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So Michelle Malkin's understudy is claiming that since Elton John is performing at Rush Limbaugh's fourth wedding that capitalism is the one thing that can fix every problem in the world, even bringing a racist-drug-abuser and a gay-activist-singer together in a big warm hug. Really?
Without capitalism, Elton wouldn’t have performed at Rush Limbaugh’s wedding and Rush wouldn’t have been in the position to pay that much for the evening’s entertainment. Capitalism: It can bring people from all walks of life together.
I congratulate Rush and Kathryn, and also tip my Detroit Tigers cap to Elton John for performing at the wedding, because he’s got to know he’s going to take some heat for this in his left-leaning, artsy, environmentalist, gay-activist circle of pals — most of whom would gladly accept a million bucks from George W. Bush to tap dance on a floor made of California Redwood and elephant tusk or take whacks at a piñata in the likeness of Harvey Milk that Roger Ailes stuffed with cash. But they’d never admit it.
I'm calling bullshit on the whole idea that Limbaugh actually wanted Elton John to play at his wedding - it's clearly a calculated move in order for Rush to have some peripheral material for his show after his honeymoon is over. Also, I have to scold Elton a bit for actually accepting this offer. Is he really that hard up for cash that he's going to be associated with this clown? And to Doug Powers' insistence that anyone would accept money to do the things that he's describing, he's fooling himself if he thinks that everyone on the Left would accept such an offer - it's called integrity. And, as much as I hate to say it, it appears that Elton John wasn't able to exercise enough of it to say "hell no" to the man that is likely to besmirch his name as soon as he gets back on the microphone.
Yeah, Mark, the media are just going to drop this now that you are the second GOP member in less than a month to admit to an affair.
For all this talk about protecting marriage from "the gays", seems like marriage should be protected from Republicans.
And, like all Republicans who are overtly eager to get let their voices be heard when someone on the opposite side of the aisle gets caught, Sanford had some words to say about Bill Clinton and Congressman Bob Livington. I'm sure those words are haunting him right now.
The bottom line, though, is I am sure there will be a lot of legalistic explanations pointing out that the president lied under oath. His situation was not under oath. The bottom line, though, is he still lied. He lied under a different oath, and that is the oath to his wife. So it’s got to be taken very, very seriously
Sanford on Livingston, CNN, 12/18/98
We ought to ask questions…rather than circle the wagons for one of our tribe.
Sanford on how the GOP reacts to affairs, New York Post, 12/20/98
I think it would be much better for the country and for him personally (to resign). I come from the business side. If you had a chairman or president in the business world facing these allegations, he’d be gone.
Sanford on Clinton, The Post and Courier, 9/12/98
The issue of lying is probably the biggest harm, if you will, to the system of Democratic government, representatives government, because it undermines trust. And if you undermine trust in our system, you undermine everything.
Sanford on Clinton, CNN, 2/16/99
And as if on cue, the chyron on Fox"News" during the press conference had something interesting to say about Sanford.
In the interest of fairness, I don't like Bob Beckle - at all.
He's one of the multitude of "Democratic Party" voices on Fox"News" that are little more than milquitoast shils who are more than willing to half-ass their opinions and let the "stars" have their day.
In this clip from Monday night's Hannity program, Beckle attempts to get Sean to say that Republican Senator John Ensign should resign because of an affair he had with a married staffer.
No officer, I didn't know I was driving 20 miles over the limit. Oh, don't you recognize me, I'm Sean Hannity - from Fox"News".
Of course, Hannity would probably get off without even a warning because the cop would more than likely be a fan.
But isn't this a classic example of a so-called "journalist" feigning ignorance in order to keep from admitting that someone within the party that he unflinchingly champions is a rank hypocrite, an adulterer, and should be fired.
Hannity claims that he doesn't know his positions. Oh, really?
On Ensign's own website, there is a section called - of all things - Ensign On The Issues.
In a 2004 press release, also posted at Ensign's website, he stated his position on marriage:
Marriage recognizes the ideal of a father and mother living together to raise their children....Marriage is the cornerstone on which our society was founded. For those who say that the Constitution is so sacred that we cannot or should not adopt the Federal Marriage Amendment, I would simply point out that marriage, and the sanctity of that institution, predates the American Constitution and the founding of our nation. Marriage, as a social institution, predates every other institution on which ordered society in America has relied.”
Seems to be in line with what people like Hannity espouse.
Chris Cillizaa wrote in the Washington Post of Ensign's calls for another Senator to resign when allegations of "extra-marital" issues were brought up:
Ensign has been a leading conservative among Senate Republicans, playing a key role in demanding the resignation of Larry Craig in September 2007. Ensign called Craig a "disgrace" after he was arrested in June 2007 in an airport men's restroom on disorderly conduct charges. Craig resisted the calls from Ensign to resign but retired from the Senate last November.
Not only that, but Ensign came out against Clinton after the Monica Lewinsky dust-up:
I came to that conclusion recently, and frankly it’s because of what he put his whole Cabinet through and what he has put the country through....He has no credibility left.
Think Progress highlighted the Senator's positions on marriage, the Clinton scandal, as well as his stance on the "standard" which members of both houses of Congress should be judged:
There's too many people that paint with a broad brush that we're all corrupt, we're all amoral. … And having these kinds of things happen, whether it's a Republican or Democratic senator — we certainly have had plenty of Democratic scandals in the past — we need people who are in office who will hold themselves to a little higher standard.
But Ensign got shuffled to the back-burner by Hannity. If he had come through with his supposed bid for the Presidency in 2012, we might have been hearing Hannity talk about how Ensign's affair wasn't such a big deal. After all, Sean has excusedothers for no less of a sin:
All this hypocrisy kind of makes one wish that Hannity would get caught in an affair with someone that he claims to despise but secretly has burning desires for - like Nancy Pelosi or one of the women from Code Pink. It would probably end up being Ann Coulter though. Wonder who would want to be the "bottom"?
