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Selling out?

In other words, you can trust him.

Trust him at your own peril, though, him being the politician. I mean, politicians talk so fine and large that you’ve got to treat anything they say with a large grain of salt.

A large grain of salt?

That’s an expression we may discuss on another day. Here, let’s read a few media examples of politicians and other people selling out or not selling out, reneging on principles or not doing it:

1. Call it Round 2 in the battle between Arnold and Rush, although this time the jabs were a little more gentle -- and were thrown head to head, on Limbaugh’s radio show.

The feud was launched Tuesday when California Republican Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger called the conservative radio talk show host “irrelevant” on NBC’s “Today” show. The comment was in response to Limbaugh’s characterization of Schwarzenegger as a “closet liberal.”

“I’m not his servant,” Schwarzenegger said Tuesday. “I’m the people’s servant of California.”

Wednesday, in a telephone interview on Limbaugh’s radio show, Schwarzenegger was asked if he didn’t “get a little flustered whenever they throw my name at you.” Schwarzenegger sounded anything but flustered.

“I pay very little attention if someone criticizes me or calls me, that I’m turning left, that I’m selling out or whatever,” he said. “I have to stay focused on results.”