Paul Harvey, Good Day.

When I was growing up, in Augusta, GA, there was one radio station we always had on in the car, and they always played the short bits of commentary by this guy called Paul Harvey. He would either do this piece he called "The Rest of the Story," that usually consisted of little known vignettes from American history or the biographies of famous individuals. At other times he would give a sort of “color commentary” of the days news. And he’d always wrap up by saying “This is Paul Harvey. Good day.”

Long before I was old enough to have political leanings, I could tell that Paul Harvey leaned a little to the right. Well, years later, I know have confirmation that not only does Harvey lean right, he’s completely fallen over if his latest commentary is any indication.

Disney/ABC radio personality Paul Harvey, one of the most widely listened to commentators in the United States, presented his listeners on June 23 with an endorsement of genocide and racism that would have been right at home on a white supremacist shortwave broadcast.

Harvey’s commentary began by lamenting the decline of American wartime aggression. “We’re standing there dying, daring to do nothing decisive because we’ve declared ourselves to be better than our terrorist enemies–more moral, more civilized,” he said. Drawing a contrast with what he cast as the praiseworthy nuclear bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in World War II, Harvey lamented that “we sent men with rifles into Afghanistan and Iraq and kept our best weapons in their silos”–suggesting that America should have used its nuclear arsenal in its invasions of both countries.

It’s the kind of thing you just have to hear to believe, and you can hear it here. If you can’t bear to listen, here’s a taste of Paul Harvey longing for America to be the America of old again. It’s a speech that wouldn’t sound too different coming from the mout of, say, Tom Metzger, David Duke, or

Once upon a time, we elbowed our way onto and into this continent by giving small pox infected blankets to native Americans.

Yes, that was biological warfare!

And we used every other weapon we could get our hands on to grab this land from whomever. And we grew prosperous.

And, yes, we greased the skids with the sweat of slaves.

And so it goes with most nation states, which, feeling guilty about their savage pasts, eventually civilize themselves out of business and wind up invaded, and ultimately dominated by the lean, hungry and up and coming who are not made of sugar candy.

By the time he finished, I wasn’t sure whether Harvey was wishing us “good day,” or wishing for some imagined good old days when Americans had the gumption to wipe out Native Americans, and build fortunes on the sweat of slaves. Of course, what get’s lost here is who Harvey considers Americans and who he credits with building this country — single-handedly, it seems.

I’m willing to give Paul the benefit of the doubt. He’s been around for a long time, and the old noodle probably ain’t what it used to be. However, it might behoove those on the right to check his medication. You don’t want a spokesman like Harvey venturing too far of the reservation. That is, if he is veering from whatever the party line is these days.