...Mr. Letterman grew up here, in what show business people, which now includes our best-known politicians and so-called journalists, often call "flyover country."

     We are somewhere between television cameras in Washington, DC, and New York, and Los Angeles.

     Please join me in saying to the undersides of their airplanes, "Go to h***."

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     I'm talkig to TV celebrities in airplaines again:

     Hey, you monstrously overpaid electronic twerps:

     "Down here" is where the real lives are led.

     "Down here" is where the real work gets done.

     The airplaine itself was invented in Ohio.

     So was Alcoholics Anonymous. The rear-view mirror.

     Yes, and wonderful dancers all over the world have come or will come from Butler University in Naptown. Are some of them here?

     Some of you won't stay home. But please don't forget where you came from. I never did.