1 00:00:04,755 --> 00:00:08,995 Speaker 1: Countdown with Keith Olderman is a production of I heart radio. 2 00:00:25,755 --> 00:00:29,595 Speaker 1: Remember the scene in the movie The Godfather where, while 3 00:00:29,635 --> 00:00:33,475 Speaker 1: they are baptizing his son, Al Pacino, as Michael Corleone has, 4 00:00:33,595 --> 00:00:37,875 Speaker 1: Victor Stracci whacked in the elevator and moe green whacked 5 00:00:37,875 --> 00:00:40,915 Speaker 1: on the massage table and carmine Cuneo whacked in the 6 00:00:40,915 --> 00:00:43,715 Speaker 1: revolving door and Philip Titalia whacked in his bungalow and 7 00:00:43,755 --> 00:00:46,835 Speaker 1: Emilio Barzini whacked by a fake cop and Sal tessio 8 00:00:46,955 --> 00:00:49,795 Speaker 1: whacked anyway and Carlo Ritzi whacked in the car and 9 00:00:49,835 --> 00:00:53,395 Speaker 1: the Barzini enforcers whacked at the restaurant and Fabrizio whacked 10 00:00:53,435 --> 00:00:58,035 Speaker 1: in Buffalo. Metaphorically, that was the kind of day Donald 11 00:00:58,075 --> 00:01:01,515 Speaker 1: Trump had, except he was all ten of the guys 12 00:01:01,555 --> 00:01:05,275 Speaker 1: from the Godfather who got whacked, most of Portuntly and 13 00:01:05,355 --> 00:01:09,355 Speaker 1: most immediately. Two of his own appellate appointees. Basically said, 14 00:01:09,395 --> 00:01:13,395 Speaker 1: his federal appointee, Eileen Cannon, judged trump's demand that a 15 00:01:13,435 --> 00:01:19,075 Speaker 1: special master review classified documents using incorrect criteria, ignored facts, 16 00:01:19,275 --> 00:01:22,155 Speaker 1: outstripped her own authority and never bothered to notice that 17 00:01:22,235 --> 00:01:26,395 Speaker 1: trump's primary argument that he had declassified all the documents 18 00:01:26,435 --> 00:01:31,315 Speaker 1: anyway was a quote, red herring, because declassifying an official 19 00:01:31,355 --> 00:01:35,195 Speaker 1: document would not change its content or render it personal. Unquote. 20 00:01:36,155 --> 00:01:39,355 Speaker 1: It goes without saying that judge cannon cannot have any 21 00:01:39,395 --> 00:01:42,635 Speaker 1: dignity nor conscience. She was appointed by trump with no 22 00:01:42,835 --> 00:01:47,195 Speaker 1: previous judicial experience. But any other judge whose ruling was 23 00:01:47,275 --> 00:01:50,795 Speaker 1: so thoroughly vivisected and a twenty nine page ruling by 24 00:01:50,875 --> 00:01:53,715 Speaker 1: the appeals court would have resigned from the bench by 25 00:01:53,755 --> 00:01:58,595 Speaker 1: about page twenty two. Trump could presumably appeal now to 26 00:01:58,715 --> 00:02:01,275 Speaker 1: the Supreme Court. The Department of Justice had said it 27 00:02:01,355 --> 00:02:04,035 Speaker 1: would have done so had the ruling gone against it 28 00:02:04,675 --> 00:02:08,515 Speaker 1: at the eleventh circuit. Ruling is so strident and unambiguous 29 00:02:08,515 --> 00:02:11,475 Speaker 1: that it would seem to leave even trump's three appointees 30 00:02:11,515 --> 00:02:15,875 Speaker 1: at the Supreme Court Little Room to overturn. Plus the appeal, 31 00:02:15,995 --> 00:02:19,675 Speaker 1: lets the rest of the trump special master thing continue anyway, 32 00:02:19,915 --> 00:02:23,195 Speaker 1: addressing what he is supposedly his true desire here to 33 00:02:23,275 --> 00:02:26,275 Speaker 1: get his private papers, or ones he believes are covered 34 00:02:26,355 --> 00:02:30,475 Speaker 1: by his expired executive privilege, returned to him. Plus, even 35 00:02:30,555 --> 00:02:32,875 Speaker 1: if there is an appeal to the Supreme Court, the 36 00:02:32,915 --> 00:02:36,435 Speaker 1: Appeals Court just gave prosecutors the right to continue their 37 00:02:36,475 --> 00:02:43,235 Speaker 1: investigation approximately right now. Ish Trump's initial response to having 38 00:02:43,275 --> 00:02:46,835 Speaker 1: managed to lose the same case to the Justice Department twice. 39 00:02:47,315 --> 00:02:51,475 Speaker 1: He told Sean Hannity, his spokesmodel, that he didn't pack 40 00:02:51,555 --> 00:02:55,115 Speaker 1: those boxes. The G S A, along with people in 41 00:02:55,155 --> 00:02:58,315 Speaker 1: the White House, packed those boxes and there are pictures 42 00:02:58,355 --> 00:03:01,235 Speaker 1: of the boxes being packed in the White House, which 43 00:03:01,275 --> 00:03:04,155 Speaker 1: of course does not address, let alone explain why, if 44 00:03:04,195 --> 00:03:06,475 Speaker 1: he discus heard they'd packed in things they should not 45 00:03:06,555 --> 00:03:09,795 Speaker 1: have packed in, he didn't return those things, considering he 46 00:03:09,835 --> 00:03:14,795 Speaker 1: was asked too nicely by the National Archives repeatedly. Trump 47 00:03:14,835 --> 00:03:18,635 Speaker 1: also told Hannity that there is no process for declassification 48 00:03:18,675 --> 00:03:22,475 Speaker 1: by a president, that a president can declassify anything he 49 00:03:22,515 --> 00:03:26,795 Speaker 1: wants to quote, even by thinking about it. The old 50 00:03:27,195 --> 00:03:33,835 Speaker 1: Jedi declassification mind trick. Blink once for classify, Donald Blink 51 00:03:33,915 --> 00:03:39,555 Speaker 1: twice for declassify, which again does not address, let alone explain, 52 00:03:40,115 --> 00:03:45,115 Speaker 1: that two judges he appointed say the issue of declassification 53 00:03:45,515 --> 00:03:48,595 Speaker 1: is a red herring and has no meaning in this 54 00:03:49,875 --> 00:03:53,995 Speaker 1: trump also told Hannity that during the search, the FBI 55 00:03:54,115 --> 00:03:58,635 Speaker 1: took something he had not mentioned previously. They took his will, 56 00:03:59,475 --> 00:04:02,755 Speaker 1: which at least fits into my godfather baptism scene, metaphor 57 00:04:04,115 --> 00:04:08,355 Speaker 1: so that's trump. As Moe Green earlier, came something less 58 00:04:08,435 --> 00:04:12,755 Speaker 1: lethal but perhaps just metaphorically impactful. New York State Attorney General, 59 00:04:12,755 --> 00:04:15,395 Speaker 1: Tissue James, went ahead and filed her civil suit against 60 00:04:15,395 --> 00:04:19,155 Speaker 1: trump and the organization and the kids, cocaine trump and 61 00:04:19,555 --> 00:04:22,835 Speaker 1: eric trump and mortisia trump, or whatever her name is. 62 00:04:23,075 --> 00:04:26,115 Speaker 1: And the suit itself and the additional criminal referrals to 63 00:04:26,235 --> 00:04:27,875 Speaker 1: the I R S and the U s attorney for 64 00:04:27,915 --> 00:04:30,555 Speaker 1: the Southern District of New York are meaningful. But the 65 00:04:30,635 --> 00:04:34,555 Speaker 1: real pain for trump is, and you need to process this, 66 00:04:35,115 --> 00:04:37,755 Speaker 1: he will have to defend himself in court on the 67 00:04:37,835 --> 00:04:41,995 Speaker 1: charge that he just isn't as rich as he says 68 00:04:42,075 --> 00:04:45,315 Speaker 1: he is. A few things matter at all to trump. 69 00:04:45,355 --> 00:04:48,315 Speaker 1: He is not a human being in the conventional sense 70 00:04:48,395 --> 00:04:51,835 Speaker 1: of the phrase, but the idea that he is not 71 00:04:52,355 --> 00:04:57,675 Speaker 1: super wealthy is devastating to him. The suit would prove 72 00:04:58,075 --> 00:05:02,155 Speaker 1: he's a loser. The suit would prove that other people 73 00:05:02,275 --> 00:05:05,675 Speaker 1: have more money than he does, and the claim that 74 00:05:05,715 --> 00:05:10,835 Speaker 1: he exaggerated the value of Marilago from seventy million to 75 00:05:11,035 --> 00:05:14,675 Speaker 1: seven and thirty nine million is, if you'll forgive me 76 00:05:14,795 --> 00:05:18,355 Speaker 1: for switching movies for a third time in mid analogy, 77 00:05:18,395 --> 00:05:23,075 Speaker 1: like throwing water on the wicked witch of the West. Naturally, 78 00:05:23,435 --> 00:05:26,395 Speaker 1: trump resorted to the most logical retort to this suit, 79 00:05:26,795 --> 00:05:33,675 Speaker 1: that Attorney General James is a racist. Okay, the most 80 00:05:33,715 --> 00:05:36,675 Speaker 1: salient commentary on the James Lawsuit Comes from the former 81 00:05:36,715 --> 00:05:41,315 Speaker 1: baseball infielder and legendary ex San Francisco giants third base coach, 82 00:05:41,395 --> 00:05:45,875 Speaker 1: Tim Flannery. I will quote it in full. Wait, Flan tweeted. 83 00:05:46,195 --> 00:05:48,115 Speaker 1: Are you telling me that the guy with the fake 84 00:05:48,155 --> 00:05:51,035 Speaker 1: hair and fake Tan and fake teeth and fake s 85 00:05:51,115 --> 00:05:54,315 Speaker 1: a t scores and fake bone spurs and fake electors 86 00:05:54,355 --> 00:05:56,955 Speaker 1: and a fake foundation and a fake university and a 87 00:05:56,995 --> 00:06:01,155 Speaker 1: fake charity also has fake taxes? Get the F out 88 00:06:01,155 --> 00:06:05,275 Speaker 1: of here. As if this were not enough eagle stuff 89 00:06:05,315 --> 00:06:09,795 Speaker 1: to keep a whole team of Elina Judge Reinhold Habas busy, 90 00:06:10,235 --> 00:06:13,235 Speaker 1: the trial has also begun of trump allied Tom Barrack 91 00:06:13,595 --> 00:06:16,795 Speaker 1: for operating as an unannounced foreign agent for the United 92 00:06:16,795 --> 00:06:20,555 Speaker 1: Arab Emirates, and a Jen Carol began the process of 93 00:06:20,675 --> 00:06:23,995 Speaker 1: suing trump under a new law that lets rape victims 94 00:06:23,995 --> 00:06:27,235 Speaker 1: in New York collect damages, even if the regular statute 95 00:06:27,235 --> 00:06:31,795 Speaker 1: of limitations has expired. So who, outside of trump land, 96 00:06:31,835 --> 00:06:37,275 Speaker 1: proper gots metaphorically whacked in the Godfather Part Trump? How 97 00:06:37,315 --> 00:06:40,275 Speaker 1: about Rhn de Santis? The website the intercept now reporting 98 00:06:40,355 --> 00:06:43,835 Speaker 1: that the six fift thousand dollar contract to kidnap the 99 00:06:43,915 --> 00:06:48,355 Speaker 1: Venezuelan asylum seekers from Texas and take them via Florida 100 00:06:48,395 --> 00:06:52,755 Speaker 1: to Martha's Vineyard, that contract went to Vert Toll Systems, INC, 101 00:06:53,355 --> 00:06:57,835 Speaker 1: a major donor to Florida Republicans, including at least one 102 00:06:57,955 --> 00:07:03,595 Speaker 1: descantis employee. So, Ronda, how are those potential criminal indictments 103 00:07:03,595 --> 00:07:08,155 Speaker 1: of you coming along? It's just coming in. One's also 104 00:07:08,235 --> 00:07:11,715 Speaker 1: metaphorically sleeping with the fishies, a trump endorse e and 105 00:07:11,795 --> 00:07:14,715 Speaker 1: protege who is also providing a test to see if 106 00:07:14,755 --> 00:07:19,275 Speaker 1: there really is one remaining third rail in American politics 107 00:07:19,715 --> 00:07:23,555 Speaker 1: if a candidate still can't survive if it turns out 108 00:07:23,635 --> 00:07:27,875 Speaker 1: he lied about his military service. My name is Jr 109 00:07:27,955 --> 00:07:35,715 Speaker 1: Madjuski and my pronouns our patriot, ass kicker and liar, 110 00:07:36,515 --> 00:07:42,035 Speaker 1: JR Madjuski, the Republican nominee. January, six insurrectionists, Slovenly bearded, 111 00:07:42,075 --> 00:07:45,755 Speaker 1: bad hip hop artist trying to unseat thirty nine year veteran, 112 00:07:45,795 --> 00:07:49,435 Speaker 1: Marcy captor from the Ohio ninth at the infamous trump 113 00:07:49,555 --> 00:07:53,475 Speaker 1: Hitler q and on rally in Youngstown, Ohio last Saturday, 114 00:07:53,595 --> 00:07:57,515 Speaker 1: Madjuski seemed a little blitzed. He did have trouble pronouncing 115 00:07:57,515 --> 00:08:02,515 Speaker 1: the word president. In addition to the usual trump vice signaling, 116 00:08:02,755 --> 00:08:05,875 Speaker 1: Majuski has really pushed his record. Is An air force 117 00:08:05,995 --> 00:08:11,795 Speaker 1: combat veteran after nine eleven deployed to Afghanistan? Nope. The 118 00:08:11,835 --> 00:08:15,435 Speaker 1: Associated Press got his military records and Majuski, it turns out, 119 00:08:15,475 --> 00:08:18,715 Speaker 1: got no closer to Afghanistan than six months at an 120 00:08:18,715 --> 00:08:23,235 Speaker 1: air base in Qatar, where his pronouns were Patriot, s 121 00:08:23,435 --> 00:08:30,635 Speaker 1: kicker and package lifter. His military experience consists of loading 122 00:08:30,715 --> 00:08:35,635 Speaker 1: planes eleven hundred miles away from the nearest gunfire, and 123 00:08:35,875 --> 00:08:39,835 Speaker 1: unfortunately he has given interview after interview in which he 124 00:08:39,915 --> 00:08:45,355 Speaker 1: has lied about that. Did you serve in Afghanistan? How 125 00:08:45,395 --> 00:08:49,115 Speaker 1: many tours? One? What what year were you there? You 126 00:08:49,755 --> 00:08:55,555 Speaker 1: two thousand and two thousand two, two thousand three. Wow, 127 00:08:55,595 --> 00:08:58,115 Speaker 1: so you served right at the beginning. What was that 128 00:08:58,195 --> 00:09:04,035 Speaker 1: experience like? Um, tough to I don't only talking about 129 00:09:04,075 --> 00:09:07,755 Speaker 1: my military experience. Not, not, not that, Um, not that 130 00:09:07,795 --> 00:09:10,075 Speaker 1: we've said too much. I just don't I don't really 131 00:09:10,115 --> 00:09:12,675 Speaker 1: like to. I really don't like to divulge a lot 132 00:09:12,715 --> 00:09:15,875 Speaker 1: of things about the military, because you know there to me, 133 00:09:16,715 --> 00:09:18,995 Speaker 1: you know there was a there was a tough time 134 00:09:19,035 --> 00:09:23,515 Speaker 1: in life, and on and on and on. Madjuski frequently 135 00:09:23,595 --> 00:09:27,635 Speaker 1: pretended to be reticent to talk about his time in Afghanistan, 136 00:09:27,755 --> 00:09:31,355 Speaker 1: and now we know why. He hadn't done any time 137 00:09:31,395 --> 00:09:33,995 Speaker 1: in Afghanistan and he clearly was not a good enough 138 00:09:34,035 --> 00:09:37,595 Speaker 1: liar to even make anything up about it. But at 139 00:09:37,675 --> 00:09:41,675 Speaker 1: least once he did say conditions were tough in Afghanistan 140 00:09:41,715 --> 00:09:45,035 Speaker 1: and that included a lack of running water, which forced 141 00:09:45,115 --> 00:09:51,315 Speaker 1: him to go more than forty days without a shower. See, actually, 142 00:09:51,355 --> 00:09:54,435 Speaker 1: I'm believing this guy has gone forty days without a shower. 143 00:10:06,155 --> 00:10:09,435 Speaker 1: Still Ahead on countdown sports, Aaron Judge did not hit 144 00:10:09,475 --> 00:10:11,755 Speaker 1: his sixty first home run last night, which gives me 145 00:10:11,795 --> 00:10:15,275 Speaker 1: even more time to explain why his sixty home runs 146 00:10:15,355 --> 00:10:19,275 Speaker 1: is nothing close to Babe Ruth's six. And yes, I 147 00:10:19,355 --> 00:10:22,355 Speaker 1: also felt this way about mark McGuire. And also, get 148 00:10:22,355 --> 00:10:25,715 Speaker 1: off my lawn, Fox News may soon be owned by 149 00:10:25,755 --> 00:10:29,315 Speaker 1: a high school teacher in Ontario. After Tucker Carlson slandered, 150 00:10:29,395 --> 00:10:33,435 Speaker 1: libeled and misidentified him, and the day somebody mailed me 151 00:10:33,555 --> 00:10:36,355 Speaker 1: what they claimed was anthrax sent it to my home, 152 00:10:36,915 --> 00:10:39,915 Speaker 1: the FBI asked me to not report the story on TV, 153 00:10:40,075 --> 00:10:42,835 Speaker 1: just for one day to help them continue their investigation. 154 00:10:43,115 --> 00:10:45,435 Speaker 1: And that's when the New York Post ran it anyway 155 00:10:45,675 --> 00:10:50,915 Speaker 1: and identified the real culprit, me, in things I promised 156 00:10:50,915 --> 00:11:02,035 Speaker 1: not to tell. That's next. This is countdown. This is 157 00:11:02,075 --> 00:11:10,355 Speaker 1: countdown with Keith. Thank you, Larry. Still Ahead on countdown. 158 00:11:10,435 --> 00:11:14,675 Speaker 1: Tucker Carlson accuses a male teacher of wearing prosthetics women's 159 00:11:14,755 --> 00:11:20,115 Speaker 1: breasts and implies he solicits kids problem. He named the 160 00:11:20,155 --> 00:11:22,955 Speaker 1: wrong guy. There's that reason never to trust to Rubert 161 00:11:22,995 --> 00:11:25,395 Speaker 1: Murdoch News source. Then there's my story about the day 162 00:11:25,435 --> 00:11:27,675 Speaker 1: of the New York Post literally made up a gossip 163 00:11:27,715 --> 00:11:31,035 Speaker 1: item about me then trash me for calling the cops 164 00:11:31,355 --> 00:11:36,275 Speaker 1: when somebody sent what they claimed was anthrax to my house. First, 165 00:11:36,275 --> 00:11:38,235 Speaker 1: in each edition of countdown we feature a dog in 166 00:11:38,275 --> 00:11:40,475 Speaker 1: need whom you can help. Every dog has its day. 167 00:11:40,555 --> 00:11:43,755 Speaker 1: A nightmare at the New York pound against sixteen dogs 168 00:11:43,795 --> 00:11:47,195 Speaker 1: on death row, including four year old Colei was a big, 169 00:11:47,235 --> 00:11:52,155 Speaker 1: beautiful forty six pound mix Husky and Akita, a shepherd maybe, 170 00:11:52,195 --> 00:11:55,755 Speaker 1: gorgeous eyes. He's great with dogs, with kids, with strangers, 171 00:11:55,875 --> 00:11:58,635 Speaker 1: left at the pound because his owner was moving and 172 00:11:58,715 --> 00:12:01,435 Speaker 1: now on death row because he's terrified of the pound. 173 00:12:01,915 --> 00:12:04,955 Speaker 1: Coley's best bet. Our pledges to help him, to fray 174 00:12:05,035 --> 00:12:07,235 Speaker 1: the cost of a rescue to pull them out and 175 00:12:07,275 --> 00:12:09,395 Speaker 1: put him with a foster. You'd like to help coli 176 00:12:09,475 --> 00:12:12,155 Speaker 1: look for my tweet on my account for dogs in trouble. 177 00:12:12,515 --> 00:12:16,075 Speaker 1: Tom Jumbo Grumbo about coli and thank you very much. 178 00:12:26,075 --> 00:12:28,395 Speaker 1: Coming up on countdown, I'm going to get myself into 179 00:12:28,435 --> 00:12:32,755 Speaker 1: all kinds of trouble about Aaron judge, the triple crown 180 00:12:32,955 --> 00:12:36,075 Speaker 1: and the home run record. Can't wait for that. First 181 00:12:36,115 --> 00:12:39,675 Speaker 1: postscripts to the news. Some headlines, some commentaries, some snark. 182 00:12:43,795 --> 00:12:47,915 Speaker 1: Dateline Washington. The House has approved revisions to the seven 183 00:12:47,915 --> 00:12:51,515 Speaker 1: Electoral Count Act to preclude a repeat of the fake 184 00:12:51,595 --> 00:12:54,715 Speaker 1: electors part of the coup. It passed on strict party 185 00:12:54,755 --> 00:13:00,035 Speaker 1: lines in favor Democrats opposed, two D and three seditionists. 186 00:13:00,555 --> 00:13:03,835 Speaker 1: Dateline Washington. House leader Kevin McCarthy was to reveal the 187 00:13:03,835 --> 00:13:08,435 Speaker 1: GOPS so called commitment to America on Friday. Instead, it 188 00:13:08,515 --> 00:13:12,475 Speaker 1: went live accidentally online yesterday and gave away the secret 189 00:13:12,475 --> 00:13:15,075 Speaker 1: the Republicans had been hoping to keep, that they will 190 00:13:15,155 --> 00:13:18,635 Speaker 1: impose national abortion laws. Then they tried to put the 191 00:13:18,635 --> 00:13:21,835 Speaker 1: tooth based back into Kevin McCarthy by taking it offline. 192 00:13:21,995 --> 00:13:25,635 Speaker 1: Also read the screenshots of the thing. Commitment to America 193 00:13:25,955 --> 00:13:30,755 Speaker 1: closer to commitment of America. Dateline, Oakville, Ontario, meet the 194 00:13:30,755 --> 00:13:34,075 Speaker 1: next owner of Fox News. He's teacher Steven Hannah of 195 00:13:34,155 --> 00:13:38,235 Speaker 1: Trafalgar High School. There, Foxes Tucker Carlson showed video of 196 00:13:38,275 --> 00:13:42,555 Speaker 1: a male shop teacher wearing prosthetic female breasts. He implied 197 00:13:42,595 --> 00:13:45,195 Speaker 1: the man wanted to do bad things with kids and 198 00:13:45,235 --> 00:13:48,875 Speaker 1: then identified the man in the video as Hannah. Problem, 199 00:13:48,915 --> 00:13:51,875 Speaker 1: Stephen Hannah is not the man in the video. Carlson, 200 00:13:51,915 --> 00:13:54,155 Speaker 1: who is not right in the head, is now in 201 00:13:54,195 --> 00:13:58,235 Speaker 1: a world of financial hurt. Dateline the United Nations. Pressed 202 00:13:58,275 --> 00:14:00,635 Speaker 1: at a live media event by the New York Times, 203 00:14:00,635 --> 00:14:03,715 Speaker 1: the World Bank President David malpas revealed he is a 204 00:14:03,795 --> 00:14:08,475 Speaker 1: climate change skeptic. Asked, do you accept the scientific consensus 205 00:14:08,515 --> 00:14:11,435 Speaker 1: that the man made burning of fossil fuels is rapidly 206 00:14:11,475 --> 00:14:15,955 Speaker 1: and dangerously warming the planet? Malpass answered I'm not a scientist, 207 00:14:16,035 --> 00:14:18,275 Speaker 1: and that is not a question. What we need to 208 00:14:18,315 --> 00:14:22,275 Speaker 1: do is move forward with impactful projects. Mal Pass was 209 00:14:22,355 --> 00:14:25,835 Speaker 1: the chief economist at bear sterns for six years, then 210 00:14:25,835 --> 00:14:29,195 Speaker 1: it collapsed. He contributes to the Wall Street Journal op 211 00:14:29,395 --> 00:14:31,755 Speaker 1: Ed Page, which we all wish would collapse. He was 212 00:14:31,795 --> 00:14:34,795 Speaker 1: appointed by trump. We know about his collapse. He needs 213 00:14:34,835 --> 00:14:38,675 Speaker 1: to be removed by Biden and dateline Moscow. The Anti putent, 214 00:14:38,715 --> 00:14:42,475 Speaker 1: anti war protests that erupted across Russia yesterday are far 215 00:14:42,555 --> 00:14:45,595 Speaker 1: too fluid a story to assess on a recorded podcast. 216 00:14:45,915 --> 00:14:51,235 Speaker 1: But Russia's continuing outbreak of contagious defenestration has claimed another victim, 217 00:14:51,515 --> 00:14:56,075 Speaker 1: and a totally Gherashenko, former head of the Moscow Aviation Institute, 218 00:14:56,475 --> 00:15:00,875 Speaker 1: fell to his death Tuesday inside the institute's headquarters, the 219 00:15:00,915 --> 00:15:03,555 Speaker 1: Russian news outlet, as best he had phrased it. Thus, 220 00:15:03,635 --> 00:15:07,395 Speaker 1: Lee he failed him a great height and careened down 221 00:15:07,595 --> 00:15:11,835 Speaker 1: several flights of stairs. As the other Russia joke goes, 222 00:15:12,155 --> 00:15:29,475 Speaker 1: Russia continues to be plagued by a windows virus. This 223 00:15:30,155 --> 00:15:36,475 Speaker 1: is sports center. Wait, check that, not anymore. This is 224 00:15:37,275 --> 00:15:43,475 Speaker 1: countdown with Keith in sports. Baseball Buster Posey, former catcher 225 00:15:43,475 --> 00:15:45,835 Speaker 1: of the San Francisco giants, will become a part owner 226 00:15:45,835 --> 00:15:48,515 Speaker 1: of the franchise. This will probably increase the likelihood of 227 00:15:48,515 --> 00:15:50,595 Speaker 1: his election to the hall of fame, which is kind 228 00:15:50,635 --> 00:15:53,195 Speaker 1: of unfortunate because he quit playing at the age of 229 00:15:53,275 --> 00:15:56,955 Speaker 1: thirty four, which is fine, but his career numbers are 230 00:15:56,955 --> 00:16:00,595 Speaker 1: in the Jorge Posada, Elston, Howard, Thurman Munson Range and 231 00:16:00,635 --> 00:16:02,675 Speaker 1: if Posey is a hall of Famer, all of them 232 00:16:02,715 --> 00:16:06,115 Speaker 1: and about five others are two. The Kansas City royals, 233 00:16:06,115 --> 00:16:08,795 Speaker 1: if fired President Dayton Moore, who built the team that 234 00:16:08,915 --> 00:16:11,715 Speaker 1: somehow got to the world series in two thousand fourteen 235 00:16:12,035 --> 00:16:15,035 Speaker 1: against Posey's giants and then wanted against the mets in 236 00:16:15,075 --> 00:16:18,195 Speaker 1: two thousand fifteen. Apparently the royals thought it was Moore's 237 00:16:18,235 --> 00:16:21,595 Speaker 1: fault that they did not contend this season, rather than, say, 238 00:16:21,635 --> 00:16:24,915 Speaker 1: the fact that their total payroll is about, say, one 239 00:16:25,275 --> 00:16:28,315 Speaker 1: third of that of the Los Angeles dodgers. And I 240 00:16:28,395 --> 00:16:31,475 Speaker 1: mentioned when Aaron judge hit his sixty at homer that 241 00:16:31,675 --> 00:16:34,915 Speaker 1: sixty homers was sixty homers, but the way the game 242 00:16:34,995 --> 00:16:38,795 Speaker 1: is played today there is no comparison between judges sixty 243 00:16:38,915 --> 00:16:42,995 Speaker 1: and Babe Ruth Sixty seven. There was some blowback because 244 00:16:43,035 --> 00:16:46,195 Speaker 1: everybody wants to believe whatever they saw or they're seeing 245 00:16:46,235 --> 00:16:49,475 Speaker 1: in sports was or is the greatest thing ever. But 246 00:16:49,515 --> 00:16:52,995 Speaker 1: as hard as this is to believe, today's baseball stadiums 247 00:16:52,995 --> 00:16:57,315 Speaker 1: are tiny compared to nine. is also no foul territory. 248 00:16:57,355 --> 00:16:59,635 Speaker 1: Now used to be about eighty feet from home plate 249 00:16:59,715 --> 00:17:03,075 Speaker 1: to each dugout. In the larger parks the outfield fences. 250 00:17:03,475 --> 00:17:06,315 Speaker 1: Lefty hitting babe brew hit eight home runs at Fenway 251 00:17:06,355 --> 00:17:09,315 Speaker 1: Park in Boston in ninety seven. The right field fence 252 00:17:09,395 --> 00:17:11,955 Speaker 1: was three hundred and fifty nine feet away. It's three 253 00:17:12,155 --> 00:17:15,355 Speaker 1: D two feet now. Center field is thirty one feet 254 00:17:15,355 --> 00:17:18,435 Speaker 1: closer at fenway. Now. Center field at Yankee Stadium today 255 00:17:18,475 --> 00:17:20,875 Speaker 1: is four hundred and eight feet from the plate. When 256 00:17:20,915 --> 00:17:23,355 Speaker 1: Babe Ruth played, it was four hundred and seventy. The 257 00:17:23,435 --> 00:17:25,915 Speaker 1: changes for right handed hitters like Aaron judge, you're just 258 00:17:25,995 --> 00:17:29,635 Speaker 1: as dramatic. And there's also context. When he hit sixty 259 00:17:29,635 --> 00:17:32,635 Speaker 1: homers in ninety seven, Ruth had more home runs that 260 00:17:32,715 --> 00:17:36,755 Speaker 1: season then every other team in the American league had 261 00:17:36,795 --> 00:17:40,275 Speaker 1: that season. Ruth at sixty. The Philadelphia's had fifty six. 262 00:17:40,755 --> 00:17:43,475 Speaker 1: To do that today, somebody would have to hit more 263 00:17:43,475 --> 00:17:45,955 Speaker 1: than two hundred home runs in a season. If you 264 00:17:46,155 --> 00:17:48,795 Speaker 1: only hit ninety five home runs in a season, you 265 00:17:48,795 --> 00:17:51,595 Speaker 1: still wouldn't out homer any other team in the league. 266 00:17:52,235 --> 00:17:54,915 Speaker 1: There's all kinds of other context. A new baseball is 267 00:17:55,035 --> 00:17:58,315 Speaker 1: used for almost every pitch. In Two thousand twenty two. 268 00:17:58,635 --> 00:18:02,155 Speaker 1: In seven it was something like every tenth or Fifteenth Pitch. 269 00:18:02,355 --> 00:18:05,235 Speaker 1: And a dirty baseball is tougher to see, tougher to 270 00:18:05,315 --> 00:18:08,435 Speaker 1: hit and will not go as far. This season, Aaron 271 00:18:08,515 --> 00:18:10,915 Speaker 1: judge will strike out more than Babe Ruth did in 272 00:18:12,675 --> 00:18:16,195 Speaker 1: and nine six combined. He'll strike out of it about 273 00:18:16,235 --> 00:18:20,155 Speaker 1: as many times as Roger Barris did in nine, nineteen, 274 00:18:20,235 --> 00:18:23,595 Speaker 1: sixty and ninety nine combined. And still there will be 275 00:18:23,635 --> 00:18:26,075 Speaker 1: the contention that judge is fashioning one of the greatest 276 00:18:26,115 --> 00:18:29,075 Speaker 1: offensive seasons of all time because he may win the 277 00:18:29,075 --> 00:18:34,715 Speaker 1: American League triple crown again. Context. Judge started play Wednesday 278 00:18:34,755 --> 00:18:38,475 Speaker 1: batting three sixteen. If he wins the batting championship at 279 00:18:38,515 --> 00:18:41,755 Speaker 1: three sixteen, that will be tied for the fourth lowest 280 00:18:41,875 --> 00:18:45,755 Speaker 1: average for a batting champion in American league history. It's 281 00:18:45,795 --> 00:18:49,075 Speaker 1: a great season and he's a great player. If baseball 282 00:18:49,115 --> 00:18:51,515 Speaker 1: had ever stood up to the PE D users, it 283 00:18:51,555 --> 00:18:54,715 Speaker 1: would be the season Aaron judge flat out broke the 284 00:18:54,755 --> 00:19:00,635 Speaker 1: home run record, but they didn't. Plus, history tells US historically, 285 00:19:01,315 --> 00:19:17,915 Speaker 1: it is not one of the greatest seasons ever. Still 286 00:19:17,955 --> 00:19:20,155 Speaker 1: Ahead Sunday as the anniversary of the day I got 287 00:19:20,195 --> 00:19:23,235 Speaker 1: fake an tracks sent to my home. The first time 288 00:19:23,275 --> 00:19:25,715 Speaker 1: I got it sent to my home. After I called 289 00:19:25,715 --> 00:19:28,915 Speaker 1: the cops, the sender went to prison. When Rupert Murdoch's 290 00:19:28,915 --> 00:19:31,955 Speaker 1: New York Post wrote up the story, they criticized me 291 00:19:32,755 --> 00:19:37,595 Speaker 1: for not ignoring the crime. More on the irresponsibility of 292 00:19:37,755 --> 00:19:41,075 Speaker 1: News Corps. The New York Post, Fox News Rupert Murdoch 293 00:19:41,595 --> 00:19:44,115 Speaker 1: coming up in things I promised not to tell. First, 294 00:19:44,155 --> 00:19:46,955 Speaker 1: the daily roundup of the miscreants, morons and Dunning Kruger 295 00:19:46,955 --> 00:19:50,875 Speaker 1: Effects Specimens who constitute today's worse persons in the world. 296 00:19:51,595 --> 00:19:56,315 Speaker 1: The bronze the National Basketball Association, Robert Sarver, suspended by 297 00:19:56,315 --> 00:19:59,395 Speaker 1: the NBA for a year and find ten million dollars 298 00:19:59,395 --> 00:20:02,755 Speaker 1: for racism and sexism, says he has begun the process 299 00:20:02,795 --> 00:20:05,955 Speaker 1: of selling the Phoenix Suns Franch Shies, which is great, 300 00:20:06,715 --> 00:20:09,595 Speaker 1: except Lord knows how many hundreds of millions in profit 301 00:20:09,635 --> 00:20:12,395 Speaker 1: he'll make doing so, just like Donald Sterling did when 302 00:20:12,435 --> 00:20:15,715 Speaker 1: he sold the L A, clippers and basketball essentially rewarded 303 00:20:15,795 --> 00:20:19,395 Speaker 1: him for grotesque racism. There needs to be a manner 304 00:20:19,435 --> 00:20:23,315 Speaker 1: in which sports leagues can reclaim their franchises for when 305 00:20:23,355 --> 00:20:26,555 Speaker 1: owners turn out to be scum, giving the banished owner 306 00:20:26,835 --> 00:20:29,835 Speaker 1: something for his trouble, but turning the profits over to 307 00:20:29,955 --> 00:20:32,835 Speaker 1: charitable groups, maybe the ones who deal with the victims 308 00:20:32,835 --> 00:20:36,395 Speaker 1: of the scummery. The runner up Golfer Greg Norman in 309 00:20:36,515 --> 00:20:39,475 Speaker 1: D C to pitch the Saudi blood money golf tour 310 00:20:39,555 --> 00:20:42,955 Speaker 1: with the ironic name live, of which he is CEO. 311 00:20:43,075 --> 00:20:46,515 Speaker 1: He addressed the Republicans Study Group. In the middle of 312 00:20:46,555 --> 00:20:51,835 Speaker 1: the meeting, Republican Congressman Tim Burchette of Tennessee actually walked out. Congressmen, 313 00:20:51,875 --> 00:20:56,355 Speaker 1: Burchett called Norman's spield propaganda, said the study group shouldn't 314 00:20:56,355 --> 00:20:58,995 Speaker 1: be spending its time on the Saudis and billionaire oil 315 00:20:59,035 --> 00:21:01,395 Speaker 1: guys and, just to button it up, said he couldn't 316 00:21:01,475 --> 00:21:05,715 Speaker 1: understand Greg Norman's Australian accent hot enough and had to 317 00:21:05,755 --> 00:21:09,955 Speaker 1: boil a monkey's bomb. Your Majesty burchant later tweeted quote. 318 00:21:09,955 --> 00:21:12,795 Speaker 1: Weren't Soud he's flying some of those planes on nine eleven, 319 00:21:12,795 --> 00:21:16,035 Speaker 1: and what about their killing of Washington Post columnist Jamal Kashagi. 320 00:21:16,555 --> 00:21:19,875 Speaker 1: One hopes those questions were rhetortical. But our winner Senator 321 00:21:19,955 --> 00:21:23,555 Speaker 1: Ted Cruz of Texas. If a writer of political fiction 322 00:21:23,635 --> 00:21:28,435 Speaker 1: created a character as sleazy, as Gutless, as opportunistic as 323 00:21:28,475 --> 00:21:32,835 Speaker 1: Ted Cruz, the script would be returned to him. Cruz 324 00:21:32,875 --> 00:21:37,155 Speaker 1: has spent this month boasting about the expansion of I seven, 325 00:21:37,515 --> 00:21:41,515 Speaker 1: the ports to planes highway from Texas through North Dakota 326 00:21:41,955 --> 00:21:46,075 Speaker 1: into Canada. He celebrated all the jobs and dollars it 327 00:21:46,115 --> 00:21:49,395 Speaker 1: will bring to the state of Texas. Cruz tweeted that 328 00:21:49,435 --> 00:21:54,595 Speaker 1: the Senate vote approving it was a, quote, great bipartisan victory. 329 00:21:54,875 --> 00:21:57,995 Speaker 1: Cruz was one of the thirty one. He voted against it. 330 00:21:58,075 --> 00:22:01,555 Speaker 1: He's now taking credit for it, like every day. This 331 00:22:01,635 --> 00:22:03,515 Speaker 1: is a fight that I was proud to lead in 332 00:22:03,555 --> 00:22:07,675 Speaker 1: the United States. At Cruz said he voted against it. 333 00:22:07,675 --> 00:22:10,315 Speaker 1: It's like cruise saying I was proud to lead the 334 00:22:10,355 --> 00:22:13,115 Speaker 1: defense of my wife after Donald Trump called her ugly 335 00:22:13,155 --> 00:22:17,435 Speaker 1: in public. Ted, when the Texas Power Grid failed and 336 00:22:17,475 --> 00:22:20,555 Speaker 1: two hundred forty six Texans pros to death, I flew 337 00:22:20,635 --> 00:22:29,355 Speaker 1: into action to cancoon cruise two days worst person. Hello World, 338 00:22:44,115 --> 00:22:46,115 Speaker 1: to the number one story on the countdown and my 339 00:22:46,155 --> 00:22:48,915 Speaker 1: favorite topic, me and things I promised not to tell 340 00:22:49,195 --> 00:22:51,475 Speaker 1: and the story of the day of the envelope with 341 00:22:51,555 --> 00:22:54,515 Speaker 1: the anthrax in it that arrived at my apartment. It 342 00:22:54,635 --> 00:22:58,235 Speaker 1: was sixteen years ago this Sunday. Well, the first envelope 343 00:22:58,275 --> 00:23:02,715 Speaker 1: with the anthrax in it, and it wasn't obviously really antrax, 344 00:23:03,155 --> 00:23:05,435 Speaker 1: though the sender said it was. But you would be 345 00:23:05,475 --> 00:23:08,515 Speaker 1: surprised how much the FBI and Homeland Security and other 346 00:23:08,555 --> 00:23:10,995 Speaker 1: people in Hazmat suits are not willing to just act 347 00:23:11,035 --> 00:23:14,275 Speaker 1: on what is or is not obvious about fake antrax. 348 00:23:15,355 --> 00:23:19,275 Speaker 1: But first the Olderman non anthrax anthrax letters story has 349 00:23:19,315 --> 00:23:23,075 Speaker 1: a backstory. We'll start with this reminder. You should never 350 00:23:23,195 --> 00:23:26,355 Speaker 1: believe any source story you read in The New York 351 00:23:26,355 --> 00:23:29,675 Speaker 1: Post or indeed in or on any media outlet owned 352 00:23:29,675 --> 00:23:33,835 Speaker 1: by the Murdochs, like Fox News. They occasionally do report 353 00:23:33,915 --> 00:23:37,235 Speaker 1: real things, but just as often they make stuff up, 354 00:23:37,275 --> 00:23:41,515 Speaker 1: not exaggerate or get slightly wrong or spin for political purposes, 355 00:23:41,515 --> 00:23:46,715 Speaker 1: but utterly fabricate. On April Eleventh, two thousand five, the 356 00:23:46,795 --> 00:23:49,755 Speaker 1: post was to run such a story. Only under the 357 00:23:49,835 --> 00:23:53,795 Speaker 1: threat of multiple lawsuits did the Post Spike this story 358 00:23:53,795 --> 00:23:56,475 Speaker 1: I've never told this thing before, but I was reminded 359 00:23:56,475 --> 00:23:57,915 Speaker 1: of it the other day and I think going through 360 00:23:57,915 --> 00:24:00,555 Speaker 1: the mechanics of it will illustrate just how evil an 361 00:24:00,675 --> 00:24:04,115 Speaker 1: organization news corps actually is, like you didn't know that 362 00:24:04,155 --> 00:24:06,995 Speaker 1: from the exist sincee of Tucker Carlson, but more importantly, 363 00:24:07,035 --> 00:24:11,475 Speaker 1: how unreliable it is as a source of news, even 364 00:24:11,515 --> 00:24:14,995 Speaker 1: for people who agree with it politically. As a New 365 00:24:15,075 --> 00:24:18,955 Speaker 1: York Post page six gossip story, this one had everything. 366 00:24:18,995 --> 00:24:23,475 Speaker 1: It attacked MSNBC, it had quotes from informed sources even 367 00:24:23,515 --> 00:24:26,035 Speaker 1: at one point it had a witness, it had somebody 368 00:24:26,075 --> 00:24:29,595 Speaker 1: insulting Peter Jennings right after the late ABC anchorman revealed 369 00:24:29,595 --> 00:24:32,435 Speaker 1: he had lung cancer, and it was constructed in such 370 00:24:32,435 --> 00:24:34,555 Speaker 1: a way that if I did not comment on it, 371 00:24:34,955 --> 00:24:37,435 Speaker 1: they could print the story then come back the next 372 00:24:37,515 --> 00:24:40,155 Speaker 1: day and Rehash it and add that I was still 373 00:24:40,195 --> 00:24:44,755 Speaker 1: refusing to comment on it. But there was one overriding problem. 374 00:24:44,795 --> 00:24:47,995 Speaker 1: It was a complete fabrication. It was full of events 375 00:24:48,035 --> 00:24:51,515 Speaker 1: that did not happen and people who did not exist. 376 00:24:52,755 --> 00:24:56,955 Speaker 1: New York Post page six contacted MSNBC's then media relations guy, 377 00:24:57,035 --> 00:25:00,475 Speaker 1: Jeremy Gaines, on Thursday April seventh, two thousand five, and 378 00:25:00,555 --> 00:25:03,915 Speaker 1: this was the story they told him. Me a quote. 379 00:25:03,955 --> 00:25:08,195 Speaker 1: Frequent critic President Bush had refused to anchor the coverage 380 00:25:08,235 --> 00:25:11,355 Speaker 1: of the death of Pope John Paul the second, pretended 381 00:25:11,395 --> 00:25:15,915 Speaker 1: to be ill and called in sick instead. The major 382 00:25:16,035 --> 00:25:19,075 Speaker 1: problem with their story was I had anchored the coverage 383 00:25:19,075 --> 00:25:21,075 Speaker 1: of the death of Pope John Paul the second. I 384 00:25:21,115 --> 00:25:25,395 Speaker 1: had been anchoring primetime coverage for hours each weeknight leading 385 00:25:25,475 --> 00:25:28,275 Speaker 1: up to the potiffs passing. There were viewers who saw me. 386 00:25:28,635 --> 00:25:32,715 Speaker 1: Studio staffers, Carl Bernstein, was our in studio papal expert, 387 00:25:32,795 --> 00:25:36,595 Speaker 1: remembered seeing me there. There were videotapes of me anchoring. 388 00:25:37,715 --> 00:25:40,755 Speaker 1: This did not stop the post. In the first version 389 00:25:40,795 --> 00:25:44,195 Speaker 1: of their story, page six, told us that their unnamed 390 00:25:44,195 --> 00:25:47,355 Speaker 1: source had been on board the Amtrak ACELA train from 391 00:25:47,355 --> 00:25:50,355 Speaker 1: Washington to New York, sitting near my agent as my 392 00:25:50,435 --> 00:25:53,875 Speaker 1: agent talked to somebody on a cell phone. Their witness 393 00:25:53,915 --> 00:25:56,675 Speaker 1: said my agent complained that I had had a quote 394 00:25:56,715 --> 00:26:00,395 Speaker 1: meltdown after quote calling in sick rather than anchor the 395 00:26:00,435 --> 00:26:05,195 Speaker 1: papal coverage, which I anchored. But there was more. Quote Aulderman, 396 00:26:05,235 --> 00:26:07,675 Speaker 1: a frequent critic of the president's policies, said it was 397 00:26:07,715 --> 00:26:10,595 Speaker 1: better in sports. They quoted my agent, quoting me into 398 00:26:10,675 --> 00:26:13,715 Speaker 1: the phone. She supposedly said, I'll be dealing with this 399 00:26:13,795 --> 00:26:17,515 Speaker 1: all day now. Apart from the fact that I had 400 00:26:17,595 --> 00:26:20,195 Speaker 1: anchored the coverage, the post claimed I had not anchored. 401 00:26:20,235 --> 00:26:22,395 Speaker 1: There was another major flaw on the story. My agent 402 00:26:22,955 --> 00:26:25,675 Speaker 1: was not on a train from Washington to New York 403 00:26:25,795 --> 00:26:29,755 Speaker 1: on the day in question, nor the weekend question, nor 404 00:26:29,995 --> 00:26:32,435 Speaker 1: in fact the year in question. She told me she 405 00:26:32,515 --> 00:26:34,955 Speaker 1: thought she had once been on a train from Washington 406 00:26:35,035 --> 00:26:39,115 Speaker 1: to New York in the year nineteen sixty seven. My 407 00:26:39,235 --> 00:26:43,035 Speaker 1: agent at the time lived a top Mount Shasta in 408 00:26:43,115 --> 00:26:46,235 Speaker 1: California and so seldom left there that when she once 409 00:26:46,315 --> 00:26:49,315 Speaker 1: drove to town to get the mail, I asked her 410 00:26:49,355 --> 00:26:52,035 Speaker 1: for full details because I jokingly suggested we should lead 411 00:26:52,035 --> 00:26:56,115 Speaker 1: the news with it. So the next day, Friday April eighth, 412 00:26:56,155 --> 00:26:58,355 Speaker 1: New York Post, page six came back with a different 413 00:26:58,475 --> 00:27:02,795 Speaker 1: version of their story. They had misheard their source. Of course, 414 00:27:02,795 --> 00:27:05,995 Speaker 1: it wasn't my agent on the phone train from D 415 00:27:06,075 --> 00:27:08,115 Speaker 1: C to New York. It was a woman who worked 416 00:27:08,155 --> 00:27:11,595 Speaker 1: for my agent, a woman named Susan. A woman named 417 00:27:12,075 --> 00:27:16,115 Speaker 1: Susan whom I had, they would report, already phoned three 418 00:27:16,155 --> 00:27:19,355 Speaker 1: times that morning and was to meet urgently at the 419 00:27:19,435 --> 00:27:23,835 Speaker 1: boat house in Central Park, presumably because the middle of 420 00:27:23,875 --> 00:27:26,195 Speaker 1: grand central station would have been a little too public. 421 00:27:27,955 --> 00:27:32,875 Speaker 1: MSNBC's Jeremy Gaines responded again with some irrefutable refutations. Nobody 422 00:27:32,955 --> 00:27:36,395 Speaker 1: named Susan worked for my agent. In fact, sorry, post, 423 00:27:36,515 --> 00:27:39,755 Speaker 1: nobody at all worked from my agent. She was independent. 424 00:27:40,235 --> 00:27:43,195 Speaker 1: She had a working relationship with a small Los Angeles 425 00:27:43,315 --> 00:27:47,155 Speaker 1: Agency which basically covered her phone when she was on vacation, 426 00:27:47,675 --> 00:27:49,995 Speaker 1: which was almost never because she never left the top 427 00:27:50,035 --> 00:27:54,235 Speaker 1: of Mount Shasta. We called that AGC and they confirmed 428 00:27:54,275 --> 00:27:56,435 Speaker 1: they not only did not have anybody working for them 429 00:27:56,515 --> 00:27:59,795 Speaker 1: named Susan, but nobody from their agency was even on 430 00:27:59,835 --> 00:28:05,115 Speaker 1: the east coast so far that year. At this point 431 00:28:05,115 --> 00:28:07,395 Speaker 1: I called the television columnist of the New York Post, 432 00:28:07,435 --> 00:28:09,355 Speaker 1: who I knew a little, and off the record, explained 433 00:28:09,395 --> 00:28:11,515 Speaker 1: to him that I was furious and getting ready to sue, 434 00:28:11,915 --> 00:28:14,675 Speaker 1: but that NBC was far angrier than I was and 435 00:28:14,715 --> 00:28:17,115 Speaker 1: that they were going to sue as well and sue 436 00:28:17,155 --> 00:28:19,435 Speaker 1: the editor of page six personally in an effort to 437 00:28:19,435 --> 00:28:22,315 Speaker 1: put him out of business. I calmly went through the 438 00:28:22,315 --> 00:28:25,715 Speaker 1: facts of this. This guy, who had a conscience side 439 00:28:25,835 --> 00:28:27,715 Speaker 1: said he got these kinds of calls more often than 440 00:28:27,755 --> 00:28:29,915 Speaker 1: I would believe, and I said no, I believe it. 441 00:28:30,315 --> 00:28:31,755 Speaker 1: And he said he would go to the editor of 442 00:28:31,795 --> 00:28:34,275 Speaker 1: page six and explain somebody was lying to the editor 443 00:28:34,315 --> 00:28:36,235 Speaker 1: of page six and he was going to get himself 444 00:28:36,315 --> 00:28:39,675 Speaker 1: sued into bankruptcy over a really obviously untrue and completely 445 00:28:39,715 --> 00:28:43,555 Speaker 1: disproven story. A couple of hours later, New York Post 446 00:28:43,595 --> 00:28:46,675 Speaker 1: page six called again, demanding a comment from me on 447 00:28:46,755 --> 00:28:50,835 Speaker 1: a third, different version of their exclusive papal scoop. No, 448 00:28:51,595 --> 00:28:54,315 Speaker 1: the woman their witness heard, who they first said was 449 00:28:54,355 --> 00:28:56,875 Speaker 1: my agent, then said she'd gotten it wrong. It was 450 00:28:56,915 --> 00:28:58,915 Speaker 1: a woman named Susan who worked for my agent had 451 00:28:58,915 --> 00:29:01,435 Speaker 1: now become a woman who worked for my agent, whose 452 00:29:01,515 --> 00:29:04,035 Speaker 1: name the witness never heard. But she was talking to 453 00:29:04,355 --> 00:29:08,595 Speaker 1: some he else named Susan. And there was an additional 454 00:29:08,675 --> 00:29:11,515 Speaker 1: quote that appeared out of nowhere. I'll be dealing with 455 00:29:11,555 --> 00:29:15,275 Speaker 1: this all day now. Was Gone. It was replaced with 456 00:29:15,675 --> 00:29:18,195 Speaker 1: I'll be dealing with this all day now. The same 457 00:29:18,195 --> 00:29:21,075 Speaker 1: week Peter Jennings makes his announcement about having lung cancer, 458 00:29:21,155 --> 00:29:24,435 Speaker 1: this idiot, a frequent president and President Bush critic, is 459 00:29:24,475 --> 00:29:29,355 Speaker 1: sitting around in his pajamas calling me about this years later, 460 00:29:29,435 --> 00:29:32,115 Speaker 1: a former gossip reporter and Murdoch's employee explained to me 461 00:29:32,195 --> 00:29:35,635 Speaker 1: that his celebrity and gossip people are taught never to 462 00:29:35,755 --> 00:29:38,715 Speaker 1: back down from a confrontation and that if the subject 463 00:29:38,715 --> 00:29:41,035 Speaker 1: of one of their hit jobs fights back or tries 464 00:29:41,075 --> 00:29:45,075 Speaker 1: to refute or especially threatens legal action, to keep making 465 00:29:45,075 --> 00:29:48,075 Speaker 1: the story worse and worse for them. And in the 466 00:29:48,115 --> 00:29:50,395 Speaker 1: first decade of this century you were supposed to try 467 00:29:50,435 --> 00:29:54,035 Speaker 1: to work in a defense of George W Bush. But 468 00:29:54,075 --> 00:29:57,595 Speaker 1: there's also what they called an emergency exit. If there 469 00:29:57,675 --> 00:30:00,315 Speaker 1: is no question that the story is nonsensitial, the basic 470 00:30:00,395 --> 00:30:03,195 Speaker 1: spine of the story does not line up with provable facts, 471 00:30:03,235 --> 00:30:06,595 Speaker 1: just abandoned it. Don't tell the subject of your attack 472 00:30:06,635 --> 00:30:09,515 Speaker 1: that you are abandoning it, just don't make any more 473 00:30:09,555 --> 00:30:11,795 Speaker 1: phone calls and don't send any more emails about it. 474 00:30:11,835 --> 00:30:15,595 Speaker 1: Just banish and then send the name of the subject 475 00:30:15,675 --> 00:30:17,995 Speaker 1: around to all the other Murdoch operations to see if 476 00:30:17,995 --> 00:30:19,995 Speaker 1: they can come up with any dirt on the subject 477 00:30:20,155 --> 00:30:25,115 Speaker 1: to punish them for fighting back against the Murdoch lies. Well, 478 00:30:25,115 --> 00:30:27,115 Speaker 1: it took the New York Post a year and a 479 00:30:27,115 --> 00:30:30,635 Speaker 1: half after dropping this story. They never called back about 480 00:30:30,675 --> 00:30:33,915 Speaker 1: Susan or my agent or the boat house in Central 481 00:30:33,955 --> 00:30:38,515 Speaker 1: Park again. But on September twenty two thousand six, I 482 00:30:38,595 --> 00:30:41,355 Speaker 1: opened an envelope bearing a California post mark at my 483 00:30:41,435 --> 00:30:44,155 Speaker 1: home in New York, and a sticky substance, it looked 484 00:30:44,195 --> 00:30:47,315 Speaker 1: like drain no mixed with talcum powder fell out. An 485 00:30:47,355 --> 00:30:50,435 Speaker 1: accompanying note said it was Antrax, and now I and 486 00:30:50,555 --> 00:30:52,955 Speaker 1: other liberals would get a taste of our own medicine. 487 00:30:53,715 --> 00:30:56,675 Speaker 1: Even reading those chilling words and having covered the actual 488 00:30:56,715 --> 00:31:00,355 Speaker 1: antrax letters attacks of two thousand one for CNN, I 489 00:31:00,435 --> 00:31:03,315 Speaker 1: knew it wasn't antrax. The Guy who supposedly sent the 490 00:31:03,355 --> 00:31:05,475 Speaker 1: actual antrax was an ex it in the field, and 491 00:31:05,515 --> 00:31:08,555 Speaker 1: even he mishandled the stuff so badly that the official 492 00:31:08,595 --> 00:31:12,075 Speaker 1: report was he gave himself anthrax poisoning and died of it. 493 00:31:12,795 --> 00:31:16,195 Speaker 1: On the other hand, what if I was wrong? My 494 00:31:16,275 --> 00:31:18,515 Speaker 1: apartment building was filled with little old ladies who had 495 00:31:18,555 --> 00:31:21,755 Speaker 1: lived there since Roosevelt was president. I only assumed that 496 00:31:21,795 --> 00:31:25,075 Speaker 1: meant Franklin Roosevelt. The odds were about one in a 497 00:31:25,115 --> 00:31:27,315 Speaker 1: trillion this was actually anthrax. But who was I to 498 00:31:27,355 --> 00:31:32,835 Speaker 1: dismiss this on their behalf? So I made a phone call. Well, 499 00:31:32,955 --> 00:31:35,795 Speaker 1: that made it into quite an evening. The COPS showed up, 500 00:31:35,835 --> 00:31:38,275 Speaker 1: the FBI showed up, they said, of course it's not anthrax, 501 00:31:38,275 --> 00:31:40,275 Speaker 1: but we have to act like it is. The Has 502 00:31:40,355 --> 00:31:43,155 Speaker 1: Matt Squad came in, they set up a command post 503 00:31:43,155 --> 00:31:45,475 Speaker 1: in the building. They swept my apartment. They said okay, 504 00:31:45,475 --> 00:31:47,235 Speaker 1: now you have to go to the emergency room for 505 00:31:47,275 --> 00:31:49,675 Speaker 1: tests and I said it's not anthrax, you just said so, 506 00:31:49,715 --> 00:31:51,595 Speaker 1: and they said if we have to do this, you 507 00:31:51,635 --> 00:31:54,675 Speaker 1: have to do this too. I laughed. And if you don't, 508 00:31:54,715 --> 00:31:56,755 Speaker 1: we can arrest you as a threat to public health 509 00:31:56,795 --> 00:31:59,675 Speaker 1: and make you do it. So out I went into 510 00:31:59,675 --> 00:32:04,635 Speaker 1: an ambulance dressed in a hazmat suit one size too 511 00:32:04,715 --> 00:32:07,795 Speaker 1: small that really chafed in the groin. I spent the 512 00:32:07,915 --> 00:32:10,275 Speaker 1: night getting checked out and the FBI called back and 513 00:32:10,275 --> 00:32:14,675 Speaker 1: said it's like drain Oh with ivory soap flakes. But 514 00:32:14,755 --> 00:32:17,595 Speaker 1: they also said there were other letters that had arrived 515 00:32:17,635 --> 00:32:19,715 Speaker 1: that night and the night before and the week before 516 00:32:19,755 --> 00:32:23,075 Speaker 1: two people like the chairman of CBS and David Letterman's 517 00:32:23,075 --> 00:32:27,675 Speaker 1: office and Nancy Pelosi and the wrong John Stewart. And 518 00:32:27,715 --> 00:32:29,595 Speaker 1: they couldn't make me do this, but it would really 519 00:32:29,635 --> 00:32:31,795 Speaker 1: help if I did not report what had happened to 520 00:32:31,795 --> 00:32:34,555 Speaker 1: me on my TV show, just for one day, because 521 00:32:34,555 --> 00:32:36,115 Speaker 1: they had a lead on the guy and they didn't 522 00:32:36,115 --> 00:32:39,995 Speaker 1: want to scare them off. Naturally, I said sure. The 523 00:32:40,235 --> 00:32:43,475 Speaker 1: next day, while we were still observing the embargo on 524 00:32:43,555 --> 00:32:47,915 Speaker 1: the story, my story, which actually happened to me, New 525 00:32:47,995 --> 00:32:49,875 Speaker 1: York Post page six ran a picture of me with 526 00:32:49,915 --> 00:32:54,395 Speaker 1: the headline powder puff spooks Keith and making sure to 527 00:32:54,435 --> 00:32:58,635 Speaker 1: identify me as, quote, can you guess, a frequent critic 528 00:32:58,635 --> 00:33:01,955 Speaker 1: of President Bush's policies. It mocked me for not just 529 00:33:02,035 --> 00:33:05,035 Speaker 1: assuming it was spake anthrax and ignoring it, and I 530 00:33:05,115 --> 00:33:07,875 Speaker 1: insisted the cops take me to the hospital. Quote. Whether 531 00:33:07,915 --> 00:33:10,955 Speaker 1: they gave him a lollipop on the way out isn't known. 532 00:33:12,475 --> 00:33:14,475 Speaker 1: By the way, one of the anthrax letters in two 533 00:33:14,555 --> 00:33:17,275 Speaker 1: thousand one the actual anthrax letters had been mailed to 534 00:33:17,395 --> 00:33:19,875 Speaker 1: the New York Post and one of their staffers contracted 535 00:33:19,915 --> 00:33:22,675 Speaker 1: the anthrax poisoning. But that didn't seem to matter anymore 536 00:33:22,675 --> 00:33:24,315 Speaker 1: when it was a chance to take a shot at 537 00:33:24,355 --> 00:33:27,235 Speaker 1: me anyway. As it turned out, there was a guy 538 00:33:27,315 --> 00:33:31,355 Speaker 1: in California sending out these threatening letters, each with fake Antrax, 539 00:33:31,395 --> 00:33:35,235 Speaker 1: to about a dozen people. He sent me four of them. 540 00:33:35,275 --> 00:33:38,195 Speaker 1: I soon knew the FBI guys on the case by 541 00:33:38,235 --> 00:33:41,835 Speaker 1: their first names and one day I pointed out to 542 00:33:41,955 --> 00:33:45,675 Speaker 1: FBI Doug that the last envelope had a barcode on 543 00:33:45,715 --> 00:33:47,955 Speaker 1: it that maybe could track the guy and he said, Oh, 544 00:33:47,995 --> 00:33:50,155 Speaker 1: you're right, and the next thing I knew the FBI 545 00:33:50,235 --> 00:33:53,435 Speaker 1: had videotaped the suspect mailing yet another letter to me 546 00:33:53,835 --> 00:33:56,435 Speaker 1: from his home in Woodland Hills, California, and I swear 547 00:33:56,475 --> 00:34:00,395 Speaker 1: to God he actually lived in his mother's basement. And 548 00:34:00,515 --> 00:34:02,515 Speaker 1: FBI Doug said, do we have your permission to pull 549 00:34:02,515 --> 00:34:03,955 Speaker 1: the letter out of the mailbox and open it, and 550 00:34:03,955 --> 00:34:06,955 Speaker 1: I said sure, and the guy wound up going to 551 00:34:06,995 --> 00:34:11,035 Speaker 1: prison for like eighteen months, but not before FBI Doug said, 552 00:34:11,115 --> 00:34:14,475 Speaker 1: by the way, the Barcode you noticed it was for 553 00:34:14,515 --> 00:34:16,475 Speaker 1: the post office here, and that's where we found his 554 00:34:16,515 --> 00:34:19,595 Speaker 1: address and the fact that he'd bought all this stuff 555 00:34:19,635 --> 00:34:22,555 Speaker 1: and purchased a postal money order for fifteen dollars made 556 00:34:22,555 --> 00:34:27,515 Speaker 1: out to the Katherine Harris for Florida Senate Campaign, and 557 00:34:27,595 --> 00:34:30,155 Speaker 1: that led us to his online history, which is all 558 00:34:30,195 --> 00:34:33,675 Speaker 1: about how she is the most beautiful woman in the world, 559 00:34:33,915 --> 00:34:38,035 Speaker 1: Katherine Harris, except for maybe some Gal named Laura something, 560 00:34:38,755 --> 00:34:42,355 Speaker 1: the most beautiful woman in history, and I said Laura, 561 00:34:44,355 --> 00:34:49,795 Speaker 1: Laura Ingram, and FBI Doug said, yeah, that's it, Laura Ingram. 562 00:34:49,795 --> 00:34:51,795 Speaker 1: And if that isn't ten years of my life in 563 00:34:51,835 --> 00:35:01,875 Speaker 1: one sentence, I don't know what it is. 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Arrest Him now while 581 00:35:59,715 --> 00:36:04,675 Speaker 1: we still can, and, as this postscript, ouch new episode tomorrow. 582 00:36:04,675 --> 00:36:07,035 Speaker 1: I'm Keith Allerman. Until then, good morning, good afternoon, good 583 00:36:07,115 --> 00:36:18,915 Speaker 1: night and good luck. Countdown with Keith all reman is 584 00:36:18,915 --> 00:36:22,515 Speaker 1: a production of I heart radio. For more podcasts from 585 00:36:22,515 --> 00:36:25,395 Speaker 1: I heart radio, visit the I heart radio APP, apple 586 00:36:25,475 --> 00:36:28,435 Speaker 1: podcasts or wherever you get your podcasts.