Speaker 1: Countdown with Keith Olderman is a production of iHeartRadio. Trump's
Speaker 1: tariffs are not legal. In a late decision by the
Speaker 1: US Court of International Trade on Wednesday evening, an Obama judge,
Speaker 1: a Reagan judge, and a Trump judge walk into a
Speaker 1: courtroom and overturn all of the tariffs. That's all, as
Speaker 1: in one hundred percent or one hundred and forty five percent,
Speaker 1: if that seems like a more fitting number for this story.
Speaker 1: Trump had used the nineteen seventy seven federal Economic Emergency
Speaker 1: laws to impose these tariffs, and this three judge panel
Speaker 1: the US Court of International Trade said, sorry, tariffs were
Speaker 1: not among the weapons allocated to the president even in
Speaker 1: the event of a federal economic emergency, which they did
Speaker 1: not prove, and no one bothered to prove any indication
Speaker 1: anywhere in any law in the Constitution, anywhere else, any
Speaker 1: statute anywhere, that the president had the right single handedly
Speaker 1: to impose tariffs without the approval of Congress. They have
Speaker 1: given the Trump administration ten days to halt all tariffs.
Speaker 1: The Trump administration has already appealed. What is interesting as
Speaker 1: a sideline to this is the corporations that were affected
Speaker 1: by these tariffs, including the ones that were pushed to
Speaker 1: the brink of true economic peril, did nothing about them.
Speaker 1: They knew these tariffs were illegal, or at minimum illegally
Speaker 1: applied and did not have anything behind it legally, and
Speaker 1: they did nothing. They rolled over rather than challenged Trump
Speaker 1: in court. This is a series of states and other
Speaker 1: groups that sued and got these tariffs at least halted,
Speaker 1: at least halted pending an appeal. In retrospect, perhaps it
Speaker 1: was a mistake by the Department of Justice, under Trump's guidance,
Speaker 1: to tell this US Court of International Trade that it
Speaker 1: had no right to review the president's actions. It said
Speaker 1: this to this court repeatedly throughout this process. He got elected.
Speaker 1: That's the only law now round here. Premise it did
Speaker 1: not go well for Trump in the slightest. No matter
Speaker 1: what happens in terms of the appeal, presumably the halting
Speaker 1: will be itself halted, and the ten days to stop
Speaker 1: the tariffs will not go into effect until the appeal
Speaker 1: is heard. But who knows. Like everything else about this
Speaker 1: misbegotten presidency and this misbegotten man, the details remain left
Speaker 1: to be sorted out by others. He is in charge
Speaker 1: of one thing, and one thing only breaking shit. In
Speaker 1: a totally unrelated bit of timing, Elon Musk has now
Speaker 1: officially bailed out, saying, well, it was scheduled for this
Speaker 1: to be the time for him to bail out of
Speaker 1: douche or whatever that was called again, but he is
Speaker 1: now no longer associated with the government. They had been
Speaker 1: gradually fading him out anyway, to the point where, like
Speaker 1: the cheshire cat in the story, all that was left
Speaker 1: was his stoned grin. And we can now ask the question,
Speaker 1: remember Elon Musk. One final note here, pending obviously days
Speaker 1: of further litigation and bombbast to come, how dare the
Speaker 1: judges never elected make a decision instead of our god Trump,
Speaker 1: who was elected in a minority vote by a minority
Speaker 1: of voters. One last note here Stephen Miller, who is
Speaker 1: nominally has nothing to do with this particular aspect of
Speaker 1: the Trump would be dictatorship. Stephen Miller announced this to
Speaker 1: his waiting world of human scorpions by retweeting the right
Speaker 1: wing nebish Bennie Johnson, and I don't know if I
Speaker 1: can think of anything that says more authoritatively, I am
Speaker 1: a serious and powerful government figure that you should be
Speaker 1: afraid of nothing, says that more resonantly than our team,
Speaker 1: a guy named Benny, and adding to Benny's reporting, the
Speaker 1: judicial coup is out of control. Do you see what happens?
Speaker 1: Gretchen Whitmer? Do you see what happens? Tim Cook? Do
Speaker 1: you see what happens? Jake Tapper, Claire Shipman, Eugene Daniels,
Speaker 1: CBS News, Bob Iger, do you see what happens when
Speaker 1: you let Trump? Well, if you know the movie The
Speaker 1: Big Lebowski, you know the twist on the rest of
Speaker 1: that speech. It's not pretty. It is, however, completely accurate.
Speaker 1: Stop capitulating to Trump, stop negotiating with Trump, stop appeasing Trump,
Speaker 1: stop letting Trump, etc. There is only one way Apple
Speaker 1: is going to survive Trump. Tim Cook, There is only
Speaker 1: one way Columbia is going to survive Trump. Claire, there
Speaker 1: is only one way the White House correspondents are going
Speaker 1: to survive Trump. Eugene Daniels. If you haven't figured it
Speaker 1: out yet, I'll spell it out. Doing what he wants
Speaker 1: only tells him you will do what he wants, so
Speaker 1: he will come back and give you another list of
Speaker 1: what he wants. Now he's a blackmailer. He's a crooked businessman,
Speaker 1: He's a bully. There is only one way to survive Trump,
Speaker 1: and that is to destroy Trump's presidency. In a world
Speaker 1: of Columbia's, be a Harvard, in a world of White
Speaker 1: House correspondents, be the Pentagon correspondence, in a world of apples,
Speaker 1: be Walmart. Put your hands on Trump's shoulders and reassure
Speaker 1: him and knee him in the groin. Instead, Gretchen Whitner
Speaker 1: praises Trump. He tricks her into going to a White
Speaker 1: House photo op. She has to cover her face with
Speaker 1: her notebook like a damn purp walk and yesterday, Trump says, yes,
Speaker 1: he is looking into pardoning the men who were convicted
Speaker 1: of trying to kidnap her. Instead, Tim Cook sucks up
Speaker 1: to Trump, and Trump responds by tariffing iPhones twenty five percent. Instead,
Speaker 1: Claire Shipman and Columbia suck up to Trump, and Trump
Speaker 1: responds by trying to put a judge, a Trump judge,
Speaker 1: in charge of Columbia's entire curriculum and hiring and admissions.
Speaker 1: The White House correspondents don't defend the associated present. Trump
Speaker 1: comes back and takes all their repertorial choices away from them.
Speaker 1: Decides who's going to be on the pool. Eiger gives
Speaker 1: Trump a bribe disguised as a settlement, and Trump threatens
Speaker 1: to take away Iiger's station licenses. Instead, CBS so hoard
Speaker 1: itself out that it's sixty minutes. Chief quit, that it's news.
Speaker 1: Chief quit. Now it is being mocked by The New
Speaker 1: York Post. The New York Post mocking Sherry Redstone and
Speaker 1: reporting that her board is flinching at her bribe settlement
Speaker 1: of Trump because paramount's insurance doesn't cover bribe settlements and
Speaker 1: there may be a congressional investigation of their bribe settlements
Speaker 1: and civil or criminal charges against her. Instead of doing something,
Speaker 1: Jake Tapper tries to throw the Trump Biden debate to
Speaker 1: Trump by refusing to fact check him, destroys his own reputation,
Speaker 1: destroys CNN's reputation, has no space remaining in journalism, so
Speaker 1: he has to put his name on a Biden acuity
Speaker 1: book now bombing so badly that to drum up publicity
Speaker 1: for it, he had to apologize to Lara Effing Trump
Speaker 1: that he had to go on Piers effing Morgan and
Speaker 1: insists and actually say as an adult, as an American
Speaker 1: as a supposed TV newscaster actually say that the Biden
Speaker 1: story was in many ways a scandal worse than Watergate.
Speaker 1: Jake Tapper's colleagues at CNN are now refusing to work
Speaker 1: with him. His career is melting before his eyes. It
Speaker 1: is so bad. Somebody on Twitter wrote that Jake's quote
Speaker 1: book tour is turning into spinal tap, where they started
Speaker 1: out in stadiums and end as openers for a puppet show.
Speaker 1: Is standing up to Trump pain free? Hell no. Harvard
Speaker 1: tells Trump to f off, sues him. He comes back
Speaker 1: and tries to expel all of their sixty five hundred,
Speaker 1: sixty six hundred foreign students, thinking this not only screws
Speaker 1: the foreigners, but it will also bankrupt Harvard or something,
Speaker 1: because of course there aren't sixty five hundred or sixty
Speaker 1: six hundred other students turned down by Harvard who wouldn't
Speaker 1: say yes if they got a new callback. Harvard turned
Speaker 1: me down in April nineteen seventy five, and I might
Speaker 1: still say yes if I got a new callback, and
Speaker 1: I mean a callback today. So Trump then cuts off
Speaker 1: one hundred million in grants to Harvard and threatens to
Speaker 1: vet the social media of all foreign students in this country,
Speaker 1: and he's out of weapons. The classic case of the bully.
Speaker 1: He'll threaten you, he'll hit you, and then he runs
Speaker 1: out because he has no backup plan. Now Harvard can
Speaker 1: keep suing him, and people at Harvard can sleep at night.
Speaker 1: Because the point is Trump would have tried to expel
Speaker 1: foreign students anyway, and would have cut off the one
Speaker 1: hundred million dollars anyway soon or late, because that's what
Speaker 1: he does. That's all he does, that's all he's ever done.
Speaker 1: He just does it faster to you. If it's obvious
Speaker 1: to him, you are going to make it easier for him.
Speaker 1: If you were as crazy and as malicious and as
Speaker 1: non human as Trump is, wouldn't you do it that way?
Speaker 1: If you were Ted Bundy Trump, would you murder the
Speaker 1: companies that put up a fight or murder the ones
Speaker 1: that just sit there? What can Harvard now get away with?
Speaker 1: One of the op ed people on the student newspaper
Speaker 1: writes a column saying she knows how to settle this
Speaker 1: with Trump and his administration. She has challenged Secretary of
Speaker 1: I didn't get any education. Linda McMahon, the ex wife
Speaker 1: of the wrestling jackass. She has challenged Linda McMahon to
Speaker 1: settle this in a wrestling cage match, Rah Voe. One
Speaker 1: can argue that Harvard's moral victory here, and it's actually
Speaker 1: two or three dozen moral victories are the proverbial p
Speaker 1: in the dark suit, a warm feeling nobody notices. But
Speaker 1: there are also material victories. To contrast the filled with
Speaker 1: inertia White House Correspondence Association, there are the fighting Pentagon correspondents.
Speaker 1: The impeccable Oliver Darcy of The Status Newsletter reports that
Speaker 1: Pete Hegseeth tried to strong ar I'm a CNN producer
Speaker 1: who had been chosen by her peers to be part
Speaker 1: of the small pool traveling with the Secretary of Greasy Kids,
Speaker 1: stuff and Scotch to Singapore. They didn't want Haley Britsky
Speaker 1: to go. They didn't like her tweets. Seriously, these are
Speaker 1: alleged grown ups. They didn't make her tweets, so they
Speaker 1: banned her. They said, no, you can't go as part
Speaker 1: of the pool, and her Pentagon media colleagues, unlike the
Speaker 1: White House Correspondence Association, promptly told the Pentagon Press office
Speaker 1: to f off Britsky doesn't go. Nobody goes. Nobody goes.
Speaker 1: Heg Seth doesn't get to be on TV and in articles,
Speaker 1: and to thus gaze longingly at himself. He'd have to
Speaker 1: go back to carrying a dozen mirrors with him at
Speaker 1: all times. The Pentagon folded like one of heg Seth's
Speaker 1: cheap suits. Britsky went a small victory, and presumably if
Speaker 1: Trump understood what it meant, he'd reproach heg Seth. But this,
Speaker 1: of course is way down on the list of things
Speaker 1: Trump will eventually fire Hegseth for, certainly when it looks
Speaker 1: like heg Seth had the Pentagon got the NSA to
Speaker 1: wiretap people in the Pentagon without the slightest authorization, without
Speaker 1: the slightest concern for the laws, because efet, what do
Speaker 1: you expect when you hire the weekend fill in fox
Speaker 1: guy and not some first string fox guy. But it
Speaker 1: underscores the point. The bully is going to hit you.
Speaker 1: Appease him. He will hit you, hit him, he will
Speaker 1: hit you. But guess which way causes him to stop
Speaker 1: hitting you fastest. Guess which way causes him the most pain.
Speaker 1: Tim Cook's response to Trump's threat of a twenty five
Speaker 1: percent tariff on iPhone should be something equally as crazy,
Speaker 1: something like saying, starting September first, Apple will no longer
Speaker 1: sell iPhones in this country, and if you want one,
Speaker 1: you're gonna have to go to the secondary market or
Speaker 1: into Canada. Fight insanity with more insanity. What do you
Speaker 1: think you're obligated to actually stop selling iPhones here just
Speaker 1: because you say you're gonna stop selling iPhones here? This
Speaker 1: is Trump's America. You can lie all you want, You
Speaker 1: can deny you ever said it. They can play the
Speaker 1: tape and you can say, oh, it's Ai. The value
Speaker 1: of all this, of course, is that even if you
Speaker 1: have made the terrible mistake of appeasing Trump, you can renege.
Speaker 1: Even at the late hour. Claire pull the plug on
Speaker 1: the deal Columbia made with him. Iiger tell him you've
Speaker 1: changed your mind and you're now suing him. CBS Paramount
Speaker 1: Board tell Sherry if she wants to settle with Trump,
Speaker 1: it's going to come out of her paycheck. Do something.
Speaker 1: This entire dynamic now becomes meaningful, not just a test
Speaker 1: of moral clarity. And whether you remember the lesson the
Speaker 1: bully in the schoolyard should have taught you namely the
Speaker 1: moment he touches you stab him. Trump is now trying
Speaker 1: the same bullshit with Putin. Something has happened to him. Putin,
Speaker 1: he's gone absolutely crazy. It will lead to the downfall
Speaker 1: of Russia. When that didn't make Putin cry or run
Speaker 1: home to mommy, Trump escalated. What Vladimir Putin doesn't realize
Speaker 1: is that if it weren't for me, lots of really
Speaker 1: bad things would have already happened to Russia. And I
Speaker 1: mean really bad. He's playing with fire. Firstly, congratulations Trump,
Speaker 1: you just confess that you have been protecting Russia, an
Speaker 1: enemy of this country, a foreign power in opposition to
Speaker 1: the United States of America. You just confessed Russia, Russia, Russia, true, true, true,
Speaker 1: trees and trees and treason. Nobody asked, you just confessed.
Speaker 1: You just confessed you've been covering up for Putin. Good work,
Speaker 1: stable genius as in horse stables. Secondly, this will stop
Speaker 1: Putin in Ukraine. Trump should have just quoted the self
Speaker 1: own that Shakespeare put into the mouth of King Lear,
Speaker 1: the definition of imfidence, the summit of empty threats. I
Speaker 1: will have such revenges on you both that all the
Speaker 1: world shall I will do such things. What they are
Speaker 1: yet I know not, but they shall be the terrors
Speaker 1: of the earth. I shall have such revenge on you Putin.
Speaker 1: I will do such things bad thing, I mean, really bad.
Speaker 1: We have a vested interest in Putin not responding to
Speaker 1: this the way he ordinarily would think Russia's inexhaustible supply
Speaker 1: of open windows. But Putin will probably have a surgical
Speaker 1: response that humiliates and damages Trump alone, because Trump's tantrum
Speaker 1: may cause Putin to think that Trump's usefulness to him
Speaker 1: is about to run out, and he was going to
Speaker 1: switch to somebody else in a few years. Anyway, JB.
Speaker 1: Vance might as well do that. Now, what's the point
Speaker 1: of owning the president of the United States if you
Speaker 1: can't fire the president of the United States. Stop appeasing Trump,
Speaker 1: and among other reasons, to stop appeasing Trump. When you
Speaker 1: thwart him, when you stand up to him, he dissolves
Speaker 1: into a self fitting, soft, stupid child and looks it
Speaker 1: and sounds it. Apparently he did not know about Taco Taco,
Speaker 1: the New Wall Street acronym about tariffs, the acronym for
Speaker 1: Trump always chickens out taco. When CNBC's Megan Cassella asked
Speaker 1: him about taco yesterday, and I've telescoped this so you
Speaker 1: don't have to listen to the whole meltdown. Trump found
Speaker 1: out about taco for the first time. Trump don't like taco,
Speaker 1: and Walster analysts have pointed a new term called the
Speaker 1: taco trade.
Speaker 2: They're saying Trump always chickens out.
Speaker 1: On tear fres and that's why markets are hired his
Speaker 1: what's your results to that?
Speaker 2: I check out? Check it out?
Speaker 1: Oh checking out.
Speaker 2: I've never heard that. You mean because I reduced China
Speaker 2: from one hundred and forty five percent that I said
Speaker 2: down to one hundred and then because of the tariff,
Speaker 2: because it was so high. But I knew that. But
Speaker 2: don't ever say what you said. That's a nasty question.
Speaker 1: Loser taco, loser appo taco. It's a baseball joke. Incidentally,
Speaker 1: as impressive as that CNBC question was, remember you can
Speaker 1: always rely on the legacy media here. They will always
Speaker 1: let you down. Jack Blanchard, the guy who nearly finished
Speaker 1: destroying Politico Playbook after Ryan Lizi started destroying Political Playbook
Speaker 1: before they moved him off, is now a lame duck
Speaker 1: at Politico playbook, and he wrote glowingly yesterday of Trump's
Speaker 1: cooperation with the media. Quote, Aside from the lamentable attempt
Speaker 1: to ban AP, He's basically taken questions from old comas.
Speaker 1: It's impressive stuff. Yeah, impressive, Governor. Aside from that attempt
Speaker 1: to ban the world's most widely distributed wire service. Oh,
Speaker 1: other than that, he's been impressive taking questions from all comers.
Speaker 1: Trying to ban a news organization, second time in a week.
Speaker 1: Just there, he threatened a reporter over a question he
Speaker 1: didn't like. That's impressive, Jack Blanchard of Politico, That's impressive.
Speaker 1: Do you know what happens if he starts getting away
Speaker 1: with banning the Associated Press or running the White House
Speaker 1: Correspondence Association. You know what happens. Politico disappears. Jack Blanchard
Speaker 1: has to go back to London and busk. Meanwhile, on
Speaker 1: the Fascism for Money Front, Axios reports Stephen Miller and
Speaker 1: Garden Nome are angry that their administration of the undead
Speaker 1: deported just seventeen two hundred people last month. That's actually
Speaker 1: below past presidential administration averages. Miller and Noam want three
Speaker 1: thousand a day, not that I'd ever question the motives
Speaker 1: of such upstanding white trash as Christy Nome and Steven Miller.
Speaker 1: But financial disclosures made public last week revealed that besides
Speaker 1: Attorney General Blondie, you know who else did work for
Speaker 1: the GEO Group, the people to call when you need
Speaker 1: a privately owned, privately operated, vermin filled concentration camp for
Speaker 1: immigrants in your neighborhood. You know who else worked for
Speaker 1: Geo ice scum Tom Holman consulted for them for at
Speaker 1: least two years before Trump put him in charge of
Speaker 1: finding people to put in GEO Group brand concentration camps.
Speaker 1: What a coincidence? And if you miss this, former nursing
Speaker 1: home scumbag Paul Waalsack Walsack as in Ballsack, pleads guilty
Speaker 1: to tax crimes. The judge gives him eighteen months, says
Speaker 1: their quote is not a get out of jail free
Speaker 1: card for the rich. Then Ballsack's mom a Trump donor
Speaker 1: named Elizabeth Fago Fago, I'm praying it's Fago. Elizabeth Fago
Speaker 1: gets an invitation to a Trump event at Mary Lago
Speaker 1: see if it would never mind. The invite comes either
Speaker 1: just before or just after her son is sentenced. No
Speaker 1: got out of jail free card for the rich. The
Speaker 1: price for admission to the Trump event is one million
Speaker 1: dollars to Trump. Three weeks after the dinner, Ballsack, her
Speaker 1: son gets a pardon because there is a get out
Speaker 1: of jail free card. Of course, it is not free.
Speaker 1: This story got wildly and widely covered, but I don't
Speaker 1: remember seeing it connected to a story from two years ago.
Speaker 1: This month, anybody else remember Rudy Giuliani's reported boasts that
Speaker 1: presidential pardons were available for purchase at popular prices without
Speaker 1: a prescription, two million dollars each, half to him, half
Speaker 1: to uh Trump. That is what a woman named Noel Dunfie,
Speaker 1: who sued Juliani for sexual abuse, says Guliani told her
Speaker 1: in twenty nineteen. And she says she has countless recordings
Speaker 1: of their encounters. And I don't know if she recorded
Speaker 1: on any of the part about the pardons, and I
Speaker 1: don't know if she's telling the truth. And I have
Speaker 1: even less of an idea of whether or not he
Speaker 1: Giuliani was telling the truth about being able to do this.
Speaker 1: But Dunfee's attorney claimed Giuliani quote asked miss Dunfie if
Speaker 1: she knew anyone in need of a pardon, telling her
Speaker 1: that he was selling pardons for two million dollars, which
Speaker 1: he and President Trump would split. He told Miss Dunfie
Speaker 1: that she could refer individuals seeking pardons to him, so
Speaker 1: long as they did not go through the normal channels
Speaker 1: of the Office of the Pardon Attorney, because correspondence going
Speaker 1: to that office would be subject to disclosure under the
Speaker 1: Freedom of Information Act twenty nineteen. Pardons for Sale, Pardons
Speaker 1: for sale, Get your pardons here, hot roasted pardons two
Speaker 1: millions apiece funny dog gun thing, though huh Giuliani allegedly
Speaker 1: boasts of selling pardons for two million, a million for
Speaker 1: him and a million for Trump, and six years later,
Speaker 1: Trump pardons ball Sack after Mommy Ballsack attends a fundraiser
Speaker 1: and buys a ticket to it, which costs a million
Speaker 1: for Trump. Two of Trump's most ridiculous delusions have now merged. Oops.
Speaker 1: Turns out he threatened Canada before he realized he would
Speaker 1: need Canada to participate in this science fiction Golden Dome
Speaker 1: bullshit that Musk must have convinced him to buy from Musk.
Speaker 1: I told Canada you got everybody in Canada just sort
Speaker 1: of sit still while you talk to them. I told Canada,
Speaker 1: I told Mars, I told God, I told Jesus. I
Speaker 1: told my invisible friend Stanley. I told Canada, which very
Speaker 1: much wants to be part of our fabulous Golden Dome system,
Speaker 1: that it will cost sixty one billion dollars if they
Speaker 1: remain a separate but unequal nation, but will cost zero
Speaker 1: dollars if they become our cherished fifty first state. They
Speaker 1: are considering the offer. Couple notes. One, If you don't
Speaker 1: have Canadian outposts in your Golden Dome, your Golden Dome
Speaker 1: would never be aware of missions or flights or missiles
Speaker 1: coming in from the north, the northeast, or the northwest
Speaker 1: until about five ten seconds before they hit. Canada does
Speaker 1: not need the Golden Dome. You trump need Canada. Two.
Speaker 1: Golden Dome is not going to work. The dome idea
Speaker 1: Ronald Reagan star wars under a different name. It barely
Speaker 1: works in Israel. Israel measures eight five hundred and twenty
Speaker 1: two square miles. The United States measures three million, eight
Speaker 1: hundred and nine five hundred and twenty five square miles. Three.
Speaker 1: The Golden Dome is at Notre Dame. Four, The only
Speaker 1: Golden Dome Trump is actually associated with is his hair,
Speaker 1: and five Canada is not, in fact, considering the offer.
Speaker 1: Also off the wire, Wired magazine quotes staffers of Nancy Mace,
Speaker 1: the house whack job who isn't Marjorie Stupid Green or
Speaker 1: Lauren Bobert staffers who say she set up burners on
Speaker 1: social media to boost her rep quoting Wired. Quoting a
Speaker 1: former Mace staffer, we had to make multiple accounts, burner accounts,
Speaker 1: and go and reply to comments saying things that weren't true,
Speaker 1: even on Reddit forums. We were congressional staff and there
Speaker 1: were actual things we could be doing to help the constituents. Wait,
Speaker 1: you're telling me Nancy Mace has burner accounts working to
Speaker 1: help her and her online persona is still that bad man.
Speaker 1: And then there's this, The last surviving grandson of one
Speaker 1: of our former presidents has died at the age of
Speaker 1: ninety six. Sad news, of course, But is it really
Speaker 1: news I mean a grandson, Well, sir, it's news because
Speaker 1: the former president, he was the last surviving grandson of
Speaker 1: that former president, left office on March fourth, eighteen forty five.
Speaker 1: I'll say that again. His grandfather, a US president, left
Speaker 1: office on March fourth, eighteen forty five. His grandson died
Speaker 1: last weekend, one hundred and eighty years and just under
Speaker 1: three months later. He was the tenth US president. He
Speaker 1: was President John Tyler, famous because it was he who
Speaker 1: ascended from the vice presidency went our ninth president. That's
Speaker 1: nine single digits. William Henry Harrison died just thirty one
Speaker 1: days after his inauguration in eighteen forty one. His vice
Speaker 1: president was Tyler. Tyler's grandson just died this past weekend.
Speaker 1: President Tyler fathered a child, not even his last child.
Speaker 1: He wasn't even in the White House yet. His third
Speaker 1: to last child, Lion Gardner Tyler, fathered when the ex
Speaker 1: president was sixty three years old. That was in eighteen
Speaker 1: fifty three. Lion Gardner Tyler fathered a son at seventy five,
Speaker 1: That would have been on November ninth, nineteen twenty eight.
Speaker 1: The son was born, and that son was Harrison Ruffin Tyler,
Speaker 1: and he was the guy who died over the holiday weekend.
Speaker 1: Three generations and you are back to the year President
Speaker 1: Tyler was born. The year President Tyler was born was
Speaker 1: seventeen ninety three generations. The last of them just shuffled off.
Speaker 1: It takes you back to March March twenty ninth, seventeen
Speaker 1: night March twenty ninth, seventeen ninety, or as we called
Speaker 1: it around the house, Grandpa's birthday. Also of interest here,
Speaker 1: By the way, I'm sixty six. It was not a
Speaker 1: top ten priority on my list, but I have in
Speaker 1: the last I don't know, three decades, regretted not having children.
Speaker 1: Harrison Ruffman. Tyler's father was seventy five. His father was
Speaker 1: sixty three, So send tapes and resumes to okay, never mind.
Speaker 1: Also of interest here, in two thousand and one, Rupert
Speaker 1: Murdoch fired me personally for reporting the story he didn't like,
Speaker 1: after I had called my bosses and Rupert's office to
Speaker 1: get the approval to report the story. Now Rupert Murdoch's
Speaker 1: chief minions are firing another reporter from their company for
Speaker 1: reporting another story Trump didn't like. Punchline, the new guy
Speaker 1: getting the Olderman treatment, did a story last year on me.
Speaker 1: That's next. This is Countdown. This is Countdown with Keith
Speaker 1: Oberman still ahead on this edition of Countdown. I've never
Speaker 1: done this before, but the thing I promised not to
Speaker 1: tell is going to be exactly the same thing I
Speaker 1: promised not to tell in the episode of Monday of
Speaker 1: this week, the same recording, because impossibly, between the first
Speaker 1: running and now it has become relevant to another media
Speaker 1: story involving the same company, which you'll hear about in
Speaker 1: a moment that's next in Things I promise not to tell.
Speaker 1: So if you heard Monday's, feel free to skip today.
Speaker 1: In fact, feel free to skip today's anyway, even if
Speaker 1: you didn't hear mondays, what am I your boss? First?
Speaker 1: Believe it or not, there's still more new idiots to
Speaker 1: talk about. The roundup of the miss Grants, Morons and
Speaker 1: Dunning Kruger effects specimens who constitute the latest other worst
Speaker 1: persons in the world the Brons. Homeland Security Secretary Christie
Speaker 1: Nome with eight new action adventure dress up outfits. Ooh,
Speaker 1: there's a new one. Nine new action adventure dress up
Speaker 1: outfits from the associated press photos. US Homeland Security Secretary
Speaker 1: Nome visits Middle East. Homeland Security Secretary Christi Nome rides
Speaker 1: a camel after a tour of cal At al Bahrain fort.
Speaker 1: First of all, I can report she did not shoot
Speaker 1: this animal. So we have slight improvement in the life
Speaker 1: of CHRISTI Nome. Secondly, there she is little Turkey, arms bared,
Speaker 1: wearing the headgear and sunglasses traditional in the Middle East.
Speaker 1: And she's on a camel, simply put, and the camel
Speaker 1: you rode in on. Runner up Jesse Waters of Fox
Speaker 1: Congressman Tim I'm not all here, am I? Burchette Waters
Speaker 1: sent his idiot henchman. That was the role Waters used
Speaker 1: to perform for Bill O'Reilly to ask senators and congressmen
Speaker 1: what they think of waters rules for men. Rule one,
Speaker 1: we're really weird looking hair Burchett responding to the key
Speaker 1: Waters rule, which is men don't drink from straws or
Speaker 1: through straws. And I don't use straws, Burchett, I don't
Speaker 1: drink out of a straw. Brother, That's what the women
Speaker 1: in my house do. Cool Cool, Burchette, Cool Waters. Once again,
Speaker 1: I will point you to idiots to the photo of
Speaker 1: Waters's old boss at Yankee Stadium from about twelve thirteen
Speaker 1: years ago, drinking a milkshake, threw a straw during a
Speaker 1: baseball game while sitting next to another guy drinking a
Speaker 1: milkshake through a straw. A guy named Donald Trump. Congratulations
Speaker 1: Congressman Burchant on calling Donald Trump a woman because he
Speaker 1: used the straw on a milkshake. But the winners the
Speaker 1: scumbag New York Post owned by scumbag Rupert Murdoch and
Speaker 1: its scumbag editor in chief Keith Pool. Once again, Rupert
Speaker 1: Murdoch's real name is Keith. He hired an editor in
Speaker 1: chief for the Post named Keith the doing me dirty.
Speaker 1: And this also, this story hits so close to home.
Speaker 1: Lachland Cartwright's site Breaker, that's Lachland Cartwright, who is not
Speaker 1: named Keith, reports the Post is burying a story that
Speaker 1: would have embarrassed Trump and revealed that his pick to
Speaker 1: run the DEEA had reportedly led two operations that led
Speaker 1: to unnecessary deaths. And then Pool Murdoch on the Post,
Speaker 1: essentially firing the reporter who broke the story after they
Speaker 1: buried his story that they buried that they told him
Speaker 1: to proceed on. A sixteen year veteran of the Post
Speaker 1: no less, let me quote Cartwright's report at some length here.
Speaker 1: It was a pretty amazing scoop, Josh Cosmon explained to
Speaker 1: the Breaker. Cosmon briefed multiple editors at the Post, including
Speaker 1: the business, features and political editors, who all encouraged him
Speaker 1: to pursue the story, but there were early signs of
Speaker 1: external pressure. I was told by a White House press
Speaker 1: person that Caroline Levitt was looking at this real carefully.
Speaker 1: Cosman told Breaker about conversations he was having with the
Speaker 1: White House about Cole that's the DEI guy. After clearing
Speaker 1: several hurdles, including getting two on record sources and speaking
Speaker 1: to more than a dozen former top officials, the story
Speaker 1: was written, edited, and slated to run on Sunday, March
Speaker 1: twenty second, but it continued to be pushed off till
Speaker 1: later in the week. Eventually, Cosmon emailed the post's political
Speaker 1: editor to ask for an update. There's no good way
Speaker 1: to say this, so I'll just say it. Keith Poole
Speaker 1: spiked the story. The Post's political editor emailed Cosmon March
Speaker 1: twenty seven in an email obtained and reviewed by Breaker.
Speaker 1: The bombshell email went on to say I sent him
Speaker 1: the most recent copy. In his response was nope, not
Speaker 1: running this. In a way that made clear there was
Speaker 1: no changing his mind. The editor wrote, I'm very sorry.
Speaker 1: I thought we had the story, but sometimes decisions are
Speaker 1: made above my pay grade. Yeah, that sounds familiar to
Speaker 1: Two weeks later, on April eleventh, Cosmon met with the
Speaker 1: post's business editor and was told that he would either
Speaker 1: have to submit to a performance improvement plan or take
Speaker 1: some time to seek another job. He acknowledged that Keith
Speaker 1: Poole had issues with some recent stories, Cosmon told Breaker.
Speaker 1: On April twenty ninth, CNN published a story about Cole
Speaker 1: under the headline ex agent's question, role of Trump's dea
Speaker 1: pick and violent overseas incidents, detailing many the allegations that
Speaker 1: were in Cosmon's story. For what it's worth, we clearly
Speaker 1: were ahead on the story, Cosmon emailed the political editor.
Speaker 1: In fact, we still have more info in our spiked
Speaker 1: story than CNN's, though the takes are pretty similar. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I know, Josh, the political editor responded nineteen minutes later.
Speaker 1: I always believed in the story, but sometimes decisions are
Speaker 1: made above my head. Unfortunately, when Keith takes actions like this,
Speaker 1: you are catching and killing the story, Cosmon told Breaker.
Speaker 1: Then two weeks later, you're telling me to get out.
Speaker 1: I certainly interpreted it as retaliation. The timing struck me
Speaker 1: as not coincidental. On Tuesday, afternoon, just hours after Breaker
Speaker 1: approached Pool for comments, Cosman was suspended from the New
Speaker 1: York Post with full pay. So let's recap the reporter.
Speaker 1: Cosman asked what the rules were, told his bosses told
Speaker 1: the story, followed their rules, and then the paper buried
Speaker 1: his story and buried him anyway, as I will late
Speaker 1: after this break. Murdoch himself did this to me in
Speaker 1: two thousand and one, although because he was on vacation
Speaker 1: when I broke the story, he wasn't around to bury it.
Speaker 1: So the story ran and I followed all their rules
Speaker 1: and they fired me anyway. And the punchline to this
Speaker 1: when a New York Post reporter called me last September
Speaker 1: to say they were about to update the RFK Junior
Speaker 1: sexting with a New York Magazine reporter story. They're going
Speaker 1: to update this by claiming that I had lived with
Speaker 1: that reporter, Olivia Newsey. The Post reporter was same guy, Cosmin,
Speaker 1: and I did what you have to do in that situation.
Speaker 1: I put the story on Twitter immediately saying yes, this
Speaker 1: is true. I did not do what the Post did.
Speaker 1: When Cosmin came up with the truth and another great story,
Speaker 1: kill it and off him, so the New York Post
Speaker 1: editor Keith Poole and Rupert Scumbag Murdoch two Days, Worst
Speaker 1: Parsones and the wal Fight to the number one story
Speaker 1: on the Countdown and my favorite topic, me and things
Speaker 1: I promised not to tell. Over the weekend watching hockey,
Speaker 1: I had occasion to invoke my days hosting the Baseball
Speaker 1: Game of the Week and the World Series for Fox,
Speaker 1: and it reminded me of the delightful way that ended
Speaker 1: with me being paid one hundred thousand dollars a month
Speaker 1: not to do anything. I have changed jobs a lot,
Speaker 1: and seldom have the departures included gold watches and going
Speaker 1: away parties, at least not going away parties to which
Speaker 1: I was invited. But in forty three years in radio
Speaker 1: and television, I have only actually been fired in the
Speaker 1: traditional sense of go clean out your desk and get
Speaker 1: out twice. Once the order was from a drunken radio
Speaker 1: executive who did not like the fact that I was
Speaker 1: twenty one years old, and he was overruled, and he
Speaker 1: was sent home with a warning by his bosses hours later,
Speaker 1: and I was back on the job forty eight hours
Speaker 1: after that. The other time, when it actually happened, You're fired,
Speaker 1: clean out your desk. That was, unsurprisingly at the hands
Speaker 1: of Rupert Murdoch and Fox, and I mean Rupert Murdoch personally,
Speaker 1: or so he claims. When I finally convinced NBC News
Speaker 1: that I was serious about no longer hosting its Monica
Speaker 1: Lewinsky Athon in nineteen ninety eight, the head of NBC Sports,
Speaker 1: Dick Eversoll, had an ingenious solution. He knew his friends
Speaker 1: at Fox Sports longed to have me front their version
Speaker 1: of SportsCenter, and so he proposed the following NBC would
Speaker 1: give my agent ten days in which to negotiate two deals.
Speaker 1: A deal for me to go to LA and host
Speaker 1: Fox Sports News and Major League Baseball on Fox, and
Speaker 1: another deal in which Fox would pay NBC one million
Speaker 1: dollars for my contract, like I was a mediocre baseball pitcher. Amazingly,
Speaker 1: it worked. I got what was then a record breaking
Speaker 1: salary for any cable sportscaster. Ever, NBC got its million,
Speaker 1: and maybe most startlingly, NBC then asked me to stay
Speaker 1: on the air as a lane duck at MSNBC for
Speaker 1: like six weeks. Curiously throughout my career, no matter how
Speaker 1: abrasive the exit. My Lane Duck employers have always, for
Speaker 1: some reason trusted me to stay on their air, even
Speaker 1: though I was leaving in local news in Los Angeles once.
Speaker 1: I did this for three months. Anyway. At first, going
Speaker 1: to work at Fox Sports was a delight. Their news guys,
Speaker 1: the evil Roger Ales and his henchman John Moody, pitched
Speaker 1: me on doing stuff for them, maybe co anchoring with
Speaker 1: Bill O'Reilly. I'm serious. I passed sports. We spent money.
Speaker 1: I worked with friends. I didn't have to talk about politics.
Speaker 1: I could narrate highlights. I could do funny voices. Way
Speaker 1: downtown Bang I lived on the beach. I mean, my
Speaker 1: next door neighbor was Hawaii. Every time there was a
Speaker 1: newspaper story about ESPN, even though our ratings were terrible,
Speaker 1: there was also my picture in it with a caption
Speaker 1: like challenging ESPN. It was great. But then two things happened.
Speaker 1: The Fox guy, who knew we needed five years at
Speaker 1: minimum just to tie ESPN in the ratings, took me
Speaker 1: to lunch one day and said, sorry, mate, mo missus
Speaker 1: is moving back to England tomorrow without me, so I'm
Speaker 1: going good luck. He was replaced by guys who replaced
Speaker 1: the five year plan with a five week plan to
Speaker 1: raise the ratings by literally one fifth of one point.
Speaker 1: I left that meeting, in which they explained their suicidal
Speaker 1: plan and revealed that my salary represented an unsustainable twenty
Speaker 1: percent of their entire budget, and I called my real
Speaker 1: estate agent and put my house on the beach up
Speaker 1: for sale. Not long after, my doctor gave me a
Speaker 1: physical and a warning, cut back on work and stress
Speaker 1: and everything else, or you can have a heart attack
Speaker 1: ten years from now. I told my bosses this, and
Speaker 1: their response was to blackmail me. We have a clause
Speaker 1: in your contract which allows us to send you on
Speaker 1: the road once a week while you are still working
Speaker 1: five days in the studio. We're going to enforce that
Speaker 1: unless you kick back two thirds of your salary. They
Speaker 1: put this in a document. There are, as the kids, say, receipts.
Speaker 1: So I folded to blackmail because two thirds of three
Speaker 1: million dollars a year is still pretty good. But I
Speaker 1: kept doing the job. In nineteen ninety nine, I broke
Speaker 1: a story that everybody laughed at that Michael Jordan was
Speaker 1: unhappy in retirement and he wanted to come back to
Speaker 1: play in the NBA, but instead of getting a salary,
Speaker 1: he wanted an ownership stake in a team. Two years later,
Speaker 1: he did exactly that. In two thousand, I got to
Speaker 1: host the first Mets Yankees World Series, and hosting baseball
Speaker 1: every Saturday on Fox was a pretty good gig, and
Speaker 1: we were just gearing up for the two thousand and
Speaker 1: one baseball season when I got a tip on April
Speaker 1: twentieth that the owners of the Los Angeles Dodgers had
Speaker 1: unofficially put their team up for sale, and in fact,
Speaker 1: they were talking to the old owners, the O'Malley family,
Speaker 1: about taking the Dodgers off their hands, selling the Dodgers
Speaker 1: back to the son of Walter O'Malley. This was a
Speaker 1: great scoop, but it had great danger because the owners
Speaker 1: of the Dodgers were Fox, my own employers. The next day,
Speaker 1: after getting this scoop, I made about one hundred phone calls,
Speaker 1: and sure enough I got the friend of a friend
Speaker 1: of a friend of my agent to confirm that he
Speaker 1: and his family were in preliminary discussions joining the O'Malleys
Speaker 1: to buy the Dodgers from Fox. Two sources great scoop,
Speaker 1: and that night I reached out to my bosses and said,
Speaker 1: what the hell do we do here? The story is solid,
Speaker 1: The Dodgers are for sale. But look, this is your
Speaker 1: candy store, and I do work for you, and if
Speaker 1: you don't want me to report this, I'm obviously not
Speaker 1: going to report it, and I'm not going to pouch
Speaker 1: and I'm not going to give the story to somebody else.
Speaker 1: My boss has replied, good for you. Why don't we
Speaker 1: all get on the phone with the top rupert. Murdoch
Speaker 1: has his own Personal News Corp Public relations department. Let's
Speaker 1: see what he says. So on Sunday, April twenty second,
Speaker 1: two thousand and one, we got Murdoch's own PR guy
Speaker 1: on the blower and I explained it to him. Now,
Speaker 1: mister Murdoch has a policy about this. He never interferes
Speaker 1: in editorial decisions, not even in sourced business stories, not
Speaker 1: even if they involve him. So long as you make
Speaker 1: it clear your sources are not from within the company,
Speaker 1: and so long as you're confident in your sources, and
Speaker 1: so long as you include our denial, you should proceed
Speaker 1: with this Dodger story. That is what we are paying
Speaker 1: you for. For a brief moment, I thought maybe I
Speaker 1: have misjudged Rupert Murdoch. Well, it turned out to be
Speaker 1: a very brief moment and a very wrong moment. I
Speaker 1: reported the story that night, howls of denials. Five days later, though,
Speaker 1: the Long Beach Press Telegram newspaper had its own story said,
Speaker 1: despite denials, Dodgers are for sale, with far more details
Speaker 1: than I had, And that really was the end of it.
Speaker 1: The team was unofficially for sale. Dodger fans, who hated
Speaker 1: what Fox had done to the team seemed happy, and
Speaker 1: the bast stinking pile of burning excrement that was Fox
Speaker 1: and NewsCorp and Murdoch sailed on unperturbed. But twelve days
Speaker 1: after that, just before I was getting in my car
Speaker 1: to go to the first Fox Baseball meeting for our
Speaker 1: two thousand and one season coverage, the president of Fox Sports,
Speaker 1: yet another Aussie called David Hill, called my agent and
Speaker 1: told her case, not doing any baseball for us this year.
Speaker 1: Business decision click, end of conversation. Nothing else, no firing,
Speaker 1: no get out, no clean out your desk, no announcement.
Speaker 1: But then two days later they turned off my access
Speaker 1: to the Fox computer system, And four days after that
Speaker 1: they called and canceled my cable show, and then that
Speaker 1: night I got two weird calls from Rich Sandomir, who
Speaker 1: was the TV sports critic and TV sports business reporter
Speaker 1: for the New York Times. And Rich asks me, so,
Speaker 1: did you know you got fired by Rupert Murdoch personally?
Speaker 1: And I said, with genuine astonishment that I not only
Speaker 1: didn't know that, but even given my thoughts about Rupert Murdoch,
Speaker 1: I didn't believe that. Well, that's what my sources at
Speaker 1: Fox tell me. Apparently your Dodger story really pissed him off,
Speaker 1: but really, and I said, I had cleared it through
Speaker 1: his personal PR guy. I don't know, Rich Sandomir said,
Speaker 1: apparently he was on vacation and he got back like
Speaker 1: the ninth of this month, and he read all these
Speaker 1: stories about the Dodgers being for sale and how Fox
Speaker 1: Sports was the first to report it, and he called
Speaker 1: up David Hill and he told Hill to fire you immediately.
Speaker 1: So I told Rich, this is the first I have
Speaker 1: heard of this, and I still don't believe it, even
Speaker 1: though the day he mentioned May ninth was the day
Speaker 1: David Hill had called my agent and told her I
Speaker 1: would not be doing baseball for Fox that year. An
Speaker 1: hour later, the phone rings again and it's Rich Sandomir again,
Speaker 1: and he sounds shaken. I got it wrong. I don't
Speaker 1: have any sources at Fox who told me Rupert fired
Speaker 1: you personally. My source said that you were telling people
Speaker 1: Rupert had fired you personally over the Dodger story. And
Speaker 1: I gave Rich a sequence of well, kind of friendly
Speaker 1: uh huhz And I said, no, I didn't, and know
Speaker 1: you've never been dumb enough in your life to make
Speaker 1: the mistake you're saying you just made. And he said, well,
Speaker 1: I never said somebody at Fox said Murdock fired Joe. Ok. Thanks.
Speaker 1: By the next day, they had me come into the
Speaker 1: Fox building on Pico Boulevard and clean out my office
Speaker 1: while a guard watched. And she was a really nice guard.
Speaker 1: In fact, she brought donuts but a lovely way to
Speaker 1: go out. As I packed, I thought more and more
Speaker 1: of what had happened in the month since I had
Speaker 1: gotten that tip about the Dodgers being for sale. As
Speaker 1: I left the Fox lot for the last time as
Speaker 1: an employee, I went back a couple of times to
Speaker 1: attend table reads for the Simpsons. Table reads for the
Speaker 1: Simpsons were much more fun than being an employee at Fox.
Speaker 1: I called a couple of reporters I knew, and my
Speaker 1: agent and some people in the business, and we tried
Speaker 1: to put together a timeline that made some sort of sense,
Speaker 1: because the slow motion firing thing. May ninth, you're not
Speaker 1: doing baseball. May eleventh, your computer won't work. May fifteenth,
Speaker 1: your cable show is canceled. May sixteenth, clean out your office.
Speaker 1: A week long firing made no sense until one reporter
Speaker 1: friend said, you know, Fox called me and said, call
Speaker 1: Keith up and provoke him, get him to call us names,
Speaker 1: tell him about this story and that paper, calling him
Speaker 1: washed up, get him going, And then it all clicked.
Speaker 1: My contract ran through the end of the year two
Speaker 1: thousand and one because Fox was firing me without any
Speaker 1: cause or even claiming there was a cause, without any
Speaker 1: violation of my contract or their rules. Because I had
Speaker 1: left a trail of good behavior on the Dodger story.
Speaker 1: They were trying to enrage me and get me to
Speaker 1: say something nasty that itself would be a violation of
Speaker 1: my contract so they could outright fire me and keep
Speaker 1: the money. And the money still on the contract was
Speaker 1: about eight hundred thousand dollars. Now, after decades of contemplating this,
Speaker 1: I am confident that I am no crazier than the
Speaker 1: next guy, at least not the next guy in television.
Speaker 1: But on my worst, craziest, least rational day, if you
Speaker 1: said you have two choices, Alderman, you can blow up
Speaker 1: these people who are firing you, and you can make
Speaker 1: them look bad in a newspaper for a day and
Speaker 1: then they'll fire you and keep all the money they
Speaker 1: owe you. Or you can keep your big bazoo shut
Speaker 1: for just seven months. You can keep the eight hundred
Speaker 1: thousand dollars, and you can spend the summer doing whatever
Speaker 1: the hell you want, and you can then spend the
Speaker 1: rest of your natural life blowing these people up. If
Speaker 1: that's the choice, I will always take the scenario that
Speaker 1: gives me the eight hundred thousand dollars for doing nothing.
Speaker 1: Always so. On January first, two thousand to after the
Speaker 1: last Fox check cleared, I began making a professional avocation
Speaker 1: out of attacking Fox News, Fox Sports, Fox Business, Fox Murdoch,
Speaker 1: Fox O'Reilly, Fox, Tucker Carlson, whatever. And I got the
Speaker 1: eight hundred thousand dollars, But they're lingered for years. This
Speaker 1: kind of academic question of whether Rupert Murdoch had actually
Speaker 1: fired me for having followed the rules set out by
Speaker 1: his own personal pr guy. As usual, these things resolve
Speaker 1: themselves when you least expect them to. Murdoch was speaking
Speaker 1: at a Dow Jones conference in Carlsbad, California, on May
Speaker 1: twenty eighth, two thousand and eight, seven years to the
Speaker 1: month they got rid of me and a story came
Speaker 1: across the wire with my name on it. The guy
Speaker 1: interviewing him at this conference talked about whether there should
Speaker 1: be dissenting voices on Fox quote news unquote, like that
Speaker 1: guy who was killing it on MSNBC Keith Olderman. Now
Speaker 1: Murdoch barked if fired him five years ago. He was crizy,
Speaker 1: timing was off. But there was Rupert Murdoch confessing in
Speaker 1: front of a crowd that he fired me personally, the
Speaker 1: red badge of courage in quotes. I wondered if it
Speaker 1: still pissed him off that he had to pay me
Speaker 1: the eight hundred thousand dollars when I didn't take the
Speaker 1: grievance bait. Three years after that, Murdoch said it again,
Speaker 1: like I hadn't heard it. The first time. On February first,
Speaker 1: twenty eleven, Rupert Murdoch was interviewed by his business talking
Speaker 1: had Neil Cavudo, who for some reason asked him if
Speaker 1: he would consider hiring me to put me on Fox News.
Speaker 1: Now we fired him once. We don't believe in firing people.
Speaker 1: Twice Kavodo replied, you called him a nut, lady was
Speaker 1: a nut?
Speaker 2: On?
Speaker 1: Well, we had him on late night Fox Sports. There
Speaker 1: was never any such show called late night Fox Sports.
Speaker 1: But never mind went on. It was impossible. I fired him.
Speaker 1: He was crazy, fired me for following his rules, and
Speaker 1: I was the one who was crazy. Finally, speaking of crazy,
Speaker 1: I have had for sixty three nearly sixty four years
Speaker 1: now a love hate relationship with the name Keith. But
Speaker 1: did you know that Rupert Murdoch's real first name is
Speaker 1: also Keith, but that rather than call himself Keith, he
Speaker 1: voluntarily chooses to call himself Rupert. I mean, sure, my
Speaker 1: name is Keith, but at least my name ain't freaking Rupert.
Speaker 1: All the damage I can do here but not as
Speaker 1: much as Rupert Murdoch has. Welcome to the club, mister Cosman,
Speaker 1: Thank you for listening. Brian Ray and John Phillip Shanelle
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Speaker 1: of the music. Mister Chanelle on orchestration, keyboards, Mister Ray
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Speaker 1: my announcer today was my friend Stevie van Zant. Everything
Speaker 1: else was as ever my fault. Let's countdown for today,
Speaker 1: Day one hundred and thirty of America held hostage just
Speaker 1: one three thirty three days until the scheduled end of
Speaker 1: his lame duck and lame brain term unless Putin removes
Speaker 1: him sooner, or the actuarial tables do, or we do
Speaker 1: stop compromising with Trump. The next scheduled countdown is Monday.
Speaker 1: As always, bulletins as the news warrants. Remember he's laying
Speaker 1: the groundwork now to not leave office later. He must
Speaker 1: stop him until next time. I'm Keith Olderman. Good morning,
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