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June 23, 2009 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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June 23, 2009, Tuesday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 24-7 Podcast.
Why, thank you, Johnny.
Appreciate it very, very much and appreciate being here as a fill-in host.
True of me, true of Mark Stein yesterday, who did a magnificent job.
True of all of us who enjoy the privilege of filling the big chair on days when Rush is away.
We always want to start off with something to make you happy.
So I am guaranteed to start off with something to make you happy.
You ready?
Listen up.
Rush is back tomorrow.
See?
I promised I delivered.
What I promise and hope to deliver today is uh three hours of something that aspires to be worthy of your time.
So uh one hour from now, the wonderful Michael Barone, whom you might recall from U.S. News and World Report, who's now over there in uh in in Byron York and Bill Salmonland.
Is everyone writing for the examiner now?
And uh so the wonderful Michael Baron.
We'll we'll talk Obama poll numbers, some big national political issues, and we'll do that with Mr. Barone one hour from now.
Now that doesn't mean we're not going to talk about big national political issues this hour or the third hour, because trust me, we will.
But there are a couple of things you want to do at the outset, and of course, giving you the phone number at the outset, 1-800-282-2882.
1-800-282-2882.
I'm Mark Davis, down here in Hundred Degree, Texas, bathed in the sunshine, about ten miles west of George W. and Laura Bush's house.
And I bring you uh greetings from the Lone Star State.
And the following things to start off today's uh show with.
Uh in a second, uh we're gonna probably talk a little bit funny.
I want to go to some peripheral things, some stuff that uh that I've been talking about already on the local show that I do here and talking about with some friends that maybe we wouldn't even get to if all we did was Iran, North Korea, and healthcare.
Now I'm a huge fan of talking about Iran and North Korea and health care.
Um, but uh there's some things that might take us in a a lot of different directions today.
Uh for example, uh the anointed one holds an audience uh the press uh gets to kiss the ring uh here in about twenty minutes or so.
And I'll keep an ear on that and and bring you some excerpts uh of that.
We'll listen in to it if there's anything interesting in the news conference.
We'll keep track of that.
It it's it's hastily called, and it makes me wonder what it and it's not in prime time, so the networks are going, oh, thank you, God, uh quite literally because he likes to be addressed that way.
Uh saying thank you for not um laying waste to our prime time uh schedule even in the summertime.
So a rare sort of 1230 Eastern uh 1130 central do the math back to the Pacific time zone news conference by the anointed one, and apparently everything just up for grabs, you're on North Korea, healthcare, I mean uh uh uh pest control of the White House, any one of a number of things could come up, and so uh we have a virtual cornucopia.
Um Tiger Woods tonight is going to get his chops busted, uh, metaphorically by Jim Brown, former NFL great Jim Brown, who to and and it'll be interesting to watch, except I warn you you're going to have to uh uh and I I say this with a degree of trepidation, it will involve uh seeing and hearing Bryant Gumble.
I know, I know, I know, deal breaker.
Uh but that real sports with Bryant Gumble, in the portions that don't actually feature Bryant Gumble, uh there's some greatness there sometimes.
The the wonderful Bernie Goldberg, a hero to most of us, uh identifying media bias and and such in some of his great works.
Uh Frank DeFord's on there a lot, a writer I like.
Derek McGuinty, a guy I used to uh uh to know pretty well back in back in my DC days.
Um it's the the packages they do uh on real sports at Bryant Gumble tend to be pretty interesting.
The conversation with Jim Brown will involve Jim Brown busting Tiger Woods for not f for being, quote, terrible on social issues.
He is he not black enough.
I mean, there's a there's a whole lineage issue, because Tiger actually may literally be not black enough.
Uh he's he's quite the the the racially mixed uh figure and and and seeks, unlike the president, who purports to be post-racial, but is not, he'll play that card any time he thinks it helps him.
Tiger is living a life uh that is truly Dr. King's dream, where he I mean Tiger has made race irrelevant.
But but race activists like uh like Jim Brown and and their you know, their ilk in the Al Sharpton wing of American race politics.
They don't want anything post-racial because then they become post-relevant.
Uh when there's when they're when racial strife diminishes, uh, what is there for Al and Jesse to do?
What is there for Jim Brown to complain about?
So we'll get to all that here in just a bit.
There's a fascinating court case out of Vermont.
There's a sentence you don't hear much.
It's like, hand me the piano, as George Carland would say, sentences you don't hear very much.
Here's a court case out of Vermont.
If um if your fifteen-year-old daughter uh texts a topless photo of herself to a 15-year-old uh classmate, uh i is that like the uh uh uh dissemination of child pornography, and is the the poor schlub tenth grader who gets your daughter's picture.
I hate to make it your daughter, I'm sorry, just trying to make it vivid, because it is in many people's lives.
Is he then uh you you cannot possess child porn.
What's child porn?
Underage kids naked.
Well, you know, w what are the definitions of that?
And how does that all work out?
So if we can um if we can find time and I'll do my best to, we'll we'll get to that as well.
Um there are two things I want to make sure we take care of here in the uh in the first segment of of this Tuesday Rush Limbaugh show.
In a minute, some thoughts about Iran, because I've the for now it appears the revolt has been successful quashed by these people.
But having talked about um my DC days, when I was there, uh first of all growing up and going to the University of Maryland and uh and working downtown.
Have I shared this golden bit of uh I know I'm so ADD, I apologize.
Uh I've the law firm I worked for from 1975 to 79, uh just as a sort of a billing clerk and errand guy and you know whatever.
Siddley and Austin at 1730 Pennsylvania Avenue, a block from the White House, rode the red line from uh Rhode Island Avenue down to uh Farragut North and then back up to Rhode Island Avenue to drive uh whatever hulk of a car I was driving back to the College Park campus where I lived.
Why am I sharing this with you?
It is my brush with history, Siddley and Austin in Washington that I worked for was a branch of the Chicago office of Siddley and Austin, and that's where Barack and Michelle Obama met.
Ta-da.
Anyway, uh seeing those cars, those those Washington, D.C. Metro cars, which were when that system opened in the mid-70s, I mean it was it was like walking onto the set of 2001 a space odyssey.
I loved it so much.
And I continue to believe that it's just one of the wonderful subway systems in the world.
I there are two qu I was just talking to Kit and Mike on you know before starting the show.
Uh any time you have a horrible accident like they had on the red line up where DC meets suburban Maryland in northern Prince George's County, there are two questions you ask.
How in God's name does this happen?
And and then the other side of the coin is why didn't it happen more?
I mean, uh air travel is incredibly safe.
You're you're in you're you're more likely to die in your car on the way to the airport than you are on the plane.
Right.
Can we stipulate that?
That said, we do hear about plane mishaps and pretty good bet.
You'll get the occasional crash, you'll get the occasional near miss, you'll get the occasional, you know, this and that.
Uh subways and and I know we have train derailments and things, but passenger trains, very rare.
So I confess I'm asking both questions at the same time.
How did this happen?
And that's what DC Metro and uh the NTSB will take a look at.
But I guess in a way, in a in a system filled with human beings.
I I wonder why it doesn't happen more.
I'm thankful.
I guess it's a testament to their usual attentiveness and usual skill.
Were those not uh in effect?
So I don't know, but just um just a little shout out to the listening audience there at WMAL in Washington, because I know that that's directly connected to them and they've been a proud Rush Limbaugh affiliate for a long time, and it is in that community that this particular story is felt with the most pain.
So um uh all let's lift up everybody in our in our prayers uh that was killed or hurt in in the metro crash.
Um before I give you two, three minutes on Iran, let me ask for some advanced help if if we're doing if if we're doing uh shout-outs to affiliate stations.
Uh uh need need some help from the good people of South Carolina today.
Guess maybe our our our focal point for that Might be the uh 560 W V O C voice of Columbia it stands for, and it's the proud capital city of uh of South Carolina.
Uh what's it's like a Seinfeld, what's up with the governor?
What what is up with the governor?
I'm kind of a big fan of Governor Sanford, and uh either there is a really good explanation for his vanishing from the face of the earth, or there's not.
And if there is, it really needs to get out there better than it has so far.
And if there's not, uh I'll just flat tell you the list of twenty twelve hopefuls just shrank by one.
I mean, it's seriously.
If uh because if there's one thing we cannot have in a 2012 hopeful, it's weird stuff.
So this either is or it's not, so help me out.
I I have reached a new conclusion, and we'll take a look at that, and maybe you folks there in uh is it the Palmetto State, South Carolina?
Um Gamecock country.
Maybe you can uh help us out with that, so so please do.
All right.
Um looking at the calendar.
November 4th is gonna be the 30th anniversary of one of the darkest days in American history.
You'll recall a horde of Iranian militants poured down a street in Tehran, crashed through the gates of the United States Embassy, and took fifty-two Americans hostage.
They were bound.
They were blindfolded.
Our countrymen paraded in front of TV cameras and threatened with their lives for those four hundred and forty-four days.
It took more than five months for the emasculated Jimmy Carter to uh hatch a rescue attempt.
It failed.
Nine months later, knowing the newly elected Ronald Reagan would not allow this uh outrage to continue, this mob released the hostages.
During the Reagan term, he had a lot of opportunities to speak out on behalf of the millions of people oppressed by uh terroristic theocracies and and the even larger group of people who are living under the boot of communism.
Did Reagan at any point think, wait a minute, I I better go easy on Qaddafi?
I better rein in my support of uh of Lech Volenza in Poland.
I I better not speak out in support of the people in uh Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia starved for freedom after living under the Soviet boot.
I I better not do that, because they'll think that uh that that I've got pawn that they're pawns of mine and they're in bed with America, and that will uh accrue to their detriment.
He never thought that for a minute.
The words, the words of an American president made it clear that the United States sought liberty and self-determination for these people who wanted it.
How has the total lack of those words from this president affected what's going on in Iran?
Got a thought or two about that.
I'll mix them with your thoughts about that and about the I guess good seven or eight other things I've mentioned.
So here it all comes on the Tuesday Rush Limbaugh Show, a program to which Rush will return tomorrow.
Uh thoroughly enjoyed Mark Stein yesterday.
Do you want to give a the imagery of uh since I did Friday and I'm doing today and Stein did yesterday, the imagery of him being the spam in a Mark Davis sandwich.
Little uncomfortable with that visually speaking, but I'll take it in the manner in which it was intended.
Stein is always great, and I I as you did, I really enjoyed hearing him yesterday.
My goal is to hope that you enjoy catching my act today.
Thanks, appreciate it.
Thank you, Rush, for letting me be here.
Looking forward to your return tomorrow.
1-800-282-2882.
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More on Iran, more on everything else I mentioned, a busy topical day as we continue together on the EIB network.
Little Steve Miller band fly lag an eagle.
Let us fly into some topics.
And let me just finish the point about Iran, because I think we've reached a uh a well, this this is a story that may have many twists and turns, but the first twist and turn in the road, I mean the elections were what actual day were the elections, the twelfth, right?
And since then there's been a pretty strong storyline of protests, and then the parallel storyline has been the uh Ali Khameni Ahmadinejad uh regime uh squashing those protests.
And yes, I guess I've seen the NATO video, this this young lady who is now a martyr uh for the cause.
I hope that story's not trumped up, because it's a really good story.
I I mean she took a apparently took a bullet from the police and died on the street, video cameras everywhere.
I mean, every movement has its zealots, and I'm I mean, for all I know, I don't know, she might have been shot in a jewelry store robbery and they said, hey, let's make it uh be about the rebellion.
I hope they're not fudging that story, because it's it's really, really something.
And to watch that is to feel, I think, the proper amount of emotion about what these people are up against, uh, an emotion that apparently is uh not familiar to the American president, because just to continue on my point, that the words of the American president in the Reagan era, the words of the American president resonated across the globe, and people everywhere knew that America stood with them, stood with the people in the Soviet republics, for example, that we wanted freedom for them.
And you and people said at the time, hey, it's sort of like now.
People said, Oh, what good does that do?
America can't uh you know, chip away at totalitarianism with mere words.
how wrong those people were.
The words of an American president helped bring down the Berlin Wall and ultimately the Soviet Union itself.
America brought down the Soviets without firing a shot And this fact is lost on the historical illiterates populating the Obama administration and uh and its Amen corner in the in the Democrat Party.
These are people who are always glad, by the way, to scold others who didn't come down hard enough on regimes that they didn't like.
But now, you know, these people on their on their high horses, usually on their high horses, paralyzed, insisting that America is walking exactly the right line by denying these Iranian protesters the support they desperately need, if even if that support goes no farther than strong words from the leader of the free world.
Now, the Reagan words were largely about people living under the jackboot of communism.
Terrorism has been trickier to bring down.
But for decades, through administrations of both parties, haven't we spent a lot of time, hasn't America constantly said that we long for a time when the Iranian people, uh who are younger and way better educated than most in the Middle East, we've caught we've said, hey guys, rise up, break the chains that have shackled you since you know the authoritarian mullahs took over in 1979.
Rise up, you know, break free.
Well they're doing it.
They're doing it, and what do they get from America?
A president who says he is concerned but unwilling to interfere in Iranian affairs, unwilling to interfere.
Please God, can some of that unwillingness to interfere of occupy his mind on domestic issues?
But staying on the global scale, that is really weird to hear from uh from an administration that has no problem wagging its finger at Israel for daring to defend itself against surrounding millions who who crave its violent eradication.
Oh, and by the way, who's at the top of that list of tormentors?
That would be Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, who let's face it, was surely thumped mightily in those those Iranian elections, only to be propped up by the theocratic dictator who pretty well runs the show, Ayatollah Ali Khanini.
The ouster of Ahmadinejad didn't really fit the Ayatollah's preferred narrative, and there's somebody else who's not on board for the for that narrative, now that countless Iranians are dead or bloodied at Kameini's hands.
The other leader hesitant to see Ahmadinejad go, that would be Barack Obama.
Amir Hossein Musavi victory obliterates President Obama's dream of charming the pants off this proven lunatic, affirming that the sheer force of his magnetic personality can do more than that nasty war that Bush Tried to win.
I think Bush plays a part in this.
Here's what I mean.
I think pr I think George W. Bush haunts and motivates President Obama in another way.
President Obama knows full well that Iran sees neighboring Iraq right next door, poised to enjoy freedom and democracy, made possible by the war that he tried tirelessly to derail.
A successful revolution in Iran would further cement the correctness of the Bush vision, and that's a nightmare to a narcissistic neophyte like Obama.
The protesters have grown weary, they're probably about done.
They thought America would stand up and help them.
How foolish, how foolish they were to believe that that would happen under this president.
Okay.
Bunch of other things coming after the bottom of the hour, going to South Carolina, ask what's up with the governor, and much, much more.
I'm Mark Davis in Farush.
Stick tight.
All right, everybody, the president is uh at the podium, the lectern.
And he's inside.
This was going to be in the Rose Garden.
My own local producer, Jeff Williams, rushed in to inform me of some buzz going on as the uh as the news conference was approaching.
They m they moved it indoors.
They they moved it from the Rose Garden to to the regular White House briefing room.
Uh the motivation for this largely, and it's kind of it's funny, always filter things through, a bit of a consistency check, and how would you feel if it was your candidate or someone you actually admired didn't want the president to be uh sweating during the news conference.
It's never really good for beads of sweat to appear on you when you're trying to fend off various of course, obviously fending off questions from this press corps is not something that'll happen very often.
But I will tell you, uh as as we have related, as Russia's related, as is done some audio on this uh every once in a while.
Uh it's it's kind of a Jake Tapper thing at ABC.
We better say some good things about ABC, because coming up later in the show, it's not going to go well for them in view of the fact that the network is whoring itself out tomorrow night for the Obama health care infomercial.
How's that working out for you?
Um but some brave soul will actually say, hey, uh, you know, they'll they'll get with the completely uh uh clueless Robert Gibbs or or sometimes even the president himself and say uh hey, Newt Gingrich just said this, or hey, this uh particular Republican just said that.
What's your response?
Like, wow, thanks for that.
And uh and so anyway, they're they're inside, but the thing I'm I'm looking at right here is are we going uh uh are we going teleprompter free?
Because out in the Rose Garden it would have been the teleprompter.
And I granted it's just for the opening remarks.
Well, let's say what let's do, let's let's absorb just a moment or two of the opening remarks and see how they go.
Uh today I want to start by addressing three issues, and then I'll take your questions.
First, I'd like to say a few words about the situation in Iran.
The United States and the international community have been appalled and outraged by the threats, the beatings and imprisonments of the last few days.
I strongly condemn these unjust actions, and I join with the American people in mourning each and every innocent life that is lost.
All right.
Um is this a day late and a dollar short?
Would words like this have come in handy, oh, I don't know, a week ago.
Um is this better late than never, or uh outrage delayed is outrage denied.
I've made it clear that the United States respects the sovereignty of the Islamic Republic of Iran and is not interfering with Iran's affairs.
However, uh, the next time Netanyahu is here, I will be up in his grill uh characterizing the settlements as an evil occupation.
So I'm picking and choosing my outrage.
But we must also bear witness to the courage and the dignity of the Iranian people and to a remarkable opening within Iranian society.
And we deplore the violence against innocent civilians anywhere.
Okay, okay, good, good, okay, okay, okay, okay.
Somewhere Bill Clinton is smiling.
Uh this is textbook occupying both sides.
Textbook pull-driven tap dancing.
Uh we ca the the the president is trying to do two things at the same time and they are mutually exclusive goals.
He cannot, cannot appease the mullahs, or let's just say he he he knows he must not anger them.
He just doesn't he is not uh given to any kind of behavior that he he the the man will not use the word terrorist.
This is these are the kind of eggshells uh on which he walks.
So he certainly doesn't want to do anything to in to inflame uh the theocrats of Iran.
He just doesn't want to disturb their afternoon mint tea by the same token.
He is getting uh he's getting kicked in the teeth every day, uh not just by Republicans who are actually standing up enough to say it, uh, but even by some media coverage, and this is what I was talking about a moment ago.
Uh there there was uh uh Today show this morning.
Um they oh, they had the hapless Robert Gibbs on the Today Show this morning, and the first uh question out was hey, Republicans are saying that your administration is just way too soft and way too reticent about Iran.
So that narrative of a soft president unwilling to ruffle uh uh Islamic uh mullah Iranian feathers, that narrative has caught hold.
So the president has those dual uh obligations make my poll numbers better, but don't make uh Ayatollah Khameini mad.
And um it's probably a good thing.
He may be sweating indoors uh before before we're done here.
I'll tell you what, let's do uh to be multi-topic about this.
Uh the president is digitally uh frozen there, so we're good, and and we'll we'll revisit some some news conference excerpts in a second.
We've got some some callers from the good state of South Carolina.
Let me share um what's gone on here, and then I want to go to a couple of them.
But because they're uh because it's just helpful.
Associated press story.
And if if you've heard starting yesterday, it was just it was just weird.
The coverage was weird, the story was weird, but is it?
The governor of South Carolina, uh, the storyline was no one could find him.
Even his wife.
All right.
Now, that's odd enough.
What makes it kind of important is that Mark Sanford, the governor of South Carolina, is uh a very big potential player in 2012, either as somebody's running mate or as the nominee himself.
This is a guy who um th stood in the door and said no stimulus money for me, and is has been quite the conservative warrior, and just I've seen him interviewed uh you know a bunch of times, and I've always looked at him and thought, huh.
I can imagine, I can imagine him in the 2012 campaign.
So the latest is that he will be um back to work tomorrow after revelations that he'd been gone for four days with no contact with his staff, wife, or state leaders.
Joel Sawyer is a Sanford spokesman.
His quote is Governor Sanford called to check in with his chief of staff this morning.
It would be fair to say the governor was somewhat taken aback by all the interest this trip has gotten.
Given the circumstances and the attention this has garnered, the governor communicated to us that he plans on returning to the office tomorrow.
Okay.
That's good.
The question does still stand, what the heck's been going on?
Uh Governor not spoken with the staff since last Thursday, left the state on what Sawyer called a routine post-legislative vacation to unwind.
Now, you know there are two default settings here.
Default setting number one is his Democrats who don't like him are going to paint him as some bizarre escaped mental patient unfit for the governorship of South Carolina, much less uh the presidency of the United States.
Okay?
There's storyline number one.
Storyline number two is going to be the people who love him saying, hey, this is nothing.
It's nothing.
Well, all right.
Then help me make it nothing.
Help me understand how a dude vanishes On Father's Day.
And I love one of the quotes was, well, he just kind of needed to get away from the kids.
What?
Well, listen, I mean, look, there's sometimes I got stuff to do too.
I got a 17-year-old daughter and a six-year-old son.
Love them, love them.
Time spent with them are the happiest in my life.
Sometimes, guess what?
Daddy has stuff to do.
And so I totally understand that.
I tend not to have those moments over Father's Day weekend.
So just a little bit more from the story.
And then Bill in Charleston, Mickey in Edgefield, sit tight.
All right.
Sit tight.
Because I'm going to need you.
Because I'll just flat tell you this seems weird to me.
I want to be abundantly fair, because the stakes are high here.
I, you know, it may not be too long here before I'm sitting here on my own show in Dallas Fort Worth, and on the rare occasion, rare rare occasions.
Probably need to be a little more rare, uh, that I get to uh guest host for Rush.
It may occur to me that maybe Mark Sanford needs to be the next president of the United States.
Okay, let's see.
Let's see about that.
Scrutiny is not inappropriate here.
But let's see if it has been ramped up by folks who are, shall we say, out to get him.
All righty.
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I'm Mark Davis filling in, and we'll hit the phone calls first from South Carolina, next on the EIB network.
You know, I'm only here every once in a while.
I detect the humor of Mike Mamone, the go-go's vacation for the Governor Sanford story.
Okay.
If it was accident, uh very fortuitous, but okay, very, very good.
Nothing is by accident in the bumper music library of this program.
This is the man who found the Yodling version of Hocus Pocus by Focus the last time uh that he and I worked together, so who knows what lies ahead.
I'll tell you what lies ahead here in a second is some calls from South Carolina.
Because here's the deal.
Uh the the spokespeople were uh Mr. Sawyer.
Governor Sanford left town on Thursday with plans to hike the Appalachian Trail, okay?
Uh which passes through 14 states, none of them South Carolina said he didn't really know where he was uh and declined to discuss if anyone was hiking with him.
I love the quote from Mr. Sawyer.
He's an outdoorsman.
Nobody's ever accused our governor of being conventional.
Okay.
Unconventional is lovely.
Weird absences are not.
So how should how should we fairly observe this?
Let us go to the good people of South Carolina and see what see what's going on there.
To one of the prettiest cities you'll ever, ever, ever, ever see from the coastline to the history, the greatness of Charleston, South Carolina.
Bill, hi, Mark Davis in for us.
It's a pleasure to have you, sir.
Hey.
Thanks, Mark.
Listen, the press is making a whole lot of uh hay out of nothing.
You know, the governor comes and goes on various trips and so forth.
The people that needed to know where he was in the event of an emergency did know.
Okay, careful.
Now careful on that.
How how do you know that?
Because I mean, as recently as this morning, the storyline is that almost no one knew where he was.
But the people who needed to know And and who and who would that be?
Well, even though his chief of staff denies it, I'm sure his chief of staff knew uh I would imagine I don't know specifically how they organized things, but worst case scenario, the head of the State Guard probably knew where he was and the state law enforcement division, and and I can assure you that if he went off somewhere into the woods, which is not would not be unusual for him, he knows he is a big hiker.
Yeah, is he a big hiker and and also an avowed magnificent family man?
Uh likely to do this on Father's Day weekend there, Bill.
I mean maybe that was his Father's Day present, you know.
So get out the house, go hiking for a few days, and you know, just don't worry about it.
And the words family man, don't get me wrong.
I mean, I know my family.
I had occasion to meet him and his family, and like he frequents Charleston a lot.
He lives out there.
You know what I mean?
I mean Bill, I'll tell you what I'll tell you what I need.
I need the governor himself or well, you know something?
I don't know.
If if this was his Father's Day gift, have a feeling the wife might have offered that up.
She didn't.
And I and I listen I'm very, very good about protecting her husband and looking out for his interest.
Well then maybe she needs to protect him and look out for him by offering up a plausible storyline which you and and I admittedly really crave here.
We crave a plausible storyline so much that we might be trying to make some stuff up here to make this okay.
Okay, well, you know, I mean the press can do that until they're blue in the face.
No, no, this I'll I'll just I'll just be really I'll just be really frank with you.
I'll be really frank with you.
This ain't about the press.
If you're in South Carolina, right?
Next door in North Carolina.
If this were Bev Purdue, a Democrat, let's make it somebody everybody's heard of.
If John Corzine goes missing in New Jersey for four days, I'm sitting here suggesting something very bizarre is going on.
And you probably call in and agree with me.
I mean, come on, man.
Uh what will I know about somebody like Torzine?
Well, the Jennifer Granholm in Michigan, uh you know, p pick uh I mean Tim Tim Tim Kane in Virginia.
If a key Democrat governor, if something this weird happens at a key Democrat governor state, I am on it, and you're probably cheering me for being on it.
All I'm looking for is some consistency here.
I I've I I want I want as much as you do.
So I ru may I mean I really do, because he's he's your governor.
He may want to be president for both you and me, and that's something that I have or somebody's running mate or something, and I I I am in tend to smile.
I uh I am inclined to smile on that because I really love the guy.
So somebody needs to come up with something to make some sense here.
That's all.
So let me get uh we've got room for one more South Carolinian before we take our break here.
Let's head to uh Edgefield, South Carolina.
Mickey, hi, Mark Davis in for Rush.
How are you?
Hey, Mark, thank you for taking my call.
My pleasure.
Thanks.
Now I'm also a big Mark Sanford fan.
I could probably try out by saying that.
So here it comes.
I'm kidding, go ahead.
I do wish the state run media would spend half as much time looking for President Obama's birth certificate as they are looking for my governor.
And now we are talking.
There is nothing there's see that now that is a way to go.
There is nothing wrong with attention to this oddity, because it is an oddity, but isn't it interesting?
The oddities that the media culture chooses to focus on.
Now you now there you are, you're a fan of the government, so help me out here.
I mean, yeah, I mean I've been trying to keep it uh a track of the news.
I mean, with the internet, I can, you know, read the state and check things out from from all the South Carolina reports.
Let me start out by this.
Guide me away from that newspaper.
Okay.
But then is there anything that you have heard that objectively, objectively sounds like something that would make a disinterested person, an alien landing from space, go, oh, okay, that makes sense.
No, but I will tell you here in South Carolina, we're very big on minding our own business.
Well, uh and and I'm a big fan of that as well, except for the pesky occasions when someone says they want to run for president, they don't much get to mind they own business quite as much.
I'm not sure that he will run for president.
I will say that Maybe not anymore.
The Democrats the conservatives love him, and the Republicans wish they could be him.
I and you know what?
And and so let's so let's do the following.
Let's do the following.
Let's have high standards for him.
Let's not let our love and enthusiasm for him uh have us wave off valid questions about what the heck he was doing.
Oh no, I wouldn't have to be a good thing.
We don't we don't no, I'm not I'm not I'm not pasting you with that.
Not at all, not at all.
I'm sort of talking about uh probably about uh thirty-seven million other people listening right now who are saying, get off this, we like him.
No, it's because I like him that I'm on this.
Somebody, please give me something plausible so that I can put this aside, say it's nothing, not because I love him, but because it really seems like it's nothing.
That's that's that's my quest, and we'll see how that all works out.
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All right.
The quest for answers.
Might have one.
Uh here's a guy who's called us from uh ground zero for this interesting story, Columbia, South Carolina.
Scott says that this this might ultimately be just a kind of a little political feud being played out.
Uh floor is yours, Scott.
What can you tell me?
Okay, I'll try to make it quick.
Um basically I think that this is all an in-state political um uh you know uh riff going on here.
Um there there's been a long history of rifts between the Lieutenant Governor Andre Bauer and and Governor Sanford.
And uh I believe, I mean, I've been reading a variety of articles uh from Drudge and other places, and what I believe has happened is that uh Sanford went on a on a trip to to hike and people knew exactly where he was.
Yeah.
And he was checking in intermittently by his cell phone, which I've read that on Drudge this morning.
Right.
And Andre Bauer called, and this is all off of uh Drudge report, uh, you know, different articles, but Andre Bauer called in and said, I want an immediate meeting.
So a rival to time is t tell you what, Scott, time is totally done.
So a a Republican uh rival making things look worse than they were.
All right, let's take that narrative, see what we think about it.
Michael Barone next.
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