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we have a lot to get you today will have a c l_ u_ attorney bill newman coming in
on the show also david chair of will be in studio arthur i don't wish nobody to
have a life like mine
books actually over here a hold it up for a t_v_ audience it
pretty fascinating about kid sent adult prisons
they'll both be here a little bit later so you can find the studio which is
never guarantee as we now
it was over i wasn't actually on the west coast over the weekend
and part of last week in california i was presenting at the grassroots radio
conference and it was pretty interesting
i'd never been in san francisco and the conference is north of san francisco in
humboldt county which i'm told is pot country essentially a lot of people go
up there
you grow pot
and it was it was interesting is definitely different i mean i'm not used
to driving ten miles without
not so much as an exit off of the highway
or even a road to turn on and met a lot of great people including journey lands
men from alaska who set us up on on kate k wm t up their as well as bobby on from
ken white our affiliate in fort bragg
you know it's amazing
people at the conference fascinated with the lewis' makeover people just
absolutely curious about including bob who said it
is louis going to stick with it and i think our t_v_ audience can see
the answer is no you're not sticking with the makeover
noticing this everything doesn't happen overnight it's a slow transition
all set
it seems like it is slow so anyway people fascinated about the lewis'
makeover
and uh... just an interesting place and it also fort bragg kind of an
interesting place
looked interesting trip overall ideas is working on getting although i have to
say
up near our affiliate k_m_t_ you d
in garber phil kept california where the d conference was
it was pretty tough to find a good place to eat maybe i just didn't know the
right place to go
and open no la
no consultant and but it was hard to find the right place is i'm sure i just
didn't know about them
because i wasn't from their you really need to talk to somebody to know
we had
a couple of primaries this week the big news
his that arlen specter
who switched
from the g_o_p_ to the democrats about a year ago specifically because he was
going to lose the republican primary
has lost the democratic primary to congressman joe sas tak
who was a guest on our show just a couple of months ago fifty four to forty
six specter lost
un f_y_i_
after five phone calls and emails to specter's team inviting arlen specter to
come on the show
not even as much as the call her email back
often that's an indication
of how the campaign is being run not that coming on our show would've done
anything to change the results fifty four to forty six
we're on a couple of stations in philadelphia and i think we could have
turned around fifty four to forty six
but that's really a good indication when you don't even hear back
frohnmayer the candidates office
it's funny because uh... after the interview we asked each other
the story we stand a chance right
it seems like he did right
it seems like he did and specter ran an awd campaign in general he was clearly
struggling he had this weird videotape cellphone exchange it with another
politician they came off really weirdly
he even had a gaffe where speaking in front of the democratic group
that endorsed him he referred to them as republicans and i'm not i'm not getting
he did this twice here's the first example
a
partnerships are generally
tonight the sand and then he goes on and he does it again during the speech
a
moral
if you're going to be endorsed by a democratic group
and you're going to speak in front of them
it probably makes sense not to call them republicans even though i mean look at
him some slack his lesson that less difference between the parties as
they're not but that's a whole other
a whole other can of worms ab brack obama supported arlen specter some
saying the fact that
specter lost is now going to say something about barack obama and their
chances the chances for the democrats in twenty november twenty ten
now i don't know
i don't know if i don't know if i buy that
up randa paul who is ron paul's
road the tea party
wave too a easy win in kentucky even though his opponent had the support of
kentucky senator mitch mcconnell
ab i wish i had the clip ran paul in his victory speech
one of the slowest
deliveries i've ever heard if the strangers way of speaking
almost like he didn't want to
make a mistake
and he was just speaking really slowly to accomplish that which is funny
because richard blumenthal
who is a connecticut senator hopeful
actually made a mistake he said
that he served in vietnam
when he actually did
and i know that this would sound we heard how could you missed how could you
forget
that you didn't serve in vietnam and say you did it seems that kind of a big deal
right decided by said
if i think if i walked into the the women's bathroom
because i forgot
that that's not the right bathroom for me because it was i dissonant
the alibi to make a mistake that
there must be a good story behind it there is what we want all the democrat
he's spoken about his time in vietnam
during multiple campaign appearances around the state of connecticut
including a veterans' group in norwalk
when he said
we have learned something important since the days that i served in vietnam
according to the new york times blumenthal washington-based marine unit
performed local projects such as toys for tots
i can understand how you could get points for tots confused with serving
time in vietnam
it's it's it's very easy for me to see how that might happen and then he also
said if i remember the time to the insults
sometimes even physical abuse
when he returned
from vietnam when we return we saw nothing like this let's do better by
this generation of men and women
it turns out he actually didn't serve there
it's strange yeah i just don't understand his campaign said no no
people are reading too much into that he never really said that he served there
from the quote quote some reading it sounds like he did and it let's go easy
on the guy it's easy to forget you didn't actually go to a war zone and
fight in hellish situation visit
as easy to forget that i actually thought i had served in iraq for several
years
until just a couple months ago a local paper reminded me i actually didn't
actually had never been in the military happens to the best of us
but he was in the military
he was in the military generous shipped over
army technically you're still a veteran if you were serving during a time of war
i'm not saying he's not a veteran but he said
he served in vietnam that's a quote in here you know there are days that i'd
served in vietnam he should have said during vietnam the days that i served
which were during the vietnam war right it doesn't seem like it is that
complicated to clear it up
but i you know are
boaters always like to hear that you
you're a servicemen right but you can't make it out
you'd have to be the truth
because after you agree with that at this could cost him the election
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