[cheering and applause] stephen: welcome to the report. thank you, everybody. it s good to have you with us. nation, there was another republican debate last night, which caught me by surprise because i was not aware that the previous debate had ended. it was first debate since my man herman cain became the republican front-runner. of course, moderator and arctic cloud sprite anderson cooper wasted no time trying to catch cain with the liberal gotcha tactic of quoting something cain had said. jim? herman cain, i got to ask you, you said don t blame two weeks ago you said, don t blame wall street. don t blame the big banks. if you don t have a job and you re not rich, don t blame yourself. do you still say that? yes, i do still say that. stephen: yes he does. and that message of hope is sure to rally the nation s unemployed to herman cain if they weren t so goddamn lazy. and from there herman continued the cain-ing. i still stand by my statement and here s why
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