but he was always reliably very funny. at one point in one of his campaigns he described his opponent as so slow it takes him an hour and a half to watch 60 minutes. his name was edwin edwards. and when the democratic party picked him as their nominee for governor in louisiana in 1991, they knew that it was going to be a tough one with edwin edwards at the top of the ticket. and it would have been a tough one that year except for the fact that in that same year in 1991 the republican party also had to pick their nominee for governor and in 1991 in louisiana the republican party chose as their nominee for governor the grand wizard of the ku klux klan. sorry. the former grand wizard of the ku klux klan. david duke. and with david duke at the top of the ticket for the republican party, yeah, the republican party lost that one. david duke lost badly that year to edwin edwards and edwin edwards, true to form, went on to serve eight years in federal prison. fast forward, though
0 catrall was in that 1980s epic. when other kus mers heard about the theft, they were some what disturbed. it s pretty stupid, i guess. go get the real thing. pretty common for a man on the street interview conducted at a relationship enhancement store. mind your mannequins, people. they re there for all of us to enjoy. you might end up in an 80s movie or in the real thing called jail or on the ridiculist. hey, that s it.
0 mom and chief s decision to stay home. erin mcpike, cnn, washington. that s it for me. thanks very much for watching. see you back here in the situation room tomorrow. erin burnett out front starts right now. we begin with breaking news. we learn uncle tam is spying on the phone records of americans and now tonight we find out that the government is in your computer as well. plus, oil company bp spent millions, billions of dollars on projects to restore the coastline after the deep water horizon oil spill. but you know what? some of these projects are bogus. and a new study says cheerful women are promoted less often than their, you know, roughy counterparts. does that add up? let s go out front. and good evening, everyone. i m erin burnett. we begin with our breaking news. uncle sam spying on you. we have new information just breaking tonight on just how much access the american government has to your private communications. and when we talk about that, we re talking abo
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