It is a LIE that federal agents arrested a 5-year-old. The lamestream media knows it's a lie, but they keep telling it. It's time for a reminder that lying is a sin.

Welcome to Politics by Faith. Thanks for being here. I want to talk about the detaining, the arresting of a five -year -old in Minneapolis. Before we do that, though, I got an email the other day, obnoxious email, very snarky from someone. And we went over it, the contents on my SiriusXM radio show. But I bring it up here because he kept saying throughout this email, are you lying to improve your ratings? 

He just kept saying it over and over. It was like a central argument of his email is, are you just doing this for ratings? Are you lying to everybody for ratings? You want to increase your ratings. I cannot stress enough how little ratings have ever made a difference in my radio career. Other things motivate, sure. 

Ratings, nothing. Like a total zero. Never been a concern of mine at all. A quick background on this. My first job out of college and radio was in a small town, Jackson, Tennessee. It's a little town. 

I don't even know if they kept ratings. I don't even know if Arbitron did ratings. But I was the first radio show, the first morning show on the station. So there was nothing to compare to. There were no ratings. It never crossed my mind. 

And I was just starting. I was just trying to do a good job and never consider it. My next real job was in San Diego. And the station I worked for, there were two talk radio stations in town. And the one I worked for never had good ratings. We were always second to the big talk station in town. 

So we never talked about ratings, never, never matter. We were way down there, but we had a lot of sponsors. That was the key. That's how I stayed in business. We had a lot of really loyal sponsors for like over a decade and really loyal listeners who would support our sponsors. So it worked out even though our ratings were terrible. 

I think they were terrible. I don't really know. 

Um, 

We stayed on the air. God, I don't know how it happened. Thank you, God. Now I work for SiriusXM. There are no ratings. There are literally no ratings. 

Ratings don't even exist. Oh, and then this podcast that we're doing right now, I've never made a penny from it. So the idea that I do anything for ratings is just hilarious. I can't think of anything that has had less of an influence on how I do anything other than ratings. And there's so much proof of that. There's so many things we do on the air that are so obviously not for ratings. 

Like, who's ever been like, oh yeah, you know, that hour that Slater did on Alexander the Great. He really did that one for the ratings. That was a real ratings banger. No question, no question about it. That hour that Slater did on the importance of architecture, whoo -wee. That was, I got this book right here. 

It's called Eric Sloan, The Age of Barnes. This would be the second book on Eric Sloan that I bought about Barnes. that will surely, once I read it, like we'll definitely talk about it on the radio, like Barnes, all that Barnes talk. That's a big, big rating stuff for Slater. I know that's why he got real ratings grabber. So I don't do things for ratings. 

I also don't lie. I would never lie ever. I've pretended to know what I'm talking about. That happened once in Jackson, Tennessee. Once, because the time I did it, I don't exactly remember the story, but I was reading some story. It must've been about the bull weevil. 

and about how bull weevils are hurting crops. And I trap the bull weevils because they're eating all the crops. And I say, I say, man, like, what's that like? Like, what? Tell me more about trapping the bull. He's like, oh yeah, I trap them for their fur. 

And I, and I take their fur and I sell the first day. Where do you sell the first? Oh, I sell the fur down in Memphis. A lot of people in Memphis want to buy the bull weevil fur. And I talked to this guy for 10 minutes, this guy going on about how he's a bull weevil trapper for the fur, the bull weevil fur. And I look over and the phone's totally full. 

Bull weevil is a bug, little bug. And everyone's calling in to say, this guy totally got me. And the reason he got me, I remember talking to my boss at the time, Hoppin Harv, because I felt like ridiculous, obviously. But he said, no, it's good. This guy joking around with you. Like, it's funny. 

I was like, oh yeah, it is pretty funny. But he got me because he could tell that I was pretending to know what I was talking about. I don't know what I said. I must have said something that made it seem like I knew what a bull weaver was. It just triggered in his head like, oh, I'm going to get this Yankee. and good on them. 

I'll never forget it, but it really taught me a lesson. Don't ever pretend to know what you're talking about. So I don't. That's why on the radio, I think I don't listen to other radio shows, but I think I ask more questions than most other shows. Something happens. I was like, I don't, I don't know. 

I think this is what I've read. This is what I've heard. This is what I think. But if anyone's in, you know, we have any lawyers listening now, if we have any doctors listening now, if we anyone in this industry now call in, let me know, you know, and we have all these calls and people are great. So I never pretend one time I pretended to know what I was talking about. and that was quickly rebuked by the by the bull weevil trapper uh but i would never lie i don't bring it up here because the mainstream media the lamestream 

is lying and we can give a million examples and there's plenty of them. But this one of today is quite striking because they know the truth. We know they know the truth. This five -year -old boy in Minnesota, it started off with this five -year -old was detained. Ice detained a five -year -old and then they were rebuked with the truth, but they doubled down. And now they're saying that ice arrested a five -year -old, which is even worse. 

They didn't detain him, they didn't arrest him. Here's the story. ICE stopped the dad who was driving the car, illegal alien. The dad ran, abandoning his son in the car. Would you ever? The ICE agents, some went to go get the illegal alien. 

The other ICE agents protected the five -year -old who was just abandoned by dad. Two quick points here. How many illegal aliens were lost by the Biden administration children? Here's a Homeland Security number, 230 ,000. lost by the Biden administration. Whatever the number is, it's outrageous number of illegal alien or children who came across the border that were like, wow, we don't know what to do with them. 

Let's just give them to these people. And we don't know. We didn't vet the people. We don't know who we dropped them off with a horrible story. And the Democrats, lefties across America just totally turned a blind eye. We dropped them off to human traffickers. 

Surely dropped them off in horrific sex trade situations, just like a horrible, horrible, evil, wicked, depraved, the worst things you could possibly imagine. And Democrats totally turned a blind eye to that. Yet here's one five -year -old boy that was abandoned by his dad in the car in negative 20 -degree weather. And the left's like, laser focus on this one child. We also were told by the media that this five -year -old was used to bait family members, like, go knock on the door and get all the other illegals out so we can arrest them too. 

That was the vision that the left was trying to paint. DHS says, no, no, no, we were not trying to bait family members. We were trying to get family members in the house to help the child, but they refused. In the end, dad and son were reunited and they're now at a detention facility in San Antonio, we're told. I hope that people see through these lies now. No, I'm, I'm certain that law enforcement helped this child with as much love and care as all law enforcement helps the children of criminals. 

J . D. Vance, our vice president, was one of those kids once. He spoke of that when he was in Minneapolis yesterday. He said, one of my family members was arrested in front of me. But the left keep going with this lie. 

This is Nicholas Kristof, New York Times columnist. We look back at those old photos of the 60s and wonder how authorities could have behaved so savagely. Many years from now, young Americans will look at these photos from 2026 and wonder how anyone could have justified shooting a woman in the head as she tries to drive away, arresting five -year -old schoolchildren on the street. or holding a man down and spraying chemicals into his face. Arresting a five -year -old? That's not what happened at all. 

They detained the dad, and they protected him. five -year -old so I'm stuck on the abandoning of the dad running away that's so screwed up so screwed up there was this movie by Will Ferrell and Julia Louise Dreyfus it was it's a horrible movie it's called downhill apparently it's a remake because I've seen the scene in question yeah force majeure some Swedish movie no maybe it's called tourist Both titles, yeah, Forest Majeure and Tourist is the original, and then they remade it with Will Ferrell and Julius Jarvis. I was on an airplane, and I watched it. It was one of the worst movies I've ever seen in my life, and I think about it all the time. So I really don't know what to do with this movie. But the very short of it is, it's a family, they got three boys maybe, and they're on this ski trip, and they're at the lodge or whatever, and an avalanche is coming down. 

And the avalanche is coming, and the dad, Will Ferrell, runs, runs away. leaves his family there. Now it turns out the avalanche missed or didn't turn out to anything. And he walks back over to his wife and kids who are there left for dead, left unprotected. And the whole rest of the movie is about how mom and the kids lose respect for dad. It's, it's a horror show. 

It's a horrible movie. And I can't think about it all the time. Actually, I'm going to talk more about it on my, on the radio show on, on Monday, I'll go back and find some clips and, and relive it. Uh, the idea that the dad would run is, okay, here's what I want to talk about today. Turn it to the Bible. You can't lie. 

Lying is bad. Lying is sinful. I know this is basic stuff here, but I don't ever hear anyone talk about how good it is. not to lie. I guess now that I think about it, anything I've ever heard about lying in my life has been like, well, little white lies are okay. That's it. 

No, no, don't lie. So maybe it's not so obvious. God says not to lie. Leviticus 19, 11, 12, you shall not steal. You shall not deal falsely. You shall not lie to one another. 

Hebrews 6, 18 says that God, it's impossible for God to lie. We therefore shouldn't either. Zechariah 8, 17, God says, love no false oath for all these things I hate. This is right after Zechariah 8, but this is after Zechariah 5, where he talks about a flying scroll that is a curse to everyone. God sends a curse that shall enter the house of the thief and the house of the one who swears falsely by my name, and it shall remain in the midst of his house and consume it with its timber and stones. The house of the liar will be cursed. 

It's all throughout Proverbs, of course. 16, 16, excuse me, 616 says, among the seven things the Lord hates are a lying tongue and a false witness who breathes out lies. The media, the people writing these stories, writing these headlines, writing the scripts, they know this is not what happened. They know a five -year -old was not arrested. They know it. You can disagree with arresting illegal aliens. 

Okay. Do not lie and say a five -year -old was arrested. You are a liar. That is sinful. God hates that. Proverbs 12, 22 says, lying lips are an abomination to the Lord. 

You don't want to be anywhere near abominations. Those who act faithfully are his delight. That's where you want to name. He said, Oh, this is just Old Testament stuff. Just bringing up some Old Testament. Jesus called Satan, the father of lies. 

John eight 44. You belong to your father, the devil, and you want to carry out your father's desires. He was a murderer from the beginning, not holding to the truth for there's no truth in him. When he lies, he speaks his native language for he is a liar and the father of lies. Lying separates you from the truth. That's what, that's why Satan does it. 

He tells you lies. to separate you from what is true. Satan tells lies to keep you from God, to keep you from God's truth, to keep you from his word. And people in our sinful nature lie for all types of reasons and motivations and justifications, but it's all sinful. Just the same. Jesus, on the other hand, is the truth. 

John 14, 6, the way, the truth, the life. Stick with him. Be more like him. Never, ever tell a lie. And these people in the media need to be called out more, even more, as straight up, flat out liars. That is a lie. 

You are lying. But if you're unrepentant, I suppose they just don't care. But we know the truth will set you free. Slater Radio on Twitter and Instagram, mikeslater . locals . com. Transcript commercial free on the website mikeslater .

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