Date: August 21, 2024
Host: Dalton Windsor
Guests: Dr. Richard Schmidt & Tony Kinnett
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Dr. Richard Schmidt is pastor of Union Grove Baptist Church and founder of Prophecy Focus Ministries. He is an author. He spent 32 years in law enforcement including that of Acting Sheriff of Milwaukee County until his retirement.
Tony Kinnett is an investigative columnist with the Daily Signal and a former award-winning teacher and administrator. He served in the area of education policy for the Governor Scott Walker administration and regularly appears on national news platforms. He is also a radio host in Indianapolis.
Tony kicked things off with commentary from Chicago as he brought listeners a better picture as to what’s really occurring at the convention vs. what he referred to as social media hubbub.
He described how the perimeter was pierced and there’s been chaos at particular times and he’s not sure that it will calm down before the end of the week. What surprised him the most is that the Chicago police aren’t coddling protesters, many of whom have been pro-Palestinian. As of broadcast time, accurate arrest numbers were not available.
Tony described the convention as a pep rally whose strategy, “…is to amp up everyone in the Democratic base on good vibes and feelings while trying to portray a unity message as well as an outsider candidate message.” Overall, between the two conventions he sees a far greater discipline on the Republican side and a far greater emotionalism on the Democrat side that hasn’t been targeted in a specific point of usefulness.
Dr. Schmidt then followed with comments that focused on audio clips from Michelle Obama’s speech dealing with hope and unity. In one clip she referred to the opposition as she mentioned the banning of books, in-vitro fertilization, shutting down the Department of Education, supposedly demonizing children for who they are and other points that as Dr. Schmidt noted simply didn’t communicate a unifying message. As a contrast, he listed topics that should be addressed like energy independence, inflation and the war in Ukraine. Instead, there’s silence on those issues.
There’s much more to hear, including input from callers nationwide.
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