GLENN BECK PROGRAM
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GLENN: Kind of excited for Fred Thompson tonight. Let's see what Fred Thompson is -- how he does. You know what, I think that Fred Thompson has got to hit this one out of the park. He cannot look disinterested, he can't look like he doesn't have fire in the belly. He can't -- he is coming in so late, if he blows it tonight, I think it's going to really hurt him. You think, Stu? I think he's got a -- I think he's got to hit -- he's got to hit it to the fences.

STU: Yeah, I heard a quote from one of his spokespeople who said --

GLENN: Please don't say spokesman.

STU: No, I wouldn't want to because I don't know if it's --

GLENN: What if it was a dog? Are you saying a dog couldn't speak for Fred Thompson? Is that what you're saying?

STU: No, no, his spokes entity.

GLENN: What if it wasn't an entity? What if he has a lamp? What if he has a lamp?

STU: His spokes object was talking and --

GLENN: Oh, so if it was a women, women are objects to you? Interesting, Stu.

STU: Spokes life form?

GLENN: Like dead people, like dead people. So you are against all psychics.

STU: His spokesman, his spokesman said something to the effect of, that, well, be interesting to see Fred go on tonight because, you know, he hasn't -- it's -- for everyone else has had their preseason and now they are in the full swing and this is just, this is the first scrimmage for Fred Thompson. I've got news for you. When you enter this late, you don't get scrimmages.

GLENN: Yeah. It's not like, you know, here you are, you know, in the last couple of minutes of a football game and then you send in -- your quarterback is hurt and you send in the guy who everybody's been waiting for because this guy saves the day and then he comes in the last two minutes and he's like, but I wasn't warmed up. I mean, I really could have had it but I wasn't warmed up yet. You know, you're saving it. You better be really good.

STU: Because you know what, I'll be great three weeks after the game's over. I'm going to be fantastic.

GLENN: You could have seen me trying a half hour because I kept doing that over and over again. A half hour after the game was over, I was really good.

STU: I'm really interested in Fred Thompson. This is a debate I'm going to watch.

GLENN: Me, too.

STU: I want to see him and what he does. He really does have to be impressive. They said he did something like nine mock debates with other people, you know, off set, off camera to prepare for this. And it's like he really does need to -- I don't know that he needs to be the greatest candidate in history tonight but he needs to show, he needs to be very solid.

GLENN: He needs to be -- he needs to at least be at the level of Giuliani and Romney. And I think those guys are both, I think they have both been pretty good at the debates. Not consistently good either one of them, but pretty good. He has got to at least be right up there immediately, and I think at least a touch better.

STU: Yeah.

GLENN: If he comes out and he's like, you know, I don't know, Tom Tancredo or whoever, you know, God forbid he's Ron Paul. If he's Ron Paul, he's doomed.

STU: Yeah, he just needs to be solid and not make any major, like, you know, factual sort of, you know, misstatements, anything like that. He needs to be solid. He doesn't have to be --

GLENN: He can't hem and haw. He can't hem and haw and he also can't look -- you know the problem with Fred Thompson at least for me is -- I really like him because he is a guy -- and this is one of the things that I like, but I think you have this in Giuliani, I think you have this in Romney and I think you have this in Fred Thompson. The guy can explain things, you know? I want a guy who's going to explain it, can explain it, is not going to be pushed onto the ropes and then just be like,... yeah. You know, I don't want that. Had that, don't like it.

STU: Yeah, didn't work out. It's just annoying.

GLENN: Yeah, it's just like, a 4-year-old could explain this! I don't want that. If he's just too loose with the facts, if he doesn't come out and just speak conservative principles clearly and if he hides behind, you know, will you -- how do you feel about taxes? "Well, I'll tell you how I feel, Ronald Reagan feels. Ronald Reagan feels good about taxes, not real good about taxes. He doesn't like taxes, I don't like taxes because I'm like Ronald Reagan. If Ronald Reagan didn't like it, I don't like it." You know what I'm saying? I don't need that.

STU: I want him to echo the same.

GLENN: I want him to believe what Ronald Reagan believes. Ronald Reagan didn't say, you know who's really good, you know who's really good, Abraham Lincoln. He was good. You know what Abraham Lincoln did all the time; he would have done this. And if we were having slaves right now, I would have been just like Abraham Lincoln. I don't need to hear what Abraham Lincoln -- Abraham Lincoln is dead; what are you going to do. And if I go, gosh, this guy sounds just like Abraham Lincoln. Well, good for you.

STU: What's interesting about this debate, too, is that when they all started these debates a while ago, you were watching all the candidates to see who was good. So if people -- you saw the really crappy candidates and you noticed the really good candidates and then there's some in the middle of the tonight is only about Fred Thompson. It's the only one you're watching, you just want to see him.

GLENN: But if he's really good, he could knock somebody out. If he's really good, I'm wondering who he is going to take on as a target.

STU: If he will, if he will. I think right now --

GLENN: If you're -- see, that's the thing again about explaining. If he sucks tonight, that's not real good because this is -- if anybody's comfortable on TV, it should be Fred Thompson.

STU: Yes.

GLENN: You know, if there's anybody that understand performance, it should be Fred Thompson.

STU: Be no jitters.

GLENN: Should be no jitters here on that. I mean, you know, I've got to believe the pressure is a little intense.

STU: Well, I mean, he was on capital murder trials on Law and Order. That's intense pressure.

GLENN: That's true. You had somebody's life in your hands.

STU: Life and death situations.

GLENN: Wouldn't it be great if all of a sudden he started in on the answer and said, you know, when I was a -- what was it? What was he, a prosecutor?

STU: Yeah, he was the guy, what's the -- no, above the prosecutor, the district attorney?

GLENN: The DA? Yeah. When I was the DA, back in whatever city that show was on, New York?

STU: Sure.

GLENN: You don't watch it, either?

STU: I love it. I don't watch it all the time. It's one of those shows, when it's on, I always enjoy it. It's a great show.

GLENN: Everybody I know loves it, just loves it. I can't do it.

STU: I can but it's one of those things I never schedule time for. If it's on and I watch it, it's great every time. The reruns, they are always great, but you know --

GLENN: This is on at 9:00. You know what I'm giving up tonight? You know what I'm giving up tonight for Fred Thompson? You damn well better be good. I'm giving up House.

STU: You are a big House fan.

GLENN: I am a huge House fan.

STU: I saw that he was doing a tribal council tonight.

GLENN: Did you see, looks like one of his new cast members, he fired everybody last night? Did you see one of his new cast members? Mormon.

STU: All around the campaign.

GLENN: Yeah, in bed with the Romney campaign. Somehow or another I doubt that. Yeah, yeah.

STU: That makes everything work, doesn't it?

GLENN: All of a sudden Law and Order is just sentencing everyone because they are Mormons. All of a sudden all the killers are Mormons. "Well, did you not, did you not shoot them in the head because they were a non-Mormon?" No, I didn't. "Jail for you!"

STU: Wouldn't that be fantastic if Law and Order just starts all -- like there are just female politicians murdering people in every episode and, like, former mayors in major cities, killing sprees in post offices.

GLENN: Excuse me, the evil one, if I may call you by your name, Mrs. Snillary Kenton. You wouldn't put it past them. You know, I watched them. I saw House and there's this new Mormon character and I was like, oh, whoa, when's the last time I saw a Mormon character introduced on a series? When's that ever happened? Oh, we're just reflecting the times. Uh-huh. And they wonder if that character mysteriously dies, has some stroke the day after Romney's out. 

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