Lester Maddox
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Sep 22, 2026
Bruce CarlsonHOST
Not every guest did.
Bruce CarlsonHOST
And here's him talking to Lester Maddox, the, I think, racist governor of Georgia.
Joe PineSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
What about the road work, sir? We still have some of it.
Joe PineSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
Yes, sir.
Killer MikeHOST
It is quickly it is quickly growing with immigrants of other nationalities come in.
Killer MikeHOST
We've always managed to figure out a way to figure it out, whether it was William Hartsfield or Maynard Jackson, whether it was Lester Maddox or Joe Frank Harris.
Killer MikeHOST
I'm confident that you can, but it seems that working class Georgians, both white and black, seem to be apathetic this year.
Killer MikeHOST
And I'm afraid they may sit home.
Pearl CleageGUEST
I had never been further south than Washington, D.C., which really isn't south.
Pearl CleageGUEST
But when I came to Atlanta, I was a little nervous, you know, because it was like, you know, the deep south and Lester Maddox was still around and The Klan was still having big rallies at Stone Mountain, which you wouldn't think that would happen.
Pearl CleageGUEST
But so that there was I had a lot of ideas about what Atlanta would be like.
Pearl CleageGUEST
But it wasn't like that at all.
Jared PolinHOST
I said I wasn't going to go off the rails.
Jared PolinHOST
and here I am, described his ire at watching a smart-ass New York Jew mock Lester Maddox on a television program.
Jared PolinHOST
This is an allusion to Maddox's 1970 appearance on The Dick Cavett Show, whose host is actually a Gentile from Nebraska.
Jared PolinHOST
In response to his frustration at the television show, the narrator goes on to list... sarcastically a litany of negative qualities that southerners are repute to have he focuses especially on institutional racism or as a narrator puts it keeping the n word down that is the song i will not ever say that but that is what the the lyrics are and it is a powerful song um And I never...
Bob BiermanHOST
He had no choice.
Bob BiermanHOST
The only former Democrat governor in the state of Georgia that would not vote for him was a guy by the name of Lester Maddox who ran for president himself.
Bob BiermanHOST
Not a very big third-party effort.
Bob BiermanHOST
But I started to follow politics a little bit more closely than I had because, number one, I'm in news.