Real Talk!

Back in February, I wrote a couple/few blogs about watching Hillary Clinton & Barak Obama in debate... and more recently, I have watched "the debates"... Canadian and U.S.

& I haven't really changed heart.

These elections feel critically important and yet, there is no substance to what is being said. Okay, I realize that this is a cautious time for candidates... not the best time to ruffle feathers... better to be likeable and engaging...

yup... it's getting scary.

Last evening, I listened as Glenn Beck interviewed Brian Sack and felt an instant kinship. I searched, this morning, for a transcript and will include it here, because it was really something that I could grab hold of....

the only other and perhaps more honest political account I have heard recently; was when a caller on some politico-show said something like: "I've never been a fan of the Republican party, in fact, I've never listened to a thing they had to say... but I watch Sarah Palin when she's speaking, because I'm a 40 something guy and she's attractive."

Here's the Beck transcript:

(Disclaimer: Glenn Beck is American radio and television host, conservative political commentator, and entrepreneur. His nationally syndicated radio show, The Glenn Beck Program, airs throughout the United States on Premiere Radio Networks. Beck also hosts a self-titled television show, which began in May 2006, on CNN's Headline News. Now...
I may not always agree with Glenn, but as he would say "I am a thinker" and he is interesting.)

BECK: Well, last night`s presidential debate was centered around undecided voters. And I was pretty sure I knew who I was going to vote for until last night. And then I decided I hate both these guys.
Joining me once again with his take on the matter is our own public viewer and angry independent, Brian Sack.

BRIAN SACK, AUTHOR: We can agree on things.

BECK: I`m bringing people together. I hate them both.

SACK: Now Glenn, like many Americans, I sat on the sofa and I watched the two debates or the debates -- the second debate, and I`ve got two words for you. One is boring. The other is also boring.

BECK: Yes, yes.

SACK: After a debate now, the question everyone always asks is, who won? All right? But I`d like to ask a different question. Did we win? OK? Let`s take a look at this.

First of all, did we learn anything new? No. We heard the same inaccurate and/or misleading words and numbers as in the last debate. Now, recently most of us watched our stock portfolio disappears like whisky at a Kennedy family picnic. Did the candidates go into debt from that?

No, they didn`t. No. They blame the other party. Aside from McCain saying we`re going to buy up some lousy mortgages, they moved on from that topic.

Now, did the debate change our perception of the candidates? No. Obamans loved Obama. McCainicles loved McCain. I made that up, McCainicles. And as an independent, Glenn, I just wanted to cry into my sushi. But there were a few things I noticed in the debate, not the least of which was the audience.

BECK: What do you mean?

SACK: Well, the audience was hand picked, apparently, after they said yes to any one of these questions. Are you bald? Do you have a mustache? Can you make a weird face?

BECK: That`s a good looking face there.

SACK: Now, as I said, this was a very boring debate. You`ll agree with me, right?

BECK: Insulting more than boring.

SACK: Yes. Insulting and boring.

BECK: Yes.

SACK: So I spent a lot of time watching the audience. But I did watch the candidates every now and then, and I could not help but notice, Obama knows how to sit.

BECK: He`s like Frank Sinatra, don`t you think? He`s suave. He`s like...

SACK: Suave. He absolutely is.

BECK: Yes.

SACK: Now, McCain, on the other hand, I do not like the way John McCain sits on a stool.

BECK: Oh, boy.

SACK: Maybe it`s the maverick thing. But it just didn`t seem presidential. It looks like a gang signal there.

BECK: That`s the way he rolls, you know?

SACK: Yes. I have to say, Obama did deliver two of my favorite lines in the debate. First, real nice right hook.

(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)

SEN. BARACK OBAMA (D-IL), PRESIDENTIAL NOMINEE: Senator McCain, this is a guy who sang "Bomb, bomb, bomb Iran," who called for the annihilation of North Korea. That, I don`t think, in an example of speaking softly.

(END VIDEO CLIP)

SACK: That was a pretty good comeback from Obama.
Now, the other Obama line was a very Bidenesque foot in the mouth kick.

(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)

OBAMA: You know, a lot of you remember the tragedy of 9/11.

(END VIDEO CLIP)

SACK: A lot of us remember that. No, it doesn`t ring a bell with me.

BECK: I don`t remember that.

SACK: Now, another observation, Glenn, at one point I could have sworn that John McCain was actually leaving the debate out of boredom. Look at this. Wait, he`s giving up.

BECK: There he goes. Maybe I`ll go find some ice cream someplace.

SACK: No, no. It`s not over yet. John, the light`s still green. Come back.

Now, the other thing we noticed is that McCain was taking notes with a sharpie every time he was sitting uncomfortably on his stool.

BECK: Yes.

SACK: Now, I have connections, Glenn. And I managed to get a hold of his legal pad. I have proof that the candidates found the debate as dull as most of us did.

(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)

GRAPHIC: Milk, eggs, coffee, Tums.

(END VIDEO CLIP)

SACK: Yes.

BECK: Yes, Tums.

Brian Sack, thank you very much, sir. Appreciate it. We`ll see you, what is it, next week we`ve got another debate coming up?

And coming up next, if you watched last night`s debate and you didn`t find it boring, I mean, you did find it insulting, right?…..

…if you saw the debates last night, but it was beneath America and way beneath the times that we`re in. If you`re anything like me, you switched it off. I watched the Comedy Channel. I`m not kidding you. I couldn`t take it anymore.

I think I did that right about the time I realized it wouldn`t be so much of a debate as 90 minutes of politicians reciting lines from their stump speeches while in the general vicinity of each other and pointing fingers at each other. That`s America.

Not surprisingly, you didn`t miss much. In fact, we were able to take 90 minutes of blathering nonsense and boil it down to two minutes that has everything you need to know. Take a look.

(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)

TOM BROKAW, NBC NEWS ANCHOR: Gentlemen, we want to get under way immediately, if we can.

SEN. BARACK OBAMA, (D) PRESIDENTIAL NOMINEE: Tom thank you.

SEN. JOHN MCCAIN, (R) PRESIDENTIAL NOMINEE: Well, thank you, Tom.

OBAMA: You need somebody working for you.

MCCAIN: I know how to get America working again. Warren Buffett.

OBAMA: Warren Buffett.

MCCAIN: Not you, Tom. I like Meg Whitman.

OBAMA: Look, you`re not interested in hearing politicians pointing fingers. I`ve got to correct a little bit of senator McCain`s history, not surprisingly.

MCCAIN: With the encouragement of Senator Obama and his cronies and his friends in Washington --

OBAMA: Senator McCain -- and Senator McCain -- in fact, Senator McCain`s campaign --

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: How can we trust either of you with our money when both parties got us into this global economic crisis?

MCCAIN: Senator Obama has never --

OBAMA: When George Bush came into office --

MCCAIN: You know that Senator Obama --

OBAMA: When George Bush came into office --

MCCAIN: He voted for nearly $1 billion in pork barrel earmark projects.

OBAMA: George Bush budgets.

BROKAW: We`re operating under rules that you signed off on.

I`m trying to play by the rules that you all established.

I want to just remind you one more time about time.

OBAMA: Just a quick follow-up on this, I think --

MCCAIN: If we`re going to have follow-ups, I will want follow-ups --

BROKAW: I know. I know. I think we`ll get out of it if I can.

MCCAIN: Fine with me.

OBAMA: You can have one.

BROKAW: All right. Let`s have a follow-up.

OBAMA: Just a quick follow-up because I think this is important.

BROKAW: I`m just the hired help here.

MCCAIN: I would like to have the equal time to go.

BROKAW: Gentlemen, you may not have noticed, but we have lights around here.

MCCAIN: Wave like that and I`ll look at you and I`ll stop, Tommy, and you didn`t even wave.

BROKAW: Look, guys, the rules were established by the two campaigns --

OBAMA: Now, we are in the worst financial crisis since the Great Depression.
We have a half a trillion dollar deficit annually.

MCCAIN: To immediately buy up the bad home loan mortgages in America.

OBAMA: $300 billion --

MCCAIN: Is it expensive? Yes.

OBAMA: An additional $200 billion.

MCCAIN: $3 million for an overhead projector. We are in tough economic times.

OBAMA: I`ve called for an investment of $15 billion a year over ten years.

MCCAIN: $860 billion in new spending.

OBAMA: $4 billion worth.

MCCAIN: $6.8 billion.

OBAMA: $18 billion. $10 billion a month.

MCCAIN: I think what I don`t know is what all of us don`t know.

OBAMA: Senator McCain and I do agree, this is the greatest nation on earth. That`s going to change when I`m president.

BROKAW: You`re in my way of my script there. If you will move -- good night, everyone, from Nashville.

(END VIDEO CLIP)