The Political Cesspool is a weekly far-right talk radio show. First broadcast in October 2004 twice a week from radio station WMQM. As of 2011 it is broadcast on Saturday nights on WLRM, a blues and southern soul radio station in Millington, Tennessee. Its sponsors include the white separatist Council of Conservative Citizens and the Institute for Historical Review, a Holocaust denial group.
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The Political Cesspool is a weekly far-right talk radio show founded by Tennessean political activist James Edwards. First broadcast in October 2004 twice a week from radio station WMQM, per Edwards it has been simulcast on Stormfront Radio, a service of the white nationalist Stormfront website. As of 2011 it is broadcast on Saturday nights on WLRM, a blues and southern soul radio station in Millington, Tennessee. Its sponsors include the white separatist Council of Conservative Citizens and the Institute for Historical Review, a Holocaust denial group. Its guests have included author Jerome Corsi, Minuteman Project leader Jim Gilchrist, former Constitution Party presidential candidate Michael Peroutka, actor Sonny Landham, British National Party leader Nick Griffin, Vermont secessionist Thomas Naylor, and paleoconservative activist Pat Buchanan. It is carried by at least three licensed terrestrial radio stations in the United States and on network feeds on the Galaxy 19 communications satellite. The show has attracted criticism for its promotion of anti-semitic, white nationalist and white supremacist views. According to the SPLC, the show has featured a “Who’s Who of the radical right”, including members of the Ku Klux Klan. Edwards is a far- right political activist from Memphis, Tennessee, described by the Southern Poverty Law Center as a rising star of the modern white-nationalist movement. In 2007, Edwards was part of a panel that appeared on CNN’s Paula Zahn Now, along with Roland S.
Martin and Jesse Lee Peterson. He said: “Crime and violence follow African-Americans wherever they go, and if you think that is racist, then spend some time on the mean streets of south Memphis. ” In 2010, he became involved with a new party, the American Freedom Party, which advocates white nationalism and a form of economic nationalism known as the Third Position. In 2010 he self-published a book, Racism, Schmacism: How Liberals use the “R” Word to Push the Obama Agenda, distributed by CreateSpace, a self-publishing printer. The most most recent episode of the show airs on Tuesdays and Thursdays on Memphis-based radio station, WQM-1600 AM, on Tues-days and Thursday evenings on WQQ-1380 AM, and Friday night on WKFQ-1480 AM. The staff claim most of the soldiers on the show are of Confederate descent from Confederate soldiers, according to the show’s website. It has featured guests such as Bill Rolen, Eddie Bombardier, Keith Alexander, Winston Smith, and Eddie Miller, as well as producer Art Frith. In 2005, the group moved to WQK-1370 AM, a sister station of WL RM, and switched to a nightly schedule through Monday through Friday through Monday, through Monday night through Friday, through Friday night. The program has featured guest hosts such as Jess Bonds, Geoff Melton, Jess Bonds and co-founder Austin Farley.
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