I did that with Henry Lippold, legendary journalism professor, as my mentor then, and did all of the radio and TV things that I wanted to do. And then many, many years later, Shortly after the 2004 election, in fact, when I watched John Kerry get swift voted, I said, well, wait a minute, maybe we need people in politics who want to see both sides of an issue. and who want to relay that to other people. And so that's when I had my midlife crisis and left a perfectly good job as 6 and 10 o' clock … (06:36–06:49)
CLAIM
Asserts that the 2004 election and the treatment of John Kerry influenced his decision to enter politics.
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