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From the Principal Toyota Studios, it's Morning in Memphis with Todd Starnes.

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And good morning, everybody. Welcome to the show. Great to have you with us today on this, what is going to be a very, very hot Friday. Laura Huckabee will be along in just a little while with your complete weekend weather forecast. Now, this is going to be an important forecast because we have a lot of things happening outdoors this weekend, starting tonight with high school football action. And of course, tomorrow, Memphis Tigers making their debut in the newly renovated Liberty Bowl. And there are going to be a lot of people there. I want to make sure that you guys stay super hydrated and make sure that you're not going to end up over at Baptist Hospital later this weekend. So again, be sure to hydrate. We've got the Delta Fair Music Festival that's cranking up tonight. As a matter of fact, we're going to be talking to Jane Hamilton about the Delta Fair Music Festival coming up just a little bit later today. Also, it is Friday and this is the inaugural week, the relaunch of the KWAM morning show. And it has been a very, very busy week here at the radio station. And we would love to have your calls as well. It is Open Line Friday. We do that every Friday on the national show. And that gives you an opportunity to call in and maybe talk about an issue that we're not necessarily talking about today. Or maybe you have a question that you would like to ask. Well, we're going to let you do that today every Friday here on the morning show. We call it Open Line Friday. All you have to do is pick up the phone and give us a call 901-260-5926.
That's 901-260-5926.
I want to say a huge thank you to our friends at Newsmax. Last night, I was on with Rob Finnerty, and we did a really nice long form interview about my new book, The Golden Age. And this morning, I got word that we have been officially called a number one, we are number one new best seller on Amazon. So thank you for all of you that went out and had purchased copies. You are thinking about getting a copy of the book. Today's a great day to do that. Right. And the air conditioning works great over at Novel Memphis. Also, which by the way, the book is available at Novel Memphis. And we encourage folks to shop local. Novel is locally owned and operated. So I would really appreciate if you went over there and got a copy of the book. You can also get copies at all of the Barnes and Nobles in the Mid-South and Books a Million in South Haven. That would be Wolfchase Galleria, Carriage Crossing, and the new Barnes and Noble that just opened recently in Germantown. So all of those are stocked with plenty of copies of the Golden Age. Well, where do we begin? You know, a lot of people are talking about what happened at Fox News. And my phone was lighting up, lighting up yesterday when word came down that Fox had, well, first of all, had parted ways with Maria Bartiromo.
Now we know that Fox News Channel fired Maria Bartiromo, and they're accusing her of ratting out the network to President Trump. So here's the backstory. And by the way, she was there, I guess, what, 12 years. I was at Fox for 15 years, and, you know, I knew Maria. She was a great lady and very easy to work with, very kind-hearted person. They called her the money honey back when she was working at the other, what was it, CNBC? I don't know. Anyway, she was at Fox Business. And anyway, there had, Maria was all over the election fraud story, and there are many people out there who believe that the 2020 presidential election was stolen. I happened to be one of those people. I do not believe for a second that 88 million people voted for Joe Biden. I just don't believe that. You're telling me that more people voted for Joe Biden than Barack Hussein Obama. I don't believe that. I just don't believe it. And we now know that there was election fraud. Did it rise to the level of causing issues at the ballot box? Well, I think it did. But again, you had people out there, and it's one thing to say, yeah, I believe there was election fraud.
And it's another to go out there and accuse someone of actually being responsible for it. You better have proof. And if you don't have proof, your butt's going to the courthouse. And that's where a lot of these cable channels got sideways with the story, is that their reporters, their anchors, were making assertions about the election that could not be proved. And it got them in trouble. Costed them tens of millions, maybe hundreds of millions of dollars. But anyway, when President Trump was, I think President Trump is giving a speech about this, and he started talking about China and Chinese influence in the elections, which again, I believe, and Fox ordered their host not to air the story and to stay away from it. And they sent out a memorandum. And the allegations are that Maria Bartiromo, who just re-signed with Fox News back, I think it was back in February, Bartiromo allegedly took screen shots of the memorandum and sent it to the White House.