The Mark Simone show on 710 WOR.

Hey, well, let's take some calls.

Let's go to Dominic in South Carolina.

Dominic, how you doing?

Mark Simone, I've been listening to you since you were on W&EW,

and it's the first time I've ever spoken to you.

Obviously, it wasn't that good.

If you didn't have never called before, what took you so long?

Well, I'm off from work today for the first time of year, so there's your answer. Oh, okay. But you are so right about the government shutdown. That's just a bunch of malarkey. I was watching Mr. Smith goes to Washington last night. And you remember, Jimmy Stewart,

Jimmy Stewart holds up the relief bill because it's full of graph.

Yeah, 1939.

Government shutdown.

Right.

They mobilize the exact same argument against him.

And where Arnold gets all his newspapers to say that he's holding up a relief bill,

people are going to starve and all this kind of stuff. And it's all malarkey. And what I want to know is Jimmy Stewart gets his boy's

newspaper to write the truth. How come Kevin McCarthy can't mobilize public opinion for the truth

using guys like you? Well, because you've got so much fake news talking about all kinds of things.

But Dominic, you're a great call. Don't wait so long. Come next time. Call us again. Yeah, government shutdowns

have been going on forever. You know, you get a call from a TV show. We want you to come on and

talk about government shutdown. Okay. I reach and I pull out this little card with the points on a government

shutdown and the card is from like 1997. It's all bent and crumbed. There's so many shows and

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