WEBVTT - ARREST THE ICE MURDERER AND IMPEACH KRISTI NOEM - 1.12.26

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<v Speaker 1>Countdown with Keith Olderman is a production of iHeartRadio Break

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<v Speaker 1>the cover up of the Ice murder of Renee Good.

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<v Speaker 1>Investigate anyway on the state and county levels, Indict and

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<v Speaker 1>arrest the Ice shooter, Jonathan Ross and the Trump militia

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<v Speaker 1>members who were with him as accessories. Impeach Homeland Security

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<v Speaker 1>Chief Christy Nome, ICE Director Todd lyons and borders our

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<v Speaker 1>Tom Homan Representative Angie Craig says, now the Gnome impeachment

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<v Speaker 1>will proceed, and if Gnome or any other ICE or

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<v Speaker 1>DHS official continues to stonewall local investigators seeking justice for

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<v Speaker 1>the murdered woman, indict and arrest them for aubs instruction

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<v Speaker 1>of justice, although this may be unnecessary since Nome, an

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<v Speaker 1>idiot and Vice President JV Vance, another idiot, are the

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<v Speaker 1>ones who docks Ross as the shooter in the first place,

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<v Speaker 1>and while the leaders of his gestapo are vowing never

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<v Speaker 1>to cooperate with a Hennepin County or State of Minnesota investigation.

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<v Speaker 1>It was of course the shooter himself, Ross, who could

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<v Speaker 1>not help himself from leaking the video he took with

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<v Speaker 1>his phone of his crime because he is so deranged

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<v Speaker 1>and murderous. He thinks it will get him public support,

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<v Speaker 1>and the Cretans like Vance knowme, Lions and home and

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<v Speaker 1>think the video does anything besides proving he was at

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<v Speaker 1>no risk. And then he deliberately stepped in front of

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<v Speaker 1>her car, and while juggling the murder weapon in one

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<v Speaker 1>hand and his effing phone in the other, he shot

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<v Speaker 1>her because he wanted to shoot her, and because she

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<v Speaker 1>was not afraid of him, and because she was nice

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<v Speaker 1>to him.

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<v Speaker 2>Show your okay, we don't change our plates every morning,

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<v Speaker 2>just so you know it'll be the same plate when

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<v Speaker 2>you come talk to us later.

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<v Speaker 3>That's fine.

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<v Speaker 4>You have citizen for.

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<v Speaker 2>You want to come at us, you want to come

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<v Speaker 2>at us, I say, go get yourself some lunch, big boy.

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<v Speaker 3>Go ahead.

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<v Speaker 1>And then they celebrated, as we all heard. And then

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<v Speaker 1>two days later, other Ice scum threatened other Minnesotans because

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<v Speaker 1>they have clearly been told they are there to threaten,

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<v Speaker 1>to terrorize, and too if they can get away with it,

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<v Speaker 1>kill for Trump.

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<v Speaker 4>Shame on, you have y'all not learned from the past

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<v Speaker 4>couple of days. Have you not learned?

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<v Speaker 1>Learned?

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<v Speaker 3>What?

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<v Speaker 1>What's our lesson here?

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<v Speaker 5>What do you want us to learn? There is no

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<v Speaker 5>indication that these diseased, sadistic vultures of our society, Trump Vance,

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<v Speaker 5>Gnome homann Lions will stop, will even stop escalating this

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<v Speaker 5>until the rest of us force them to, until we

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<v Speaker 5>break ice.

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<v Speaker 1>Since the tragedy unfolded Wednesday, they have hidden like the

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<v Speaker 1>terrified video game villains they are now. They are hiding

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<v Speaker 1>behind this empty, corrupt demand that we all need to

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<v Speaker 1>improve the tone. And when they say we, they mean you,

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<v Speaker 1>and when they say tone, they mean any criticism of

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<v Speaker 1>them at all. Tom Homan went on Fox and actually

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<v Speaker 1>added to this bankrupt bromide new threats quote, there will

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<v Speaker 1>be more bloodshed unless we decrease the hateful rhetoric. Translation

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<v Speaker 1>of this tautology, more civilians will be shot unless innocent

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<v Speaker 1>Americans stop saying such mean things about the fact trigger

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<v Speaker 1>happy PTSD addled criminals threatening and slaughtering Americans exercising their

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<v Speaker 1>constitutional rights to protest peacefully. Decrease the hateful rhetoric. Holman,

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<v Speaker 1>you fake tough guy, rube idiot. You know a good

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<v Speaker 1>way to decrease the hateful rhetoric. Baldy, stop shooting mothers

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<v Speaker 1>of five year old boys in the face for no reason.

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<v Speaker 1>In broad daylight, the acting Ice chief this Lions may

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<v Speaker 1>be even worse. He is daring Minnesota to enforce its laws. Quote.

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<v Speaker 1>My message to the sheriff is, try and arrest my folks.

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<v Speaker 1>Let's see what happens. Unquote, mister Lyons, shove it up

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<v Speaker 1>your ass. Shove it up your ass. You want to

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<v Speaker 1>play the let's see what happens game. Governor Wallas has

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<v Speaker 1>already activated the National Guard, and Minnesota's citizens have shown

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<v Speaker 1>the kind of restraint never exceeded in American history. Get

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<v Speaker 1>the indictments. Get one for Nome and one for Lions,

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<v Speaker 1>and one for Home, and one for Ross, and one

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<v Speaker 1>for all the government issued Nazis who were on Portland

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<v Speaker 1>Avenue that terrible day, and have the Sheriff's officers serve them,

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<v Speaker 1>with the Minnesota National Guard standing behind them, weapons drawn.

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<v Speaker 1>And then, mister Lyons, let's see what happens. We know

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<v Speaker 1>what will happen. Your excuses for men will flee. This, however,

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<v Speaker 1>is a reminder that the battle here has to be

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<v Speaker 1>the state, the state of Minnesota. In this case, this

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<v Speaker 1>is the Trump dictatorship, the Trump dictatorship that has now

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<v Speaker 1>lost any remaining moral authority. To continue to rule this country.

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<v Speaker 1>The state of Minnesota, or the state of Illinois or

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<v Speaker 1>the state of California must act, especially since ICE has

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<v Speaker 1>already gone rogue, gone extra legal across the Rubicon past,

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<v Speaker 1>which Ice will not obey the law, and ICE will

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<v Speaker 1>not stop targeting innocent Americans, and ICE and its Trump

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<v Speaker 1>masters will not back the blue. They are the criminals,

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<v Speaker 1>and with the states this high and the tinder box

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<v Speaker 1>this dry, the state and not the citizens must act here.

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<v Speaker 1>The state must act against the ICE murderers. The state

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<v Speaker 1>must act against the ICE terrorists. The state must act

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<v Speaker 1>against the ICE superstructure that is now covering up this

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<v Speaker 1>and other ICE crimes. Gnome, a virus with botox, secretly

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<v Speaker 1>signed an order denying access to ICE facilities for members

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<v Speaker 1>of Congress, even though this order overrides federal law. Three

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<v Speaker 1>Minnesota representatives tried to see an ICE terror prison without

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<v Speaker 1>knowing of Nome's criminal act, and they were confronted, according

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<v Speaker 1>to one of them, by about twenty five menacing armed officers.

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<v Speaker 1>It is possible with the courts rigged and the propaganda

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<v Speaker 1>machine on full blast, and Trump literally facing the dictator's

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<v Speaker 1>choice of staying in power or dying in prison. It

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<v Speaker 1>is possible that these forces of evil will delay the

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<v Speaker 1>prosecution of Jonathan Ross and Nome and the others. The

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<v Speaker 1>state and the county, though, are prepared for this exact scenario.

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<v Speaker 1>Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison reminds us there are no

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<v Speaker 1>statutes of limitation on these crimes. Mister raw Us, Misnome,

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<v Speaker 1>mister Homan, the Lord's judgment cometh, and right soon you

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<v Speaker 1>will go to prison. And there is, for ones behind

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<v Speaker 1>the scenes, some doubt inside the Trump evil factory. An

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<v Speaker 1>anonymous Trump administration member to Politico, quote, I don't know

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<v Speaker 1>how we recover from this. This is highly problematic and

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<v Speaker 1>not a good look and not something our government should

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<v Speaker 1>be remotely engaged in. For a Trump isst this is

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<v Speaker 1>about as emotional a mea culpa as it can get. Meanwhile,

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<v Speaker 1>despite Dvance's claims there is no absolute immunity for these creatures,

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<v Speaker 1>there is no immunity at all for premeditated murder under

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<v Speaker 1>any circumstances, and so there must be in the interim

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<v Speaker 1>wrongful death suits, civil rights loss suits. Mister Ross must

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<v Speaker 1>spend every remaining day he is free talking to lawyers

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<v Speaker 1>and Gnome as well and Home and every functionary in

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<v Speaker 1>this corrupt, sadistic, murderous gang. There is one more government

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<v Speaker 1>action to be taken now. The House voted Thursday to

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<v Speaker 1>keep this government funded past January thirtieth, when the continuing

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<v Speaker 1>Resolution expires. Now the Senate must act, and frankly, the

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<v Speaker 1>Senate must shut the goddamn government down period. Shut it down.

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<v Speaker 1>Not a dime until Trump is hamstrung on Venezuela and

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<v Speaker 1>Greenland and Iran and his dreams of invading the Nobel

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<v Speaker 1>Prize Committee headquarters, and more importantly at the moment, not

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<v Speaker 1>a dime until Ice is neutered. We need border control,

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<v Speaker 1>We need immigration enforcement. We do not need paramilitary, unvetted,

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<v Speaker 1>blood lusting monsters murdering people then swearing at them and

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<v Speaker 1>keeping doctors from attending to them as they bleed to death.

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<v Speaker 1>You want the money Republicans trade, give us Noome Homan, Ross,

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<v Speaker 1>Ice the others, and the worst, by the way we

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<v Speaker 1>will do to them is to stop their funding and

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<v Speaker 1>prosecute them. But Democratic senators have to stop what they

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<v Speaker 1>can stop, and any Democratic Senator who fails in their

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<v Speaker 1>duty now has to be removed from office as quickly

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<v Speaker 1>as the electoral and recall processes allowed to quote Theodore Roosevelt,

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<v Speaker 1>we are met at Armagaddon, and we battle for the

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<v Speaker 1>Lord Schumer. I don't care, do it, Fetterman. I'm sorry

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<v Speaker 1>for all your problems. I don't care. This is nut

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<v Speaker 1>cutting time. So far you have been on the wrong

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<v Speaker 1>side of this. History will not judge you well if

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<v Speaker 1>it bothers to judge you at all. And incidentally, the

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<v Speaker 1>public right now, even before this happened in Minnesota, is

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<v Speaker 1>behind stopping Ice from pole. Analyst Elliott Moore quote, ICE's

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<v Speaker 1>approval rating has collapsed since Trump took office, from plus

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<v Speaker 1>sixteen according to the Yugov Economist polling last February, to

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<v Speaker 1>minus fourteen as of November. In a flash poll Morris

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<v Speaker 1>Writes conducted on Wednesday, ICE's job approval came in at

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<v Speaker 1>thirty nine percent approved fifty two percent disapprove, for a

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<v Speaker 1>score of minus thirteen. That's before the last week has

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<v Speaker 1>played out. And of course, there are other, more anecdotal,

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<v Speaker 1>more visceral ways of measuring public sentiment. The public address

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<v Speaker 1>announcer of basketball's Minnesota Timberwolves is Jeddiede Jones.

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<v Speaker 4>We're setting by the tragedy that occurred yesterday in our

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<v Speaker 4>Minneapolis community in the loss of Renee and Nicole good.

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<v Speaker 4>Our thoughts are with her family and everyone affected, and

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<v Speaker 4>our hearts are with our community as we hope for

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<v Speaker 4>healing in Unixy and during this challenging time, Please join

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<v Speaker 4>us in a moment of silence.

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<v Speaker 1>Thank you. And more stunning even than that, there is

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<v Speaker 1>this the retiring Episcopalian Bishop of New Hampshire, Bob Hirschfeld,

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<v Speaker 1>with one of the most chilling and sadly one of

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<v Speaker 1>the most real sound bites of the entire breadth and

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<v Speaker 1>length of Trump's assault on democracy and American freedom the

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<v Speaker 1>other night, before a packed protest in the pouring rain.

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<v Speaker 1>I have told the.

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<v Speaker 6>Clergy of the Episcopal Diocese of New Hampshire that we

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<v Speaker 6>may be entering into that same witness, and I've asked

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<v Speaker 6>them to get their affairs in order to make sure

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<v Speaker 6>they have their wills written, because.

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<v Speaker 2>It may be that now is no longer the time

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<v Speaker 2>for statements, but for us, with our bodies, to stand

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<v Speaker 2>between the powers of this world and the most vulnerable.

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<v Speaker 1>I hope the Bishop is wrong. I still think this

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<v Speaker 1>can be resolved with nothing approaching any of that. On

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<v Speaker 1>the other hand, a peaceable, thirty six year old Minnesota

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<v Speaker 1>mother in her own neighborhood, near her own local school,

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<v Speaker 1>in what she thought was a democracy with laws and

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<v Speaker 1>a constitution that protected her instead of protecting masked gunmen

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<v Speaker 1>in broad daylight, A woman who barely rose to the

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<v Speaker 1>minimum standards of protesting renee Good. She thought this could

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<v Speaker 1>be resolved that way too. So what is wrong with

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<v Speaker 1>Gnome Vance, Trump, Holman Ellis Ross? These thugs in masks

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<v Speaker 1>who think they are somehow crusaders, or at minimum think

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<v Speaker 1>they are somehow not terrorists. It may be the guns.

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<v Speaker 1>I don't mean the obvious part. I mean the obvious

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<v Speaker 1>part is for decades, with the intensity of this seemingly

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<v Speaker 1>doubling every minute, large swats of this nation have believed

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<v Speaker 1>that shooting people is okay. It's nine to eleven. The

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<v Speaker 1>police in the military have been trained that everybody else

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<v Speaker 1>should be assumed to be a threat, possibly a terrorist,

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<v Speaker 1>until proven otherwise. And the deliberate twisting of the Second

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<v Speaker 1>Amendment to keep the weapons industry cash rich is obvious.

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<v Speaker 1>But that's not what I mean. I mean something even

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<v Speaker 1>more elemental than that. When I say it may be

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<v Speaker 1>the guns, I mean literally the gun, the physical fact

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<v Speaker 1>of the gun, handling a gun, shooting a gun. For

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<v Speaker 1>the second time in the last three years, a study

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<v Speaker 1>has hit indicating that the simple act of firing a

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<v Speaker 1>modern gun, a weapon of police and war, does violent

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<v Speaker 1>damage to the shooter to their brain. You shoot, you

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<v Speaker 1>get concussed, or very nearly so. You shoot a hundred times,

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<v Speaker 1>you get concussed one hundred times, or very nearly so.

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<v Speaker 1>From the New York Times, quoting the most recent research,

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<v Speaker 1>Shooting indoors poses another hazard that has been almost entirely overlooked,

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<v Speaker 1>concussive blast waves that can damage the brain. Reporters measured

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<v Speaker 1>the blasts of several popular civilian guns at an indoor

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<v Speaker 1>range using the same sensors that the military uses. The

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<v Speaker 1>data showed that some large caliber civilian rifles delivered a

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<v Speaker 1>blast wave that exceeds what the military says is safe

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<v Speaker 1>for the brain, and firing smaller caliber guns repeatedly could

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<v Speaker 1>quickly add up to potentially harmful exposure. The data also

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<v Speaker 1>showed that indoor shooting ranges designed to make shooting safe

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<v Speaker 1>inadvertently make blast exposure worse, doubling and sometimes tripling the

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<v Speaker 1>amplitude of the blast. The potential for harm, The Times

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<v Speaker 1>continued from blast waves gets almost no attention from the

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<v Speaker 1>shooting public, even though people can experience concussion like symptoms

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<v Speaker 1>after a day at the range, said Jeff Balcourt, who

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<v Speaker 1>is an acoustic consultant for the National Shooting Sports Foundation

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<v Speaker 1>and a designer of indoor ranges for Balco Defense Company,

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<v Speaker 1>Quoting him, it's one of those unspoken things. You don't

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<v Speaker 1>realize that after a whole day of shooting you have

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<v Speaker 1>that ringing in your ears and that headache. Ending my

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<v Speaker 1>reading from the Times, now, imagine that being done as

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<v Speaker 1>you're living. And this is not new. In November twenty

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<v Speaker 1>twenty three, the New York Times found those sane things

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<v Speaker 1>happening to service members using the military research that they

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<v Speaker 1>referred to in the more recent piece, evidence compiled by

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<v Speaker 1>the military that just firing the modern weapons of war

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<v Speaker 1>can destroy the brains of those who fired them, just

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<v Speaker 1>at a distance, at no practical risk. In Syria, I'll

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<v Speaker 1>quote the Times again, all through their unit Alpha Battery,

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<v Speaker 1>first Battalion, eleventh Marine Troops came home feeling cursed, and

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<v Speaker 1>the same thing was happening in other marine and Army

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<v Speaker 1>artillery units. Hallucinations, visions, sounds, victims appearing as ghosts. An

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<v Speaker 1>investigation by The New York Times found that many of

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<v Speaker 1>the troops sent to bombard the Islamic State in twenty

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<v Speaker 1>sixteen and twenty seventeen returned to the United States plagued

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<v Speaker 1>by nightmares, panic attacks, depression, and in a few cases, hallucinations.

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<v Speaker 1>Once reliable marines turned unpredictable and strange. Some are now homeless.

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<v Speaker 1>A striking number eventually died by suicide or tried to.

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<v Speaker 1>The Times went on to detail the training with guns

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<v Speaker 1>that these personnel had been through, quoting again, a small

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<v Speaker 1>number of troops had to fire tens of thousands of

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<v Speaker 1>high explosive shells, far more arounds per crew member, experts

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<v Speaker 1>say than any American artillery battery had fired at least

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<v Speaker 1>since the Vietnam War. The cannon blasts were strong enough

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<v Speaker 1>to hurl a one hundred pound round fifteen miles, and

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<v Speaker 1>each unleashed a shock wave that shot through the crew

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<v Speaker 1>member's bodies, vibrating bone, punching lungs and hearts, and whipping

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<v Speaker 1>at cruise missile speeds through the most delicate organ of all,

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<v Speaker 1>the brain. More than a year after Marines started experiencing problems.

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<v Speaker 1>The Times concluded the Marine Corps leadership tried to piece

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<v Speaker 1>together what was happening by ordering a study of one

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<v Speaker 1>of the hardest hit units, Fox Battery, second Battalion, tenth Marines.

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<v Speaker 1>The research was limited to reviewing the troop's medical records.

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<v Speaker 1>No marines were examined or interviewed. Even so, the report,

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<v Speaker 1>published in twenty nineteen made a startling finding. The gun

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<v Speaker 1>crews were being hurt by their own weapons. End quote.

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<v Speaker 1>So what happened in Minneapolis? We saw it on video?

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<v Speaker 1>Why did it happen? What went wrong with the people

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<v Speaker 1>who fired those guns? And in every other such event

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<v Speaker 1>in civilian and in public life in the last umpteen years?

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<v Speaker 1>Why did it happen? We may have been seeing that too,

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<v Speaker 1>without even realizing it. Some other updates from other subjects.

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<v Speaker 1>Trump's government is still in violation of the law Trump

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<v Speaker 1>signed ensuring release of the Epstein files by Well nearly

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<v Speaker 1>a month ago. The Trump's Stein cover up is alive

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<v Speaker 1>and well. Representative Thomas Massey in his story in Politico,

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<v Speaker 1>Quoting Politico in late December, Massy raised the possibility of

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<v Speaker 1>bringing inherent contempt charges against Pam Bondy over the heavily

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<v Speaker 1>redacted release. Massey said, the biggest story is that the

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<v Speaker 1>Justice Department is now quoting him trying to say that

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<v Speaker 1>internal deliberations are off limits for the release, whereas the

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<v Speaker 1>bill specifically says that they must be released, these specific

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<v Speaker 1>decisions about whether to indict or not. I'm not sure

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<v Speaker 1>how that gets litigated, if that'll end up in a

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<v Speaker 1>court somewhere. The lever that I have is contempt, and

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<v Speaker 1>eventually we will try to invoke that because it only

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<v Speaker 1>involves one chamber quote. Amazingly enough, Tom Massey's prospects for

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<v Speaker 1>reelection are a vital concern to liberals, and incidentally it

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<v Speaker 1>looks good for him. I guess I'm happy on Jack Smith,

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<v Speaker 1>Jim Jordan said Friday, quote He's coming in. Jack Smith

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<v Speaker 1>will testify in public before a House committee. Jordan, who

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<v Speaker 1>on top of everything else, is an effing moron, completely

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<v Speaker 1>misreads the room. Smith wants to testify in public, has

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<v Speaker 1>been pleading for it. It is his way of getting

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<v Speaker 1>his findings out. It is his way of getting his

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<v Speaker 1>evidence out in public, and he is completely misread Smith's

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<v Speaker 1>performance in the closed door testimony. Quoting Jim Jordan. Again,

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<v Speaker 1>one of the key takeaways in the transcript is, we said,

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<v Speaker 1>did you have any evidence that President Trump was responsible

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<v Speaker 1>for the violence that took place at the Capitol. He

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<v Speaker 1>had no evidence of that whatsoever. Well, of course, that's

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<v Speaker 1>the exact opposite of what he said, you, moron. What

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<v Speaker 1>he didn't do was produce the evidence for you. You

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<v Speaker 1>didn't ask him to produce the evidence. You asked him

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<v Speaker 1>if he had it, and he said he did on

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<v Speaker 1>his own stupidity. Jim Jordan is betting Trump's continued ability

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<v Speaker 1>to not face any calls for resignation from Republicans for

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<v Speaker 1>impeachment by Republicans, because they are about to get an

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<v Speaker 1>exquisite taste of what those around Richard Nixon got in

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<v Speaker 1>nineteen seventy four. My god, if I stay with this guy,

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<v Speaker 1>I'm losing the midterms. The Nobel Prize update, I'll just

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<v Speaker 1>read its statement on this amazing and amazingly stupid idea

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<v Speaker 1>that the winner of the Peace Prize would somehow give

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<v Speaker 1>it to Trump and then Trump would in exchange, install

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<v Speaker 1>her as the new dictator of Venezuela. And I'll precede

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<v Speaker 1>this quote by mentioning that recently at an auction. I

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<v Speaker 1>bought the Peabody Award that Larry King got in I

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<v Speaker 1>believe nineteen ninety two. Larry was a friend of mine,

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<v Speaker 1>and I did not like the idea of his award

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<v Speaker 1>going to somebody who he did not like or who

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<v Speaker 1>did not know him. This does not mean I won

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<v Speaker 1>a Peabody Award. It means I happen to have his

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<v Speaker 1>for safe keeping. It's sort of what the Nobel Peace

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<v Speaker 1>Prize people are saying. Quote. The Norwegian Nobel Committee and

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<v Speaker 1>the Norwegian Nobel Institute receive a number of requests for

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<v Speaker 1>comments regarding the permanence of a Nobel Peace Prize laureate status.

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<v Speaker 1>The facts are clear and well established. Once a Nobel

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<v Speaker 1>Prize is announced, it cannot be revoked, share or transferred

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<v Speaker 1>to others. The decision is final and stands for all time,

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<v Speaker 1>for all time. Now, if they wanted to have a

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<v Speaker 1>little fun, they should have added the Nobel Peace Prize

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<v Speaker 1>is also not returnable for store credit. And one more

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<v Speaker 1>thing before a second segment on Minnesota and particularly somebody's

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<v Speaker 1>reaction to Minnesota. You heard Trump and how he wants

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<v Speaker 1>to He wants to slide down one of those ropes

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<v Speaker 1>from the helicopter like the Seal Team six guys do

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<v Speaker 1>because he's because because his brain is dissolving, and every

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<v Speaker 1>once in a while he thinks he's twenty six. More correctly,

0:24:59.195 --> 0:25:01.635
<v Speaker 1>he thinks he's twenty six and that he could have

0:25:01.675 --> 0:25:03.995
<v Speaker 1>done that when he was twenty six. These are great people,

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<v Speaker 1>These are really people. Even coming down those ropes, you know,

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<v Speaker 1>they're coming down ropes off the helicopter.

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<v Speaker 5>And they run. I was thinking to myself, I wonder

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<v Speaker 5>if I could do that.

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<v Speaker 1>I can have to give it a try sometime. I

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<v Speaker 1>have only one comment on this bungee dream of Donald

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<v Speaker 1>John Trump. Please everybody tell him that's a great idea.

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<v Speaker 1>Also interest here, incredibly enough, there is at least one

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<v Speaker 1>public figure pretending to be a Democrat taking himself seriously

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<v Speaker 1>as a presidential candidate, even if nobody else is defending

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<v Speaker 1>the killing of Renee Good in Minneapolis, defending shooting this

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<v Speaker 1>woman on the streets of Minneapolis. That public figure is

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<v Speaker 1>Stephen A. Smith. And I'm sorry on behalf of a

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<v Speaker 1>lot of the people who built ESPN and even the

0:25:58.635 --> 0:26:03.915
<v Speaker 1>late comers like me. ESPN now has to fire him.

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<v Speaker 1>Fire Stephen A. Smith. Now, I guess I should have

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<v Speaker 1>said spoiler alert regarding worse persons, but hey, that's next.

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<v Speaker 1>This is Countdown. This is Countdown with Keith Oberman still

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<v Speaker 1>ahead on this all new edition of Countdown. I don't

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<v Speaker 1>know about you, but after this last week I need

0:26:51.635 --> 0:26:57.235
<v Speaker 1>some thurber Mondays with thurber coming up. But first, believe

0:26:57.275 --> 0:26:59.395
<v Speaker 1>it or not, there are still more new idiots to

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<v Speaker 1>talk about. The roundup of the mis grants, Morons, Undunning, Kruger,

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<v Speaker 1>Effets Specimen who constitute today's other worst persons in the world,

0:27:09.595 --> 0:27:14.075
<v Speaker 1>the brons worse. I am indebted to Derek Guy of

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<v Speaker 1>put this on a fashion site. He has noted the

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<v Speaker 1>shall we say contradictory tweets of the four Maga shall

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<v Speaker 1>we say whares about Venezuela, Will Chamberlain cat turd, Matt

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<v Speaker 1>Walsh Blog of Matt Walshblog's Blob blog, and Laura Loomer

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<v Speaker 1>cat tird. First, shall we name one US inspired regime

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<v Speaker 1>change that hasn't ended in absolute disaster? He wrote. Now,

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<v Speaker 1>he writes, Venezuela is now more free than New York City.

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<v Speaker 1>Will Chamberlain, the owner of the world's largest forehead. The

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<v Speaker 1>Republican Party is no longer the Party of regime change

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<v Speaker 1>and endless wars. If you want to be its standard bearer,

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<v Speaker 1>that as a non negotiable position. That's what he wrote.

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<v Speaker 1>Now he has written, I can think a few better

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<v Speaker 1>uses of my tax dollars than black bagging the head

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<v Speaker 1>of a foreign narco trafficking organization that enriches itself by

0:28:17.475 --> 0:28:23.035
<v Speaker 1>addicting and poisoning my fellow Americans. Well, of course, other

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<v Speaker 1>than finding a cure for a five or six head.

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<v Speaker 1>Loy'll do. Mary, I'm America first. I don't support regime change.

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<v Speaker 1>I went on Bannon's war room to talk about Chinese

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<v Speaker 1>aggression in Venezuela and why we need to designate the

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<v Speaker 1>Muslim Brotherhood as a foreign as Lamarst organization. That's what

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<v Speaker 1>she wrote. Now she's written. Maduro has arrived at the

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<v Speaker 1>DEA office in Manhattan. He was transported into an armoried

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<v Speaker 1>motorcade after being transported in a blindfold by a helicopter

0:28:56.715 --> 0:28:59.595
<v Speaker 1>and then by playing to New York after his compound

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<v Speaker 1>in Caracus was raided by US Special for Proud to

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<v Speaker 1>be an American today, USA and Matt Walsh, we've spent

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<v Speaker 1>the last twenty five years bringing quote freedom and quote

0:29:17.555 --> 0:29:20.635
<v Speaker 1>democracy to countries around the globe, while our own country

0:29:20.635 --> 0:29:23.355
<v Speaker 1>has been systematically invaded and now our largest cities are

0:29:23.435 --> 0:29:26.035
<v Speaker 1>run by foreigners and communists. If you want to know

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<v Speaker 1>why I'm so a vowedly non interventionist, this is why.

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<v Speaker 1>That's what he used to write. Now they've told him

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<v Speaker 1>to write this. This is a war for oil. First

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<v Speaker 1>of all, the war lasted like ninety minutes. Second, going

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<v Speaker 1>to war to secure vital resources for your own people

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<v Speaker 1>is totally legitimate. Why should we allowed some third world

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<v Speaker 1>communist shithole to control trillions of dollars worth of oil?

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<v Speaker 1>A vowedly non interventionist, except when's people who are paying

0:29:56.715 --> 0:30:02.475
<v Speaker 1>you tell you to be a vowidly pro interventionist. Wharesah

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<v Speaker 1>runner up worse here? The Financial Times it has run

0:30:06.835 --> 0:30:09.435
<v Speaker 1>a story which seems like a slice of life of

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<v Speaker 1>our times. Headline influencers and only fans models dominate us.

0:30:16.275 --> 0:30:21.995
<v Speaker 1>Extraordinary artist visas work permits increasingly being awarded on basis

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<v Speaker 1>of online reach, favoring content creators. The story is full

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<v Speaker 1>of data about how these h one b exceptional immigrant

0:30:30.075 --> 0:30:34.675
<v Speaker 1>visas are being granted to social media influencers and others

0:30:34.755 --> 0:30:38.155
<v Speaker 1>with high follower accounts. But there is not one word

0:30:38.715 --> 0:30:44.795
<v Speaker 1>in the article about only fans. I mean the words

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<v Speaker 1>only and fans do not appear in the article, only

0:30:48.155 --> 0:30:52.275
<v Speaker 1>in the headline. It's like only fans headline. We want

0:30:52.355 --> 0:30:56.155
<v Speaker 1>names financial Times. I mean, it's a logical conclusion from

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<v Speaker 1>what's been written here, But where's the evidence? I mean, Milania, No,

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<v Speaker 1>but went the worst. ESPN's Stephen A. Smith for years,

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<v Speaker 1>including five years in the preceding decade where I had

0:31:14.275 --> 0:31:17.235
<v Speaker 1>to work alongside him. He was more important to them

0:31:17.275 --> 0:31:19.475
<v Speaker 1>than I was. When I went back to ESPN in

0:31:19.475 --> 0:31:23.715
<v Speaker 1>twenty thirteen and then again in twenty eighteen. I get it.

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<v Speaker 1>People always laugh at the shouting guy in the clown

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<v Speaker 1>suit four years, including when I had to pretend he

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<v Speaker 1>had some knowledge about sports or information about sports that

0:31:33.555 --> 0:31:37.115
<v Speaker 1>reflected an intellect and an access better than that of

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<v Speaker 1>a gas station hot dog. For years, including when I

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<v Speaker 1>had to pretend that his on air style was more

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<v Speaker 1>bearable than the screech of the train's breaking as they

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<v Speaker 1>stopped in a New York City subway station. And for

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<v Speaker 1>a year as he has run a one man campaign

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<v Speaker 1>to try to force a ground swell to get himself

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<v Speaker 1>taken seriously as a presidential possibility. No possibility is the

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<v Speaker 1>wrong word to get himself taken as anything besides one

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<v Speaker 1>of the dumbestas in the extremely dumb history of extremely

0:32:08.675 --> 0:32:13.195
<v Speaker 1>dumb American politics. And while doing this, he has tried

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<v Speaker 1>to pretend he didn't want the job and he didn't

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<v Speaker 1>have anything to do with the campaign. For years I

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<v Speaker 1>have been mildly critical of Stephen A. Smith.

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<v Speaker 4>That ends.

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<v Speaker 1>He has now defended the shooting of Renee Good in Minneapolis,

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<v Speaker 1>the murder of an American mother picking up her kid

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<v Speaker 1>at school, because because Stephen thinks that may make him president,

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<v Speaker 1>without realizing apparently that the only people that that barbaric

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<v Speaker 1>in human point of view can appeal to are the

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<v Speaker 1>same people who think Stephen A. Smith is a DEI

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<v Speaker 1>higher and he should not be on ESPN or television.

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<v Speaker 1>And these same people that he's trying to appeal to

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<v Speaker 1>want Disney burn to the ground. As it is. It's

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<v Speaker 1>the Tony de Koppel story, only involving somebody who actually

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<v Speaker 1>has viewers. You are appealing to the people who want

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<v Speaker 1>to see your career end. But that's his problem now

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<v Speaker 1>with this rubicon that he's passed rubicon Google it, Steve,

0:33:18.915 --> 0:33:20.635
<v Speaker 1>I speak on behalf of a lot of us who

0:33:20.675 --> 0:33:25.275
<v Speaker 1>helped establish that place ESPN, including those who, unlike me,

0:33:25.435 --> 0:33:28.795
<v Speaker 1>actually did build it. They were actually there on day

0:33:28.835 --> 0:33:31.515
<v Speaker 1>one or year one or year five or year ten.

0:33:31.715 --> 0:33:33.995
<v Speaker 1>They didn't just come in on the second wave of

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<v Speaker 1>growth like I did in the nineties. We're talking about

0:33:36.555 --> 0:33:40.555
<v Speaker 1>the originals, but all of us originals and second wave

0:33:40.675 --> 0:33:43.995
<v Speaker 1>old timers have discussed this, and I'm sorry even I

0:33:44.035 --> 0:33:47.675
<v Speaker 1>believe that there's never been any room for overlapping partisan

0:33:47.715 --> 0:33:51.235
<v Speaker 1>politics and sports coverage on ESPN. And I never did

0:33:51.235 --> 0:33:53.635
<v Speaker 1>it there, and I vowed to never do it there,

0:33:53.755 --> 0:33:57.035
<v Speaker 1>and I never did it there, not once, well not

0:33:57.155 --> 0:34:00.155
<v Speaker 1>when I worked for them. And now they are letting

0:34:00.275 --> 0:34:03.475
<v Speaker 1>him go on a satellite radio show and not only

0:34:03.595 --> 0:34:07.795
<v Speaker 1>constantly talk politics, and he knows less somehow about politics

0:34:07.835 --> 0:34:10.635
<v Speaker 1>than he knows about sports. So he's in negative numbers

0:34:10.635 --> 0:34:17.195
<v Speaker 1>on politics and spout fascism and spout murdering American civilians

0:34:17.675 --> 0:34:22.515
<v Speaker 1>for the sake of Trump's war against people of color

0:34:24.035 --> 0:34:26.475
<v Speaker 1>and the murdering of American citizens on the street by

0:34:26.635 --> 0:34:32.035
<v Speaker 1>the Trump Gestapo. They let him go on a satellite

0:34:32.155 --> 0:34:36.155
<v Speaker 1>radio show and spout fascism Steven A. Smith is urinating

0:34:36.475 --> 0:34:41.715
<v Speaker 1>on the ESPN brand because who knows, maybe he actually

0:34:41.795 --> 0:34:46.355
<v Speaker 1>believes this. It'd be the first time Steven Asmith is

0:34:46.355 --> 0:34:51.995
<v Speaker 1>actually believed in anything other than his own paycheck. But hey,

0:34:52.195 --> 0:34:58.395
<v Speaker 1>you know, could happen. Everybody has a loyalty somewhere, especially

0:34:58.435 --> 0:35:01.435
<v Speaker 1>if there's money attached to it. But to Jimmy Pittaro,

0:35:01.555 --> 0:35:04.075
<v Speaker 1>the president of ESPN, and to Bob Eiger, the head

0:35:04.115 --> 0:35:07.075
<v Speaker 1>of Disney, who I have known since nineteen seventy freaking nine,

0:35:07.835 --> 0:35:10.715
<v Speaker 1>you have to stop this. You have to stop him.

0:35:11.075 --> 0:35:16.275
<v Speaker 1>Stephen A. Smith is destroying what we Jimmy, Bob and

0:35:16.315 --> 0:35:20.155
<v Speaker 1>the real inventors of ESPN, what we have spent parts

0:35:20.155 --> 0:35:23.715
<v Speaker 1>of our lives trying to build. It is still one

0:35:23.755 --> 0:35:27.635
<v Speaker 1>of the great brand names in America. But if Steven A.

0:35:27.715 --> 0:35:30.915
<v Speaker 1>Smith will not drop the political show, you have to

0:35:31.115 --> 0:35:36.115
<v Speaker 1>drop him. Bob, Jimmy, you have to fire him. You

0:35:36.235 --> 0:35:39.995
<v Speaker 1>have to fire Stephen A. Smith right now because he

0:35:40.075 --> 0:35:44.875
<v Speaker 1>is on a path that ends with him destroying ESPN irrevocably.

0:35:45.675 --> 0:35:48.475
<v Speaker 1>And if you don't think this is wrong somehow, just

0:35:48.555 --> 0:35:53.315
<v Speaker 1>think about the money. Stephen A. Smith, And I'm sorry,

0:35:53.395 --> 0:35:57.635
<v Speaker 1>I have to go there now and henceforth, Stephen a Shit,

0:35:58.235 --> 0:36:23.275
<v Speaker 1>today's worst person in the world, Sit back and relax,

0:36:24.595 --> 0:36:28.395
<v Speaker 1>if relax is the right word for it. For the

0:36:28.475 --> 0:36:35.435
<v Speaker 1>greatest man in the World by James Thurber. Looking back

0:36:35.475 --> 0:36:37.955
<v Speaker 1>on it now from the vantage point of nineteen forty

0:36:38.155 --> 0:36:40.635
<v Speaker 1>one can only marvel that it had not happened. Long

0:36:40.675 --> 0:36:43.795
<v Speaker 1>before it did. The United States of America had been

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<v Speaker 1>ever since Kitty Hawk blindly constructing the elaborate petard, by which,

0:36:49.675 --> 0:36:55.315
<v Speaker 1>sooner or later it must be hoist. It was inevitable

0:36:55.315 --> 0:36:57.555
<v Speaker 1>that someday there would come, roaring out of the skies

0:36:57.995 --> 0:37:02.675
<v Speaker 1>a national hero of insufficient intelligence, background and character, successfully

0:37:02.715 --> 0:37:06.115
<v Speaker 1>to endure the mounting orgies of glory prepared for aviators

0:37:06.435 --> 0:37:09.635
<v Speaker 1>who stayed up for a long time or flew a

0:37:09.675 --> 0:37:15.155
<v Speaker 1>great distance. Both Lindbergh and Byrd, fortunately for national decorum

0:37:15.195 --> 0:37:19.315
<v Speaker 1>and international amity, had been gentlemen, So had our other

0:37:19.435 --> 0:37:23.915
<v Speaker 1>famous aviators. They wore their laurels, gracefully, withstood the awful

0:37:23.955 --> 0:37:28.355
<v Speaker 1>weather of publicity, married excellent women, usually fine family, and

0:37:28.475 --> 0:37:31.395
<v Speaker 1>quietly retired to private life and the enjoyment of their

0:37:31.475 --> 0:37:37.395
<v Speaker 1>varying fortunes. No untoward incidents on a worldwide scale marred

0:37:37.435 --> 0:37:40.435
<v Speaker 1>the perfection of their conduct on the perilous heights of Fame.

0:37:41.835 --> 0:37:46.875
<v Speaker 1>The exception to the rule was, however, bound to occur,

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<v Speaker 1>and it did in July nineteen thirty seven, when Jack

0:37:52.155 --> 0:37:58.395
<v Speaker 1>Pal Smirch erstwhile mechanics helper in a small garage in Westfield, Iowa,

0:37:58.795 --> 0:38:04.355
<v Speaker 1>flew a second hand single motored BREASTHABN Dragonfly three monoplane

0:38:04.435 --> 0:38:11.835
<v Speaker 1>all the way around the world without stopping. Never before

0:38:11.875 --> 0:38:13.955
<v Speaker 1>in the history of aviation had such a flight as

0:38:13.955 --> 0:38:17.515
<v Speaker 1>Smirches even been dreamed of. No one had even taken

0:38:17.675 --> 0:38:21.795
<v Speaker 1>seriously the weird floating auxiliary gas tanks invention of the

0:38:21.835 --> 0:38:25.755
<v Speaker 1>mad New Hampshire professor of astronomy, doctor Charles Lewis Gresham,

0:38:26.075 --> 0:38:30.475
<v Speaker 1>upon which Smirch placed full reliance. When the garage worker,

0:38:30.755 --> 0:38:35.275
<v Speaker 1>a slightly built, surly unprepossessing young man of twenty two,

0:38:35.595 --> 0:38:38.915
<v Speaker 1>appeared at Roosevelt Field early in July nineteen thirty seven,

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<v Speaker 1>slowly chewing a great quid of scrap tobacco, and announced

0:38:44.675 --> 0:38:49.195
<v Speaker 1>nobody ain't seen no flying yet. The newspapers touched briefly

0:38:49.315 --> 0:38:53.755
<v Speaker 1>and satirically upon his projected twenty five thousand mile flight.

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<v Speaker 1>Aeronautical and automotive experts dismissed the idea, curtly implying that

0:38:59.075 --> 0:39:03.075
<v Speaker 1>it was a hoax, the publicity stunt. The rusty, battered

0:39:03.395 --> 0:39:10.715
<v Speaker 1>second hand plane wouldn't go, the Gresham auxiliary tanks wouldn't work.

0:39:11.675 --> 0:39:18.355
<v Speaker 1>It was simply a cheap joke smirch. However, after calling

0:39:18.395 --> 0:39:20.835
<v Speaker 1>on a girl in Brooklyn who worked in the flap

0:39:20.915 --> 0:39:24.235
<v Speaker 1>folding department of a large paper box factory, a girl

0:39:24.475 --> 0:39:29.555
<v Speaker 1>whom he later described as his sweet Pittuti, climbed nonchalantly

0:39:29.595 --> 0:39:33.435
<v Speaker 1>into his ridiculous plane at dawn the memorable seventh of

0:39:33.475 --> 0:39:37.675
<v Speaker 1>July nineteen thirty seven, spit a curve of tobacco juice

0:39:37.675 --> 0:39:40.715
<v Speaker 1>into the still air, and took off, carrying with him

0:39:40.995 --> 0:39:45.555
<v Speaker 1>only a gallon of bootleg gin and six pounds of salami.

0:39:47.835 --> 0:39:50.435
<v Speaker 1>When the garage boy thundered out over the ocean, the

0:39:50.475 --> 0:39:53.755
<v Speaker 1>papers were forced to record in all seriousness that a mad,

0:39:54.155 --> 0:39:58.875
<v Speaker 1>unknown young man his name was variously misspelled, had actually

0:39:59.035 --> 0:40:02.235
<v Speaker 1>set out upon a preposterous attempt to span the world

0:40:02.315 --> 0:40:05.915
<v Speaker 1>in a rickety one engine contraption, trusting to the long

0:40:05.995 --> 0:40:11.315
<v Speaker 1>distance refueling device of a crazy schoolmaster. When, nine days later,

0:40:11.515 --> 0:40:14.995
<v Speaker 1>without having stopped once, the tiny plane appeared above San

0:40:15.035 --> 0:40:18.555
<v Speaker 1>Francisco Bay, headed for New York, spluttering and choking, to

0:40:18.555 --> 0:40:22.795
<v Speaker 1>be sure, but still magnificently and miraculously aloft the headlines

0:40:22.995 --> 0:40:26.515
<v Speaker 1>which long since had crowded everything else off the front page.

0:40:26.595 --> 0:40:29.115
<v Speaker 1>Even the shooting of the Governor of Illinois by the

0:40:29.195 --> 0:40:34.275
<v Speaker 1>Valetti Gang swelled to unprecedented size, and the news stories

0:40:34.315 --> 0:40:39.435
<v Speaker 1>began to run to twenty five and thirty columns. It

0:40:39.635 --> 0:40:44.755
<v Speaker 1>was noticeable, however, that the accounts of the epoch making

0:40:44.875 --> 0:40:50.795
<v Speaker 1>flight touched rather lightly upon the aviator himself. This was

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<v Speaker 1>not because the facts about the hero as a man

0:40:53.395 --> 0:40:59.635
<v Speaker 1>were too meager, but because they were too complete. Reporters

0:40:59.675 --> 0:41:02.355
<v Speaker 1>who had been rushed out to Iowa when Smirch's plane

0:41:02.395 --> 0:41:04.955
<v Speaker 1>was first sighted over the lidge little French coast town

0:41:04.995 --> 0:41:07.715
<v Speaker 1>of Serlee Lemaire to dig up the story of the

0:41:07.715 --> 0:41:11.475
<v Speaker 1>great man's life had promptly discovered that the story of

0:41:11.515 --> 0:41:15.315
<v Speaker 1>his life could not be printed. His mother, a sullen

0:41:15.475 --> 0:41:17.915
<v Speaker 1>short order cook and a shack restaurant on the edge

0:41:17.915 --> 0:41:21.675
<v Speaker 1>of a tourist's camping ground near Westfield, met all inquiries

0:41:21.675 --> 0:41:24.075
<v Speaker 1>as to her son with an angry and the hell

0:41:24.115 --> 0:41:27.995
<v Speaker 1>with him. A hoppy drowns. His father appeared to be

0:41:28.035 --> 0:41:32.515
<v Speaker 1>in jail somewhere for stealing spotlights and lap robes from

0:41:32.595 --> 0:41:37.395
<v Speaker 1>tourists automobiles. His young brother, a weak minded lad, had

0:41:37.395 --> 0:41:40.435
<v Speaker 1>but recently escaped from the Preston, Iowa Reformatory, and was

0:41:40.475 --> 0:41:43.355
<v Speaker 1>already wanted in several Western towns for the theft of

0:41:43.435 --> 0:41:48.515
<v Speaker 1>money order blanks from post offices. These alarming discoveries were

0:41:48.515 --> 0:41:51.275
<v Speaker 1>still piling up at the very time that pal Smirch,

0:41:51.595 --> 0:41:55.675
<v Speaker 1>the greatest hero of the twentieth century, lear eyed dead

0:41:55.755 --> 0:41:59.795
<v Speaker 1>for sleep, half starved, was piloting his crazy junk heap

0:41:59.875 --> 0:42:02.275
<v Speaker 1>high above the region in which the lamentable story of

0:42:02.315 --> 0:42:05.355
<v Speaker 1>his private life was being unearthed, headed for New York

0:42:05.515 --> 0:42:08.355
<v Speaker 1>and a greater glory than any man of his time

0:42:08.475 --> 0:42:15.635
<v Speaker 1>had ever known. The necessity for printing some account in

0:42:15.715 --> 0:42:18.755
<v Speaker 1>the papers of the young man's career and personality had

0:42:18.835 --> 0:42:22.355
<v Speaker 1>led to a remarkable predicament. It was, of course, impossible

0:42:22.395 --> 0:42:26.355
<v Speaker 1>to reveal the facts, for a tremendous popular feeling in

0:42:26.475 --> 0:42:28.835
<v Speaker 1>favor of the young hero had sprung up like a

0:42:28.835 --> 0:42:31.755
<v Speaker 1>grass fire when he was halfway across Europe on his

0:42:31.835 --> 0:42:35.595
<v Speaker 1>flight around the globe. He was therefore described as a modest,

0:42:35.675 --> 0:42:41.595
<v Speaker 1>chap taciturn blonde, popular with his friends, popular with girls.

0:42:42.355 --> 0:42:45.835
<v Speaker 1>The only available snapshot of Smirch, taken at the wheel

0:42:45.875 --> 0:42:48.635
<v Speaker 1>of a phony automobile in a cheap photo studio at

0:42:48.635 --> 0:42:51.555
<v Speaker 1>an amusement park, was touched up so that the little

0:42:51.635 --> 0:42:57.435
<v Speaker 1>vulgarian looked quite handsome. His twisted leer was smoothed into

0:42:57.475 --> 0:43:01.235
<v Speaker 1>a pleasant smile. The truth was in this way kept

0:43:01.235 --> 0:43:04.995
<v Speaker 1>from the youth's ecstatic compatriots. They did not dream that

0:43:05.035 --> 0:43:09.195
<v Speaker 1>the Smirch family was despised and feared by its neighbors

0:43:09.195 --> 0:43:12.275
<v Speaker 1>in the obscure Iowa town, nor that the hero himself,

0:43:12.795 --> 0:43:16.515
<v Speaker 1>because of numerous unsavory exploits, had come to be regarded

0:43:16.515 --> 0:43:22.195
<v Speaker 1>in Westfield as a nuisance and a menace. Pal's Smirch had,

0:43:22.235 --> 0:43:26.035
<v Speaker 1>the reporters discovered, once knife the principle of his high school,

0:43:26.675 --> 0:43:29.595
<v Speaker 1>not mortally, to be sure, but he had knifed him,

0:43:29.675 --> 0:43:33.435
<v Speaker 1>and on another occasion, surprised in the act of an

0:43:33.555 --> 0:43:36.795
<v Speaker 1>stealing altar cloth from a church, he had bashed the

0:43:36.875 --> 0:43:39.795
<v Speaker 1>sexton over the head with a pot of Easter lilies.

0:43:40.795 --> 0:43:44.035
<v Speaker 1>For each of these offenses he had served a sentence

0:43:44.075 --> 0:43:49.115
<v Speaker 1>in the reformatory inwardly. The authorities, both in New York

0:43:49.155 --> 0:43:53.955
<v Speaker 1>and in Washington, prayed that an understanding providence might, however awful,

0:43:54.195 --> 0:43:58.635
<v Speaker 1>such a thing seemed, bring disaster to the rusty, battered

0:43:58.675 --> 0:44:01.995
<v Speaker 1>plane and its illustrious pilot, whose unheard of flight had

0:44:02.035 --> 0:44:07.715
<v Speaker 1>aroused the civilized world to Hosanna's hysterical praise. The authorities

0:44:07.755 --> 0:44:10.835
<v Speaker 1>were convinced that the character of the renowned aviator was

0:44:10.915 --> 0:44:14.275
<v Speaker 1>such that the limelight of adulation was bound to reveal

0:44:14.395 --> 0:44:19.315
<v Speaker 1>him to all the world as a congenital hooligan, mentally

0:44:19.715 --> 0:44:23.395
<v Speaker 1>and morally unequipped to cope with his own prodigious fame.

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<v Speaker 1>I trust, said the Secretary of State, at one of

0:44:27.435 --> 0:44:31.395
<v Speaker 1>the many secret cabinet meetings called to consider the national dilemma.

0:44:31.955 --> 0:44:37.555
<v Speaker 1>I trust that his mother's prayer will be answered, by

0:44:37.595 --> 0:44:40.555
<v Speaker 1>which he referred to missus Emma's smirch's wish that her

0:44:40.555 --> 0:44:44.875
<v Speaker 1>son might be drowned. It was, however, too late, for

0:44:44.915 --> 0:44:47.915
<v Speaker 1>that Spurch had leaped the Atlantic and then the Pacific

0:44:47.955 --> 0:44:50.915
<v Speaker 1>as if they were mill ponds. At three minutes after

0:44:50.915 --> 0:44:54.235
<v Speaker 1>two o'clock on the afternoon of July seventeenth, nineteen thirty seven,

0:44:54.395 --> 0:44:58.275
<v Speaker 1>the garage boy brought his idiotic plane into Roosevelt Field

0:44:58.275 --> 0:45:03.275
<v Speaker 1>for a perfect three point landing. It had, of course

0:45:03.715 --> 0:45:06.035
<v Speaker 1>been out of the question, and to arrange a modest

0:45:06.075 --> 0:45:08.875
<v Speaker 1>little reception for the greatest flier in the history of

0:45:08.875 --> 0:45:11.955
<v Speaker 1>the world. He was received at Roosevelt Field with such

0:45:11.955 --> 0:45:17.515
<v Speaker 1>elaborate and pretentious ceremonies as rocked the world. Fortunately, however,

0:45:17.835 --> 0:45:21.475
<v Speaker 1>the warren and spent hero promptly swooned, had to be

0:45:21.515 --> 0:45:24.435
<v Speaker 1>removed bodily from his plane, and was spirited from the

0:45:24.435 --> 0:45:27.795
<v Speaker 1>field without having opened his mouth once. Thus he did

0:45:27.835 --> 0:45:31.635
<v Speaker 1>not jeopardize the dignity of his first reception, a reception

0:45:31.835 --> 0:45:35.315
<v Speaker 1>illumined by the presence of the Secretaries of War and

0:45:35.395 --> 0:45:38.355
<v Speaker 1>the Navy, Mayor Michael J. Moriarty of New York, the

0:45:38.395 --> 0:45:42.435
<v Speaker 1>Premier of Canada, Governors Fannomine Groves, mcpheeley and Critchfield, and

0:45:42.515 --> 0:45:46.595
<v Speaker 1>a brilliant array of European diplomats. Smirch did not, in

0:45:46.595 --> 0:45:49.395
<v Speaker 1>fact come too in time to take part in the

0:45:49.435 --> 0:45:52.475
<v Speaker 1>gigantic hullabaloo arranged at City Hall for the next day.

0:45:52.795 --> 0:45:56.435
<v Speaker 1>He was rushed to a secluded nursing home and confined

0:45:56.475 --> 0:45:59.675
<v Speaker 1>in bed. It was nine days before he was able

0:45:59.715 --> 0:46:02.075
<v Speaker 1>to get up, or to be more exact, before he

0:46:02.235 --> 0:46:07.635
<v Speaker 1>was permitted to it up. Meanwhile, the greatest minds in

0:46:07.675 --> 0:46:11.395
<v Speaker 1>the country in solemn assembly, had arranged a secret conference

0:46:11.675 --> 0:46:14.875
<v Speaker 1>of city, state and government officials, which Smirch was to

0:46:14.955 --> 0:46:19.435
<v Speaker 1>attend for the purpose of being instructed in the ethics

0:46:19.515 --> 0:46:24.595
<v Speaker 1>and behavior of heroism. On the day that the little

0:46:24.595 --> 0:46:27.155
<v Speaker 1>mechanic was finally allowed to get up in dress and

0:46:27.195 --> 0:46:28.795
<v Speaker 1>for the first time in two weeks, took a great

0:46:28.915 --> 0:46:32.355
<v Speaker 1>chew of tomacco, he was permitted to receive the newspaper

0:46:32.435 --> 0:46:36.955
<v Speaker 1>men this by way of testing him out. Smirch did

0:46:36.955 --> 0:46:41.195
<v Speaker 1>not wait for questions. Use guys, he said, and the

0:46:41.235 --> 0:46:45.075
<v Speaker 1>Times Man winced. Use guys can tell the cock eyed

0:46:45.155 --> 0:46:49.195
<v Speaker 1>world that I put it over on Lindberg. See yeah, man,

0:46:49.235 --> 0:46:54.915
<v Speaker 1>an assid I'm two frogs. The two frogs. It was

0:46:54.955 --> 0:46:58.395
<v Speaker 1>a reference to a pair of gallant French flyers who,

0:46:58.435 --> 0:47:00.995
<v Speaker 1>in attempting to flight only halfway around the world, had

0:47:01.035 --> 0:47:05.075
<v Speaker 1>two weeks before unhappily been lost at sea. The Times

0:47:05.115 --> 0:47:07.355
<v Speaker 1>Man was bold enough at this point to sketch out

0:47:07.395 --> 0:47:11.115
<v Speaker 1>for Smirch the accepted formula for interviews in cases of

0:47:11.115 --> 0:47:14.275
<v Speaker 1>this kind. He explained that there should be no arrogant

0:47:14.315 --> 0:47:18.955
<v Speaker 1>statements belittling the achievements of other heroes, particularly heroes of

0:47:19.075 --> 0:47:23.595
<v Speaker 1>foreign nations. Ah the hell with that, said Smirch. I

0:47:23.675 --> 0:47:26.955
<v Speaker 1>did it. See I did it, and I'm talking about it,

0:47:28.395 --> 0:47:32.435
<v Speaker 1>and he did talk about it. None of this extraordinary

0:47:32.435 --> 0:47:36.715
<v Speaker 1>interview was, of course printed. On the contrary, the newspapers,

0:47:36.795 --> 0:47:39.995
<v Speaker 1>already under the discipline direction of a secret directorate created

0:47:39.995 --> 0:47:43.595
<v Speaker 1>for the occasion and composed of statesmen and editors, gave

0:47:43.635 --> 0:47:47.235
<v Speaker 1>out to a panting and restless world that Jackie, as

0:47:47.275 --> 0:47:50.915
<v Speaker 1>he had been arbitrarily nicknamed, would consent to say only

0:47:50.955 --> 0:47:54.195
<v Speaker 1>that he was very happy and that anyone could have

0:47:54.235 --> 0:47:57.635
<v Speaker 1>done what he did. My achievement has been I fear

0:47:58.035 --> 0:48:01.995
<v Speaker 1>slightly exaggerated. The Times Man's article had him protest with

0:48:02.035 --> 0:48:06.475
<v Speaker 1>a modest smile. These newspapers stories were kept from the hero,

0:48:06.915 --> 0:48:10.035
<v Speaker 1>a restriction which did not serve to abate the rising

0:48:10.195 --> 0:48:15.595
<v Speaker 1>malevolence of his temper. The situation was indeed extremely grave

0:48:16.275 --> 0:48:21.195
<v Speaker 1>for Palell. Smirch was, as he kept insisting, raring to go.

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<v Speaker 1>He could not much longer be kept from a nation

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<v Speaker 1>clamorous to lionize him. It was the most desperate crisis

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<v Speaker 1>the United States of America had faced since the sinking

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<v Speaker 1>of the Lusitania. On the afternoon of the twenty seventh

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<v Speaker 1>of July, Smirch was spirited away to a conference room

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<v Speaker 1>in which were gathered mayors, governors, government officials, behaviorist, psychologists,

0:48:44.755 --> 0:48:48.715
<v Speaker 1>and editors. He gave them each a limp moist paw,

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<v Speaker 1>and a brief, unlovely grin hi, he said. When Smirch

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<v Speaker 1>was seated, the Mayor of New York arose, and, with

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<v Speaker 1>obvious pessimism, attempted to explain what he must say and

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<v Speaker 1>how he must act when presented to the world, ending

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<v Speaker 1>his talk with a high tribute to the hero's courage

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<v Speaker 1>and integrity. The mayor was followed by Governor Fannman of

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<v Speaker 1>New York, who, after a touching declaration of faith, introduced

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<v Speaker 1>Cameron Spottiswood, second Secretary of the American Embassy in Paris,

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<v Speaker 1>the gentleman selected to coach Smirch in the amenities of

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<v Speaker 1>public ceremonies. Sitting in a chair with a soiled yellow

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<v Speaker 1>tie in his hand and his shirt open at the throat, unshaved,

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<v Speaker 1>smoking a rolled cigarette, Jack Smirch listened with a leer

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<v Speaker 1>on his lips. I get you, I get you, he

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<v Speaker 1>cut in nastily. You want me to act like a softie? Huh?

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<v Speaker 1>You want me to act like that bemny memty baby

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<v Speaker 1>face lind big huh, Well nuts to that. See. Everyone

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<v Speaker 1>took in his breath sharply. It was a sigh and

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<v Speaker 1>a hiss. Mister Lindbergh began. A United States senator purple

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<v Speaker 1>with rage, and mister bird Smirch, who was paring his

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<v Speaker 1>nails with a jackknife, cut in again. Boyd, he exclaimed, Oh,

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<v Speaker 1>for God's sake, that big somebody shut off the blasphemies

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<v Speaker 1>with a sharp word. A newcomer had entered the word

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<v Speaker 1>the room. Everyone stood up, except Smirch, who was still

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<v Speaker 1>busy with his nails, and he did not even glance up.

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<v Speaker 1>Mister Smirch, said someone sternly. The President of the United States.

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<v Speaker 1>It had been thought that the presence of the Chief

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<v Speaker 1>Executive might have a chastening effect on the young hero,

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<v Speaker 1>and the former had been, thanks to the remarkable cooperation

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<v Speaker 1>of the press, secretly brought to the obscure conference room.

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<v Speaker 1>A great painful silence fell. Smirch looked up, waved a

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<v Speaker 1>hand at the president. How you coming, he asked, and

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<v Speaker 1>began rolling a fresh cigarette. The silence deepened. Someone coughed

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<v Speaker 1>in a strained way. Jesus hot, ain't it, said smirch.

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<v Speaker 1>He loosened two more shirt buttons, revealing a hairy chest

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<v Speaker 1>and the tattooed word sadie enclosed in a stenciled heart.

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<v Speaker 1>The great and important men in the room, faced by

0:51:26.355 --> 0:51:30.915
<v Speaker 1>the most serious crisis in American history, exchanged worried frowns.

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<v Speaker 1>Nobody seemed to know how to proceed. Come on, come on,

0:51:36.115 --> 0:51:39.075
<v Speaker 1>said smirch. Let's get the hell out of here. Why

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<v Speaker 1>do I start cutting in on the parties? Eh? And

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<v Speaker 1>when is there gonna be this in it? He rubbed

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<v Speaker 1>a thumb and forefinger together meaningly. Money, exclaimed a state

0:51:51.875 --> 0:51:57.595
<v Speaker 1>senator shocked Pale. Yeah money, said pal, flipping his cigarette

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<v Speaker 1>out of the window. And big money. He began rolling

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<v Speaker 1>a fresh cigarette. Big money, he repeated, Frowning over the

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<v Speaker 1>rice paper. He tilted back in his chair and leered

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<v Speaker 1>at each gentleman separately. The leer of an animal that

0:52:14.035 --> 0:52:17.515
<v Speaker 1>knows its power, the leer of a leopard loose in

0:52:17.595 --> 0:52:22.115
<v Speaker 1>a bird and dog shop. Ah, for God's sake, let's

0:52:22.115 --> 0:52:25.635
<v Speaker 1>get someplace where it's cool. He said, I've been cooped

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<v Speaker 1>up plenty for three weeks. Smirch stood up and walked

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<v Speaker 1>over to an open window, where he stood staring down

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<v Speaker 1>into the street nine floors below. The faint shouting of

0:52:37.875 --> 0:52:41.115
<v Speaker 1>newsboys floated up to him. He made out his name,

0:52:41.475 --> 0:52:46.715
<v Speaker 1>hot Dog, he cried, grinning ecstatic. He leaned out over

0:52:46.755 --> 0:52:51.755
<v Speaker 1>the sill. You tell of babies, he shouted down, Hot

0:52:51.875 --> 0:52:55.955
<v Speaker 1>Diggity Dog. In the tense little knot of men standing

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<v Speaker 1>behind him, a quick, mad impulse flared up. An unspoken

0:53:00.515 --> 0:53:04.275
<v Speaker 1>word of appeal of command seemed to ring through the room.

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<v Speaker 1>It was deadly silent. Charles K. L Brand, secretary to

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<v Speaker 1>the Mayor of New York City, happened to be standing

0:53:11.035 --> 0:53:14.395
<v Speaker 1>nearest Smirch. He looked inquiringly at the President of the

0:53:14.475 --> 0:53:20.835
<v Speaker 1>United States. The President, pale grim, nodded shortly. Brand, a tall,

0:53:20.995 --> 0:53:25.075
<v Speaker 1>powerfully built man wants to tackle at Rutgers University, stepped forward,

0:53:25.475 --> 0:53:28.075
<v Speaker 1>seized the greatest man in the world by his left

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<v Speaker 1>shoulder and the seat of his pants, and pushed him

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<v Speaker 1>out the window. My god, he's falling out the window,

0:53:34.275 --> 0:53:36.555
<v Speaker 1>cried a quick witted editor. Get me out of here,

0:53:36.595 --> 0:53:38.955
<v Speaker 1>cried the President. Several men sprang to his side, and

0:53:38.995 --> 0:53:40.915
<v Speaker 1>he was hurriedly escorted out of a door toward a

0:53:40.995 --> 0:53:43.515
<v Speaker 1>side entrance of the building. The editor of the Associated

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<v Speaker 1>Press took charge, being used to such things crisply, He

0:53:46.435 --> 0:53:49.395
<v Speaker 1>ordered certain men to leave, others to stay quickly. He

0:53:49.435 --> 0:53:52.035
<v Speaker 1>outlined a story which all the papers were to agree on,

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<v Speaker 1>sent two men to the street to handle that end

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<v Speaker 1>of the tragedy, commanded a senator to sob and two

0:53:57.475 --> 0:54:01.715
<v Speaker 1>congressmen to go to pieces nervously. In a word, he

0:54:01.915 --> 0:54:05.355
<v Speaker 1>skillfully set the stage for the gigantic task that was

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<v Speaker 1>to follow, the task of breaking to a grief stricken

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<v Speaker 1>world the sad story of the untimely accidental death of

0:54:14.235 --> 0:54:20.595
<v Speaker 1>its most illustrious and spectacular figure. The funeral was, as

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<v Speaker 1>you know, the most elaborate, the finest, the solemnest, and

0:54:26.395 --> 0:54:28.875
<v Speaker 1>the saddest ever held in the United States of America.

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<v Speaker 1>The monument in Arlington Cemetery, with its clean white shaft

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<v Speaker 1>of marble and the simple device of a tiny plane

0:54:38.035 --> 0:54:43.435
<v Speaker 1>carved on its base, is a place for pilgrims in

0:54:43.595 --> 0:54:48.155
<v Speaker 1>deep reverence to visit. The nations of the world paid

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<v Speaker 1>lofty tributes to little Jackie Smirch America's greatest hero. At

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<v Speaker 1>a given hour, there were two minutes of silence throughout

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<v Speaker 1>the nation. Even the inhabitants of the small, bewildered town

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<v Speaker 1>of Westfield, Iowa observed this touching ceremony. Agents of the

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<v Speaker 1>Department of Justice sow to that one of them was

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<v Speaker 1>especially assigned to stand grimly in the doorway of a

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<v Speaker 1>little shack restaurant on the edge of the tourists camping

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<v Speaker 1>ground just outside the town. There, under his stern scrutiny,

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<v Speaker 1>missus Emma Smirch bowed her head over two Hamburger steaks

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<v Speaker 1>sizzling on her grill. Bowed her head and turned away

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<v Speaker 1>so that the secret serviceman could not see the twisted,

0:55:36.235 --> 0:55:55.155
<v Speaker 1>strangely familiar leer on her lips. I've done all the

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