Speaker 1: Countdown with Keith Olderman is a production of iHeartRadio. Trump
Speaker 1: believes Biden was cloned and then executed five years ago.
Speaker 1: Get out the guys with the butterfly, and that's the
Speaker 1: President's brain has finally jumped the shark quote. There is
Speaker 1: no Joe Biden executed in twenty twenty. Biden clones, doubles,
Speaker 1: and robotic engineered, soulless, mindless entities are what you see.
Speaker 1: If you hear or read that this was Trump reposting
Speaker 1: something that some other lunatic wrote on Trump's social media site,
Speaker 1: or that this was Trump trolling, or this was Trump
Speaker 1: owning the libs, this is incorrect, and more importantly, it
Speaker 1: minimizes the severity of Trump's accelerating complete mental breakdown. He
Speaker 1: believes this, or at least he believed it when he
Speaker 1: posted it shortly after ten pm Eastern Saturday night, Because
Speaker 1: if you parse this post of his on his social
Speaker 1: media site, a dangerous exercise in the best of circumstances,
Speaker 1: it is clear he did not simply repost something put
Speaker 1: out earlier in the day by another lunatic with the
Speaker 1: handle llijh. Most accounts and even Fox News and The
Speaker 1: New York post had no choice but to write up
Speaker 1: this disqualifying bout of madness. Most accounts suggest Trump himself
Speaker 1: added no comment to the original this is incorrect. Unlike
Speaker 1: the original, Trump's version of this includes a photo he
Speaker 1: has added. The photo is the avatar from the original
Speaker 1: Lligh account, a retouched black and white shot of Trump
Speaker 1: with his current head and its overtone of melting plastic,
Speaker 1: but with what his eyes looked like forty or fifty
Speaker 1: years ago. He is also shown giving a V signal
Speaker 1: with two fingers. The photo in the original post. It's
Speaker 1: the same photo, but it's in a tiny circular thumbnail,
Speaker 1: maybe half an inch in diameter. The photo on Trump's
Speaker 1: version is square and full sized. Trump added to the
Speaker 1: original post added a photo. If you repost something on
Speaker 1: Trump's site, the avatar does not automatically blow up to
Speaker 1: full size like this. This was deliberate. This was done
Speaker 1: at Trump's end of the equation. Trump did this. It's
Speaker 1: not just somebody calling themselves l LJH so lost in
Speaker 1: the quicksand that is the lunatic right that they added
Speaker 1: to their fever dream of clones and doubles and robots,
Speaker 1: seventy hashtags and forty five different account handles, including the
Speaker 1: hashtags sports and MSNBC. This is not somebody else's work.
Speaker 1: This is Trump seeing somebody else's work and adding his
Speaker 1: own photo to it, with his fingers raised in what
Speaker 1: could be a victory signal. Trump's inability to separate fantasy
Speaker 1: and wish fulfillment and lies and all the rest from
Speaker 1: reality comes in all possible forms and flavors, and runs
Speaker 1: on parallel tracks twenty four hours a day. There are
Speaker 1: things about which he is always crazy, and things about
Speaker 1: which he is only periodically crazy, and things he can
Speaker 1: be crazy about one minute and then forget the next,
Speaker 1: and things he's crazy enough to not actually believe himself
Speaker 1: but wants others to believe. This tends to diminish the
Speaker 1: fact that all of it is like Trump himself crazy.
Speaker 1: No matter what your explanation for this is, or mine,
Speaker 1: or Foxes or his enablers, this country cannot have a
Speaker 1: president who promulgates theories that his predecessor or anybody else
Speaker 1: was a clone, or a body double or a robot.
Speaker 1: The dynamic tension keeping someone this damaged and disturbed from deciding, Hey,
Speaker 1: now's the right moment to nuke the world, because don't worry,
Speaker 1: the people I like won't be affected. That dynamic tension
Speaker 1: is the same as the dynamic tension keeping a badly
Speaker 1: built bridge upright. It can hold in place for years
Speaker 1: or decades, and then one minute it collapses and kills everybody.
Speaker 1: And do not assume Trump couldn't possibly actually firmly believe
Speaker 1: these QAnon theories that he so happily pedals and profits off.
Speaker 1: Hell this creature. Trump reportedly actually believed Elon Musk when
Speaker 1: Musk promised to slash one trillion dollars from government spending.
Speaker 1: The Wall Street Journal now quotes unnamed administration officials who,
Speaker 1: as they all finally succeeded in chasing the unstable Musk
Speaker 1: out of the White House, who heard Trump ask about
Speaker 1: Musk's promises, quote, was it all bullshit? Of course, it
Speaker 1: was all bullshit. Musk is bullshit for a moment. Put
Speaker 1: aside the Biden clone body double robot posts. If a
Speaker 1: president is lost enough to have actually believed Elon Musk's
Speaker 1: promises weren't bullshit, he is not fit for office nor
Speaker 1: for being out in public, except if he is on
Speaker 1: a leash or in a cage. There is another telling
Speaker 1: excerpt from this subtle verification by The Wall Street Journal
Speaker 1: that even it knows Trump is nuts. I will quote
Speaker 1: the paragraph Trump disliked how critical Musk was toward cabinet
Speaker 1: secretaries and his public attacks on Trade advisor Peter Navarro,
Speaker 1: who Must called a moron and said was dumber than
Speaker 1: a sack of bricks. White House officials said Trump was
Speaker 1: surprised at how nasty Musk was in one cabinet meeting
Speaker 1: toward other members of his administration. Again, if you don't
Speaker 1: recognize Musk's default state bullshit. If you are surprised he's nasty,
Speaker 1: you are crazier than he is. The issue then becomes
Speaker 1: whether you are also more incontinent than he is. Musk
Speaker 1: was reportedly peeing his pants NonStop during the election campaign.
Speaker 1: I don't mean metaphorically, I mean peeing his pants. The
Speaker 1: story has leaked out. Let me quote the New York
Speaker 1: Times from Friday about a text Musk reportedly sent a
Speaker 1: close friend a year ago, last month, May twenty twenty four. Quote.
Speaker 1: Around that time, mister Musk told people that his ketamin
Speaker 1: use was causing bladder issues, According to people familiar with
Speaker 1: the conversations, where's the goddamn Jake Tapper book about this.
Speaker 1: Between this and Trump's revelation that Biden wasn't cognitively challenged
Speaker 1: last year, he was dead and cloned and a robot.
Speaker 1: What does Jake Tapper do now? Bladder issues last may
Speaker 1: maybe not just last maybe maybe not just last year,
Speaker 1: maybe not just on the campaign, the Department of Government
Speaker 1: Efficiency or the Department of Government p efficiency? Am I
Speaker 1: right to again quote The Times? Mister Musk's drug consumption
Speaker 1: went well beyond occasional use. He told people he was
Speaker 1: taking so much ketamine, a powerful anesthetic, that it was
Speaker 1: affecting his bladder, a known effect of chronic use. Now
Speaker 1: what kind of effect could it have on somebody's bladder?
Speaker 1: I think your bladder's on the fritz. Elon, please point
Speaker 1: yourself in the other direction. We know from the Wall
Speaker 1: Street Journal article from January twenty twenty four that the
Speaker 1: Tesla board had been worried about well, to paraphrase The Times,
Speaker 1: Musk being high as a kite. The menu, the Journal
Speaker 1: recounted seventeen months ago now included not just ketamine, but
Speaker 1: also mushrooms, cocaine, ecstasy, and LSD onping and peeing and
Speaker 1: peeing and being to again quote The Times, the Food
Speaker 1: and Drug Administration has formally approved the use of ketamine
Speaker 1: only as an anesthetic in medical procedures. The drug has
Speaker 1: psychedelic properties and can cause dissociation from reality. Chronic use
Speaker 1: can lead to addiction and problems with bladder pain and control.
Speaker 1: A quick thought experiment for you, say this is in
Speaker 1: the New York Times about anybody close to Biden or
Speaker 1: to Kamala Harris, anybody ron Klain, John Podesta, especially John Podesta,
Speaker 1: or broaden the scope, famous people vaguely connected to Biden,
Speaker 1: far less than Musk is connected to Trump, who are
Speaker 1: suddenly declared three times in one article in The New
Speaker 1: York Times as being so strung out they wet their diapers.
Speaker 1: Think of this as being about Taylor Swift after she
Speaker 1: endorsed Kamala Springsteen, de Niro, Cuban, Mark Cuban. There's a
Speaker 1: near comp with Musk. I mean anybody connected to them, anybody, me, anybody.
Speaker 1: The thought experiment, that story breaks about Biden or Harris
Speaker 1: and anybody. What happens next? It depends.
Speaker 2: Now.
Speaker 1: The question is when did the Fox News News Max
Speaker 1: Bench Buro, Joe Rogan Tucker Carlson NonStop coverage. And the
Speaker 1: answer is it didn't. It's still going. It's going now,
Speaker 1: It'll be going on for weeks. I should probably stop
Speaker 1: saying going. Moreover, whenever it did stop, it would only
Speaker 1: be a pause. This story about a Democrat would resurface
Speaker 1: before the midterms, and then as the twenty twenty eight
Speaker 1: Democratic hopefuls emerged, it would start again. An urgent, burning,
Speaker 1: uncontrollable need to go connect the urinary distress of somebody
Speaker 1: who is not the president or would be president to
Speaker 1: the president or would be president, and make it into
Speaker 1: a story about the judgment of the president or would
Speaker 1: be president. In short, top Democratic advisor pease his pants
Speaker 1: all the time. Back to the real story, which is
Speaker 1: not treated in that way. Top Trump advisor pees his pants?
Speaker 1: Why did Trump select him? What's wrong with Trump? Quote?
Speaker 1: Musk traveled with a daily medication box that held about
Speaker 1: twenty pills, including ones with the markings of the stimulant
Speaker 1: adderall according to a photo of the box and people
Speaker 1: who have seen it. It is unclear whether mister Musk
Speaker 1: fifty three, was taking drugs when he became a fixture
Speaker 1: at the White House this year and was handed the
Speaker 1: power to slash the federal bureaucracy. But he has exhibited
Speaker 1: erratic behavior, insulting cabinet members, gesturing like a Nazi and
Speaker 1: garbling his answers in a staged interview. And that's gesturing
Speaker 1: like a Nazi with the arm rigid as a you know, salute,
Speaker 1: and the fingers of the right hand held together, not
Speaker 1: like Corey Booker, whom the right is trying to claim
Speaker 1: did the same thing over the weekend. Booker's fingers were
Speaker 1: spread apart and his arm was bent at the elbow.
Speaker 1: This is what scientists using technical jargon call a quote
Speaker 1: wave goodbye unquote. Moreover, the Democrats correctly Joe Biden out
Speaker 1: of running for reelection in July for far less serious issues,
Speaker 1: certainly far less self induced issues than anything in this
Speaker 1: Elon Musk revelation. And now the Republicans want to stage
Speaker 1: investigations of the Democrats for not doing it fast enough.
Speaker 1: And they have seized upon the auto pen as if
Speaker 1: the auto pen were something alive out of Harry Potter
Speaker 1: that had a life of its own and just hopped
Speaker 1: out of a box and started signing Biden's name without
Speaker 1: his knowledge. And is the autopen a clone two Trump.
Speaker 1: None of the top Trump advisor piece his pants story
Speaker 1: has yet stained the Trump presidency, none of it. Because
Speaker 1: we have somehow reached a point in this country where
Speaker 1: if you are crazy all the time and drugged up
Speaker 1: all the time and losing control of your eliminatory functions
Speaker 1: all the time, it's not news anymore, is it. Trump
Speaker 1: is so gone mentally, and God knows about his bladder.
Speaker 1: The diaper rumors have stunk up the White House for years.
Speaker 1: The whole thing could in fact bring an entirely different
Speaker 1: meaning to the phrase pe tape. Anyway, Trump is so
Speaker 1: gone mentally and physically that NBC could report that in
Speaker 1: part of the my God, he's really this nuts collision
Speaker 1: with reality that others like Dan Bongino have encountered. Trump's
Speaker 1: national I have no discernible intelligence Director Telsey Gabbard has
Speaker 1: realized Trump cannot read, won't read, cannot focus long enough
Speaker 1: to read. Has taken in so far just fourteen of
Speaker 1: the president's daily briefings. You know, the pdbs, the things
Speaker 1: that would have told Bush about bin Laden months before
Speaker 1: nine to eleven. But Push also didn't read, and he
Speaker 1: knew everything anyway, And three thousand Americans died because of
Speaker 1: that from NBC. Gabbard has solicited ideas from current and
Speaker 1: former intelligence officials about steps she could take to tailor
Speaker 1: the briefing to Trump's policy interests and habits. One idea
Speaker 1: that's been discussed is possibly creating a video version of
Speaker 1: the PDB that's made to look and feel like a
Speaker 1: Fox News broadcast. Four of the people with direct knowledge
Speaker 1: of the discussion said, how much is it supposed to
Speaker 1: look and feel like Fox News? I mean, is it
Speaker 1: going to be true or like Fox News? Is it
Speaker 1: going to be full of shit? Is it going to
Speaker 1: be presented to him as a Fox News broadcast? Are
Speaker 1: they gonna get Hannity to read it? Maybe David Assman?
Speaker 1: Will there be a weather segment? Here's today's weather? If
Speaker 1: you're president? Will he sit there going? Or Fox News? Er?
Speaker 1: He can't process anything not delivered, not just by TV,
Speaker 1: but not by Fox News liars. He can't process it.
Speaker 1: And his top advisories, at least one of them pee
Speaker 1: their pants. And Biden is a robot, but I guess
Speaker 1: robot Biden's acuity is the story for twenty twenty eight?
Speaker 1: Gotcha one more Trump story to quote from Politico Magazine
Speaker 1: by Michael Cruz quote, I'm supposed to be dead, Donald
Speaker 1: Trump said the day after he got shot at his
Speaker 1: rally last summer in Butler, Pennsylvania. I'm not supposed to
Speaker 1: be here, he said. Four days after that, but something
Speaker 1: very special happened. Let's face it, something happened, he said.
Speaker 1: Two days after that. It's an act of God, he
Speaker 1: said the month after that. God spared my life for
Speaker 1: a reason. He said in his victory speech at Mary
Speaker 1: Lago in November. I was saved by God to make
Speaker 1: America great again, he said in his inaugural address at
Speaker 1: the Capitol in January. It changed something in me, he
Speaker 1: said in his speech at the National Prayer Breakfast at
Speaker 1: the Washington Hilton in February. I feel even stronger. The
Speaker 1: title of the political article is, does Trump actually think
Speaker 1: He's God? Quoting again. Over the last ten or so
Speaker 1: months since Butler, however, and especially since his re election
Speaker 1: and the start of his second administration, Trump's outlook has shifted.
Speaker 1: His rhetoric has gone from borderline nihilistic to messianic. It's
Speaker 1: worth asking does Trump think He's God? Okay, he almost
Speaker 1: certainly doesn't think he's God. But does he think he's
Speaker 1: God likely sanctioned or inspired or empowered? Does he think
Speaker 1: he's somehow imbued with some special sacred purpose for some
Speaker 1: special sacred reason, or did he just see and sees
Speaker 1: an opportunity to stamp his world upending agenda with the
Speaker 1: ultimate justification, a mandate from God. The peace goes on
Speaker 1: longer than God, longer than Musk pees his pants, longer
Speaker 1: than Biden has been a dead clone, Yet it misses
Speaker 1: the essential starting point. Trump has always thought he's God,
Speaker 1: certainly as opposed to thinking he's just another person. He's
Speaker 1: about genetics and what you're born with, and how he's
Speaker 1: the best at everything, and this thing is the greatest
Speaker 1: ever and he alone can save and fix and he
Speaker 1: and he he he he he he. But tell me
Speaker 1: again about Biden's acuity, which the Democrats, however, late went
Speaker 1: in and fixed, while the Republicans will today go in
Speaker 1: and sit in a room with Donald Trump and reassure
Speaker 1: him he is in effect infallible and godlike to say
Speaker 1: nothing of what these same Republicans are still telling Elon Musk,
Speaker 1: besides telling him the men's room is second on the
Speaker 1: left bro A couple more headlines quote. I was new
Speaker 1: to Washington, and it was suggested that I use the
Speaker 1: Federalist Society as a recommending source on judges. I did
Speaker 1: so openly and freely, but then realized that they were
Speaker 1: under the thumb of a real sleezebag named Leonard Leo,
Speaker 1: a bad person who in his own way probably hates
Speaker 1: America and obviously has his own separate ambitions. I cannot
Speaker 1: convey to you what good news there is in this
Speaker 1: relatively anyway, what good news there is in Trump's surprise
Speaker 1: attack and an echoing condemnation of Leonard Leo by Stephen
Speaker 1: Miller on Leonard Leo, the owner and operator of sam
Speaker 1: Alito and Clarence Thomas, and especially Gorsach and Cavanaugh surprise
Speaker 1: attack to us anyway, I was unaware that one of
Speaker 1: the lawsuits against Trump's tariffs was by a group funded
Speaker 1: by Leonard Leo. As an aside, that's Leonard Leo, Cornell
Speaker 1: eighty six, Cornell Law eighty nine, and Cornell's Student Federalist
Speaker 1: Society eighty nine. And you thought I suffered because of
Speaker 1: Ann Coulter eighty four. Back to the main point, simply
Speaker 1: the Trump versus Leo, not the Pope. The Trump versus
Speaker 1: Leo thing is good news because, as Ellie Misstyle points out,
Speaker 1: Leo and the Federalist Society envision Supreme Court justices like
Speaker 1: fifty two year old James C. Ho, the Taiwan born
Speaker 1: fascist with the completely accurate last name, and forty six
Speaker 1: year old Andrew Oldham, whom George will adores. But left
Speaker 1: to his own devices, without the influence of Leonard Leo
Speaker 1: and the Federalist Society, Trump would probably pick Justice Eileen
Speaker 1: I used to cover Flamenco for the Miami Nuevo Old
Speaker 1: Cannon and best of all, Justice Janine I turned seventy
Speaker 1: four tomorrow, Tutz. But now that wine comes in boxes,
Speaker 1: you just never know, do Yeah. The Trump May Day
Speaker 1: in June parade a week from Saturday. He thinks he's
Speaker 1: being sneaky and nobody realizes he scheduled it for his
Speaker 1: own birthday, will not only do per the military's own estimate,
Speaker 1: sixteen million dollars worth of damage to the streets of Washington.
Speaker 1: Three million of that goes to metal plates that have
Speaker 1: to be installed, or the tanks trying to make right
Speaker 1: turns onto DuPont Circle or wherever will go right through
Speaker 1: the dam pavement. Trump's masturbatory parade will not only do
Speaker 1: that sixteen million dollars worth of structural damage to the
Speaker 1: streets that have to be repaired, but it will also
Speaker 1: give him yet another chance to abuse those who actually
Speaker 1: served in Vietnam. The Vietnam Vet's Memorial Fund has held
Speaker 1: an in Memory ceremony in DC since nineteen ninety three.
Speaker 1: For more than a decade, it has been held on
Speaker 1: the day before Father's Day. It has always been held
Speaker 1: at the Vietnam Veterans Memorial, which has slowly, unexpectedly, but
Speaker 1: unmistakably become one of the most moving and unforgettable such
Speaker 1: places in the world. Twenty twenty five in Memory ceremony
Speaker 1: was and remains scheduled four June fourteenth. It will be
Speaker 1: held at the George Washington Masonic National Memorial in Alexandria, Virginia,
Speaker 1: because the Vietnam No Memorial is on June fourteenth off
Speaker 1: limits because of Trump's jerk off parade. Two events most
Speaker 1: in the news have not connected yet. Ukraine's drone attack
Speaker 1: on Russian air bases destroyed at least forty Russian bomber aircraft,
Speaker 1: a total surprise planned according to President Zelenski for at
Speaker 1: least a year. And it turns out second half of
Speaker 1: this equation the United States did not know about this
Speaker 1: attack in advance, and you know why it worked because
Speaker 1: the United States did not know about it in advance.
Speaker 1: The timing also means that one of the reasons Zelensky
Speaker 1: was able to maintain his cool in the White House
Speaker 1: rather than you know, doing what you or I would
Speaker 1: have done, and at least headbudded that foppish imbecile JV.
Speaker 1: Vance as he and immune headmon she made Trump brow
Speaker 1: beat him about not having any cards. One of the
Speaker 1: reasons he was able to hold his cool was he
Speaker 1: was probably thinking about the drone plan. And speaking of drones,
Speaker 1: you've already heard the Senator Jonie Ernst We're all going
Speaker 1: to die town hall clip and then her follow up
Speaker 1: insult to every human whose death she has personally hastened
Speaker 1: because she is a lying holier than thou fascist. I
Speaker 1: would like to play only the part at the end
Speaker 1: of that second clip when she invites people interested in
Speaker 1: not dying to join her savior.
Speaker 2: For those that would like to see eternal and everlasting live,
Speaker 2: I encourage you to embrace my Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.
Speaker 1: Three notes this would ring less hollow if there had
Speaker 1: been anything in her life that suggested Ernst had actually
Speaker 1: read the words of Christ. Two, if the words of
Speaker 1: Christ and those of any religion more or less are correct, Ms.
Speaker 1: Ernst is going to hell because no, I'm sorry. Faith
Speaker 1: is not supposed to be about membership in a particular brand.
Speaker 1: It's supposed to be about selflessness and humanity. And three,
Speaker 1: if Christ heard what you have said this past week,
Speaker 1: Senator Ernst, he would kick you in the face. A
Speaker 1: programming note here, there will be an episode of Countdown
Speaker 1: tomorrow Tuesday, the third kind of compact headlines driven edition short.
Speaker 1: I want to see if, what with the new TV
Speaker 1: sports responsibilities I have, I can still add a third
Speaker 1: edition every week and not lose even more of my mind.
Speaker 1: Please listen tomorrow, because there is every chance it will
Speaker 1: be the only Tuesday edition I ever do. It's an
Speaker 1: experiment also of interest here when you call somebody too
Speaker 1: clever by half, but you misspell the word two and
Speaker 1: anybody's seen Jake. No, Biden's cognition is the real story here,
Speaker 1: not Trump's belief that Biden is a robot. Tappers Show lately.
Speaker 1: Anybody seen Jake Tapper and the lead recently? The answer
Speaker 1: is according to the ratings, not really. No, that's next.
Speaker 1: This is Countdown. This his countdown with Keith Oberman. Oberman
Speaker 1: still ahead on this edition of Countdown in Baseball, this
Speaker 1: is Lou Garrig Day, making Larry's impression of the longtime
Speaker 1: Yankee Stadium public address announcer Bob Sheppard entirely appropriate. Chronologically,
Speaker 1: Lou Garrig Day, the somber remembrance of the baseball immortal
Speaker 1: of the New York Yankees, cut down with frightening rapidity
Speaker 1: eighty six years ago today. He was Baseball's iron Man.
Speaker 1: Eighty four years ago today he died the first time
Speaker 1: this nation knew about als and buried. Over the decades
Speaker 1: since the disturbingly large percentage of sports writers of nineteen
Speaker 1: thirty nine and nineteen forty who just assumed Garrig had
Speaker 1: infected his teammates or was faking the illness to gain sympathy,
Speaker 1: he did not deserve the sadder side of the pride
Speaker 1: of the Yankees. Next in things I promised not to
Speaker 1: tell first, Believe it or not, there's still more new
Speaker 1: idiots to talk about the roundup of the miss Grants,
Speaker 1: morons and Dunning Kruger effects specimens who constitute today's other
Speaker 1: Weststmas persons in the world the bronze. Kurt Sicktor of
Speaker 1: town hall dot com Kurt isn't bright. This is about
Speaker 1: tariffs versus taxes. Someone wrote, if tariffs were taxes, why
Speaker 1: would we have a different word called tariffs? Our educational
Speaker 1: system not only failed about FI fifty years ago, it
Speaker 1: went bankrupt. Dan McLaughlin, who operates as at Baseball crank
Speaker 1: and is I don't know about the baseball part, but
Speaker 1: he's very much a crank, a very cranky conservative. I
Speaker 1: think most normal people, as opposed to people in think
Speaker 1: tank land, grasp that only Congress is supposed to be
Speaker 1: able to raise taxes and that it is weird for
Speaker 1: the president to be raising and lowering them on a
Speaker 1: daily basis. This is an arch conservative. This is a
Speaker 1: salute and wear shiny boots conservative complaining about what Trump
Speaker 1: is doing, to which Kurt Slocktor of town Hall writes, quote,
Speaker 1: A tariff is a tax is a too clever by
Speaker 1: half formulation that ignores the fact that a tariff is
Speaker 1: not a tax. It's a tariff two clever by half,
Speaker 1: Kurt says, only he spelled it too two, like the
Speaker 1: number it's to t ooh. That's the point of the phrase,
Speaker 1: too clever by half. It's not a numerical assessment. It's
Speaker 1: saying you're being way too smart, way too smart, too
Speaker 1: clever by half something. Mister Kurt Schlichter has never been
Speaker 1: accused of runner up worser Andrew Cuomo, having had to
Speaker 1: resign in disgrace, in fact multiple disgrace, in fact disgrace
Speaker 1: of your choice as governor of New York, now running
Speaker 1: for Mayor of New York to avoid reporters who want
Speaker 1: to ask him about I don't know scandal one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine,
Speaker 1: ten or eleven. To avoid reporters. The other day he
Speaker 1: held a press event. A press event in Cuomo Land
Speaker 1: is we want you to show up and give us
Speaker 1: free publicity, but don't dare ask any questions of the case.
Speaker 1: He wanted to avoid the reporters who wanted to ask
Speaker 1: him questions, so he ran out as soon as it
Speaker 1: was over, got into his car, avoided the reporters waiting
Speaker 1: outside on the street, squealed away in a vehicle to
Speaker 1: the degree that his vehicle made an illegal right turn
Speaker 1: on red in New York City. The news site The
Speaker 1: City and Why quotes a Cuomo flak rich as a
Speaker 1: party who wasn't there telling another local and good news source,
Speaker 1: Hellgate New York. They thought reporters the former governor knows
Speaker 1: and who were also wearing press passes were protesters. Plus
Speaker 1: Cuomo staffers Kevin Elkins New York and Esther Jensen were
Speaker 1: there and had just seen us upstairs. In other words,
Speaker 1: their excuse for avoiding the reporters and making the illegal
Speaker 1: turn is they didn't know those were reporters. They thought
Speaker 1: those were protesters, and they wanted to get away from them,
Speaker 1: because trying to avoid the public when it doesn't want
Speaker 1: you to, Mayor, is somehow better than trying to avoid reporters.
Speaker 1: I am beginning to think I might prefer another term
Speaker 1: of this idiot, Eric Adams than ten minutes of Mayor
Speaker 1: Andrew Cuomo, the guy I like largely because he's different
Speaker 1: than all the other guys who have run for this job.
Speaker 1: It's like why I like the garbage sanitation commissioner last time.
Speaker 1: What is there to learn about New York that you
Speaker 1: cannot learn from working in the sanitation department. My grandpa
Speaker 1: worked in the sanitation department. That's where New York really
Speaker 1: lives and dies. She would have been a great mayor.
Speaker 1: She knew where all the crap was and how to
Speaker 1: get rid of it. The guy this time is an outsider,
Speaker 1: a councilman named Zoran Mamdani. I have never done an
Speaker 1: actual endorsement before in nearly three years of this podcast.
Speaker 1: I mean it's usually obvious, but I am endorsing Zoran
Speaker 1: Mamdani for mayor. In fact, I am endorsing the idea
Speaker 1: that the other Democrats in the race should drop out
Speaker 1: and endorse him themselves, because this city will not survive
Speaker 1: ten minutes of Mayor Andrew Cuomo. I thought all those
Speaker 1: guys with TV cameras were protesters. Yeah, it's possible that
Speaker 1: he's that stupid the winner though, speaking of that stupid
Speaker 1: worst Jake Tapper, this is how far this has gotten,
Speaker 1: and this is how far Jake Tapper has plummeted and
Speaker 1: continues to plummet. James Comer on Fox News, a man
Speaker 1: who looks and sounds like he has sustained a serious
Speaker 1: concussion every day of his life, Joe Biden wasn't a
Speaker 1: melonly fit to make these decisions. More and more evidence
Speaker 1: coming out from Jake Tapper, the other whistle blowers in
Speaker 1: in the administration, and then Comer went off into a
Speaker 1: rant about acuity, as if he'd ever had any acuity
Speaker 1: or knew what it actually meant. The current president thinks
Speaker 1: the phrase political asylum means you were in a nuthouse
Speaker 1: in another country. He thinks he aced a mental test
Speaker 1: that is given to determine whether or not people should
Speaker 1: be detained against their will because they were a danger
Speaker 1: to themselves and others if they were allowed outside the
Speaker 1: front door of the hospital. But he aced it. He
Speaker 1: thinks he's a stable genius and it's all genetics, and
Speaker 1: because he had an uncle who taught at MIT or something,
Speaker 1: that means he's a genius. That's the current guy and
Speaker 1: the people around him covering up for the fact that
Speaker 1: he's a moron. But instead we're talking about the last guy,
Speaker 1: who primarily is no longer president, at whose acuity has
Speaker 1: never at its lowest point dipped down as far as
Speaker 1: Trump's highest point. But this is what Jake Tapper is
Speaker 1: fixated on. This is what Jake Tapper is trying to
Speaker 1: make blood money off of This results in Jake Tapper
Speaker 1: being quoted by James fing comer, do you see what
Speaker 1: you've done? Tapper? You fraud? America sees the lead with
Speaker 1: Jake Tapper his show on CNN. I know it's a surprise.
Speaker 1: CNN is still on the lead with Jake Tapper averaged
Speaker 1: five hundred and twenty five thousand total viewers from April
Speaker 1: twenty eight through May twenty fifth. That is one quarter
Speaker 1: down from the CNN audience in that time slot last year,
Speaker 1: admittedly at perhaps the peak of the entire Biden's story,
Speaker 1: but that itself should be an indicator of how few
Speaker 1: people give up f about the Biden story today. It
Speaker 1: is not today's news and it has no relevance going forward.
Speaker 1: At the same time, Fox News has somehow managed to
Speaker 1: maintain an audience at five o'clock. I believe that's the
Speaker 1: hour of three point three million, sixty eight percent of
Speaker 1: the cable news audience. Not a surprise, but certainly the
Speaker 1: percentage is a surprise. MSNBC, flailing about in its own way,
Speaker 1: is at a little over one million viewers, twenty one
Speaker 1: percent of the audience. And Tapper is now down to
Speaker 1: eleven percent. It is not just his book that has
Speaker 1: done this to Jake Tapper. CNN has been in a
Speaker 1: death spiral for three years now since its new owners,
Speaker 1: Warner Bros. Discovery of fascism threw CNN into reverse and
Speaker 1: took it from a news organization ready and willing at
Speaker 1: all times to accurately criticize and analyze the madness of
Speaker 1: Donald Trump and the Republican Party and its efforts to
Speaker 1: eliminate democracy in this country. Threw it into reverse and
Speaker 1: made it increasingly into a platform in which people on
Speaker 1: it hoared themselves out for fascism and Trump. First they
Speaker 1: hired Chris Lickt, then a bunch of foreigners who had
Speaker 1: had to flee England after they failed in TV news there.
Speaker 1: Then they platformed the likes of Scott Jennings mugging to camera,
Speaker 1: setting up a series of scream fests at night, the
Speaker 1: kind of yelling shows that went out of vogue in
Speaker 1: cable news when John Stewart clotheslined Tucker Carlson on CNN
Speaker 1: in the year two thousand and two, and most notably,
Speaker 1: the descent of CNN accelerated last year when Jake Tapper
Speaker 1: refused to fact check Trump as Trump lied his way
Speaker 1: through the debate with Biden. That was the shark moment.
Speaker 1: Jake Tapper has been self destructing for a long time.
Speaker 1: The book is just the newest thing on the list.
Speaker 1: Like when he compared the Biden story to Watergate, Like
Speaker 1: when he apologized to Lara Trump, Like every time he
Speaker 1: held the book up and sold it like he was
Speaker 1: Bill O'Reilly trying to read you and sell you the
Speaker 1: story of how they killed Bill O'Reilly's career, whatever his
Speaker 1: latest book is called. Like when Jake went on Meghan
Speaker 1: Kelly's Nazi cast appalling, apparently unauthorized by his employers. This
Speaker 1: has happened before in this business. People have betrayed their
Speaker 1: own ethics and standards, and by the time it shows
Speaker 1: up in the ratings a one quarter loss in one year,
Speaker 1: they're professionally dead. Jake. By the way, CNN, if Jake
Speaker 1: Tapper really went on Meghan Kelly's show without your CNN approval,
Speaker 1: you know it says in his contract, like it says
Speaker 1: in everybody else's contract, can't make media appearances without authorization.
Speaker 1: If he did it without authorization, you can fire him.
Speaker 1: For cause and not owe him a dime. Tapper just
Speaker 1: saying today's other worst person, and the world. The further
Speaker 1: we have gotten from Tuesday, July fourth, nineteen thirty nine,
Speaker 1: the further it has been evident that this was probably
Speaker 1: the most poignant day in the history of American sports,
Speaker 1: and one of the most poignant days in the history
Speaker 1: of America. That day was when sixty one, eight hundred
Speaker 1: and eight people crowded into Yankee Stadium in New York
Speaker 1: to hear lou Garrigg say goodbye. He had been stricken
Speaker 1: by als, and as much as everybody tried to pretend
Speaker 1: it was not a death sentence, or at least not
Speaker 1: likely to be a death sentence, it is in retrospect
Speaker 1: clear that nearly all the fans knew. It was in
Speaker 1: fact so clear at the time that the Yankees and
Speaker 1: even officials of the city of New York were insistent
Speaker 1: that during the ceremonies between games of that day's doubleheader,
Speaker 1: that Lou Geig should not make a speech. They literally
Speaker 1: believed that the amount of grief in the ballpark among
Speaker 1: the fans and the employees and the players would somehow
Speaker 1: be too much for at minimum the mental health of
Speaker 1: everybody there. They did not know how that much sadness
Speaker 1: could be handled in public. Of course, lou gereg spoke anyway,
Speaker 1: and all he did was give one of the bravest
Speaker 1: and most moving speeches in human history, one that is
Speaker 1: repeat word for word in ballparks and elsewhere every year
Speaker 1: on its anniversary, July fourth. So we view that July fourth,
Speaker 1: nineteen thirty nine as a day of grief and sorrow
Speaker 1: and love and of that rarest of emotions, of our
Speaker 1: shared awareness of the implacability of death, and that our
Speaker 1: victories over death must be temporary and symbolic. We see
Speaker 1: through hindsight lou Garrig Day Yankee Stadium, the Bronx, New York, Tuesday,
Speaker 1: July fourth, nineteen thirty nine, as a unanimous gathering bathed
Speaker 1: in sympathy and empathy, representing the sympathy and empathy of
Speaker 1: a nation. And we do that because the baseball world
Speaker 1: and the media have spent the intervening decades burying the
Speaker 1: work of those in its ranks in nineteen thirty nine
Speaker 1: who approached lou Garrigg's illness as either prepare yourself as
Speaker 1: either a fraud or a conspiracy. I am going to
Speaker 1: read you in full two articles about lou Gereg that
Speaker 1: must be tied for the all time worst pieces written
Speaker 1: in American media history and on the list of the
Speaker 1: worst things ever written for publication in the English language.
Speaker 1: The second article is actually not from nineteen thirty nine.
Speaker 1: It's from August nineteen forty, and in it, the sports
Speaker 1: editor of the New York Daily News all but accuses
Speaker 1: lou Gereg of being what we would now call a
Speaker 1: super spreader and speculates that Gereg has infected all the
Speaker 1: other Yankee players with his disease. The first article actually
Speaker 1: ran in hundreds of American newspapers on the night of Monday,
Speaker 1: July third, nineteen thirty nine, but mostly the morning of July.
Speaker 1: It was in a column distributed by United Press, the
Speaker 1: precursors to United Press International, where I made my full
Speaker 1: time professional debut forty years later, almost to the day,
Speaker 1: in July of nineteen seventy nine. When I worked there,
Speaker 1: I had never heard about this article. Throughout the bulk
Speaker 1: of my career, I had never heard about this article.
Speaker 1: I did not know of this article until the microfilm
Speaker 1: files of newspapers migrated onto the Internet in the late nineties,
Speaker 1: and to this day I have never found any indication
Speaker 1: that the writer ever apologized or ever admitted his stupidity
Speaker 1: and coarseness and insensitivity and awfully timed glibness. The writer's
Speaker 1: name was Jack Cuddy, Jack Cutty c Uddy. He began
Speaker 1: as a news reporter for the Milwaukee Journal. After World
Speaker 1: War One, he worked for newspapers in Chicago, Miami, New Orleans,
Speaker 1: and then joined United Press in nineteen twenty six. He
Speaker 1: was a news reporter. He helped cover Lindbergh's solo flight
Speaker 1: over the Atlantic in nineteen twenty seven, and then in
Speaker 1: nineteen thirty two they made him their primary boxing reporter,
Speaker 1: and they also assigned him to write columns about all
Speaker 1: sports that would sent out on the up wire to
Speaker 1: all of the newspapers that subscribed. We don't know how
Speaker 1: many of them ran this. Their sports editors probably found
Speaker 1: out just how many of their readers actually read it,
Speaker 1: because by the time Jack Cutty wrote this, he had
Speaker 1: been a national sports reporter for seven years and a
Speaker 1: journalist a hard news reporter for about fifteen before that.
Speaker 1: This still is what untold readers of papers that carried
Speaker 1: the work of United Press read just hours before lou
Speaker 1: Garrig gave his Luckiest man on the Face of the
Speaker 1: Earth speech In this corner, Jack Cutty rights on the
Speaker 1: retirement of lou Gereg by Jack Cutdy, New York. There's
Speaker 1: only one thing I see wrong about the celebration of
Speaker 1: the fourth of July, and that's the national shedding of
Speaker 1: tears about a husky named lou Gereg, which will be
Speaker 1: climaxed with a low Garreg Appreciation Day during the doubleheader
Speaker 1: between the Yanks and Washington at Yankee Stadium. The play
Speaker 1: rights for this Garreg business at the stadium are making
Speaker 1: the affair so touching. I understand that even the little
Speaker 1: boys and gals of our vast land will be unable
Speaker 1: to set off firecrackers and things because of the tears
Speaker 1: that trickle down upon their matches and punks. The whole
Speaker 1: business seems goofy and uncalled for. To me, I see
Speaker 1: no res and for pulling a pall over a holiday
Speaker 1: when everyone should be having lots of fun and peanuts
Speaker 1: popcorn cracker Jackson hot dogs. Particularly, I see no reason
Speaker 1: for pulling this Yankee publicity stunt about Gerreg, who was
Speaker 1: the last man in the world who would go for it,
Speaker 1: unless the Yankee brass Hats and New York Baseball Riders
Speaker 1: snaffled him and forced him into it. Gerrek knows, and
Speaker 1: so should everyone else connected with baseball, that the thirty
Speaker 1: six year old first basement of the Yanks was through
Speaker 1: with top flight play just as soon as he showed
Speaker 1: up at the Yanks training camp at Saint Pete. But
Speaker 1: because lou was the Iron Horse, the man who had
Speaker 1: written into the records that all time mark of two
Speaker 1: one hundred and thirty consecutive championship games, his fade out
Speaker 1: had to be different from that of the ordinary player. Accordingly,
Speaker 1: Greg was sent to a nationally known center of health
Speaker 1: investigation to see what was wrong with him. I'll guarantee
Speaker 1: that if ninety percent of the men, women, and children
Speaker 1: in America were sent to that particular spot, we would
Speaker 1: learn that each and all had something wrong with them,
Speaker 1: even if it were only halatosis, athletes, foot warts, or
Speaker 1: bo I've forgotten exactly what they said was wrong with Greg. Oh, yes,
Speaker 1: I do recall that the first hospital report indicated infantile
Speaker 1: paralysis of a very vague breed, but later the experts
Speaker 1: explained it wasn't infantile paralysis at all, it was something else.
Speaker 1: The ailment had one of those high falutin names that
Speaker 1: only people with plenty of dough or prestige can have. Personally,
Speaker 1: i don't care what Grek has got, but I'd like
Speaker 1: to exchange my body for his during the next forty
Speaker 1: or fifty years, let us say, And I'm pretty sure
Speaker 1: I'd do all right. Regardless of the experts argument over
Speaker 1: the last or Greek declensions of what lariping Loo may
Speaker 1: or may not have, it seems to me that greg
Speaker 1: was merely getting too old to play hell for leather baseball,
Speaker 1: and that the scientists of ailments or advertising gave him
Speaker 1: a graceful exit. But what really brings water to my
Speaker 1: eyes on this particular fourth of July is the plight
Speaker 1: of Monty Stratton, a lad who was right in his prime,
Speaker 1: only twenty five years old, a lad who never had
Speaker 1: the chance to amass the fortune that must be Garrick's
Speaker 1: gerreg too old for championship Baseball will be out there
Speaker 1: tomorrow with his mysterious ailment, able to get about as
Speaker 1: actively as any one of his piano leg build should
Speaker 1: at thirty six. But poor Monty Stratton is hobbling about
Speaker 1: the coaches box of the Chicago White Sox with an
Speaker 1: artificial leg, clinking about where his own right leg should be.
Speaker 1: There is no question about what happened to Stratton. He
Speaker 1: shot himself in the leg accidentally while hunting down Texas
Speaker 1: Way last November, and the right leg had to be
Speaker 1: amputated at the knee. At the time this accident happened,
Speaker 1: Stratton stood out as one of the best right handed
Speaker 1: flingers in the American League. They gave him a Stratton
Speaker 1: Day in Chicago this season and he got about twenty
Speaker 1: grand out of it, about the same as his salary
Speaker 1: for a year. Gerrig has been named non playing captain
Speaker 1: for the All Star Interleague Game at Yankee Stadium a
Speaker 1: week from Tuesday, along with tomorrow's Garreg Day. But it
Speaker 1: seems to me that poor Monty Stratton could have been
Speaker 1: appointed batting practice pitcher at least for the All Star Game.
Speaker 1: And if we've got to shed tears tomorrow for some
Speaker 1: afflicted ballplayer, let's give them off for poor Monty instead
Speaker 1: of for lucky lou Jack Cutty everybody. Twenty three months later,
Speaker 1: lou gereg was dead. Monty Stratton, the innocent bystander in
Speaker 1: this hindenburg of a sports column who had been on
Speaker 1: a possible Hall of Fame trajectory, actually made a comeback
Speaker 1: on one leg, and seven years later in the low
Speaker 1: minor leagues, he won eighteen games pitching for the Sherman
Speaker 1: Twins of the East Texas League. He pitched sporadically thereafter
Speaker 1: until the age of forty one. By then a film
Speaker 1: version based on his life had been made. It starred
Speaker 1: Jimmy Stewart. Monty Stratton died in nineteen eighty two, seven
Speaker 1: years and one week after the writer, Jack Cutty died.
Speaker 1: Jack Cutty had himself died thirty four years after Lou
Speaker 1: Garrig died, and thirty six years after he had offered
Speaker 1: to trade bodies with Lou Gereg. Not only did mister
Speaker 1: Cutty never apparently correct the Garreg article, but United Press
Speaker 1: apparently did not punish him in any way for having
Speaker 1: written it. He continued to cover boxing for UP and
Speaker 1: UPI for another twenty five years, and his obituary appeared
Speaker 1: in the New York Times. It did not mention his
Speaker 1: column about Lou Garrick, but a man named Jimmy Powers
Speaker 1: died in February of nineteen ninety five. He too got
Speaker 1: an oh bit in The Times, and it too did
Speaker 1: not mention his Lou Garrick article, which is, believe it
Speaker 1: or not, probably much worse than Jack Cutties. Jimmy Powers
Speaker 1: article appeared on Sunday, August eighteenth, nineteen forty. It covered
Speaker 1: much of two pages in the New York Daily News.
Speaker 1: Powers was sports editor there from nineteen thirty six until
Speaker 1: his retirement in nineteen fifty nine. He would eventually grudgingly,
Speaker 1: sparingly apologize for this uneducated dreck that he wrote. But
Speaker 1: I worked with people at the start of my career
Speaker 1: who had worked with him. It was only about twenty
Speaker 1: years between us, they said, was clear that he continued
Speaker 1: to believe that it was likely that he was right,
Speaker 1: and that Greg had somehow infected his Yankee teammates with
Speaker 1: some kind of milder version of als that cost them
Speaker 1: the nineteen forty American League pennant No, I am not
Speaker 1: kidding The New York Daily News, August eighteenth, nineteen forty.
Speaker 1: The headline read, has Polio hit the Yankees? The Yankees, who,
Speaker 1: for the past four years have been one of the
Speaker 1: greatest baseball machines in history and almost universally selected to
Speaker 1: win the pennet again have collapsed. Why has the mysterious
Speaker 1: polio germ which felled lou Geig also struck his former teammates,
Speaker 1: turning a once great team into a floundering non contender.
Speaker 1: According to overwhelming opinion of the medical profession, poliomylitis, similar
Speaker 1: to infantile paralysis, is communicable. The Yanks were exposed to
Speaker 1: it at its most acute stage. They played ball with
Speaker 1: the afflicted Garrig, dressed and undressed in the locker room
Speaker 1: with him, traveled, played cards and ate with him. Isn't
Speaker 1: it possible some of them also became infected. It's hard
Speaker 1: to believe mere coincidence can explain away the wholesale failure
Speaker 1: of the individuals. In Gerrig's case, one of the most
Speaker 1: prominent symptoms was loss of muscular power. The same symptom
Speaker 1: can be found in many of the Yanks today. So far,
Speaker 1: no one has been able to advance a satisfactory reason
Speaker 1: for it, not without precedent. The possibility of wholesale team
Speaker 1: infection is not entirely without precedent. Last fall, the Loyola
Speaker 1: University football team was faced with the same menace from
Speaker 1: infantile paralysis, a greatly similar disease communicated in the same manner.
Speaker 1: A player collapsed in the dressing room was rushed to
Speaker 1: a hospital where it was determined he had developed paralysis.
Speaker 1: The entire squad was quarantined and examined. Two other players
Speaker 1: were discovered bearing the germ caught from their unfortunate teammate. Luckily,
Speaker 1: the infection was detected at the earliest stage. Injections killed
Speaker 1: the germ and brought complete recovery. In the Textbook of
Speaker 1: Nervous Disorders by Robert Bing, professor of neurology at the
Speaker 1: University of Basel in Switzerland, are found the following pertinent facts. One,
Speaker 1: the disease appears in a majority of cases between the
Speaker 1: ages of thirty and fifty five. Most of the players
Speaker 1: with the anksor in their thirties, with the exception of Gordon,
Speaker 1: the others are close to them. Two. Among causes found
Speaker 1: for the disease are over exposure to cold and exhausting
Speaker 1: disease or capital letters over exertion. Ballplayers certainly are called
Speaker 1: upon for more than normal exertion, as were the Yanks
Speaker 1: at a time when they were exposed to the germ. Three,
Speaker 1: Regarding the effect on the legs, where it probably would
Speaker 1: be most noticeable in ballplayers for a comparatively long period
Speaker 1: of time, the lower extremities remain normal, except for marked
Speaker 1: exaggeration of their reflexes. Atrophy of the leg muscles may
Speaker 1: not occur until the late stages of the disease. Thus
Speaker 1: a player might be able to run and move as
Speaker 1: well as ever while the germ was sapping his strength
Speaker 1: in less noticeable parts such as hands, arms, and shoulders.
Speaker 1: Club players worried. Club officials and players have been worried
Speaker 1: that such a general infection existed. They took special precautionary
Speaker 1: measures to prevent it. Individual drinking cups were provided. Each
Speaker 1: player took care to use only his own towel. Special
Speaker 1: provisions were made for laundering uniforms and underclothing among the players.
Speaker 1: Bill Dickey last winter made a special trip to the
Speaker 1: Mayo Brothers Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota for a thorough physical checkup.
Speaker 1: This coming winter Atlee, Donald rad Ralph and several others
Speaker 1: are considering similar checkups. The fear of the disease had
Speaker 1: a psychological effect. It preyed on the minds of the
Speaker 1: athletes exaggerated minor aches, pains, and ailments which ordinarily they
Speaker 1: would have ignored. Practically, the entire club had noticed Garrig's symptoms,
Speaker 1: became aware of, and worried about nerve and muscular reactions
Speaker 1: they had never been conscious of previously. Club officials believe
Speaker 1: they have finally defeated this psychological sword of damocles. These
Speaker 1: nervous and muscular reactions could always be traced to an injury,
Speaker 1: a slight bump or bruise. This apparently was the savior
Speaker 1: for in Greg's case, no injury could be traced down
Speaker 1: to explain his early symptoms. However, the shadow of doubt
Speaker 1: must still linger, for in the same volume by Professor
Speaker 1: Byng is this quote, I have described a case of
Speaker 1: traumatic median neuritis which later developed into a typical lateral
Speaker 1: ammiothrophic sclerosis. The note the latter is the medical term
Speaker 1: for Gareg's ailment and indicates that the particular form of
Speaker 1: paralysis which afflicted Gareg might develop from neritis. Alderman note no,
Speaker 1: not quite. Doctor Robert F. Walsh, Yank physician and surgeon,
Speaker 1: and Earl V. Painter, Yank trainer, each nationally famous in
Speaker 1: his profession are the men closest to the physical well
Speaker 1: being of the players. They answer emphatically that no such
Speaker 1: condition exists on the club. Here is doctor Walsh's opinion quote.
Speaker 1: Though at first there was a very definite possibility of
Speaker 1: the entire team becoming afflicted, there is now no indication
Speaker 1: of it. Had the disease stricken, there would have been
Speaker 1: a noticeable change in the physical appearance of those to
Speaker 1: whom the disease had been communicated. There would not be
Speaker 1: the slightest doubt remaining that the stricken individual or individuals
Speaker 1: were infected. Unquote. Medics support Walsh. Doctor Walsh's statement is
Speaker 1: supported by the current medical belief that the infection will
Speaker 1: reveal itself within six weeks of the time of contact. However,
Speaker 1: with the medical profession admitting a meager knowledge of the disease,
Speaker 1: there is the possibility a lingering means of infection exists,
Speaker 1: that the disease may be communicated in a different form,
Speaker 1: and that it may be chronic as well as acute,
Speaker 1: as in Gerrig's case. Thus, the possibility that the Yanks
Speaker 1: are so infected still exists. Doc Painter, in an equally
Speaker 1: definite denial takes a different slant. He says, quote, in
Speaker 1: view of the circumstances, I can understand how one might
Speaker 1: be led to a plausible hypothesis that the team has
Speaker 1: been stricken with this disease. However, I have absolutely no
Speaker 1: belief in it. There is no similarity between the symptoms
Speaker 1: of these individual cases and Garrigs Lou suffered from deterioration
Speaker 1: of the nervous system. The trouble with these other boys
Speaker 1: is something entirely different. To point out one example, Ralph
Speaker 1: suffers from a blood rather than an nervous disorder. Are
Speaker 1: Yanks infected? Nevertheless, there is another point to be remembered.
Speaker 1: Gerg slipped perceptibly as a ballplayer about mid season in
Speaker 1: nineteen thirty eight. Almost a year later, when he reported
Speaker 1: for spring training, there was still no suspicion he was
Speaker 1: afflicted by this disease. In fact, not until June, when
Speaker 1: he visited the Mayo clinic was his ailment definitely determined.
Speaker 1: All of which apparently leaves a complete and final answer
Speaker 1: still to be made. Something has happened to the Yanks
Speaker 1: if Greg passed through a stage in which the cause
Speaker 1: of his ineffectiveness was undetermined isn't it possible? Such is
Speaker 1: also the case with many of the Yanks today. Jimmy
Speaker 1: Powers article August nineteen forty, accompanying that, by the way,
Speaker 1: which I have spared you, was a sidebar, a two
Speaker 1: or three line analysis of the underperformances of ten specific
Speaker 1: Yankee players, ending in bold faced print with this final
Speaker 1: word from Jimmy Powers. Can coincidence explain these simultaneous ailments?
Speaker 1: Couldn't the polio germ be the common cause? No? It couldn't.
Speaker 1: You idiot that morning that that was published, lou Gegg
Speaker 1: who did not have polio, who did not have the
Speaker 1: other disease described by doctor Bing. Lou Gereg had amiotropic
Speaker 1: lateral sclerosis, and he had two hundred and eighty nine
Speaker 1: more days to live. Jimmy Powers was not suspended by
Speaker 1: the New York Daily News, not demoted, not fired, not
Speaker 1: branded with a scarlet letter a for asshole or anything else.
Speaker 1: In fact, he became one of the first sportswriters to
Speaker 1: move into television as a commentator on NBC's Friday Night
Speaker 1: Fights in the fifties. I did not read you these
Speaker 1: to spoil your July fourth, nor any other of your days,
Speaker 1: nor to darken the commemorations and remembrances of lou Garrick.
Speaker 1: I read them just to provide a little perspective on
Speaker 1: media and opinion and the strongest, most unstoppable force in
Speaker 1: the world, a journalist who thinks he's right even though
Speaker 1: everybody else around him begs him to realize that he's wrong. Occasionally,
Speaker 1: that motivation gives us things like Bob Woodward and Carl
Speaker 1: Bernstein and Watergate reporting. Occasionally it gives us Bob Woodward
Speaker 1: sitting on tapes of Trump admitting as it began that
Speaker 1: COVID would be airborne and a disaster, sitting on those
Speaker 1: tapes until Wodward could get himself a book deal. And
Speaker 1: occasionally it gives us Jack Cuddy implying lou Gegg has
Speaker 1: a cold, and Jimmy Powers insisting lou Gereg had irresponsibly
Speaker 1: infected his teammates with the disease he didn't have, but
Speaker 1: Powers thought he did because part of the original diagnosis
Speaker 1: included a reference to another disease with the word polio
Speaker 1: in it. June two, lou Garrig Day, just a reminder
Speaker 1: that people like Cutty in Powers have always been with us,
Speaker 1: only now they're called Jake Tapper. I've done all the
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