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Speaker 1: the cover up of the Ice murder of Renee Good.
Speaker 1: Investigate anyway on the state and county levels, Indict and
Speaker 1: arrest the Ice shooter, Jonathan Ross and the Trump militia
Speaker 1: members who were with him as accessories. Impeach Homeland Security
Speaker 1: Chief Christy Nome, ICE Director Todd lyons and borders our
Speaker 1: Tom Homan Representative Angie Craig says, now the Gnome impeachment
Speaker 1: will proceed, and if Gnome or any other ICE or
Speaker 1: DHS official continues to stonewall local investigators seeking justice for
Speaker 1: the murdered woman, indict and arrest them for aubs instruction
Speaker 1: of justice, although this may be unnecessary since Nome, an
Speaker 1: idiot and Vice President JV Vance, another idiot, are the
Speaker 1: ones who docks Ross as the shooter in the first place,
Speaker 1: and while the leaders of his gestapo are vowing never
Speaker 1: to cooperate with a Hennepin County or State of Minnesota investigation.
Speaker 1: It was of course the shooter himself, Ross, who could
Speaker 1: not help himself from leaking the video he took with
Speaker 1: his phone of his crime because he is so deranged
Speaker 1: and murderous. He thinks it will get him public support,
Speaker 1: and the Cretans like Vance knowme, Lions and home and
Speaker 1: think the video does anything besides proving he was at
Speaker 1: no risk. And then he deliberately stepped in front of
Speaker 1: her car, and while juggling the murder weapon in one
Speaker 1: hand and his effing phone in the other, he shot
Speaker 1: her because he wanted to shoot her, and because she
Speaker 1: was not afraid of him, and because she was nice
Speaker 1: to him.
Speaker 2: Show your okay, we don't change our plates every morning,
Speaker 2: just so you know it'll be the same plate when
Speaker 2: you come talk to us later.
Speaker 3: That's fine.
Speaker 4: You have citizen for.
Speaker 2: You want to come at us, you want to come
Speaker 2: at us, I say, go get yourself some lunch, big boy.
Speaker 3: Go ahead.
Speaker 1: And then they celebrated, as we all heard. And then
Speaker 1: two days later, other Ice scum threatened other Minnesotans because
Speaker 1: they have clearly been told they are there to threaten,
Speaker 1: to terrorize, and too if they can get away with it,
Speaker 1: kill for Trump.
Speaker 4: Shame on, you have y'all not learned from the past
Speaker 4: couple of days. Have you not learned?
Speaker 1: Learned?
Speaker 3: What?
Speaker 1: What's our lesson here?
Speaker 5: What do you want us to learn? There is no
Speaker 5: indication that these diseased, sadistic vultures of our society, Trump Vance,
Speaker 5: Gnome homann Lions will stop, will even stop escalating this
Speaker 5: until the rest of us force them to, until we
Speaker 5: break ice.
Speaker 1: Since the tragedy unfolded Wednesday, they have hidden like the
Speaker 1: terrified video game villains they are now. They are hiding
Speaker 1: behind this empty, corrupt demand that we all need to
Speaker 1: improve the tone. And when they say we, they mean you,
Speaker 1: and when they say tone, they mean any criticism of
Speaker 1: them at all. Tom Homan went on Fox and actually
Speaker 1: added to this bankrupt bromide new threats quote, there will
Speaker 1: be more bloodshed unless we decrease the hateful rhetoric. Translation
Speaker 1: of this tautology, more civilians will be shot unless innocent
Speaker 1: Americans stop saying such mean things about the fact trigger
Speaker 1: happy PTSD addled criminals threatening and slaughtering Americans exercising their
Speaker 1: constitutional rights to protest peacefully. Decrease the hateful rhetoric. Holman,
Speaker 1: you fake tough guy, rube idiot. You know a good
Speaker 1: way to decrease the hateful rhetoric. Baldy, stop shooting mothers
Speaker 1: of five year old boys in the face for no reason.
Speaker 1: In broad daylight, the acting Ice chief this Lions may
Speaker 1: be even worse. He is daring Minnesota to enforce its laws. Quote.
Speaker 1: My message to the sheriff is, try and arrest my folks.
Speaker 1: Let's see what happens. Unquote, mister Lyons, shove it up
Speaker 1: your ass. Shove it up your ass. You want to
Speaker 1: play the let's see what happens game. Governor Wallas has
Speaker 1: already activated the National Guard, and Minnesota's citizens have shown
Speaker 1: the kind of restraint never exceeded in American history. Get
Speaker 1: the indictments. Get one for Nome and one for Lions,
Speaker 1: and one for Home, and one for Ross, and one
Speaker 1: for all the government issued Nazis who were on Portland
Speaker 1: Avenue that terrible day, and have the Sheriff's officers serve them,
Speaker 1: with the Minnesota National Guard standing behind them, weapons drawn.
Speaker 1: And then, mister Lyons, let's see what happens. We know
Speaker 1: what will happen. Your excuses for men will flee. This, however,
Speaker 1: is a reminder that the battle here has to be
Speaker 1: the state, the state of Minnesota. In this case, this
Speaker 1: is the Trump dictatorship, the Trump dictatorship that has now
Speaker 1: lost any remaining moral authority. To continue to rule this country.
Speaker 1: The state of Minnesota, or the state of Illinois or
Speaker 1: the state of California must act, especially since ICE has
Speaker 1: already gone rogue, gone extra legal across the Rubicon past,
Speaker 1: which Ice will not obey the law, and ICE will
Speaker 1: not stop targeting innocent Americans, and ICE and its Trump
Speaker 1: masters will not back the blue. They are the criminals,
Speaker 1: and with the states this high and the tinder box
Speaker 1: this dry, the state and not the citizens must act here.
Speaker 1: The state must act against the ICE murderers. The state
Speaker 1: must act against the ICE terrorists. The state must act
Speaker 1: against the ICE superstructure that is now covering up this
Speaker 1: and other ICE crimes. Gnome, a virus with botox, secretly
Speaker 1: signed an order denying access to ICE facilities for members
Speaker 1: of Congress, even though this order overrides federal law. Three
Speaker 1: Minnesota representatives tried to see an ICE terror prison without
Speaker 1: knowing of Nome's criminal act, and they were confronted, according
Speaker 1: to one of them, by about twenty five menacing armed officers.
Speaker 1: It is possible with the courts rigged and the propaganda
Speaker 1: machine on full blast, and Trump literally facing the dictator's
Speaker 1: choice of staying in power or dying in prison. It
Speaker 1: is possible that these forces of evil will delay the
Speaker 1: prosecution of Jonathan Ross and Nome and the others. The
Speaker 1: state and the county, though, are prepared for this exact scenario.
Speaker 1: Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison reminds us there are no
Speaker 1: statutes of limitation on these crimes. Mister raw Us, Misnome,
Speaker 1: mister Homan, the Lord's judgment cometh, and right soon you
Speaker 1: will go to prison. And there is, for ones behind
Speaker 1: the scenes, some doubt inside the Trump evil factory. An
Speaker 1: anonymous Trump administration member to Politico, quote, I don't know
Speaker 1: how we recover from this. This is highly problematic and
Speaker 1: not a good look and not something our government should
Speaker 1: be remotely engaged in. For a Trump isst this is
Speaker 1: about as emotional a mea culpa as it can get. Meanwhile,
Speaker 1: despite Dvance's claims there is no absolute immunity for these creatures,
Speaker 1: there is no immunity at all for premeditated murder under
Speaker 1: any circumstances, and so there must be in the interim
Speaker 1: wrongful death suits, civil rights loss suits. Mister Ross must
Speaker 1: spend every remaining day he is free talking to lawyers
Speaker 1: and Gnome as well and Home and every functionary in
Speaker 1: this corrupt, sadistic, murderous gang. There is one more government
Speaker 1: action to be taken now. The House voted Thursday to
Speaker 1: keep this government funded past January thirtieth, when the continuing
Speaker 1: Resolution expires. Now the Senate must act, and frankly, the
Speaker 1: Senate must shut the goddamn government down period. Shut it down.
Speaker 1: Not a dime until Trump is hamstrung on Venezuela and
Speaker 1: Greenland and Iran and his dreams of invading the Nobel
Speaker 1: Prize Committee headquarters, and more importantly at the moment, not
Speaker 1: a dime until Ice is neutered. We need border control,
Speaker 1: We need immigration enforcement. We do not need paramilitary, unvetted,
Speaker 1: blood lusting monsters murdering people then swearing at them and
Speaker 1: keeping doctors from attending to them as they bleed to death.
Speaker 1: You want the money Republicans trade, give us Noome Homan, Ross,
Speaker 1: Ice the others, and the worst, by the way we
Speaker 1: will do to them is to stop their funding and
Speaker 1: prosecute them. But Democratic senators have to stop what they
Speaker 1: can stop, and any Democratic Senator who fails in their
Speaker 1: duty now has to be removed from office as quickly
Speaker 1: as the electoral and recall processes allowed to quote Theodore Roosevelt,
Speaker 1: we are met at Armagaddon, and we battle for the
Speaker 1: Lord Schumer. I don't care, do it, Fetterman. I'm sorry
Speaker 1: for all your problems. I don't care. This is nut
Speaker 1: cutting time. So far you have been on the wrong
Speaker 1: side of this. History will not judge you well if
Speaker 1: it bothers to judge you at all. And incidentally, the
Speaker 1: public right now, even before this happened in Minnesota, is
Speaker 1: behind stopping Ice from pole. Analyst Elliott Moore quote, ICE's
Speaker 1: approval rating has collapsed since Trump took office, from plus
Speaker 1: sixteen according to the Yugov Economist polling last February, to
Speaker 1: minus fourteen as of November. In a flash poll Morris
Speaker 1: Writes conducted on Wednesday, ICE's job approval came in at
Speaker 1: thirty nine percent approved fifty two percent disapprove, for a
Speaker 1: score of minus thirteen. That's before the last week has
Speaker 1: played out. And of course, there are other, more anecdotal,
Speaker 1: more visceral ways of measuring public sentiment. The public address
Speaker 1: announcer of basketball's Minnesota Timberwolves is Jeddiede Jones.
Speaker 4: We're setting by the tragedy that occurred yesterday in our
Speaker 4: Minneapolis community in the loss of Renee and Nicole good.
Speaker 4: Our thoughts are with her family and everyone affected, and
Speaker 4: our hearts are with our community as we hope for
Speaker 4: healing in Unixy and during this challenging time, Please join
Speaker 4: us in a moment of silence.
Speaker 1: Thank you. And more stunning even than that, there is
Speaker 1: this the retiring Episcopalian Bishop of New Hampshire, Bob Hirschfeld,
Speaker 1: with one of the most chilling and sadly one of
Speaker 1: the most real sound bites of the entire breadth and
Speaker 1: length of Trump's assault on democracy and American freedom the
Speaker 1: other night, before a packed protest in the pouring rain.
Speaker 1: I have told the.
Speaker 6: Clergy of the Episcopal Diocese of New Hampshire that we
Speaker 6: may be entering into that same witness, and I've asked
Speaker 6: them to get their affairs in order to make sure
Speaker 6: they have their wills written, because.
Speaker 2: It may be that now is no longer the time
Speaker 2: for statements, but for us, with our bodies, to stand
Speaker 2: between the powers of this world and the most vulnerable.
Speaker 1: I hope the Bishop is wrong. I still think this
Speaker 1: can be resolved with nothing approaching any of that. On
Speaker 1: the other hand, a peaceable, thirty six year old Minnesota
Speaker 1: mother in her own neighborhood, near her own local school,
Speaker 1: in what she thought was a democracy with laws and
Speaker 1: a constitution that protected her instead of protecting masked gunmen
Speaker 1: in broad daylight, A woman who barely rose to the
Speaker 1: minimum standards of protesting renee Good. She thought this could
Speaker 1: be resolved that way too. So what is wrong with
Speaker 1: Gnome Vance, Trump, Holman Ellis Ross? These thugs in masks
Speaker 1: who think they are somehow crusaders, or at minimum think
Speaker 1: they are somehow not terrorists. It may be the guns.
Speaker 1: I don't mean the obvious part. I mean the obvious
Speaker 1: part is for decades, with the intensity of this seemingly
Speaker 1: doubling every minute, large swats of this nation have believed
Speaker 1: that shooting people is okay. It's nine to eleven. The
Speaker 1: police in the military have been trained that everybody else
Speaker 1: should be assumed to be a threat, possibly a terrorist,
Speaker 1: until proven otherwise. And the deliberate twisting of the Second
Speaker 1: Amendment to keep the weapons industry cash rich is obvious.
Speaker 1: But that's not what I mean. I mean something even
Speaker 1: more elemental than that. When I say it may be
Speaker 1: the guns, I mean literally the gun, the physical fact
Speaker 1: of the gun, handling a gun, shooting a gun. For
Speaker 1: the second time in the last three years, a study
Speaker 1: has hit indicating that the simple act of firing a
Speaker 1: modern gun, a weapon of police and war, does violent
Speaker 1: damage to the shooter to their brain. You shoot, you
Speaker 1: get concussed, or very nearly so. You shoot a hundred times,
Speaker 1: you get concussed one hundred times, or very nearly so.
Speaker 1: From the New York Times, quoting the most recent research,
Speaker 1: Shooting indoors poses another hazard that has been almost entirely overlooked,
Speaker 1: concussive blast waves that can damage the brain. Reporters measured
Speaker 1: the blasts of several popular civilian guns at an indoor
Speaker 1: range using the same sensors that the military uses. The
Speaker 1: data showed that some large caliber civilian rifles delivered a
Speaker 1: blast wave that exceeds what the military says is safe
Speaker 1: for the brain, and firing smaller caliber guns repeatedly could
Speaker 1: quickly add up to potentially harmful exposure. The data also
Speaker 1: showed that indoor shooting ranges designed to make shooting safe
Speaker 1: inadvertently make blast exposure worse, doubling and sometimes tripling the
Speaker 1: amplitude of the blast. The potential for harm, The Times
Speaker 1: continued from blast waves gets almost no attention from the
Speaker 1: shooting public, even though people can experience concussion like symptoms
Speaker 1: after a day at the range, said Jeff Balcourt, who
Speaker 1: is an acoustic consultant for the National Shooting Sports Foundation
Speaker 1: and a designer of indoor ranges for Balco Defense Company,
Speaker 1: Quoting him, it's one of those unspoken things. You don't
Speaker 1: realize that after a whole day of shooting you have
Speaker 1: that ringing in your ears and that headache. Ending my
Speaker 1: reading from the Times, now, imagine that being done as
Speaker 1: you're living. And this is not new. In November twenty
Speaker 1: twenty three, the New York Times found those sane things
Speaker 1: happening to service members using the military research that they
Speaker 1: referred to in the more recent piece, evidence compiled by
Speaker 1: the military that just firing the modern weapons of war
Speaker 1: can destroy the brains of those who fired them, just
Speaker 1: at a distance, at no practical risk. In Syria, I'll
Speaker 1: quote the Times again, all through their unit Alpha Battery,
Speaker 1: first Battalion, eleventh Marine Troops came home feeling cursed, and
Speaker 1: the same thing was happening in other marine and Army
Speaker 1: artillery units. Hallucinations, visions, sounds, victims appearing as ghosts. An
Speaker 1: investigation by The New York Times found that many of
Speaker 1: the troops sent to bombard the Islamic State in twenty
Speaker 1: sixteen and twenty seventeen returned to the United States plagued
Speaker 1: by nightmares, panic attacks, depression, and in a few cases, hallucinations.
Speaker 1: Once reliable marines turned unpredictable and strange. Some are now homeless.
Speaker 1: A striking number eventually died by suicide or tried to.
Speaker 1: The Times went on to detail the training with guns
Speaker 1: that these personnel had been through, quoting again, a small
Speaker 1: number of troops had to fire tens of thousands of
Speaker 1: high explosive shells, far more arounds per crew member, experts
Speaker 1: say than any American artillery battery had fired at least
Speaker 1: since the Vietnam War. The cannon blasts were strong enough
Speaker 1: to hurl a one hundred pound round fifteen miles, and
Speaker 1: each unleashed a shock wave that shot through the crew
Speaker 1: member's bodies, vibrating bone, punching lungs and hearts, and whipping
Speaker 1: at cruise missile speeds through the most delicate organ of all,
Speaker 1: the brain. More than a year after Marines started experiencing problems.
Speaker 1: The Times concluded the Marine Corps leadership tried to piece
Speaker 1: together what was happening by ordering a study of one
Speaker 1: of the hardest hit units, Fox Battery, second Battalion, tenth Marines.
Speaker 1: The research was limited to reviewing the troop's medical records.
Speaker 1: No marines were examined or interviewed. Even so, the report,
Speaker 1: published in twenty nineteen made a startling finding. The gun
Speaker 1: crews were being hurt by their own weapons. End quote.
Speaker 1: So what happened in Minneapolis? We saw it on video?
Speaker 1: Why did it happen? What went wrong with the people
Speaker 1: who fired those guns? And in every other such event
Speaker 1: in civilian and in public life in the last umpteen years?
Speaker 1: Why did it happen? We may have been seeing that too,
Speaker 1: without even realizing it. Some other updates from other subjects.
Speaker 1: Trump's government is still in violation of the law Trump
Speaker 1: signed ensuring release of the Epstein files by Well nearly
Speaker 1: a month ago. The Trump's Stein cover up is alive
Speaker 1: and well. Representative Thomas Massey in his story in Politico,
Speaker 1: Quoting Politico in late December, Massy raised the possibility of
Speaker 1: bringing inherent contempt charges against Pam Bondy over the heavily
Speaker 1: redacted release. Massey said, the biggest story is that the
Speaker 1: Justice Department is now quoting him trying to say that
Speaker 1: internal deliberations are off limits for the release, whereas the
Speaker 1: bill specifically says that they must be released, these specific
Speaker 1: decisions about whether to indict or not. I'm not sure
Speaker 1: how that gets litigated, if that'll end up in a
Speaker 1: court somewhere. The lever that I have is contempt, and
Speaker 1: eventually we will try to invoke that because it only
Speaker 1: involves one chamber quote. Amazingly enough, Tom Massey's prospects for
Speaker 1: reelection are a vital concern to liberals, and incidentally it
Speaker 1: looks good for him. I guess I'm happy on Jack Smith,
Speaker 1: Jim Jordan said Friday, quote He's coming in. Jack Smith
Speaker 1: will testify in public before a House committee. Jordan, who
Speaker 1: on top of everything else, is an effing moron, completely
Speaker 1: misreads the room. Smith wants to testify in public, has
Speaker 1: been pleading for it. It is his way of getting
Speaker 1: his findings out. It is his way of getting his
Speaker 1: evidence out in public, and he is completely misread Smith's
Speaker 1: performance in the closed door testimony. Quoting Jim Jordan. Again,
Speaker 1: one of the key takeaways in the transcript is, we said,
Speaker 1: did you have any evidence that President Trump was responsible
Speaker 1: for the violence that took place at the Capitol. He
Speaker 1: had no evidence of that whatsoever. Well, of course, that's
Speaker 1: the exact opposite of what he said, you, moron. What
Speaker 1: he didn't do was produce the evidence for you. You
Speaker 1: didn't ask him to produce the evidence. You asked him
Speaker 1: if he had it, and he said he did on
Speaker 1: his own stupidity. Jim Jordan is betting Trump's continued ability
Speaker 1: to not face any calls for resignation from Republicans for
Speaker 1: impeachment by Republicans, because they are about to get an
Speaker 1: exquisite taste of what those around Richard Nixon got in
Speaker 1: nineteen seventy four. My god, if I stay with this guy,
Speaker 1: I'm losing the midterms. The Nobel Prize update, I'll just
Speaker 1: read its statement on this amazing and amazingly stupid idea
Speaker 1: that the winner of the Peace Prize would somehow give
Speaker 1: it to Trump and then Trump would in exchange, install
Speaker 1: her as the new dictator of Venezuela. And I'll precede
Speaker 1: this quote by mentioning that recently at an auction. I
Speaker 1: bought the Peabody Award that Larry King got in I
Speaker 1: believe nineteen ninety two. Larry was a friend of mine,
Speaker 1: and I did not like the idea of his award
Speaker 1: going to somebody who he did not like or who
Speaker 1: did not know him. This does not mean I won
Speaker 1: a Peabody Award. It means I happen to have his
Speaker 1: for safe keeping. It's sort of what the Nobel Peace
Speaker 1: Prize people are saying. Quote. The Norwegian Nobel Committee and
Speaker 1: the Norwegian Nobel Institute receive a number of requests for
Speaker 1: comments regarding the permanence of a Nobel Peace Prize laureate status.
Speaker 1: The facts are clear and well established. Once a Nobel
Speaker 1: Prize is announced, it cannot be revoked, share or transferred
Speaker 1: to others. The decision is final and stands for all time,
Speaker 1: for all time. Now, if they wanted to have a
Speaker 1: little fun, they should have added the Nobel Peace Prize
Speaker 1: is also not returnable for store credit. And one more
Speaker 1: thing before a second segment on Minnesota and particularly somebody's
Speaker 1: reaction to Minnesota. You heard Trump and how he wants
Speaker 1: to He wants to slide down one of those ropes
Speaker 1: from the helicopter like the Seal Team six guys do
Speaker 1: because he's because because his brain is dissolving, and every
Speaker 1: once in a while he thinks he's twenty six. More correctly,
Speaker 1: he thinks he's twenty six and that he could have
Speaker 1: done that when he was twenty six. These are great people,
Speaker 1: These are really people. Even coming down those ropes, you know,
Speaker 1: they're coming down ropes off the helicopter.
Speaker 5: And they run. I was thinking to myself, I wonder
Speaker 5: if I could do that.
Speaker 1: I can have to give it a try sometime. I
Speaker 1: have only one comment on this bungee dream of Donald
Speaker 1: John Trump. Please everybody tell him that's a great idea.
Speaker 1: Also interest here, incredibly enough, there is at least one
Speaker 1: public figure pretending to be a Democrat taking himself seriously
Speaker 1: as a presidential candidate, even if nobody else is defending
Speaker 1: the killing of Renee Good in Minneapolis, defending shooting this
Speaker 1: woman on the streets of Minneapolis. That public figure is
Speaker 1: Stephen A. Smith. And I'm sorry on behalf of a
Speaker 1: lot of the people who built ESPN and even the
Speaker 1: late comers like me. ESPN now has to fire him.
Speaker 1: Fire Stephen A. Smith. Now, I guess I should have
Speaker 1: said spoiler alert regarding worse persons, but hey, that's next.
Speaker 1: This is Countdown. This is Countdown with Keith Oberman still
Speaker 1: ahead on this all new edition of Countdown. I don't
Speaker 1: know about you, but after this last week I need
Speaker 1: some thurber Mondays with thurber coming up. But first, believe
Speaker 1: it or not, there are still more new idiots to
Speaker 1: talk about. The roundup of the mis grants, Morons, Undunning, Kruger,
Speaker 1: Effets Specimen who constitute today's other worst persons in the world,
Speaker 1: the brons worse. I am indebted to Derek Guy of
Speaker 1: put this on a fashion site. He has noted the
Speaker 1: shall we say contradictory tweets of the four Maga shall
Speaker 1: we say whares about Venezuela, Will Chamberlain cat turd, Matt
Speaker 1: Walsh Blog of Matt Walshblog's Blob blog, and Laura Loomer
Speaker 1: cat tird. First, shall we name one US inspired regime
Speaker 1: change that hasn't ended in absolute disaster? He wrote. Now,
Speaker 1: he writes, Venezuela is now more free than New York City.
Speaker 1: Will Chamberlain, the owner of the world's largest forehead. The
Speaker 1: Republican Party is no longer the Party of regime change
Speaker 1: and endless wars. If you want to be its standard bearer,
Speaker 1: that as a non negotiable position. That's what he wrote.
Speaker 1: Now he has written, I can think a few better
Speaker 1: uses of my tax dollars than black bagging the head
Speaker 1: of a foreign narco trafficking organization that enriches itself by
Speaker 1: addicting and poisoning my fellow Americans. Well, of course, other
Speaker 1: than finding a cure for a five or six head.
Speaker 1: Loy'll do. Mary, I'm America first. I don't support regime change.
Speaker 1: I went on Bannon's war room to talk about Chinese
Speaker 1: aggression in Venezuela and why we need to designate the
Speaker 1: Muslim Brotherhood as a foreign as Lamarst organization. That's what
Speaker 1: she wrote. Now she's written. Maduro has arrived at the
Speaker 1: DEA office in Manhattan. He was transported into an armoried
Speaker 1: motorcade after being transported in a blindfold by a helicopter
Speaker 1: and then by playing to New York after his compound
Speaker 1: in Caracus was raided by US Special for Proud to
Speaker 1: be an American today, USA and Matt Walsh, we've spent
Speaker 1: the last twenty five years bringing quote freedom and quote
Speaker 1: democracy to countries around the globe, while our own country
Speaker 1: has been systematically invaded and now our largest cities are
Speaker 1: run by foreigners and communists. If you want to know
Speaker 1: why I'm so a vowedly non interventionist, this is why.
Speaker 1: That's what he used to write. Now they've told him
Speaker 1: to write this. This is a war for oil. First
Speaker 1: of all, the war lasted like ninety minutes. Second, going
Speaker 1: to war to secure vital resources for your own people
Speaker 1: is totally legitimate. Why should we allowed some third world
Speaker 1: communist shithole to control trillions of dollars worth of oil?
Speaker 1: A vowedly non interventionist, except when's people who are paying
Speaker 1: you tell you to be a vowidly pro interventionist. Wharesah
Speaker 1: runner up worse here? The Financial Times it has run
Speaker 1: a story which seems like a slice of life of
Speaker 1: our times. Headline influencers and only fans models dominate us.
Speaker 1: Extraordinary artist visas work permits increasingly being awarded on basis
Speaker 1: of online reach, favoring content creators. The story is full
Speaker 1: of data about how these h one b exceptional immigrant
Speaker 1: visas are being granted to social media influencers and others
Speaker 1: with high follower accounts. But there is not one word
Speaker 1: in the article about only fans. I mean the words
Speaker 1: only and fans do not appear in the article, only
Speaker 1: in the headline. It's like only fans headline. We want
Speaker 1: names financial Times. I mean, it's a logical conclusion from
Speaker 1: what's been written here, But where's the evidence? I mean, Milania, No,
Speaker 1: but went the worst. ESPN's Stephen A. Smith for years,
Speaker 1: including five years in the preceding decade where I had
Speaker 1: to work alongside him. He was more important to them
Speaker 1: than I was. When I went back to ESPN in
Speaker 1: twenty thirteen and then again in twenty eighteen. I get it.
Speaker 1: People always laugh at the shouting guy in the clown
Speaker 1: suit four years, including when I had to pretend he
Speaker 1: had some knowledge about sports or information about sports that
Speaker 1: reflected an intellect and an access better than that of
Speaker 1: a gas station hot dog. For years, including when I
Speaker 1: had to pretend that his on air style was more
Speaker 1: bearable than the screech of the train's breaking as they
Speaker 1: stopped in a New York City subway station. And for
Speaker 1: a year as he has run a one man campaign
Speaker 1: to try to force a ground swell to get himself
Speaker 1: taken seriously as a presidential possibility. No possibility is the
Speaker 1: wrong word to get himself taken as anything besides one
Speaker 1: of the dumbestas in the extremely dumb history of extremely
Speaker 1: dumb American politics. And while doing this, he has tried
Speaker 1: to pretend he didn't want the job and he didn't
Speaker 1: have anything to do with the campaign. For years I
Speaker 1: have been mildly critical of Stephen A. Smith.
Speaker 4: That ends.
Speaker 1: He has now defended the shooting of Renee Good in Minneapolis,
Speaker 1: the murder of an American mother picking up her kid
Speaker 1: at school, because because Stephen thinks that may make him president,
Speaker 1: without realizing apparently that the only people that that barbaric
Speaker 1: in human point of view can appeal to are the
Speaker 1: same people who think Stephen A. Smith is a DEI
Speaker 1: higher and he should not be on ESPN or television.
Speaker 1: And these same people that he's trying to appeal to
Speaker 1: want Disney burn to the ground. As it is. It's
Speaker 1: the Tony de Koppel story, only involving somebody who actually
Speaker 1: has viewers. You are appealing to the people who want
Speaker 1: to see your career end. But that's his problem now
Speaker 1: with this rubicon that he's passed rubicon Google it, Steve,
Speaker 1: I speak on behalf of a lot of us who
Speaker 1: helped establish that place ESPN, including those who, unlike me,
Speaker 1: actually did build it. They were actually there on day
Speaker 1: one or year one or year five or year ten.
Speaker 1: They didn't just come in on the second wave of
Speaker 1: growth like I did in the nineties. We're talking about
Speaker 1: the originals, but all of us originals and second wave
Speaker 1: old timers have discussed this, and I'm sorry even I
Speaker 1: believe that there's never been any room for overlapping partisan
Speaker 1: politics and sports coverage on ESPN. And I never did
Speaker 1: it there, and I vowed to never do it there,
Speaker 1: and I never did it there, not once, well not
Speaker 1: when I worked for them. And now they are letting
Speaker 1: him go on a satellite radio show and not only
Speaker 1: constantly talk politics, and he knows less somehow about politics
Speaker 1: than he knows about sports. So he's in negative numbers
Speaker 1: on politics and spout fascism and spout murdering American civilians
Speaker 1: for the sake of Trump's war against people of color
Speaker 1: and the murdering of American citizens on the street by
Speaker 1: the Trump Gestapo. They let him go on a satellite
Speaker 1: radio show and spout fascism Steven A. Smith is urinating
Speaker 1: on the ESPN brand because who knows, maybe he actually
Speaker 1: believes this. It'd be the first time Steven Asmith is
Speaker 1: actually believed in anything other than his own paycheck. But hey,
Speaker 1: you know, could happen. Everybody has a loyalty somewhere, especially
Speaker 1: if there's money attached to it. But to Jimmy Pittaro,
Speaker 1: the president of ESPN, and to Bob Eiger, the head
Speaker 1: of Disney, who I have known since nineteen seventy freaking nine,
Speaker 1: you have to stop this. You have to stop him.
Speaker 1: Stephen A. Smith is destroying what we Jimmy, Bob and
Speaker 1: the real inventors of ESPN, what we have spent parts
Speaker 1: of our lives trying to build. It is still one
Speaker 1: of the great brand names in America. But if Steven A.
Speaker 1: Smith will not drop the political show, you have to
Speaker 1: drop him. Bob, Jimmy, you have to fire him. You
Speaker 1: have to fire Stephen A. Smith right now because he
Speaker 1: is on a path that ends with him destroying ESPN irrevocably.
Speaker 1: And if you don't think this is wrong somehow, just
Speaker 1: think about the money. Stephen A. Smith, And I'm sorry,
Speaker 1: I have to go there now and henceforth, Stephen a Shit,
Speaker 1: today's worst person in the world, Sit back and relax,
Speaker 1: if relax is the right word for it. For the
Speaker 1: greatest man in the World by James Thurber. Looking back
Speaker 1: on it now from the vantage point of nineteen forty
Speaker 1: one can only marvel that it had not happened. Long
Speaker 1: before it did. The United States of America had been
Speaker 1: ever since Kitty Hawk blindly constructing the elaborate petard, by which,
Speaker 1: sooner or later it must be hoist. It was inevitable
Speaker 1: that someday there would come, roaring out of the skies
Speaker 1: a national hero of insufficient intelligence, background and character, successfully
Speaker 1: to endure the mounting orgies of glory prepared for aviators
Speaker 1: who stayed up for a long time or flew a
Speaker 1: great distance. Both Lindbergh and Byrd, fortunately for national decorum
Speaker 1: and international amity, had been gentlemen, So had our other
Speaker 1: famous aviators. They wore their laurels, gracefully, withstood the awful
Speaker 1: weather of publicity, married excellent women, usually fine family, and
Speaker 1: quietly retired to private life and the enjoyment of their
Speaker 1: varying fortunes. No untoward incidents on a worldwide scale marred
Speaker 1: the perfection of their conduct on the perilous heights of Fame.
Speaker 1: The exception to the rule was, however, bound to occur,
Speaker 1: and it did in July nineteen thirty seven, when Jack
Speaker 1: Pal Smirch erstwhile mechanics helper in a small garage in Westfield, Iowa,
Speaker 1: flew a second hand single motored BREASTHABN Dragonfly three monoplane
Speaker 1: all the way around the world without stopping. Never before
Speaker 1: in the history of aviation had such a flight as
Speaker 1: Smirches even been dreamed of. No one had even taken
Speaker 1: seriously the weird floating auxiliary gas tanks invention of the
Speaker 1: mad New Hampshire professor of astronomy, doctor Charles Lewis Gresham,
Speaker 1: upon which Smirch placed full reliance. When the garage worker,
Speaker 1: a slightly built, surly unprepossessing young man of twenty two,
Speaker 1: appeared at Roosevelt Field early in July nineteen thirty seven,
Speaker 1: slowly chewing a great quid of scrap tobacco, and announced
Speaker 1: nobody ain't seen no flying yet. The newspapers touched briefly
Speaker 1: and satirically upon his projected twenty five thousand mile flight.
Speaker 1: Aeronautical and automotive experts dismissed the idea, curtly implying that
Speaker 1: it was a hoax, the publicity stunt. The rusty, battered
Speaker 1: second hand plane wouldn't go, the Gresham auxiliary tanks wouldn't work.
Speaker 1: It was simply a cheap joke smirch. However, after calling
Speaker 1: on a girl in Brooklyn who worked in the flap
Speaker 1: folding department of a large paper box factory, a girl
Speaker 1: whom he later described as his sweet Pittuti, climbed nonchalantly
Speaker 1: into his ridiculous plane at dawn the memorable seventh of
Speaker 1: July nineteen thirty seven, spit a curve of tobacco juice
Speaker 1: into the still air, and took off, carrying with him
Speaker 1: only a gallon of bootleg gin and six pounds of salami.
Speaker 1: When the garage boy thundered out over the ocean, the
Speaker 1: papers were forced to record in all seriousness that a mad,
Speaker 1: unknown young man his name was variously misspelled, had actually
Speaker 1: set out upon a preposterous attempt to span the world
Speaker 1: in a rickety one engine contraption, trusting to the long
Speaker 1: distance refueling device of a crazy schoolmaster. When, nine days later,
Speaker 1: without having stopped once, the tiny plane appeared above San
Speaker 1: Francisco Bay, headed for New York, spluttering and choking, to
Speaker 1: be sure, but still magnificently and miraculously aloft the headlines
Speaker 1: which long since had crowded everything else off the front page.
Speaker 1: Even the shooting of the Governor of Illinois by the
Speaker 1: Valetti Gang swelled to unprecedented size, and the news stories
Speaker 1: began to run to twenty five and thirty columns. It
Speaker 1: was noticeable, however, that the accounts of the epoch making
Speaker 1: flight touched rather lightly upon the aviator himself. This was
Speaker 1: not because the facts about the hero as a man
Speaker 1: were too meager, but because they were too complete. Reporters
Speaker 1: who had been rushed out to Iowa when Smirch's plane
Speaker 1: was first sighted over the lidge little French coast town
Speaker 1: of Serlee Lemaire to dig up the story of the
Speaker 1: great man's life had promptly discovered that the story of
Speaker 1: his life could not be printed. His mother, a sullen
Speaker 1: short order cook and a shack restaurant on the edge
Speaker 1: of a tourist's camping ground near Westfield, met all inquiries
Speaker 1: as to her son with an angry and the hell
Speaker 1: with him. A hoppy drowns. His father appeared to be
Speaker 1: in jail somewhere for stealing spotlights and lap robes from
Speaker 1: tourists automobiles. His young brother, a weak minded lad, had
Speaker 1: but recently escaped from the Preston, Iowa Reformatory, and was
Speaker 1: already wanted in several Western towns for the theft of
Speaker 1: money order blanks from post offices. These alarming discoveries were
Speaker 1: still piling up at the very time that pal Smirch,
Speaker 1: the greatest hero of the twentieth century, lear eyed dead
Speaker 1: for sleep, half starved, was piloting his crazy junk heap
Speaker 1: high above the region in which the lamentable story of
Speaker 1: his private life was being unearthed, headed for New York
Speaker 1: and a greater glory than any man of his time
Speaker 1: had ever known. The necessity for printing some account in
Speaker 1: the papers of the young man's career and personality had
Speaker 1: led to a remarkable predicament. It was, of course, impossible
Speaker 1: to reveal the facts, for a tremendous popular feeling in
Speaker 1: favor of the young hero had sprung up like a
Speaker 1: grass fire when he was halfway across Europe on his
Speaker 1: flight around the globe. He was therefore described as a modest,
Speaker 1: chap taciturn blonde, popular with his friends, popular with girls.
Speaker 1: The only available snapshot of Smirch, taken at the wheel
Speaker 1: of a phony automobile in a cheap photo studio at
Speaker 1: an amusement park, was touched up so that the little
Speaker 1: vulgarian looked quite handsome. His twisted leer was smoothed into
Speaker 1: a pleasant smile. The truth was in this way kept
Speaker 1: from the youth's ecstatic compatriots. They did not dream that
Speaker 1: the Smirch family was despised and feared by its neighbors
Speaker 1: in the obscure Iowa town, nor that the hero himself,
Speaker 1: because of numerous unsavory exploits, had come to be regarded
Speaker 1: in Westfield as a nuisance and a menace. Pal's Smirch had,
Speaker 1: the reporters discovered, once knife the principle of his high school,
Speaker 1: not mortally, to be sure, but he had knifed him,
Speaker 1: and on another occasion, surprised in the act of an
Speaker 1: stealing altar cloth from a church, he had bashed the
Speaker 1: sexton over the head with a pot of Easter lilies.
Speaker 1: For each of these offenses he had served a sentence
Speaker 1: in the reformatory inwardly. The authorities, both in New York
Speaker 1: and in Washington, prayed that an understanding providence might, however awful,
Speaker 1: such a thing seemed, bring disaster to the rusty, battered
Speaker 1: plane and its illustrious pilot, whose unheard of flight had
Speaker 1: aroused the civilized world to Hosanna's hysterical praise. The authorities
Speaker 1: were convinced that the character of the renowned aviator was
Speaker 1: such that the limelight of adulation was bound to reveal
Speaker 1: him to all the world as a congenital hooligan, mentally
Speaker 1: and morally unequipped to cope with his own prodigious fame.
Speaker 1: I trust, said the Secretary of State, at one of
Speaker 1: the many secret cabinet meetings called to consider the national dilemma.
Speaker 1: I trust that his mother's prayer will be answered, by
Speaker 1: which he referred to missus Emma's smirch's wish that her
Speaker 1: son might be drowned. It was, however, too late, for
Speaker 1: that Spurch had leaped the Atlantic and then the Pacific
Speaker 1: as if they were mill ponds. At three minutes after
Speaker 1: two o'clock on the afternoon of July seventeenth, nineteen thirty seven,
Speaker 1: the garage boy brought his idiotic plane into Roosevelt Field
Speaker 1: for a perfect three point landing. It had, of course
Speaker 1: been out of the question, and to arrange a modest
Speaker 1: little reception for the greatest flier in the history of
Speaker 1: the world. He was received at Roosevelt Field with such
Speaker 1: elaborate and pretentious ceremonies as rocked the world. Fortunately, however,
Speaker 1: the warren and spent hero promptly swooned, had to be
Speaker 1: removed bodily from his plane, and was spirited from the
Speaker 1: field without having opened his mouth once. Thus he did
Speaker 1: not jeopardize the dignity of his first reception, a reception
Speaker 1: illumined by the presence of the Secretaries of War and
Speaker 1: the Navy, Mayor Michael J. Moriarty of New York, the
Speaker 1: Premier of Canada, Governors Fannomine Groves, mcpheeley and Critchfield, and
Speaker 1: a brilliant array of European diplomats. Smirch did not, in
Speaker 1: fact come too in time to take part in the
Speaker 1: gigantic hullabaloo arranged at City Hall for the next day.
Speaker 1: He was rushed to a secluded nursing home and confined
Speaker 1: in bed. It was nine days before he was able
Speaker 1: to get up, or to be more exact, before he
Speaker 1: was permitted to it up. Meanwhile, the greatest minds in
Speaker 1: the country in solemn assembly, had arranged a secret conference
Speaker 1: of city, state and government officials, which Smirch was to
Speaker 1: attend for the purpose of being instructed in the ethics
Speaker 1: and behavior of heroism. On the day that the little
Speaker 1: mechanic was finally allowed to get up in dress and
Speaker 1: for the first time in two weeks, took a great
Speaker 1: chew of tomacco, he was permitted to receive the newspaper
Speaker 1: men this by way of testing him out. Smirch did
Speaker 1: not wait for questions. Use guys, he said, and the
Speaker 1: Times Man winced. Use guys can tell the cock eyed
Speaker 1: world that I put it over on Lindberg. See yeah, man,
Speaker 1: an assid I'm two frogs. The two frogs. It was
Speaker 1: a reference to a pair of gallant French flyers who,
Speaker 1: in attempting to flight only halfway around the world, had
Speaker 1: two weeks before unhappily been lost at sea. The Times
Speaker 1: Man was bold enough at this point to sketch out
Speaker 1: for Smirch the accepted formula for interviews in cases of
Speaker 1: this kind. He explained that there should be no arrogant
Speaker 1: statements belittling the achievements of other heroes, particularly heroes of
Speaker 1: foreign nations. Ah the hell with that, said Smirch. I
Speaker 1: did it. See I did it, and I'm talking about it,
Speaker 1: and he did talk about it. None of this extraordinary
Speaker 1: interview was, of course printed. On the contrary, the newspapers,
Speaker 1: already under the discipline direction of a secret directorate created
Speaker 1: for the occasion and composed of statesmen and editors, gave
Speaker 1: out to a panting and restless world that Jackie, as
Speaker 1: he had been arbitrarily nicknamed, would consent to say only
Speaker 1: that he was very happy and that anyone could have
Speaker 1: done what he did. My achievement has been I fear
Speaker 1: slightly exaggerated. The Times Man's article had him protest with
Speaker 1: a modest smile. These newspapers stories were kept from the hero,
Speaker 1: a restriction which did not serve to abate the rising
Speaker 1: malevolence of his temper. The situation was indeed extremely grave
Speaker 1: for Palell. Smirch was, as he kept insisting, raring to go.
Speaker 1: He could not much longer be kept from a nation
Speaker 1: clamorous to lionize him. It was the most desperate crisis
Speaker 1: the United States of America had faced since the sinking
Speaker 1: of the Lusitania. On the afternoon of the twenty seventh
Speaker 1: of July, Smirch was spirited away to a conference room
Speaker 1: in which were gathered mayors, governors, government officials, behaviorist, psychologists,
Speaker 1: and editors. He gave them each a limp moist paw,
Speaker 1: and a brief, unlovely grin hi, he said. When Smirch
Speaker 1: was seated, the Mayor of New York arose, and, with
Speaker 1: obvious pessimism, attempted to explain what he must say and
Speaker 1: how he must act when presented to the world, ending
Speaker 1: his talk with a high tribute to the hero's courage
Speaker 1: and integrity. The mayor was followed by Governor Fannman of
Speaker 1: New York, who, after a touching declaration of faith, introduced
Speaker 1: Cameron Spottiswood, second Secretary of the American Embassy in Paris,
Speaker 1: the gentleman selected to coach Smirch in the amenities of
Speaker 1: public ceremonies. Sitting in a chair with a soiled yellow
Speaker 1: tie in his hand and his shirt open at the throat, unshaved,
Speaker 1: smoking a rolled cigarette, Jack Smirch listened with a leer
Speaker 1: on his lips. I get you, I get you, he
Speaker 1: cut in nastily. You want me to act like a softie? Huh?
Speaker 1: You want me to act like that bemny memty baby
Speaker 1: face lind big huh, Well nuts to that. See. Everyone
Speaker 1: took in his breath sharply. It was a sigh and
Speaker 1: a hiss. Mister Lindbergh began. A United States senator purple
Speaker 1: with rage, and mister bird Smirch, who was paring his
Speaker 1: nails with a jackknife, cut in again. Boyd, he exclaimed, Oh,
Speaker 1: for God's sake, that big somebody shut off the blasphemies
Speaker 1: with a sharp word. A newcomer had entered the word
Speaker 1: the room. Everyone stood up, except Smirch, who was still
Speaker 1: busy with his nails, and he did not even glance up.
Speaker 1: Mister Smirch, said someone sternly. The President of the United States.
Speaker 1: It had been thought that the presence of the Chief
Speaker 1: Executive might have a chastening effect on the young hero,
Speaker 1: and the former had been, thanks to the remarkable cooperation
Speaker 1: of the press, secretly brought to the obscure conference room.
Speaker 1: A great painful silence fell. Smirch looked up, waved a
Speaker 1: hand at the president. How you coming, he asked, and
Speaker 1: began rolling a fresh cigarette. The silence deepened. Someone coughed
Speaker 1: in a strained way. Jesus hot, ain't it, said smirch.
Speaker 1: He loosened two more shirt buttons, revealing a hairy chest
Speaker 1: and the tattooed word sadie enclosed in a stenciled heart.
Speaker 1: The great and important men in the room, faced by
Speaker 1: the most serious crisis in American history, exchanged worried frowns.
Speaker 1: Nobody seemed to know how to proceed. Come on, come on,
Speaker 1: said smirch. Let's get the hell out of here. Why
Speaker 1: do I start cutting in on the parties? Eh? And
Speaker 1: when is there gonna be this in it? He rubbed
Speaker 1: a thumb and forefinger together meaningly. Money, exclaimed a state
Speaker 1: senator shocked Pale. Yeah money, said pal, flipping his cigarette
Speaker 1: out of the window. And big money. He began rolling
Speaker 1: a fresh cigarette. Big money, he repeated, Frowning over the
Speaker 1: rice paper. He tilted back in his chair and leered
Speaker 1: at each gentleman separately. The leer of an animal that
Speaker 1: knows its power, the leer of a leopard loose in
Speaker 1: a bird and dog shop. Ah, for God's sake, let's
Speaker 1: get someplace where it's cool. He said, I've been cooped
Speaker 1: up plenty for three weeks. Smirch stood up and walked
Speaker 1: over to an open window, where he stood staring down
Speaker 1: into the street nine floors below. The faint shouting of
Speaker 1: newsboys floated up to him. He made out his name,
Speaker 1: hot Dog, he cried, grinning ecstatic. He leaned out over
Speaker 1: the sill. You tell of babies, he shouted down, Hot
Speaker 1: Diggity Dog. In the tense little knot of men standing
Speaker 1: behind him, a quick, mad impulse flared up. An unspoken
Speaker 1: word of appeal of command seemed to ring through the room.
Speaker 1: It was deadly silent. Charles K. L Brand, secretary to
Speaker 1: the Mayor of New York City, happened to be standing
Speaker 1: nearest Smirch. He looked inquiringly at the President of the
Speaker 1: United States. The President, pale grim, nodded shortly. Brand, a tall,
Speaker 1: powerfully built man wants to tackle at Rutgers University, stepped forward,
Speaker 1: seized the greatest man in the world by his left
Speaker 1: shoulder and the seat of his pants, and pushed him
Speaker 1: out the window. My god, he's falling out the window,
Speaker 1: cried a quick witted editor. Get me out of here,
Speaker 1: cried the President. Several men sprang to his side, and
Speaker 1: he was hurriedly escorted out of a door toward a
Speaker 1: side entrance of the building. The editor of the Associated
Speaker 1: Press took charge, being used to such things crisply, He
Speaker 1: ordered certain men to leave, others to stay quickly. He
Speaker 1: outlined a story which all the papers were to agree on,
Speaker 1: sent two men to the street to handle that end
Speaker 1: of the tragedy, commanded a senator to sob and two
Speaker 1: congressmen to go to pieces nervously. In a word, he
Speaker 1: skillfully set the stage for the gigantic task that was
Speaker 1: to follow, the task of breaking to a grief stricken
Speaker 1: world the sad story of the untimely accidental death of
Speaker 1: its most illustrious and spectacular figure. The funeral was, as
Speaker 1: you know, the most elaborate, the finest, the solemnest, and
Speaker 1: the saddest ever held in the United States of America.
Speaker 1: The monument in Arlington Cemetery, with its clean white shaft
Speaker 1: of marble and the simple device of a tiny plane
Speaker 1: carved on its base, is a place for pilgrims in
Speaker 1: deep reverence to visit. The nations of the world paid
Speaker 1: lofty tributes to little Jackie Smirch America's greatest hero. At
Speaker 1: a given hour, there were two minutes of silence throughout
Speaker 1: the nation. Even the inhabitants of the small, bewildered town
Speaker 1: of Westfield, Iowa observed this touching ceremony. Agents of the
Speaker 1: Department of Justice sow to that one of them was
Speaker 1: especially assigned to stand grimly in the doorway of a
Speaker 1: little shack restaurant on the edge of the tourists camping
Speaker 1: ground just outside the town. There, under his stern scrutiny,
Speaker 1: missus Emma Smirch bowed her head over two Hamburger steaks
Speaker 1: sizzling on her grill. Bowed her head and turned away
Speaker 1: so that the secret serviceman could not see the twisted,
Speaker 1: strangely familiar leer on her lips. I've done all the
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