Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 24-7 podcast.
Well, I tell you what, folks, the markets love it when Obama leaves the country.
Have you seen the Dow Jones industrial average today?
It's up 252 points, and Obama's out of the country.
If there's just a way to keep him over there for a while, the market might come back sufficiently to start the rest of the economy coming back.
We'll just have to see.
Greetings.
Great to have you with us.
Rush Limbaugh, the EIB network and the Limbaugh Institute for Advanced Conservative Studies.
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Gordon Brown, the Prime Minister of the U.K., says that leaders at the G20 summit have agreed to give $1 trillion to the IMF, the International Monetary Fund, and to the World Bank to help struggling nations around the world.
Brown also says that the 20 countries at the summit will enact common policies to crack down on tax havens, regulate hedge funds, and rebuild trust in the financial system to prevent a crisis such as this from happening again.
So there you have it, folks.
Another trillion dollars to the World Bank and the IMF, ostensibly to wipe out U.S. and worldwide poverty.
I'll tell you what's happening over there, and it's real simple.
Obama at the G20 is a slow surrender of the United States and its national interests.
You know, we haven't talked about this on this program, but the North Korea, we've joked about it.
North Koreans are going to launch this missile.
There's nothing we can do to stop it, or there's nothing we will do to stop it.
The Defense Secretary Bob Gates said, nothing we can do.
The Japanese are gearing up some interceptor thing.
You've got the Iranians nuking up.
You've got Hamas getting bolder and bolder and bolder.
You got the Russians helping the Iranians.
And what is our policy?
Our policy is exactly what you would expect a left-wing president's policy to be.
And he's doing what he said he was going to do during the campaign.
He's meeting with these people.
He's telling them we're no threat.
He is telling them, don't worry about us.
We have no threat.
He's hoping that telling them there's a new day here in the United States will make them nicer.
It's first grade conflict resolution.
So what Obama's doing is surrendering U.S. national interests over there in an effort to get the EU to spend more stimulus.
He surrendered the U.S. as responsible for the global financial crisis.
He did that yesterday.
Will he surrender to a global financial regulator like Sarkozy wants?
Hillary slowly surrendering to the Taliban.
And Richard Holbrook will no doubt surrender support for new democracies in Europe and the missile defense shield that protects the EU as well as the U.S. and Israel.
We are surrendering U.S. national interests for the sake of demonstrating that Obama is not the hated George W. Bush.
We have new employment numbers out.
The weekly claims have jumped to 669,000 unemployed.
Continuing unemployment claims hit a record 5.7 million.
So that's how many people remain unemployed that continue to ask for benefits and 669,000 new unemployed.
Meanwhile, the stock market's up now 267 points.
So the market's up, but jobs are down.
And after being down, how many more months?
Jobs are going to start coming back slowly, very slowly.
Not as many people are going to be hired back, and certainly not for as much money as when they left.
And the reason for that is the effect of government running the private sector.
That's the result of higher taxes.
That's the result of more regulation.
This is what a jobless recovery looks like.
Slow job growth coming out of a recession thanks to Obama making himself the CEO-in-chief.
Now, you put fiat managerial expertise in place at Chrysler with a mandate to make cars that consumers don't want.
You don't get a lean, mean profit machine.
This is not going to lead to job growth.
Porculus won't lead to job growth.
Cap and trade won't lead to job growth.
Ditto nationalizing the healthcare industry.
But that's not what Obama wants.
He wants power, not jobs.
He wants an ever-larger government at the expense of individual liberty and freedom on the part of the American citizens.
Now, the AP is reporting the market surge this way.
World stock markets soared Thursday with Hong Kong's benchmark vaulting more than 7% as stronger than expected U.S. economic figures boosted confidence.
The world's largest economy is on the mend.
The headline to this story, world market surge is U.S. data boost recovery hope.
It's false hope, ladies and gentlemen, I'm afraid, like the whole Obama campaign and administration.
If you want to know what's really behind this market surge today, it's very simple.
The board that sets United States accounting standards is giving companies more leeway when valuing assets.
This is a potential lift to battered banks' balance sheets.
We're talking mark-to-market.
They have relaxed the market-to-market standards, which people have been suggesting since last fall be done.
One of the reasons assets that banks hold are toxic is because they're valued at zero.
In the past, banks have always been able to, on their P ⁇ L sheets, the balance sheet, any business, has been able to guess, reasonably guess, years out into the future, what the value of their assets that they hold will be.
And there's a statistical analysis that most responsible companies use to value these assets in the future.
Mark-to-market requires that those assets be valued at today's value.
And of course, those toxic assets are worth zip zero nada.
This is the Independent Financial Accounting Standards Board.
They voted to adopt guidelines under the so-called mark-to-market accounting rules, which require companies to value assets at prices reflecting current market conditions.
Now, the changes could reduce the losses that banks have been forced to report as the values of their mortgage-backed securities have crumbled.
Now, don't need to get into the minutiae and the details here, but the bottom line is that relaxing mark-to-market is the large part of why the market's up.
It has nothing to do with Obama.
It has nothing to do with the G20.
If it has anything to do with Obama, it is that he's out of town.
But I'm going to tell you something, folks.
Tim Geithner is up there slicing the cheese each and every day.
Tim Geithner let it be known that it's perfectly within his purview, and it'll probably happen that more CEOs are going to be canned.
And Geithner doesn't know what he's doing.
All he has to do is slice the cheese the wrong way, and this 265 that we're up now will be a minus 265.
Everybody's hoping that we've bottomed out, that this is coming back.
And you've always heard, wait, rush, the stock market, it's not the same as Main Street.
Rush is just the stock market.
The Lyft has always said this.
The Libs have always said, you can't look at what's going on in the stock market, on Wall Street, and assume that it means the same thing is happening on Main Street or in the general economy.
And in this case, that's correct.
I mean, the market's up, NASDAQ's up 61, Dow Jones Industrial Average 268, and yet 669,000 more people lost their jobs in March with no end in sight to this.
All the experts are saying 8.8 to 9% unemployment by the end of the year.
All right, Gordon Brown in London today spoke to the G20 summit.
Here's a portion of his remarks.
We will act also to make our global recovery fair and more sustainable.
This time of financial crisis is no time to walk away from our commitment to the world's poorest.
The new world order is emerging, and with it the foundations of a new and progressive era of international cooperation.
We have resolved that from today, we will together manage the process of globalization to secure responsibility from all and fairness to all.
Well, so there you have it.
Gordon Brown believes there's a new world order built on fairness that the G20.
By the way, when you hear the word fairness in the concept of economics, you have to understand that this is central planners deciding what's fair.
Neil Cavuto had a guy yesterday on his show, and he just ripped this guy new one.
He's a Florida congressman, a Democrat, very inarticulate guy, but he's leading the way on Barney Frank's idea for Congress to set themselves up as the final arbiters over who can make what at any firm that receives bailout money from the U.S. government.
And Neil Cavuto tried for eight minutes to get this guy to give him some numbers, and the guy wouldn't give him any numbers.
Well, the Treasury is going to decide that.
Cavuto said, I don't care what the treasury is going to do.
You guys write the laws.
Will you tell me what the, is a million too much?
What's excessive?
And this guy would not give him a number.
And Cavuto was just frustrated.
I said, damn it, you know, I'm tired of talking.
This guy ended up saying you're very rude to me today, Neil.
Cavuto wasn't rude.
He was just frustrated as he can be.
These guys are just carrying the water for higher-ups.
And this guy's carrying the water, writing the legislation for Barney Frank.
I think he's on the committee.
I forget his name, but he's a.
Don't worry.
It doesn't matter who it is.
He's a Democrat from Florida.
We have the audio, but it's eight minutes long, and you have to listen the whole eight minutes to get the flavor for it.
And we don't have eight minutes of time to spend audio.
But this is all, of course, being done under the rubric of fairness, is the and when these people, when leftists start talking about fairness, they are the slave masters.
They are going to decide what's fair.
And their definition of fairness is everybody being the same.
Equalization of outcomes, which means, as I love to constantly say, spreading misery equally.
Alan Grayson is that the guy's Alan Grayson Democrat Florida.
Neil Cavuto made mincemeat out of the guy yesterday.
It was anybody watching this should have quickly come to the conclusion that the wrong people are in charge at the wrong time who don't have the honesty to tell us what they're really going to do.
They don't have the guts to tell us what we're really going to do.
And I'm not sure watching this Grayson guy, I'm not sure that he actually understands what's going to happen.
He's just the front man writing the legislation.
I was not impressed with this guy.
He was not impressive at evading the answer.
He had one stock talking point for eight minutes.
And his stock talking point was that it is outrageous that people got bonuses, the same people who wrecked this economy.
That's what he said for eight minutes, essentially.
And Cavuto said, look, look, I agree with you.
People who destroy the economy ought not get bonuses.
But you're not talking about that anymore.
You're talking about everybody who works in it.
Are you talking the secretaries?
Are you talking the janitors?
Are you guys going to determine what's excessive in one somebody makes?
Yes, well, you're what is excessive?
He wouldn't give a figure.
He would not supply the answer.
Okay, folks, brief timeout.
Margin in the New York 20th congressional race getting closer, getting tighter.
So let's see, what is it?
25 votes now.
And the official recount begins on April 13th.
Sit tight, be right back.
Just got a call from the EIB PR department.
Let me give you this story.
The EIB PR Department, the Media Relations Department, just got a call from WNBC-TV in New York.
That's Channel Ford.
Channel 4 has requested a response from me regarding a statement made by the governor of New York, David Patterson, in a press conference this morning.
A reporter, we do not have audio of this.
I have not seen any audio of this, but a reporter from WNB, or some reporter, asked the governor of the state of New York what he thought about my saying I'm going to leave New York because of his tax increases.
And the governor of New York, David Patterson, responded that if he had known Rush Limbaugh would leave the state of New York, he would have raised taxes sooner.
Governor Patterson, if this is the case, if you don't care about the revenue that you confiscate from me, then call off your audit dogs.
Because I've been audited for listening in 97, 12 straight years by New York State and New York City.
I've been audited 12 straight years.
So call off your audit dogs if you don't care about the money that you are confiscating from me for your wards of the state.
So a governor, a governor of a state has actually told reporters that he's so happy I'm leaving, he would have raised taxes even sooner if he knew that would have forced me out of New York State.
I'm wondering, is a governor of any state ever said anything like that about a private citizen?
Are you just as happy with all the other New Yorkers who are going to leave Governor Patterson?
Because there will be.
Governor Patterson, do you know that you have an exodus on your hands from Long Island?
And for a long time, you've had an exodus on your hands from Long Island, moving to southern states like North Carolina and Florida because they're sick and tired of the property taxes, the state taxes, the city taxes, and all the other taxes.
So you're going to be happy that other taxpayers decide to leave New York or just me.
Just me.
What an honor.
What an honor.
Folks, is there any other private citizen, any other, who is not a criminal, you know, who is an upstanding citizen, a man for the ages?
Is there any other governor who has ever excitedly said, well, if I would have known he was leaving the state, I would have raised taxes sooner or what have you?
Hubba hubba.
And I, you know, I haven't even cracked any David Patterson jokes, unlike others in the media have.
By the way, my firm belief, the stock market, what is it up now?
Waiting for the number.
It's hovering around 260, 265, 270, whatever it is.
And I maintain this is because President Obama is out of the country.
The market loves it.
When Obama, oh, it's up 306.
There must be news that he's extending his stay overseas.
There must be news he's not coming back as soon as they thought he might be coming back.
I mean, the market's going nuts.
And the only thing here that's different is that Obama's gone.
He's out of the country.
If Obama said that he would stay out of the country for a month, the markets would hit 8,500 today.
That'd jump another 300 or 400.
In fact, all he would have to say is he's extending his stay for maybe a couple of weeks.
Have you seen the picture?
By the way, there have been massive protocol blunders on the part of Obama and his wife in the UK.
They're being reported, but they're not being highlighted as they would be if it were a Republican president.
But one of the big gaffes, he actually bowed to the king of Saudi Arabia.
Only subjects of the king of Saudi Arabia bow.
You don't bow.
It makes you subservient.
It tells the king that you indeed agree that you are subservient to him.
This is King.
I think it's Abdullah.
It's also Abdullah in Jordan.
Regardless, then there's a big picture of it, and it looks like there's a Chikom guy standing.
He's the only one bowing in all the people, the group of people here meeting the king of Saudi Arabia.
So as I say, it's a slow surrender on the part of President Obama at the World Southern G20.
And he's got five other stops or four other stops on his itinerary after he wraps up today at the G20.
So the more he's out of the country, and as long as Geithner doesn't screw up, he's slicing a cheese up there, as long as Geithner doesn't mess up, the longer Obama's out of the country, mark my words, the higher the market might indeed go.
Well, it's happened again, folks.
I've always said if you place a bag of manure in front of a Democrat, they will certainly step in it.
And New York Governor David Patterson certainly has.
He's now joking about raising taxes an astronomical amount in New York State.
I need to clarify something about this because as is the usual case, the real crux of my comments here about leaving New York have been missed on purpose.
I am technically not leaving New York because I'm not there now.
I moved out of New York in 1997.
Every year I sent them letters saying, sorry, I miss you, but I've moved.
I now live in Florida, and it's why I'm not filing tax return.
In 2002, I got a letter and an audit from 1997 through 2001.
And it took two years to prove to them where I was every day of the year, 14 different ways.
And I have been audited every year since.
And the way the first audit ended up is that when I do work in New York, I pay a per diem tax, like athletes do when they go in and play.
They pay their taxes in New York State and the city when they go to play the Mets of the Yankees.
It's a mess, but that's what it is.
We negotiated that, it's all done.
Now I get audited every year on the number of days I'm there, and I have to prove it.
And it's just not worth it.
And now he's raising taxes to boot on all of this.
And finally, I've reached the tipping point.
So I am going to cease doing business in New York.
I do not live there.
That's what makes all of this ridiculous.
I do not live there.
And I've been audited by that state and the city for 12 years.
So with the tax increase and the fact that I'm rarely there and have to go through all this hassle, it's Sayonara.
I'm not leaving.
I already did.
I'm just not going to be doing business in New York anymore.
And if the governor's happy about that, then he can go tell the wards of the state that I'm supporting that are going to have to find somebody else to provide the tax revenue.
All right, just to clarify that, because everybody reporting on this, of course, is getting it from everywhere but me.
Like I told the college student yesterday who called in the last half hour of the program, I've got a website.
Everything I say is transcribed.
No journalist ever calls me, very few, ever call me to find out, did you really say what they say you said here?
Never happens.
They just run with what the left-wing media watchdogs say, I say.
So this whole story of leaving New York has been distorted and misreported, which is the standard.
So I spend some time here to correct it.
And now, ladies and gentlemen, the audio soundbite roster continues.
Today's show today, the co-host Meredith Vieira interviewed the smartest, the craftiest, the most brilliant White House press secretary ever, Robert Gibbs.
She said, I can't let you go here, Bob, without asking you what was up with the iPod.
Give the Queen an iPod.
I mean, I would not know what to give the Queen of England.
I'm not sure an iPod would be the first thing to come to mind.
What was the thinking behind that choice?
I'm not sure entirely whose idea it started out as, but it's loaded with, as you mentioned, some show tunes, and it's also loaded with some pictures of the Queen's most recent visit to the United States.
The president remarked to me this morning that her sensibility sort of reminded him a bit of his grandmother only with a much bigger house.
So the Queen's sensibility reminded Obama of his grandmother.
Oh, let's go back March 21st, 2008, Philadelphia.
What did Obama think of his grandmother?
He is a typical white person who, if she sees somebody on the street that she doesn't know, there's a reaction that's been bred into our experiences that don't go away and that sometimes come out in the wrong way.
By golly, folks, I think he just called a queen an unintentional racist with a bigger house than his grandmother had.
And this whole business of giving an iPod, Bob Gibbs forgot to tell Meredith Vieira that a lot of Obama's speeches are on the iPod as well.
Did you know that you heard about that?
Okay, so, yeah, it reminded him a bit of his grandmother.
Typical white person.
Let's listen to these two again.
Back to back, Ed.
Play two and three.
Bam, bam.
Thank you, ma'am.
Right back to back.
I'm not sure entirely whose idea it started out as, but it's loaded with, as you mentioned, some show tunes.
And it's also loaded with some pictures of the Queen's most recent visit to the United States.
The president remarked to me this morning that her sensibility sort of reminded him a bit of his grandmother only with a much bigger house.
She is a typical white person who, if she sees somebody on the street that she doesn't know, you know, there's a reaction that's been bred into our experiences that don't go away and that sometimes come out in the wrong way.
I wonder what the queen said to Obama because she didn't know him before he showed up.
Thank you, Bobby Gibbs.
Bob Gibbs, letting us know the truth.
The Queen reminded Obama's grandmother, Katie Couric, on the CBS early show today.
Harry Smith is talking to her.
He said, hey, most important question to President and Michelle with the Queen yesterday.
He presented the Queen with a video iPod, something she actually requested, loaded with classic show tunes like My Fair Lady in Camelot.
Also a songbook autographed by Richard Rogers, the master himself.
The moment that was really noticed was when Mrs. Obama, as you mentioned earlier, placed her arm around Queen Elizabeth, touching, I guess initiating touchings and no-no.
But Her Majesty seemed to welcome Mrs. Obama's overture, so people here are just eating it up.
Oh, yes, American royalty meets British royalty.
So now Katie Couric says Queen Elizabeth asked for the iPod.
She asked for it.
Now, I heard, and I don't know, but I heard that she already had an iPod.
She asked Obama to bring her an iPod.
What did he do?
Stop at the duty-free shop when he landed at Stansted and go in there and pick one up?
No, obviously, because it was preloaded with the thing.
That's another thing about an iPod.
You give somebody an iPod, so they can load their own stuff on it.
The touchy feely, this is one of the protocol things that people were worried about.
Here is the audio of Obama's chat with the Queen.
Now, what this is, let's see, this is Obama and Prince Philip.
They had this quiet exchange yesterday at Buckingham Palace.
I had meetings with the Chinese, the Russians.
David Cameron.
This was Off Mic.
This was not part of the ceremony.
So Obama telling the prince what he had done all day.
Yeah, meetings with the Chikons or Russians.
David Cameron, I'm proud to say I didn't nod off in any of the meetings.
And Phillips said, can you tell a difference between them?
And Obama said it's all a blur.
Now, you've got the Chikoms and you've got the Russians and David Cameron.
Can you tell the difference between them?
What a question.
Let a Republican ask that question.
And you'll have outrage.
Here now, last night, Larry King alive, he's talking with the beauty editor for Harper's Bazaar magazine, Avril Graham.
And Larry King says, Do you think Michelle might be even more popular than Jackie Kennedy?
She was visiting a hospital, and, you know, she's sitting there at the bedside of cancer patients, but she's giving them a lift.
You know, she's got the sparkle on.
She's got brights on in a similar way as I thought back to the days of Princess Diana, who, you know, you want to cheer someone up, not to be sitting looking mournful.
And I think that that's what she brings, that accessibility and that understanding of real life.
This is just, it's so syrupy.
I have to, you know, take some anti-diabetes pills before listening to some of this reporting and before reading some of it.
For example, here is Jennifer Lovin, the Associated Press.
He talked nuclear threats with Russia's president.
He gave an iPod to the Queen, and that was only the beginning.
It was an eventful first day on the world stage for President Obama launching new arms control talks, placing China ties on fresh footing, and calming fears about the U.S. economy, seemingly everywhere, relaxed and smiling all the while.
While wife Michelle attracted breathless attention with every stop, fashionable outfit, and a sip of tea.
The new U.S. president in London for Thursday's high-stakes global summit on the financial meltdown dashed through a dawn-to-dark schedule Wednesday despite the effects of a head cold.
There was even a chance to talk dinosaurs with Gordon Brown's young sons and to snare two hours of quality time with Queen Elizabeth at Buckingham Palace.
I mean, this is just so over the top, and it is syrupy sweet.
You need blood sugar medicine here to listen to or read any of the reporting by the drive-by media.
The Queen did have an iPod.
Steve Gilbert informs me via NGadget, which is a blog, high-tech blog from July 2005.
It's actually a story from the UK Sun.
The Sun reports that Queen Elizabeth is rocking the palace on her new iPod.
The Charles off quivering in a corner, fearing the onset of Nanobat Army.
The Queen's second son, Andrew, has become the Royal Gadget go-to guy.
Set her up with a silver six-gigabyte iPod mini.
So she did have an iPod out there.
More audio soundbites, sickening as they are.
Larry King alive speaking now with a former spokesman for Buckingham Palace, Dickie Arbiter.
The question, Dickie, how about the black population in England?
Well, they look upon Barack Obama as a savior, you know, being the first American president of Nick's race.
So the black population of Great Britain looks upon Barack Obama as a savior.
By the way, the protesters continue to go nuts over there.
And I think, folks, you got to understand that these people, these protesters, the anarchists, the globalists, anti-globalists, the anti-capitalists and whatever, these are just community organizers.
These are potential future leaders of countries around the world.
The United States leader was spawned by Acorn.
He is a proud community organizer.
So the people that are wrecking the town down in London at the G20, these are future leaders of our countries.
I don't really see what the problem is.
In fact, President Obama ought to be out there with them, giving them pointers on how to agitate.
That's where he comes from.
And then invite him to the White House, hook them up with Acorn, and tell them how it's really done.
You could be looking at a future leader of a country in these protests.
This next is hilarious.
Larry King Live speaking with former Buckingham Palace spokesman Dickie Arbiter and social commentator Nancy Giles about the meeting between President Obama, Michelle Obama, and Queen Elizabeth.
This is a Larry King play-by-play of Michelle touching the Queen.
By the way, we have a new video of Michelle touching the Queen.
Dickie, is that a no-no?
Not really.
As I said a moment ago, the Queen's been doing seven years.
Oh, she touched her again.
Oh, my God.
The Queen touched Michelle.
She's been around.
That's right.
It was a reciprocal touch.
It's okay, Dickie, right?
Yep, absolutely.
Absolutely.
Play-by-play of Michelle Obama, American royalty, touching British royalty, Queen Elizabeth, North Wales, Pennsylvania.
Adam, we go to you first on the phones today, sir.
Great to have you with us.
Hello.
Thank you.
It's great to talk to you.
You bet.
I just wanted to, I guess, say I feel for you a little bit with this taxes in New York situation.
Not too long ago, I lived in Philadelphia, and I moved out of there.
I was just getting nothing for my taxes.
They have a 4.3% city wage tax.
I don't even work in Philadelphia.
Soon they were going to, I mean, the things they're talking about now, they're not going to lower it.
They were planning on lowering it.
They might raise it.
They're going to raise the sales tax, stop plowing roads.
My road, I lived on a back road, so they would have stopped plowing that.
They're going to start, I've been cutting back on trash removal or charging for trash removal.
And I'll tell you, I got the biggest raise of my life when I moved out of Philadelphia.
I very proudly, and I know yesterday you were talking about cars.
I drive a Mustang V8.
I proudly get about 60 miles a gallon.
And I mean, I was going through three and a half gallons a day, paying 4.3% of my paycheck to Philadelphia, paying much more in rent than I needed to.
I live in North Wales.
I'm much closer to work.
I couldn't be happier if people at work noticed I'm in a better mood ever since I moved and stopped having to business.
Well, you know, look, I want to make something plain here.
This, as far as I'm concerned, I don't live in New York.
I moved out of there in 1997.
I'm going to stop doing business there.
These coming tax increases are punitive.
They're not going to work.
They're punishing the achievers.
Taxes on the wealthy need to actually be cut.
But what everybody's missing here is I've been audited every year by these people.
I'm not even a resident.
I've been audited for 12 years.
And it's now, this is just, this is the tipping point.
And I'll tell you, the governor, telling people had he known his tax increases could drive me out any sooner, he would have raised them sooner.
Governor Patterson, I saw what was coming in 97.
That is why I left there for a no-income tax state.
The difference, you would not believe the net difference.
I'm not going to, of course, get into specifics of numbers, but it's just absurd, the level of taxation there.
So, yeah, I think with property taxes and taxes in general, for example, Manhattan, the streets ought to be paved with gold.
You look, most everybody lives in a high-rise building or some kind of building.
There are multiple residents per address.
The property taxes and taxes they are paying in such small, the streets ought to be paved with gold with the revenue that they are collecting and the revenue that people are paying there.
And of course, it's just the opposite.
So if Mayor or Governor Patterson, if you're just so ecstatic, I'm leaving.
You don't care about the tax revenue my doing business there creates and call off the audit dogs.
It's meaningless, right?
Doesn't matter.
Be back in just a second.
New York Governor David Patterson, the unelected governor, who will never be an elected governor.
His polls are in the tank.
And I guess, you know, by liberal standards, in liberal terms, being an unelected governor, he's an illegitimate governor.
Remember, they said Bush was an illegitimate president because he wasn't duly elected.
So, Mayor Patterson, in the eyes of your own comrades, you are illegitimate as a governor.