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Stellar success, and he decides that he is going to run this campaign, and he is going to micromanage it and set up all these consulting metrics, and at the end of the day he should have been trusting the professionals who had been -- i mean, i remember a friend of mine, who is a management consultant, walking into -- doesn't matter -- a travel company and talking to the vp of sales, and they're, like, what should you do? she's, like, i don't know. you do this for a living. i don't. that's what he should have known. that is what he should have done. >> jonathan does a brilliant job -- >> did y...

Depends -- 47, i think, was the number. >> oh, fwlen. >> sorry about that. i in the point was that he felt in 2008 and from his corporate experience that the most valuable commodity is the candidate's time, and he thought that this would be a way of doing that. i think it really is a wonderful illustration and a lot of folks on his campaign gave it to us how he was penny-wise and a pound foolish with his time. he didn't delegate and didn't understand how campaigns were supposed to be run. >> i have thoughts in my head 16 times a day. they just stay there. >> if i metricized. don't talk to the ...

Tenders? >> snis stocking stuffer. >> it's cheaper than the actual chicken tenders. >> plouff was this hyperrationale guy who ran this campaign like a corporation, was apparently so nervous after the first debate and everyone was so nervous they moved around conference rooms. plouff was ordering david axlerod what hotel rooms he should stay in and told him to wear -- i lot of the scene where he tells axlerod to wear a lucky tie. axelrod is not mr. neat, if you know him. spends 30 minutes on his hands and knees rooting around in the middle of the campaign like when he should be writing speeches...