1 00:00:04,795 --> 00:00:16,555 Speaker 1: Countdown with Keith Olderman is a production of iHeartRadio. This 2 00:00:16,635 --> 00:00:19,995 Speaker 1: is a Countdown Bulletin podcast. Joe Biden's White House Deputy 3 00:00:20,035 --> 00:00:24,395 Speaker 1: Press Secretary and Senior Communications Advisor, Andrew Bates, has issued 4 00:00:24,435 --> 00:00:29,515 Speaker 1: on Friday an extraordinary statement eviscerating Elon Musk and Twitter 5 00:00:29,795 --> 00:00:34,355 Speaker 1: x and the anti semitism not only promulgated on Musk's platform, 6 00:00:34,795 --> 00:00:38,435 Speaker 1: but by Musk himself personally. To read it in full, 7 00:00:38,875 --> 00:00:43,955 Speaker 1: from White House spokesperson Andrew Bates, quote, it is unacceptable 8 00:00:44,195 --> 00:00:47,715 Speaker 1: to repeat the hideous lie behind the most fatal act 9 00:00:47,795 --> 00:00:52,075 Speaker 1: of anti Semitism in American history at any time, let 10 00:00:52,115 --> 00:00:54,875 Speaker 1: alone one month after the deadliest day for the Jewish 11 00:00:54,875 --> 00:00:58,835 Speaker 1: people since the Holocaust. Like President Biden said weeks ago 12 00:00:58,955 --> 00:01:03,715 Speaker 1: memorializing the victims of the Pittsburgh Synagogue shooting, the October seventh, 13 00:01:03,995 --> 00:01:08,155 Speaker 1: quote DEBI stating atrocity has brought to the surface painful 14 00:01:08,195 --> 00:01:13,475 Speaker 1: memories left by millennia of anti semitism unquote, and under 15 00:01:13,475 --> 00:01:17,635 Speaker 1: his presidency quote, we will continue to condemn anti semitism 16 00:01:17,915 --> 00:01:23,355 Speaker 1: at every turn unquote, The statement continues, we condemn this 17 00:01:23,755 --> 00:01:28,475 Speaker 1: abhorrent promotion of anti Semitic and racist hate in the 18 00:01:28,515 --> 00:01:32,675 Speaker 1: strongest terms, which runs against our core values as Americans. 19 00:01:33,035 --> 00:01:37,075 Speaker 1: We all have a responsibility to bring people together against 20 00:01:37,115 --> 00:01:41,155 Speaker 1: hate and an obligation to speak out against anyone who 21 00:01:41,195 --> 00:01:45,275 Speaker 1: attacks the dignity of their fellow Americans and compromises the 22 00:01:45,355 --> 00:01:49,435 Speaker 1: safety of our communities. The statement Friday from the White 23 00:01:49,475 --> 00:01:54,395 Speaker 1: House Deputy Press Secretary Andrew Bates. The most important part 24 00:01:54,635 --> 00:01:58,395 Speaker 1: of this statement is the fact of the statement itself. 25 00:01:58,915 --> 00:02:02,315 Speaker 1: It indicates that the White House is not going to 26 00:02:02,435 --> 00:02:06,155 Speaker 1: shy away from this issue, Tomess Stickley, even when the 27 00:02:06,195 --> 00:02:10,035 Speaker 1: other side, the Elon Musk amplification of the kind of 28 00:02:10,315 --> 00:02:15,435 Speaker 1: replacement theory anti Semitism behind the twenty eighteen Pittsburgh Synagogue 29 00:02:15,475 --> 00:02:19,355 Speaker 1: mass shooting, has such a huge platform behind it. As 30 00:02:19,475 --> 00:02:24,675 Speaker 1: Musks now provides, what is in Andrew Bates's statement is 31 00:02:24,755 --> 00:02:29,795 Speaker 1: indisputably true and it transcends as he notes the specifics 32 00:02:29,835 --> 00:02:33,795 Speaker 1: of which religion or race or group is the target 33 00:02:33,875 --> 00:02:39,555 Speaker 1: of the hate. Elon Musk and the anti Semites are peddling, promoting, pushing, 34 00:02:39,675 --> 00:02:43,915 Speaker 1: and trafficking in the White House is taking Elon Musk 35 00:02:44,435 --> 00:02:48,555 Speaker 1: head on. Also contained in the fact of the statement 36 00:02:48,555 --> 00:02:52,675 Speaker 1: from Deputy Press Secretary Bates is the implication that President 37 00:02:52,715 --> 00:02:57,755 Speaker 1: Biden will say something himself about what twitter X and 38 00:02:57,955 --> 00:03:02,275 Speaker 1: Musk are doing. Not necessarily a speech, although bluntly that 39 00:03:02,315 --> 00:03:06,995 Speaker 1: would be a terrific and impact idea, and not necessarily 40 00:03:07,075 --> 00:03:11,395 Speaker 1: drastic action against Musk or twitter x. But to issue 41 00:03:11,435 --> 00:03:15,675 Speaker 1: such a statement is to invite even the somnambulent White 42 00:03:15,715 --> 00:03:19,915 Speaker 1: House Press Corps to ask Biden about it at the 43 00:03:19,995 --> 00:03:26,355 Speaker 1: first opportunity. It is easy enough even for reporters. The 44 00:03:26,475 --> 00:03:31,235 Speaker 1: language is strong and unyielding. All they are required to 45 00:03:31,315 --> 00:03:35,155 Speaker 1: do is ask Biden if he agrees with it, and certainly, 46 00:03:35,435 --> 00:03:39,755 Speaker 1: when this statement was composed, none of that language was 47 00:03:39,915 --> 00:03:44,235 Speaker 1: used without President Biden's knowledge. There are words in here 48 00:03:44,355 --> 00:03:49,555 Speaker 1: such as horrific. There are words in here such as holocaust. 49 00:03:50,115 --> 00:03:56,475 Speaker 1: There are words in here such as millennia of anti Semitism, abhorrent, 50 00:03:57,275 --> 00:04:04,075 Speaker 1: condemn This is serious stuff. What should be next is 51 00:04:04,195 --> 00:04:07,275 Speaker 1: leveraging the power of the White House, the power of 52 00:04:07,315 --> 00:04:12,315 Speaker 1: the US government, from Congress to States to the White House, 53 00:04:12,635 --> 00:04:17,395 Speaker 1: to remove the Twitter x platform from Elon Musk's control. 54 00:04:17,795 --> 00:04:21,835 Speaker 1: By utilizing the very real threat that the government can 55 00:04:22,315 --> 00:04:26,995 Speaker 1: ban twitter x as a danger to American safety, it 56 00:04:27,115 --> 00:04:33,155 Speaker 1: can also cancel all contracts with Musks, SpaceX, and Tesla 57 00:04:33,475 --> 00:04:37,835 Speaker 1: and other firms. This I elaborated on in Friday's regular 58 00:04:37,955 --> 00:04:41,355 Speaker 1: edition of Countdown, So if you have already listened, there 59 00:04:41,435 --> 00:04:44,435 Speaker 1: is no need to play through the entirety of this 60 00:04:44,635 --> 00:04:49,835 Speaker 1: bulletin episode. But the gist is the safety and indeed 61 00:04:49,875 --> 00:04:53,755 Speaker 1: the lives not just of Jewish Americans, but of all 62 00:04:53,835 --> 00:04:58,835 Speaker 1: Americans who could be reduced and diminished and pigeonholed into 63 00:04:59,195 --> 00:05:04,395 Speaker 1: some minority some other in a time of hatred. These 64 00:05:05,075 --> 00:05:08,155 Speaker 1: are at risk in a time when Musk and his 65 00:05:08,315 --> 00:05:13,675 Speaker 1: Ilk slander and smear and libel whoever they feel like 66 00:05:13,995 --> 00:05:18,395 Speaker 1: without anyone stopping them. So, as this full episode that 67 00:05:18,515 --> 00:05:21,875 Speaker 1: follows makes clear, it is up to the United States 68 00:05:21,915 --> 00:05:25,555 Speaker 1: government to stop them. It is up to President Joe 69 00:05:25,555 --> 00:05:32,315 Speaker 1: Biden to stop them to protect American lives here in America. 70 00:05:32,875 --> 00:05:37,915 Speaker 1: Either Musk exits Twitter X or we must move to 71 00:05:38,155 --> 00:05:53,315 Speaker 1: ban Twitter X. It is time for the government of 72 00:05:53,355 --> 00:05:57,475 Speaker 1: the United States to ban x, the social media site 73 00:05:57,515 --> 00:06:01,035 Speaker 1: still primarily known as Twitter, and to terminate all government 74 00:06:01,075 --> 00:06:05,795 Speaker 1: contracts with its owner. Under Trump, the government had moved 75 00:06:05,915 --> 00:06:09,395 Speaker 1: to ban TikTok as a security risk to the United States. 76 00:06:09,595 --> 00:06:12,515 Speaker 1: So there is precedent for at least the attempt, because 77 00:06:12,515 --> 00:06:14,955 Speaker 1: a process that has been accelerating for more than a 78 00:06:15,035 --> 00:06:19,795 Speaker 1: year reached a climax Wednesday, then continued Thursday, when owner 79 00:06:19,795 --> 00:06:23,915 Speaker 1: Elon Musk answered a blatantly anti Semitic tweet echoing the 80 00:06:23,995 --> 00:06:27,635 Speaker 1: language of the Pittsburgh Synagogue shooter with a reply from 81 00:06:27,715 --> 00:06:30,435 Speaker 1: him that read, quote you have said the actual truth. 82 00:06:31,595 --> 00:06:35,755 Speaker 1: Combined with surging anti semitism throughout the website and the 83 00:06:35,875 --> 00:06:39,635 Speaker 1: use of Nazi hate speech and paraphrases of infamous Hitler 84 00:06:39,715 --> 00:06:43,595 Speaker 1: quotes by the likely Republican candidate for president, the tinderbox 85 00:06:43,675 --> 00:06:48,275 Speaker 1: of anti semitism, indeed of hatred against races and religions 86 00:06:48,275 --> 00:06:51,235 Speaker 1: of all kinds. The tinder box has never been fuller 87 00:06:51,275 --> 00:06:55,755 Speaker 1: nor drier, and Trump and Musk seemed determined to light 88 00:06:55,835 --> 00:06:59,795 Speaker 1: it ablaze, and with it, to light a blaze the 89 00:06:59,835 --> 00:07:04,595 Speaker 1: peace and the security of this nation. Ban twitter x now, 90 00:07:05,475 --> 00:07:09,515 Speaker 1: and ban all government financial dealings with Musk now, before 91 00:07:09,555 --> 00:07:13,195 Speaker 1: it is too late, and before the burgeoning anti semitism 92 00:07:13,275 --> 00:07:16,675 Speaker 1: of twitter x and Musk's endorsement by extension of the 93 00:07:16,715 --> 00:07:20,035 Speaker 1: mass shooting at the Pittsburgh Synagogue becomes the sole purpose 94 00:07:20,075 --> 00:07:24,835 Speaker 1: of that platform. As I said in an extraordinary irony. 95 00:07:25,235 --> 00:07:28,875 Speaker 1: The precedent for this begins with Trump's moves against TikTok, 96 00:07:29,195 --> 00:07:32,435 Speaker 1: including an executive order in twenty twenty, and then a 97 00:07:32,475 --> 00:07:35,875 Speaker 1: Biden Department of Justice investigation of TikTok that began on 98 00:07:35,915 --> 00:07:39,955 Speaker 1: March seventeenth of this year. The TikTok ban is a 99 00:07:40,155 --> 00:07:42,715 Speaker 1: separate issue, and I don't want to mix it in 100 00:07:42,755 --> 00:07:45,235 Speaker 1: here with the prospect of banning twitter x because in 101 00:07:45,275 --> 00:07:49,635 Speaker 1: response to the appalling fan boying of Osama bin Laden's 102 00:07:49,675 --> 00:07:53,515 Speaker 1: hate screed against America and against Jewish people on TikTok 103 00:07:53,595 --> 00:07:56,475 Speaker 1: this week, at least, that was followed by a meeting 104 00:07:56,555 --> 00:08:01,795 Speaker 1: between TikTok executives and prominent Jewish figures. TikTok might actually 105 00:08:01,835 --> 00:08:05,795 Speaker 1: be trying to fix things on its that remains to 106 00:08:05,835 --> 00:08:10,715 Speaker 1: be seen. Twitter x, on the other hand, is doing nothing, 107 00:08:11,195 --> 00:08:14,795 Speaker 1: and its madman owner Musk seems to have no awareness 108 00:08:14,835 --> 00:08:17,835 Speaker 1: of the impact of his own diseased and hateful mind, 109 00:08:18,555 --> 00:08:21,115 Speaker 1: and he has attacked those who have dared to criticize 110 00:08:21,195 --> 00:08:26,435 Speaker 1: him about this. The post that turned twitter x from 111 00:08:26,475 --> 00:08:30,835 Speaker 1: a mere sewer to a sewer on fire belching toxic smoke, 112 00:08:31,435 --> 00:08:35,555 Speaker 1: read in part quote Jewish communities have been pushing the 113 00:08:35,675 --> 00:08:39,795 Speaker 1: exact kind of dialectical hatred against whites that they claim 114 00:08:39,915 --> 00:08:44,475 Speaker 1: to want people to stop using against them, even though 115 00:08:44,515 --> 00:08:46,595 Speaker 1: these are virtually word for word the sentiments of the 116 00:08:46,635 --> 00:08:49,395 Speaker 1: so called Tree of Life shooter, who murdered eleven people, 117 00:08:49,435 --> 00:08:54,235 Speaker 1: including Holocaust survivors, at a synagogue in twenty eighteen. Musk replied, 118 00:08:54,315 --> 00:08:57,595 Speaker 1: as noted, quote, you have said the actual truth. When 119 00:08:57,635 --> 00:09:02,355 Speaker 1: criticized by the anti defamation lead, Musk doubled down. I 120 00:09:02,395 --> 00:09:06,635 Speaker 1: am deeply offended by ADL's mess and any other groups 121 00:09:06,675 --> 00:09:11,555 Speaker 1: who pushed de facto anti white racism or anti Asian racism, 122 00:09:11,875 --> 00:09:14,955 Speaker 1: or racism of any kind. I'm sick of it. Stop 123 00:09:14,995 --> 00:09:21,675 Speaker 1: it now unquote. Musk's bizarre, self destructive running of the 124 00:09:21,715 --> 00:09:24,995 Speaker 1: Twitter x platform had already destroyed more than half of 125 00:09:25,035 --> 00:09:28,355 Speaker 1: its value and even more of its advertising. Then yesterday afternoon, 126 00:09:28,395 --> 00:09:32,355 Speaker 1: IBM announced it was pulling it's already scheduled ads for 127 00:09:32,355 --> 00:09:34,915 Speaker 1: the next three months. The New York Times says that 128 00:09:35,115 --> 00:09:39,355 Speaker 1: was about a million dollars worth. Rather remarkably, as of 129 00:09:39,355 --> 00:09:41,515 Speaker 1: the close of business yesterday, the New York Times had 130 00:09:41,555 --> 00:09:45,715 Speaker 1: not yet canceled Musk's scheduled appearance twelve days from now 131 00:09:45,995 --> 00:09:49,595 Speaker 1: at a Times event that it calls its deal Book Summit, 132 00:09:49,955 --> 00:09:52,795 Speaker 1: which it describes as the gathering of quote, the most 133 00:09:52,795 --> 00:09:58,715 Speaker 1: consequential leaders in business, politics and culture unquote and I 134 00:09:58,755 --> 00:10:03,195 Speaker 1: guess the most consequential leaders in anti Semitism. It seems 135 00:10:03,235 --> 00:10:07,315 Speaker 1: impossible to believe that The Times will actually permit Musk 136 00:10:07,675 --> 00:10:12,155 Speaker 1: to participate in its branded event. He has not only 137 00:10:12,195 --> 00:10:15,835 Speaker 1: rendered Twitter X toxic, but the revulsion has spread to 138 00:10:15,835 --> 00:10:19,355 Speaker 1: his other companies. As the publication The Street wrote last night, 139 00:10:20,035 --> 00:10:23,715 Speaker 1: some prominent Tesla investors seemed to finally be losing faith 140 00:10:23,755 --> 00:10:27,555 Speaker 1: in the company's often controversial CEO. The stockfell roughly four 141 00:10:27,595 --> 00:10:31,795 Speaker 1: percent Thursday after Musk highlighted an anti Semitic conspiracy theory, 142 00:10:32,115 --> 00:10:35,435 Speaker 1: then issued a series of seemingly bigoted tweets on X. 143 00:10:36,315 --> 00:10:39,835 Speaker 1: The Future fund partner Gary Black wrote, I want to 144 00:10:39,875 --> 00:10:43,875 Speaker 1: believe the CEO's attitudes and Tesla brand equity are not linked, 145 00:10:44,115 --> 00:10:47,395 Speaker 1: but my common sense tells me otherwise. And wealth and 146 00:10:47,475 --> 00:10:51,235 Speaker 1: investment manager Ross Gerber, whose fund owned four hundred and 147 00:10:51,315 --> 00:10:55,275 Speaker 1: twenty thousand shares of Tesla at the last counting, reached 148 00:10:55,315 --> 00:10:59,155 Speaker 1: the inevitable conclusion. He wrote that Musk has now gone 149 00:10:59,155 --> 00:11:06,395 Speaker 1: too far. He's like Trump now as the snowball rolling 150 00:11:06,435 --> 00:11:08,955 Speaker 1: down the hill toward her reached speeds of about one 151 00:11:08,955 --> 00:11:13,315 Speaker 1: thousand miles an hour. Musk's handpicked CEO, Linda Yakarino, posted 152 00:11:13,355 --> 00:11:16,195 Speaker 1: a comment at three forty five pm Eastern that seemed 153 00:11:16,235 --> 00:11:19,755 Speaker 1: to have been crafted by the nation's finest satirical comedians, 154 00:11:20,275 --> 00:11:24,195 Speaker 1: maybe Tim Robinson in his hot dog suit in the 155 00:11:24,195 --> 00:11:26,275 Speaker 1: middle of the We're all trying to find the guy 156 00:11:26,315 --> 00:11:30,395 Speaker 1: who did this meme, quoting Yakarino, X's point of view 157 00:11:30,395 --> 00:11:33,715 Speaker 1: has always been very clear that discrimination by everyone should 158 00:11:33,835 --> 00:11:37,875 Speaker 1: stop across the board. I think that's something we can 159 00:11:38,115 --> 00:11:41,115 Speaker 1: and should all agree on when it comes to this platform. 160 00:11:41,355 --> 00:11:45,675 Speaker 1: X has also been extremely clear about our efforts to 161 00:11:45,795 --> 00:11:49,475 Speaker 1: combat anti Semitism and discrimination. There's no place for it 162 00:11:49,515 --> 00:11:54,595 Speaker 1: anywhere in the world. It's ugly and wrong, full stop, unquote. 163 00:11:54,675 --> 00:11:59,355 Speaker 1: If taken sincerely and literally, Yakarino's only possible next action 164 00:11:59,475 --> 00:12:05,515 Speaker 1: would be to suspend the account of Elon Musk. As 165 00:12:05,555 --> 00:12:08,635 Speaker 1: a gentile, I will note that the phrase X has 166 00:12:08,675 --> 00:12:12,075 Speaker 1: also been extremely clear about our efforts to combat anti 167 00:12:12,075 --> 00:12:16,035 Speaker 1: Semitism and discrimination may also be literally true. It has 168 00:12:16,155 --> 00:12:19,795 Speaker 1: been extremely clear that it has made no efforts to 169 00:12:19,875 --> 00:12:24,475 Speaker 1: combat anti semitism and discrimination, and it is rather incredibly 170 00:12:24,795 --> 00:12:29,155 Speaker 1: bigger than anti semitism alone. Twitter x is rife with 171 00:12:29,315 --> 00:12:32,995 Speaker 1: other racism and other flavors of religious hatred and other 172 00:12:33,155 --> 00:12:37,595 Speaker 1: forms of discrimination at a time when the concept stigmatizing, 173 00:12:37,675 --> 00:12:43,755 Speaker 1: blaming and persecuting a generalized other, and white supremacist thuggery, 174 00:12:44,075 --> 00:12:48,235 Speaker 1: when these things are resurgent in the United States and elsewhere. 175 00:12:49,915 --> 00:12:54,035 Speaker 1: If Twitter x or other private entities cannot force Musk 176 00:12:54,195 --> 00:12:58,195 Speaker 1: to sell the platform immediately, he leaves the government of 177 00:12:58,195 --> 00:13:02,035 Speaker 1: the United States no other option in such a perilous time. 178 00:13:02,675 --> 00:13:06,035 Speaker 1: Congress could act, individual states could act as some have 179 00:13:06,115 --> 00:13:09,275 Speaker 1: acted against TikTok. The President could resort to his own 180 00:13:09,315 --> 00:13:12,995 Speaker 1: executive order, or all branches and all parties could work 181 00:13:13,035 --> 00:13:17,235 Speaker 1: in concert in a rare and frankly rather easy display 182 00:13:17,275 --> 00:13:21,875 Speaker 1: a bipartisanship. Musk has gone down a path from which 183 00:13:21,875 --> 00:13:26,795 Speaker 1: he cannot backtrack. Twitter x. At least his version of 184 00:13:26,835 --> 00:13:32,555 Speaker 1: it must be banned, and government contracts and other agreements local, state, 185 00:13:32,595 --> 00:13:37,435 Speaker 1: and national with his other firms, SpaceX, Tesla, the boring company, Neulink, 186 00:13:37,595 --> 00:13:43,835 Speaker 1: and Xai must be terminated today there is no other 187 00:13:44,035 --> 00:13:53,155 Speaker 1: option elsewhere another judge has proved incapable of seeing or 188 00:13:53,275 --> 00:13:56,235 Speaker 1: proved that he is deliberately ignoring the similar danger to 189 00:13:56,275 --> 00:13:58,835 Speaker 1: the peace and safety of the United States posed by 190 00:13:58,875 --> 00:14:03,275 Speaker 1: the musk of politics dementia j. Trump. A New York 191 00:14:03,315 --> 00:14:06,595 Speaker 1: State Appellate Division judge who identifies as a Democrat but 192 00:14:06,715 --> 00:14:09,635 Speaker 1: was appointed twenty five years ago by a Republican governor, 193 00:14:10,075 --> 00:14:13,595 Speaker 1: has joined the DC Court of Appeals in staying one 194 00:14:13,635 --> 00:14:16,155 Speaker 1: of the gag orders against Trump. This time it is 195 00:14:16,195 --> 00:14:18,795 Speaker 1: the gag order in the New York civil fraud case, 196 00:14:19,435 --> 00:14:23,595 Speaker 1: during which Trump has doxed Judge Arthur Engern's courtroom clerk 197 00:14:23,955 --> 00:14:28,035 Speaker 1: and fabricated a backstory for her to the benefit and 198 00:14:28,115 --> 00:14:32,195 Speaker 1: pleasure of his cult. Judge David Friedman said the order 199 00:14:32,275 --> 00:14:37,115 Speaker 1: raised constitutional and statutory rights at issue, and stayed it 200 00:14:37,635 --> 00:14:40,715 Speaker 1: until the full State Appeals Court panel can consider it 201 00:14:40,755 --> 00:14:45,235 Speaker 1: a week from Monday. Apart from Judge Friedman's cluelessness as 202 00:14:45,235 --> 00:14:47,715 Speaker 1: to the reality and imminence of the mortal danger to 203 00:14:47,715 --> 00:14:51,795 Speaker 1: which Trump subjects his targets, the most remarkable aspect to 204 00:14:51,835 --> 00:14:54,675 Speaker 1: the staying of this gag order, and also the one 205 00:14:54,715 --> 00:14:58,515 Speaker 1: imposed by Judge Tanya Chutkin in the federal elections subversion trial. 206 00:14:58,915 --> 00:15:02,715 Speaker 1: Is that. In response, Trump has shown for the first 207 00:15:02,795 --> 00:15:08,795 Speaker 1: time unexpected did weakness while celebrating his lawyer's manipulation of 208 00:15:08,875 --> 00:15:12,395 Speaker 1: Judge Friedman. In a social media post, Trump wrote about 209 00:15:12,435 --> 00:15:16,355 Speaker 1: the quote ridiculous and unconstitutional gag order not allowing me 210 00:15:16,435 --> 00:15:19,555 Speaker 1: to defend myself against him, and is politically biased and 211 00:15:19,595 --> 00:15:24,315 Speaker 1: out of control. Trump hating clerk unquote. In the post, 212 00:15:24,395 --> 00:15:28,915 Speaker 1: Trump names and gern Trump names the Attorney General, Letitia James. 213 00:15:29,155 --> 00:15:31,555 Speaker 1: He does not name the clerk, even though there is 214 00:15:31,555 --> 00:15:34,515 Speaker 1: nothing at the moment preventing him from doing so. It 215 00:15:34,555 --> 00:15:37,715 Speaker 1: has not been noted widely, but since the DC Appeals 216 00:15:37,755 --> 00:15:41,515 Speaker 1: Court stayed that gag order in that case, Trump has 217 00:15:41,555 --> 00:15:44,955 Speaker 1: barely mentioned the judge or the Special Council or anybody 218 00:15:44,955 --> 00:15:49,195 Speaker 1: else in that case. It cannot be good judgment. Trump 219 00:15:49,235 --> 00:15:53,475 Speaker 1: does not have good judgment. It has to be fear. 220 00:15:54,955 --> 00:15:57,555 Speaker 1: In another curious Trump legal twist, he has been hoist 221 00:15:57,595 --> 00:15:59,755 Speaker 1: with his own petard in the New York City criminal 222 00:15:59,795 --> 00:16:03,235 Speaker 1: case against him for falsifying business records to hide hush 223 00:16:03,275 --> 00:16:08,035 Speaker 1: money to Stormy Daniels. Trump's ambulance chasers moved to dismiss 224 00:16:08,075 --> 00:16:11,755 Speaker 1: that case. Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg has now replied by 225 00:16:11,795 --> 00:16:17,475 Speaker 1: reconstructing Trump's words of self martyrdom and using them against Trump. Quote. 226 00:16:17,715 --> 00:16:23,555 Speaker 1: Defendant repeatedly suggests, begins Bragg's filing that because he is 227 00:16:23,595 --> 00:16:27,795 Speaker 1: a current presidential candidate, the ordinary rules for criminal law 228 00:16:27,835 --> 00:16:32,355 Speaker 1: and procedure should be applied differently. Here. This argument is 229 00:16:32,435 --> 00:16:36,595 Speaker 1: essentially an attempt to evade criminal responsibility because defendant is 230 00:16:36,715 --> 00:16:43,155 Speaker 1: politically powerful. Courts have repeatedly rejected Defendant's demands for special 231 00:16:43,235 --> 00:16:47,515 Speaker 1: treatment and instead have adhered to the core principle that 232 00:16:47,595 --> 00:16:50,275 Speaker 1: the rule of law applies equally to the power full 233 00:16:50,955 --> 00:16:55,435 Speaker 1: as to the powerless. Unquote did you say that, mister 234 00:16:55,475 --> 00:17:01,035 Speaker 1: District Attorney? What a guy. I'm hoping that mister Bragg 235 00:17:01,115 --> 00:17:04,555 Speaker 1: sent a copy of that to Jack Smith. Judge Eileen Cannon, 236 00:17:04,955 --> 00:17:08,475 Speaker 1: the former yoga and flamenco dancing correspondent of the Miami 237 00:17:08,555 --> 00:17:13,075 Speaker 1: Nuevo Herald, has refused to establish now a deadline for 238 00:17:13,155 --> 00:17:17,315 Speaker 1: Trump to disclose which classified materials he later intends to 239 00:17:17,435 --> 00:17:21,755 Speaker 1: use in his defense in the Florida case. Establishing the 240 00:17:21,795 --> 00:17:25,155 Speaker 1: deadline now would increase the chances of keeping the already 241 00:17:25,235 --> 00:17:30,395 Speaker 1: tardy Florida trial schedule intact. Judge Cannon says she will 242 00:17:30,435 --> 00:17:33,875 Speaker 1: set that deadline in March of next year, not four 243 00:17:33,995 --> 00:17:36,635 Speaker 1: March of next year, but in March of next year. 244 00:17:36,795 --> 00:17:41,075 Speaker 1: The trial is supposed to begin in May. Reporters covering 245 00:17:41,075 --> 00:17:44,515 Speaker 1: that trial and legal experts guess that we are now 246 00:17:45,035 --> 00:17:49,875 Speaker 1: several months behind that schedule and the thing can't possibly 247 00:17:49,915 --> 00:17:54,715 Speaker 1: start before July. Clearly, Judge Cannon has no intention of 248 00:17:54,755 --> 00:17:59,995 Speaker 1: ever going back to covering yoga and flamenco as another 249 00:18:00,195 --> 00:18:03,875 Speaker 1: note of curiosity. As the Trump circumspection in the wake 250 00:18:03,955 --> 00:18:07,395 Speaker 1: of the stage bag order seems strange, so does Special 251 00:18:07,435 --> 00:18:13,035 Speaker 1: Counsel Smith's relative inactivity, some might say inertness when it 252 00:18:13,075 --> 00:18:17,475 Speaker 1: comes to delay after delay sought by Trump and granted 253 00:18:17,515 --> 00:18:22,115 Speaker 1: by the judge Trump appointed. It's almost as if the 254 00:18:22,115 --> 00:18:26,315 Speaker 1: Florida case is there is a sidebar to the DC case, 255 00:18:26,755 --> 00:18:29,875 Speaker 1: and Smith isn't trying to get other courts to overrule 256 00:18:29,955 --> 00:18:33,035 Speaker 1: Judge Cannon in order to foster some sense in Trump 257 00:18:33,195 --> 00:18:36,035 Speaker 1: that his lawyers are not idiots and his strategy is 258 00:18:36,075 --> 00:18:39,395 Speaker 1: not going to guarantee his conviction in Washington and not 259 00:18:39,555 --> 00:18:42,155 Speaker 1: guarantee that he will die in prison and in hockey 260 00:18:42,155 --> 00:18:47,075 Speaker 1: at least this would all be called a deek on. 261 00:18:47,075 --> 00:18:50,675 Speaker 1: One more thing to add to Trump's paranoia, special council 262 00:18:50,875 --> 00:18:55,155 Speaker 1: investigating the small collection of mishandled classified documents in two 263 00:18:55,235 --> 00:18:59,635 Speaker 1: locations connected to President Biden. CNN quotes two sources close 264 00:18:59,675 --> 00:19:03,115 Speaker 1: to that investigation as saying that the investigation is complete 265 00:19:03,595 --> 00:19:07,515 Speaker 1: and the Special Council, Robert Hrr, is writing an extensive 266 00:19:07,555 --> 00:19:14,995 Speaker 1: report and he is going to charge nobody, nobody with nothing. 267 00:19:20,715 --> 00:19:24,075 Speaker 1: Also of interest here to continue the hockey imagery, George 268 00:19:24,075 --> 00:19:26,795 Speaker 1: Santos is two thirds of the way to a hat trick. 269 00:19:27,635 --> 00:19:30,275 Speaker 1: After the ethics report came in. He's saying he will 270 00:19:30,275 --> 00:19:33,915 Speaker 1: not run for reelection. What in waste the negative sixteen 271 00:19:33,995 --> 00:19:37,035 Speaker 1: thousand dollars his campaign did not raise in the third quarter, 272 00:19:37,835 --> 00:19:40,715 Speaker 1: and momentum is building towards expelling him, which would leave 273 00:19:40,755 --> 00:19:44,555 Speaker 1: only the third option where he quits immediately. And there 274 00:19:44,635 --> 00:19:48,715 Speaker 1: is startling new research that the Republicans actually would not 275 00:19:48,995 --> 00:19:53,075 Speaker 1: miss his vote. And speaking of fraud, there is the 276 00:19:53,115 --> 00:19:57,955 Speaker 1: sportscaster here, Curisa Thompson's startling boast that some of her 277 00:19:57,995 --> 00:20:05,235 Speaker 1: halftime off camera Network TV interviews with football coaches happened 278 00:20:05,635 --> 00:20:11,835 Speaker 1: and she just made the stuff up. It's shocking unless 279 00:20:11,875 --> 00:20:16,075 Speaker 1: she also just made that up. That's next. This discountdown. 280 00:20:17,995 --> 00:20:30,555 Speaker 1: This is countdown with Keith Olberman. Postscripts to the news, 281 00:20:31,115 --> 00:20:37,795 Speaker 1: some headlines, some updates, some snark, some predictions. Dateline. Washington 282 00:20:37,875 --> 00:20:43,435 Speaker 1: House Ethics Committee report is back. Surprise, surprise, surprise, George 283 00:20:43,475 --> 00:20:48,315 Speaker 1: Santos doesn't have any In response, Speaker Ugly Johnson has 284 00:20:48,355 --> 00:20:51,275 Speaker 1: advised members to consider whether or not to vote to 285 00:20:51,435 --> 00:20:55,515 Speaker 1: expel him. Santo says he will not run for reelection. 286 00:20:56,235 --> 00:20:58,515 Speaker 1: He may try to position that as a great moral 287 00:20:58,675 --> 00:21:01,595 Speaker 1: stance for a change. In fact, it probably has more 288 00:21:01,595 --> 00:21:04,075 Speaker 1: to do with the fact that his campaign fundraising for 289 00:21:04,155 --> 00:21:07,795 Speaker 1: the third order of this year was minus sixteen five 290 00:21:07,875 --> 00:21:12,275 Speaker 1: hundred dollars. But most interesting of all, the impeccable Philip 291 00:21:12,315 --> 00:21:16,195 Speaker 1: Bump of the Washington Post has researched all the Republican 292 00:21:16,275 --> 00:21:20,635 Speaker 1: votes since they swore Santos in Santos if that is 293 00:21:20,675 --> 00:21:24,915 Speaker 1: his real name, and guess what. The Republicans actually did 294 00:21:24,955 --> 00:21:30,435 Speaker 1: not need him there to pass anything, not even usual 295 00:21:30,555 --> 00:21:35,315 Speaker 1: Republican time wasting stuff. Quoting Phil Bump's calculations, there have 296 00:21:35,395 --> 00:21:38,155 Speaker 1: been nearly six hundred and seventy four votes this year, 297 00:21:38,515 --> 00:21:41,475 Speaker 1: only ten resulted in a one vote margin or in 298 00:21:41,555 --> 00:21:44,635 Speaker 1: a tie. And while that would theoretically mean that in 299 00:21:44,715 --> 00:21:47,795 Speaker 1: those ten votes you could say Santos's vote was essential 300 00:21:48,035 --> 00:21:52,595 Speaker 1: in getting Republican stuff passed, Bump found a surprising caveat 301 00:21:53,155 --> 00:21:56,555 Speaker 1: none of the amendments or bills covered by those ten 302 00:21:56,635 --> 00:22:01,435 Speaker 1: votes ever became law anyway. Each one of them passed 303 00:22:01,435 --> 00:22:03,955 Speaker 1: the House and then went into conference with the Senate, 304 00:22:04,155 --> 00:22:07,475 Speaker 1: where they all all died. Bump has also found out 305 00:22:07,515 --> 00:22:10,155 Speaker 1: that as the year has gone by, Santos has become 306 00:22:10,435 --> 00:22:14,395 Speaker 1: a less reliable vote for Republicans, so from the GOP 307 00:22:14,595 --> 00:22:18,115 Speaker 1: point of view, instead of helping their well oiled voting 308 00:22:18,155 --> 00:22:28,475 Speaker 1: machine in Congress, he had become kind of a drag. Sorry, 309 00:23:09,555 --> 00:23:13,395 Speaker 1: thank you, Nancy Faust. And yes, if Santos does resign, 310 00:23:13,435 --> 00:23:19,395 Speaker 1: the likeliest successor to his seat is Republican newcomer Katara 311 00:23:19,475 --> 00:23:26,555 Speaker 1: Ravasche Dateline, San Francisco. Most of them will never believe it, 312 00:23:26,595 --> 00:23:29,875 Speaker 1: but another right wing conspiracy theory just blew up. David 313 00:23:29,915 --> 00:23:32,955 Speaker 1: de Pap has been found guilty on both counts in 314 00:23:32,995 --> 00:23:36,835 Speaker 1: his violent attack with a hammer against Nancy Pelosi's husband 315 00:23:36,955 --> 00:23:40,235 Speaker 1: after Depap broke into their home hoping to kidnap and 316 00:23:40,395 --> 00:23:44,195 Speaker 1: or torture and or assassinate her. De Pap could face 317 00:23:44,275 --> 00:23:47,635 Speaker 1: maximum sentences of thirty and twenty years on the two 318 00:23:47,675 --> 00:23:54,355 Speaker 1: convictions and dateline Washington. Another part of the Tucker Carlson 319 00:23:54,435 --> 00:24:00,155 Speaker 1: Maga January sixth conspiracy theory. No, not the ghost USUS thing, 320 00:24:00,755 --> 00:24:05,155 Speaker 1: but rather the Antifa plant thing is again disproven. John 321 00:24:05,275 --> 00:24:08,875 Speaker 1: Earl Sullivan, widely proclaimed to be an informant or a 322 00:24:08,915 --> 00:24:12,835 Speaker 1: plant or something, who said he was just a citizen journalist, 323 00:24:12,955 --> 00:24:15,755 Speaker 1: just a member of Black Lives Matter who happened to 324 00:24:15,995 --> 00:24:19,075 Speaker 1: record the shooting of the terrorist Ashley babbittt He has 325 00:24:19,115 --> 00:24:22,595 Speaker 1: been convicted on all counts, including carrying a knife into 326 00:24:22,635 --> 00:24:25,555 Speaker 1: the Capitol. His lawyers may have sealed his fate for 327 00:24:25,675 --> 00:24:29,515 Speaker 1: him when they called another quote citizen journalist unquote to 328 00:24:29,595 --> 00:24:32,555 Speaker 1: testify on his behalf, and she played video of him 329 00:24:32,915 --> 00:24:36,275 Speaker 1: shouting into a bullhorn, exhorting the crowd to go into 330 00:24:36,275 --> 00:24:39,875 Speaker 1: the capitol and telling that crowd, We're about to burn 331 00:24:39,995 --> 00:24:43,995 Speaker 1: this spit down. Unclear how much time he'll spend in 332 00:24:44,035 --> 00:24:47,675 Speaker 1: the big house. Unclear how much money he spent on 333 00:24:47,875 --> 00:25:12,715 Speaker 1: those lawyers. Still ahead of us on countdown Fridays with 334 00:25:12,755 --> 00:25:15,555 Speaker 1: Thurber and the one of all of his short stories 335 00:25:15,555 --> 00:25:18,475 Speaker 1: that has been in middle and junior, high school and 336 00:25:18,555 --> 00:25:23,395 Speaker 1: high school textbooks for eighty years, The Night the Bed 337 00:25:23,515 --> 00:25:27,115 Speaker 1: Fell first time. For the daily roundup of the misgrants, morons, 338 00:25:27,115 --> 00:25:31,995 Speaker 1: and Dunning Kruger effects specimens who constitute today's worst persons 339 00:25:31,995 --> 00:25:36,235 Speaker 1: in the world. The Brons to Caitlin Jenner, who responded 340 00:25:36,235 --> 00:25:38,675 Speaker 1: to a Donald Trump Junior post about how people of 341 00:25:38,715 --> 00:25:42,195 Speaker 1: a certain age should be able to use the R word. 342 00:25:42,955 --> 00:25:45,155 Speaker 1: If you're not clear what I mean by that. The 343 00:25:45,395 --> 00:25:47,635 Speaker 1: R word is a version of one of the words 344 00:25:47,635 --> 00:25:52,795 Speaker 1: in the following phrase fire retardant. Jenner responded to the 345 00:25:52,835 --> 00:26:00,155 Speaker 1: Trump tweet quote, I'll say it quote retarted unquote. She 346 00:26:00,275 --> 00:26:03,555 Speaker 1: spelled it wrong. R E T A R T ed 347 00:26:04,315 --> 00:26:07,195 Speaker 1: like you we're a tart and now you're a tart again? 348 00:26:08,595 --> 00:26:11,795 Speaker 1: What a tart? The runner up, well, why it's Trump 349 00:26:11,875 --> 00:26:14,075 Speaker 1: Junior again in his own right. His word of the 350 00:26:14,195 --> 00:26:19,555 Speaker 1: day was Congresswoman. I thank Ron Philipkowski for pointing this out. 351 00:26:20,075 --> 00:26:22,955 Speaker 1: It's worth listening to a couple of times from his 352 00:26:23,275 --> 00:26:28,075 Speaker 1: video cast as Junior tries to introduce Marjorie Taylor Green 353 00:26:28,755 --> 00:26:32,715 Speaker 1: and gets it wrong. I love this one Congress rooman 354 00:26:33,035 --> 00:26:35,835 Speaker 1: MTG Marjorie Taylor Green. We're gonna be talking to her 355 00:26:35,955 --> 00:26:40,195 Speaker 1: new book. I love this one Congress rooman MTG Marjorie 356 00:26:40,235 --> 00:26:45,515 Speaker 1: Taylor Green, friends, congress romans, countrymen, lend me your ears, 357 00:26:47,275 --> 00:26:50,915 Speaker 1: But our winner is Curisa Thompson, former football sideline reporter 358 00:26:50,955 --> 00:26:54,715 Speaker 1: at Fox and at this rate, former sports broadcaster. I 359 00:26:54,755 --> 00:26:59,155 Speaker 1: did the baseball equivalent of the sideline reporter job dugout 360 00:26:59,195 --> 00:27:02,235 Speaker 1: reporter I guess for about twenty twenty five games for 361 00:27:02,435 --> 00:27:06,115 Speaker 1: Fox Sports and NBC from nine two thousand and I 362 00:27:06,115 --> 00:27:08,755 Speaker 1: remember once needing to get a reaction in the middle 363 00:27:08,755 --> 00:27:12,035 Speaker 1: of a game from Baseball Commissioner Bud Selig and having 364 00:27:12,035 --> 00:27:16,035 Speaker 1: to literally crawl under a camera and then crawl through 365 00:27:16,075 --> 00:27:18,995 Speaker 1: a half door to get out of the Yankee Stadium 366 00:27:19,035 --> 00:27:22,035 Speaker 1: dugout and back towards where Selig was seated. So this 367 00:27:22,275 --> 00:27:26,595 Speaker 1: was kind of shocking. On a podcast, MS Thompson announced 368 00:27:27,115 --> 00:27:30,635 Speaker 1: where it actually is, boasted that when tasked with doing 369 00:27:30,955 --> 00:27:34,555 Speaker 1: some of those I talked to coach Smith halftime reports. 370 00:27:35,555 --> 00:27:38,515 Speaker 1: She she didn't she didn't talk to coach Smith. She 371 00:27:38,635 --> 00:27:41,755 Speaker 1: just just she just made it up. 372 00:27:42,435 --> 00:27:44,795 Speaker 2: And I've said this before so I haven't been fired 373 00:27:44,795 --> 00:27:46,875 Speaker 2: for saying it, but I'll say it again. I would 374 00:27:46,875 --> 00:27:50,075 Speaker 2: make up the report sometimes because a the coach wouldn't 375 00:27:50,115 --> 00:27:51,995 Speaker 2: come out at halftime or it was too late, and 376 00:27:52,035 --> 00:27:53,635 Speaker 2: I was like, I didn't want to screw up the report. 377 00:27:53,675 --> 00:27:55,195 Speaker 2: So I was like, I'm just going to make this 378 00:27:55,315 --> 00:27:57,275 Speaker 2: up because first of all, no coach is going to 379 00:27:57,315 --> 00:27:59,915 Speaker 2: get mad if I say, hey, we need to stop 380 00:28:00,595 --> 00:28:02,835 Speaker 2: hurting ourselves. We needed to be better on third down, 381 00:28:02,915 --> 00:28:06,075 Speaker 2: we need to stop turning the ball over. Yeah, exactly, 382 00:28:06,195 --> 00:28:08,155 Speaker 2: and do a better job of getting off the field. 383 00:28:08,435 --> 00:28:10,555 Speaker 2: Like they're not going to correct me on that. I'm like, 384 00:28:10,595 --> 00:28:11,555 Speaker 2: it's fine, I'll just make. 385 00:28:11,515 --> 00:28:13,955 Speaker 1: Up the report now. In terms of the quality of 386 00:28:14,035 --> 00:28:18,595 Speaker 1: the journalistic content, Miss Thompson is entirely correct. The coach 387 00:28:18,715 --> 00:28:23,915 Speaker 1: rarely ever says anything maybe we do not need sideline reporters. 388 00:28:24,795 --> 00:28:27,155 Speaker 1: But then there's that one time when you talk to 389 00:28:27,275 --> 00:28:29,875 Speaker 1: him or to somebody and he says something like what 390 00:28:29,955 --> 00:28:32,555 Speaker 1: happened during a near riot at a playoff game at 391 00:28:32,555 --> 00:28:36,075 Speaker 1: Fenway Park in nineteen ninety nine On Fox. I got 392 00:28:36,235 --> 00:28:39,435 Speaker 1: Yankees owner George stein Renner for my little report, and 393 00:28:39,475 --> 00:28:42,915 Speaker 1: I said something really deep, like what do you think George, 394 00:28:43,355 --> 00:28:46,475 Speaker 1: and George said he thought that the Red Sox manager 395 00:28:46,555 --> 00:28:50,515 Speaker 1: Jimmy Williams had incited the crowd to riot. That was 396 00:28:50,555 --> 00:28:52,755 Speaker 1: a hell of a statement, and it basically became the 397 00:28:52,835 --> 00:28:55,475 Speaker 1: lead story that night and the next day. And I 398 00:28:55,555 --> 00:28:59,355 Speaker 1: didn't contribute anything more to that than asking George if 399 00:28:59,395 --> 00:29:01,355 Speaker 1: he would come on with me, and then asking him 400 00:29:01,675 --> 00:29:07,875 Speaker 1: the most generic question ever, But I asked him. You 401 00:29:07,955 --> 00:29:12,555 Speaker 1: can't not ask them and then say you ask them. 402 00:29:13,035 --> 00:29:16,075 Speaker 1: You can't make it up. The premise is you never 403 00:29:16,195 --> 00:29:20,595 Speaker 1: make it up. Manel or trivial or meaningless. You can't 404 00:29:20,635 --> 00:29:24,035 Speaker 1: make it up, and you certainly can't then boast about 405 00:29:24,075 --> 00:29:28,435 Speaker 1: making it up. Harrissa Thompson is the host of Thursday 406 00:29:28,515 --> 00:29:31,115 Speaker 1: Night Football on Amazon Management. There was asked by The 407 00:29:31,155 --> 00:29:34,515 Speaker 1: Sports Business Journal if she would address this or if 408 00:29:34,515 --> 00:29:37,795 Speaker 1: there'd be a suspension or something, and the answer came back, quote, 409 00:29:37,915 --> 00:29:42,475 Speaker 1: she was telling the story from fifteen years ago. Unquote. Well, 410 00:29:42,475 --> 00:29:45,115 Speaker 1: we assume she was telling a story from fifteen years ago, 411 00:29:45,355 --> 00:29:48,075 Speaker 1: unless she made that up, too, Which is the point. 412 00:29:48,555 --> 00:29:50,475 Speaker 1: You say something like that and you kind of destroy 413 00:29:50,555 --> 00:29:53,795 Speaker 1: the presumption that you're not making stuff up all the time. 414 00:29:55,395 --> 00:29:58,235 Speaker 1: There are three other dimensions to this, The people who 415 00:29:58,275 --> 00:30:02,115 Speaker 1: did the podcast tweeted out the clip, apparently proudly, and 416 00:30:02,155 --> 00:30:05,755 Speaker 1: then when the blowback occurred, they deleted it. The other 417 00:30:05,835 --> 00:30:08,915 Speaker 1: two dimensions to this I think are really mallid. At 418 00:30:09,035 --> 00:30:12,995 Speaker 1: least a dozen other women who still work as sideline reporters, 419 00:30:13,555 --> 00:30:18,795 Speaker 1: especially in football, were appalled at Thompson's revelation. They work hard, 420 00:30:19,915 --> 00:30:22,835 Speaker 1: the results, the goals, what they are there for. That's 421 00:30:22,835 --> 00:30:26,475 Speaker 1: not their decision, that's not their fault. They work hard, 422 00:30:26,515 --> 00:30:29,875 Speaker 1: they do what they're supposed to do. And Mike Freeman, 423 00:30:30,435 --> 00:30:34,195 Speaker 1: a veteran football reporter and an African American man, asked 424 00:30:34,195 --> 00:30:37,995 Speaker 1: a really disturbing and important question. What if that announcement 425 00:30:38,555 --> 00:30:40,835 Speaker 1: I didn't interview the coach, I just made up what 426 00:30:40,915 --> 00:30:43,155 Speaker 1: he probably would have said. What if that had been 427 00:30:43,155 --> 00:30:46,235 Speaker 1: made by a sideline reporter who was also an African 428 00:30:46,275 --> 00:30:52,035 Speaker 1: American man? How quickly would he have been fired? And justifiably, 429 00:30:52,635 --> 00:30:55,875 Speaker 1: you can't make it up. Amazon may not be able 430 00:30:55,915 --> 00:30:57,875 Speaker 1: to fire her, she didn't make it up while she 431 00:30:57,955 --> 00:31:00,515 Speaker 1: was working for them, But how do you keep her 432 00:31:00,595 --> 00:31:06,555 Speaker 1: on your broadcast when she's admitted toting a key element 433 00:31:06,755 --> 00:31:12,155 Speaker 1: of all football broadcasts. Harisa I wouldn't worry too much 434 00:31:12,195 --> 00:31:18,075 Speaker 1: about the next contract negotiation. Thompson two days, worst person 435 00:31:19,155 --> 00:31:33,635 Speaker 1: in the world to say he had no comment. I 436 00:31:33,715 --> 00:31:37,395 Speaker 1: have argued before that James Thurber is the greatest American humorist, 437 00:31:37,435 --> 00:31:39,715 Speaker 1: and it dawns on me that the argument is not 438 00:31:39,835 --> 00:31:43,315 Speaker 1: unlike the idea that shohe Otani of the Los Angeles 439 00:31:43,355 --> 00:31:47,315 Speaker 1: Angels is almost automatically the most valuable player in baseball 440 00:31:47,355 --> 00:31:49,955 Speaker 1: each year because he is an All Star hitter and 441 00:31:50,035 --> 00:31:54,155 Speaker 1: an All Star pitcher in the same body. James Thurber 442 00:31:54,275 --> 00:31:56,755 Speaker 1: was a brilliant writer, and in his spare time, he 443 00:31:56,875 --> 00:32:00,435 Speaker 1: was an equally brilliant, almost avant garde artist in the 444 00:32:00,475 --> 00:32:04,275 Speaker 1: same body. His simple drawings to pick the most complex 445 00:32:04,315 --> 00:32:08,715 Speaker 1: of emote and comedic situations. His dogs are immortal, and 446 00:32:08,755 --> 00:32:11,595 Speaker 1: then there were his captions. Well, I can't do anything 447 00:32:11,595 --> 00:32:14,075 Speaker 1: with his drawings in a podcast, so I'll just read 448 00:32:14,955 --> 00:32:16,915 Speaker 1: and I will read you now in this episode, what 449 00:32:17,035 --> 00:32:21,475 Speaker 1: is probably his most famous story from my life in 450 00:32:21,595 --> 00:32:28,075 Speaker 1: hard times, the night the bed fell James Thurber. I 451 00:32:28,155 --> 00:32:33,075 Speaker 1: suppose that the high water mark of my youth in Columbus, 452 00:32:33,075 --> 00:32:36,755 Speaker 1: Ohio was the night the bed fell on my father. 453 00:32:37,715 --> 00:32:40,715 Speaker 1: It makes a better recitation unless, as some friends of 454 00:32:40,755 --> 00:32:42,515 Speaker 1: mine have said, one has heard it five or six 455 00:32:42,595 --> 00:32:45,555 Speaker 1: times than it does a piece of writing, For it 456 00:32:45,635 --> 00:32:49,675 Speaker 1: is almost necessary to throw furniture around, shakedoors and bark 457 00:32:49,755 --> 00:32:54,195 Speaker 1: like a dog to lend the proper atmosphere and verisimilitude 458 00:32:54,235 --> 00:32:59,675 Speaker 1: to what is admittedly a somewhat incredible tale. Still it 459 00:32:59,755 --> 00:33:03,715 Speaker 1: did take place. It happened then that my father had 460 00:33:03,755 --> 00:33:06,075 Speaker 1: decided to sleep in the attic one night, to be 461 00:33:06,115 --> 00:33:10,155 Speaker 1: away where he could think. My mother opposed the notion 462 00:33:10,355 --> 00:33:13,395 Speaker 1: strongly because she said the old wooden bed up there 463 00:33:13,555 --> 00:33:16,635 Speaker 1: was unsafe. It was wobbly, and the heavy headboard would 464 00:33:16,675 --> 00:33:19,195 Speaker 1: crash down on father's head in case the bed fell 465 00:33:19,555 --> 00:33:24,315 Speaker 1: and kill him. There was no dissuading him, however, and 466 00:33:24,435 --> 00:33:26,515 Speaker 1: at a quarter past ten, he closed the attic door 467 00:33:26,555 --> 00:33:29,595 Speaker 1: behind him and went up the narrow, twisting stairs. We 468 00:33:29,675 --> 00:33:34,395 Speaker 1: later heard am in his creakings as he crawled into bed. Grandfather, 469 00:33:34,435 --> 00:33:36,275 Speaker 1: who usually slept in the attic bed when he was 470 00:33:36,315 --> 00:33:40,435 Speaker 1: with us, had disappeared some days before. On those occasions, 471 00:33:40,435 --> 00:33:42,755 Speaker 1: he was usually gone six or eight days, and returned 472 00:33:42,795 --> 00:33:46,475 Speaker 1: growling and out of temper, with the news that the 473 00:33:46,515 --> 00:33:49,835 Speaker 1: Federal Union was run by a passel of blockheads, and 474 00:33:49,875 --> 00:33:51,955 Speaker 1: that the army of the Potomac didn't have any more 475 00:33:52,035 --> 00:33:56,915 Speaker 1: chance than a fiddler's bitch. We had visiting us at 476 00:33:56,955 --> 00:34:00,275 Speaker 1: the time, a nervous first cousin of mine named Briggs Beale, 477 00:34:00,675 --> 00:34:03,475 Speaker 1: who believed that he was likely to cease breathing when 478 00:34:03,475 --> 00:34:06,275 Speaker 1: he was asleep. He was his feeling that if he 479 00:34:06,315 --> 00:34:09,275 Speaker 1: were not awakened every hour during the night, he might 480 00:34:09,355 --> 00:34:13,035 Speaker 1: die of suffocation. He had been accustomed to setting an 481 00:34:13,075 --> 00:34:16,355 Speaker 1: alarm clock to ring at intervals until morning, but I 482 00:34:16,595 --> 00:34:20,595 Speaker 1: persuaded him to abandon this. He slept in my room, 483 00:34:20,595 --> 00:34:22,195 Speaker 1: and I told him that I was such a light 484 00:34:22,275 --> 00:34:25,355 Speaker 1: sleeper that if anybody quit breathing in the same room 485 00:34:25,395 --> 00:34:28,475 Speaker 1: with me, I would wake instantly. He tested me the 486 00:34:28,515 --> 00:34:32,315 Speaker 1: first night, which I had suspected he would, by holding 487 00:34:32,355 --> 00:34:36,155 Speaker 1: his breath after my regular breathing, had convinced him I 488 00:34:36,315 --> 00:34:39,875 Speaker 1: was asleep. I was not asleep, however, and called to him. 489 00:34:40,875 --> 00:34:44,795 Speaker 1: This seemed to allay his fears a little, but he 490 00:34:44,835 --> 00:34:47,635 Speaker 1: took the precaution of putting a glass of spirits of 491 00:34:47,755 --> 00:34:50,835 Speaker 1: camphor on a little table at the head of his 492 00:34:50,915 --> 00:34:53,835 Speaker 1: bed in case I didn't arouse him. Until he was 493 00:34:53,875 --> 00:34:57,115 Speaker 1: almost gone, he said he would sniff the camphor. A 494 00:34:57,155 --> 00:35:01,115 Speaker 1: powerful reviver, Briggs was not the only member of his 495 00:35:01,155 --> 00:35:05,675 Speaker 1: family who had his crotchets. Old Aunt Melissa Beal, who 496 00:35:05,755 --> 00:35:08,235 Speaker 1: could whistle like a man with two fingers in her mouth, 497 00:35:08,595 --> 00:35:11,555 Speaker 1: suffered under the premonition that she was destined to die 498 00:35:11,715 --> 00:35:14,595 Speaker 1: on South High Street because she had been born on 499 00:35:14,675 --> 00:35:18,395 Speaker 1: South High Street and married on South High Street. Then 500 00:35:18,435 --> 00:35:21,635 Speaker 1: there was Aunt Sarah Schauf, who never went to bed 501 00:35:21,675 --> 00:35:24,595 Speaker 1: at night without the fear that a burglar was going 502 00:35:24,635 --> 00:35:28,035 Speaker 1: to get in and blow chloroform under her door through 503 00:35:28,075 --> 00:35:31,635 Speaker 1: a tube. To avert this calamity, for she was in 504 00:35:31,675 --> 00:35:34,475 Speaker 1: greater dread of anesthetics than of losing her household goods. 505 00:35:34,715 --> 00:35:38,755 Speaker 1: She always piled her money, silverware, and other valuables in 506 00:35:38,795 --> 00:35:42,355 Speaker 1: a neat stack just outside her bedroom, with a note reading, 507 00:35:42,435 --> 00:35:44,635 Speaker 1: this is all I have. Please take it and do 508 00:35:44,715 --> 00:35:47,315 Speaker 1: not use your chloroform, as this is all I have. 509 00:35:48,835 --> 00:35:52,195 Speaker 1: Aunt Gracie's Chauf also had a burglar phobia, but she 510 00:35:52,315 --> 00:35:55,835 Speaker 1: met it with more fortitude. She was confident that burglars 511 00:35:55,835 --> 00:35:58,915 Speaker 1: had been getting into her house every night for forty years. 512 00:35:59,595 --> 00:36:02,555 Speaker 1: The fact that she never missed anything was to her 513 00:36:02,795 --> 00:36:05,875 Speaker 1: no proof to the contrary, always claimed that she scared 514 00:36:05,915 --> 00:36:09,315 Speaker 1: them off before they could take anything by throwing shoes 515 00:36:09,555 --> 00:36:13,195 Speaker 1: down the hallway. When she went to bed, she piled 516 00:36:13,235 --> 00:36:16,315 Speaker 1: where she could get at them handily, all the shoes 517 00:36:16,315 --> 00:36:19,635 Speaker 1: there were about her house. Five minutes after she had 518 00:36:19,635 --> 00:36:21,475 Speaker 1: turned off the light, she would sit up in bed 519 00:36:21,515 --> 00:36:26,955 Speaker 1: and say hark. Her husband, who had learned to ignore 520 00:36:26,995 --> 00:36:29,755 Speaker 1: the whole situation as long ago as nineteen o three, 521 00:36:30,475 --> 00:36:34,315 Speaker 1: would either be sound asleep or pretend to be sound asleep. 522 00:36:35,035 --> 00:36:37,595 Speaker 1: In either case, he would not respond to her tugging 523 00:36:37,675 --> 00:36:41,475 Speaker 1: and pulling, so that presently she would arise, tiptoe to 524 00:36:41,515 --> 00:36:44,475 Speaker 1: the door, open it slightly, and heave a shoe down 525 00:36:44,475 --> 00:36:47,395 Speaker 1: the hall in one direction, and its mate down the 526 00:36:47,435 --> 00:36:51,035 Speaker 1: hall in the other direction. Some nights she threw them all, 527 00:36:51,515 --> 00:36:56,235 Speaker 1: some nights only a couple of pear. But I am 528 00:36:56,355 --> 00:36:59,555 Speaker 1: straying from the remarkable incidents that took place during the 529 00:36:59,635 --> 00:37:03,035 Speaker 1: night that the bed fell on father. By midnight we 530 00:37:03,035 --> 00:37:06,275 Speaker 1: were all in bed. Layout of the rooms and the 531 00:37:06,315 --> 00:37:09,315 Speaker 1: disposition of their occupants is important to an understanding of 532 00:37:09,315 --> 00:37:13,755 Speaker 1: what later occurred. In the front room upstairs, just under 533 00:37:13,915 --> 00:37:18,035 Speaker 1: father's attic bedroom, where my mother and my brother Herman, 534 00:37:18,075 --> 00:37:21,635 Speaker 1: who sometimes sang in his sleep, usually marching through Georgia 535 00:37:21,755 --> 00:37:25,875 Speaker 1: or onward Christian soldiers. Briggs Beale and myself were in 536 00:37:25,875 --> 00:37:28,715 Speaker 1: a room adjoining this one. My brother Roy was in 537 00:37:28,755 --> 00:37:31,635 Speaker 1: a room across the hall from ours. Now our bull 538 00:37:31,755 --> 00:37:35,715 Speaker 1: terrier Wrecks slept in the hall. My bed was an 539 00:37:35,835 --> 00:37:38,555 Speaker 1: army cot, one of those affairs which were made wide 540 00:37:38,675 --> 00:37:41,475 Speaker 1: enough to sleep on comfortably only by putting up flat 541 00:37:41,475 --> 00:37:44,715 Speaker 1: with the middle section the two sides, which ordinarily hang 542 00:37:44,835 --> 00:37:47,835 Speaker 1: down like the sideboards of a drop leaf table. When 543 00:37:47,875 --> 00:37:52,075 Speaker 1: these sides are up, it is perilous to roll too 544 00:37:52,235 --> 00:37:55,395 Speaker 1: far toward the edge, for then the cot is likely 545 00:37:55,435 --> 00:37:58,555 Speaker 1: to tip completely over, bringing the whole bed down on 546 00:37:58,675 --> 00:38:03,955 Speaker 1: top of one with a tremendous banging crash. This, in fact, 547 00:38:04,035 --> 00:38:07,115 Speaker 1: is precisely what happened about two o'clock in the morning. 548 00:38:07,755 --> 00:38:10,195 Speaker 1: It was my mother who, in recalling the scene later 549 00:38:10,235 --> 00:38:12,475 Speaker 1: first referred to it as the night the bedfellow on. 550 00:38:12,555 --> 00:38:17,475 Speaker 1: Your father, always a deep sleeper and slow to arouse, 551 00:38:18,275 --> 00:38:22,195 Speaker 1: I had lied to Briggs. I was at first unconscious 552 00:38:22,235 --> 00:38:25,435 Speaker 1: of what had happened when the ironcot rolled me onto 553 00:38:25,475 --> 00:38:28,915 Speaker 1: the floor and toppled over on me. It left me 554 00:38:28,995 --> 00:38:31,755 Speaker 1: still warmly bundled up and unheard, for the bed rested 555 00:38:31,755 --> 00:38:34,875 Speaker 1: above me like a canopy. Hence I did not wake up, 556 00:38:35,195 --> 00:38:39,515 Speaker 1: only reached the edge of consciousness and went back. The racket, however, 557 00:38:39,635 --> 00:38:42,075 Speaker 1: instantly awakened my mother in the next room, who came 558 00:38:42,115 --> 00:38:45,795 Speaker 1: to the immediate conclusion that her worst dread was realized. 559 00:38:45,795 --> 00:38:49,275 Speaker 1: The big wooden bed upstairs had fallen on father. She 560 00:38:49,435 --> 00:38:54,635 Speaker 1: therefore screamed, let's go to your poor father. It was 561 00:38:54,715 --> 00:38:57,995 Speaker 1: this shout, rather than the noise of my cot falling, 562 00:38:58,075 --> 00:39:00,595 Speaker 1: that awakened Herman in the same room with her, He 563 00:39:00,715 --> 00:39:03,915 Speaker 1: thought that mother had become, for no apparent reason, hysterical. 564 00:39:04,675 --> 00:39:08,595 Speaker 1: All right, Mama, he shouted, trying to calmer. They exchanged 565 00:39:08,755 --> 00:39:12,715 Speaker 1: shout for shout for perhaps ten seconds. Let's go to 566 00:39:12,795 --> 00:39:18,315 Speaker 1: your poor father, and you're all right. That woke up Briggs. 567 00:39:19,035 --> 00:39:21,555 Speaker 1: By this time I was conscious of what was going 568 00:39:21,595 --> 00:39:24,995 Speaker 1: on in a vague way, but did not yet realize 569 00:39:24,995 --> 00:39:29,675 Speaker 1: that I was under my bed instead of on it. Briggs, 570 00:39:29,835 --> 00:39:32,835 Speaker 1: awakening in the midst of loud shouts of fear and apprehension, 571 00:39:32,835 --> 00:39:35,635 Speaker 1: came to the quick conclusion that he was suffocating, and 572 00:39:35,635 --> 00:39:38,795 Speaker 1: that we were all trying to bring him out. With 573 00:39:38,915 --> 00:39:43,115 Speaker 1: a low moan, he grasped the glass of camphor at 574 00:39:43,155 --> 00:39:45,435 Speaker 1: the head of his bed, and instead of sniffing it, 575 00:39:46,795 --> 00:39:50,715 Speaker 1: he poured it over himself. The room reeked of camphor. 576 00:39:51,155 --> 00:39:55,075 Speaker 1: Uh Ah, choked Briggs like a drowning man, for he 577 00:39:55,075 --> 00:39:58,275 Speaker 1: had almost succeeded in stopping his breath under the deluge 578 00:39:58,795 --> 00:40:02,435 Speaker 1: of pungent spirits. He leaped out of bed and groped 579 00:40:02,515 --> 00:40:04,675 Speaker 1: toward the open window, but he came up against one 580 00:40:04,515 --> 00:40:08,715 Speaker 1: that closed. With his hand, he beat out the glass, 581 00:40:09,235 --> 00:40:11,395 Speaker 1: and I could hear it crash and tinkle on the 582 00:40:11,395 --> 00:40:14,955 Speaker 1: alleyway below. He was at this juncture that I, in 583 00:40:15,075 --> 00:40:18,195 Speaker 1: trying to get up, had the uncanny sensation of feeling 584 00:40:18,275 --> 00:40:23,075 Speaker 1: my bed above me foggy with sleep. I now suspected, 585 00:40:23,075 --> 00:40:25,675 Speaker 1: in my turn, that the whole uproar was being made 586 00:40:25,715 --> 00:40:28,795 Speaker 1: in a frantic endeavor to extricate me from what must 587 00:40:28,875 --> 00:40:31,675 Speaker 1: be an unheard of and perilous situation. Get me out 588 00:40:31,675 --> 00:40:34,395 Speaker 1: of this, I bawled, Get me out. I think I 589 00:40:34,435 --> 00:40:36,835 Speaker 1: had the night marriage belief that I was entombed in 590 00:40:36,915 --> 00:40:43,635 Speaker 1: a mine o gas. Briggs floundering in his camphor. By 591 00:40:43,635 --> 00:40:47,795 Speaker 1: this time my mother still shouting, pursued by Hermann, still shouting, 592 00:40:48,155 --> 00:40:49,995 Speaker 1: was trying to open the door to the attic in 593 00:40:50,075 --> 00:40:52,995 Speaker 1: order to go up and get my father's body out 594 00:40:53,035 --> 00:40:58,715 Speaker 1: of the wreckage. The door was stuck, however, and would 595 00:40:58,715 --> 00:41:02,235 Speaker 1: not yield her frantic pulls on it only added to 596 00:41:02,275 --> 00:41:05,115 Speaker 1: the general banging and confusion. Roy and the the dog 597 00:41:05,155 --> 00:41:09,195 Speaker 1: were now up, the one shouting questions, the other barking. Father, 598 00:41:09,875 --> 00:41:12,475 Speaker 1: farthest away and soundest sleeper of all, had by this 599 00:41:12,555 --> 00:41:14,955 Speaker 1: time been awakened by the battering on the attic door. 600 00:41:15,755 --> 00:41:22,075 Speaker 1: He decided that the house was on fire. Oh come, okay, 601 00:41:22,715 --> 00:41:25,875 Speaker 1: he wailed in a slow, sleepy voice. It took him 602 00:41:25,875 --> 00:41:29,195 Speaker 1: many minutes to regain full consciousness. My mother, still believing 603 00:41:29,235 --> 00:41:32,835 Speaker 1: he was caught under the bed, detected in his I'm coming, 604 00:41:33,235 --> 00:41:36,155 Speaker 1: the mournful resigned note of one who was preparing to 605 00:41:36,195 --> 00:41:40,835 Speaker 1: meet his maker. He's dying, she shouted, I'm all right. 606 00:41:41,435 --> 00:41:44,635 Speaker 1: Briggs yelled to reassure her. I'm all right. He still 607 00:41:44,675 --> 00:41:47,755 Speaker 1: believed that it was his own closeness to death that 608 00:41:47,955 --> 00:41:51,795 Speaker 1: was worrying Mother. I found at last the light switch 609 00:41:51,835 --> 00:41:53,755 Speaker 1: in my room, unlocked the door, and Briggs and I 610 00:41:53,835 --> 00:41:56,915 Speaker 1: joined the others at the attic door. The dog, who 611 00:41:56,915 --> 00:42:00,515 Speaker 1: never did like Briggs, jumped for him, assuming that he 612 00:42:00,595 --> 00:42:03,355 Speaker 1: was the culprit in whatever was going on, and Roy 613 00:42:03,635 --> 00:42:07,035 Speaker 1: had to throw Rack and hold him. We could hear 614 00:42:07,075 --> 00:42:09,955 Speaker 1: Father crawling out of the bed upstairs. Roy pulled the 615 00:42:09,995 --> 00:42:12,395 Speaker 1: attic door open with a mighty jerk, and Father came 616 00:42:12,475 --> 00:42:15,875 Speaker 1: down the stairs, sleepy and irritable, but safe and sound. 617 00:42:16,755 --> 00:42:19,675 Speaker 1: My mother began to weep when she saw him. Rex 618 00:42:19,755 --> 00:42:25,475 Speaker 1: began to howl. What in the name of God is 619 00:42:25,555 --> 00:42:31,595 Speaker 1: going on here? Asked father. The situation was finally put 620 00:42:31,635 --> 00:42:36,355 Speaker 1: together like a giant gigsaw puzzle. Father caught a cold 621 00:42:36,355 --> 00:42:38,555 Speaker 1: from prowling around in his bare feet, but there were 622 00:42:38,595 --> 00:42:43,555 Speaker 1: no other bad results. I'm glad, said mother, who always 623 00:42:43,555 --> 00:42:47,395 Speaker 1: looked on the bright side of things, that your grandfather 624 00:42:47,595 --> 00:43:03,355 Speaker 1: wasn't here. I've done all the damage I can do here. 625 00:43:04,195 --> 00:43:08,435 Speaker 1: I just talking to Coach Smith at halftime, and thank 626 00:43:08,475 --> 00:43:10,115 Speaker 1: you for listening. Countdown has come to you from the 627 00:43:10,195 --> 00:43:13,235 Speaker 1: Vin Scully Studios at the Old Women Broadcasting Empire in 628 00:43:13,275 --> 00:43:17,035 Speaker 1: New York. Countdown musical directors Brian Ray and John Phillips 629 00:43:17,075 --> 00:43:20,555 Speaker 1: Chanel arranged, produced, and performed most of our music. 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That's countdown for this, 647 00:44:15,795 --> 00:44:18,875 Speaker 1: the one and forty six day since dementia Jay Trump's 648 00:44:18,875 --> 00:44:21,715 Speaker 1: first attempted coup against the democratically elected government of the 649 00:44:21,755 --> 00:44:26,075 Speaker 1: United States convict him now while we still can. The 650 00:44:26,155 --> 00:44:29,235 Speaker 1: next scheduled countdown is Tuesday. Bulletins as the news warrants 651 00:44:29,315 --> 00:44:32,595 Speaker 1: till then, I'm Keith Olderman. Good morning, good afternoon, good night, 652 00:44:33,355 --> 00:44:48,995 Speaker 1: and good luck. Countdown with Keith Olderman is a production 653 00:44:49,235 --> 00:44:54,555 Speaker 1: of iHeartRadio. For more podcasts from iHeartRadio, visit the iHeartRadio app, 654 00:44:54,635 --> 00:44:57,995 Speaker 1: Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.