shows on. you have the balloon drop where the balloons drop on time. you ve really good at this stuff, but this year when you only had an hour of primetime tv on the networks of nbc, cbs and abc, you put on clint eastwood. the other guys put on the up up man for the president, joe biden. i think you lost some of your luster in this business. well, chris, i know it s going to make a lot of our republican friends unhappy with me, but i thought it was kind of strange seeing clint eastwood a guy who i love talking to an empty chair. i get the point, but for goodness sakes, the one hour that you have the american people tuning in that aren t on the cable networks and are looking at an empty chair? i didn t see the humor in it, a lot of people did. i wouldn t have chose that line of frankly attacking the president. you know, joe, he apparently thought up of this shtick in the green room. he just thought of it. that s a lot of power to just say, can i have that chair,
put on clint eastwood. the other guys put on the up up man for the president, joe biden. i think you lost some of your luster in this business. well, chris, i know it s going to make a lot of our republican friends unhappy with me, but i thought it was kind of strange seeing clint eastwood talking to an empty chair. i get the point, but the one hour you have the american people tuning in that aren t on the table networks and you re looking at an empty chair? i didn t see the humor in it. a lot of people did. i wouldn t have chosen that line of attack against the president. you know, joe, he apparently thought up of this shtick in the green room. to say could i have that chair please? i think even though obama seems to have gotten the big bounce today in the gallup approval, you can bet that romney is way up with people who yell at empty chairs.