Speaker 1: This is Alabama Senator Tommy Tuberville, widely regarded as the
Speaker 1: dumbest member of the United States Senate. I don't say
Speaker 1: that lightly. I'm going to prove it in just a
Speaker 1: few seconds when we watch his interview with Kate Lee Collins.
Speaker 1: The man is an imbecile. I don't say that to
Speaker 1: call names. I use the word because it's precise and accurate.
Speaker 1: It describes perfectly what Tommy Tuberville is. That he is
Speaker 1: in the United States Senate, which was once known as
Speaker 1: the greatest deliberative body in the world, is a shame,
Speaker 1: and it's a travesty, and it is an appalling embarrassment
Speaker 1: for the state of Alabama.
Speaker 2: But just to be clear, you agree that white nationalists
Speaker 2: should not be serving in the US military. Is that
Speaker 2: what you're saying?
Speaker 3: If people think that a white nist is a racist,
Speaker 3: I agree with that.
Speaker 2: I agree that a white nationalist is someone who believes
Speaker 2: that the white race is superior to other races.
Speaker 3: Well, that's some people's opinion, and I don't think I
Speaker 3: mean a lot.
Speaker 2: Pardon what's your opinion?
Speaker 3: My opinion of a white nationalist, if somebody wants call
Speaker 3: them white natal to me, is an American. It's an American.
Speaker 3: Now if that white nationalist is a racist, I'm totally
Speaker 3: against anything that they want to do because I am
Speaker 3: one hundred and ten percent against racism. But I want
Speaker 3: somebody that's in our military that's strong, that believes in
Speaker 3: this country, that's an American, that will fight along anybody,
Speaker 3: whether it's a man or woman, black or white, writ
Speaker 3: it doesn't make any difference. And so I'm totally against
Speaker 3: identity politics. I think it's ruining this country. And I
Speaker 3: think that Democrats ought to be ashamed for how they're
Speaker 3: doing this because it's dividing this country and it's making
Speaker 3: this country sweaker every day.
Speaker 1: Deceit of Alabama is a beautiful place. It's often caricatured, though,
Speaker 1: along with Mississippi, as a backwater, a place where ignorance, racism,
Speaker 1: and idiocy formed together in a molten stew of malice,
Speaker 1: particularly racial malice. It's a broad generalization, and like all
Speaker 1: broad generalizations, it's unfair. Most Americans don't know about the
Speaker 1: first Alabama Volunteers. They were from the Hill country of Alabama,
Speaker 1: and they were General Sherman's personal guard during the Civil War.
Speaker 1: Sherman said those men the men who stayed loyal to
Speaker 1: the Union could be trusted beyond all others because they
Speaker 1: had placed their country above their communities, above their families.
Speaker 1: They placed the Union higher than anything else to preserve it,
Speaker 1: to maintain it. It was a stunning active principle. Tommy
Speaker 1: Tuberville is holding up the military promotions of two hundred
Speaker 1: and sixty four senior officers that require Senate confirmation for
Speaker 1: their advancement. These are men and women who have spent
Speaker 1: their entire life in the service of their country. At
Speaker 1: the most they make, maybe if you're the commandant of
Speaker 1: the Marine Corps, a little over two hundred thousand dollars
Speaker 1: a year. These people aren't millionaire football coaches, entitled princelings
Speaker 1: from places like Auburn. They're hard working, their public servants.
Speaker 1: They are our very best. When they are promoted, their
Speaker 1: housing allowances increases. When they are promoted, their income goes up.
Speaker 1: In the end, military families are a big part of
Speaker 1: America's working class families, and by denying promotion, Tommy Tuberville
Speaker 1: is denying an increase in the financial security and livelihoods
Speaker 1: of the people in this country who deserve it the
Speaker 1: very most. More importantly than that, he is upsetting the readiness,
Speaker 1: he is upsetting the command structures of the United States
Speaker 1: military for politics for the first time, because of Tommy Tuberville.
Speaker 1: Since nineteen ten, the United States Marine Corps does not
Speaker 1: have a commandant in place. The last commandant told the
Speaker 1: Congress that the Marine Corps was thirty three percent at
Speaker 1: force in the Pacific and it would be the Marines
Speaker 1: who would be the first into the against the Chinese
Speaker 1: in the Western Pacific. Why is a United States Senator
Speaker 1: who has taken an oath of office to support and
Speaker 1: defend the Constitution of the United States weakening the American military.
Speaker 1: He's doing it because he was offended. He was offended
Speaker 1: by the military trying to cut a cancer out from
Speaker 1: its ranks. And what that cancer is is white supremacy.
Speaker 1: What is white supremacy? It is a doctrine of belief
Speaker 1: that holds white skin is superior to all others. It
Speaker 1: is a doctrine of delusion that holds the white man
Speaker 1: is a superior being and that every other race is subordinated.
Speaker 1: Where does this come from? All of its stems from
Speaker 1: an essay that was written in the eighteen fifties by
Speaker 1: a Frenchman named Arthur de Gobinaal. He coined a phrase
Speaker 1: in that essay which was called the inequality of the Races.
Speaker 1: He was the first person to introduce the term Arrian.
Speaker 1: And when he introduced the term Arian, he introduced that
Speaker 1: as the master race. They were members of a political
Speaker 1: party they called themselves a National Socialists. We know them
Speaker 1: as Nazis. And here in twenty twenty three America, the
Speaker 1: Nazi flag is flying. It's flying when the Patriot Front marches,
Speaker 1: and it's flying in front of this synagogue. It's flying
Speaker 1: because imbeciles like Tommy Tuberville have given moral succor to
Speaker 1: white supremacists, have courted them to be part of their
Speaker 1: political coalition, have apologized for their sick doctrine what Tommy
Speaker 1: Tuberville stands for, or the doctrines of Jim Crow, the
Speaker 1: doctrines of segregation, the doctrines that hold one race is
Speaker 1: superior to another. And Bob Marley was right when he
Speaker 1: quoted in his song from HeLa Selassie. And until that
Speaker 1: is no longer the case, than everywhere there is war.
Speaker 1: The great challenge of this era in America's history is
Speaker 1: for this generation to deal finally with America's permanent sin,
Speaker 1: and to advance the proposition for this generation and the
Speaker 1: next that all men and women are created equal, endowed
Speaker 1: by Creator, with inalienable rights, life, liberty, and the pursuit
Speaker 1: of happiness, that we embrace the vision of doctor King,
Speaker 1: who saw a day when men and women would be
Speaker 1: judged by the content of their character. Tommy Tuberville is
Speaker 1: a man of astoundingly low character. He is a divider.
Speaker 1: He is unprepared for his important duties. He is risking
Speaker 1: the national security of the United States, and he's doing
Speaker 1: it for reasons of racial Animis is it possible that
Speaker 1: this man, who is being interviewed by Caitlin Collins truly
Speaker 1: doesn't understand what he's saying. Is it possible that his
Speaker 1: IQ measures under eighty what is wrong with him and
Speaker 1: what is wrong with his Republican Senate colleagues. The day
Speaker 1: would tolerate this. The Republican Party that I was once
Speaker 1: part of took this nation's national security seriously. This generation
Speaker 1: of MAGA Republicans treats it like a joke. And the
Speaker 1: result of that is, one day, I promise you, it
Speaker 1: will get some of our very best young men and
Speaker 1: women killed, and then those politicians will be standing there
Speaker 1: with crocodile tears, headbowd watching the American flags folded up
Speaker 1: over the caskets, and then they'll make a platitude. It
Speaker 1: is appalling, disgraceful, disgusting. What Tommy Turberville is doing isn't
Speaker 1: just idiocy. It's not just scandalous, though it is. It
Speaker 1: is an assault on an idea. What Tommy Tarbarville is
Speaker 1: saying is that racial pride is okay, that to believe
Speaker 1: that white is better, that it signifies something about your character,
Speaker 1: your intelligence, a superiority. It's not an opinion. It's a sickness.
Speaker 1: It's a cancer, and that cancer killed over one hundred
Speaker 1: million people by the middle of the last century. Alabama
Speaker 1: has a long history, and within that history are scores
Speaker 1: of people who stood up and fought for justice, who
Speaker 1: would not stand by as black people were terrorized. They
Speaker 1: fought hard and for a long time to create a
Speaker 1: more just society. Tommy Tarberville would not have been with
Speaker 1: those people. He would have been with Bull Connor. He
Speaker 1: would have been standing on the side of the Edmond
Speaker 1: Pettus Bridge with a club in his hands. He would
Speaker 1: have gleefully detonated the bridge to isolate the quilters of
Speaker 1: Jee's bed. Tommy Tarberville serving in the United States Senate
Speaker 1: is a sign of a national rock, a national decay.
Speaker 1: What it says is that the people of Alabama are
Speaker 1: apathetic and they're indifferent to intelligence, to rigor, to intellect,
Speaker 1: heredy in honor. Why why would they want Tommy Turberville,
Speaker 1: white supremacist, white nationalists, excuse her of, to be their
Speaker 1: United States Senator. This country is in trouble because we
Speaker 1: are led across the media, many of our businesses, and
Speaker 1: our politics by some of the worst and lowest people
Speaker 1: in this country. And until we figure out how to
Speaker 1: fix that, our security will be threatened. Every American should
Speaker 1: be our age that Tommy Tarberville, a millionaire football coach
Speaker 1: who celebrates white nationalism, is holding up the promotions of
Speaker 1: two hundred sixty nine military officers who are need in
Speaker 1: the chain of command to lead American forces and prepare
Speaker 1: them to go into harm's way. It is the most
Speaker 1: deadly and the most serious business in this country, the
Speaker 1: profession of arms. What a disgrace Tommy Tuberville is. Give
Speaker 1: his office a call and let him know what you
Speaker 1: think of them, what you think of him denying the
Speaker 1: Marine Corps their commandant, what you think of him denying
Speaker 1: two hundred and sixty nine men and women. They're earned promotions,
Speaker 1: and what you think of him praising the Way Nationalists
Speaker 1: as just another group celebrating some ethnic pride. Appalling doesn't
Speaker 1: begin to describe it.