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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 El Rushbow, the all-knowing, all-caring, all-sensing, all-feeling, maha-rushy, or as some say, maha rushnishi.
	At any rate, we are here at the telephone number 800-282-2882, email address rush at eibnet.com.
	Get this with a new poll showing that Senator Obama may be overtaking Senator Clinton in the Hawkeye Corkai.
	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 on the White House.
	Aides 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 as 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 in third grade to say that he planned on being president back then.
	In March, the Chicago Tribune reported that Obama's third grade teacher, Fermina Katerina Sinaga, 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 asked what we want to be when we grow up.
	Some people say fireman.
	Some people say policeman.
	Some people say I want to be a trial lawyer.
	Other people say that he wants to.
	How many kids?
	I want to be president.
	I mean, how many kids in a 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 on.
	They found a teacher to do the hit piece.
	This is why some 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 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.
	The Clinton research sheet picks up that part of the story, but ignores the quote that comes next from the teacher.
	Now, the quote is, the teacher wrote that a future senator wanted to be president.
	He wrote that he wanted to be president in response to an assignment, but what did he want 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 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 web blogger 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, Obama said he wanted to be president of third grade.
	He's lying.
	He's lying when he said he only decided recently to run for...
	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, I find this just humorous.
	This comes on the heels of the Hillary campaign accusing Obama's pack being a slush fund.
	You know, hey, Ed, in the next break, I want you to find a couple of Al Sharpton shouting outside Obama headquarters spots that 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 at Obama headquarters 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 PAC's a slush fund.
	It's like Al Capoff accusing John Dillinger of being a criminal.
	What else do we have in this diagram?
	Oh, from the Politico.
	This was from, 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.
	Who, 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 Beinert, 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 blogged 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 is 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.
	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, 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 is off the 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 people, but it won't happen.
	The media would then have to be held accountable for its lies, too.
	Harry Reid, Denji Harry, ought to be embarrassed multiple times over.
	Instead, he just moves on like nothing ever happened.
	In a politically sane world, Harry Reid would be ridiculed to this day, as would Pelosi and as would Jack Murthy.
	And now all of a sudden, we're told what, well, the issue's off the table.
	Yes, the Iraq war is off the table.
	Isn't it?
	What are you going to talk about the future of the country?
	Here we get the political doing it.
	We got Peter Binert.
	The issue's 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, the most prominent African-American presidential candidate in his wai.
	Political sources say that the Reverend Sharpton and Jacks 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, the Reverend Jacks has endorsed Obama, but he's praised Edwards last week as the only candidate addressing African-American problems.
	So, Jackson and Obama are Jackson and 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, Representative Jesse Jackson Jr. writes in a Chicago Sun-Times column today, the editorial pages, that Barack Obama is a powerful, consistent, effective advocate for African Americans.
	And he mounted a strong rebuttal 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 little Jesse Jackson Jr. is disagreeing with his dad, which takes us back in time.
	Takes us back in time.
	Remember when 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 Brawley was abused for telling her story?
	Where were you when Freddy's fashion mark burnt to the ground?
	Oh, I was at home.
	Come out here now and explain those white interlopers running your campaign.
	I'm going to talk about your mama, 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.
	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 is so fat when she puts on her little black dress.
	She looks like outer 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 Al Sharpton, perhaps precursing what might happen with Mrs. Clinton because it's getting childish now.
	Has anybody lying because he's running a slush funny wrote in kindergarten?
	He wanted president.
	Manchester, Vermont.
	Douglas, I'm glad you waited, sir.
	Welcome to the EIB Network.
	Hello.
	Hey, Rush.
	Greetings.
	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 a ad there somewhere.
	Right.
	I'm starting to like Huckabee a lot.
	One of the things that advantages, I think, of his candidacy is if he gets a Republican nomination is that as a former occupant of the governor's mansion in Arkansas, he must have tons of dirt on Hillary and Bill.
	Not that he'd use it.
	Yeah, I don't.
	If you're going to talk about dirt, look, Hillary probably fears Rudy on that score.
	Rudy ran the NYPD.
	The NYPD is probably one of the greatest intel collection agencies in the world.
	You know, don't think that they don't have the goods on the Clintons.
	Nobody does dirt better, but the only reason the Clintons do better with dirt is because the drive-bys help them with it.
	The drive-bys spread.
	The drive-bys do not condemn them.
	The drive-bys take, it was like this Ana Marie Cox.
	A little birdie told me that Barack Obama wrote he wanted to be president of third grade, so she checked it out.
	Lo and behold, it's true.
	So all that has to happen is that 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 Clintons.
	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.
	But don't misunderstand, folks, this is really crucial.
	It's like the Democrats in this 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.
	Mirtha, Pelosi, all these people over the war, the Surge, Petraeus.
	But no, they just drive on by, and they just think it's forgotten now.
	The drive-bys 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-bys will use it.
	When Rudy drops it, which 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.
	Shaken all over, but guess who?
	We're back.
	How many of you remember the name General Jap from the North Vietnamese Army?
	General Jip.
	Yes, he's a Jap's G-I-A-P is how you spell it, pronounce it General Jap.
	He was a very famous, knowledgeable general in a North Vietnamese army.
	He's published his memoirs.
	And 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.
	It makes the point that the Vietnam War was not lost in Vietnam.
	It was lost here.
	And that's why 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 reestablish their own ability to influence people into the United States losing a war that the media was opposed to.
	Scary, scary stuff.
	Jeff in 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 call you out on something that you're wrong about.
	Really?
	Yes.
	You said a while ago that Hillary Clinton had been planning since childhood to 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.
	No.
	Well, and thanks to you for them hearing it.
	Thank you for them hearing it.
	More than welcome out there.
	Well, we always like to get the spin out, Jeff.
	And you're doing a great job of it, and 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 100.
	Thank you very much for the call.
	Appreciate it.
	A lot of shots over the bow throughout the years.
	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.
	Because in order to get elected in the Senate, you've got to tell people of New York you're going to stay there.
	Absolutely.
	But trust me, look at when Clinton was at Yale.
	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 going to be president.
	This has been a 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.
	What's this babe's name?
	I'm having a middle book.
	He's a lead singer.
	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 I think the primary reason that Mike Huckabee is rising in the polls is the implementation of the fair tax and the abolition of the IRS.
	It's not being talked about by a lot of folks, predominantly in the bureaucracies and people that are dependent on that business for their income.
	But it's a grassroots effort from a lot of people who 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, I like him for a plurality of reasons.
	However, that is one of them.
	Well, you know, I like to think that I have my finger on the pulse here.
	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.
	Now, 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 think that out of all the candidates that are out there, he's the one that's got the best chance seeing that how he's ran against the Clinton Eastas before in Arkansas, and he's beat them.
	Huckabee beat the Clintons.
	Yeah, every Democratic opposition that he had in Arkansas was backed by the Clinton Eastas, and he beat them.
	All right, well, look, Joey, I appreciate the call.
	Your insight is invaluable to us here at the EIB network.
	You're hearing things that we haven't heard, and 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 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 going to put them in the hopper.
	And I'm going to think about it.
	Thanks much for the call.
	Roberta in East Aurora, New York.
	Welcome to the EIB Network.
	Hello.
	Hi, Rush.
	I am an evangelical Christian.
	I'll start out with that.
	And I actually prayed that I get through to you today.
	So anyway, I remember in 1976 when my Christian Republican father bought into the whole born-again record of a southern governor.
	And I really don't think it's the religion aspect of Mike Huckabee that they're going to thump so much.
	Frankly, 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 and Texas.
	What do you mean, nullifies immigration?
	What do you mean?
	Takes him off the table.
	Because of his record, Rush.
	I mean, I know I'm aware of the current rhetoric of Governor Huckabee, but his record on immigration in Texas is terrible.
	Yeah, but that's what I'm having trouble with you.
	You support him?
	No, that's my whole point.
	My whole point is, you know, we've heard this rhetoric before.
	I think the year was 1976 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 we're going to need.
	Okay, so you're saying this is why the media is propelling him?
	Because 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 going to do.
	I misunderstood the premise of your call.
	Sorry.
	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 nullifies our advantage.
	Maybe that's how I should have said it.
	All right.
	All right.
	Well, look, you know, he has raised taxes a number of times in Arkansas, and he spoke very clearly and plainly about illegal immigration at the last debate.
	So what would you say then is the real reason the evangelicals are coalescing around Huckabee in Iowa?
	I have no idea, Rush, except that I know that the same things that a pro-life president has been criticized for the last two years on immigration in Texas, suddenly people are willing to overlook.
	I don't get it.
	I don't think they know yet.
	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 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, because he's Christian, and this is something of a bond, of course, with the evangelicals.
	It's probably right now no more complicated than that.
	And whether individual issues are going to become a factor in his candidacy in terms of immigration and these kinds of things down the road beyond Iowa remains to be seen.
	That's going to be up to the other candidates to do.
	You know, if he's got record problems on immigration, taxes, and so forth, it's going to be up to the other candidates to point this out.
	And there's still, what, five weeks 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 EIB.
	Yeah, hi.
	Hi, Rush.
	Hey, I was one of the YouTubers that was invited down to St. Petersburg to ask a question.
	Wait, You mean you submitted a YouTube question and they chose yours?
	That's correct.
	And then they flew you down to 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 the media and their treason.
	And I wanted to ask the candidates if they were going to enforce the laws on treason.
	Well, now, they didn't choose your question.
	Yeah, amazing.
	CNN gets to choose the questions.
	Yet they flew you in.
	Yes, they also wanted me to cover the debate, and I uploaded a lot of video about the debate and interviews with Peter King and George Allen and various things like that.
	But they had me in the second row.
	Wait, wait a minute, Gordon.
	What do you do for a living?
	Sometimes I'm a political consultant.
	Sometimes I do a lot of different things in politics.
	I have a blog page and do that kind of thing.
	So, you know, I've become prominent.
	My question got over 14,000 hits on YouTube.
	Probably the most 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 work in political consultancy.
	Probably.
	They knew from all my videos of what I had said on there.
	But you're not in the media per se.
	You don't have a media gig.
	No, other than my own GordonBoyershow.com, which is a website.
	Right.
	You're just an entrepreneur and so forth.
	Right, right.
	I had a public question.
	Yet they're asking you to take videos and interview people and do what with them.
	And put them up on YouTube.
	YouTube was going to have a, it brought down six of us, and there were two Obama people.
	There was a 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 works for Kucinich.
	He actually works for Kucinich, doing videos for Kucinich.
	Brought his camera that Kucinich gave him to do the videos.
	It's not funny, but I can't help laughing about it.
	Right.
	Well, wait till you hear this.
	So we all get there, and I meet General Kerr.
	And as they're taking us on a tour, Anderson Cooper comes out to give us a little talk.
	Wait, wait, wait, wait.
	Giving you a tour of what?
	The studio?
	Yeah, the truck outside the event, you know, where they do all the goodies.
	Propagandizing.
	Right.
	And so 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 there.
	He did, eh?
	Absolutely.
	Cooper recognized Kerr.
	Absolutely.
	Well, 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 not sure of that, but yeah, I saw that on the free republic.com, and then they had 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, 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 recognized the general.
	Who was on the bus?
	All of you that were flown in?
	Some of us, they were taken up there, and all the people who work for CNN who are doing behind-the-scenes stuff in the little, you know, it's their headquarters, like the NFL has their headquarters outside the.
	Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
	And they gave us a little speech, which I have part of that.
	You can see that on YouTube.
	Hey, General, good to see you again.
	And they claim they didn't know anything about the guy.
	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 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 YouTube gave every one of us a camera when we got down there.
	It was a gift.
	And it's real easy to upload video to YouTube with this camera, a flip video camera.
	Have you offered to go public with any other media on this to try to explain what happened?
	And have you been accepted or rejected?
	So far, nobody's contacted me.
	I sent out releases and sent out copies of my video.
	I explained this on YouTube on my YouTube site, Gordon Blair Show.
	You can just put that in, and you'll find all the videos on the debate on my YouTube page.
	And I sent that out to a number of the news media, and nobody's called me.
	Everybody wants their 15 minutes.
	Okay.
	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?
	Where do you hear this?
	Now, they're taking us through the hall, and CNN has a person come up and 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 on a soapbox and make a speech.
	You'll notice the other gentleman, who's my friend there, who made his question, all he said was they asked him whether he got an answer, and he gave a very short answer because he was told, and he follows instructions.
	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 friend, he'd still be that much.
	He'd still be making a speech if the crowd hadn't booed him silent.
	Which I was doing, booing him.
	Well, see, that was the interesting thing.
	Who were all these people who were cheering for the general at one point after he asked his question?
	Exactly.
	There were a lot of cheers on oddball questions that were asked all day.
	Well, you can't, you know, Gordon, even without your eyewitness testimony, you cannot, I will not believe that everybody in that hall was a Republican.
	I will not believe that anything that 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 you.
	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, which is Tuesday in our world.
	Looking forward to it.

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