1 00:00:04,835 --> 00:00:23,475 Speaker 1: Countdown with Keith Olderman is a production of iHeartRadio. Cancel 2 00:00:23,795 --> 00:00:28,515 Speaker 1: the Vice presidential debate tonight. CBS News should cancel it, 3 00:00:28,635 --> 00:00:31,515 Speaker 1: or Tim Walls should cancel it, or the Harris campaign 4 00:00:31,515 --> 00:00:35,195 Speaker 1: should cancel it because journalistic principles have been so thoroughly 5 00:00:35,275 --> 00:00:37,875 Speaker 1: removed from it that it is going to amount to 6 00:00:37,915 --> 00:00:41,355 Speaker 1: nothing more than an ad for Trump and Vance and 7 00:00:41,395 --> 00:00:47,035 Speaker 1: fascism and lying. To Wendy McMahon, the new president of 8 00:00:47,075 --> 00:00:50,355 Speaker 1: CBS News, I urge you, before it is too late, 9 00:00:51,115 --> 00:00:55,475 Speaker 1: fact check jd Vance or get your company out of 10 00:00:55,555 --> 00:00:59,835 Speaker 1: the news business, because if you let this proceed as planned, 11 00:01:00,275 --> 00:01:05,395 Speaker 1: you will burn the reputation of CBS News to the ground. 12 00:01:06,475 --> 00:01:11,555 Speaker 1: Murrow gone, Cronkite gone see it now devotes its entire 13 00:01:11,595 --> 00:01:15,155 Speaker 1: half hour to a report on Senator McCarthy gone the 14 00:01:15,235 --> 00:01:19,475 Speaker 1: news apparently official gone Nixon to rather, are you running 15 00:01:19,475 --> 00:01:23,915 Speaker 1: for something, no, sir, mister President, or you gone? Don Hollenbeck, 16 00:01:24,035 --> 00:01:31,835 Speaker 1: gone Heywood fing hail brun gone ashes. You are putting 17 00:01:32,395 --> 00:01:37,435 Speaker 1: on a professional liar in order to let him lie 18 00:01:38,195 --> 00:01:44,835 Speaker 1: to America for ninety minutes in primetime. This is the 19 00:01:45,075 --> 00:01:52,235 Speaker 1: exact opposite of news. You are now actively contributing to 20 00:01:52,315 --> 00:01:59,115 Speaker 1: the gaslighting of this country and its potential destruction. This time, 21 00:01:59,715 --> 00:02:04,475 Speaker 1: CBS News is siding with the McCarthy in the equation. 22 00:02:06,155 --> 00:02:13,435 Speaker 1: This time you are lying alongside Nixon. This time you 23 00:02:13,635 --> 00:02:17,955 Speaker 1: are selling out the truth for the sake of the 24 00:02:17,995 --> 00:02:24,195 Speaker 1: revenue from two four minute commercial breaks. And if in 25 00:02:24,275 --> 00:02:27,675 Speaker 1: your negotiations with the Trump campaign to get Advance to attend, 26 00:02:28,915 --> 00:02:32,115 Speaker 1: if they included either an offer from you to exclude 27 00:02:32,155 --> 00:02:35,795 Speaker 1: fact checking or the acceptance of their demand to exclude 28 00:02:35,795 --> 00:02:39,275 Speaker 1: fact checking, you have gone further into the morass. Still. 29 00:02:39,955 --> 00:02:44,355 Speaker 1: You have deliberately frauded the American public for ratings, and 30 00:02:44,475 --> 00:02:50,755 Speaker 1: you have prostituted yourselves. Find somebody in the building with 31 00:02:50,875 --> 00:02:54,755 Speaker 1: a moral or journalistic compass and put them in charge 32 00:02:54,755 --> 00:02:58,515 Speaker 1: of CBS News. Right now, because guess who is going 33 00:02:58,555 --> 00:03:04,675 Speaker 1: to quote fact check unquote your CBS News Vice president 34 00:03:04,675 --> 00:03:10,875 Speaker 1: cidential debate on this the last day of CBS News quote. 35 00:03:11,595 --> 00:03:15,075 Speaker 1: I will be doing the personal play by play of 36 00:03:15,115 --> 00:03:19,675 Speaker 1: the debate between the brilliant jd Vance and the highly 37 00:03:19,835 --> 00:03:26,755 Speaker 1: inarticulate tampon Tim Walls. I hope that cognitively challenged lion 38 00:03:27,155 --> 00:03:30,555 Speaker 1: Kamala Harris will be listening so that she can again 39 00:03:30,635 --> 00:03:34,075 Speaker 1: show the world how she will make up false facts 40 00:03:34,075 --> 00:03:39,755 Speaker 1: and stories in order to change around an administrative failure. Unquote, 41 00:03:40,475 --> 00:03:47,435 Speaker 1: that is the side you are on, CBS. That is 42 00:03:47,475 --> 00:03:50,755 Speaker 1: the side Desmond Tutuo ment when he wrote, if you 43 00:03:50,835 --> 00:03:55,555 Speaker 1: are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the 44 00:03:55,715 --> 00:04:02,515 Speaker 1: side of the oppressor. CBS News will, of course, not 45 00:04:03,395 --> 00:04:08,755 Speaker 1: cancel the debate. Its masters, President McMahon included, will not 46 00:04:09,275 --> 00:04:12,515 Speaker 1: tell Vance that the rules have changed. He can accept 47 00:04:12,595 --> 00:04:17,395 Speaker 1: live fact checking or it's off. I've worked for CBS News. 48 00:04:17,715 --> 00:04:21,635 Speaker 1: The retrenchment in news spending in television began with them 49 00:04:21,675 --> 00:04:25,435 Speaker 1: in nineteen eighty six. Now, if they have already spent 50 00:04:25,515 --> 00:04:29,275 Speaker 1: one hundred dollars, they're not writing that off. That's serious money. 51 00:04:29,355 --> 00:04:34,035 Speaker 1: They're not canceling nothing. Besides, they have doubled down on 52 00:04:34,115 --> 00:04:36,955 Speaker 1: their secret weapon of truth here and in so doing, 53 00:04:37,115 --> 00:04:41,755 Speaker 1: hung this poor chief of the CBS News confirmed unit 54 00:04:42,195 --> 00:04:47,475 Speaker 1: Claudia Milne out to dry. We quote will provide fact 55 00:04:47,555 --> 00:04:53,435 Speaker 1: checking and analysis on our live blog during the debate. 56 00:04:55,235 --> 00:04:57,875 Speaker 1: As pathetic as that sounds, honest to god, I'm surprised 57 00:04:58,115 --> 00:05:03,035 Speaker 1: Trump and Vance are still letting them do that. No, 58 00:05:03,155 --> 00:05:06,275 Speaker 1: CBS is not going to cancel the debate. It will 59 00:05:06,355 --> 00:05:10,155 Speaker 1: be neutral in this situation of injustice, and it has 60 00:05:10,315 --> 00:05:18,875 Speaker 1: chosen the oppressor. So plan b Tim Walls. Tim Walls, 61 00:05:18,915 --> 00:05:23,555 Speaker 1: I need you to take the debate over. Forgive me Nora. 62 00:05:24,075 --> 00:05:29,755 Speaker 1: I'll always love you, politely and metaphorically. Governor you have 63 00:05:29,795 --> 00:05:32,595 Speaker 1: to push Nora and Margaret Brennan out of the way 64 00:05:33,115 --> 00:05:39,675 Speaker 1: and take the debate over. Acknowledge Norah's first question, and 65 00:05:39,795 --> 00:05:43,395 Speaker 1: then let it rip. Tell the television audience that JD. 66 00:05:43,555 --> 00:05:48,275 Speaker 1: Vance is a compulsive and pathological liar. Tell them that 67 00:05:48,315 --> 00:05:50,875 Speaker 1: there is no side of any debate or issue that 68 00:05:50,915 --> 00:05:54,315 Speaker 1: he has not already taken, then rejected, then taken again. 69 00:05:54,955 --> 00:05:58,355 Speaker 1: Tell them that he is Trump's deputy liar. Tell them, 70 00:05:58,635 --> 00:06:02,595 Speaker 1: and tell them as forcefully and as non midwesternly as possible, 71 00:06:02,795 --> 00:06:07,955 Speaker 1: that this man, this individual over here, is personally and 72 00:06:08,155 --> 00:06:14,675 Speaker 1: indelibly responsible for death threats against white Republican small businessmen 73 00:06:14,835 --> 00:06:18,955 Speaker 1: in Springfield, Ohio, because it is he JD Vance who 74 00:06:19,035 --> 00:06:25,355 Speaker 1: personally and completely fabricated the Haitian immigrant story. And then 75 00:06:25,515 --> 00:06:31,315 Speaker 1: Governor Walls tell that audience about Jamie McGregor of McGregor Metal. 76 00:06:32,315 --> 00:06:35,715 Speaker 1: Tell them about this Trump supporter, this man who voted 77 00:06:35,715 --> 00:06:38,755 Speaker 1: for Trump in twenty sixteen, this man who again voted 78 00:06:38,755 --> 00:06:41,675 Speaker 1: for Trump in twenty twenty. Tell them about the tractor 79 00:06:41,835 --> 00:06:46,795 Speaker 1: parts that Jamie McGregor makes in Springfield, Ohio. Tell them 80 00:06:46,795 --> 00:06:50,355 Speaker 1: that all Jamie McGregor did was say that his thirty 81 00:06:50,435 --> 00:06:54,515 Speaker 1: odd Haitian born employees come to work every day, they 82 00:06:54,555 --> 00:06:57,915 Speaker 1: don't cause drama, they're on time, and within hours the 83 00:06:58,075 --> 00:07:01,675 Speaker 1: death threats against Jamie McGregor began. Tell them that Jamie 84 00:07:01,715 --> 00:07:03,675 Speaker 1: McGregor got so many death threats that they had to 85 00:07:03,675 --> 00:07:06,395 Speaker 1: have a lockdown a factory. Tell them that there are 86 00:07:06,515 --> 00:07:12,395 Speaker 1: Maga posters around town calling him a Maga guy, a traitor. 87 00:07:13,115 --> 00:07:16,275 Speaker 1: Tell them that Jamie McGregor had vowed to never have 88 00:07:16,475 --> 00:07:20,035 Speaker 1: guns in his own home, and now his family is 89 00:07:20,115 --> 00:07:24,315 Speaker 1: taking firearms training and he just bought a glock and 90 00:07:24,355 --> 00:07:28,555 Speaker 1: it's for his daughter. Tell them Governor that Jamie McGregor's 91 00:07:28,715 --> 00:07:35,635 Speaker 1: daughter is fourteen fing years old. Tell them tim Tell 92 00:07:35,675 --> 00:07:39,475 Speaker 1: them that Maga isn't just a threat to immigrants or 93 00:07:39,635 --> 00:07:42,675 Speaker 1: a threat to people of color, or a threat to Democrats. 94 00:07:43,075 --> 00:07:45,635 Speaker 1: Tell them that Maga is a threat to the people 95 00:07:45,755 --> 00:07:50,555 Speaker 1: in Maga because Trump and Maga. It's not about making 96 00:07:50,635 --> 00:07:57,235 Speaker 1: anything great, it's about hatred and violence and cruelty. Tell 97 00:07:57,315 --> 00:08:02,195 Speaker 1: them that Jamie McGregor's wife said, we are being hunted 98 00:08:02,355 --> 00:08:06,235 Speaker 1: like animals. Tell them that the latest person to be 99 00:08:06,315 --> 00:08:12,715 Speaker 1: threatened in Springfield, Ohio with death is Jamie McGregor's eighty 100 00:08:12,875 --> 00:08:17,115 Speaker 1: year old mother. And tell them that this is all, 101 00:08:17,795 --> 00:08:21,515 Speaker 1: all of it, the fault of the personal responsibility, of 102 00:08:21,715 --> 00:08:25,435 Speaker 1: the creation, of the goal of the point of this 103 00:08:25,915 --> 00:08:30,795 Speaker 1: scum bag j. D. Vance. Point at him and tell 104 00:08:30,835 --> 00:08:33,755 Speaker 1: him to get down on his goddamn knees and to 105 00:08:33,795 --> 00:08:37,275 Speaker 1: start praying to his creator for forgiveness because he's not 106 00:08:37,315 --> 00:08:46,435 Speaker 1: going to get any from Jamie McGregor or from America Governor. 107 00:08:47,515 --> 00:08:50,435 Speaker 1: CBS News said, it is your job to fact check 108 00:08:50,955 --> 00:08:56,795 Speaker 1: this lying son of a bitch. They just provide the 109 00:08:56,835 --> 00:09:03,515 Speaker 1: Mike's and the coffee. Do it. Start the debate by 110 00:09:03,555 --> 00:09:07,755 Speaker 1: doing it. Put Vance on the floor in a pool 111 00:09:07,995 --> 00:09:13,075 Speaker 1: of his own urine, and then then you can do 112 00:09:13,155 --> 00:09:20,475 Speaker 1: a little Midwestern not him. Then you can metaphorically gut 113 00:09:20,555 --> 00:09:22,115 Speaker 1: him like. 114 00:09:22,115 --> 00:09:49,995 Speaker 2: A fish like a fish, or we could do the 115 00:09:50,035 --> 00:09:52,515 Speaker 2: fact checking thing, but no, CBS, you know what you're 116 00:09:52,555 --> 00:09:57,035 Speaker 2: doing because when you don't fact check Vance's lies and 117 00:09:57,075 --> 00:09:57,635 Speaker 2: for that matter. 118 00:09:57,675 --> 00:10:00,235 Speaker 1: When you don't fact check anything Governor Walls gets wrong, 119 00:10:00,475 --> 00:10:03,435 Speaker 1: what you'll get from Trump will be silence, blessed silence, 120 00:10:03,635 --> 00:10:08,235 Speaker 1: no complaints for a day, or a week, or a month, 121 00:10:08,275 --> 00:10:11,675 Speaker 1: there may be a year, and then someday, sooner or late, 122 00:10:11,715 --> 00:10:14,115 Speaker 1: he will forget about that, and he will circle back 123 00:10:14,115 --> 00:10:17,315 Speaker 1: to you at CBS and you will get the Google 124 00:10:17,395 --> 00:10:20,875 Speaker 1: treatment from last week. Well, instead of where it said Google, 125 00:10:20,955 --> 00:10:23,875 Speaker 1: it'll say CBS News, where he announces. It has been 126 00:10:23,915 --> 00:10:28,275 Speaker 1: determined that CBS News has illegally used a system of 127 00:10:28,315 --> 00:10:32,115 Speaker 1: only revealing and displaying bad stories about Donald J. Trump, 128 00:10:32,315 --> 00:10:35,115 Speaker 1: some made up for this purpose, while at the same 129 00:10:35,155 --> 00:10:39,275 Speaker 1: time only revealing good stories about whoever he doesn't like 130 00:10:39,355 --> 00:10:43,395 Speaker 1: that day. This is an illegal activity and the Justice 131 00:10:43,435 --> 00:10:47,995 Speaker 1: Department will criminally prosecute them for this blatant interference of elections. 132 00:10:48,035 --> 00:10:50,555 Speaker 1: If not, and subject to the laws of our country, 133 00:10:50,755 --> 00:10:56,635 Speaker 1: I will request their prosecution. But don't worry about it, CBS. 134 00:10:56,675 --> 00:10:59,555 Speaker 1: There's always the chance that despite the fact that you 135 00:10:59,595 --> 00:11:03,515 Speaker 1: are on the wrong side of the famous quote that 136 00:11:03,555 --> 00:11:08,035 Speaker 1: the famous eighteenth entry British politician Edmund Burke famously did 137 00:11:08,075 --> 00:11:12,195 Speaker 1: not say that the only thing necessary for the triumph 138 00:11:12,275 --> 00:11:17,595 Speaker 1: of evil is for good men to do nothing. Maybe 139 00:11:17,715 --> 00:11:21,515 Speaker 1: what you are not doing, the nothing you are doing, 140 00:11:21,635 --> 00:11:26,595 Speaker 1: maybe it won't help Trump regain power and put all 141 00:11:26,635 --> 00:11:39,395 Speaker 1: of you in prison. Anyway, were there any doubt, it 142 00:11:39,435 --> 00:11:43,795 Speaker 1: is now official. Trump's campaign is about lying. That it 143 00:11:43,875 --> 00:11:47,755 Speaker 1: is only about lying. In the wake of Hurricane Helene, 144 00:11:48,395 --> 00:11:53,355 Speaker 1: Trump goes to Valdosta, Georgia. They built him a little 145 00:11:53,355 --> 00:11:56,075 Speaker 1: stage out of bricks that fell off a building there. 146 00:11:57,235 --> 00:12:01,315 Speaker 1: Franklin Graham, an asshole, dragged some of his cultists out 147 00:12:01,355 --> 00:12:06,075 Speaker 1: to stand there and bark like seals. There were as 148 00:12:06,115 --> 00:12:10,275 Speaker 1: many of them, and as many of the first responders 149 00:12:10,315 --> 00:12:13,115 Speaker 1: present diverted to protect him as there were residents, a 150 00:12:13,155 --> 00:12:17,155 Speaker 1: couple of dozen of each. Maybe Trump then existed. Nobody 151 00:12:17,195 --> 00:12:21,635 Speaker 1: saw this coming because it's past hurricane season, which actually 152 00:12:21,715 --> 00:12:25,395 Speaker 1: goes to November, same as every year. And this all 153 00:12:25,475 --> 00:12:28,035 Speaker 1: took some of us back to twenty nineteen and the 154 00:12:28,115 --> 00:12:34,155 Speaker 1: Hurricane Dorian map, and the madness inside his brain so 155 00:12:34,315 --> 00:12:38,115 Speaker 1: complete and insanity so untreatable that when he lied and 156 00:12:38,195 --> 00:12:41,635 Speaker 1: said that the hurricane had been projected to hit Alabama, 157 00:12:41,715 --> 00:12:44,355 Speaker 1: instead of just replacing that lie with a milder lie 158 00:12:44,435 --> 00:12:47,755 Speaker 1: like I was given bad info, he actually drew on 159 00:12:47,875 --> 00:12:52,475 Speaker 1: the map with a sharpie to extend the path of 160 00:12:52,515 --> 00:12:55,315 Speaker 1: the hurricane, to make it look like he was right 161 00:12:55,875 --> 00:13:01,995 Speaker 1: and everybody else in the world was wrong. And he 162 00:13:02,075 --> 00:13:04,075 Speaker 1: got to Georgia and he lied. But it was a 163 00:13:04,115 --> 00:13:08,395 Speaker 1: triple saturation lie. He began by posting lies online about 164 00:13:08,435 --> 00:13:12,235 Speaker 1: supposed non response from the Biden administration and a Katrina 165 00:13:12,435 --> 00:13:14,875 Speaker 1: like situation in the wake of the storm, and then 166 00:13:14,915 --> 00:13:17,355 Speaker 1: he added to the lie a second dimension by telling 167 00:13:17,355 --> 00:13:19,675 Speaker 1: that news conference quote, as you know, our country is 168 00:13:19,715 --> 00:13:22,115 Speaker 1: in the final weeks of a hard fought national election. 169 00:13:22,395 --> 00:13:24,635 Speaker 1: At a time like this, when a crisis hits, when 170 00:13:24,675 --> 00:13:27,875 Speaker 1: our fellow citizens cry out and need, none of that matters. 171 00:13:27,955 --> 00:13:30,395 Speaker 1: We're not talking about politics now. We have to all 172 00:13:30,395 --> 00:13:33,715 Speaker 1: get together and get this solved. And then he proceeded 173 00:13:33,755 --> 00:13:36,395 Speaker 1: to lie about the response, lie about the president, lie 174 00:13:36,435 --> 00:13:38,995 Speaker 1: about the governor of Georgia, and reduce this tragedy to 175 00:13:39,075 --> 00:13:43,275 Speaker 1: yet another Trump lies like other people's sweat moment, and 176 00:13:43,715 --> 00:13:46,475 Speaker 1: a Trump will turn anything into a photo op moment, 177 00:13:46,755 --> 00:13:49,075 Speaker 1: And having just said he's not talking about politics now, 178 00:13:49,075 --> 00:13:51,515 Speaker 1: he will turn any photo op into an opportunity to 179 00:13:51,595 --> 00:13:52,875 Speaker 1: lie about politics. 180 00:13:52,875 --> 00:13:57,275 Speaker 3: Now moment, the governor needs to he's been trying to 181 00:13:57,315 --> 00:13:59,795 Speaker 3: get them, and I'm sure they're going to come through. 182 00:14:00,555 --> 00:14:03,595 Speaker 3: But he's been calling the President, hasn't been able to 183 00:14:03,595 --> 00:14:05,795 Speaker 3: get him, hasn't this called. 184 00:14:05,555 --> 00:14:08,235 Speaker 4: Me yesterday afternoon. I missed him and I called him 185 00:14:08,315 --> 00:14:11,195 Speaker 4: right back and he just said, hey, what do you need? 186 00:14:11,595 --> 00:14:14,195 Speaker 4: And I told him, you know, we got what we need. 187 00:14:14,235 --> 00:14:17,275 Speaker 4: We'll work through the federal process. He offered that if 188 00:14:17,275 --> 00:14:19,835 Speaker 4: there's other things we need, just to call him directly. 189 00:14:20,195 --> 00:14:24,635 Speaker 1: That second voice you heard was Governor Kemp saying, no, 190 00:14:24,715 --> 00:14:27,715 Speaker 1: he didn't. He didn't call President Biden for help because 191 00:14:27,875 --> 00:14:33,875 Speaker 1: Biden had called him first. And how did this most 192 00:14:33,875 --> 00:14:37,955 Speaker 1: obvious and appalling of Trump's exploitations of American suffering in 193 00:14:37,995 --> 00:14:41,395 Speaker 1: the last few weeks at least go over exactly as 194 00:14:41,435 --> 00:14:48,155 Speaker 1: it always does. Some idiot on television news bought it completely. 195 00:14:48,835 --> 00:14:53,315 Speaker 1: Yesterday's idiot turned out to be Kristin Holmes, National correspondent 196 00:14:53,355 --> 00:14:56,795 Speaker 1: of CNN, and to the Trump lie about oh, I'm 197 00:14:56,795 --> 00:15:00,635 Speaker 1: not here to talk politics, she actually said Trump was 198 00:15:00,795 --> 00:15:03,835 Speaker 1: quote on the ground, tried to show he is there 199 00:15:03,955 --> 00:15:06,315 Speaker 1: in support of the people on the ground in Georgia. 200 00:15:06,355 --> 00:15:08,355 Speaker 1: And of course this comes as he is again offering 201 00:15:08,355 --> 00:15:11,075 Speaker 1: a message of unity. He has spent the last several 202 00:15:11,115 --> 00:15:14,835 Speaker 1: days slamming Kamala Harris's rival for not being on the ground, 203 00:15:15,155 --> 00:15:21,515 Speaker 1: for not helping with this storm. Surprisingly enough, despite what 204 00:15:21,755 --> 00:15:28,115 Speaker 1: has to be to some degree her shame, Kristin Holmes 205 00:15:28,235 --> 00:15:32,475 Speaker 1: is expected to show up for work today at CNN 206 00:15:34,555 --> 00:15:39,875 Speaker 1: rather than retire to the Andes on a religious retreat. 207 00:15:41,915 --> 00:15:45,475 Speaker 1: The good news is Kristin Holmes was one of CNN's 208 00:15:45,595 --> 00:15:52,035 Speaker 1: voter integrity correspondents during the twenty twenty election. Not reporter integrity. 209 00:15:52,075 --> 00:15:58,875 Speaker 1: Voter integrity again. From the Yale historian Tim Snyder via 210 00:15:58,915 --> 00:16:02,995 Speaker 1: The New York Times, Trump is in the classic dictatorial position. 211 00:16:03,675 --> 00:16:07,875 Speaker 1: He needs to i in bed holding all executive power 212 00:16:08,155 --> 00:16:11,155 Speaker 1: to stay out of prison. This means that he will 213 00:16:11,155 --> 00:16:14,675 Speaker 1: do whatever he can to gain power, and once in power, 214 00:16:14,755 --> 00:16:17,995 Speaker 1: will do all that he can to never let it go. 215 00:16:18,635 --> 00:16:24,275 Speaker 1: This is a basic incentive structure which underlies everything else. 216 00:16:24,795 --> 00:16:32,835 Speaker 1: It is entirely inconsistent with democracy. Timothy Snyder of Yale 217 00:16:33,075 --> 00:16:42,755 Speaker 1: in that context, cancel the debate or Governor Walls metaphorically 218 00:16:44,595 --> 00:16:53,195 Speaker 1: gut him like a fish. I'll leave you leavened with 219 00:16:53,315 --> 00:16:58,835 Speaker 1: two kickers. Clarity campaign polling, which works for various Democratic 220 00:16:58,875 --> 00:17:04,795 Speaker 1: groups has produced this rather startling national poll result. Ready 221 00:17:04,915 --> 00:17:12,395 Speaker 1: Kala Harris fifty eight percent, JD Vance thirty seven percent. 222 00:17:14,155 --> 00:17:20,195 Speaker 1: Wait what Harris fifty eight Vance thirty seven After hours 223 00:17:20,235 --> 00:17:23,795 Speaker 1: of searching, I cannot find any other explanation for this. 224 00:17:23,915 --> 00:17:28,715 Speaker 1: It's not a personal approval disapproval rating comparison between the 225 00:17:28,755 --> 00:17:31,715 Speaker 1: presidential candidate of one party and the vice presidential candidate 226 00:17:31,755 --> 00:17:33,395 Speaker 1: of the other. It does not seem to be some 227 00:17:33,435 --> 00:17:36,915 Speaker 1: sort of typo. I can only conclude that they took 228 00:17:36,955 --> 00:17:40,315 Speaker 1: a poll actually asking people. It says more than a 229 00:17:40,395 --> 00:17:43,835 Speaker 1: thousand likely voters who they would vote for for president 230 00:17:43,915 --> 00:17:48,595 Speaker 1: Harris or Vance, and then in that matchup, she's ahead 231 00:17:48,595 --> 00:17:52,555 Speaker 1: by twenty one goddamn points, which is nice to know 232 00:17:53,395 --> 00:17:58,675 Speaker 1: in case in the next five weeks Trump really does 233 00:17:58,795 --> 00:18:02,155 Speaker 1: what I've suggested to him constantly since twenty sixteen, Trump 234 00:18:02,195 --> 00:18:05,995 Speaker 1: really does in the next five weeks flee to Moscow 235 00:18:09,275 --> 00:18:11,715 Speaker 1: and to circle back to the vice presidential debate. I'll 236 00:18:11,755 --> 00:18:15,395 Speaker 1: confess I only saw this in a clip online. I 237 00:18:15,435 --> 00:18:18,395 Speaker 1: cannot recall the last time I actually watched the network 238 00:18:18,435 --> 00:18:22,435 Speaker 1: in question. It might have been twenty twenty one, But 239 00:18:22,555 --> 00:18:26,275 Speaker 1: there is a promo box in the corner on MSNBC 240 00:18:26,395 --> 00:18:30,795 Speaker 1: and technical jargon. It's called a bug promoting the network's 241 00:18:30,835 --> 00:18:33,435 Speaker 1: preview show for the debate tonight. And it's got Rachel 242 00:18:33,435 --> 00:18:35,875 Speaker 1: Meadow's face on it and a flag and a big 243 00:18:35,995 --> 00:18:39,635 Speaker 1: MSNBC logo and vance versus Walls and the time and 244 00:18:39,675 --> 00:18:43,155 Speaker 1: then the title of the show she is hosting before 245 00:18:43,915 --> 00:18:49,435 Speaker 1: the debate, and the title of the show is Debate Countdown, 246 00:18:53,595 --> 00:18:57,195 Speaker 1: and under that it says MSNBC. So it says countdown 247 00:18:58,315 --> 00:19:05,915 Speaker 1: on MSNBC. Wait a minute, I've seen this part of 248 00:19:05,955 --> 00:19:11,035 Speaker 1: this movie already. This is where I came in, Meadow 249 00:19:11,795 --> 00:19:21,795 Speaker 1: filling in on Countdown on MSNBC. Yeah, put that on 250 00:19:21,795 --> 00:19:24,915 Speaker 1: the list of deja vus. Also of interest here. I 251 00:19:24,955 --> 00:19:27,275 Speaker 1: will have to wait until tomorrow so I can gather 252 00:19:27,395 --> 00:19:30,875 Speaker 1: my thoughts because they are multilayered on the death of 253 00:19:30,955 --> 00:19:35,675 Speaker 1: baseball's Pete Rose, the only athlete I know of who 254 00:19:35,755 --> 00:19:41,875 Speaker 1: managed to fully embrace the words famous and infamous simultaneously 255 00:19:43,555 --> 00:19:49,555 Speaker 1: for decades. As for today, Hey Republican candidate for the 256 00:19:49,555 --> 00:19:53,595 Speaker 1: House from the Virginia seventh in your campaign photos, that's 257 00:19:53,635 --> 00:19:57,875 Speaker 1: a lovely wife and kids you've got there. Who's are they? 258 00:19:59,235 --> 00:20:06,155 Speaker 1: That's next? This is Countdown. This is Countdown, with Keith 259 00:20:06,195 --> 00:20:29,235 Speaker 1: Olberman still ahead of us on this edition of Countdown. 260 00:20:29,275 --> 00:20:31,635 Speaker 1: The Braves led the Mets three nothing in the top 261 00:20:31,675 --> 00:20:34,795 Speaker 1: of the eighth, then the Mets led the Braves six 262 00:20:34,875 --> 00:20:37,075 Speaker 1: to three in the bottom of the eighth, Then the 263 00:20:37,115 --> 00:20:39,115 Speaker 1: Braves led the Mets seven to six in the top 264 00:20:39,155 --> 00:20:42,035 Speaker 1: of the ninth. Then the Mets led the Braves eight 265 00:20:42,075 --> 00:20:43,675 Speaker 1: to seven in the bottom of the ninth, then won 266 00:20:43,715 --> 00:20:47,195 Speaker 1: the game to reach the playoffs. And it was rightly 267 00:20:47,235 --> 00:20:50,315 Speaker 1: considered one of the all time most exciting baseball games. 268 00:20:50,355 --> 00:20:53,595 Speaker 1: And it still doesn't reflect that games like that just 269 00:20:53,995 --> 00:20:57,395 Speaker 1: thirty years ago meant you were four wins away from 270 00:20:57,435 --> 00:21:02,635 Speaker 1: playing for its championship, playing in the World Series. Now 271 00:21:02,635 --> 00:21:05,955 Speaker 1: it's like a month from now. Is the thrill of 272 00:21:06,075 --> 00:21:09,675 Speaker 1: one game, the sort of artificial environment that creates a 273 00:21:09,715 --> 00:21:13,955 Speaker 1: game like that worth the continuing downsizing of what used 274 00:21:13,955 --> 00:21:15,395 Speaker 1: to be a stretch in which it felt like they 275 00:21:15,435 --> 00:21:18,675 Speaker 1: were playing the Super Bowl every day for ten days. 276 00:21:19,675 --> 00:21:23,715 Speaker 1: A reminiscence about going to see the Mets, the nineteen 277 00:21:23,835 --> 00:21:28,435 Speaker 1: sixty nine Mets in the World Series ahead in things 278 00:21:28,475 --> 00:21:31,755 Speaker 1: I promised not to tell first, there are still more 279 00:21:31,755 --> 00:21:33,915 Speaker 1: new idiots talk about the daily roundup of the Miss 280 00:21:33,955 --> 00:21:39,075 Speaker 1: Grant's morons and Dunning Kruger effects specimens, who constitute today's 281 00:21:39,675 --> 00:21:45,875 Speaker 1: worse persons in the world. Worse Derek Anderson, former Green Beret, 282 00:21:46,035 --> 00:21:49,395 Speaker 1: now running for the House from the Virginia seventh. How 283 00:21:49,675 --> 00:21:54,115 Speaker 1: Annie Carney and Katie Edmondson the reporters got this through 284 00:21:54,155 --> 00:21:59,035 Speaker 1: The New York Times, deflavorizing and both sizzing machines. I 285 00:21:59,115 --> 00:22:04,635 Speaker 1: will never know. Maybe they deliberately wrote this boring opening line. 286 00:22:05,755 --> 00:22:10,835 Speaker 1: Wives are hitting the airwaves across the country. Three quarters 287 00:22:10,835 --> 00:22:14,155 Speaker 1: of readers were asleep before the second the in that sentence, 288 00:22:14,795 --> 00:22:21,595 Speaker 1: lives are hitting the airwaves across the But what the 289 00:22:21,635 --> 00:22:26,195 Speaker 1: Times reporters revealed in the story is that Republican candidate 290 00:22:26,235 --> 00:22:30,595 Speaker 1: Anderson in the Virginia seventh well quote, has posted footage 291 00:22:30,595 --> 00:22:33,155 Speaker 1: of him posing with a woman and her three daughters 292 00:22:33,555 --> 00:22:35,675 Speaker 1: in what looks like a photo that might be used 293 00:22:35,675 --> 00:22:39,155 Speaker 1: for an annual holiday card. In another scene filmed for 294 00:22:39,235 --> 00:22:42,235 Speaker 1: potential use in a campaign ad, mister Anderson is seated 295 00:22:42,275 --> 00:22:45,195 Speaker 1: around the dining room table with the same woman and 296 00:22:45,235 --> 00:22:48,915 Speaker 1: three girls, chatting and smiling. But the people are not relatives. 297 00:22:49,435 --> 00:22:53,075 Speaker 1: They are the wife and children of a longtime friend. 298 00:22:54,035 --> 00:22:57,675 Speaker 1: Mister Anderson, who announced this month that he was engaged, 299 00:22:58,395 --> 00:23:01,315 Speaker 1: does not have any children of his own. His campaign 300 00:23:01,395 --> 00:23:04,435 Speaker 1: website says he lives with his dog and does not 301 00:23:04,675 --> 00:23:09,675 Speaker 1: display any of the photos. Are you saying there's something 302 00:23:09,675 --> 00:23:11,875 Speaker 1: wrong with displaying photos of a man and his dog. 303 00:23:13,155 --> 00:23:15,795 Speaker 1: A spokesman for mister Anderson criticized the New York Times 304 00:23:15,795 --> 00:23:18,795 Speaker 1: decision to focus on the footage and said that Derek's 305 00:23:18,795 --> 00:23:22,475 Speaker 1: opponent and every other candidate in America are in similar 306 00:23:22,515 --> 00:23:26,675 Speaker 1: pictures and video with supporters of all kinds. The spokesman 307 00:23:26,715 --> 00:23:29,795 Speaker 1: said the video simply showed mister Anderson quote with female 308 00:23:29,835 --> 00:23:36,475 Speaker 1: supporters and their kids rent to kids. The guy got 309 00:23:36,515 --> 00:23:40,195 Speaker 1: rent to kids for a commercial like JV Vance got 310 00:23:40,235 --> 00:23:43,275 Speaker 1: to rent a dog like Trump got to rent a 311 00:23:43,355 --> 00:23:47,715 Speaker 1: third wife. Is there anybody anybody at all in the 312 00:23:47,755 --> 00:23:51,595 Speaker 1: Republican Party who is on the level anybody? Is it 313 00:23:52,035 --> 00:23:56,795 Speaker 1: just hucksters? Now? Is there anybody with any self respect? Okay, 314 00:23:56,795 --> 00:23:58,635 Speaker 1: I'll stop. We knew it the day Mitt Romney went 315 00:23:58,675 --> 00:24:01,995 Speaker 1: to dinner to beg Trump for a job. The answers 316 00:24:01,995 --> 00:24:05,035 Speaker 1: to my questions are no, no, no, no, and new 317 00:24:07,115 --> 00:24:10,875 Speaker 1: the runner up worser annie Lynskey. Hey, it's Annie Day. 318 00:24:11,395 --> 00:24:14,955 Speaker 1: Annie Lynskey works for the Wall Street Journal. They call 319 00:24:15,035 --> 00:24:19,635 Speaker 1: her a reporter. I would, but she's not. She's just 320 00:24:19,675 --> 00:24:22,995 Speaker 1: a bitter employee. Her job there is to take shots 321 00:24:22,995 --> 00:24:28,715 Speaker 1: at Joe Biden whenever she can, gratuitous, irrelevant, invariably quickly 322 00:24:28,755 --> 00:24:32,155 Speaker 1: disproven shots at Joe Biden. She was one of the 323 00:24:32,155 --> 00:24:34,755 Speaker 1: authors of the hit piece last spring about his health, 324 00:24:35,035 --> 00:24:38,475 Speaker 1: the one that only quoted Republicans and even then didn't 325 00:24:38,555 --> 00:24:41,035 Speaker 1: quote Kevin McCarthy of all people, saying he never saw 326 00:24:41,235 --> 00:24:44,515 Speaker 1: any slowness in the president, the one that the media 327 00:24:44,595 --> 00:24:47,835 Speaker 1: thinks they got right because Yeah, Biden withdrew from the 328 00:24:47,915 --> 00:24:51,435 Speaker 1: race because he was having trouble making public appearances. He 329 00:24:51,475 --> 00:24:55,155 Speaker 1: didn't slow down, hasn't slowed down as president. There's nothing 330 00:24:55,195 --> 00:25:00,755 Speaker 1: wrong with his presidency anyway. This Annie Lynskey is back 331 00:25:02,555 --> 00:25:06,075 Speaker 1: back before the Washington Post report, or the Washington Post 332 00:25:06,195 --> 00:25:08,995 Speaker 1: rather got rid of her. She was the reporter there 333 00:25:09,035 --> 00:25:13,555 Speaker 1: who mocked Biden. Quote walking through a graveyard, That was 334 00:25:13,555 --> 00:25:16,715 Speaker 1: Annie Lynsky quote. Biden goes to a church and walks 335 00:25:16,755 --> 00:25:20,355 Speaker 1: through a graveyard in Wilmington, as his legislative agenda is 336 00:25:20,435 --> 00:25:23,955 Speaker 1: dying in Washington. That was October third, twenty twenty one. 337 00:25:24,675 --> 00:25:27,475 Speaker 1: That was three years ago. At face value, it was 338 00:25:27,515 --> 00:25:30,915 Speaker 1: tasteless as it was, but annie Lynskey either didn't know 339 00:25:31,035 --> 00:25:33,955 Speaker 1: enough about her own job, or didn't care enough, or 340 00:25:33,995 --> 00:25:38,355 Speaker 1: did it deliberately one way or the other. She evinced 341 00:25:38,395 --> 00:25:41,555 Speaker 1: no knowledge that the graveyard in Wilmington was the one 342 00:25:41,875 --> 00:25:44,835 Speaker 1: in which the president's late son, and his late daughter 343 00:25:44,955 --> 00:25:49,475 Speaker 1: and his first wife are all buried. Well, yes, annie 344 00:25:49,555 --> 00:25:54,315 Speaker 1: Lynsky's back. Yesterday, Biden, suffering from a cold, became testy 345 00:25:54,955 --> 00:25:57,315 Speaker 1: when asked why he was in Delaware over the weekend 346 00:25:57,355 --> 00:26:01,155 Speaker 1: amid the storm. I understand she now works for a 347 00:26:01,195 --> 00:26:04,595 Speaker 1: fascist Murdock propaganda sheet. But what I will never understand 348 00:26:04,595 --> 00:26:07,235 Speaker 1: is and all the right wingers picked this up too, 349 00:26:07,475 --> 00:26:11,435 Speaker 1: thanks to people like annie Lynsky. How at her age, 350 00:26:12,035 --> 00:26:15,195 Speaker 1: she has not yet figured out that people record audio 351 00:26:15,235 --> 00:26:19,035 Speaker 1: and video of these things. I mean, I know that's new. 352 00:26:19,395 --> 00:26:22,915 Speaker 1: The handheld cassette tape recorder just came onto the market 353 00:26:22,955 --> 00:26:28,395 Speaker 1: in nineteen sixty six, and they didn't have walk bands 354 00:26:28,435 --> 00:26:30,395 Speaker 1: that you could hold in your hand and record anything 355 00:26:30,475 --> 00:26:35,155 Speaker 1: until like nineteen seventy nine, and that iPhone at brand 356 00:26:35,155 --> 00:26:37,155 Speaker 1: you can still have your new iPhone from two thousand 357 00:26:37,195 --> 00:26:40,955 Speaker 1: and seven. Here is the President of the United States 358 00:26:41,395 --> 00:26:45,195 Speaker 1: not becoming testy, even though Annie Lynsky lied that he 359 00:26:45,315 --> 00:26:46,635 Speaker 1: became testy. 360 00:26:47,195 --> 00:26:50,875 Speaker 3: Why byn't she and Vice President Harris Sharon Washington commanding 361 00:26:50,915 --> 00:26:53,715 Speaker 3: this just be had I was getting it. 362 00:26:53,875 --> 00:26:55,715 Speaker 4: I was on the phone for at least two hours 363 00:26:55,955 --> 00:26:57,915 Speaker 4: yesterday in the day before as well. 364 00:26:58,595 --> 00:27:01,515 Speaker 1: I commend this all the telephone. It's all my security. 365 00:27:01,835 --> 00:27:05,275 Speaker 2: It's an order for the country to see. 366 00:27:06,835 --> 00:27:09,915 Speaker 1: That's the President of the United States exit stage right, 367 00:27:10,035 --> 00:27:13,315 Speaker 1: closing the door on that idiot reporter. And I tried it. 368 00:27:13,315 --> 00:27:16,435 Speaker 1: I've been unable to reveal who that is. I'll get 369 00:27:16,435 --> 00:27:20,675 Speaker 1: it eventually. That is called Joe Biden calling out a 370 00:27:20,755 --> 00:27:25,075 Speaker 1: lie from a liar posing as a reporter. He didn't swear, 371 00:27:25,515 --> 00:27:29,715 Speaker 1: he didn't mock, he didn't become testy, he didn't shoot 372 00:27:29,755 --> 00:27:32,795 Speaker 1: the guy a dirty look. But what he also didn't 373 00:27:32,795 --> 00:27:35,835 Speaker 1: do was bow and curtsey to the guy or the 374 00:27:35,875 --> 00:27:39,195 Speaker 1: annie Lynskys of this world. And what you saw in 375 00:27:39,235 --> 00:27:43,275 Speaker 1: this story Biden became testy is half of the essence 376 00:27:43,315 --> 00:27:48,035 Speaker 1: of the problem with our bleeding, bankrupt, almost dying news media. 377 00:27:48,515 --> 00:27:51,155 Speaker 1: The only things most of them really pay attention to 378 00:27:52,155 --> 00:27:56,835 Speaker 1: are when somebody in power makes them feel good, or 379 00:27:57,475 --> 00:28:01,715 Speaker 1: when they can make somebody in power feel bad. Say 380 00:28:01,755 --> 00:28:05,395 Speaker 1: something snotty and factually erroneous to the President of the 381 00:28:05,515 --> 00:28:07,915 Speaker 1: United States, as the reporter who asked that question did, 382 00:28:08,035 --> 00:28:10,475 Speaker 1: and if he's Biden and he doesn't defer to you, 383 00:28:11,315 --> 00:28:13,435 Speaker 1: and I know him a long time, he doesn't defer 384 00:28:13,515 --> 00:28:17,395 Speaker 1: to you, and so you then after he leaves, you 385 00:28:17,435 --> 00:28:20,475 Speaker 1: go take the opportunity to scurry back into your rat 386 00:28:20,475 --> 00:28:23,995 Speaker 1: hole and you tweet something mean about how testy he is. 387 00:28:24,115 --> 00:28:29,355 Speaker 1: You know who's testy here, Annie Lynsky, you're testy. Now. 388 00:28:29,395 --> 00:28:32,075 Speaker 1: If you say something like that about Trump, you'll get fired, 389 00:28:33,075 --> 00:28:36,875 Speaker 1: or if he's reelected, you'll have your new Trump journalism 390 00:28:36,955 --> 00:28:40,395 Speaker 1: license revoked. Annie, first offense, second offense, you go to 391 00:28:40,435 --> 00:28:45,635 Speaker 1: Trump journalistic re education camp. I hate people like this. 392 00:28:45,915 --> 00:28:49,155 Speaker 1: I hate them all. We could fire all the reporters 393 00:28:49,235 --> 00:28:52,675 Speaker 1: except for like the top three percent in this country 394 00:28:52,715 --> 00:28:56,675 Speaker 1: tomorrow and replace them either with the average sports reporter 395 00:28:57,075 --> 00:29:01,435 Speaker 1: or the average college senior or post grad student in 396 00:29:01,515 --> 00:29:05,435 Speaker 1: journalism in this country, and the quality ofjournalism in this 397 00:29:05,595 --> 00:29:10,315 Speaker 1: nation tomorrow first day would improve by five to ten percent. Immediately, 398 00:29:12,195 --> 00:29:17,035 Speaker 1: but the winner the worst. John Roberts, Chief Justice of 399 00:29:17,075 --> 00:29:21,915 Speaker 1: the United States of America. Oh, you want to tales right, 400 00:29:21,955 --> 00:29:25,555 Speaker 1: I'm sorry, I'm sorry. The anniversary is Thursday. It's forty 401 00:29:25,595 --> 00:29:29,275 Speaker 1: one years now. But the leaf Lever News podcast master 402 00:29:29,395 --> 00:29:32,435 Speaker 1: Plan mentioned this the other day. It's a memo to 403 00:29:32,595 --> 00:29:35,835 Speaker 1: Reagan advisor Fred Fielding. We used to work for a 404 00:29:35,835 --> 00:29:38,075 Speaker 1: friend of mine in the Nixon White House, Dean somebody. 405 00:29:38,595 --> 00:29:40,275 Speaker 1: It was from one of the young in this case, 406 00:29:40,315 --> 00:29:42,795 Speaker 1: twenty eight year old lawyers, one of the associates in 407 00:29:42,835 --> 00:29:46,275 Speaker 1: the Office of White House Counsel Under Reagan. There is 408 00:29:46,315 --> 00:29:48,915 Speaker 1: a proposal in the Senate in nineteen eighty three, as 409 00:29:48,955 --> 00:29:51,875 Speaker 1: this is written, a bill that would launch a constitutional 410 00:29:51,915 --> 00:29:56,315 Speaker 1: amendment to end lifetime appointments for federal judges and limit 411 00:29:56,355 --> 00:30:00,515 Speaker 1: them to ten years on the bench. Fielding is asked 412 00:30:00,515 --> 00:30:04,275 Speaker 1: for an analysis and advice because Reagan wants the Department 413 00:30:04,275 --> 00:30:07,355 Speaker 1: of Justice to publicly oppose the proposed amendment, because of 414 00:30:07,395 --> 00:30:09,515 Speaker 1: course he's coming up for election and the idea of 415 00:30:09,635 --> 00:30:12,275 Speaker 1: term limits or age limits was going to be really 416 00:30:12,315 --> 00:30:15,835 Speaker 1: bad for Ronald Reagan in nineteen eighty four. Yes, we 417 00:30:15,915 --> 00:30:18,315 Speaker 1: need somebody's less than two hundred and six or unf 418 00:30:18,435 --> 00:30:22,395 Speaker 1: President Reagan, I need to see you. But this kid 419 00:30:22,435 --> 00:30:25,675 Speaker 1: in the Council's office who's writing to Fred Fielding, he's 420 00:30:25,715 --> 00:30:28,595 Speaker 1: not so sure that this is that bad an idea. 421 00:30:28,755 --> 00:30:32,235 Speaker 1: This is what he wrote. The Justice report is similar 422 00:30:32,315 --> 00:30:34,555 Speaker 1: to other reports it has filed in recent years, and 423 00:30:34,595 --> 00:30:36,795 Speaker 1: I do not propose to object to it. I would 424 00:30:36,875 --> 00:30:39,995 Speaker 1: point out, however, that there is much to be said 425 00:30:40,075 --> 00:30:44,715 Speaker 1: for changing life tenure to a term of years without 426 00:30:44,835 --> 00:30:49,795 Speaker 1: possibility of reappointment. The Framers adopted life tenure at a 427 00:30:49,835 --> 00:30:53,635 Speaker 1: time when people simply did not live as long as 428 00:30:53,675 --> 00:30:57,795 Speaker 1: they do now. A judge insulated from the normal currents 429 00:30:57,795 --> 00:31:00,835 Speaker 1: of life for twenty five or thirty years was a 430 00:31:00,955 --> 00:31:05,195 Speaker 1: rarity then, but is becoming commonplace today. Setting a term 431 00:31:05,275 --> 00:31:09,355 Speaker 1: of say, fifteen years, would ensure that federal judges would 432 00:31:09,355 --> 00:31:12,915 Speaker 1: not lose all touch with reality through decades of Ivory 433 00:31:13,075 --> 00:31:16,475 Speaker 1: Tower existence. It would also provide a more regular and 434 00:31:16,515 --> 00:31:20,235 Speaker 1: greater degree of turnover among the judges. Both developments would, 435 00:31:20,235 --> 00:31:24,675 Speaker 1: in my view, be healthy ones. Denying reappointment would eliminate 436 00:31:24,795 --> 00:31:31,235 Speaker 1: any significant threat to judicial independence. The memos suggesting hey, 437 00:31:31,835 --> 00:31:34,115 Speaker 1: you know what, the federal judges and the Supreme Court 438 00:31:34,275 --> 00:31:37,395 Speaker 1: justices just aren't dying as fast as they used to. 439 00:31:38,275 --> 00:31:41,115 Speaker 1: Was sent to Reagan advisor Fred Fielding forty one years 440 00:31:41,155 --> 00:31:47,595 Speaker 1: ago Thursday by John Roberts, who, if it had been adopted, 441 00:31:47,635 --> 00:31:50,995 Speaker 1: would have retired this week as Chief Justice this week 442 00:31:50,995 --> 00:31:54,835 Speaker 1: in twenty twenty, like Thomas would have retired from the 443 00:31:54,835 --> 00:31:57,475 Speaker 1: bench of the Supreme Court in two thousand and six 444 00:31:57,995 --> 00:32:01,555 Speaker 1: Alito in twenty twenty one. Hell, if this had been 445 00:32:01,635 --> 00:32:04,915 Speaker 1: passed nine years from next week, we'd be having the 446 00:32:04,955 --> 00:32:09,835 Speaker 1: farewell party for Brett f and Kavanaugh. Don't bother to 447 00:32:09,915 --> 00:32:16,555 Speaker 1: b Yob, John, Always go with your first idea, Roberts 448 00:32:17,035 --> 00:32:38,155 Speaker 1: two days worst person. Hello, the number one story on 449 00:32:38,195 --> 00:32:40,555 Speaker 1: the Countdown now and it's my favorite topic. Me and 450 00:32:40,675 --> 00:32:43,355 Speaker 1: things I promised not to tell. I was ten years old, 451 00:32:43,995 --> 00:32:47,795 Speaker 1: and I'm not sure that this was the last week 452 00:32:47,835 --> 00:32:50,235 Speaker 1: that baseball was more important than nearly everything else in 453 00:32:50,235 --> 00:32:52,715 Speaker 1: this country. But if not, the chronology is pretty close 454 00:32:53,675 --> 00:32:57,795 Speaker 1: by legend in my hometown, Miss Barton had been standing 455 00:32:57,835 --> 00:33:00,955 Speaker 1: on Farragut Parkway when they decided to put the school 456 00:33:00,995 --> 00:33:04,035 Speaker 1: there in nineteen oh five, so they just built it 457 00:33:04,075 --> 00:33:07,035 Speaker 1: around her. In fact, she had only been at the 458 00:33:07,035 --> 00:33:10,915 Speaker 1: head of her homeroom since nineteen forty two, but for 459 00:33:11,075 --> 00:33:14,155 Speaker 1: us seventh graders of the year nineteen sixty nine, the 460 00:33:14,235 --> 00:33:16,475 Speaker 1: year nineteen forty two might as well have been a 461 00:33:16,555 --> 00:33:20,875 Speaker 1: date from the reign of Julius Caesar. Miss Barton was 462 00:33:20,915 --> 00:33:25,155 Speaker 1: friendly but formidable, and what if any connection she had 463 00:33:25,195 --> 00:33:29,315 Speaker 1: to the world outside school eluded us In retrospect, it 464 00:33:29,355 --> 00:33:31,235 Speaker 1: took a good deal of courage for me to have 465 00:33:31,555 --> 00:33:34,675 Speaker 1: handed her the note my mother had scribbled asking her 466 00:33:34,835 --> 00:33:38,595 Speaker 1: permission for me to miss school on October fifteenth, nineteen 467 00:33:38,635 --> 00:33:42,635 Speaker 1: sixty nine. She read it, and she looked up at 468 00:33:42,675 --> 00:33:48,195 Speaker 1: me with unalloyed shock, and I knew my plans were doomed. 469 00:33:48,555 --> 00:33:53,275 Speaker 1: And then she smiled broadly and warmly. It was not 470 00:33:53,355 --> 00:33:56,195 Speaker 1: the last time any of us sought, but it probably 471 00:33:56,235 --> 00:33:59,475 Speaker 1: was the first time we had seen her smile. You're 472 00:33:59,555 --> 00:34:03,155 Speaker 1: going to the World Series? Have you got an extra ticket? 473 00:34:05,195 --> 00:34:09,075 Speaker 1: They were all like that. Mister Madolinski, the science teacher, 474 00:34:09,115 --> 00:34:12,195 Speaker 1: who looked like nothing less than a proto Nathan Lane, 475 00:34:12,715 --> 00:34:16,395 Speaker 1: had not only accepted my carrying a transistor, radio and 476 00:34:16,515 --> 00:34:20,195 Speaker 1: an earphone into class, but he had periodically called on 477 00:34:20,275 --> 00:34:25,835 Speaker 1: me during science class for the score. Mister bub the 478 00:34:26,035 --> 00:34:29,355 Speaker 1: hard assed phized teacher who once fended off twenty seven 479 00:34:29,435 --> 00:34:31,555 Speaker 1: kids who tried to force him into the showers on 480 00:34:31,595 --> 00:34:34,275 Speaker 1: the last day of school, suggested that when I went 481 00:34:34,315 --> 00:34:36,515 Speaker 1: to Game four, I should bring a movie camera with 482 00:34:36,555 --> 00:34:40,235 Speaker 1: me and we could watch the highlights instead of Jim 483 00:34:40,715 --> 00:34:44,875 Speaker 1: whenever the film got back from the developers. The social 484 00:34:44,915 --> 00:34:49,755 Speaker 1: studies teacher, my favorite missus Rice, the first love of 485 00:34:49,795 --> 00:34:54,235 Speaker 1: my life, out did them all. She moved my chair 486 00:34:54,395 --> 00:34:57,755 Speaker 1: up next to the blackboard and turned a corner of 487 00:34:57,795 --> 00:35:02,675 Speaker 1: that blackboard into a makeshift scoreboard. Every half inning, and 488 00:35:02,795 --> 00:35:04,555 Speaker 1: in those days you could cram a lot of half 489 00:35:04,715 --> 00:35:08,035 Speaker 1: into your average seventh grade social studies class, not just 490 00:35:08,195 --> 00:35:11,195 Speaker 1: like one or two half innings. I would add a 491 00:35:11,235 --> 00:35:15,515 Speaker 1: digit to the line score Baltimore zero zero three, Mets 492 00:35:15,675 --> 00:35:22,275 Speaker 1: zero zero zero. My dad got somewhere two tickets for 493 00:35:22,435 --> 00:35:26,115 Speaker 1: Game four. It turned out to be the Tom Seaverer game. 494 00:35:27,115 --> 00:35:30,395 Speaker 1: It ended in JC Martin's bunt thrown away down the 495 00:35:30,435 --> 00:35:33,715 Speaker 1: first baseline by relief fitcher Pete Rickord of Baltimore, with 496 00:35:33,795 --> 00:35:36,155 Speaker 1: pinch runner Rod Gasbar of the Mets scoring the winning 497 00:35:36,235 --> 00:35:37,915 Speaker 1: run in the tenth I got to know all those 498 00:35:37,955 --> 00:35:41,915 Speaker 1: guys I sent Rod Gasbar some previously unseen photos of 499 00:35:41,995 --> 00:35:46,475 Speaker 1: him crossing the plate. He sent one back, autographed, inscribed Keith, 500 00:35:46,955 --> 00:35:49,675 Speaker 1: thanks for attending Game four of the nineteen sixty nine 501 00:35:49,715 --> 00:35:55,035 Speaker 1: World Series, Please drive home safely. My dad and I 502 00:35:55,115 --> 00:35:58,155 Speaker 1: in fact took the train in from Westchester. I think 503 00:35:58,195 --> 00:36:01,995 Speaker 1: we went first, at his insistence, to Barney's, which was 504 00:36:02,035 --> 00:36:05,635 Speaker 1: then exclusively a men's clothing store in Union's Square. That's 505 00:36:05,675 --> 00:36:08,355 Speaker 1: where I got my first adult style suit with a 506 00:36:08,395 --> 00:36:12,235 Speaker 1: tailor and everything. And then up to Times Square to 507 00:36:12,355 --> 00:36:16,075 Speaker 1: change trains, where we were nearly run over by the 508 00:36:16,075 --> 00:36:20,395 Speaker 1: Moratorium Day protesters. That was Moratorium Day, the first big 509 00:36:20,515 --> 00:36:25,275 Speaker 1: nationwide protest against the Vietnam War, October fifteenth, nineteen sixty nine. 510 00:36:25,755 --> 00:36:28,515 Speaker 1: We changed trains and then out to Chase Stadium by 511 00:36:28,515 --> 00:36:33,155 Speaker 1: the number seven. The seats on that perfect crystal day 512 00:36:33,595 --> 00:36:36,955 Speaker 1: were in distant left field, but I had brought my binoculars, 513 00:36:37,155 --> 00:36:40,075 Speaker 1: really my dad's, and they brought me into the game. 514 00:36:40,515 --> 00:36:43,435 Speaker 1: I could see the Commissioner of Baseball clearly, and stand 515 00:36:43,595 --> 00:36:46,315 Speaker 1: Musials sitting next to him, and sitting next to the 516 00:36:46,355 --> 00:36:49,075 Speaker 1: Mets dugout, and I could see the sweat on Tom 517 00:36:49,155 --> 00:36:53,515 Speaker 1: Seever's face as he delivered strike after strike and the 518 00:36:53,555 --> 00:36:56,595 Speaker 1: emotion I had when I got home that night, a 519 00:36:56,675 --> 00:37:00,235 Speaker 1: temporary Mets fan because the Orioles always beat up my Yankees, 520 00:37:00,875 --> 00:37:05,955 Speaker 1: that emotion was simple. Whatever else would happen in my life, 521 00:37:06,195 --> 00:37:09,995 Speaker 1: I had done it. I had been to a World 522 00:37:10,195 --> 00:37:16,835 Speaker 1: Series game. I was the envy of my classmates for months. 523 00:37:17,875 --> 00:37:20,475 Speaker 1: The previous school year, they had herded us all into 524 00:37:20,475 --> 00:37:23,475 Speaker 1: the vast Cobwebby auditorium at the top of the school 525 00:37:23,755 --> 00:37:27,755 Speaker 1: to watch Richard Nixon's first inauguration. Several times. They had 526 00:37:27,755 --> 00:37:31,835 Speaker 1: done the same thing for Gemini and the Pollo space launches, 527 00:37:32,195 --> 00:37:37,195 Speaker 1: but those had tangible, albeit to us vague connections to 528 00:37:37,475 --> 00:37:42,635 Speaker 1: you know, actual school work. The World Series, however, was 529 00:37:42,675 --> 00:37:45,995 Speaker 1: apparently more important than school work. It was more important 530 00:37:46,035 --> 00:37:48,955 Speaker 1: than school. I don't remember anything else that adults would 531 00:37:48,955 --> 00:37:53,115 Speaker 1: admit was more important than school all these years later, 532 00:37:53,435 --> 00:37:57,995 Speaker 1: and hearing those words world and Series still sends a 533 00:37:58,115 --> 00:38:03,075 Speaker 1: chill through me as reflexively as the loudest Pavlovian bell. 534 00:38:03,115 --> 00:38:05,755 Speaker 1: I could not have known then I was part of 535 00:38:05,755 --> 00:38:09,275 Speaker 1: the last generation to be so indoctrinated. I assumed it 536 00:38:09,355 --> 00:38:11,635 Speaker 1: had always been that way, and it always would be, 537 00:38:12,715 --> 00:38:17,435 Speaker 1: and it no longer is the twenty twenty two World 538 00:38:17,475 --> 00:38:21,315 Speaker 1: Series was the third worst rated in television history, not 539 00:38:21,435 --> 00:38:24,235 Speaker 1: quite as bad as twenty twenty one, which itself was 540 00:38:24,275 --> 00:38:27,635 Speaker 1: not quite as bad as twenty twenty. There's a myriad 541 00:38:27,675 --> 00:38:32,115 Speaker 1: of causes. I have about five hundred and seventeen more 542 00:38:32,155 --> 00:38:35,275 Speaker 1: television and streaming channels to choose from than I did 543 00:38:35,315 --> 00:38:38,595 Speaker 1: in October nineteen sixty nine. I mean, we didn't even 544 00:38:38,675 --> 00:38:41,395 Speaker 1: have the color TV yet in October nineteen sixty nine, 545 00:38:41,395 --> 00:38:43,955 Speaker 1: at least not an our house. I have at least 546 00:38:43,995 --> 00:38:46,995 Speaker 1: five times more TV channels than I did in October 547 00:38:47,035 --> 00:38:50,995 Speaker 1: two thousand and one. And similarly, baseball no longer dwarfs 548 00:38:51,075 --> 00:38:54,195 Speaker 1: the sports landscape, even just for the World Series. The 549 00:38:54,395 --> 00:38:59,395 Speaker 1: de nationalizing of baseball was symbolized by the presence of 550 00:38:59,475 --> 00:39:07,795 Speaker 1: two geographically homogeneous teams. Formerly a boon ratings now a curse. 551 00:39:08,995 --> 00:39:12,155 Speaker 1: This was the two thousand World Series, the Mets and 552 00:39:12,195 --> 00:39:15,715 Speaker 1: the Yankees, the dream of every New York sports fan, 553 00:39:18,075 --> 00:39:21,195 Speaker 1: and nobody cared outside of New York the beginning of 554 00:39:21,275 --> 00:39:25,515 Speaker 1: the end. Yet the underlying cost of baseball's malaise is that, 555 00:39:25,675 --> 00:39:27,915 Speaker 1: like me, the owners just assumed it would always be 556 00:39:28,075 --> 00:39:30,595 Speaker 1: the way it was in nineteen sixty nine. I had 557 00:39:30,635 --> 00:39:33,755 Speaker 1: an excuse for believing that I was ten. Their excuse 558 00:39:34,315 --> 00:39:38,635 Speaker 1: that mentally they're all ten is insufficient. All but a 559 00:39:38,635 --> 00:39:41,155 Speaker 1: few of the owners have failed to understand television in 560 00:39:41,195 --> 00:39:43,835 Speaker 1: any way other than as a revenue source. They have 561 00:39:43,915 --> 00:39:49,035 Speaker 1: never recognized its function as merchandising, even as a mechanism 562 00:39:49,155 --> 00:39:53,395 Speaker 1: for proselytizing. They didn't know about miss Barton and mister 563 00:39:53,435 --> 00:39:55,955 Speaker 1: Madolinsky and missus Rice, and they did not care about them. 564 00:39:55,995 --> 00:39:58,395 Speaker 1: They didn't know about the kids with their cheesy white 565 00:39:58,395 --> 00:40:02,835 Speaker 1: plastic earplugs and their scratchy transistor radios. They didn't cultivate 566 00:40:02,875 --> 00:40:06,155 Speaker 1: the tradition they had been given by their forebears in 567 00:40:06,195 --> 00:40:08,475 Speaker 1: the first half of the twentieth century. They let the 568 00:40:08,515 --> 00:40:13,395 Speaker 1: World Series become less important than schools, and less important 569 00:40:13,395 --> 00:40:22,195 Speaker 1: than the NBA, and less important than Taylor Swift. That's 570 00:40:22,195 --> 00:40:24,635 Speaker 1: what they needed. They needed to get Taylor Swift to 571 00:40:24,635 --> 00:40:29,995 Speaker 1: go with Travis Kelcey to that playoff game. It takes 572 00:40:30,155 --> 00:40:33,635 Speaker 1: a certain foresight to say to a television executive, no, 573 00:40:33,715 --> 00:40:35,955 Speaker 1: we can't play the whole World Series at night because 574 00:40:35,995 --> 00:40:39,155 Speaker 1: the kids won't be able to watch. We can't bend 575 00:40:39,315 --> 00:40:44,115 Speaker 1: to society and prime time and the other sports and demographics. 576 00:40:44,115 --> 00:40:48,035 Speaker 1: Because to do that is to lessen the obligation to 577 00:40:48,155 --> 00:40:51,755 Speaker 1: watch the World Series. We have to play some day games. 578 00:40:51,875 --> 00:40:56,515 Speaker 1: Here's some of the money back. It would take a 579 00:40:56,515 --> 00:41:02,035 Speaker 1: certain foresight and reproductive organs the size of I don't know, 580 00:41:03,835 --> 00:41:09,435 Speaker 1: fill in the analogy yourself. As evidenced by well everything. 581 00:41:09,475 --> 00:41:12,395 Speaker 1: Baseball owners don't have them or the foresight to plan 582 00:41:13,115 --> 00:41:15,595 Speaker 1: for the twelve inning of a game, let alone twelve 583 00:41:15,675 --> 00:41:17,875 Speaker 1: years from now. They did not write off the few 584 00:41:17,915 --> 00:41:21,155 Speaker 1: million less NBC would have paid them as seed money 585 00:41:21,155 --> 00:41:23,875 Speaker 1: for this. Instead, it's the World Series that has gone 586 00:41:23,915 --> 00:41:27,635 Speaker 1: to seed, sometimes being reduced to being the symbolic filler 587 00:41:27,675 --> 00:41:32,715 Speaker 1: between Fox's next two promos for this year's implausible sitcom. 588 00:41:33,595 --> 00:41:36,875 Speaker 1: As I've discussed here previously, Baseball's owners never noticed that 589 00:41:36,915 --> 00:41:39,995 Speaker 1: the separation and isolation of the two leagues had assured 590 00:41:40,275 --> 00:41:42,835 Speaker 1: that while the audience might be divided among the fans 591 00:41:42,835 --> 00:41:47,555 Speaker 1: of sixteen, then twenty, then twenty four then twenty six 592 00:41:47,635 --> 00:41:50,635 Speaker 1: different teams, it also meant that nearly all of them 593 00:41:50,715 --> 00:41:55,795 Speaker 1: also divided into two groups, American League fans and National 594 00:41:55,875 --> 00:41:59,755 Speaker 1: League fans, so that even if their quote own team 595 00:41:59,915 --> 00:42:02,235 Speaker 1: unquote was not in the World Series, they still had 596 00:42:02,235 --> 00:42:04,555 Speaker 1: a rooting interest in the World Series and a re 597 00:42:04,995 --> 00:42:07,915 Speaker 1: to watch to see their league win or, as in 598 00:42:07,955 --> 00:42:09,955 Speaker 1: my case as an American League fan when I was 599 00:42:09,955 --> 00:42:12,315 Speaker 1: ten years old, to see their league lose because it 600 00:42:12,355 --> 00:42:14,555 Speaker 1: was the Baltimore Orioles and they beat the crap out 601 00:42:14,555 --> 00:42:17,235 Speaker 1: of my Yankees. I was not rooting for the Mets 602 00:42:17,275 --> 00:42:20,075 Speaker 1: in the nineteen sixty nine World Series. I was rooting 603 00:42:20,115 --> 00:42:26,475 Speaker 1: against the hated Baltimore Orioles. TV usually takes the sole 604 00:42:26,635 --> 00:42:29,075 Speaker 1: blame when this subject is introduced, but I know from 605 00:42:29,115 --> 00:42:31,795 Speaker 1: my own experience when the executives who make the nuts 606 00:42:31,795 --> 00:42:37,435 Speaker 1: and bolts decisions about televising baseball seeing them actually do it, 607 00:42:37,995 --> 00:42:41,635 Speaker 1: that they have done everything but beg the owners to 608 00:42:41,755 --> 00:42:45,595 Speaker 1: return daylight to the series, and not just when the 609 00:42:45,635 --> 00:42:49,075 Speaker 1: games have to start at five pm Pacific for the 610 00:42:49,115 --> 00:42:52,075 Speaker 1: sake of the East Coast audience. One of my bosses, 611 00:42:52,915 --> 00:42:57,595 Speaker 1: Dick eversaw, the head of NBC Sports, sat there rejiggering 612 00:42:57,635 --> 00:43:02,395 Speaker 1: the first pitch times for one series. No, no tell, buddy, 613 00:43:02,235 --> 00:43:04,795 Speaker 1: he has to start Wednesday at eight thirty seven and 614 00:43:04,875 --> 00:43:07,395 Speaker 1: not eight o seven. He knows that we've got a 615 00:43:07,435 --> 00:43:11,555 Speaker 1: sitcom premiering on Wednesday. He told me about offering to 616 00:43:11,675 --> 00:43:14,555 Speaker 1: split the difference in the revenue lost because of a 617 00:43:14,635 --> 00:43:18,035 Speaker 1: late afternoon start on a Saturday. I told Buddy, think 618 00:43:18,035 --> 00:43:22,115 Speaker 1: of the future. He kept saying, think of the money. 619 00:43:23,155 --> 00:43:25,275 Speaker 1: It isn't just the sizzle, of course, there are now 620 00:43:25,355 --> 00:43:28,715 Speaker 1: severe problems with the stake as well. In Bob Costas's 621 00:43:28,715 --> 00:43:31,795 Speaker 1: memorable phrase, as my friend put it, the wild card 622 00:43:31,835 --> 00:43:36,835 Speaker 1: has indeed turned the series into the MLB Finals. The 623 00:43:36,915 --> 00:43:39,675 Speaker 1: viewers were way ahead of the Cognizani on this celebration 624 00:43:39,755 --> 00:43:43,275 Speaker 1: of mediocrity. Amid all the explanations for the ever plummeting ratings, 625 00:43:43,275 --> 00:43:47,395 Speaker 1: the simplest one inevitably gets bypassed. If you're scoring at home, 626 00:43:47,555 --> 00:43:50,635 Speaker 1: or even if you're just by yourself. This just isn't 627 00:43:50,835 --> 00:43:55,515 Speaker 1: very good baseball played by not really that good baseball teams. 628 00:43:56,595 --> 00:44:00,835 Speaker 1: Five hundred foot homers and no hitters with multiple pitchers 629 00:44:00,875 --> 00:44:05,035 Speaker 1: in them and seventeen strikeout games. They are impressed, But 630 00:44:05,075 --> 00:44:07,475 Speaker 1: if they happen every night, they take on the falsity 631 00:44:07,515 --> 00:44:11,115 Speaker 1: of the plot twists in pro wrestling, and in a 632 00:44:11,155 --> 00:44:16,035 Speaker 1: sports world full to overflowing with last second touchdowns, buzzer 633 00:44:16,075 --> 00:44:19,675 Speaker 1: beaters from the popcorn stand. All offense, all the time 634 00:44:19,755 --> 00:44:21,675 Speaker 1: is no longer enough to hide the fact that to 635 00:44:21,715 --> 00:44:25,155 Speaker 1: be watchable baseball has to be a balance of hitting 636 00:44:25,275 --> 00:44:30,675 Speaker 1: and pitching. In one year, the number of World Series 637 00:44:30,715 --> 00:44:34,875 Speaker 1: starting pitchers who lasted seven innings or more dropped from 638 00:44:35,035 --> 00:44:40,755 Speaker 1: nine to none. One day, all the runs in the 639 00:44:40,795 --> 00:44:43,355 Speaker 1: world next day, a no hitter. Same two teams, same 640 00:44:43,395 --> 00:44:48,395 Speaker 1: two lineups. In the old days, the pretenders, one dimensional 641 00:44:48,395 --> 00:44:51,435 Speaker 1: teams like last year's Phillies, were eliminated in the slow 642 00:44:51,515 --> 00:44:54,435 Speaker 1: but fair crucible of the regular season. If the best 643 00:44:54,475 --> 00:44:57,435 Speaker 1: team in baseball occasionally had a bad week and undeservedly 644 00:44:57,515 --> 00:45:00,715 Speaker 1: lost the World Series, that merely served to create endless 645 00:45:00,715 --> 00:45:03,515 Speaker 1: spodder for the off season, something for people to talk 646 00:45:03,555 --> 00:45:08,315 Speaker 1: about until March. Now the candidates for best team in 647 00:45:08,315 --> 00:45:10,915 Speaker 1: twenty twenty two. That was the Braves, the Dodgers, even 648 00:45:10,955 --> 00:45:14,595 Speaker 1: the Mets. They can be eliminated almost by chance at 649 00:45:14,675 --> 00:45:18,795 Speaker 1: two levels, even before they stagger into a sometimes anti 650 00:45:18,875 --> 00:45:24,755 Speaker 1: climactic World Series. There are now two nightmare scenarios for 651 00:45:24,795 --> 00:45:27,955 Speaker 1: the television ratings. If they had continued to decline at 652 00:45:27,955 --> 00:45:30,395 Speaker 1: the rate they did in the ten years after nineteen 653 00:45:30,475 --> 00:45:33,715 Speaker 1: ninety one, ratings for the World Series of twenty twenty 654 00:45:33,715 --> 00:45:36,955 Speaker 1: five would be about a tenth of what they were 655 00:45:37,075 --> 00:45:42,675 Speaker 1: in nineteen ninety one. The collapse slowed, however, great news 656 00:45:43,715 --> 00:45:47,075 Speaker 1: twenty twenty two ratings were one quarter what they had 657 00:45:47,115 --> 00:45:51,475 Speaker 1: been in nineteen ninety one. That they weren't one tenth 658 00:45:52,195 --> 00:45:55,875 Speaker 1: is the good news. It is no coincidence that the 659 00:45:55,915 --> 00:45:59,595 Speaker 1: three worst rated World Series of all times have all 660 00:45:59,595 --> 00:46:04,315 Speaker 1: occurred since twenty twenty. The regular season has already been 661 00:46:04,355 --> 00:46:07,435 Speaker 1: new to even the teams given new free stadiums are 662 00:46:07,475 --> 00:46:14,155 Speaker 1: beginning to fail. The owners know this, and they floated 663 00:46:14,155 --> 00:46:21,875 Speaker 1: an obvious solution. They added more wildcard teams. Throughout the 664 00:46:21,955 --> 00:46:25,875 Speaker 1: eighteen eighties, the nascent World Series it was called the 665 00:46:25,875 --> 00:46:30,115 Speaker 1: World's Championship Series. It was the World Series was mismanaged 666 00:46:30,235 --> 00:46:34,195 Speaker 1: completely from an instant attention grabber in eighteen eighty four 667 00:46:34,235 --> 00:46:36,795 Speaker 1: where the winners of the American Association and the National 668 00:46:36,875 --> 00:46:39,435 Speaker 1: League said, hey, we should have a series to determine 669 00:46:39,435 --> 00:46:44,395 Speaker 1: which of US's best. From that explosive big bang berth, 670 00:46:44,915 --> 00:46:48,715 Speaker 1: it was turned into an endless traveling freak show by 671 00:46:48,715 --> 00:46:52,235 Speaker 1: eighteen eighty seven. In eighteen eighty seven, they played best 672 00:46:52,275 --> 00:46:56,355 Speaker 1: eight out of fifteen, and they kept playing it in 673 00:46:56,435 --> 00:46:58,875 Speaker 1: different cities. It wasn't just the two cities of the 674 00:46:58,915 --> 00:47:01,115 Speaker 1: two teams in it, Detroit and Saint Louis. The eighteen 675 00:47:01,115 --> 00:47:04,115 Speaker 1: eighty seven World Series was played in ten different cities, 676 00:47:05,435 --> 00:47:10,355 Speaker 1: and the denumont of labor wars and over expansion came 677 00:47:10,475 --> 00:47:14,395 Speaker 1: in eighteen ninety. The eighteen ninety World Series pitted the 678 00:47:14,395 --> 00:47:17,915 Speaker 1: Louisville Cyclones, who had risen from worst to first in 679 00:47:17,955 --> 00:47:21,355 Speaker 1: the American Association, which was a major League, against the 680 00:47:21,395 --> 00:47:25,235 Speaker 1: Brooklyn Bridegrooms, who had won the American Association pennant the 681 00:47:25,275 --> 00:47:28,035 Speaker 1: year before eighteen eighty nine, and then the franchise just 682 00:47:28,235 --> 00:47:31,315 Speaker 1: jumped into the National League for eighteen ninety and won 683 00:47:31,355 --> 00:47:35,595 Speaker 1: that pennant. There were storylines of plenty, but so full 684 00:47:35,675 --> 00:47:39,435 Speaker 1: of rancor and devoid of talent was the eighteen ninety 685 00:47:39,435 --> 00:47:42,755 Speaker 1: World Series that, even though the host Brooklyn Bridegrooms entered 686 00:47:42,795 --> 00:47:45,995 Speaker 1: Game seven leading Louisville three games to two, Game three 687 00:47:46,035 --> 00:47:48,515 Speaker 1: had been a tie, they needed just two more wins 688 00:47:48,515 --> 00:47:54,835 Speaker 1: for the title. The crowd the crowd for that game 689 00:47:55,435 --> 00:48:01,275 Speaker 1: Game seven of the World Series in Brooklyn three hundred fans. 690 00:48:02,835 --> 00:48:05,555 Speaker 1: Louisville then tied the series in that game three wins 691 00:48:05,555 --> 00:48:08,235 Speaker 1: apiece and a tie, and they would need a decisive 692 00:48:08,275 --> 00:48:11,995 Speaker 1: eighth game and the rest of the series, and they 693 00:48:12,035 --> 00:48:16,635 Speaker 1: never played it. They abandoned the World Series tied three 694 00:48:17,195 --> 00:48:22,715 Speaker 1: and three and one quote. There is scarcely enough interest 695 00:48:22,795 --> 00:48:26,875 Speaker 1: in the series, noted a writer for the Philadelphia Evening Bulletin. 696 00:48:27,915 --> 00:48:38,475 Speaker 1: To induce the people to read the scores. The most 697 00:48:38,515 --> 00:48:44,115 Speaker 1: frightening part about that quote that's from eighteen ninety. I 698 00:48:44,195 --> 00:48:47,715 Speaker 1: felt that way the last three octobers during the World Series. 699 00:48:49,755 --> 00:48:52,395 Speaker 1: The world has made itself over a thousand times. Since 700 00:48:52,435 --> 00:48:58,195 Speaker 1: that sobering revolt by the board against the boring baseball's 701 00:48:58,235 --> 00:49:01,275 Speaker 1: resiliency reminds us that the World Series broadcast might still 702 00:49:01,315 --> 00:49:06,075 Speaker 1: inspire another generation wearing not transistor plugs but buds hooked 703 00:49:06,115 --> 00:49:11,395 Speaker 1: up to a live stream. Or like that unhappy eighteen 704 00:49:11,515 --> 00:49:15,675 Speaker 1: ninety classic, the whole thing could wind up getting canceled, 705 00:49:16,475 --> 00:49:33,875 Speaker 1: and this time it'll be canceled by TV executives. I've 706 00:49:33,875 --> 00:49:35,475 Speaker 1: done all the damage I can do here. Thank you 707 00:49:35,515 --> 00:49:37,635 Speaker 1: for listening. We're now back to five episodes a week, 708 00:49:37,675 --> 00:49:41,715 Speaker 1: posting nightly just after midnight Easter. Once again, there is 709 00:49:41,715 --> 00:49:46,395 Speaker 1: a Monday countdown and tell the others. Please send this 710 00:49:46,435 --> 00:49:49,555 Speaker 1: podcast to somebody who does not listen yet but could 711 00:49:49,555 --> 00:49:53,475 Speaker 1: benefit from my analysis of stuff. Brian Ray and John 712 00:49:53,515 --> 00:49:57,115 Speaker 1: Phillip Shanelle, the musical directors, have Countdown, arranged, produced, and 713 00:49:57,155 --> 00:50:01,355 Speaker 1: performed most of our music. Mister Schanale handled orchestration and keyboards. 714 00:50:01,395 --> 00:50:04,155 Speaker 1: Mister Ray was on guitars, bass and drums. It was 715 00:50:04,195 --> 00:50:08,235 Speaker 1: produced by Tko Brothers. Our satirical and fifty musical comments 716 00:50:08,235 --> 00:50:10,835 Speaker 1: are by the best baseball stadium organist ever, Nancy Faus. 717 00:50:11,435 --> 00:50:14,355 Speaker 1: The sports music is the Olberman theme from ESPN two, 718 00:50:14,435 --> 00:50:18,035 Speaker 1: written by Mitch Warren Davis Curtesy of ESPN Inc. Other 719 00:50:18,195 --> 00:50:21,155 Speaker 1: music arranged and performed by the group No Horns Allowed. 720 00:50:21,595 --> 00:50:24,915 Speaker 1: My announcer today was my friend John Dean. Everything else 721 00:50:25,155 --> 00:50:29,995 Speaker 1: was as usual, pretty much my fault. That's countdown for today. 722 00:50:30,035 --> 00:50:34,355 Speaker 1: Five weeks until the twenty twenty four presidential election, the 723 00:50:34,435 --> 00:50:39,075 Speaker 1: one three hundred and sixty fifth day since convicted felon 724 00:50:39,275 --> 00:50:43,675 Speaker 1: drooling Jay Trump's first attempted coup against the democratically elected 725 00:50:43,675 --> 00:50:46,715 Speaker 1: government of the United States. Use the election, use the 726 00:50:46,715 --> 00:50:50,155 Speaker 1: mental health system, use presidential immunity if we have to 727 00:50:50,155 --> 00:50:54,435 Speaker 1: to keep him from doing it again. Wow, we still can. 728 00:50:55,595 --> 00:50:59,035 Speaker 1: The next scheduled countdown is tomorrow. Bulletins as the news requires. 729 00:50:59,635 --> 00:51:02,715 Speaker 1: Until then, I'm Keith Olberman. Good morning, good afternoon, good night, 730 00:51:03,195 --> 00:51:20,955 Speaker 1: and good luck. Countdown with Keith Olderman is a production 731 00:51:21,155 --> 00:51:26,435 Speaker 1: of iHeartRadio. For more podcasts from iHeartRadio, visit the iHeartRadio app, 732 00:51:26,555 --> 00:51:29,915 Speaker 1: Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.