On Friday I returned to the Golden EIB Microphone for three hours of substitute-host-level Excellence in Broadcasting on America's Number One radio show. You can find a few moments from my guest-hosting stint here.
Earlier I started the day with Steve, Ainsley and Brian on mine and the President's favorite morning show, "Fox & Friends". You can find a few moments from my appearance here:
Look, Hunter Biden is what the swamp is. He was getting 50 grand a month in a country where $200 a month is the average salary. You were talking about tips five minutes ago. What do you think, when the average salary is $200 a month, what do you think they tip at restaurants in Kiev? Hunter Biden is getting 50 grand for a non-job because of his last name, nothing else. That is the swamp. That is the smell of the swamp right there - Hunter Biden getting 50 grand a month for a non-job job.
And here:
But the great thing is he takes it to the enemy's turf. I saw him in Burlington, Vermont, which is the capital of Bernie Sanders' fiefdom. He was terrific. He was magnificent there. But he gets to the nub of it there when he says they want to erase your vote. They have been doing that since the Wednesday morning after, whatever it was, November 7th 2016. They didn't like this result and they determined to find one way or another - the Russia investigation, now this thing - to nullify that result. That's terrible.
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Under Federal law, employees of the Federal government and of companies under contract to the government are protected from retaliation through personnel actions in response to their reporting a violation of Fedetal law, regulations, contracts, or government policy. There us NO provision in those laws that allows them to keep their identity secret while they offer evidence in an investigation or an administrative law or legal forum weighing thenallegations of misconduct. The persons being accused have an absolute right under the 5th Amendment to Due Process of Law, which includes the right to see and hear all evidence being presented and to confront everynadverse witness. A secret trial is illegal, and is misconduct that anyone can MAKE PUBLIC without adverse consequences. In other words, Nancy Pelosi's use of secret testimony is a violation of the law and President Trump as the whistleblower making it known is PROTECTED from any punishment for revealing the misconduct. To repeat: Pelosi's attempt to use secret testimony is a violation of the Constitution and Trump reporting it makes TRUMP THE TRUE WHISTLEBLOWER PROTECTED BY LAW FROM RETALIATION BY PELOSI. Pelosi's hearing is illegal, and she is the violator.
Yes, I am virtue signalling but a marriage is only between one man and one woman. No supreme court decision will ever make me say or believe anything else.
Even without a SC decision or equivalent, gay marriage was always going to happen once "transitioning" became a thing. It's bizarrely interesting hearing about the relationship dynamics of people who were in a traditional marriage that became a gay one, and vice versa. Mark recently mentioned the experience of a lesbian who thought she was in a same-sex marriage which subsequently transitioned to a traditional man-and-wife arrangement.
PS. There needs to be more transgressive virtue signalling. I like Laura's "So What?" approach, as well as Roger Scruton's advice: If someone tells you not to say something, you should repeat it.
"Round the clock sex"? Thanks awfully, Joe, but I'll pass. Don't let me stop you, however. As if anyone could...
Coincidentally, Mark, I was just yesterday rereading your tremendous appreciation of Bob Hope in Passing Parade. (They're more than just obituaries; they're essays by Mark Steyn. Nuff said.) I had completely forgotten Hope's cringe-making attempts to stay relevant in his later years. His 1986, er, crack about the Statue of Liberty having AIDS made me writhe in discomfort. ("Nobody knows if she got it from the mouth of the Hudson or the Staten Island Ferry.") But I wanna tell ya...
It will be interesting to see whether Biden's bathhouse shtick will hold up.
PS. Thanks for the background on "a whole nother": I'd never researched it, despite being corrected many times. It just rolls off the tongue - so will continue to use it!
Excellent broadcasting today, Mark, of a range of dismaying aspects of the long coup.
Adam Schiff, the eraserhead of the House Intelligence Committee, is worse than out of control, when you consider his Harvard law degree and that he worked as a prosecutor in the Los Angeles office of the US Attorney.
His gross, intentional, conspiratorial misconduct should be measured against the serious consequences any prosecutor in the nation, from the county to the US Attorney's office, would face for breaching the panoply of basic legal tenets and protections that he has and continues to. If that isn't conduct unbecoming an officer of the court, then it's a different animal. Zookeeper: Shut down this inhuman kangaroo exhibit.
The other day the London Times had a supplement about "Legal Innovation". The UK "justice system" is in lockstep with its Democrat chums in fitting up undesirables where necessary. The supplement was nothing more than advertising by the parasites who help things along.
Mark's scathing analysis of the Democrat farce - from "whistleblowers" to pronouns - was matched by his observations on (impeccably civilised) never-the-hill-to-die-on conservatism. Trump's unapologetic, "bust-through" persona and the success of his MAGA agenda stand in stark contrast to alternate-drop Ryan-o Republicans.
The excellence in foreign-guest-host broadcasting should be on a regular basis!
Importantly: Ainsley is absolutely correct. (Likewise the mustard/ pale blue from the appearance the night before.)