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Oh man, I would have paid money to see Roger Hedgecock going up against Peter Jennings. Hedgecock is absolutely fearless. He coined the great phrase "recovering politician" to describe himself when he started his radio show (he was mayor of San Diego in the mid 1980s.) I listened to his show religiously when I lived in SD ten years ago.

Was this live on ABC? If not, when will it be broadcast?

He coined the great phrase "recovering politician" to describe himself when he started his radio show (he was mayor of San Diego in the mid 1980s.) I listened to his show religiously when I lived in SD ten years ago.

Don't be fooled by his schtick whether on KOGO, on TV (how STUPID is ABC to let him on TV again), or from behind the "Golden EIB mic" for Rush. Roger's no less a politician than when he was ousted (resigned when indicted) from the mayor's office in a campaign finance scandal. He insists the case was baseless, ran by an out of control prosecutore, backed by people who wanted to do what they couldn't do at the ballot box. He claims his conviction was overturned by the CA Supreme Court. It's so that his 12 perjury convictions--from the 2nd trial, the first was a hung jury--were reversed. His felony conviction was reversed to a misdemeanor and later dismissed with him still paying a $5000 fine. Oddly enough, his lawyer was (I think) ex-mob lawyer, the now Las Vegas mayor.