yeah. I don't think to care.
Ed Vitagliano: I, that's what I'm asking. I'm asking if, if that. If they, if there was, well, always sympathy amongst some of these Democrats because I don't think Elizabeth Warren would come out as an anti Semitic person, but she would have someone who's probably had to have been openly anti Semitic.
Tim Wildmon: Those people like that right there are so ridiculous because, they don't talk anything about the, the negatives of a totalitarian Islamic state. Why don't you talk about that? If you're going to criticize Zionism and genocide and all those things, then let's talk about How about I was put a microphone for her face.
You're a woman. How do you respond to Iran's oppressive regime
What do you say about the Islamic dictatorship here in Iran? m. Butchering tens of thousands of their own people. How do you respond to. Is that. What about the fact that, you know, they don't allow LGBTQ at all?
Ed Vitagliano: Throw them off the roof.
Tim Wildmon: Yeah. What about that? How would you respond to that?
Ed Vitagliano: Well, how do they. About how they oppress women.
Tim Wildmon: Right.
Ed Vitagliano: You're a woman.
Tim Wildmon: That's right. Ask her about that. Why? What do you think about having to wear a veil?
Speaker E: Yeah.
Tim Wildmon: What do you call that? well, the burka. The burka. And the. What do you think about having to do that, as a woman? I see. Maybe they ask her about that, but I doubt it. It's just only we're in Iran criticizing the United States and she was criticizing Israel, too.
Tim Ferriss: Why do people always want to talk about race and ethnicity
Next story. Well, my blood pressure is up.
Steve Jordahl: Well, I'm going to keep raising it. We just had our 4th of July, our 250th anniversary, and someone put together a little composition and montage of our Democrat, liberal friends and what they think of how this country was built. And I want you to hear from AOC Alexandria Ocasio Corte Cortez, Congresswoman from NewSong York. Jasmine Crockett is the second voice you're going to hear. Yeah. And, Ilhan Omar, you're going to hear then.
Tim Wildmon: And then Premier all star lineup.
Steve Jordahl: Yeah.
Ed Vitagliano: These are all squad.
Steve Jordahl: Squad members.
Tim Wildmon: Lefties.
Steve Jordahl: And then finally, you're going to hear Boston Mayor Myshel Wu.
Tim Wildmon: Oh, yeah.
Steve Jordahl: And this is what they have to say about, the history of the United States. Cut.
Speaker E: 15 black Americans really created democracy in this country.
Steve Jordahl: That's exactly right.
Speaker E: How they literally made something from nothing. That was AOC this 4th of July, I say celebrate a black woman that you know, because whether it's an invention that she made or, whether it's the very democracy that still hangs by a thread right now, there is a black woman to thank.
Steve Jordahl: Jasmine Crockett.
Speaker D: Somalis have always seen as a fabric, has seen themselves as a fabric of this nation.
Steve Jordahl: Ilhan Omar.
Speaker D: That immigrants from all over the world, Somalia, India, wherever they're from, Latin America, Africa, that immigrants have built this country.
Steve Jordahl: Premia Jayapal.
Speaker D: You cannot talk about any achievement that the city of Boston has had in safety, jobs and economic m. Development, in education without talking about the Somali community.
Steve Jordahl: And that was Myshel Wu.
Tim Wildmon: She's a Boston mayor.
Steve Jordahl: Yes.
Ed Vitagliano: There were no Somalis in Boston. In Boston till.
Tim Wildmon: What is she talking about?
Ed Vitagliano: Maybe Obama. there might have been a few here and there.
Tim Wildmon: But what is the obsession these people have with, race, with race and ethnicity? It's like every conversation they have is something about that.
Ed Vitagliano: Well, look, these people that we just heard from are delusional. Historically delusional. Okay, listen, obviously slavery was wrong, okay? Imperialism. Both slavery and imperialism are facts of human nature. They don't. They're not just facts about white people or Western Europeans. These are facts of human nature. They are facts of history. These kinds of issues have always existed. And so to what?
Steve Jordahl: All.
Ed Vitagliano: All five of these. What they were doing is saying white people didn't do anything, and it was all people of color who made this country. I am not denying that people of color have contributed to our country. I am denying that Somalians had anything to do with it. That's just an Absurdity. So, that's part of the beauty of this country is that people from all backgrounds have contributed. But if you're going to arg that white people did nothing in this country, and that was all Somalians, you are playing on. You are hoping that the fact that our young people have been miseducated in, grammar school, middle school and high school and many colleges and hoping they buy this. It is just absolutely absurd on its face. I'm like you, Tim. Why do these people always want to talk about race and ethnicity? Why don't you just say, listen, it's a great country, America. Everyone contributed, including white people. That's the part they can't seem to get out of there.
Tim Wildmon: It's a unifying day. The July 4th was supposed to be a unifying day. Go ahead.
Steve Jordahl: the Democrat party and especially the Democrat Socialists, they, Their stock and trade is oppressor, oppressed, and everything has to be seen.
Tim Wildmon: It never changes. Their story never changes.
Steve Jordahl: They're trying to play on. They foment the anger and try to leverage it.
Tim Wildmon: I tell you what, too, is extremely disappointing to me in taking a look at their points of view. The fact that we coaxed all these Somalis to come into a systemically racist country, which is, jokes on them.
Tim Wildmon: And they come here only to learn that they don't want to. That they should be better off back in Somalia. So I don't know, why did we bring them here? Well, you obviously guess their will.
Ed Vitagliano: You said this morning, and I told you, you should say. But you're, you're too modest to bring this up because this was a, this was absolutely a great point. If these people we just heard from, okay, Aoc, Ilhan Omar, all. All of these, okay, Jasmine Crockett, geniuses like that, okay? If. If they're saying that people of color made this country and yet this country is a racist, imperialist country, then it's the fault of people of color because they created America. You said that this morning. I said, that's brilliant.
Tim Wildmon: Yeah.
Ed Vitagliano: If they are, if they're responsible for America and America's racist and imperialist, guess who we can blame? It wasn't the white people because we didn't have a, a hand in the making the pie.
Tim Wildmon: You know, Bingo. You.
Ed Vitagliano: Bingo.
Tim Wildmon: This morning I did. Bingo. Listen, in all seriousness, the, the way that the left wing, people want to continuously try to divide Americans, you know, by pitting one against another and, and continuously blaming, basically, they want to blame white people of European descent For all the problems in America.
Ed Vitagliano: Right.
Steve: It's a feature, not a bug. If you flip side of that record
Tim Wildmon: And it's just, that's not, that's not helpful. That's not that, that all it does is foment, the people who are already, I guess, predisposed to be racist against one group or another to continue in that instead of working.
Steve Jordahl: That's what they want. Yeah, that's the feature, not the bug.
Tim Wildmon: Yeah. Yeah. That's a good song title right there, Steve.
Steve Jordahl: I think it would be.
Tim Wildmon: It's a feature, not a bug. Did you ever thought about that as a song title maybe, or feature not a bug? Yeah. All right. I think Vanilla Ice, that was his Ice baby. If you flip side of that record,
Ed Vitagliano: it's a feature, not a bug.
Tim Wildmon: Not a bug. But nobody ever plays that who remembers it. Yeah.
Christianity teaches that your ethnicity, your race doesn't matter
All right. You're listening to today's issues on American Family Radio. You know me to say something to close out that, the gospel of Jesus Christ, which we proclaim here, in various and sundry ways, teaches that, your ethnicity, your race doesn't matter. It doesn't.
Ed Vitagliano: At the foot of the cross.
Tim Wildmon: You are right, it doesn't matter. So skin color, Jesus said, go and preach the gospel all over the world to everybody. He didn't say, you know, you can stop over there at, that border because we don't want those people to know about it.
Ed Vitagliano: Right.
Tim Wildmon: So, what I'm saying is, that these people that tried to divide us by ethnicity and race, are going against the teaching of Christianity.
Ed Vitagliano: Right.
Tim Wildmon: Is that, would that be fair?
Ed Vitagliano: Absolutely. That is absolutely true.
Tim Wildmon: And it doesn't matter whether that comes from somebody on the far right or the far left.
Ed Vitagliano: And listen, and it doesn't matter what your skin color is when you're preaching it or when you're teaching the word of God. This is, this is part of the glorious nature of the kingdom of God. And the beauty of the gospel is that all are welcome. And the people who traffic in division and in pitting one group against the other are going to have to answer to God just as much as actual racists will.
Steve Jordahl: Mm,
Ed Vitagliano: There, I said it.
Tim Wildmon: You said.
Archivist finds previously undiscovered original copy of Declaration of Independence
All right, Steve, we got about two minutes left.
Steve Jordahl: I want to introduce you to an archivist from the uk. His name is Micah Skerr, and he was doing some research on an 18th century Royal Navy captain and, this ship. And he was going through this captain's, books and his documents, and he looked in and he found a previously undiscovered original copy of the Declaration of Independence. It's called an Exeter copy. And there were thought to be only 10 of them that existed. Now there are 11. He just kind of stumbled upon it. The 11th is now in England. Among this, 18th century Royal Navy captains effects that was being studied. That's kind of cool.
Ed Vitagliano: And this is something that Nicolas Cage knew nothing about, right?
Steve Jordahl: I don't think he did. I think he. This was. Yeah, he might be on his way right now. I don't know. I haven't checked to see where he's at.
Ed Vitagliano: This is, this is actually pretty cool story.
Steve Jordahl: Yeah.
Ed Vitagliano: That while you're looking through the belongings of a captain, you know, looking through his Pokemon card collection or whatever
Steve Jordahl: the Dalton was, the ship the Dalton,
Ed Vitagliano: he found a copy of the Declaration of Independence. So this was these. The Exeter Declaration. I did a little quick search on this. Refers to a rare 1776 broadside printing of the U.S. declaration of Independence. It was produced between July 16 and 19 in Exeter, NewSong Hampshire. And there's only now there's only 11 known surviving copies of this specific printing.
Steve Jordahl: It's kind of the. Except for the one that's in the archives in D.C. it's the original copies.
Ed Vitagliano: Right.
Steve Jordahl: The closest.
Ed Vitagliano: That's a very cool story.
Tim Wildmon: Yeah, absolutely. Good, to end on a positive story. Steve, thank you. All right, thank you for joining us everybody on this Monday. We appreciate Ed, Steve, Fred and everybody else here.
Adam, Kohle, who else contributed to this here show? I think our listeners did. I want to thank our listeners.
Ed Vitagliano: Thank you, listeners.
Tim Wildmon: Thank you, listeners. See you tomorrow, everybody.
