You Want the Truth? 309 Million Citizen Journalists Couldn't Handle the Truth!
A Flashback to 2012 to answer the question "Who said civilizations go through stages...that end in tyranny"? The answer....
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FLASHBACK - JUNE, 2012 The Mike Church Show on The SiriusXM Patriot Channel.
Mandeville, LA - Editor's Note: This piece was originally published on June 18, 2012 at 12:48pm
Exclusive Audio and Transcript - Let me say to you, what I find alarming about this is there are conservatives out there that seem not to care about the credibility factor. At the end of the day, what is credibility? It is adherence to or elevation of and devotion to what? The truth. That’s what credibility is. You’re credible because people believe you to be honest. It may not be a direct act of dishonesty to misquote something, but at some level, if you’re going to have a return to virtues, then the virtue of truth and of honest is, I would think, is one of those you must aspire to. Check out today's Daily Clip and transcript for more...Begin Mike Church Show Transcript
Mike: I just played Patrick Henry’s “Give Me Liberty or Give Me Death” speech as another reference point in what I was just talking about, about the 309 million citizen journalists out there that Sarah Palin was droning on about at some conference over the weekend. I just informed AG, a fact that you did not know, that there is no source for Henry’s speech. You were shocked when I told you that.
AG: I was. I expected them to take down what is such an important quote in our history.
Mike: I say there’s no source because Henry didn’t write his speeches down. There was no stenographer there at St. John’s Church in March of 1775 when he gave the speech. There are no notes that survived. There are some eyewitness accounts of people that claimed to have heard what I just played for you, but the most reliable book on Henry you’ll ever get is written by a man named Moses Coit Tyler. Coit Tyler wrote about four books in his series called The American Statesman, right around the time of 1892 or so, the turn of the century.