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This is Barry Reingold,
a retired phone worker...

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...from Oakland, California.

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Barry likes to work out in the gym.

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Somewhere between his cardio
and his strength training...

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...Barry got political.

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We were up in the gym,
and it was after we were working out...

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...and a number of us were talking
about 9l11 and Afghanistan...

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...and bin Laden, and someone said,
Bin Laden's a real asshole...

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"...for murdering those people."""
"And I said, ""Yeah, that's true."

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But he'll never be as big
an asshole as Bush...

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...who bombs all over the world
"for oil profits."""

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Barry didn't have to worry
about the police spying on him.

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His fellow weightlifters
were more than willing to turn him in.

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I was taking a nap, and I guess
it was 1:30, 2:00 in the afternoon.

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And they came to my place,
"and I said, ""Well, who's there?"""

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"And they said, ""The FBI."""
"I said, ""The FBI? Why are they here?"""

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Yes, the FBI had come to see Barry.
And they weren't there to Jazzercise.

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"The FBI said, ""Have you been talking"
to people about 9l11 and bin Laden...

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"...and oil profits and Afghanistan?"""
"I said, ""A lot of people are talking..."

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"...about these things."""

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I feel my rights have been,
you know, trampled ...

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Was it all just a dream?

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God bless you, Florida! Thank you!

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Did the last four years
not really happen?

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Look, there's Ben Affleck.
He's often in my dreams.

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And the Taxi Driver guy.
He was there too.

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And little Stevie Wonder,
he seemed so happy...

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...like a miracle had taken place.

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Was it a dream?

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We want Gore!

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Or was it real?

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It was election night 2000, and things
seemed to be going as planned.

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In New York, Al Gore is
our projected winner.

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The Garden State is green for Gore.

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We project Mr. Gore the winner in
Delaware. This state has voted with...

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Excuse me, one second.
I'm sorry to interrupt.

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Mike, I wouldn't do this
if it weren't big.

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Florida goes for Al Gore.

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CNN announces that we call Florida
in the Al Gore column.

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Then something called the Fox News
Channel called the election...

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...in favor of the other guy.

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Fox News now projects George
W. Bush the winner in Florida...

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...and thus it appears the winner of the
presidency of the United States.

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All of a sudden, the other
networks said:

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"Hey, if Fox said it, it must be true."

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All of  ...