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<\/a>Look, when I did host that TV show of mine<\/a> for four years, I did the warm-up. I went out and did the warm-up. I didn\u2019t have to do the warm-up. You know why I did the warm-up? Take a guess, Brian. Why did I do the warm-up? All right, I\u2019ll tell you why. He has no earthly clue. Because the show actually was nothing more than 22 minutes, and these are people that would travel from all over the country and 22 minutes just wasn\u2019t enough for them. I tried sending (program observer) Snerdley out there a couple times to do the warm-up. Didn\u2019t you do the warm-up a couple of times? You did. You did. No, the crowd loved it. I\u2019m telling you the crowd loved it, I kept hearing — that crowd, 22 minutes of the program with commercials just wasn\u2019t enough. I mean, it was a 30-minute show. So oftentimes my warm-up was 45 minutes. You know, I\u2019d go out there and I\u2019d just do a mini-Rush to Excellence, but this “warm-up.” I\u2019ve never understood this business of warming up the crowd. <\/line>Well, no, I understand the concept of warming up the crowd, but in a case like this where you\u2019ve got a presidential candidate showing up in Tampa — and they don\u2019t show up in Tampa very often, you know? Presidential candidates don\u2019t go anywhere very often, and to have to blame it on being ill-served by lack of a warm-up person to me is just a further attempt at trying to mask and excuse Kerry for his own lack of charisma, his own lack of excitement, his own inability to jazz a crowd just by virtue of his presence, which he cannot do, folks. I have said this time and time again. <\/line>From the same column, from the American Spectator: “Former president Bill Clinton will end up spending more time with his wife, Senator Hillary Clinton, at the Democratic convention in Boston than he has perhaps in years. The couple are the hottest attraction for the convention in July.” Here\u2019s a quote from a Fortune 500 firm holding an event at a trendy nightclub during the convention: “Frankly, if Senator Kerry or his wife want to stop by, that\u2019s great, but we are making a point of pressing for President Clinton to attend. His presence — or word that he may be here — will make our event a success.”<\/line>(Laughing.) Do you not love this? Just the fact that Clinton might, <\/emphasize>just a rumor that Clinton might <\/emphasize>show up will be a bigger deal than if Kerry and Teresa show up. Have you heard about the New York delegation? Get this. This is hilarious. The night before the convention starts, every state hosts a reception and it\u2019s up to the Boston organizing committee to find restaurants and places, nightclubs, this sort of thing for all of the state delegations to host their receptions and people just make the rounds of all these places. The New York delegation was given <\/emphasize>what is apparently a very nice and trendy place, but the name is something: the something-and-something Bathhouse, and the New York… It\u2019s not a “bathhouse” in the San Francisco tradition of bathhouses, but the Democrats in New York are upset because they don\u2019t like that word, that term, because that\u2019s what it implies, is a, you know, bathhouse, congregating place for, um, homosexuals and gays and so forth. Apparently it\u2019s a pretty nice beach club somewhere up there, but it\u2019s named “bathhouse” so they put out an order to the organizing committee to move it to a different place, because they\u2019re upset with the name. So it\u2019s just going swimmingly well up there.<\/line>“Six weeks before the Democrats converge on Boston, it appears Kerry is already being overshadowed by Clinton, and the ex-president isn\u2019t even trying yet. Besides being the star of the convention, Clinton will also be making some coin off of his convention appearances. The Democratic National Committee has purchased at cost more than 3,000 copies of (his book). Some of those books will be sold at a book-signing party and fundraiser to be held before Clinton makes his primetime convention speech on the first night of the nominating get-together in Beantown. In the three days following his speech, Clinton and his…wife are slated to appear at at least four major party functions, at which they, not the Kerrys, are the star attractions.” Let me tell you about this book business. I don\u2019t know about this number of 3,000 books. Three thousand of Clinton\u2019s books, that sounds like a low number. I don\u2019t know what the number of delegates will be. You know, when I read this story what this sounds like to me? It sounds like — Hillary is going to have a book signing, too. Her book is a year old but they\u2019re printing a whole bunch of new books for Hillary to takeup to this convention and Bill is taking his books up there. <\/line><\/p>\n

They are going to rip off delegates at their own convention. They\u2019re going to sell books<\/emphasize> and have all autograph signing parties up there during the convention and John Kerry is not going to get noticed. He\u2019s going to have a tough, tough time getting noticed. Already is. They\u2019re more excited that Clinton and Hillary are going to be there than Kerry and Teresa are. Do you remember that John Kerry line? I forget. It\u2019s some cheesy line. It\u2019s some absurdity. “Children…” What is it? Kerry said, “When Bill Clinton left office, not one American was dying in battle or in war.” Was that the line? Do you remember that? He tried to link himself to Clinton. [Kerry impression] “Wheeen Bill Clinton left office, not ooone American was dying in baaattle,” or some such thing, trying to illustrate that all these deaths have taken place solely because Bush is in the White House. Yeah, I just got to thinking, with Clinton\u2019s book out and all this sort of stuff, we could come up with all kinds of answers to that kind of syrupy line. <\/line> You could say, “Children born when Bill Clinton was president are the most overweight children in our nation\u2019s history.” You could use the current TIME magazine cover<\/a>, which is “Why Are We Fat,” or something like that, as a peg — and, you know, all this news, I can\u2019t believe. Clinton going on 60 Minutes to tout his book, treated it as a news story! It\u2019s plastered all over the wires and everything. Why is it news that 60 Minutes is going to launch Bill Clinton\u2019s book? 60 Minutes has become the Democrat Book of the Month Club the last six months, and… You know the name of his book? (Pauses) You know, I know what happened. He was going to call it “My Lie,” and that wasn\u2019t going to fly, so they had to put an ‘F\u2019 in there and make it “My Lif<\/emphasize>e,” but they should have left it out and “My Lie” would be a more accurate title. Deborah Orin reporting today<\/a> in the New York Post, that, “after months of hyping the dream” that John McCain could be Kerry\u2019s running mate, Kerry now has realized it isn\u2019t going to happen, needs to prepare his allies for “a far less electrifying choice.” “Team Kerry itself launched the McCain retreat by spinning that President Bush\u2019s troubles in Iraq make it easier to pick a safe, if unexciting, choice.”<\/line>These are words from the Kerry campaign! They actually said <\/emphasize>Bush\u2019s troubles in Iraq, we don\u2019t need McCain anymore, “make it easier to pick a safe, if unexciting choice” like Gephardt or Edwards. Those two names are now being floated by the Kerry campaign itself, instead of the, quote: “riskier McCain.” It is a flip-flop of major proportion<\/emphasize>, but the flip-flop actually isn\u2019t a flip-flop because McCain was never, ever going to do this. Say what you want about McCain, he\u2019s an honorable man, and he promised Bush that he wasn\u2019t going to do this, and he\u2019s not going to break his promise to Bush no matter what his personal problems with Bush are. But even though he was not going to break the promise, he did his best to give that little story some life of its own by denying it in such a way as to leave the door open in front of a panting, slavish media. But now the truth is out.<\/line>It isn\u2019t going to be McCain; it was never <\/emphasize>going to be McCain. They weren\u2019t even going to succeed in trying to get McCain to change his mind, so it\u2019s the Kerry campaign now that\u2019s floating the names Edwards and Gephardt, and about Edwards — according to Deborah Orin, here — the actual feelings that Kerry has for Edwards are not good, doesn\u2019t like Edwards all that much. [program observer interruption] Yeah, he\u2019s been stealing (Edwards\u2019 lines). He\u2019s been stealing everybody\u2019s lines. Kerry\u2019s been stealing everybody\u2019s. He\u2019s stealing McGovern\u2019s lines; he\u2019s &lt;a target=new href=”http:\/\/www.spectator.org\/dsp_article.asp?art_id=6621″>stealing JFK&lt;\/a> the First\u2019s lines; he\u2019s stealing Howard Dean\u2019s lines — and he\u2019s blaming it on his speechwriters! You know, he gets away with it three or four speeches, and somebody says, “You know, we heard Howard Dean (say that.) [Kerry sing-song voice] “I\u2019ll taaalk to my speeeechwriters about it. I didn\u2019t write this, you knooow, I just say it. I don\u2019t ooown those SUVs. The family does. I just ride in theeem.”<\/line>END TRANSCRIPT<\/line><\/p>\n

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