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	Hi, welcome back, folks.
	It's a delight, a thrill to be here with you on the Excellence in Broadcasting Network.
	My name is L. Rushbow, the all-knowing, all-caring, all sensing, all feeling Maha Rushy.
	Or as some say, Maharush Nishi.
	At any rate.
	We are here at the telephone number 800 282-2882.
	Email address rush at EIVNet.com.
	Get this with a new poll showing that Senator Obama may be overtaking Senator Clinton in the Hawkeye Corcai.
	Mrs. Clinton's camp is taking the unusual step of reaching all the way back to Obama's kindergarten days to find evidence of his duplicity about how long he has had designs in the White House.
	AIDS to Mrs. Clinton lashed out at Mr. Obama's claim, which he repeated yesterday that he only recently decided to mount a presidential bid.
	I have not been planning to run for president for however number of years some of the other candidates have been planning for, Obama said yesterday in Iowa.
	He has previously alluded to a disputed allegation in a book by Jeff Gerth and Don Van Natta that Mrs. Clinton and President Clinton made a plan before he took office that she would also seek the presidency.
	I don't care if it's disputed or not.
	These people have been planning this since they met at Yale.
	Mrs. Clinton's team responded with an opposition research compilation pointing to news reports that Obama has expressed an interest in the presidency over the years, including his far back as third grade and even kindergarten.
	Senator Obama's comment today is fundamentally at odds with what his teachers' family classmates and staff have said about his plans to run for president.
	This is a spokesman for Mrs. Clinton here, Phil Singer.
	Senator Obama's campaign rhetoric is getting in the way of his reality.
	So they're going back, they'll find little things he wrote in kindergarten and third grade to say that uh he uh planned on being president back then.
	In March, the Chicago Tribune reported that Obama's third grade teacher, Firmina Katarina Sinaga, uh said that the future senator wrote he wanted to be president in response to an assignment about what he wanted to be when he grew up.
	We're talking the third grade.
	We're all we're all asked what we want to be when we grow up.
	Some people say firemen, some people say policemen, some people say I want to be a trial lawyer, other people say that he wants how many kids I want to be president.
	I mean, how many kids in the third grade during the 90s saying I want to be Bill Clinton in five years?
	They found a teacher to do the hit piece.
	The Clinton opposition research went out and they found a teacher to do the hit piece.
	This is why some in the in the in the drive-bys and like Robert B. Rice on his blog are upset at the lengths to which the Clintons are going here.
	Mrs. Clinton's campaign may have decided to uh gloss over these ambiguities to avoid suggestions she was challenging his loyalty or echoing apocryphal claims from some on the right that Obama attended a school that taught militant Islam or that he's secretly Muslim.
	Uh the Clinton research sheet picks up that part of the story but ignores the quote that comes next from the teacher.
	Now the the quote is the teacher wrote that uh future senator wanted to be president.
	He wrote that he wanted to be president in response to an assignment, but what did he want it to be when he grew up?
	He didn't say what country he wanted to be president of, but he wanted to make everybody happy, the teacher said.
	The uh kindergarten anecdote, which comes from an AP dispatch, has no indication of what country Mr. Obama hoped to lead.
	Now, the Clinton campaign did not mention that to try to stay away from the Muslim deal, but yesterday may not have been the first time the Clinton campaign seized on the report about Obama's kindergarten dreams.
	A weblogger for Time magazine Anna Marie Cox reported on November 11th that a little birdie had urged her to fact check the Illinois Senator's claims against his kindergarten record.
	So the Clintons out there dropping little clues to reporters.
	You know, you Obama did he wanted to be president of third grade.
	He's lying.
	He's lying when he said he only decided recently to run for...
	Ha, ha, ha.
	God, this is...
	Um well.
	Well, that's not a troubling.
	Snerdley says the troubling thing is that the school record follows you for the rest of your life.
	When you want to be president, everything you've done is going to follow you.
	That's not the point here.
	The point is that the Clintons have come across a third grade reading homework assignment and are trying to turn it into a controversy that Obama can't tell a truth.
	Once again, from the people who have patented lying and how to get away with it.
	Accusing Obama of telling a lie because of an assignment he had in a third grade.
	I, for one, folks, uh, I find this just humorous as it can.
	Now this comes on the heels of the Hillary campaign accusing Obama's back being a slush font.
	You know, hey, Ed, in the next break, I want you to find a couple of Al Sharpton shouting outside Obama headquarters spots.
	Um they were taking place around the Barack the Magic Negro era of a couple of years ago, a year and a half ago.
	Maybe it was this past March.
	I guess it was.
	It was just this past March when that was going on.
	Because I eventually see Mrs. Clinton standing out Obama headquarters and yelling out the same stuff.
	Hey, Obama, come out here and tell the truth.
	You wrote you wanted to be president in the third grade.
	Hey, Obama, come out here and tell the truth.
	Your pack's a slush fund.
	It's like it's like Al Capone accusing John Dillinger of being a criminal.
	Um what else do we have in a status?
	Oh.
	Um.
	From the politico.
	This was from uh what was the 30th?
	Was that Friday?
	Yeah, Friday was the 30th.
	This came in after the program was over on Friday.
	Democrats, voters shifting focus from Iraq.
	Congressional Democrats are reporting a striking change in districts across the country.
	Voters are shifting their attention away from the Iraq war.
	Uh who, uh, ladies and gentlemen, mere months ago predicted to you that this would be the case.
	That the Iraq war would not be an issue in the 08 presidential race, and in fact, the future of the country would be.
	Representative Jim Cooper, moderate Democrat Tennessee, said not a single constituent has asked about the war during his nearly two-week-long Thanksgiving recess.
	Michael Capuano, or Capuano, anti-war Democrat Massachusetts, said only three of 64 callers on a town hall teleconference asked about Iraq.
	A reflection that the war may be losing power as a hot button issue in his strongly Democrat district.
	First term Representative Nancy Boyda, Democrat Kansas, echoing a view shared by many of her colleagues, said illegal immigration and economic unease have trumped the war as the top ranking concerns of her constituents.
	See, folks, you know what's going to happen, particularly with Democrats before it happens, if you listen regularly to this program.
	Now in the Washington Post today, Peter Bynert.
	And I don't know, he's still an editor of the New Republic or not.
	Oh, that's right.
	He's now gone on to the CFR.
	He has been promoted to the Ron Paul Conspiracy Organization, the CFR.
	Peter Beinert used to be the editor of the New Republic.
	Now he's senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations.
	Got a column in the Washington Post today, a non-story remakes the race.
	Last month, Catherine Seeley of the New York Times live blog, the Democrat presidential debate in Vegas.
	As a discussion bounced from subject to subject, she marked the topic in the time and gave her thoughts.
	834 driver's licenses, 855 Pakistan, 957 a Supreme Court.
	By night's end, she had 17 entries totaling almost 1,500 words, and she hadn't typed Iraq once.
	The reason Iraq is fading is simple.
	Not as many people are dying there.
	Fewer deaths mean fewer front page stories.
	The result is that both Democrat and Republican campaigns are looking more like the campaigns of the 90s.
	He basically goes on to say that on the Democrat side, the impact is even more striking.
	Iraq, bizarrely enough, was a great issue for Hillary.
	She had voted for a war everybody in her party now hates, but when asked which candidate they most trusted on the war, Democrats chose her by huge margins.
	Iraq played to her biggest asset, her reputation for experience and strength, reminded Democrats of how dangerous the world is, the more dangerous it seemed, the more they gravitated to the safe choice.
	And ladies and gentlemen, he goes on to say that Iraq is not a story anymore.
	He this column actually says no Iraq in the debate means that we are into the new direction of the country.
	Peter Beinert, Council on Foreign Relations, formerly New Republic.
	Echoing thoughts and sentiments expressed presciently by your host on this program months ago.
	Speaking of the war, ladies and gentlemen, where are all the media polls on the Iraq war now?
	I mean, now there have been a couple.
	But there used to be bunches of polls all the time.
	Where are they now?
	Well, of course the issue's off table, folks.
	I know I just said that.
	But I remain, I'm disgusted, folks, how the media do the Democrats' bidding.
	Every politician who said that we lost, that we'd already lost, or that we should lose, or that we were going to lose, should be held accountable by these PPA, but it won't happen.
	The media would then have to be held accountable for its lies, too.
	Harry Reed, Denji Harry, ought to be embarrassed multiple times over.
	Instead, he just moves on like nothing ever happened.
	In a politically sane world, Harry Reed would be ridiculed to this day, as would Pelosi and as would Jack Mertha.
	And now all of a sudden we're told what the issues off the table.
	Yeah, if the Iraq war is off the isn't it one again?
	We're going to talk about the future of the country.
	Here we get the political doing it.
	We got Peter Byron.
	The issues off the table.
	Why is it off the table?
	Because you people failed to secure defeat.
	So now it's time to move on to some other way to secure defeat of Republicans, using the drive-by media as the catalyst.
	Interesting question here.
	Why aren't the nation's two most prominent civil rights leaders enthusiastically supporting Barack Obama?
	I mean, he is, after all, a most prominent African American presidential candidate in Heastwa.
	Political sources say that the Reverend Sharpton and uh Jack are lukewarm to Obama because he hasn't promised them anything yet in return for their support.
	One source says that Obama should be applauded for refusing to make any backroom deals, and this should be very reassuring to white voters that Obama isn't playing their game.
	Sharpton was fence sitting after dining on soul food with Obama at Sylvia's in Harlem on Thursday, declaring he hadn't made a decision yet.
	Meanwhile, uh the uh Reverend uh Dax has endorsed uh Obama, but he's praised Edwards last week as the only candidate addressing African American problems.
	So Jackson and Obama are Jackson Sharpton making clear why they endorse various Democrats, as I've always told you, they are promised seats at the table of power in the Democrat Party, and Obama has not made that pledge, and he's not out there pandering to them, and so neither of them are all excited.
	In the meanwhile, contradicting his father, uh Representative uh Jesse uh Jax Jr. writes in a Chicago Sun-Times column today, uh, the editorial pages that uh Barack Obama is a powerful, consistent, effective advocate for African Americans,
	and he mounted a strong rebuttal uh to a column by his dad that ran November 27th, where he chastised Democrats running for president with the exception of Edwards, because they have virtually ignored the plight of African Americans in the country.
	So now you have the Oprah running around backing Obama, and now the uh little Jesse Jackson Jr. is uh is disagreeing with his dad, which takes us back in time.
	Takes us back in time.
	Remember when um all this talk about Obama was starting, and Joe Biden really got this all started when he called Obama clean and articulate and the first clean and articulate candidate the Democrats have had on their roster for a while.
	It didn't sit well with Reverend Sharpton.
	And now, behind the scenes at Obama headquarters, his Reverend Al Sharpton is outside taking it to the street.
	Today, I challenge Barack Obama to come out here and explain yourself to the community.
	Where were you, Obama?
	When we marched for justice in summer.
	Where were you when Tawana Broly was abused for telling her story?
	Where were you when Freddie's fashion my bird to the ground?
	Oh, I I was at home.
	Uh uh, come out here now and explain those white intellect running your campaigns.
	I'm gonna talk about your Obama, and I won't stop till there is justice.
	Okay, Obama, your mama's so fat.
	If you poke her in the leg, she leaks gravy.
	Your mama's so fat on a scale of one to ten, she's a 747.
	Your mama is so fat, she has to have Euros in one pocket and pesos in the other.
	Join us the next time.
	The EIP network takes you behind the scenes with Reverend Al Sharpton.
	Oh, your mama.
	I envision Mrs. Clinton doing the same thing here.
	Standing outside Obama headquarters, giving him all kinds of grief here because he's lying about when he decided he wanted to be president.
	Al Sharpton was not through, however.
	Is Al Sharpton still camped out in front of Obama headquarters?
	Let's find out.
	All right, Obama!
	Your mama saw that when she puts on her little black dress, she looks like out of space.
	When she was diagnosed with a flesh-eating disease, the doctor gave her 87 years to live.
	She puts mayonnaise on aspirin.
	When she goes to a restaurant, she looks at the menu and says, okay.
	Join us next time for behind the scenes at Obama headquarters.
	So there you have it.
	That's the Reverend L. Sharpton uh may perhaps precursing uh what might happen uh with Mrs. Clinton.
	Because it's getting childish now.
	This getting mad at him as game lying because he's running a slush funny.
	He wanted wrote in kindergarten, he wanted to be president.
	Uh Manchester, Vermont, Douglas, I'm glad you waited, sir.
	Welcome to the EIB network.
	Hello.
	Uh hey, Russ.
	Greetings from the People's Republic of Vermont.
	Thank you.
	So let's see.
	Obama was planning his presidency in the third grade, and Hillary was helping out children of Margaret farm workers in Chicago.
	I think there's an ad there somewhere.
	That's right.
	Right.
	Um I'm starting to like Huckabee a lot.
	Um advantages, I think, of his candidacy is uh if he gets a Republican nomination, is that uh as a former occupant of the uh the governor's mansion in Arkansas, he must have tons of dirt on Hillary and Bill.
	Not that he did it.
	I I yeah, I don't I don't I don't I if he if you're gonna talk about dirt look, Hillary uh probably fears Rudy on that score.
	Rudy ran the NYPD.
	The NYPD is probably one of the greatest intel collection agencies in the world.
	Uh, you know, don't think that they don't have the the goods on on the Clintons.
	Umbody does dirt better, but the only reason the Clintons do better with dirt is because the drive-by's help them with it.
	The drive-by spread, the drive-by's do not condemn them.
	The drive-by's take it's like this Anna Marie Cox, a little birdie told me that Barack Obama wrote he wanted to be president of third grade, so she's checked it out.
	Lo behold, it's true.
	So all that has to happen is the Clinton Inc.
	has to drop these little tidbits on the drive-by media, and it's like being triple sourced Already when it comes to the Clinton.
	They don't have to check with anybody else and just run it.
	That's why they're good at dirt.
	I mean, they're good at digging it up and intimidating people.
	So for but don't misunderstand, folks, this is this is really crucial.
	It's like the Democrats in his business on the war.
	They should be humiliated.
	Harry Reid ought not be able to put his he ought not want to face people in public.
	He should be so humiliated.
	Mertha Pelosi, all these people over the war, the surge, Petraeus.
	But no, they just drive on by and they just think it was forgotten now.
	The drive-by's are on to other subjects, other hits and so forth.
	It's the same thing with the Clintons.
	They're going to drop this stuff back, drop it out, and the drive-by'll use it.
	When when Rudy drops it, which we Republicans try to, it'll be challenged and it'll be called dirty tricks and all that garbage.
	I know, I'm listening to it because I like it.
	Shaking all over, but guess who?
	We're back.
	Um how many of you remember the name General Jap from the North Vietnamese Army?
	General Jip.
	Yes, it's a Jap's uh G-I-A-P is how you spell it, but you pronounce it General Jap.
	Um he was very famous, knowledgeable general in a North Vietnamese army.
	He's published his memoirs.
	And here's here's here's a pull quote.
	What we still don't understand, what we still don't understand is why you Americans stopped the bombing of Hanoi.
	You had us on the ropes.
	If you had pressed us a little harder just for another day or two, we were ready to surrender.
	It was the same at the Battle of Tet.
	You defeated us.
	We knew it.
	We thought you knew it.
	But we were elated to notice that your media was definitely helping us.
	They were causing more disruption in America than we could in the battlefields.
	We were ready to surrender.
	You had won.
	Uh it it makes the point that the Vietnam War was not lost in Vietnam, it was lost here.
	And that's I keep telling everybody that the drive-bys were trying to do the same thing in Iraq that they did in Vietnam for a host of reasons, not the least of which among them was to re-establish their own ability to influence people into the United States losing a war that the media was uh was opposed to.
	Scary, scary stuff.
	Jeff in uh Fort Wayne, Indiana.
	Nice to have you with us, sir.
	Hello.
	Hi, Rush.
	How are you?
	Just fine, sir.
	Good, good.
	Hey, I wanted to call and uh uh call you out on something that you're wrong about.
	Really?
	Yes.
	You said a while ago that uh Hillary Clinton had been planning since childhood to uh run for president.
	No, I said since she was at Yale with Bill.
	Oh, okay.
	Well, she's kind of childish back then too, I guess.
	But anyway, my point is when she ran for Senate in New York, she had no intention of running for president back then.
	Oh, I know.
	I know.
	Yeah.
	Yeah.
	That's what she told the people of New York.
	She had no intention of running.
	Absolutely, but everybody else heard it too, didn't they?
	Yeah, yeah.
	She had no intention of running.
	No.
	Well, and thanks thanks to you for them hearing it.
	Uh, thank you for them hearing it.
	Uh you're more than more than welcome out there, uh well, we we always we always like to get the spin out, uh, Jeff.
	And you you're doing a great job of it, and uh, you're one of the best we've had here.
	Well, very good, Rush.
	You do a great job too.
	You're a true American hero.
	And if John Kerry has three purple hearts, you deserve a hundred.
	Thank you very much for the call.
	Appreciate it.
	A lot of shot shots over the bow throughout the years.
	Uh, shots over the bow.
	Yes, yes.
	Do you really let me ask you something here, Jeff, before you go, do you really, really think that she meant it when she said she didn't want to run for president?
	No, no, she just tells people what they want to hear.
	Exactly right.
	She tells me because you have in order to get elected in the Senate, you gotta tell people in New York you're gonna stay there.
	Absolutely.
	But trust me, look at when Clinton was at Yale.
	I I forget, might have been Strobe Talbot, or Bob Rubin, or one of these guys saying, This guy, when they're all back there, yeah, this guy's gonna be president.
	Uh this this has been a um what?
	This can't be.
	Dixie Chick Singer starts defense fund for convicted child killers.
	Tell me I'm not reading that correctly.
	Am I reading that right?
	Dixie Chick Singer starts defense fund for convicted child killers.
	Uh what's what what's this babe's name?
	Um I'm having a metal boy, the lead singer.
	Um the Natalie, yeah, Natal Natalie Natalie, something or other.
	Natalie.
	Wow.
	Who's next?
	Joey and Hope, Mills, North Carolina.
	Welcome to the EIB network.
	Hello.
	Thank you very much, Rush.
	Thanks for having me on.
	I wanted to let you know that uh I think the primary reason that that Mike Huckabee is rising in the polls is the uh is the implementation of the fair tax and the abolis abolition of the IRS.
	It's not being talked about by a lot of folks.
	But I predominantly in the bureaucracies and uh people that are dependent on that business for their for their income, but it's a grassroot effort from a lot of people that want to see the IRS go away.
	And you think that's what's propelling Huckabee's charge up the ladder in the Iowa caucuses.
	Well, that's that I I like him for a plurality of reasons, however, uh that is one of them.
	Well, you know, I like to think that I have my finger on the pulse here.
	I uh I really don't hear a lot of people talking about the abolition of the IRS.
	In fact, I heard it for the first time in this campaign at the last CNN debate.
	And I haven't watched every Republican debate, but that's my point.
	This is the first time I'd heard anybody talk about it.
	So it's difficult for me to understand how it could be one of the issues causing the Huckabee groundswell.
	Yeah, I I think that uh out of all the candidates that are out there, he's the one that's got the best chance seeing that how he's he's ran against the Clinton East is before uh in in Arkansas and he's beat him.
	And uh Huckabee beat the Clintons.
	Yeah, every every uh Democratic opposition that he had in Arkansas was backed by the Clinton East.
	And he beat them.
	All right.
	Well look, uh Joey, I appreciate the call.
	Your insight is invaluable to us uh here at the EIB network.
	You're hearing things that we haven't heard, and we we always enjoy new sources of information because you know, I used to say if I don't know it, it's not worth knowing.
	And if I haven't heard about it, it's not worth hurting hearing about.
	And if I don't know it, then there is no knowledge.
	Knowledge is what I know, but you have told me some things that I don't know.
	And I'm gonna put them in the hopper and I'm gonna uh think about it.
	Thanks much for the call.
	Roberta in East Aurora, New York.
	Welcome to the uh EIB network.
	Hello.
	Hi, Rush.
	Um I I am an evangelical Christian.
	I'll start out with that, and I actually prayed that I'd get through to you today, so anyway, um I remember in 1976 when my when my Christian Republican father bought into the whole born again record of a of a Southern governor.
	And um I really don't think it's the religion aspect of of Mike Huckabee that they're gonna throw you know thump so much.
	Is frankly uh Rush, when you look at his record, he takes two of the most important issues for Republicans right off the table, and that's immigration in Texas.
	Uh what do you mean nullifies immigration at what do you mean takes them off the table?
	Because of his record, Rush.
	I mean, I know I'm aware of I'm aware of the current rhetoric of of Governor Huckabee, but his record on immigration and Texas is terrible.
	Yeah, but uh that's why I'm having trouble.
	Uh are you are you I are you s you support him?
	No, that's my whole point.
	I my whole point is, you know, we've heard this rhetoric before.
	I think the year was nineteen seventy-six when you get all this born-again rhetoric, but then you examine somebody's record and you find out what they stand for, and Mike Huckabee is very liberal on immigration taxes and spending, and those are the issues that we're gonna need.
	Okay, so you're saying this is why the media is propelling him?
	Because I but I think when the general election comes around, if he's a nominee, all of a sudden these conservatives that are supporting him are going to realize that his record is not what they think it is.
	Oh, I see what you're gonna say.
	I I uh I misunderstood the premise of your call.
	I I thought sorry.
	Uh when you said nullifies immigration is an issue, I thought you meant that as a positive because it's a problem for Republicans.
	No, I just meant it meant it Nullifies our advantage.
	Maybe that's how I should have said it.
	All right.
	All right, well look, um yeah, you know, the the he has he has raised taxes uh a number of times in uh in Arkansas and he he spoke very clearly and plainly about uh illegal immigration at the uh at the last debate.
	So uh I I you know the the what what would you say then is the real reason the evangelicals are coalescing around Huckabee in uh in Iowa?
	I have no idea, Rush, except that I know that the same things that that a pro-life president has been criticized for the last two years on immigration and Texas, suddenly people are willing to overlook.
	I don't get it.
	Well, I don't I don't I r I don't think they know yet.
	I I'm I I think I'd have to ask.
	I haven't seen any formal polling, and I don't like speculation on these kinds of things.
	I I I really think that there is a hardcore group of conservatives that looks at the Republican field and doesn't find pure conservatives and thinks that Huckabee is probably the better bet because he's been a pastor and because he's Christian, and this is something of a bond, of course, with the evangelicals.
	Uh it's it's uh you know probably right now no more complicated than that, and whether individual issues are going to become a factor in his candidacy as terms of immigration and these kinds of things down the road beyond Iowa remains to be seen.
	That's gonna be up the other candidates to do.
	You know, if if he's got if he's got uh uh record problems on immigration taxes and so forth, it's gonna be up to the other candidates to point this out.
	And there's still what, five weeks uh for this to happen.
	I appreciate the call, Roberta.
	Thanks much.
	Back in just a second.
	Back to the phones.
	We go to Gordon in Portage, Indiana.
	Welcome, Gordon to the E. I. Yeah, hi.
	Hi, Rush.
	Hey, I was one of the YouTubers that was invited down to St. Petersburg uh to ask a question.
	Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait.
	You mean you submitted a YouTube question and they chose yours.
	That's correct.
	And then they flew you down to to the Tampa St. Petersburg.
	That's correct.
	What was your question?
	My question was on treason.
	If you go to YouTube, you can put in treason and find my question.
	It was about uh the media and their treason, and I wanted to uh ask the candidates if they were going to enforce the laws on treason.
	Well now they didn't choose your question.
	Yeah, amazing.
	You know, CNN gets to choose the questions.
	Yet they flew you in.
	Yes.
	They also wanted me to cover the debate, and uh I uploaded a lot of video about the debate and uh interviews with Peter King and and uh George Allen and various things like that.
	But uh had me in the second row.
	Wait, wait a minute, Gore, what do you do for a living?
	Uh well sometimes I'm a political consultant.
	Sometimes I uh I do a lot of different things in politics.
	I'm I'm uh I I I have a blog page and uh do that kind of thing.
	So you know I've been come prominent.
	My my question got over this over fourteen thousand hits on YouTube, probably the most uh hit question on YouTube.
	Are you a Republican?
	Absolutely.
	Okay, so they got your question, they saw your question, they flew you down there.
	They knew that you have uh uh uh you do work in in political consultancy.
	Um probably they they knew I they they knew from all my videos of uh what I had said on there.
	But you're not in a media per se.
	You don't have a media gig.
	No, uh other than my own Gordon Boyer Show dot com, which is a website and you just entrepreneur and so forth.
	Right, right.
	I had a I had a public.
	Yeah, they are asking you to take videos and interview people and and do what with them.
	And put them up on YouTube.
	YouTube was going to have a uh they had an it brought down six of us, and uh uh there was two Obama people, there was a uh Kucinich guy, which I thought was kind of strange to have those people there.
	A Kucinich guy at the Republican debate.
	Yes, right.
	And he's a prominent he he works for Kucinich.
	He actually works for Kucinich doing videos for Kucinich.
	Brought his camera that Kusinich gave him to do the videos.
	It's not funny, but I can't help laughing about it.
	Right.
	Well, where do you hear this?
	So we all get there and uh I meet General Kerr.
	And as they're taking us on a tour, um Anderson Cooper comes out to give us a little talk and wait, wait, wait, wait, giving you a tour of what?
	The studio?
	Yeah, the the The truck outside the event, you know, where they where they do all the goodies.
	Propagandizing.
	Right.
	And so uh here we all come up there, and Anderson Cooper comes out, and he immediately recognizes the general.
	He says, Oh, General Kerr, I'm glad you're here.
	He didn't recognize any of the rest of us, but he recognized him right now.
	He did, eh?
	Absolutely.
	Cooper recognized Kerr.
	Absolutely.
	Well, he's been on, he's been on CNN.
	We found it.
	He was on CNN back in 2003, and I think it might have been Anderson Cooper's show.
	I'm I'm not sure of that, but well, yeah, I saw that on the free republic.com, and then they have the complete transcript.
	But then they took us into the little bus.
	And as I'm going up into the bus, and I have this on video, and you can see it on YouTube.
	Uh I have this on video.
	I'm going into the bus, and you can hear the people on the bus saying, Oh, welcome, General.
	They immediately recognize the general.
	Who was on the bus?
	All of you that were flown in?
	Uh some of us they were taken up there, and all the people who work for CNN who are are doing behind the scenes stuff in the little, you know, it's their it's their headquarters, like the NFL has their headquarters outside the day.
	Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
	And they they gave us a little speech.
	I have part of that.
	You can see that on YouTube.
	Hey, General, goodness.
	And they claim they didn't know anything about the guy.
	Uh, they that's this first of all, the guy had never had anything on YouTube until August, and the only thing he had was his question.
	So the question tonight when he's on TV on a prominent television show should be asked.
	General, who and he says two people told him he should uh ask a question.
	Well, who gave him the camera?
	Who videotaped him, who set him up with a YouTube account, who put him up there, and you'll find that on his YouTube account he has now uploaded one video since then, and that's because uh YouTube gave every one of us a camera when we got down there.
	It was a gift, and uh it's real easy to upload video to YouTube with this camera, flip video camera.
	Have you have you offered to go public with any other media on this to try to explain what happened and have you uh been accepted or rejected?
	Uh so far nobody's contacted me.
	I sent out uh releases and sent out copies of my video.
	I explained this on YouTube on on my YouTube site, Gordon Bloyer Show.
	You can just put that in and you'll find all the videos on the debate on my YouTube page, and I've I sent that out to a number of the news media and nobody's called me.
	Everybody wants a fifteen minutes.
	Okay.
	Um this is fascinating.
	Hey, General, good to see you, says Anderson Cooper.
	A lot of people in the bus.
	Hey, General, good to see you.
	The general had never submitted a video prior to this, right?
	Is that what you're right?
	Where do you hear this?
	Now they're taking us through the hall, and CNN has a person come up and it says, Now, if your question is used tonight, and we give you a microphone, you're not to get on a soapbox and make a speech.
	And yet they let the general go on and get us get on a soapbox and make a speech.
	You'll notice the other gentleman who's my friend there, who made his question.
	He all he said was uh they asked him whether he got an answer, and he gave a very short answer because he was told and he follows instructions.
	Uh yeah, he said one word he said, No, I didn't get an answer.
	The general General Kerr did launch into a speech.
	We all noticed this.
	Yes.
	Well, my friends.
	He'd still be making a speech if the crowd hadn't booed him silent.
	Which I was doing, booing himself.
	Me and well, see, that was the interesting thing.
	All who were all these who were all these people that were cheering for the general at one point after he asked his question.
	Exactly.
	You know, the the There were a lot of chairs on oddball questions that were asked all night.
	Well, you can't, you know, Gordon.
	Uh even without your eyewitness testimony.
	You cannot, I will I will not believe it.
	Everybody in that hall was a Republican.
	I will not believe it.
	Anything had happened in there was spontaneous.
	And you can talk all you want about CNN's questions and so forth, the YouTube question, but they chose those questions, and so therefore those questions were not the ones submitted, they were the ones CNN wanted.
	And they had 5,000 to choose.
	Look, I'm glad you called Gordon.
	Thanks much.
	A brief timeout back after this.
	Hey, General, it's good to see ya.
	Welcome back to CNN, General Kerr.
	Really nice.
	Had we known this man, we wouldn't have used his video.
	I am totally shocked and stunned, said Anderson Cooper.
	We're not surprised, are we?
	We're not surprised.
	See you tomorrow, folks.
	It's Tuesday in our world.

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