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'Talk of CNN'

Aired October 29, 2002 - 05:14   ET

THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED.


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CAROL COSTELLO, CNN ANCHOR: All right, all of you registered voters, listen up. A week from today is election day all across the country. One of the closets governor's races is in Massachusetts and our friends from Boston's Star 93.7 join us to talk about that race.
Good morning to the crew from Ralphie & Karen's Morning Show.

RALPHIE: Carol, good morning. How are you?

KAREN: Hi, Carol.

COSTELLO: I'm fine.

So, Jeanne Shaheen and Mitt Romney running neck and neck.

RALPHIE: Well, actually, Jeanne Shaheen, she's running in New Hampshire in an ugly Senate race and then it's even uglier here in Massachusetts, with Mitt Romney and Shannon O'Brien.

COSTELLO: Oh, I'm sorry. I misspoke.

RALPHIE: You know what it is? The races are so ugly in both states you really can't tell them apart. It's really, you know now that Shannon O'Brien's running commercials, the workers are coming, the displaced workers are coming, and then Mitt's running commercials saying well, Shannon's husband's a lobbyist, it's like nah, nah, nanny, boo-boo.

KAREN: And I'll tell you, at the end of last week's debate, Shannon turned to Mitt and said listen, I'll pull all my negative ads if you pull yours. He basically said you started it. So that was the end of it. And the next morning she went on the air with another negative ad.

COSTELLO: Oh, that never works when they say things like that. You know, the clearest image that I have of that race is Mitt Romney's political ad where he's, you know, in the lake swimming with his family without a shirt on.

RALPHIE: Oh, I know. You know, it's like no more you two, you're both going on a time out after election day and that's that.

KAREN: Well, he is easy on the eyes. You have to give him that.

COSTELLO: Was it effective? Because he was trying to appeal to women voters. RALPHIE: You know, I think some women are going to enjoy what he has to say because they're tired of the mud slinging and he's really backed off the mud slinging a little bit. Shannon O'Brien's more like the bull dog now...

KAREN: Yes, she's bullyish.

COSTELLO: She's bullyish? Shannon O'Brien seems to really fit Massachusetts politics, though. Do you think that she'll manage to pull a win?

RALPHIE: You know, I'm not sure because it seems like they put a Republican in the corner office and then they let the Democrats fight it out in the legislature. It should be interesting. We'll find out next week.

COSTELLO: Yes.

What else are you guys talking about? I hear that an elementary school, an elementary school, mind you, is banning slow dancing. I didn't even know fifth graders slow danced.

RALPHIE: Well, you know, I'm looking for Kevin Bacon now. I really need that six degrees and Kevin Bacon because this is totally footloose. It's unbelievable. It's out in the western part of the state. The parents are asking for this slow dancing ban. I mean finally we get the kids to dance with each other and not sit on opposite sides of the gymnasium and now they want to stop it? It's madness, Carol. It's madness.

COSTELLO: Well, why did they come up with this policy anyway? Were the kids dancing too closely? Were things heading, like going too fast?

KAREN: You know what, Carol? I think a lot of the parents felt that if they dance close, it would lead to intimate relationships. And they don't...

RALPHIE: Oh, they're fifth graders.

KAREN: They don't want to go there. They don't even want to remotely go there.

COSTELLO: I don't know, when I was in fifth grade, the boys still had cooties.

RALPHIE: I know.

KAREN: I know.

RALPHIE: We stood on opposite sides of the room.

COSTELLO: I know.

RALPHIE: It's just amazing. These crazy parents, it's like come on, come on. COSTELLO: Oh, it's hard to be a parent now. Give them a break.

RALPHIE: Oh, I know. Believe me, I've got a daughter entering teenager things now and she says dad, you're dorkier than you think you are.

COSTELLO: I'd have to agree with that.

RALPHIE: Oh, thanks. (UNINTELLIGIBLE).

COSTELLO: Ralphie and Karen, thank you very much. We're going to let you go.

RALPHIE: Have a nice day, Carol.

KAREN: You take care, Carol.

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Aired October 29, 2002 - 05:14   ET
THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED.
CAROL COSTELLO, CNN ANCHOR: All right, all of you registered voters, listen up. A week from today is election day all across the country. One of the closets governor's races is in Massachusetts and our friends from Boston's Star 93.7 join us to talk about that race.
Good morning to the crew from Ralphie & Karen's Morning Show.

RALPHIE: Carol, good morning. How are you?

KAREN: Hi, Carol.

COSTELLO: I'm fine.

So, Jeanne Shaheen and Mitt Romney running neck and neck.

RALPHIE: Well, actually, Jeanne Shaheen, she's running in New Hampshire in an ugly Senate race and then it's even uglier here in Massachusetts, with Mitt Romney and Shannon O'Brien.

COSTELLO: Oh, I'm sorry. I misspoke.

RALPHIE: You know what it is? The races are so ugly in both states you really can't tell them apart. It's really, you know now that Shannon O'Brien's running commercials, the workers are coming, the displaced workers are coming, and then Mitt's running commercials saying well, Shannon's husband's a lobbyist, it's like nah, nah, nanny, boo-boo.

KAREN: And I'll tell you, at the end of last week's debate, Shannon turned to Mitt and said listen, I'll pull all my negative ads if you pull yours. He basically said you started it. So that was the end of it. And the next morning she went on the air with another negative ad.

COSTELLO: Oh, that never works when they say things like that. You know, the clearest image that I have of that race is Mitt Romney's political ad where he's, you know, in the lake swimming with his family without a shirt on.

RALPHIE: Oh, I know. You know, it's like no more you two, you're both going on a time out after election day and that's that.

KAREN: Well, he is easy on the eyes. You have to give him that.

COSTELLO: Was it effective? Because he was trying to appeal to women voters. RALPHIE: You know, I think some women are going to enjoy what he has to say because they're tired of the mud slinging and he's really backed off the mud slinging a little bit. Shannon O'Brien's more like the bull dog now...

KAREN: Yes, she's bullyish.

COSTELLO: She's bullyish? Shannon O'Brien seems to really fit Massachusetts politics, though. Do you think that she'll manage to pull a win?

RALPHIE: You know, I'm not sure because it seems like they put a Republican in the corner office and then they let the Democrats fight it out in the legislature. It should be interesting. We'll find out next week.

COSTELLO: Yes.

What else are you guys talking about? I hear that an elementary school, an elementary school, mind you, is banning slow dancing. I didn't even know fifth graders slow danced.

RALPHIE: Well, you know, I'm looking for Kevin Bacon now. I really need that six degrees and Kevin Bacon because this is totally footloose. It's unbelievable. It's out in the western part of the state. The parents are asking for this slow dancing ban. I mean finally we get the kids to dance with each other and not sit on opposite sides of the gymnasium and now they want to stop it? It's madness, Carol. It's madness.

COSTELLO: Well, why did they come up with this policy anyway? Were the kids dancing too closely? Were things heading, like going too fast?

KAREN: You know what, Carol? I think a lot of the parents felt that if they dance close, it would lead to intimate relationships. And they don't...

RALPHIE: Oh, they're fifth graders.

KAREN: They don't want to go there. They don't even want to remotely go there.

COSTELLO: I don't know, when I was in fifth grade, the boys still had cooties.

RALPHIE: I know.

KAREN: I know.

RALPHIE: We stood on opposite sides of the room.

COSTELLO: I know.

RALPHIE: It's just amazing. These crazy parents, it's like come on, come on. COSTELLO: Oh, it's hard to be a parent now. Give them a break.

RALPHIE: Oh, I know. Believe me, I've got a daughter entering teenager things now and she says dad, you're dorkier than you think you are.

COSTELLO: I'd have to agree with that.

RALPHIE: Oh, thanks. (UNINTELLIGIBLE).

COSTELLO: Ralphie and Karen, thank you very much. We're going to let you go.

RALPHIE: Have a nice day, Carol.

KAREN: You take care, Carol.

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