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6-29-23 Bill Cunningham Show

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Willie discusses the discipline of a Cincinnati police captain with Dan Hils, the death penalty in Kentucky with Commonwealth Attorney Rob Sanders, and breaking down the response to Joe Biden's comment s on the affirmative action case decided by the Supreme Court.

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My old friends for many years ago in a different place and a different planet in Toledo, Ohio, about fifty years ago, as I was a young bailiff and common Police court, or rather much younger, Andy Douglas was practicing law, and to watch his career the past fifty years culminate with about eighteen years on the Ohio Supreme Court. The portrait wasn't veiled. I gave a great speech on his behalf. And I want to thank Justice Chief Justice Sharon

Kennedy and Justice Joe Dieters for inviting me up. And as Dan Hills knows, Justice Joe is now in the rarefied air on the ninth floor of the High Supreme Court Building in Columbus. He has a whole bunch of ascots, he has a smoking pipe, he's got his slippers and more. But until then, Sergeant Dan Hills, Sergeant Hills, welcome to the Bill Cunningham Show. And Sergeant how are you ill? Mean? I'm doing really good. I like to welcome eat stalinist Russia because I think that's where we live now.

Well, this is kind of unusual. But before we go about the Cincinnati police captain under investigation for alleged derogatory comments. Go back in time just a little bit, and this is about Captain Danita Pettis, who's a captain.

She spent years doing other kind of work and including nine one and now she's the president of the Sentinel Police Association, which is the so called black union of black police officers, which after today's decision this morning, might be illegal, by the way, But nonetheless, to talk about Rose Valentine, she was one of the policewomen of Cincinnati, had her on with a couple other females and they're on the main streets of Cincinnati dealing with the worst elements

in town. What happened to police Officer Rose before everything happened, Well, you know, I don't know how many months and even over a year ago now that she had become frustrated with some people that were in her way as she was trying to pull back into the district and she said some really ugly things that she shouldn't have said to herself. She thought it was to herself, um, but was captured on her body worn camera which had been triggered

by her I think maybe she hit the airhorn or something. There's a there, there's there's about a half dozen thing that will turn your body worn camera on when you're in Saint Policeman. Now, so if somebody next you pulls their gun out or pulls their taser out, um you know, even if it's the take it out of their belt before they take their belt off to go to the bathroom, your body worn camera goes on. And all this stuff is redacted by um OUR I think it's our record section or something.

They go through all these tapes, and especially when there's a tape that was requested by defense because at the time she was still um off off service. She was out of service UH two sevens or code with this UH and theft investigation. I think it was. So her attorney had all these tapes, was going to get all these tapes and then they had to be redacted, and they heard that extremely ugly comment and turned it over and that's how it

all started. That's how the discipline started. Of course, it got thrown into the public airways, which then got the politicians all up in a frenzy and they came up with our zero tolering, zero zero tolerance penalties for anything that sounds racially discriminatory rose out you know, was fired. She went through arbitration, uh, the arbitration decision as they asked for the arbitrators a three arbiter panelists for an extension. And I think it's the end of this week,

will we maybe even tomorrow it's due to come out. They'll probably ask for another extension to keep hunting this thing. And but in the meantime city council came up with these zero tolerance policies. And that's fact. That's backs my Stalinish Russia comment to where now, if you want to take somebody out, all you have to do is catch them any time, day, night, on duty, off duty, whenever, saying something ugly. And the fact that nobody wants to admit is that we all say ugly things at one

time or another. We all take people into confidence of time, whether you're talking to a friend, a brother, or a sister, or a neighbor, whatever, and you say things that you wouldn't normally say at work or in public or whatever. And you know, in this case here, look, you know, Captain Pettison, I have kind of up and down. That's why I phrased it in social media passed and even you know, our ups and downs have been at times public, especially our down. It's more

down. I don't want to live in a place. I don't want to live in a place where we're we're we're reporting to the government all the time. You know, Hey, I heard Cunningham. I heard him sitting privately that this isn't. I don't use those words. I don't. I don't believe I don't use those words in private because it's not part of my vernacular. But to go back in time, police Officer Rose Valentine is a great American, working hard to herself, not communicated to another, dropped the end

bomb, and all hell broke loose. So city council, being politically correct, jumped forward. I wonder how many times those council members have used the end word in their life. But nonetheless, it was recorded without her knowledge or intent to be recorded. Now, let's move on to Captain de Nita Pettis. She's a captain. She's up to become the next police chief.

At some point Thiji got the job, but she applied and allegedly I want to get the facts out to the American people this afternoon that Officer Tony Nash and Tony is spelled t O N I may I assume that Tony Nash is a female or may I use the term? Does she identify as a female? Yeah, she currently identifies. This all could change tomorrow, but I'm

gonna get the facts out. But according to officer, Tony Nash identifying as a female presently says Captain Denita Pettis, who also identifies as a female, made derogatory comments and took place hostility against her on a phone call. The complaint a legends the audio recording is from a third party without a warrant. Someone recorded a third party. And I don't know by looking at this exactly what she said. One part of the call says like you and then there's

like h seven or eight stars like you? Blank? What what did she? Can you give me the first letter of what she said? Well, I think she was kin about uh an F word for intercourse um, and and then talking about who she slept with. And then she said, you using the F bomb, you eaten white men since you came on the department. That's how you fed to get off FTO status over there, fu white a training officer in District three. When you mf in a monkey a s

s I can say as monkey ass was still. So this black woman is saying to a white woman, may I use the word uh intercourse her way to the top, and that she also no, no, no, that she's talking to everybody involved in this. I don't know who the third party is, um, and I might be wrong to assume that the third party is also African American, but I don't know. But Tony is African American. Um uh the nit the Pettis's African American, and I think they're all

black. I don't know for sure who the third party is identify they identify as black, yes, well they do identify a black and and but there um, you know, there was some mention about who uh Tony may or may have not um done the relations had relations to you to get to the top. And so Officer Tony Nash who identifies say the Tony. No, she's not saying this the Tony somebody else. Yeah, she doesn't supervise Tony. Uh Tony doesn't live in the district in which uh Captain Pettis has command.

Um. I think they they have occasion to uh be around each other in Sentinel business. And I don't know if something want to ride there. I don't know if there was other personal feelings, but essentially what I get,

just to make this shortest, she's venting to a friend. You know, it's like if I was if I was talking to Tony about our friend Willie, and I'm just going off about our friend Willie to Tony and the Tony, unbeknowns to me, is taping it, and he's got all this stuff about what I'm saying about Willie, and uh, you know, I want to appreciate that. I would not appreciate if Tony did that to me. Is monkey ass is out one of those words that can get you summarily

fired? According to city council, isn't that a racial epithet? About a black person using the word monkey and one of our semi and friends. Isn't that a racial epithet? You shouldn't do. I told the News, I don't believe it's racial. I mean, I don't think an African American is gonna say monkey U in a racial thing. It doesn't make any sense. Why would a why would a why would a black person say rookie? You

know, I don't that's that's that's that's what I did. That's what I I'm reading this so so was the N word other than the F word and the MF word and the monkey S word? Are those the worst words that were wrongfully recorded? Is that? The worst is that I have heard? Yes? All right now? When she said N word, she said N word. She didn't say the N word. She said N word uh as part of the conversation. But she did, she did, she did. She did not say the N word. She didn't. This is tough for

to make you understand. She referred to the N word the same way we are now. She said, you know the N word, you know, so when she's when when when he's there calling you the N word? That's say So the N word came out of the N word came out of Captain de Nita Pettis's mouth. No, no, no, I didn't getting your your audience confused. She did not see an word, she said. She said it in the reference like I'm just saying to you right now, U

N word. You know she was talking about I think I think the reference was to Tony's ex husband, and she said, and he's there calling you the N word, But she didn't say it. She didn't say it. There was no there was no two valves put together, he said, And and then word you understand, don't no, I don't refuse your audience. God, I don't want to confuse anybody. But you're saying, she said the N word in reference is something else, and you're saying she didn't say

the N word and reference is something else. She said the N word in referenced through a conversation, and therefore she loses her Hurr, Huh, You're perfectly causing trouble. I think me and Tony are going to have conversation about you later and which please do which I currently I currently identify as a six foot ten inch Chinese email, so I want to put that on the record

immediately if someone wants to refer to me as something. So at this point, Officer to identify as a release pitcher for the Red They could use one. After last night, they could use one. But Officer Tony Nash is arguing that pett Is violated two administrative regulations. One is discrimination, harassment and the Workforce will not be dolrated, which includes this. The other address is a respectful workplace environment free of bulling, inappropriate place, workplace, workplace workplace.

That's the thing. If I'm off duty and mean having a conversation about Willie, how is that workplace? You know? I cannot have an I have a conversation with Tony? Can I not know? You cannot? I can? I can? I believe you can. I believe for a moment that you can't. You can't say anything. Don't talk, no, don't say so. You got two black females going at each other, and each of them are using discrimination as a verbal club on the other. So these two blocks, well, you know what I want to know. I want

to know what the blank parted SAPs are from the mystery third person? What are they saying in between whatever Captain Pettis is saying? Do you want to live in a country like this? I mean, really, well, he do you know the place where? Where? You know? At any any time, Tony could just turn me in because of a conversation that he and I. Hey, he could he could turn it into the police department and

say not that I workday police anymore. But if I did, he could turn it in and go listen to the listen to the language that he used about who identifies as a privately, he's a Chinese female. I don't know anyway in your audience. I'm trying to your audience nothing. I wish we could say words, but we can't say the words. But anyway, Joe Mallory of the NAACP, he don't know what to do. So he's out

a complaint. He's a black female in a pretzel. He's got his head down and he's saying, wow, Well, she's a high ranking officer that may want to make an example of her, but I don't think that's fair. And of course Pettis herself in twenty eighteen and two white officers accused her of engaging in racist behavior. And so at this point, I don't know what the hell is going on. At this point, Pettis is in the

bullpet. She's on the bench. She can't play anymore. Not the commander of district was at three, and she's maybe going to become two, maybe becoming the next police chief at their thiji, but now not at least yeah maybe, so what the hell? Well, what do we do? What are we doing to the children? I want to know what the hell are we doing this? We're letting politicians make rules so they can get themselves votes instead of instead of letting the police department get them together. Zero teens there.

We we we pushed things out into the media and then go and then stand in front of a microphone and say zero tolerant and we've got to put an end of this racism in everything else. And then it comes back around and you know, Luke, Joe Malory tied in a preszel. I don't know what did I well, let's talk about Joe Maurray, who came to the arbitration hearing of Rose Bounds, you know, and said to the arbiters,

well, you know what if do you give her job back? I can't promise you, you know, but I'm gonna be talking to the community. I'm not very happy. I felt it was kind of a hint at something that wasn't Why did the city Why did the city call for Joe Mallory to be a witness in that arbitration hearing? That was that was like bizarre to me. That was what almost saw out of my chair when they called him and he started talking, like, wait a second, he wasn't there

that day in District three. He doesn't make policy and procedure on the police department. He was just there to let the front really really ugly. And now now you got two black females, one using I think monkey ass relative to a black female or otherwise is a racial epithet. I think accusing a black woman of sleeping her way to the top. Uh, and the word sleeping wasn't used. Uh is a bad thing. But nonetheless, if put me in charge, she gets five days in the bullpen, she gets two

or three days off. Don't do it again. Back to work, Rose Valentine belongs back on the back in the field. We don't have enough good cops. She made a mistake, she acknowledged that it was private, and all of a sudden, white females are treated differently in the black females. Right, well, I you know, you right have to ask Hill Mallory. Apparently he has all the answers, all right, Well, of course the Mallories always have all the answers. But Dan Hills, I don't know

exactly what we did. But thank you for coming on the Bill Cunningham show. Bill. I want you to know not only you are a great American, but you're my favorite Chinese lady. Well six foot ten inch, I date yell Man, So you know right now. That's how I identify. So you better treat me and such and if you don't, you got a problem. Okay, it's not my problem, it's your problem. Okay, Yes, sir, ma'am, thank you, Danielle, thank you, all right, goodbye, goodbye. I don't know what to say. I have

no idea what we just did. I have no idea what was said. It was bad, So what do you do? Slap him on the wrist to get back to work. No no, no, no no no no, no no no no. Zero tolerance means complete stupidity. On seven hundred WLW. Hey truckers, it's time for today's roll. Hal I really cutting him the great American back from the portrait unveiling of the Great Justice Andy Douglas

in the High Supreme Court yesterday. I was honored. The Chief Justice asked me to come up to and part some words of wisdom, and the court was in session. Thousands of people were present, I think one hundred thousand watching on the live feed, and it was honored. I was honored to say once again high to Sue Douglas's lovely wife and Justice Douglas passed away about two years ago, and he wrote almost five hundred opinions. He was the voice of the common man on the bench. And from Toledo, Ohio.

I spent seven years of my life in law school and then practicing law for Schnorff, Schnorff and Schnorff. But the reason I went to Toledo and I think, even though I may identify as a six foot ten inch Chinese female, I'm really a white male in reality, and I did not have the qualifications or the credentials to go to some of the better law schools. So I ended up at the University of Toledo, which by the way, fit

me perfectly, and I loved it there. But we're waiting till my left for Joe Biden to read a teleprompter about the Supreme Court ruling, which, according to Fox News guts affirmative action, which it should have been gut a fifty or sixty years ago, because at this point it appears the wooden State's been put through the heart of affirmative action based upon race, which is the way it always should have been. You cannot end discrimination by practicing it.

You can end racism by using it. And those on the left who tend to mainly complain about racism, tend to be the ones who use it the most. So to my left, we're going to anticipate it. Plus a little bit of constitutional law which Professor Scott Gerber of Ohio Northern University of Law School would appreciate that there's one essential function of each of the three branches of

government. It's called checks and balances. The brilliance of the founders is that we have no grand potentate, and each of the branch of the government has

one essential function and they implement each other. Number one, Article one of the Constitution deals with the Congress. It is an Article one because that's the most important part of the Constitution, which is the indirect representation through the Congress of the people, that we the people indirectly in the constitublic elector representatives who pass the laws. So Number one, the Congress create the law or pass laws. The Congress says, here is the statute, here is the ordinance,

here is the rules. Number one the Congress's article one. Article two is the presidency. The President's job is to execute the lass. In other words, the policeman, the FBI, the Secret Service, the US Marshal Service, the deputy sheriffs, the correction officers, the highway patrol, whatever it is, or directly or indirectly under control of either the mayor, the governor or the president. Joe Biden's main job in office is to execute the

laws given to him by the Congress. And if you have a circumstance where someone sues in court and claims, you know what, the law passed by the Congress, or by city council, or by the state of Ohio, Kentucky in the end of the legislature is illegal, was unconstitutional. Well, you can't have the president decide that because he executes, he follows the law, and the Congress of course passed the law, so they're not a good judge about what happened. So Article three, which is created in the US

Constitution, is for a court system. So one there's a dispute between an Article one legislature and citizens or organizations or police unions, or department stores or industries or Dave Keaton, my producer, wants the somebody because he said, now, wait a minute, the law that was passed is not being properly executed, or the law that has passed is unconstitutional, it's against the founding documents, you go to the article three, which is the court system,

and say, you know what, decide this for me. So in this case, beginning at least with the Bocky decision of some fifty six years ago, the courts have involved themselves itself and interpreting race set asides, racial quotas, and all the rest. And so from the get go, we sought to have a more perfect union. We seek it. We sought to have under the fourteenth Amendment. As Dave Keaton knows, that any person in this country should be given equal protection of the laws, equal protection, and any

racial set aside is unequal. The great majority of poor people in America numerically are white. They're not black. A white kid growing up in der Parker, Norwood, or Independence or in Batavia. Let's go to news right now, then we'll babel there at is breaking news on news radio seven hundred WLW. This is Rick Echino at the seven hundred WLW at newsdesk. It's a decision that's going to have a huge impact on the entire college admission process.

The US Supreme Court in a ruling today gutting the use of affirmative action. President Joe Biden is getting set to speak on today's ruling. We will go live now to coverage from our partners at ABC News. This is live coverage from ABC News. Here is ABC News correspondents Aaron Katurski. Good day. President Biden is about to make remarks at the White House. Half of the

US Supreme Court dramatically changed how colleges and universities select their students. The six to three opinion greatly limited the use of race as a factor in college admissions. He was president by now in the White House Roosevelt Room forty five years, four forty five years. The United States Supreme Court has recognized the college's freedom to decide how how to build diverse student bodies and to meet their responsibility

of opening doors of opportunity for every single American. In case after case, including recently, just as a few years ago in twenty sixteen, the Court has affirmed and reaffirmed this view that colleges could use race not as a determined factor for admission, but there's one of the factors among many in deciding who

from from a qualified already qualified pool of applicants. Today, the Court once again walked away from decades of precedent, and as the descent has made clear, the descent states and today's decision quote rolls back decades of precedent and momentous progress. End of quote. I agree with that statement from the descents. From the dissent, the Court has effectively ended affirmative action and college admissions,

and I strongly strongly disagreement of course decision. Because affirmative action is so misunderstood. I want to be cleared, make sure everybody's clear about what the law has been and what it has not been until today. Many people wrongly believe that affirmative action allows unqualified students, unqualified students to be admitted ahead of qualified

students. This is not This is not how college admissions work. Rather, colleges set out standards for admission and every student, every student has to meet those standards. Then and only then, after first meeting the qualifications required by the school to college look at other factors in addition to their grades, such as race. The way it works in practice is this, colleges first established a qualified pool of candidates based on media, certain grade, test scores,

and other criteria. Then and only then, then and only then it is from this pool of applicants, all of whom have already met the school standards that the class has chosen after waging a wide range of factors, among them being race. You know, I've always believed that one of the greatest strengths

of Americas. You've tired to hear me say it is our diversity. But I believe that if you have any doubt about this, just look at the United States Military, the finest fighting force in the history of the world. It's been a model of diversity, and it has not only been made our nation better, stronger, but safer. I believe the same is true for

our schools. I've always believed that the promise of America is big enough for everyone to succeed, and that every generation Americans we have been to fit up by opening the doors of opportunity just a little bit wider to include those who have been left behind. I believe our colleges are stronger when they are racially diverse. Our nation is stronger because we use because we are tapping into the

full range of talent in this nation. I also believe that while talent, creativity, and hard work are everywhere across this country not equal opportunity, it is not everywhere across this country. We cannot let this decision be the last word I want. We cannot let this decision be the last word. While the court can render a decision, it cannot change what America stands for.

America is an idea, an idea unique in the world, an idea of hope, an opportunity, of possibilities, of giving everyone a fair shot, of leaving no one behind. We've never fully lived up to it, but we've never walked away from it either. We will not walk away from it now. We should never allow the country to walk away from the dream upon which it was founded. That opportunity is for everyone, not just a few. We need a new path forward, a path consistent with the law that

protects diversity and expands opportunity. So today I want to offer some guidance to our nation's colleges as they review their admission systems after the day's decision. Guidance that is consistent with the day's decision. They should not abandon let me say this again, they should not abandon their commitment to ensure student bodies of diverse

backgrounds and experience that reflect all of America. What I propose consideration as a new standard where college is take into account the adversity as students overcome when selecting among qualified applicants. Let's be cleared under this new standard, just as what's true under the earlier standard, students first have to be qualified applicants. They

need the GPA and test course to meet the schools standards. Once that test is met, then universities should be considered, including acluding lack of students lack of financial means, because we know too few students of low income families, whether in big cities or rural communities, are getting an opportunity to go to

college when the poor kid. When a poor kid, maybe the first of the families to go to college, gets the same grades test scores as a wealthy kid whose whole family has gone to the most elite colleges in the country and whose path has been a lot easier, while the kid who faced tougher challenges has demonstrated more grit, more determination, and that should be a factor that colleges should take into accountant admissions, and many still do. It also

means examining where the student grew up and went to high school. It means understanding a particular hardships that each individual student has faced in life, including racial discrimination that individuals are faced in their own lives. The court says, quote, nothing in this opinion should be construe just prohibiting universities from considering and applications discussion of how race has affected his or her life. But it's through but

be it through discrimination or inspiration or otherwise. End to quote, because the truth is, we all know it. Discrimination still exists in America. Discrimination still exists in America. Discriminations still exists in America. Today's decision does not change that. It's a simple fact. If a students has overcome had to overcome adversity on their path education, the college should recognize and value that.

Our nation, colleges universities should be engines of expanding opportunity through upper mobility. But today, too often that's not the case. Statistics one statistic, students from the top one percent of family incomes in America are seventy seven times more likely to get into elite college than one from the bottom twenty percent of family

incomes, seventy seven percent greater opportunity. Today, for too many schools, the only people who benefits from the system are the wealthy and the well connected. The odds have been stacked against working people for much too long. We need a higher education system that works for everyone, from Appalachia to Atlanta and too far beyond. We can and must do better, and we will today on directing the Department of Education to analyze what practices help build a more inclusive

and diverse student bodies and what practices hold that back. Practice like legacy admissions and other systems expand privilege instead of opportunity. Colleges and universities should continue their commitment to support, retained and graduate the first students and classes you know in companies. Companies who are already realizing the value diversity should not use this decision as the excuse to turn away from diversity either. And we can't go backwards.

You know, I know today's court decision is a severe disappointment to so many people, including me, But we cannot let the decision be a permanent setback for the country. We need to keep an open door of opportunities. We need to remember that diversity is our STrenD. We have to find a way forward. We need to remember that the promise of America is big enough for everyone to succeed. You know, that's the work of my administration and

I'm always going to fight for that. And I want to thank you all. And I know you've been told. I have a helicopter out there waiting to go up to do an interview in New York. I'll be talking to more about this allive interview. But thank you very much, and we're going to have plenty of time to talk about this, but we're not going to let this break us. Thank you. Live from the White House, Biden, you go. President Joe Biden's being here on news radio seven hundred WLW.

That coverage brought to you by our partners with a b C News. The President talking about today's huge ruling by the US Supreme Court that guts the use of affirmative action and the college admission process. The President saying that he strongly disagrees with that decision, saying affirmative action is misunderstood, saying qualifications must always be met by all potential students before being taking other factors such as race

into consideration. No unqualified candidates are ever taken over qualified students due to their race. He says colleges should not abandon their pursuit of diverse and balance student bodies, and he's directing the Department of Education to examine what practices can be implemented or changed to make the admission process as fair and as balanced as possible. We'll have more reaction from the President, as you heard, he's going

to be doing another interview later today and speaking more about this day. Tuned all the details here about this landmark US Supreme Court ruling here on news radio seven hundred WLW. Get your ticket score chance to win one thousand dollars. Just inner this nation. My keyword on our website cash, that's cash entered Now. I'm make an old woman plus and I'll make a yold girl sweet. Want to be up with the baby in Yola. I'm but I'm bad of the bowl, Bad of the bowl, bad of the bow. All

right, here we go again. After two o'clock today, we'll be Rob Sanders. He's looking out his window. He tells me to the line with Taylor Swift, my old girlfriend, and the line is now across this suspension bridge, heading towards downtown Covington. That's after two o'clock today. J Ratlife will be with us in about an hour and a half talk about the smoke

and what's happening and travel and more. Plus we had the Centerville Elks are going to be here in about twenty five minutes, the girls champ mpionship golf team. They're gonna qualify for the Kroger Classic. I would assume. Let's get into it. The Democrats have been the party for the last two hundred and forty years since this country was created. That's lived and died off the labor slash votes of African Americans. They've never stopped. From the days of

slavery. Every slave brought into this country was brought in by a Democrat. And when the North decided enough is enough, we can't take it anymore, then the South attacked the North in Fort Sumter. It was the Northerners like Ohioans and Buckeyes that went to war with the South controlled by the Democratic Party and slavery. Every black woman that was raped, every slave that was beaten to death or sold, every kinto kunte that had a foot chopped off was

chopped off by a Democrat. So we fought and died. Well over a half a million died to keep the United States of America together. As one, and thank god, the North and the Republican Party beat the South and the Democrats in the Civil War, but for the assault on Atlanta, Sherman's Marsh to the sea, so to speak, it was possible in eighteen sixty four that Abraham Lincoln, a proud Republican, would not have beaten the Democrat McClellan, who wanted to stop the war and let the South ie the Democrats

keep the slaves. So a few years later, in eighteen seventy six, there was a sputed election. What about eleven years later, Rutherford B. Hayes was the Republican, A guy named Tilden was the Democrat, and the electoral college in those days wasn't real comp didn't know who won. So the Democrats go to Rutherford B. Hayes and said, look, the Republican, I'll tell you what we'll do, Rutherford. What kind of name is Rutherford? By the way, would you name your son Rutherford? But nonetheless it's

from Ohio. They said, old Rutherford B. Hayes that if we give you the presidency, we want all the Union troops out of the South. We Democrats want to take control of the eleven states thirteen states of the old Confederacy. We want all you Blue Coats out of the South. So to get the president see Rutherford B. Hayes said, okay, I'll pull out all the federal troops. So Democrats got rid of all those damn Republicans and

the Blue Coats and sent them back north. From that point on, from at least eighteen seventy six until the nineteen sixties, almost one hundred years, the Democrats then created in the South a cast system in which slaves were better off having not been in slavery. But after the beatings and the Jim Crow and the ku Klux Klan and all the lynchings for eighty or ninety years, of what the Democrats did the black folks point the civil rights movement began.

And at that point, when allowed to vote by the Democrats, the slaves in the South, the black folks always voted Republican because they can't take it anymore. Look look around, Look what the Democrats have done to us. I was a slave, damn it. Now I'm a sharecropper. I have no rights because Democrats kicked out the Republican slash Bluecoats. Beginning in eighteen seventy

six, and now we're victimized by the ku Klux Klan. Then in the nineteen fifties and sixties, after nearly one hundred years of enslavement of a different type by the Democrats, the civil rights movement began with Rosa Parks and Fred Shuttlesworth and Martin Luther King Jr. The old roommate, and my former Boston Toledo Robert V. Franklin, my judge who hired me as this bailiff for four years at ut Law School, was the roommate of king Morehouse College nineteen

forty eight. And after all that, it was like pulling teeth to get the Democrats in the nineteen sixties to quit fillerbust during the Civil Rights Act and the Voting Rights Act. So here we are another sixty years go by. So the Democrats for two hundred years used, abused, murdered, lynched, rape, sold men women and children who were black. That's what Democrats did.

And now today jump ahead to twenty twenty three, you got Joe Biden standing up to say he was saying, essentially discrimination still exist, Yes, it does exist. It's called affirmative action. They proposed the policies that keep discrimination alive because black folks tend to vote for Democrats because even sold a bill

of goods. It's almost like the Stockholm syndrome. For God's sakes, and the major cities, no matter how bad it is, Democratic voters in the major cities, either at liberal white females or black folks, vote for Democrats, despite how bad the schools are, despite how bad the crime is, despite how bad the jobs are. There's nobody wearing white sheets. Those Democrats anymore aren't rolling around Evandale and Evanston anymore. No, they're called the leaders

of the Democrat Party who will promise one thing and deliver nothing. The Stockholm syndrome today is alive and well in major American cities. So now you have the president who is supposed to execute the laws passed by the Congress an interpretive by the US Supreme Court. It's Biden's job to follow the law, not to find ways around it, not to tell the Department of Education, you know what, we're gonna find a way around that, we're gonna work.

No, it's his job to faithfully execute the laws. Can I say three times, as Biden likes to do, affirmative action is racial discrimination. The

great majority of poor folks in America today numerically are white. You mean to tell me that the children of Michael Jordan, the children of all the Mallories, the children of the great Chris Smitherman, the great majority of black folks today are in the middle class, and there are thousands and thousands of black millionaires, thousands and thousands of black millionaires, that their children should get a

benefit on some white guy or girl out of Batavia because of race. The party of race that multiplies, divides, subtracts, and adds strictly by race, is still in charge, and they want to continue to hurt black folks by telling them that affirmative action it's great, it's wonderful. Well, affirmative

action is illegal now, and affirmative action is discrimination. So I would urge, I would ask you to think about this, especially if you tend to vote for that party, the party that rode the horses and the post Civil War era with white sheets. That the party, the Democratic Party that raped black girls, sold black children, killed black men for one hundreds of years. That party is now telling you we want to continue to discriminate and hurt

you. No one can fairly say that if you're locked into the inner cities of this great country, that your educational opportunities completely control by the Democrats are good. It costs more to send a boy or a girl to CPS than it does to Sandax High School. It costs more to send a boy or a girl to Woodward than to Covington Catholic. It cost a lot more to send a boy or a girl, a lot more money to send a boy or a girl to Use or Taft than it does the Deer Park or Sycamore.

The party that has ruined the lives and enslaved black folks continues to do so. In twenty twenty three, they now call it affirmative action is meant to cure discrimination. When affirmative action is discrimination, That's what it is. And to have a system in college or business or anywhere, or a person gets a benefit or a cost because of skin color is discrimination. The best way by George Orwell's animal farm is to an act of policy is to call

it the opposite of what it is. Why this black up is down, left is right, right is left, and the game is being played as I speak, as the leaders of the Democratic Party wants to keep their most loyal voters who tend to be black females, and the liberal Democratic camp by lying about Clarence Thomas and lying about the Supreme Court opinion of today, which hopefully finally says that a person will not be judged by the color of their skin, by the content of their character. I want to live in a

nation where merit matters. All. The great American me did not have the academic qualifications to get into Harvard or Yale. I went to a school appropriate to what I could handle. Nku or you see or since an dat state are fine educational facilities that can take in thousands of individuals and turn out persons

that are ready to confront the problems of the twenty first century. Don't have to go to the Ivy League, for God's sakes, because admit it because of the color of your skin, then after six years, because of the poor education you received, you either flunk out or leave. That doesn't make any sense at all. Affirmative action is discrimination. Anything else stated is a

lie. I want to live in a country where I will be judged by what I've accomplished, by my perseverance, by my faith, by my sticktuitness, and not judge because the skin color I have as black or white or brown or whatever it might be. Oh, let's continue the line becomes available, which it never does. Seven four nine, seven thousand. We're scheduled after one thirty today to have on Centerville Centerville Julie Rogers and the home of

the Elks who won the state girls golf championship. Imagine playing a game of golf that Tiger Woods, because of the color of his skin, received maybe four birdies to start the round. After all, Tiger, you're black and you're a victim of racial discrimination. The children of Tiger Woods would get benefits that your children would not receive. Now that is stupid. That is real

stupid. Let's continue. By the way, there's I don't know eight to ten black judges justin Hamlintin County. Do you think their children should get a benefit over you if you live in Batavia or Taylor Mill or Middletown or Greene County, that somehow the children of the great judges of Hameline County who are black get a benefit because of the color of their skin. Are you kidding me? Affirmative action is discrimination? One twenty five Home of your Red's unbeatable.

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I'm broadcasting a right guy, all right segment. We saved them best for last? Is that fair to say we finally got the Elks aer here? Oh, we're still waiting on the beach Wood Gers a Tiger's team track and field one this Kentucky state that they're the only ones we know of left. But the Elks are here. Some of these ladies will be playing in the

Kroger Classic in the years that Lie had pleasing introduced the coach. Of course, the great Julie Rogers is here, as the mother makes sure, knowing the girls act up during the season, but the coach is here, introduced the fine teams. Introduce yourself, and the ladies have at it. My name is Mike Dalton. I've been the coach for about twelve thirteen years now, I think. And our players are we have four seniors in a sophomore. So seniors are Morgan Rodgers, Leanne Harker, Alona Miller, and son

Johnna Ready. And the sophomore is rigid Nichols. She's she's a junior. Now she's she's getting old. Was there a key moment when the pressure was intense, the lightning was striking, the trees were swaying, the cheering was at its tumultus best at one point, did you say I need to make this seven foot? But girls, was there an occasion during the day when that happened? Um, I would say, all of us just making sure we're not taking any shots for granted, and just making sure that you know

we're going through our routine. Um. I wouldn't say there was a specific shot because we didn't know that we had won until after. Maybe that's better, Maybe that's yeah, it's like that. It's Jordan's speet doesn't know he's playing. Someone may beat him. But you had a seventy seven and you had a nine on the hole. Please explain, Um I don't. I was right down the middle of the fairway. I under stroked about two seventy

five down the middle. Yeah, I think it was more about three ten, but wow, no yards, no yard ten years now the words it's stuck. It was a wet surface, the ball carry three ten beautiful, it was. It was a great shot up. Then what happened here in the middle of the fairway? What happened next? End up pulling my shot basically right over the tree. I hit like a few shots right. I don't even remember that shot, honestly. I just remember walking up and I

was like, okay, just get it on the green. And I hit the tree a couple of times, maybe a few times actually several times. Yeah, how you make a nine on a hole and shoot seventies? I think I actually went over the green into the bunker and then you stayed in the bunker for a while. Yeah, you know, and you went to the other bunker. Then you scalded across the green and you chili tipped to once. You do that every week? I did it against Paul O'Neil is

still a year in a coach? How many years you've been doing this for? How long with the Elks? Uh? Well, I've been there, gosh, I guess seventeen years now. But I was a Jamie coach for a while. Do you teach social studies? Leant to ask some questions, these girls, here we go, here we go, what's the square root of one forty four thirteen? It's twelve twelve, let's close. Sorry, I'm sorry I have to stay thirteen because the Taylor Swift concert. Oh it's

very good, very good? All right. Now, let me ask you this. How many US Senators are there in Washington? The number one hundred? Very good? How many members in the House are representatives? Four hundred and thirty five? Mm in harmony? What's the capital of California? Sacramento? I'm bad there? Okay? Who's the Secretary of That's it right there? Blankin? All right? Who's the Vice president of the United States? Very good? Dare do you know who the president is? I'm not sure

he knows, but you know who the president is? Who's the governor of Ohio? Has sagged? They did better than Cole Raine did? I'll tell you what? What can I say? And coach? Have you thought about playing the dear park girls? Uh? You got We don't play a lot of nine hole matches, so we just play tournaments. So I'm sure we kind of like you on a date when he's out of the friendly confines. You don't play nine hole matches? Not really? Not good? Well?

And next year's team, how's it looking? You won the state title by one stroke? Right. How many total strokes Julie Rodgers something the number it's in Miami. I think six hundred and thirteen and they and Dublin Drum had six fourteen and six hund Could you take four four scores per day? I like that answer at thirteen. That was very good Taylor. Do you girls all like Taylor Swift? Ye? Say, we had those twenty twenty five tickets. We shouldn't given it. We should have given them out to the

girls. Well, I thought Taylor Swift was coming here at two o'clock. Well, she's gonna come, you said, tomorrow. Oh, tomorrow, I call her tea. I used to date her, you know, and I know before John Mayer and so shake it Off? Is that the name she broke? Just shake It? I think in it? And then his song shake It Yeah? Don't you know why the stupid what it is? I don't know. I'm gonna go down after I get off of work and stand in line and get his shirt. Well, your favorite was Manford Mann.

Wasn't that your guy one of them? Yes, we got the prosecutor coming from Covington, who's watching the Taylor Swift line. It's according to Matt Reese it's over the suspected to be all the way down to Paduca by midnight. They're gonna run out of stuff. Say give me some sports to make it fast, and please work into Centerville somehow, Willy. The Stute Report is a proud service of your local tam Star Heating and air conditioning dealers.

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three Race Road and good old west Side. Go on that thing called the Worldwide Web and Ruce dot nem coach have you heard of and there was Obama called in hit that again? That's pretty good, thank you, thank you Rock. Have you been to Ron's Roost? I have not been to Ron's room. Sag your reaction. You'd better get there. Please continue, Willie. Let's see will Benson with the go ahead triple and T J. Friedol follows with a two run homer. Those first place around knock off the Orioles

last night, taking two or three in Baltimore. Did you hear last night's game? Coach? I was lying in bed here it is swinging in a nest. Struck him out on a slider in the dirt, down on strike. Unbelievable was that it? And the Reds have the day off today. They opened a weekend series up against the Padres starting tomorrow night, five ten five game time tomorrow night. Because of somebody singing down the street at pay Course Stadium. Shake it baby, shake it yeah, yeah, or shake

it on. Let's see what else I'll take it off from Joel luck up. This guy knows everything. Let's see. On April twenty ninth, the Reds lost in Pittsburgh to nothing to drop to one and nine on the road, worse than the major leagues. Look at the girls a little do it and they know the sung. Since then, they have gone twenty one and nine on the road, the best in them and major League. The last seventeen games, they're fourteen and three. Unbelievable in the Reds. Unbelievable.

Andy Mack, who's more important in this Town coach Taylor's whipped or the Cincinnati Reds. Tag your reactions, Let's see what do you say? Please continue saying. Indianapolis Colts Isaiah Rodgers and Rashad Barry, along with free agent Demetrius Taylor suspended today and definitely by the National Football League. Don't tell me they're betting like p rose to at least a conclusion of the twenty twenty three season

for betting on NFL games last year that they were participating in correct. At Tennessee Titans offensive tackle Nicholas Petite Ferrar, you know what bett and golf? Do you is? Um? I know I've never bet either. This guy from the Titans suspended six games when violating the gambling policy went on none NFL sports. You also have a responsibility. There are a lot of people that

I was following you. You're a role model, whether you like it or not, role model, and you have to conduct yourself with a high standard. And that's what I mean about protecting the shield and protecting the integrity of the game. You have a responsibility when you play in this week and you have to live up to that standard. That's the coach of Centerville talking to

his girls. Uh the let's see Ferrar is out six games because he bet on non NFL sports at the club's facility, but NFL his partnership with rank Draft brings. Yeah, you're all betting. I don't know, have you been on football or anything? And now I wouldn't even know how to do it. The NFL regular season kicks off ten weeks from tonight. It happens ten weeks the NFL season begins. You know, I had little Anderson in here about a few days ago from ten year old boy who's that his favorite

player is Patrick Mahomes? Girls? What do you think something wrong with that? How about this? Will he? Pickleball probably reginated in nineteen sixty five. Ohio ranks the number two state with the highest growing pickleball interest year over year eighty three percent increase. Cincinnati and Cleveland ranks seventh for city with the highest growing pickleball interest year after year of who cares? And by the way, coach, do you see pickleball coming into high school at some point?

Doubt it? What about? What about? What about rugby? My wife, the People's Judge, has tried for years to put together a rugby senior female team of over sixty five year old women. Do you think and she can't get more than three players? Do you think it'd be hard to get rugby senior citizens? Yes, Seg your reaction. You need a lot of ambulances and maybe a few helicopters on the on the sideline. What about SEG's mom, which she consider playing Rugby? No? Are you sure? Yes?

Hit the music? Hit the music, Dave. Now we got a dance contest going on in here. Girls are going nuts. Holy count she's are you going? Are you going? A guy called me and said you want to come to the ball and I'm going to Troy Blackburn can't say okay, And they say, got two tickets and I don't know whether to go or not. I saw it with the first is the first lady going to go? Penny said, who's Taylor Swift? That shows that Taylor Swift,

she's like a singer. I guess right. Hit the narded in country country with Tim Tim mccrawl right, and then moved into West date Faith Hills who hit the music with Taylor? That's me. They probably want to sing with her. You girls know that song. Let's hear the song, Let's go unbelievable. Never never, who's that song about it? About your break up with her? That was don Mary? I thought it okay, well Morgan, who you know? Who they? I mean? Maybe that's I don't

know, I don't know. She gets around a little bit Shelway. She didn't have any morals like the girls from Centerville. Do you reds right? Anything else in sports? That's about it? You're sure? I think so? Once again, coach, congratulations if you win next year? Where you come back? Of course? So there was one thousand, two hundred and forty eight strokes hid and you feat the other team by one? What team was it? Doublin Jerome? Who Doublin Jerome? The Columbus have Columbus never

heard him? It was sixty titles. I love Centerville the home of the Elks. And once again, Julie Rodgers, you were a key element in getting this done. She's the mom of one of the girls. That is correct, all right, segment get us out of the student board with your girls. Congratulations. If he can be champions in golf, be champions in life. You've led the way on the course, lead the way in your community, and don't be a derelict. You know what I'm saying, Don't

be a clown. Hit the music. There's another one, all right, say man, get me out of this tuture. Willie, we say on this day, and happy birthday to my main man, that dude, BP Brandon Phillips. And also happy birthday to the one and only the Aviation King himself, Jay Ratliffe and Red's infielder altfielder Nick Senzel. As a birthday today, what about the Todd father. Todd father did a good job to pass

three games in Baltimore. I think we're gonna have Jay rat Lavan in about an hour, with your permission, on Willie, in honor of the Centerville Elks's Division one Ohio girls one, it says right there on the trophy, I'm looking right at it. Excuse me, she's on this day. Thirty five years ago, these girls weren't born. A big movie debuted. Don't tell me Jaws coming to America. Oh that was funny. Eddie Murphy coming to America's fun thirty five years ago? Today? That was funny? Is

out it in sports? Yes? Play some more tailors? Don't two girls like they are? Some? Taylor? Are you odo? Are you overdosing right now on Taylor Swift. How many are going to the concert? Are you sitting in the front row? I heard you out, you got on the tickets? Yes, where you have any bracelets? On now radio music?

You should all right? Segment get Me out of the Students report William Honor of the Centerville Elks and the girls championship in golf us in one title, we leave you with the immortal words of the stud report card to TB. But as you're clearly moving the war in rock and looting the war at home, and he is U a couple bit of a brier around the world, uh dato Houten is losing the war in the rock. Okay, I

didn't know they were fighting at a rock. I thought it was a little bit north and like find the east of there or something doesn't or west? You know who was president before Joe Biden? Very good hit the music. I played the field before I found someone to commit to. I found someone to commit to for me to do seven hundred wwquest I had made would make me more of a boss to you for the type what everyone believes you. I'm in my apartment. I was all alone, feeling a little lone,

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all you a one of a kinds part. I know rich people like Tony Vender have hired people to stand in line for him and to buy merchandise in a FaceTime, what to buy? How much to spending? Was an unlimited budget? Plus so many other issues are percolating and norting a daiga Joonan you and I now is the Melissa Powers of Kenton County. That would be Rob Sanders. Rob Sanders, welcome again to the Bill Cunningham Show. And Rob, can you talk about look out your office? What is happening this Thursday

afternoon? And a try stay relative to the line to get merchandise for Taylor Swift. It's a crisis, Willie. I can't This concert hadn't even started yet, it's not even the day of the concert. And the crowds over there. I can see him from my office window. It's already nuts. They opened this, or before they even open this merchandise truck that she's got pulled up over there. The line stretches all away from the Bengal Stadium over to the banks, and then it takes a right hand turn and goes across

the suspension bridge. It's nuts. I was surprised that you were able to put your show on because I thought Tony Bender would surely be in line for his T shirts, Taylor Swift t shirts. But it makes sense. Now that you tell me he's got somebody paid to stand in line for him, that makes sense on how the show can go on, But it's crazy. I can only imagine what the crowds are going to be like for the actual

concert. If just to stand in line to buy a T shirt has already stretched for it looks like almost a mile from the stadium all the way to Covington. The thing is, he's got this system set up for these two two young women he's hired, and that they FaceTime, And so when you get to the front of the line, there's like six or seven cubicles a line, and everything's done by credit card, and he's face timing to see

which of the tailor Swift outfits he wants to buy. And I'm thinking, why would have grown man buy a tailor Swift out unless you identify as a female. Maybe Tony Bender identifies as a female. Maybe he identifies like I do, as a six foot ten inch Chinese female. So maybe working on a bud Light endorsement willie you never know. So so you're saying, seriously, is this like a cright? What if this thing continues to build throughout today and tomorrow, what do you do in Comington. Do you have to

shut it down? I don't know. We might have to close the suspension bridge or maybe a River Center boulevard down there. We might have to find a way to curve this line around so we can minimize the traffic disruption. But so far it's been non violent though I like Taylor Swift fan knock on Wood. There's no US involved, there's no knives, there's no riding or robbing or no shooting or anything like that. So far, it's keeping crime

down in Covington. And you know, as long as this line for the merchandise stand blocks traffic headed into Covington, and it will keep all the thugs from Cincinnati from crossing the river. So it really might workouts our benefit here in northern Kentucky. Are you gonna come down to the Taylor Swift concert would be at FC. We've got the Reds. The Reds game last night. Listen to Tommy Thrall late. That was unbelievable. The Reds are gonna have

the pod recent Town Friday, Saturday and Sunday. FC's playing Saturday Night Taylor Swift starting today all the way through Saturday night or Sunday we have predictions of a fifty percent chance of thunderstorms and downpours. We have twenty five to thirty thousand people who don't have tickets that are gonna descend on pay Course Stadium just to be close to the tabernacle of pop music. I can't conceive of a similar weekend ever in the Tri State than this. This is unbelievable. No,

this is nuts, Willie. I've never seen. The anticipation alone is something I've never seen. I can only imagine what the crowds are. This is gonna make river Fest of the fireworks w being fireworks look like nothing. The size of the crowds down here. I don't know that the police on

either side of the river know what they've got coming for them. You know, I haven't heard anything about streets being closed or anything like that, but certainly the lines we're seeing, the crowds that I can see out my office window are big enough that it looks like we're gonna need it. If this is what we're getting now just to buy Taylor Swift T shirts, I can only imagine what it's gonna be like once she actually starts singing songs and playing

music. Not to mention the Reds in town in the first place, got a chance to sweep the Padres because they haven't been playing with the darn here of late. You know, if they can find a picture, they might They might need you or me to go pitch Willie, because I think either one of us could go at least four innings without giving up four home runs, which is something that the starters for the Reds haven't been able to do

lately. But thank god they're hitting, because they're putting up, you know, a touch or more a game, and that's how they're managing to stay in first place. But I'm not complaining. It's we're about two years early on when I thought I would ever watch a Reds game again. But I've been tuning in loyally because their offense is certainly fun to watch. Last night, I'm lying in bed watching the conclusion of the game. Listen to Tommy

throwing the Todd Father. I mean to beat, to be way down, then to get up, then to give it all back on three runs. Day seven to four seven is out. I'm going nuts. I can't tell they're gonna lose. You know, I'm a little bit of a pessimist.

As I can't believe what I'm watching. Then in the tenth thing to come back and score what four runs, and to win the game the way they won that game, and then to have it decided by a ball that hits the knob of the bat instead of his hand, instead of the bases loaded like nobody out, all of a sudden, he strikes out of the next pitch on ball four. Anyway, I'm so excited, I can't stand it. And this is unbelievable. The Reds are in first place. But I'm

want to talk about a serious matter. Are you ready? I'm ready, Willie Lane on me. You've had similar cases. This storm character in Claremont County lines up for execution a three or four to seven year old son that are the most darling looking kids in the world, And of course they're going to go for the death penalty, and Claremont County that is likely. And I spoke to a certain long term Hamilety County prosecutor I was with yesterday about

this and he as similar feelings as I have. That is, if we have an effective death penalty, you've got to execute someone like that, because that guy who confessed to the killing there's no question who did it, there's no motive, there's no self defense, there's no justification. In sanity's going to be tried, but that's not going to work. So acting within a

year or two after everyone does the appeals, that's fine. But he knows and I know horrible cases we've had in Hamleton County of serial killers that rape and set on fire while they're alive teenage girls and watch them horribly die. That guy still has not been executed some twenty years later, nor are they

likely ever to be executed. I've come to the conclusion that life imprisonment without possibility of parole, without all these appeals, is as good or more punishment than the actual death penalty that has never been employed anyway, at least in the past twenty or thirty years. I would assume in Kent County to have the death penalty imposed would take decades. Your son, maybe your grandson,

would be the prosecutor by the time it would have to happen. Do we have such an ineffective death penalty for people like this murderer Dorman to life in prison without possibility of parole is more desirable? Well, No, Willie and here's why. Because the public defenders out there, you know, the hug a thug, criminal loving liberal defense attorneys that are you know, aren't necessary evil in the world, because our justice system doesn't function without the defense attorneys.

But the ones that are out there that would do anything, regardless of the law or ethics or whatever else, that they would do anything to try and keep someone from being executed, no matter how heinous the crime. The ones that drag their feet and drag these cases out for years on end, they're not going to just give up and go away. They're not going to retire, They're not going to go find another line of work. If we

get rid of the death penalty. All they're going to do is take all the effort, all the resources, all the money they spend, all the people they hire that are working to fight death penalty cases. Right now, that's going to fight life without parole cases. I know of public defenders that

already refer to life without parole is a slow death penalty. So they will just take all those folks, all that money, all those tax dollars, all those resources, and they'll put them into life without parole cases, and all of a sudden, the life without parole cases will be the cases that never end, like the death penalty cases seem to be the ones that never end right now. They're just appealed NonStop, forever and ever and ever.

There's never an end to them. Well, the only reason there's an end of life without parole right now is because all the attorneys that would be working on those cases are working on the death penalty cases. So if they got somebody off death row, or if they kept somebody from going to death row, and that person gets to live out the rest of their happy life and join prison, which for some people is a walk in the park. They're

more comfortable in prison. They're more secure in prison. That's what they've grown up knowing. You know, for them, going to prison is no more unpleasant than you or me going to the dentist. That's just a way of life for them. You know, that's not a punishment for everybody in the world. You know, the thing about my job that's really hard to explain to a lot of good citizens out there, you know, law abiding citizens, taxpaying citizens, people that don't have to see the evil in the world

that I've seen that Joe Dieters is seen. The bliss of powers is seen that Lewis Kelly out in Boone County sees. You know, the people that do our jobs, all the assistance that work for us, that see these heinous criminals day in and day out, they know that there is just evil in this world, evil like you cannot imagine. And to those people living in a cage, the rest of their life is not that big a deal. It's just a fact of life. It's something they got to do.

So for them, life without parole was not a deterrent. And you know, I wish I could say that the death penalty was a deterrent some people. I certainly think it is. It's a deterrent for me, it's a deterrent for you. It's probably a deterrent for Tony Bender. You know, people that obey the law. We don't want to be put to death. I don't think criminals. You know, if the death penalty wasn't at least somewhat of a deterrent, you wouldn't see people fighting the death penalty so much.

I don't know me, I'd never want to spend the rest of my life in a prison cell. I might want to opt for the death penalty. If I was ever in that situation. But you know, some people are obviously afraid of it. And it's at least that being afraid of that striking fear into the hearts of evil men, evil criminals, that there's value in that, still not knowing whether you're going to get a death penalty, there's value in that. There is some punishment, there's payback, there's retribution,

and there's also deterrence in those things. And it might be the only thing that keeps me from crossing the line and becoming murderers and killers is the fact that they don't want to be put to death. But you get me on a soapbox, now, Willie. The bottom is, no, we don't need to do away with the death penalty because that will just turn all the hugg a thug criminal loving liberal defense attorneys out there that will just turn

their sites on the life without parole sentences instead of the death sentence. That's the best argument I've heard. I'm going to start using it myself. The last person executed in Ohio was about six or seven years ago, and it's because the ACLU is now suing the drug manufacturers who create the ingredients that caused the death, and so they're going to keep those civil lawsuits penning forever. And these drug companies make no money of creating the drugs that caused someone to

go to sleep and die. They don't make any money off of it. They don't want to do it, and so they're gonna stop going to sleep. They're gonna get get rid of lethal injections because the Wyats and the others do not want to create any more of these drugs. They make no money,

they get sued, they don't want them. So therefore, when Joe Dieters proposed you know what we need then as a firing squad, it used to be six guys with rifles and one had a dummy, and all six aimed for the heart from about twenty feet away, and at the same time they shot. You're not sure which one killed the guy, and they're dead. Now, when you do that, you get viciously attacked for brutally killing

somebody. Of course, the guillotine would be available, or hanging somebody would be available, or the electric chair would be available, or the gas chamber would be available. For Chad Dorman, but the odds of him ever being executed in Ohio it's almost non existent because we don't do that anymore. And you got to change the law to allow a firing squad, and that'll never

happen. People don't like the idea of six men with a rifle, one with a dummy round shooting into someone's chest simultaneously, and so we can't use that. We can't use the guillotine, we can't use the gas chamber, we can't use the electric chair because it's too painful. Really, you know that Utah just reinstituted the firing squad, so that is you know, that's not out of the question. They I think it was about a year ago Utah put the firing squad back on the books. It's not unheard of.

There's other I think it was South Carolina was talking about bringing back the electric chair. So you know, people are considering some other alternatives. But I tell you this, you know, why do we even buy drugs to put people to death? When I guarantee the coming from police got enough fentanyl and their evidence rooms to kill everybody on every death row in every state in America

and still have plenty left over. So why are we worried about buying drugs from a manufacturer that don't doesn't want to make those drugs for us, Well, let's just stop. Let's just start using the drugs we got. Otherwise they're this is going to be destroyed the next time they take the illegal narcotics to the incinerator. We got people all over Kentucky, Ohio, and Indiana

killing each other. They're killing themselves us inting fentyl every day. Obviously, it can't be too horrible of a way to go, or else we wouldn't have so many people over singing dying from it. Most of them go out happy. So you know, why are we buying this stuff? And when we've got plenty of it in police evidence rooms to begin with, I don't know. In Kentucky, we've only executed two, I'm sorry, three people since we reinstituted the death penalty. Two of them have been volunteers, so

we've only executed one person against their will. We've had a moratorium for about the last decade because there's some technicality that some liberal judge down in Franklin County is Frankfurt, the state capital, found that we didn't we had some flaw in the adoption of our regulation to check people that a court have already ruled are not so mentally ill that they couldn't stand trial that we didn't check to see if they were mentally ill before we execute them. So now we got

to stop death penalties all over the place. And now three governors, including one of whom was a Republican, haven't bothered to tell their Corrections department to hey, go fix the REGs so we can fire the death the death penalty back. They haven't done it at all. So we haven't added anybody to death row in Kentucky in that time, largely because I think prosecutors across the state know that the line's not moving at all on death row, so they're

not being very aggressive about putting people there. But there are people that need to be there, you know. We get that Stephen Shang Shang guy on trial in Scott County for executing a Scott County sheriff's deputy. He's one, and then went on a kidnapping and robbing and shooting spree in Fayette County after that. He'd be a good candidate for it. There's plenty across the state who have raped and murdered children. They'd be good candidates for it. It's

something that we need to have for the worst of the worst case. Somebody that's gonna say everybody needs to be executed, but there certainly are evil people in the world that are worthy of the death penalty, like that guy out in Claremont County. I hope Ohio sends him to where he needs to be, and I hope they do it fast, because the only thing wrong with the death penalty, in my opinion, is that we don't do it fast

enough. We need to be executing people for the crimes commit in enough time after they've exhausted their appeals, but fast enough to people remember why they're being executed in the first place. Because I don't think there's anybody that's going to argue that a man that executes his own three children, three little boys that aren't even big enough to fight back, doesn't need to be on death row.

She just need to do it while people still remember the crime he committed, and chasing one of them into a field of bring him back to execute him. I mean, well, Chad Dorman, you could get six gentlemen and or ladies out of Claremont County and load them up, give one a dummy round point at the chest where to be, and the line to volunteery would be as long as a Taylor Swift concert line. Because the people of Claremont County are just outraged by this, but we gotta run. I know

you got a busy weekend. You got Taylor Swift, you got the Reds and the padres, you got f seat, so much going on, and I'll let you know. Tony Benner tells me he may have an extra couple of tickets. Would you be interested, you and your wife of going with him? If you'll be like on the front row watching Taylor Swift, You're good. Whar are the outfits and the bracelets and the whole deal? Well, Willie, I would love to, but only if you can arrange for

the WLW traffic helicopter. Do you guys still have one of those? Can pick me up and bring me down it? Because I don't want to sit in all the traffic down here. If there's one thing I detest more than anything, it's it's bumper to bumper traffic. So I don't think you're gonna

get me down from downtown for much of anything this weekend. But if either you have an extra ticket to the Willie Cunningham luxury box at the Reds game, or if Tony Bender has extra tickets to Taylor Swift, do you all just send the helicopter out to Fort Mitchell to pick me up and I'll be happy to join you. Well after you had man crashed on two seventy five, there's no more helicopters. And rest in peace, Nancy, or rest in peace? All right, we gotta rhyme, but once again, good

luck with this weekend. We'll see what happens. The best argument I've heard is keep the death penalty, so the ACLU and left wing lawyers have to work on that instead of life without possibility of parole, because if they win the death penalty completely, the next one's gonna be life without possibility of parole. And Chad Dorman at a minimum needs to spend the rest of his life tied to a prison cell, beating every day of his life and fed warden

Burghers until he dies. But that's a different issue. And Rob Sanders, thank you, and you have a great Fourth of July weekend. Thank you, Willie, Happy Independence Day, thanks for having me back on the show. And God bless America, God bless you let's continue with more. I know Rob sent me this is this personal playlist I call our t because of our time together. I know, I know that keep saying it. The line is over the suspension bridge just out of Covington in the southern Kenton County.

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But Julie Rodgers of Centerville came in with the Elks about an hour ago and says, when is the last time a guest we invited in here brought us a gift? This is a first, Julie Rogers. She said, we don't have any snacks here, And Julie Rodgers and the Centerville Elks and their coach Mike Dalton loaded us up with snacks galore. He's Dalton kind of like Roadhouse. Corrects Dalton correct. And you're gonna keep an eye on those hostess

cupcakes where where you put them? Secret location? To tell anybody here, we'll say anything, but thank you to Julie Rodgers and Dalton. He's from Roadhouse. And congratulations to the Centerville Oaks girls golf team winning the Division one state title by one shot. Six hunty eight shots were hit and they won by one. Wow. I think that's all it takes. Say, give you some sports and make it fast Willy. The Stude reporters are product service

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taking two or three against the Ohs and Baltimore. About last night, the Reds are welcome in the Yes San Diego Padres and the start of a three game set tomorrow night and action right here on seven hundred W wellw and and don't forget the game time tomorrow is at five ten, despite what the calendar says. Correct and at the halfway point of the season. Now whether the Reds are in first place at the NL Central forty three and thirty eight on

the year, today's exactly halfway correct. I wonder what they were last year at the halfway point. Not good? No, not good now from Joel luck Up, this is a guy the king of Valley Sports. Cincinnati statsbelievable. The Reds are now forty and two. When they hold the lead at the eighth thing or eighth inning or later, that's best in the MLB. They have won thirty six in a row when leading in the eighth or later, and last night was their twenty ninth come from behind wind that leads the

National League, leads all of baseball. You probably lost faith when the Reds gave up three runs late well to tie it up. Then they go to the tenth fuck Farmer gave it up. But then all of a sudden, Will Benson with the triple and ten j Fred told him move in more. I was just gonna say, if they're bunting here, he's got to get up there. Get that first out at first base, still pretty far back,

and Benson swings away rockets one toward right. It's deep, guns over the head of Son Tom Dare. It one hops the wall, new Hi's around the score. Benson charging for third, dives in without a throw and the Reds are back on top. Here's the payoff pitch and Freedol hits into the air right field. Son Tom Dare going back, looks up and gone. J Freedol his second home run and his mini games ten seven Reds on the two run blasts over the right field wall. Second two two pitch,

he tried to check, couldn't hold up. Westburgh went around. He is down on strikes and that's in Reds win it eleven to seven. Once again, the Reds have to come from behind for the twenty night time this year. The Red's gonna comeback victory, and they do so, this time taking two out of three from Baltimore at Camden Yard. I understand Matt Reese is still in line at the Taylor Swift trying to get a T shirt. Yes, I think Sarah Elee is down there now. She's she's waiting in line.

I think she's she's standing out in these. She's third in line and cut at the cut of the hill. You know, Rob Sanders just set out of his window. He's got all the Have you really hired two people to stand in line and then they're gonna face time you when they get close, you're gonna tell them what to buy for you? Have you done that me? That's what Sarah Lee said. No, No, I don't. I don't. If it's if it's Taylor Swift Racing, I'll do something.

But other than that, I'm sorry, No. Domingo her Mon Willie last night tossed the fourth perfect game in Yankees history, New York over Oakland eleven nothing, twenty fourth persfection game in baseball history, the first since Felix Hernandez Would did it for Seattle in twenty twelve. Mister Herman now joins Don Larson,

David Wells, and David Cone with perfect games in Yankee history. Pretty good the National Football League today, Indianapolis Colts Isaiah Rodgers and Rashad Barry, along with free h and Demetrius Taylor, suspended indefinitely by Pro Football for their in the conclusion of the twenty twenty three season for betting on NFL games last year, and Titan's offensive tackle Nicholas Petite ferrar Is suspended six games for violating

the gambling policy he bet on non NFL sports at the club's facility. About that, you have a privilege to play in this league, and you also have a responsibility. There are a lot of people that follow you. You're a role model, whether you like it or not, and you have to conduct yourself with a high standard. And that's what I mean about protecting the

shield and protecting the integrity of the game. You have a responsibility when you play in this league, and you have to live up to that standard like Pete Rose. Get back in is what I say. The National Football League's regular season, Willie kicks off ten weeks from tonight. Bengo, Bengo, thank you. We gotta see what I had. Of course, FC Cincinnati's got that big match on Saturday, the Eastern Conference Showdowns TQL Stadium against the

New England Revolution FCC first Revolution comes to town. Second and the early Showdown match segment. That's it. We have Jay Ratliffe waiting to come on to talk to the American people. Yes, about the FAA, about the slowdowns, about the smoke and more segment. Give me out of the Stude Report, Willie and honor once again of the Centerville Elks and the girls Division one State golf champions. Perhap we'll be called to play in the Kroger Classic at

the friendly con lines of Dan Pluckett and the Kenwood Country Club. I'll see what I can do to get them in the tournament. We leave you with the immortal words of the Stude Report, part of Talbot. He was clearly moving to war in Iraq and hooting the war at home? And who is a couple bit of a brier around the world? Uh st say, though Hootin is losing the war in the Rock according to Joe Biden her boy, Remember, affirmative action is discrimination. You don't end discrimination by employing it.

Segment. Thank you, yes, sir, Let's continue with more. Stay tuned, j Ratliffe coming up down the news at your home of the Reds. Who's radio seven hundred w OLIVI get your tickets now, FMW two three three BG Cincinnati ugually cutting him. The Great American News coming up and more about the affirmative action decision by the US ramcard at the top of the hour. But until then, Jay Ratliff, welcome again and the Bill Cunningham show

a great man. When it comes to all matters aviation, one must think, when I watched the news earlier today and of course last night, how disastrous aspects of our air traffic control system is. And I'm thinking about the wildfires, I'm thinking about the thinking about the FAA, I'm thinking about other issues. How bad will it be this fourth of July weekend of travel, Jay Ratliff, give me a full report, Well, well, if everybody does their job. I'm talking about the FAA, the airline agents, all

the air traffic control individuals, everybody on the ground. I mean, we've got the possibility of being okay. Now. Obviously, don't throw any bad whether our way or anything like that as well, because obviously that could be the fly in the ointment. But you know, for the first few weeks of summer, the summer travel season, for Memorial Day forward, things are

pretty much on track. And once we hit that period of bad weather that kind of kicked in about eight days ago, we've been kind of fighting from behind in several regards. And part of that is because we have more people traveling this summer holiday season than we had last summer year before, in fact, pre pandemic. When you look at the TSA numbers, we have more people flying now than we did in the summer of twenty eighteen, which was

pre pandemic. Now, the two interesting aspects to that particular stat is that one, we have thousands of fewer flights because airlines have parked hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of airplanes that they don't have pilots for they would love to be flying them, they can't she have all these people packed on fewer flights. The other thing, and this you know very well, the men and women that fly for business to corporate travelers, that's off by at least fifty percent

in some markets. So you have the same number and then plus more traveling now than we had before, which means you have a lot more leisure people taking to the skies and we've ever before, and that's really driven a lot of this craziness that we've seen so far through the summer from a number standpoint, as reported by the TSA. So it's not one thing, it's like everything coming together and the other thing. What about the Canadian wildfires and of

course thunderstorms you can't control. But when I went to yesterday for the unveiling a departrait of Justice Andy Douglas, it was it was almost dark with the snow, with the smoot and with the smoke out of Canada. How much of a factor is that It can be especially problematic in the Diusy Northeast corridor where we've got a lot of flights operating in a very short, small,

cramped area of space, if you will. And Bill, it reminded me of being in China with the small and different things where you know, you'd go three or four days before you'd even see kind of a break in the sky and see the sun. So it's a very eerie type thing, and

it can be problematic for the airline industry. And of course, one of the other things it's very interesting here is that there's an ongoing battle between the head of United Airlines and Pete Boudhajag with regards to flight delays in the Northeast, and United has been hit especially hard. One of the things that the Department of Transportation, the FAA and PETE did last fall, they told the airlines, look, we've got a shortage of air traffic controllers fifty percent in

some areas and some places not as bad the busy Northeast corridor. If we operate a typical summer schedule are as you're projecting, we're going to see some significant delays. So the DOT went to the airline thing, would you please reduce I don't think they said please, but they said, could you reduce your summer flight schedule and a few of these Northeast airports by ten percent.

Now, Bill, I can tell you my days with Northwest Airlines had somebody walked in and made that request, we would have listened politely, they would have left, and we would have laughed for the next twenty minutes. This time around, though, the airlines said okay, and they have reduced the flights by ten percent. They are close to it in several of these airports,

and now we're seeing significant delays in some of those airports. And that's why people like the CEO Kirby for United is like losing his mind because he's like, wait a minute, you know, you told us we weren't going to be looking at some of these delays. But in the United's case, some of it self inflictive. They've got some staffing issues they're kind of fighting

their way through. I think they've got a very aggressive flight schedule that's making it a little bit more challenging than usual for those individuals to operate those flights. So we're gonna see where it's going to go. But we do know that it's going to be a pack next several days the rest of the summer leading up to Labor Days. And if you're flying, absolutely get to the

airport, as in walking in the front door two hours beforehand. Some people drive there get there two hours before, it's been thirty minutes trying to find a bargain spot. And then by the time they get in, some of the lines are very long and they're actually running trying to make their flight. You don't want to miss your flight because all the flights are filled. You miss your flight, it could be days before you get to your destination.

Lastly, I would say this that politicians like Segment Dennison want to make it political. They look at Pete Buddha Jedge that the railroads are in trouble. They're crashing and derailing everywhere. The trucks are massive all over the place. Difficulties there, throw in the FAA problems there is that is Segment right, that politics plays a part in this. Pete Buddha Jest specifically appears to be grossly incompetent. Or is that all the factors you spoke of or it's all

of it? Well, it's a lot of it, Bill, And I'll tell you this, as you know, and you know me very well, I'm not a fan of the Biden administration at all in any way you know at all. However, I will quickly say that I appreciate the fact that they're trying to hold the airline industry accountable. They're doing more than I have seen any administration do ever in the last thirty to forty years by trying to

hold them account and I appreciate that very much. The problems that are surfacing right now in the industry are ones that we've had for an extended period of time, pre Biden, pre Trump. I mean, they go way back Obama and before that have been there. They've been ignored because the Federal Aviation Administration tends to get what money falls off the table unfortunate. A lot of that has to do with they've got a new chief every I don't know,

eighteen months. It seems they've got a revolving door at the top. And because of that, that agency can never really sustain any success in any one direction for any period of time because they're immediately changing and somebody else's leaving and going on. You know it very well that the airline industry is an integral

parts of the nation's economy. It needs to be supported, it needs to be protected, it needs to be given everything that it possibly needs make sure that it not only survives and excels, but is ready for the future. We're talking about commercial aviation doubling in the next ten years. We are so not ready for that kind of like all the vehicles sold in America must be ev must be electrical, and we don't have a power grid to support it.

And in twenty thirty we've got a double double and it's not going to work there either. But Jay Ratliffe, once again, the news coming up next. But thank you for sharing your viewpoints on the Bill Cunningham Show. And may you and yours have a wonderful Fourth of July weekend, My friend, thank you, God bless America. Let's continue with more. That's Jay Ratliffe, who knows it all. Let's continue Bill Cunningham, the Great America

with you every day. You're home of the Reds News Radio seven hundred w ALTOV News Traffic and Weather. News Radio seven hundred wls W, Cincinnati. The judge throws the book and Larry Householder, this is the three o'clock report. I'm Matt Reeese breaking now. The former speaker of the Ohio House of

Representatives is going to prison, maybe for the rest of his life. US attorney asked for a long sentence, and a federal judge here in Cincinnati obliged this afternoon, Larry Householder was caught in a bribery scandal, and now it appears he's been made an example of riching himself at the expense of the taxpayer. Householder immediately taken into custody at the Federal Courthouse downtown this past hour.

Reports from the Federal Courthouse in Cincinnati's say Judge Timothy Black told former Ohio House Speaker Larry Householder that he's the one hurting his family, not the courts. In today's sentencing hearing, Judge Black sentenced Householder to the maximum twenty years in prison. Householder was convicted earlier this year as a part of Ohio's biggest public corruption scandal, taking millions of dollars in bribes in order to get a billion

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