NC Lt. Gov. says Nazi needed killing... outrage ensues (07-09-2024--Hour2)

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[00:00:29] So I got to give a shout out to the leftist hack, Greg Sargent. Not a military guy as far as I know. That's not a rank. It's his name. Greg Sargent at The New Republic.

[00:00:42] I think that's the place where Stephen Glass worked, where he made up all the stories, right? Because they didn't have any pictures. They didn't use any photos. Anyway. I got to give him a shout out because I would not have otherwise spent about an hour and

[00:00:59] a half yesterday watching Mark Robinson's appearance at Lake Church in the tiny town of White Lake, North Carolina. It's in Southeast North Carolina. I would not have gone to that church's Facebook page. I would not have watched the interview that Robinson gave to the preacher, the pastor

[00:01:25] of the church there, who I think is also a county commissioner. And they've done several political events together, whatever, as part of Mark Robinson's campaign for North Carolina governor. It was a really good interview. You could tell Mark was relaxed. He was comfortable, right?

[00:01:46] He trusted the pastor there. And it was a good interview. And it showed a more, I don't want to say, but kind of a warm and fuzzy side of Mark Robinson that doesn't always come through.

[00:02:03] Mark a lot of times comes across as more pastor, which by the way, I think Rolling Stone called him a pastor because it's Rolling Stone. A journalistic paragon. But the interview was really good, but that's not what Greg Sargent talked about. He didn't write about that.

[00:02:26] He wrote about a couple of sentences that Mark Robinson delivered in his speech. Wasn't really the sermon because the preacher did that. So he did. And Mark Robinson has been doing this for years. And I have said before, I think this is an unknown quantity.

[00:02:46] I think there is a lot of people in the media that don't understand what Robinson has been doing with these church appearances all across the state for years. Going into these churches, black and white, and he goes into the churches and he has the

[00:03:03] oratory skills to perform like a pastor, which is why Rolling Stone, I suspect, thought he was one. And I've said this before. Some people might not respond well to the Baptist preacher delivery style.

[00:03:24] But a lot of people do, especially if the message is one of empowerment, which is what Mark Robinson's speeches are. But because he identifies enemies in a biblical sense, the left always thinks he's talking about them. I wonder why.

[00:03:46] It's almost as if you throw the stone into a pack of dogs and the one you hit is the one that yelps. Not that I'm advocating. They would take that sound bite and they were like, Pete Kalliner says he beats up on dogs. He throws rocks at dogs.

[00:04:03] And that's kind of what they have been doing to Mark Robinson on issue after issue, statement after statement. And there is a strategy here in that when guys like Robinson and Trump is another example, but they're not the only examples.

[00:04:23] But when you give the left multiple incidents, they then start stacking all of the incidents and they compress them down into a sentence or part of a sentence or a long run on sentence with different sections of it. And they just list.

[00:04:45] He's gotten in trouble for comments he made about calling gays filth, saying teachers are terrible and boom, boom, boom, boom, boom. And once you have, and I've talked about this for years, this is a standard operating procedure

[00:05:01] in all journalism, which is when you are covering a story that, as they say in the biz, has legs, that you can do a story on it today, then you take another angle tomorrow and then another angle next week and whatever.

[00:05:15] And it's a story that's taking place over a long period of time. The first write up of the story usually then gets compressed down. So when you tell the next segments of this ongoing story, you have to be able to recap

[00:05:33] and you got to do it in as few words as possible. So by the time you get to installment three, four, five, you have now consolidated or compressed the first story down into one or two sentences or in newspaper land, a paragraph, which is

[00:05:50] only one sentence, but you condense it down and you lose a lot of, dare I say, the nuance, the complexity, the context, because you're compressing down because you're trying to tell the latest installment and you want all of the words that go towards your word count

[00:06:09] in that next story. You want to preserve as many words as you can so you can tell the next story, the next installment. So you take the first story, you smush it down into like a sentence and you slap it

[00:06:20] in as like, just to recap, Mark Robinson's a KKK member, right? That's literally the cartoon that was drawn about him in WRAL. And that artist, that cartoonist, he still has his Twitter account locked down, which

[00:06:35] I do take credit for that, but he has it locked down so nobody can see his stuff anymore. But that guy, what's his name? Dennis Drawn or something? Like, his name is Drawn. He's a cartoonist and yeah, anyway, the guy's like an eighth grade history teacher and he

[00:06:54] draws leftist cartoons for WRAL, a TV station. Why the hell does a TV station need a political cartoonist? Newspapers are barely even employing them nowadays, but WRAL, they keep this guy in their employ. And it's just one cartoon against Republicans after another, because that's what WRAL is.

[00:07:18] They are also the biggest political news organization in North Carolina. WRAL covers, I think they've got two or three capital reporters up there covering the legislature and stuff. So at any rate. The list of incidents and examples about Mark Robinson is now probably somewhere around

[00:07:44] six, seven, eight incidents, whatever, and so they just smush them all down and that becomes all the evidence that they need, even though you can go through every one of the incidents and you can say, no, well, you've taken that out of context.

[00:07:59] That's not what he was saying. And it's not helped by the fact that you get Republicans that jump on board and make the same accusations because it's politically expedient or beneficial for them to do so. Some were running against Mark Robinson in the gubernatorial primary.

[00:08:20] And they attacked him using the attacks from the left. And now media and Democrats, but I repeat myself, they can now take those attacks from conservatives and pile them in as if that proves that the attacks were legit when they weren't. I've documented these things.

[00:08:43] I have a whole file on Mark Robinson because every time something like this comes out and there is another one. This is what happened shortly before July 4th. He went and spoke at this church and he made some comments. Somebody took a clip of the video.

[00:08:58] A Democrat took a clip of the video. They sent it over to Greg Sargent and Greg Sargent spun this whole story up. And then the Democrat takes that's the story and cites it as proof.

[00:09:10] As proof of the smear, because when you watch the video, to me, it's pretty clear what Mark Robinson is talking about. If you listen to more than 20 seconds of the audio. Which I did.

[00:09:24] I not only watched his interview, I watched the entire speech, which ran like half an hour. Watch the whole thing. Here is Lieutenant. This is right. So this is like a minute, 25 seconds of Lieutenant Governor Mark Robinson appearing at a church, Lake Church in White Lake.

[00:09:43] Why is it gotta be White Lake? What he said, White Lake, North Carolina. And he. Says some folks need killing. And this, of course, got the left. Often running because they're like he's calling for political violence, like actually, no, he's calling for like he's calling for.

[00:10:07] State. Murder, right? Government murder against evil. That's what he was talking about. And it wasn't even the whole point of the speech or a speech was about. That we as Americans have a debt to pay. Every one of us, we have a debt not just to Jesus Christ.

[00:10:31] Whose crucifixion, whose death and resurrection gave us liberty, gave us freedom, but also to our founders and all who have shed blood for this great American experiment in freedom, in liberty. That was the point of the speech that you have a responsibility. I have a responsibility.

[00:10:53] We have a debt. That's his message. It's not a new message that he has talked about. He's been saying this. I went and pulled some of the I said, I've got to file.

[00:11:01] I've got all of the audio from like, I don't know, half a dozen speeches that he's given over the last three years. And this is a familiar theme. I've talked with him about it in an interview. It's a familiar theme. So here's the a minute and a half.

[00:11:21] Which is the broader context of the one line that the left is spreading, because what I will tell you is like they of course, the Democrats have sent out. Picture Robinson quote, some folks need killing. Mark Robinson, the MAGA Republican running for governor in North Carolina, spews more

[00:11:41] hate. And that's the some folks need killing. And that's what he says. Here's the clip. You know, as a time when we used to meet evil on the battlefield. And guess what we did to it? We killed it. We didn't quibble about it. We didn't argue about it.

[00:11:58] We didn't fight about it. We killed it. When the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor, what do we do? We flew to Japan and we killed the Japanese army and Navy. We didn't even quibble about it. I didn't start this fight. You did. You wanted to be left alone.

[00:12:16] You should have left me alone. We didn't argue and capitulate and talk about, well, maybe we shouldn't fight the Nazis that hard. No, they're bad. Kill them. Some liberal somewhere is going to say that sounds awful. Too bad. And they did. That's exactly what they did.

[00:12:38] Get mad at me if you want to. Some folks need killing. It's time for somebody to say it. It's not a matter of vengeance. It's not a matter of being mean or spiteful. It's a matter of necessity.

[00:12:55] We have wicked people doing wicked things, torturing and murdering and raping. It's time to call out those guys in green and go have them handled. Well, those boys in blue and have them go handle it. Why do lefties think that he's talking about them?

[00:13:14] Is this one of those dog whistles that only you can hear, meaning you're the dog? But is that what's going on here? Or is it because you guys were talking about how Biden should drone strike Trump?

[00:13:30] And so you think that that's what Robinson is going to do to you? That's called projection. And it's sort of like the so I would call it the iron law of woke projection. So here is how Greg Sargent wrote this piece up at the New Republic.

[00:13:47] Mark Robinson, the extremist GOP nominee for governor in North Carolina, appeared there's a weasel word for you, appeared to endorse political violence. He did not, in fact, endorse political violence. The only person it appeared. That way, too, was you because you're trying to advance a story.

[00:14:08] To tank his electoral prospects, right? You want people afraid of him. You want people to be deathly afraid that if Mark Robinson becomes governor, they're going to die. That's all your campaign is about. That's all the Josh Stein campaign is about. I'm not Mark Robinson.

[00:14:26] He wants to kill you. That's it. Well, I mean. Unless you're a baby, then he doesn't want you to be killed. We want you to be killed, but that's OK. Never mind. So like that's their pitch. Josh Stein, not Mark Robinson. He says some folks need killing.

[00:14:46] The state's lieutenant governor shouted during a roughly half hour long speech in Lake Church in White Lake in the southeast corner of the state, it's time for somebody to say it. It's not a matter of vengeance. It's not a matter of being mean or spiteful.

[00:14:59] It's a matter of necessity. Right. So that's how you know what he did. You heard a minute and a half. And when he said those comments, they were at the end of that 90 second clip. But note what the what Sargent did is why I call him a hack.

[00:15:12] He takes that the last part and he brings that up to the top of the story and says this is the main takeaway. When it when it wasn't, he was talking about confronting evil. He's in a church talking about confronting evil.

[00:15:29] And how we as Americans have lost sight of the thing that makes us American. That we used to be able to identify, no, no, no, no, no, no, that's evil. No, you don't get to do that. And now we've kind of lost our bearings a bit.

[00:15:47] And his message is in all of these churches and when he's on the stump, he's always talking about sort of the same kind of theme, which is reclaim. Your your your history, whether it's the Republican Party, like you're the party that that emancipated the slaves, you're the party.

[00:16:06] Of freedom, like you need to embrace your history, reclaim it. We as Americans should be proud of our history. Reclaim it, right, defend it.

[00:16:19] And do not be or, as he says, be bold, be bold in defense of it, be as bold as the people who shed blood for it were.

[00:16:28] Right, that's and I know this is kind of icky for a lot of folks on the left, but this is it's an inspiring message. It's an inspiring message to a lot of people that want to believe that we are part of a greater project.

[00:16:42] Lieutenant Governor Mark Robinson spoke at a church. This was a couple of days before July 4th. And so his focus was on freedom, independence, the debt that we owe that was paid by Jesus and because he was talking to the church by Jesus and by Americans.

[00:17:03] Let me tell you why we shouldn't go along. Let me tell you why we shouldn't capitulate. We ought not capitulate because we ought to think about the people that came before us.

[00:17:14] And when we think about them, we ought not think about them in these glossed over terms like in the history books when they say, well, like Valley Forge, you know, it was so cold, they bundled up their feet. We ought not think of them in those terms.

[00:17:27] And sometimes in your reflection time when you're alone. Think about Valley Forge. Think about it. Think about how cold it gets in New York. Got a picture of it in your mind? How cold it gets in New York?

[00:17:48] Then think about being in an army camp in New York. Very little food, no electricity, no running water, no medical supplies, no Walmart, no Target, no CVS, no helicopters to fly in supplies, no trucks to drive them in.

[00:18:09] Just you, your buddies out in the middle of nowhere and all this snow and ice and cold and death and disease. For what? For what? Some idea called independence that I can't even spell the word. What am I doing here? Why am I dying? Why am I freezing?

[00:18:28] Put yourself in the place of one of those men who they look down and they see their feet swollen and black from frostbite. They feel their bellies tightening up. They feel their bodies literally eating themselves from starvation.

[00:18:44] They're at their wits end and there literally is no hope, no rescue coming. Nobody's coming for them. The best they can hope for is maybe the British will show up and slaughter them all. Think about that. That's the price that was paid for our freedom.

[00:19:02] Those liberal professors that go on to those campuses and teach American kids to hate America, they have the freedom to do so because somebody froze to death at Valley Forge.

[00:19:15] Right. So I think this is why a lot of us have a sacred duty to hold on to our freedom because somebody paid for it with their lives. Right. We have a sacred duty to hold on to our freedom because somebody paid for it with their lives.

[00:19:26] Sorry, I didn't mean to step on the clip there. I think this is why lefties recoil, though, at this message, because it's a message of duty. It's a message of responsibility and the concept that people died to preserve.

[00:19:39] Right. Then he moves ahead in the timeline to what he called the cataclysm called the Civil War. You think about those men that were at a place called Fredericksburg up in Virginia. Fredericksburg is the worst loss the Union Army ever had.

[00:19:54] Still one of the most deadly fights that we ever had in this nation. Got so bad that the Union Army, the soldiers had to take their comrades and pile them up on top of each other to protect themselves from the Confederate bullets.

[00:20:11] Think about that young man that maybe left Maine. A nice, nice little spot up in Maine, a nice little farm up in Maine.

[00:20:18] Think about that man that left that factory job in New York, left his wife and children and came to this God forsaken place to die amongst all these bullets and blood and disease.

[00:20:30] Think about what he must have been thinking as he looked around and saw nothing but death around him. What was he? What was he thinking? What am I dying for? What am I doing here? What am I dying for? What am I doing here?

[00:20:45] What am I dying for? A word called union, is that what I'm dying for? Am I dying to end slavery? What am I doing here? Why am I here? Little did that man know he was here because White Lake Church will be meeting on the day.

[00:21:02] The first black Lieutenant Governor will be standing up in front of a group of people talking about that man and how he sacrificed his life so we could get up this morning and get in our cars and drive here in freedom and unity.

[00:21:17] We got a price that was paid for our liberty. Come on up a little bit more and let's think about, think about June the 6th, 1944, which we just celebrated the 80th anniversary. Think about those men on those Higgins boats. You know, I think about it all the time.

[00:21:41] Used to think about it in terms of myself. Then when my children were born, I used to think about it in terms of my own son. Now I think about it in terms of my grandchildren. Those ought to have grandchildren. Those ought to have grandchildren.

[00:22:12] Get their picture in your mind right now. Put it in your mind. Think about them sitting at your home, sitting down coloring, playing, laughing. Then you think about the grandparents of World War II. That watched their sons march off to war. Not knowing if they'd ever come home.

[00:22:41] Not knowing if they're going to get that knock on the door. The people of this nation have a debt to pay. We have a debt to pay because it's been paid for us. I wonder why Greg Sargent didn't include any of that in his article.

[00:23:01] I wonder why the North Carolina Democrat Party hasn't included any of that in their tweets, in their press releases. I wonder why the News & Observer didn't include any of that. I try not to ascribe motive. I recognize a lot of people in journalism are lazy.

[00:23:24] They're not going to watch a whole half-hour speech. It's just so long. Gosh, 30 minutes. I kind of feel like that gives the comments about fighting evil, it gives those comments some bit of context. He's talking about these types of sacrifices that people have made for our freedom today.

[00:23:52] And he's trying to personalize it. He's saying, like, think of your own grandkids. Think of your own family. Think in a human term. What must that have been like? I don't know why they wouldn't include any of that. It seems kind of important. But what do I know?

[00:24:15] Jennifer says, Pete, this audio is fantastic. Thanks for playing it. I can't wait for him to be the next governor. I don't know why I always say it like that. Governor. Another message to Pete at the PeteCalendarShow.com.

[00:24:29] It makes sense that progressives are upset with Mr. Robinson's speech. He is discussing the killing of Marxists, fascists, and imperialists. Progressives rightly see he is discussing the evil that they believe in and promote. Yeah. Again, you know me. I try to give the benefit of the doubt.

[00:24:47] I try not to ascribe motive to every single person in this case. But it seems kind of odd to me that people are getting offended when he talks about killing Nazis. I thought you guys wanted to go punch Nazis everywhere. What happened to that?

[00:25:06] Y'all were about punching them but not killing them? Like, oh no, no. You're going to draw the line. And Nazis are everybody I disagree with. Right, okay. So you could hear it in that last clip. Robinson got emotional.

[00:25:19] I've never seen him get emotional like he was in this speech. He had gotten to D-Day. And now he's at the World War II sort of timeline. Remember hearing the story about a fellow named Babe Charlo that stuck with me ever since I heard it?

[00:25:37] Saw a picture of him standing next to his mother. And you can clearly see that all her children, this one that they called Babe, was the apple of her eye. You could clearly see it. He's wearing his uniform in the picture and his mother is clutching him

[00:25:54] like she never wants to let him go. He went off to go to war to go to Italy, which was the origin of his family. His family was from Italy. And I saw this documentary where they were reading a letter to his sister.

[00:26:09] His sister was reading the letter that had been sent to him. And they were talking to him about how they had the things that were going on in the neighborhood and how his mom was saving money to buy him a car and how well things were going

[00:26:23] and they were hoping that things were going well for him. And she wrote that letter not knowing that two weeks before she sat down to write that letter he had been killed. And even after he died, his mother still would not believe that he was dead.

[00:26:39] And I saw images of other soldiers in the newspaper saying, that's Babe right there. Babe's not dead. That's him. Now you take that story and you multiply it by over 400,000. That was the debt that was paid just from one war in this nation for our freedom. Just one.

[00:27:04] I remember going to the Vietnam Veterans Memorial seeing one of the saddest things that I've ever seen. Someone had left a care package with powder and Kool-Aid and candy bars and other things, other goodies from back home. The old y'all don't know what a care package is.

[00:27:24] Families would oftentimes send care packages to soldiers in war filled with things that they may need or won't. But it was left at the wall and the note said this care package was sent by your mom and dad. You weren't there to get it

[00:27:42] and it was time to let it go and leave it in a proper place right under your name on this wall. When I think about that I don't necessarily think about the young man who left it or even the young man whose name was on that wall.

[00:28:01] I think about those parents probably got up on a Saturday morning to run chores and say, hey, let's go by the drugstore or the grocery store and grab some stuff for whoever it was and never see him again. And then to have him die in combat

[00:28:22] and never see him again. That's the debt that's been paid for us. That's the price that's been paid for your freedom. The young men and women that I've met personally that served in Iraq and Afghanistan who have lost limbs, been burned, lost their minds, lost their families,

[00:28:45] lost their standing in the community while those who have walked across our border live in luxury hotels. That's the cost of your freedom. That's the cost of my freedom. That's why as Americans we need to continue to be just as bold as those men were on July 4th, 1776.

[00:29:06] We don't need to ask Joe Biden for anything. We don't need to ask the federal government for anything. Everything that was given to us on July 4th, 1776 and was given to us when Jesus Christ died on the cross suffering in pain for your freedom. For my freedom. Right.

[00:29:30] So we need to be as bold as our forefathers in defending our liberties because those people who came before us died in horrible ways for us to enjoy the lives we have now. And we often forget that. As a society, we forget that. Got an email from Chip

[00:29:58] who says, Pete, it strikes me that the last thing Josh Stein wants to do is debate Mark Robinson. It would be, I don't know if there's going to be a debate between the two candidates for North Carolina governor. I hope there is. I'd be interested to see

[00:30:19] how Robinson performs in that interview that he did with the preacher before he gave this speech. He talked about how he realized, I think he said in high school maybe that he had this gift for public speaking. And he said he picked a topic the night before

[00:30:41] the speech was due. He picked a topic. He wrote it. Put it in his pocket. Never looked at it again. Got up there. Gave the speech. And got, and everybody was like applauding. They loved it. And the teacher was like, how long do you work on this?

[00:30:56] You must have done this for weeks. He's like, no, I wrote it last night. How often did you rehearse it? I didn't. So that's and then he said he went and did a contest, some sort of debate or speech contest or competition. And he said

[00:31:15] he also then learned about politics because he was a politician that got a standing ovation after his speech was over. But he came in second to the mayor's son. So that's that's how that was his first exposure to politics, the world of politics and public speaking.

[00:31:37] He does have a gift. The thing that launched him into the the public space was the speech he gave to the Greensboro City Council where he had no notes, no preparation. And he just walked up there and just fired off a speech about the Second Amendment. And

[00:31:55] it launched his political career. And so, yeah, I suspect Josh Stein would have his hands full. All right, that'll do it for this episode. Thank you so much for listening. I could not do the show without your support and the support of the businesses

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