Rush On Sanford: “It’s Obama’s Fault”

Hoffmania has it.  Mark Sanford is so depressed about how the Democrats are destroying the country. He did everything he could to stop it; his wife left him; he figured he’d enjoy what little time he has left.  If only Obama hadn’t destroyed this country, people wouldn’t have lost their spirit and the Sanfords of the world wouldn’t be cheating on their wives.

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On Thursday’s Radio Show…

• Geraldo Rivera joins Alan with the latest on the tragic death of Michael Jackson.

• Conservatives love to claim that liberals have a double-standard on morality issues, but Alan thinks they’re throwing stones inside glass houses. He’ll explain why.

• Robin McHaelin of True Colors, an advocacy group for gay youths, discusses the troubling details of the “gay exorcism” of a Connecticut teen.…

RIP Michael Jackson: Gone Too Soon

Michael wrote this song to honor Ryan White, the boy born with AIDS who died in 1990 at age 18.

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TMZ: Michael Jackson Dead

TMZ reports:

We’ve just learned Michael Jackson has died. He was 50.

Michael suffered a cardiac arrest earlier this afternoon and paramedics were unable to revive him. We’re told when paramedics arrived Jackson had no pulse and they never got a pulse back.

UPDATE: As of 5:58 p.m. ET, no other news outlets have been able to confirm the TMZ report.

UPDATE 2: The Los Angeles Times reports that as of 5:46 p.m. ET, Jackson had fallen into a coma.

UPDATE 3: At 6:15 p.m. ET, the Times reports that Jackson is dead.…

Connecticut Church Performs Gay Exorcism

Manifested Glory Ministries in Bridgeport, CT, conducted an exorcism to remove gay demons from the body of a 16-year-old teen.

The video shows the 16-year-old boy lying on the floor, his body convulsing, as elders of a small Connecticut church cast a “homosexual demon” from his body.

“Rip it from his throat!” a woman yells. “Come on, you homosexual demon! You homosexual spirit, we call you out right now! Loose your grip, Lucifer!”

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“We believe a man should be with a woman and a woman should be with a man,” the Rev. Patricia McKinney told …

When The Right Can Do No Wrong

You have to love how some on the right are bending over backwards (or is that forwards) to defend their fallen brethren.  Kathryn Jean Lopez at National Review hails Nevada Senator John Ensign for bringing “a refreshing change to the handling of beltway loose-belt scandals.”  Lopez praises Ensign as much as she blasts the media for pointing out his hypocrisy.  And she defends Ensign’s oft-stated defense of marriage and morality:

A politician’s failings do not render the beliefs to which he subscribes morally impotent. Facts remain. Marriage is a cornerstone. Under a bastardized and unfortunately widespread understanding of hypocrisy, …

Revealed: E-mails Between Sanford and “Maria”

South Carolina’s The State newspaper has released a few excerpts of e-mails between Gov. Mark Sanford and “Maria, a woman in Buenos Aires, Argentina.”

The newspaper promises that the full e-mail exchange will be published in tomorrow’s edition. But the excerpts released so far include these details:

From Maria, 7/9/08:

“… You are my love … something hard to believe even for myself as it’s also a kind of impossible love, not only because of distance but situation. Sometimes you don’t choose things, they just happen… I can’t redirect my feelings and I am very happy with mine …

On Wednesday’s Radio Show…

• “I have been unfaithful”: Alan examines today’s shocking confession by South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford.

• Dr. Wayne Dyer, whose new book is Excuses Begone!, explains why people like Mark Sanford sabotage themselves with self-destructive behavior.

• If Medicare works for seniors, why not a program like it for all Americans? Alan analyzes the latest arguments in the health care reform debate.…

Sanford Called For Clinton To Resign Over Affair

South Carolina Governor Mark Sanford made a number of statements during the Clinton era about the Lewinsky affair, most notably that Clinton should resign.

“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]

Sanford voted for 3 out of the 4 articles of impeachment, including Article IV:

Article IV: Abuse of power

Article alleges abuse of power, charging the president …

Sanford’s Wife Releases Statement

Statement from South Carolina First Lady Jenny Sanford:

I would like to start by saying I love my husband and I believe I have put forth every effort possible to be the best wife I can be during our almost twenty years of marriage. As well, for the last fifteen years my husband has been fully engaged in public service to the citizens and taxpayers of this state and I have faithfully supported him in those efforts to the best of my ability. I have been and remain proud of his accomplishments and his service to this state.

I …

Mark Sanford: I’ll Lay It Out: It’s Gonna Hurt

Mark Sanford began by saying parts of the story of his disappearance are true; then he apologized to his family, referring to his children as “jewels.”  Sanford then apologized to his staff and the people of his state. He talked of “laying the cards on the table” with his father-in law, and apologized to him, too.  He said he was a person of faith and invoked God.

But what was he apologizing for? It took long enough to get to the bombshell: “I developed a relationship with a dear dear friend from Argentina.”  The governor said he was “committed to …