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NASCAR Fans + Bill O’Reilly Segment = You’ll Be a Little Surprised

Nov. 27, 2012 8:05am Jonathon M. Seidl

If I asked you to blurt out which way NASCAR fans lean politically, it would probably take you all of one millisecond to scream “conservative!” That’s because the perception is that those fans generally are the “guns and religion” type so famously mocked by the president in 2008. So if I told you that Bill O’Reilly sent his producer to a recent NASCAR race to talk politics and the responses he got were not entirely what you might have expected, would you be a little surprised?

Sure there were plenty of comments you’d expect. But there were also a few that you wouldn’t.

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DoctorRon
Posted on November 27, 2012 at 1:56pm
NASCAR drivers lean left.

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- MrSunshine
  Posted on November 27, 2012 at 2:27pm
  Excpet when on the road courses.
  
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- MrSunshine
  Posted on November 27, 2012 at 2:35pm
  I guess that should be spelled except.
  
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- 226crimsontrace
  Posted on November 27, 2012 at 5:40pm
  Why would this article surprise me?? The majority of voters are stupid, why would we think Nascar fans would be different??
  
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- Secret Squirrel
  Posted on November 27, 2012 at 7:34pm
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  Nascar fans know one thing.
  Obama is a communist.
  Nascar fans support the constitution, and that
  separates them from Obama.
  Nothing else matters.
  
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- lillymckim
  Posted on November 27, 2012 at 8:28pm
  “The Folks” as Bill O’ likes to call the little people to insult us with was VERY insulted by Jesse Waters cherry picked assortment of nuts is more like it!
  I have been to many a Nascar race and have never encountered people like this!
  Did Waters pay that guy to put on the pink wife beater shirt?
  
  The owners and drivers don’t vote Obama and of that you can be sure!
  
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- BreeZee
  Posted on November 28, 2012 at 9:27am
  Most of the people that was at Homestead racetrack were from southern florida or as we call it north cuba. This is the land of crooked elections, deb wasserman shultz and latino city and they all vote blue so you go figure out where their answers come from……bunch of barry flavored kool-aid drinkers
  
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gsp9993
Posted on November 27, 2012 at 1:53pm
Once again, it’s the women who are out of touch. There’s no war on women. But there should be
a war on stupidity.

If we took all of the stupid people out of the voting pool this year, Obama would have gotten about 30% of the popular vote. The other 20% of his voting base don’t know the issues or even care.

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- BobM
  Posted on November 27, 2012 at 2:02pm
  Like Pravda reported, “Illiterate Sheeple”!
  
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- TheePolitinator
  Posted on November 27, 2012 at 2:12pm
  Also, if it were a true Republic vote where the entire states popular vote actually mattered and not some hacked electoral college Oblahblah would only have about 33% of the vote.
  
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- bdsconserv
  Posted on November 27, 2012 at 2:48pm
  isn’t it appalling that these stupid people,yes,mostly women,laugh and think it’s somehow cute that they are so stupid?
  
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- DennisHabern1
  Posted on November 27, 2012 at 5:19pm
  Napoleon I and Otto von Bismarck were loath that the masses would have the right to vote, and
  
  therefore, I can understand their thinking, using the presidential election of 2012, as a prime
  
  example, if you follow.
  
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TexBork
Posted on November 27, 2012 at 1:38pm
I can see some NASCAR fans as not knowing about Benghazi. Danica Patrick thinks Bronco ‘Bama’s health care plan is a good idea. Still, the media has done thins kind of thing in the past as well. It hasn’t always worked out. The last one I remember was attempted by NBC News in 2006. It was at one of the Martinsville races that NBC’s Dateline program was hoping to bait fans into making insensitive remarks to the Muslim / Arab people it had planted at the track. It didn’t work. NBC didn’t even deny it. They just covered it up. Odd, they actually created a news story that was compelling and the result was the truth, but the truth isn’t what the media wants. At least not NBC’s Dateline. They took a pretty compelling story that led to the truth and buried it, because they could not use it for propaganda. I’m sure they’ve learned their lesson. Next time, don’t just plan the bait, plant the actors to play the roles you want to pretend are real to support the story. Then you can by-pass the the unpleasantness of actually having to the face the real truth. Personally liked NASCAR more a few years ago. It seems to have changed. Still, I went to the Brickyard this year and was in a Gasoline Alley suite above Stremmie’s pit. Actually, I saw all three races that weekend. It was awesome!

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jungle J
Posted on November 27, 2012 at 12:59pm
The majority of race fans are drunks and losers.They destroy brain cells like a doper.

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- busterpuddles
  Posted on November 27, 2012 at 1:51pm
  Hey, J. You might want to consider coming out of the jungle to broaden your horizons and meet some people. Especially since you’ll probably end up living in the south (NASCAR heaven) where all of your neighbors are relocating. You’ll find you, yourself, have become a stereotype as you ‘follow the herd’ with your opinion. After you figure that out, You’ll then realize the biggest difference between NASCAR fans and people like you is the fans have the technological knowledge and the courage to enjoy living on the edge.
  
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Old Ogre
Posted on November 27, 2012 at 12:40pm
Oh look they are making another left turn… Sounds like a slow news day, never could get into the whole racing thing, spectators sport and when I was young enough to actually do anything I preferred to actually participate! I spent my time hunting n fishing and bbqn with the family. Hours sitting in the hot sun watching cars go round and round?… Might as well just move to the city and buy a lawn chair!

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BlasberryStrat
Posted on November 27, 2012 at 12:27pm
NASCAR, a multi-billion dollar industry that evolved from the days of moonshiners. Now that’s capitalism in its purest form. You think they’re dumb as heck, but during the depression it was those people who were making the money instead of standing in bread lines. I by no means am a NASCAR fan and never even watched one race. But I was an autobody tech for years, and do know that when you mix fast cars, women in swimsuits & heels, and beer, you get money every time….

Showing off those women in skimpy outfits, nylons, and heels, is sexist?? 1) Only ugly chicks say that. 2) I’d like to have their paycheck for just ONE race.

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Born2Run
Posted on November 27, 2012 at 12:23pm
Ignorance is dismantling our country from the inside out.

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- Red Meat
  Posted on November 27, 2012 at 12:35pm
  Next time you meet a public school teacher be sure to thank them.
  
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- NHwinter
  Posted on November 27, 2012 at 1:51pm
  Born2Run – I agree, it is ignorance. I imagine a great many who voted for Obama know nothing about what he has done or is going to do. He’s just a nice looking family man, yeah, lets vote for him. He’ll give us free phones, new cars, a home, food stamps, welfare checks. He cares about us. Sad isn’t it. Now we live with it.
  
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- Gonzo
  Posted on November 27, 2012 at 2:40pm
  Yep and every one of those people have the last 20 NASCAR champions memorized. People aren’t necessarily stupid, just completely and totaly disengaged with anything of substance.
  
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RodT82721
Posted on November 27, 2012 at 12:17pm
I just love these live interviews, it really shows how our Federal education dollars are misspent.

But also give some insight to why our dear leader is off on another mob rule campaign, to cower the House into giving him more of your money. (To hire more illiterate teachers)

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- NHwinter
  Posted on November 27, 2012 at 1:53pm
  The only way to solve this is to withhold our tax payments, all 50% of us. Then what would they do?
  
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RaydocX
Posted on November 27, 2012 at 11:36am
I hope that Jesse was intentionally choosing fans who were obviously less than informed about any subject.

it is amazing and wonderful that people with so little knowledge are able to do so well in this country, and attests to the nation’s greatness…

it is also a harbinger of the grim future if our nation’s education system is so weak, after only 2 decades chasing ‘unbiased’ standardized test results, that so few people know about issues that have been raised to national import.

the surreptitious undermining of the nation’s schools, coopting Republicans out of a misconceived concern that people were being ‘left behind’ has been key to the Democrat’s success, because uneducated or illeducated people are more likely to need Federal support and to be easily duped by the political machine and it’s Leftist propaganda arm, the MSM (can you say war on women?).

I am left wondering if the Dem’s really want total control of a socialist state bereft of Capitalist innovation and windfall profit, their subjects the literal unwashed, unknowing masses? Such a nation cannot long stand, and such a nation would betray the utter idiocy of their vaunted policies and opinions, which survive only so long as the real Capitalism continues to funnel funds for their ill conceived social experiments.

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Experiment626
Posted on November 27, 2012 at 10:47am
I thought this segment was funny.

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pookieamos
Posted on November 27, 2012 at 10:25am
I wonder if the twit in the picture voted ??? She told Waters , I know nothing about Benghazi !! I know most of us here pay a lot of attention but this woman knew absolutely nothing about Ambassador Stevens ! It’s terrifying so many are completely DISengaged !!!!

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oldincarolina
Posted on November 27, 2012 at 10:23am
I am with the man who said that Obama is doing everything that is wrong for America.He has been keeping up with what’s going on.

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no1hd
Posted on November 27, 2012 at 10:20am
Why not send ol’ lib bill o’really to a nba game and play all the comments, not just the front row or 2..Than come back and tell us how you feel about NASCAR..
NASCAR does not deal with dope or dopers, they publicly say a prayer before every event, fine participants for fowl language, honor the USA and the flag of the USA..They do not go to the events to get in it political bs with people looking for the bloopers only..

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- Old Ogre
  Posted on November 27, 2012 at 12:30pm
  Oh look YOUR making another LEFT turn! :-) ha ha ha!
  
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Depat
Posted on November 27, 2012 at 10:04am
Just shows how stupid and ilinformed people are everywhere. This country will not survive, and maybe it shouldn’t.

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- SimpleTruths
  Posted on November 27, 2012 at 11:17am
  Got news for you, nothing has changed in the past 200+ years and the country has survived. There’s always been groups of people highly engaged and also large groups of people who aren’t engaged in the day to day, or even election to election, goings on. They are busy dealing with the challenges of their day, of raising their kids, scratching out a living, etc. We have, and will, go on.
  
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- skimmer57
  Posted on November 27, 2012 at 11:50am
  Did anyone notice that there were very few people of color there? Those fans ARE the GOP base! Ignorant ill informed Fox news viewers. Most couldn’t name the three branches of government if you held a gun to their head and I bet there were plenty of guns there. 90% thought Benghazi was a new Italian sports car!
  
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- naughtycal
  Posted on November 27, 2012 at 12:06pm
  Simpletruth,
  While what you posted is technically correct it doesn’t take into consideration the growing opressive enviroment the Fed. Government has been and is continuing to create. I don’t see a United States in 20 years …I see sedition and abandonment of Washington. We may find ourselfs in an inner country conflict or hopefully something less bloody and more of a gentlemens agreement. There one thing for sure OPRESSION ONLY LAST SO LONG UNTIL A PEOPLE SAYS ENOUGH….
  
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Proverbs17-12NLT
Posted on November 27, 2012 at 10:02am
Hey Jesse I’m sure if you interviewed at the occupy circus you would of found pedophiles, rapers, and bestiality.

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502_eagle
Posted on November 27, 2012 at 9:57am
I would rather see interviews of the people who refused to talk to Watters

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- grayling646
  Posted on November 27, 2012 at 10:15am
  So you’re saying you’re an …hole? Who the heII doesn’t like Watters?
  
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- 502_eagle
  Posted on November 27, 2012 at 10:33am
  Shows how smart you are. Watters chooses to play Sweet Home Alabama to a race that is in Florida.
  
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- grayling646
  Posted on November 27, 2012 at 11:47am
  Oh, well golly gee. That settles it.
  
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- jbh1
  Posted on November 27, 2012 at 2:38pm
  502 you might want to use a little thing called google and check out where Lynyrd Skynyrd is from
  
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- Recondaddy
  Posted on November 27, 2012 at 5:02pm
  Hey 502. You’d like to see the interviews with the people who walked away from Watters??
  
  Isn’t that a bit like saying, “I’d like to hear that guy’s speech. You know…the one who refused to talk.”
  
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SixX
Posted on November 27, 2012 at 9:49am
“Sure there were plenty of comments you’d expect. But there were also a few that you wouldn’t.”

Well if you ask enough people you are bound to get responses that are unrepresentative of the main group. That’s basic logic and statistics. In other words, this article is pointless spin.

The very second O’Reilly’s name is mentioned you should think ‘spin job’. The man couldn’t find a fact in a library. He’s a paid shill for the wealthy, and will continue to push their agenda for power and profit. Period.

Why not show the more accurate link to NASCAR and under-educated and overly religious states? That’s a far more accurate and honest link.

NASCAR is for people who just don’t really like engaging their brain. It’s an incalculable waste of natural resources.

I mean, it’s not hard to ‘master’ the basics of NASCAR. Go fast. Go left. Look like a walking billboard advertisement. Done.

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- IndyGuy
  Posted on November 27, 2012 at 10:10am
  Sixx…You are an idiot…
  
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- Buddynoel
  Posted on November 27, 2012 at 10:36am
  Hey SIXX, then why does the average NASCAR fan earn more than $68,000 a year? Why are the lots at each race filled with hundreds of RVs that are each worth more than you spent on your home? Oh, I get it. You were just being ignorant. Good job!
  
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- mr. parker
  Posted on November 27, 2012 at 1:52pm
  You mean like everyone else who watches network TV, or the NFL or the NBA? They’re not exactly engaging their brains and most of them are big city boys and girls, not too religious and the fans love to paint themselves up in the team colors, just like walking, drunken billboards.
  Bounce a ball, run down the other side of the court, hey here’s a tv show about how I met your mother, sit in a frozen seat, drinking beer, cheering like lunatics.
  Check the difference between the team members and the fans- hmm- doesn’t exactly seem like the teams are representative of the area’s demographics.
  Maybe those liberals should request affirmative action for pro athletes.
  
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- DennisHabern1
  Posted on November 27, 2012 at 5:27pm
  There only certain American citizens that follow NASCAR, and of the ones that I have met, most
  
  lack a good education to make themselves competitive in today’s market, and therefore, more
  
  than likely, most NASCAR followers are welfare recipients whom spend the tax payers dollars on
  
  the race, instead of purchasing food their families. Need a say more? Followers of F-1 (Formula-1)
  
  appear to be more educated and maintain employment positions that prevent them from drawing
  
  Welfare Checks from the government. In other words, NASCAR is a poor man’s type of
  
  entertainment, while Formula One is not. It is here that we separate the men from the boys, the
  
  good-old-boys I mean, if you follow.
  
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- Shamrock241
  Posted on November 27, 2012 at 6:36pm
  @ Sixx NASCAR is for people who just don’t really like engaging their brain. It’s an incalculable waste of natural resources. Many advances in car safty and innovation have been due to thing learn from car racing Moron, OH and by the way that parachute that deployed everytime the spaceshuttle landed, well moron that was Richard Pettys idea but of course he doesn’t like to engage his brain, your a typical ingnorant Yankee.
  
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Capt_Gregg
Posted on November 27, 2012 at 9:36am
There’s no story here. It was a nightmarish job of editing. He apparently wanted the fans to look stupid. It would have been more interesting to see the raw, unedited video.

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- DennisHabern1
  Posted on November 27, 2012 at 5:49pm
  There is only one American sport left: America’s national past-time: “BASE BALL.” The worst
  
  is NASCAR. Match the education level of the customers that view various sports and you will
  
  discover that America’s education levels, match the sport that they are interested in. And now you
  
  know the rest of the story. Therefore, is it any wonder that these same uneducated Americans,
  
  voted for the Moron that currently resides in the White House, if you follow. That is how low and
  
  dependent Americans are dependent on the Federal Government to come to their rescue each month
  
  with their Welfare Checks, is there a beer in the fridge and is there a babe in their beds; that is the
  
  now, “AMERICAN DREAM.” As long as the Moron that currently resides in the White House
  
  depends on the “FREE STUFF,” followers of NASCAR will vote for the Communistic Democrats, if
  
  you follow. A military COUP is required to take back our country from the POS that currently resides
  
  in the White House and the Nazi collaborator, George Soros. Anything connected to the Moron
  
  or Soros, ensues in a negative result, using the result of the recent presidential election as an
  
  example.
  
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fmbmitgt
Posted on November 27, 2012 at 9:19am
What do you expect? The cars always turn LEFT!

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SpankDaMonkey
Posted on November 27, 2012 at 9:14am
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Jessie would make a good speed bump…………

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BlackCrow
Posted on November 27, 2012 at 8:59am
O’Reilly is another North East RINO who is looking to embarrass red state Tea Party people into shutting up and going away. Well we are not going to shut up or go away. We WILL take our country back, one way or another. And I am also like TeaTommy a college educated, retired, professional who is a Tony Stewart fan.

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- NOT A CRAZY
  Posted on November 27, 2012 at 9:19am
  I didn’t even watch the video because I could care less what spin the O’Reilly crowd puts on something. I did see his name on this article and I wanted to also point out that O’Reilly is a big city anti-gun RINO-type. I quit listening to him and listening to this looney years ago. I can’t stand him.
  
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IndyGuy
Posted on November 27, 2012 at 8:40am
Nascar fans like to keep politics out of racing….Hint,hint…

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decendentof56
Posted on November 27, 2012 at 8:39am
It’s all in how you phrase a question as to the response you get.
Ask…”do you believe in the right to own guns so you could protect yourself”, and these people would overwhelmingly say “yes”!
Ask…”was George Zimmerman justified in shooting his attacker in Florida” and even those who knew of the incident would give very conflicting answers.
It still concerns being able to protect yourself with a gun, and Florida law gave Zimmerman the right to do what he did. People just will not be able to rationalize the issue to give an intelligent answer.
Obama ‘did’ just get re-elected, did he not!

I enjoy Waters’ segment’s, but there’s no doubt in my mind that most NASCAR fans are conservtive.

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- decendentof56
  Posted on November 27, 2012 at 8:46am
  oops! Watters
  
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teammommy
Posted on November 27, 2012 at 8:38am
We arent all like that! i could spout of facts, figures, ratified amendments and constitutional facts, AND I’m a huge Tony Stewart and RCR 29 fan!!! II wear Ralph Lauren to the race, not fan gear, am college educated, white collar, tea party conservative and I have all my teeth and no tattoos… so put that in the stereotype pipe and smoke it, BO nation!

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- decendentof56
  Posted on November 27, 2012 at 8:49am
  Just what I said!
  
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- Zipit
  Posted on November 27, 2012 at 9:25am
  Ditto Mommy! Except, that on race day, I’m in the parking lot in my tank top, Jeff Gordon hat, cooler full of colors light, and the grill a smokin!!!!! All while sitting on my tailgate with some of my best redneck friends!!!! Teeth or not……..
  
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- skimmer57
  Posted on November 27, 2012 at 11:26am
  Gosh! You are soooo cool! By the way did you wear Ralph Lauren to the voting booth to cast your LOSING ballot? Put that in your bong and smoke it!
  
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- Zipit
  Posted on November 27, 2012 at 4:58pm
  Oops, spell check got me! Should’ve been Coors Light!
  
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mapgirl10
Posted on November 27, 2012 at 8:37am
Wow Jesse ;you look good. Surprised to see you among the people. Will we see Bill on the Blaze while he is in Dallas?

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