One of the perks of being the talk show host of ClashRadio.com is getting to speak with some of the best and brightest people on the planet. Our guest list is a veritable Who’s Who of incredible people who would like to see this nation continue to be the God-blessed, King-of-the-Hill country that we have become.
This past week I interviewed Kelly Perdew, winner of Donald Trump’s The Apprentice 2 and author of the new book, Take Command. By the way, normally when people suggest we get some reality stooge to be on our show, I look at them with the same disdain Rosie O’ Donnell gives to Ted Nugent when he offers her low fat yogurt. I don’t give two flips about reality shows, nor the people who win them. Most of these “winners” get what they get through eating pig intestines or drinking skunk urine while doing jumping jacks on an iceberg whilst wearing a thong. No real need to query them on what caused them to excel. Simple formula: be so desperate that you’ll do anything to be on TV and win 50k. This simple math makes for a short show. Next!
Perdew’s accomplishment, on the other hand, was a tad bit more interesting—especially given the over the top, narcissistic slop we’re usually fed via the modern media. When Trump gave Kelly the “you’re hired” props on Apprentice’s season two, Perdew credited his accomplishment not to being a sadistic, conniving and greedy jerk who would sell his granny if the price were right, but rather to the excellence and the skills he gleaned from the U.S. military. Imagine that . . . achieving victory honorably by applying disciplines and virtues learned while serving in our armed forces.
Perdew graduated from West Point as a Military Intelligence Officer. He later earned his Airborne Wings and Ranger Tab. He didn’t let the lessons learned in that phase of his life die when he moved into the civilian sector, but rather retooled his vocabulary, refocused his vision and took the principles and disciplines learned for the battlefield into the boardroom and made a pretty sweet transition from one realm to the next.
Listening to Perdew speak of the internal grist to which he attributes his success was like listening to something some despised-by-modern-culture grand pappy would say 80 years ago when giving his grandchildren the “keys to the kingdom.” According to Kelly, the duty, impeccability, passion, perseverance, planning, team work, loyalty, flexibility, selfless sacrifice and integrity with which he was saddled at West Point and beyond is what caused him to escape The Donald’s damnation.
Look, you don’t hear the above de rigueur get tabled that much anymore in pomo culture as that which makes a person or a nation great. Sure, there is a gratuitous bone thrown at the noble, but it’s usually done on the History Channel at 3am when the ones who need to see it the most are sound asleep in a deep REM delirium starring themselves as the center of the universe. So thank you, Mr. Trump, for having a show that truly trumps the trash we we’re used to seeing: we saw a principled and talented human being recognized and awarded for character instead of mere charisma, substance over style, doing a better job versus getting a boob job and showing gravitas as opposed to baseless hype.
As an entrepreneur, I know where I’m going to be looking for employees and partners for all my Clash ventures . . . namely, to the ex- military and those raised in that kind of disciplined environment. These worthies whom I have had the pleasure to work with and befriend, like Perdew, are not the Jarhead idiots Hollywood and Michael Moore have portrayed them to be, but rather the best, the brightest and the most beneficial people that I’ve have had the pleasure to know.
And lastly, a challenge to our former soldiers: grab a copy of Kelly’s book, retool your vocabulary and take that rare stuff you got in the armed services into the corporate world, politics, our educational systems, the church and the arts; and I guarantee that you will blow away the slacking, gum chewing, blame shifting, no character, pop-culture-addled dilatory dingle-berries who disparage you.
Doug’s articles have also appeared on several other print and online news sources, including The Washington Times, The Daily Caller, Fox Nation, USA Today, The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Examiner, The Blaze, American Hunter Magazine and ABC News.
He’s been a frequent guest on the Fox News Channel and Fox Business Channel as well as many nationally syndicated radio shows across the nation — which, he believes, officially makes him a super hero.
In addition, Doug is an occasional guest host on New York City’s WABC (The Jason Mattera Show) and he is a weekly guest, every Friday at 7:45am[et], on America’s Morning News (155 markets).
Giles and his wife Margaret have two daughters: Hannah, who devastated ACORN with her 2009 nation shaking undercover videos, and Regis who is an NRA columnist, huntress and Second Amendment activist.
DG’s interests include guns, big game hunting, big game fishing, fine art, cigars, helping wounded warriors, and being a big pain in the butt to people who dislike God and the USA.
Speaking Engagements.
Doug Giles speaks to college, business, community, church, advocacy and men’s groups throughout the United States and internationally. His expertise includes issues of Christianity and culture, masculinity vs. metrosexuality, big game hunting and fishing, raising righteous kids in a rank culture, the Second Amendment, personal empowerment, politics, and social change. For availability, please contact us.
Props.
“Doug Giles is a good man, and his bambinas are fearless. His girls Hannah and Regis Giles are indefatigable. I admire the Giles clan from afar.”
- Dennis Miller
“Doug Giles must be some kind of a great guy if CNN wants to impugn him.”
- Rush Limbaugh
“Doug Giles is a substantive and funny force for traditional values.”
- Ann Coulter, best-selling author
“Doug Giles speaks the truth … he’s a societal watchdog … a funny bastard.”
- Ted Nugent, rock icon
“Doug is funny and insightful. Giles is always spot-on with his analysis and so incredibly hilarious, as well. Whether you’re 15 or 50, if you love God and America, Doug Giles is for you!”
- Jason Mattera, NYT best-selling author of Obama Zombies and Editor-in-Chief, Human Events
“Doug is a raucous and rowdy mix of old-school, traditional conservative values with the kind of eff-you attitude folks like Ted Nugent have made millions on. He’s one part rebellious rock star, one part crusading missionary, and another part rough rider.”
- S. E. Cupp, NYT best-selling author of Why You’re Wrong About The Right and Host of The S. E. Cupp Show on GBTV.com
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