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Jim Bunning, Hall of Fame pitcher and senator from Kentucky
Jim Bunning died in 2017 at the age of 85, one year younger than Ruth Bader Ginsburg is today.
Courier-Journal, July 25, 2019
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell and Kentucky Governor Matt Bevin at the 2016 Republican National Convention
After a surprisingly close primary win for Kentucky Governor Matt Bevin, I asked Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell if he would offer support for Bevin’s re-election in the November general election.
McConnell and Bevin in the WHAS Radio studio (2015)
McConnell and Bevin have a complicated relationship stemming back to Bevin’s campaign to unseat McConnell in 2014. The McConnell team labeled their opponent Bailout Bevin, calling him a con man and liar.
Today on WHAS Radio, Senator McConnell promised to fully support Bevin’s re-election. Kentucky’s senior senator also touted attorney general candidate Daniel Cameron, a former McConnell staffer. Kentucky has not had a Republican attorney general since the 1940s.
📻 @senatemajldr Mitch McConnell on helping @GovMattBevin win in November, acrimony between @realDonaldTrump & @SpeakerPelosi, value of impeachment for @GOP, and raising cigs purchases to 21+ 🎙️ https://t.co/Ia4j1kPEoq #USpolitics #KYpolitics #Elections2019 @840WHAS pic.twitter.com/E6WHKF5Lh2
— Terry Meiners (@terrymeiners) May 23, 2019
As for the ongoing acrimony between President Trump and Speaker Nancy Pelosi, here are both sides of the story. First from the Speaker of the House:
Trump aide Kellyanne Conway said Pelosi’s account of the failed presidential meeting was untrue, that Trump calmly left the room and Pelosi told Conway “I don’t speak to staff.”
President Trump: "I'm an extremely stable genius." pic.twitter.com/b9iL5DBtUF
— The Hill (@thehill) May 24, 2019
Nancy Pelosi called Mitch McConnell “The Grim Reaper” but he says she is just repeating a title he bestowed on himself.
📻 Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell jumped on the radio with me to talk about chicken chomping Democrats, why he is proudly called The Grim Reaper, defining socialism in 2019, if investigating the investigators is overkill, Speaker Nancy Pelosi calling AG William Barr a criminal, Sen. Mazie Hirono lobbing 🔥 at Trump, just WHO IS REALLY IN CHARGE!, and Liberals’ favorite Kentucky Derby horse 🎙️ 🏇🏽 840WHAS #USpolitics
Rep. Steve Cohen mocks AG William Barr’s no-show for the Judiciary Committee
For over two years, America’s news anchors have been breathlessly declaring that Donald Trump’s presidency “is near the end” with daily BOMBSHELL reports of “the walls closing in” toward impeachment.
Louisville actor Jennifer Lawrence and her politically active friends claim they’re offering a nonpartisan solution to America’s hysteria-driven news cycle.
Jennifer Lawrence and Represent.us have a strategy to change our political system. Will it fly?
What Jennifer is not acknowledging is that too many megaphones with differing opinions all monetize misery. MSNBC, CNN, The New York Times, et al. make a living by siding with liberals on virtually every issue, always demonizing the conservatives. Fox News, Rush Limbaugh, Breitbart, et al. do the same thing in reverse.
THere’s money in them there arguments! That’s why the represent us pipe dream is mostly fantasy. Why unite when there is profiteering in discord?
.@TimOBrien: This idea that Ivanka is out of the loop on all this is silly… she was the hub of a lot of business requests around the inauguration… $120 million or so… she was a conduit for deciding where that money went… now a subject of interest for investigators. #AMJoy pic.twitter.com/MnTjcvgYD9
— AM Joy w/Joy Reid (@amjoyshow) March 3, 2019
Jennifer is oft quoted throwing shade at the current president. Now for some balance, here is President Donald Trump’s speech at the Conservative Political Action Conference gathering on March 2, 2019
…and Trump’s battles with the media mean they will breathlessly report that “the walls are closing in” until the next president is in office.
Take Trump out of the conversation for a minute. Research coverage of Barack Obama vs coverage of George W. Bush. Do the same research comparing coverage of Jimmy Carter vs. Ronald Reagan.
You already know the answers.
The tone of the news media’s general reporting on the next president can be determined in advance. All we need to know is the next president’s party affiliation and the tone of media reporting can be predicted with accuracy right now.
Hillary Clinton was going to win in a landslide with 93% certainty.
Ignore the polls.
— Bess Kalb (@bessbell) November 3, 2018
Since it might be rainy on Election Day, should the losers move their rioting to one day earlier? #trickortreat pic.twitter.com/isH5Kcwrfr
— Terry Meiners (@terrymeiners) November 3, 2018
Class doesn’t come in a moving van.
Here are the most bizarre political commercials running across America leading up to the 2018 midterms. >>>>MIND BLOWN<<<< Following the Kavanaugh hearings, African American women fear white girls who could falsely accuse black men and boys.
This is a real radio ad currently running in Arkansas in support of Republican Congressman French Hill on radio stations targeted to the African American community. I don't even have words to describe it. pic.twitter.com/vpzt1nGPlc
— (((Ben Tribbett))) (@notlarrysabato) October 18, 2018
How about insinuating that the incumbent is a barfly who is trolled by a cappella karaoke?
In the #MeToo era, is it smart to use serial dick pic texter Brett Favre to pitch woo for a woman candidate?
A Colorado candidate must’ve been smoking legal weed when he decided to get pepper sprayed to illustrate how teachers could stop school shooters. After the heavy stream hits his eyes, he essentially waterboards himself to try and ease the pain of the pepper spray. Apparently Steve-O was unavailable.
PASTE MAGAZINE: WORST CAMPAIGN ADS OF 2018
Here’s one oddity that’s neither bad or good. Just oddly ineffective.
Sen. Hirono: “Guess who's perpetuating all of these kinds of actions? It's the men in this country. I just want to say to the men in this country, just shut up! And step up. Do the right thing for a change.” pic.twitter.com/IvLGAQfH7W
— MSNBC (@MSNBC) September 18, 2018
This Brett Kavanaugh vs. “college professor WE MUST BELIEVE” tussle is the latest American flamethrower.
Should our high school horndog moments haunt us 35 years later?
YES! If they involve sexual abuse, lack of consent, or radiating pain for a victim.
NO! If it’s a thinly-veiled political stunt to ruin someone’s life.
Liberals demand that WE BELIEVE WOMEN unless they are conservative women accusing, say, Bill Clinton. Do any of these people who automatically believe Kavanaugh’s accuser put the same blind faith into rape and sexual abuse claims by Paula Jones, Kathleen Willey, Juanita Broderick, or other accusers of Clinton?
But that’s old news. How about this week’s double standard of Liberal inability to recognize Liberal sexual and/or violent abusers?
As accusations of sexual misconduct weigh on the Kavanaugh confirmation hearings, “how can Democrats explain a very obvious double standard in outrage?” @secupp, @chriscquinn and @mattklewis discuss. pic.twitter.com/m6MPGkmrvG
— SE Cupp Unfiltered (@UnfilteredSE) September 22, 2018
I’m concerned that Brett Kavanaugh and his supporters have something to hide. Why not have the FBI investigate? Why not accommodate Dr. Ford as she spends her days with the FBI dealing with death threats and protecting her family? It’s one day. Why the rush? Why the bullying?
— Sen Dianne Feinstein (@SenFeinstein) September 22, 2018
A few days ago, the attorney for professor Christine Blasey Ford made a clear legal decision that her client was ready to testify before the Kavanaugh SCOTUS rush chairman and his stooges.
This is from yesterday.@SavannahGuthrie: “Is your client willing to testify before the JudiciaryCommittee publicly & tell this story?”
Debra Katz (attorney for Christine Ford): “She is. She’s willing to do whatever it takes to get her story forth. Yes.”pic.twitter.com/sY1Tb9AyDs
— Jeremiah Stephan Dunleavy IV (@JerryDunleavy) September 19, 2018
That same attorney was seen on an ABC News clip last year declaring that she would “resist” the Trump administration. Hmmm…she seems like an impartial woman with no ax to grind.
Katz is now demanding a full FBI investigation before she can testify. Sen. Diane Feinstein was not forthcoming about Blasey Ford’s accusation during her private senate meeting with Kavanaugh, leading to speculation that the entire saga is just a political stunt to delay the nomination process.
Katz hates Trump. Katz’s client wants to derail a Trump supreme court nominee.
New statement from Christine Blasey Ford’s lawyer, Lisa Banks: pic.twitter.com/Epa2ADXRny
— MJ Lee (@mj_lee) September 19, 2018
What it looks like when you think with your lady parts instead of your lady smarts ==>#BelieveEvidenceNotGender https://t.co/XO1pkDcMMF
— Michelle Malkin (@michellemalkin) September 19, 2018
Due process? What kind of chicanery are you suggesting, you, you, you…MAN!
"We're dealing with the imperative we've understood culturally to take women's accounts seriously —that has not been done historically— compared to … another fundamental principle, which is an assumption of innocence on the part of someone being accused"
—@JohnAvlon pic.twitter.com/CO5t0XPRTh— New Day (@NewDay) September 19, 2018
There are some gaping holes in the fluctuating story of Christine Blasey Ford. What year? Where? Who was there?
But I am a man. I will refrain from commenting since men are supposed to STAY IN YOUR LANE on issues that involve women. Don’t mind the rest of us. Carry on with your partisan meltdown.
I’ll just stay over here playing backgammon with Merrick Garland.
Kentucky Governor Matt Bevin finally burst the bubble by declaring that he will indeed run for reelection. I’ve asked him more than 10 times in radio interviews if he would re-up to solidify Republican party plans for 2019. His response was that he would not let “the people across the aisle” dictate his schedule.
At last night’s Lincoln Dinner in Lexington, the news spilled across all of the aisles. Governor Bevin wants to stay in office for a second term.
"Buckle up, because the next five years are going to be something to watch." At the @KYGOP Lincoln Dinner in Lexington, @GovMattBevin announced his intention to run for re-election in 2019. pic.twitter.com/zqnjGGEufk
— Garrett Wymer (@GarrettWKYT) August 26, 2018
There’s been speculation that Bevin may be called to Washington to serve in some capacity in the Trump administration. When I’ve asked him about the possibility, he has repeatedly said he has “too much to do” to improve Kentucky.
Is he confident that he will win a second term? The CJ’s Phillip Bailey questioned Bevin at last night’s event.
I asked @GovMattBevin does he have a preference of the (rumored) @KyDems for #KYGov.
"I'd take any one of them, there's not one of them that is even remotely worthy of carrying the torch for the people of Kentucky and that's a fact," @MattBevin said.https://t.co/AP05TipoEe
— Philmonger (@phillipmbailey) August 26, 2018
Bevin has taken a lot of flack for rough talk about teacher protests related to his plan to salvage a mortally wounded pension system. He recently likened protesting teachers to drowning victims who fight the lifeguard trying to save them.
Media outlets regularly hammer him over the tax assessment and purchase path of his family home, an off-the-cuff remark about a West End chess club, and how protesting teachers leave unattended school kids vulnerable to abuse.
Naturally, Bevin (like Trump) is not shy about criticizing individual reporters (“Peeping Tom” Loftus) and various media outlets. He even got in a shot while honoring Sarah Huckabee Sanders with a Kentucky Colonel designation.
At the @KYGOP Lincoln Dinner, @GovMattBevin announced that he has bestowed upon @PressSec @SarahHuckabee the honor of Kentucky Colonel. "I would like to empower the next 'Colonel Sanders' to get out there and fry those chickens up in Washington." pic.twitter.com/QwCoGvS6eL
— Garrett Wymer (@GarrettWKYT) August 26, 2018
She is now Colonel Sanders 2.0
Sanders takes arrows from the media in her job as White House spokesperson. It’s a horrible job because her boss changes his stories and positions multiple times per day. She’s a trooper.
Lexington Herald Leader, August 25, 2018
Kentucky Democrats are stuck in a rut, offering little more than hatred of all things Republican.
Hate is great when you’re writing the script for Mean Girls. It’s OK to hate cancer, Mondays, and broccoli.
Hating other people is a sticky wicket. Democrats claim to be open-minded and tolerant yet wallow in hatred of anyone who doesn’t agree with them. Hate does not grow the base necessary to overcome Republican dominance led by Bevin and both houses of the legislature.
Hate is not a winning platform. Fresh ideas can be.
Former Marine fighter pilot Amy McGrath is the only burgeoning force in Kentucky’s Democrat Party. She spoke with me months ago about her vision for the 6th Congressional District.
Incumbent Andy Barr has solid support, is well-funded, and has President Donald Trump coming to Kentucky to support him.
That’s a tough combination for McGrath to tackle but she is, after all, the only congressional candidate in America who has actually killed terrorists. A little political wrasslin’ won’t rock her world.
At the Lincoln Dinner, Governor Bevin told reporters that McGrath is even more Liberal than Congressman John Yarmuth. “Yowzer!”
Here’s Yarmuth slamming Bevin on my radio show last week.
Click here for the most recent appearance on my radio show by Kentucky Attorney General Andy Beshear, the top Democrat who has announced that he will challenge Bevin for the governor’s office.
Other Kentucky Democrats prefer a run by secretary of state Alison Lundergan Grimes, house minority leader Rocky Adkins, or even radio personality Matt Jones.
In Trump-happy Kentucky, they’re all massive long shots to stop Bevin.
It’s going to be a fun rumble in the months ahead.
Here are some people arguing about laws, religion, and the boiling pot of political discourse.
You need not holler at your screen, spray paint gang signs on a highway wall, or throw a park bench through a store window to respond. Just sit back and enjoy.
Governor-elect Matt Bevin, November 2015
Kentucky Governor Matt Bevin joined me on 840WHAS for a wide-ranging interview on: expanded gambling to bolster pensions, sexual harassment among Kentucky legislators, being alone with a woman, was his UofL board of trustees correct in firing Tom Jurich, a potential LouCity FC stadium, Kentucky outpacing Indiana, tax perks, imbibing, and would he consider being a running mate to Mike Pence in 2020.
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell and Kentucky Governor-elect Matt Bevin cross paths between interviews with Terry Meiners on 840WHAS, November 2015