Speaker 1: Countdown with Keith Olderman is a production of iHeartRadio. Trump's
Speaker 1: newest threat quote, the bullets are flying and it will
Speaker 1: only get worse. There were no bullets on Sunday other
Speaker 1: than those fired by the Secret Service. There was no
Speaker 1: line of sight for any shots at or near Trump.
Speaker 1: There are thus far no charges other than gun possession,
Speaker 1: and the reality of the case suggests there may never be.
Speaker 1: The man who voted for Trump in twenty sixteen and
Speaker 1: wanted to shoot or shoot at him in twenty twenty
Speaker 1: four did not make even the slightest attempt to resist
Speaker 1: a rest. Trump knows he was never in real danger.
Speaker 1: In fact, he was genuinely put out that they would
Speaker 1: not let him finish the round of golf he was
Speaker 1: cheating through, when the would be almost sort of kind
Speaker 1: of assassination attempt didn't actually take place. Trump's knowledge of
Speaker 1: this only underscores that his statement yesterday is yet another
Speaker 1: stochastic demand for violence to be directed against Vice President
Speaker 1: Harris and other Democrats and anybody who doesn't like Trump,
Speaker 1: and that the only brush with reality within that statement
Speaker 1: is his demand that terrorists be deported from this country,
Speaker 1: and Trump is the leading domestic terrorist in this nation,
Speaker 1: and we should start with him. We have known for weeks,
Speaker 1: we have known for months that even Trump has perceived
Speaker 1: that his chances of victory via the ballot are decreasing daily,
Speaker 1: and that violence and subversion are his only ways to
Speaker 1: regain power and avoid dying in prison. And so this
Speaker 1: all becomes another excuse for Trump to threaten this nation
Speaker 1: and to exploit Sunday's events, events at a property he
Speaker 1: owns and apparently provides next to no private security for
Speaker 1: to treat this with sweeping statements to the nation's press,
Speaker 1: which the nation's press is letting him get away with
Speaker 1: out of fear of being accused of covering up something that,
Speaker 1: if it happened five hundred yards from Joe Biden while
Speaker 1: Joe Biden was at the White House, would have gotten
Speaker 1: sober and serious coverage that would have by now faded
Speaker 1: from the front pages because there was no real danger.
Speaker 1: Trump unsurprisingly made as much danger up as he could
Speaker 1: and dragged in Kamala Harris and immigration and the prosecutions
Speaker 1: of him for his espionage and insurrection and other criminality.
Speaker 1: Quote he believed the rhetoric of Biden and Harris, and
Speaker 1: he acted on it. Trump first told Fox about the
Speaker 1: non shooter. They do it with a combination of rhetoric
Speaker 1: and lawsuits. They wrap me up in. These are the
Speaker 1: thing that dangerous fools like the shooter listened to. That
Speaker 1: is the rhetoric they listen to. And the same with
Speaker 1: the first one. The first one, of course, the maga
Speaker 1: gun nut who actually shot at Trump. Then Trump posted
Speaker 1: quote the rhetoric lies, as exemplified by the false statements
Speaker 1: made by Comrade Kamala Harris during the rigged and highly
Speaker 1: partisan ABC debate. As an aside, I thought he won
Speaker 1: the ABC debate? Is he saying otherwise? Quoting again, and
Speaker 1: all of the ridiculous lawsuits specifically designed to inflict damage
Speaker 1: on Joe's than Kamala's political opponent, me has taken politics
Speaker 1: in our country to a whole new level of hatred, abuse,
Speaker 1: and distrust because of this communist left rhetoric. The bullets
Speaker 1: are flying and it will only get worse. Un quote.
Speaker 1: Trump's threat then takes a curious left turn, which explains
Speaker 1: what his next political strategy is. Steal your elf for
Speaker 1: this quote, Allowing millions of people from places unknown to
Speaker 1: invade and take over our country is an unpardonable sin.
Speaker 1: Trump continued on the theme of deportation, and that segued
Speaker 1: into a later statement in which it became clearer what
Speaker 1: he is trying to do now. He is trying to
Speaker 1: transfer the threat of the political violence he invoked into
Speaker 1: some kind of threat against minority voters. The Poles, of course,
Speaker 1: say he is hemorrhaging minority voters. Quote illegal migrants who
Speaker 1: are pouring into our country in record numbers, are taking
Speaker 1: the jobs away from black and Hispanic people who have
Speaker 1: held them for years unquote the black jobs line again,
Speaker 1: but now added to it the threat to Trump. So,
Speaker 1: in what he would call weaving and what the rest
Speaker 1: of us would call cynical and irrational exploitation, the environment
Speaker 1: of political violence which Trump has been fomenting for a decade,
Speaker 1: suddenly becomes an excuse for more prejudice and more suspicion,
Speaker 1: and more violence directed at democratic leadership and at the
Speaker 1: migrants already here, whom Trump has previously threatened to expel,
Speaker 1: even the ones here legally. And suddenly we are back
Speaker 1: in Springfield, Ohio, and Trump's gangs and militias and the
Speaker 1: new excuse they have for their racism. Trump is now
Speaker 1: saying that the migrants there being persecuted, being threatened, living
Speaker 1: in a city turned upside down by the lies he
Speaker 1: and JD. Vance and other Republicans have spread, they are,
Speaker 1: in fact some kind of threat to him. The migrants
Speaker 1: in Ohio are somehow connected to the attempts to shoot
Speaker 1: at Trump, also connected to those threats defending the migrants
Speaker 1: prosecuting Trump, the debate he lost last week. It is
Speaker 1: one giant, delusional, paranoid demand by Trump to America to
Speaker 1: let him do whatever he wants to, And at its
Speaker 1: heart are those ten terrifying words. The bullets are flying,
Speaker 1: and it will only get worse. Only getting worse, of course,
Speaker 1: is exactly what Trump wants. If, like me, you are
Speaker 1: of a certain age, perhaps the similarity has already occurred
Speaker 1: to you between this madman and the mad man President
Speaker 1: played by Martin Sheen in the Stephen King film The
Speaker 1: Dead Zone. Trump, the bullets are flying. It will only
Speaker 1: get worse, Martin Sheen, the missiles are flying. Hallelujah, hallelujah,
Speaker 1: it gets worse. Trump and his running mate are now,
Speaker 1: in fact playing a variant of good Cop Bad Cop,
Speaker 1: called bad Cop Other bad Cop, leaving it for JD.
Speaker 1: Vance to try to exploit this still further and sew
Speaker 1: more death threats against the media for not selling the
Speaker 1: narrative Trump wants. Vance complains about one newscast, in particular,
Speaker 1: something on PBS he saw quote after spending thirty seconds
Speaker 1: on the second assassination attempt on President Trump, they then
Speaker 1: focused on the real danger me and President and Trump,
Speaker 1: who are, according to them, personally responsible for bomb threats
Speaker 1: against Springfield. Of course, I repeatedly condemned those threats. Donald
Speaker 1: Trump and I are by their account, directly responsible for
Speaker 1: bomb threats from foreign countries. Why because we had the
Speaker 1: audacity to repeat what residents told us about the problems
Speaker 1: in their town. Meanwhile, Harris Allies call for Trump to
Speaker 1: be eliminated as the media publishes arguments that he deserved
Speaker 1: to be shot. If you think Vance is hallucinating and
Speaker 1: is way out on a limb here, he has in
Speaker 1: fact only started to move out onto that limb. Quoting again,
Speaker 1: it is one thing to say that pets are not
Speaker 1: in fact being eaten, and another thing to say that
Speaker 1: anyone who disagrees is trying to murder people. Dissent, even
Speaker 1: vigorous descent, is a great tradition of the United States,
Speaker 1: censorship is not unquote. Now we are approaching Vance's endpoint here.
Speaker 1: You have to let him make up stories about pets
Speaker 1: being eaten, otherwise you're not a real American. You have
Speaker 1: to let him paint a giant bullseye on a town
Speaker 1: in a state he putatively represents in the Senate of
Speaker 1: the United States, because the only other option is to
Speaker 1: support censorship, and JV says censorship means wait for it, quote,
Speaker 1: the logic of censorship leads directly to one place. For
Speaker 1: there is only one way to permanently silence a human being,
Speaker 1: put a bullet in his brain unquote. So according to JV. Vance,
Speaker 1: this election is now a clear choice between letting him
Speaker 1: and Trump smear and slander and lie and endanger the
Speaker 1: lives of and about anyone and anything they want, or
Speaker 1: supporting bullets in the brain. And remember this insanity, this
Speaker 1: cold bloodless, laser focused stupidity of JD. Vance has actually
Speaker 1: overtaken the day to day lives of the people of Springfield, Ohio.
Speaker 1: This is from the local newsroom. There of Spectrum News
Speaker 1: quote facilities in Springfield, Ohio that have either been placed
Speaker 1: on lockdown evacuated, closed, or searched at some point over
Speaker 1: the last week due to threats. It coincides with Vance
Speaker 1: and Trump, amplifying what local and state officials say are
Speaker 1: baseless claims about Haitian migrants eating people's pets and local
Speaker 1: geese in the community. Here's the list. One Springfield City Hall,
Speaker 1: two Springfield's Bureau of Motor Vehicles, three, Springfield's Drivers Exam Station. Four,
Speaker 1: Springfield's Local Ohio Licensed Bureau, five Springview Government Center. Six
Speaker 1: Clark County Department of Job and Family Service This is
Speaker 1: seven Clark County Common Please Court, eight Clark County Board
Speaker 1: of Elections, nine Clark County Juvenile Court. Ten A. B.
Speaker 1: Graham Building, eleven Springfield Academy of Excellence, twelve, Fulton Elementary School, thirteen,
Speaker 1: Parren Woods Elementary School fourteen, snow Hill Elementary School fifteen,
Speaker 1: Roosevelt Middle School sixteen, Kettering Health Springfield seventeen, Mercy Health
Speaker 1: Springfield Regional Medical Center eighteen, Wittenberg University nineteen, Clark State College, twenty,
Speaker 1: Simon Kenton Elementary School, twenty one Kenwood Elementary School. And
Speaker 1: he adds Springfield's annual culture Fest has been canceled over
Speaker 1: security concerns and note next on the Trumpian schedule is Aurora, Colorado,
Speaker 1: where even before last week's debate, Trump was claiming immigrant
Speaker 1: gangs were quote taking over buildings, They're going in violently.
Speaker 1: It was of Aurora that he had said earlier, and
Speaker 1: getting them out will be a bloody story. The New
Speaker 1: York Times yesterday quoted what has actually happened in Aurora.
Speaker 1: As far back as May twenty twenty three, Aurora officials
Speaker 1: have been trying to force an out of state landlord
Speaker 1: to fix up three blighted apartment complexes in the downtrodden
Speaker 1: East Colfax Corridor, which connects the cities of Denver and Aurora.
Speaker 1: In July twenty twenty four, the landlord, CBZ Management, which
Speaker 1: says it is based in Colorado and Brooklyn, offered a
Speaker 1: new argument for Wyatt couldn't repair the buildings Venezuelan gangs
Speaker 1: had taken over and the property managers had been forced
Speaker 1: to flee. On August fifth, a public relations agent, Sarah Latman,
Speaker 1: hired by CBZ, pitched a quote tip to the local
Speaker 1: Fox television network affiliate in Denver, quote an apartment building
Speaker 1: and its owners in Aurora, Colorado, have become the most
Speaker 1: recent victims of the Venezuelan gang trand de Arraguas violence,
Speaker 1: which has taken over several communities in the Denver area.
Speaker 1: None of this is true. No part of Colorado is
Speaker 1: under the control of anybody but bad landlords. And there
Speaker 1: is criminality in Aurora, Colorado, and it is not gangs.
Speaker 1: It is a bunch of landlords and their pr person,
Speaker 1: Sarah Latman. And then there's the Leon theory Elon Musk
Speaker 1: to you, Leon to Trump, and the greatest rationalization of
Speaker 1: them all, it's the When I say it, everybody knows
Speaker 1: I'm joking. When you say it, it's the deep state
Speaker 1: trying to murder our president. Sometime early Sunday evening, somebody
Speaker 1: called dodge Dog Designer, one of these crypto idiots, tweeted
Speaker 1: why they want to kill Donald Trump. Elon, of course,
Speaker 1: then retweeted this, adding, and no one is even trying
Speaker 1: to assassinate Biden slash Kamala with an emoji. It's his
Speaker 1: site and he can put out what he wants. But frankly,
Speaker 1: that is the kind of thing that if you wrote
Speaker 1: it in public, the Secret Service would be asking for
Speaker 1: an appointment to see you. Within twenty four hours, and
Speaker 1: they should be asking to see what Elon Musk meant
Speaker 1: by this, since he is running a super pack for Trump,
Speaker 1: and he has expressed violence before, and he is a
Speaker 1: known drug user, and most importantly, he has government contracts
Speaker 1: and security clearances, none of which should continue beyond this.
Speaker 1: In point of fact, he should have been imprisoned by
Speaker 1: Monday morning, but he wasn't. Musk deleted this tweet sometime
Speaker 1: early Monday without making any comment nor an explanation other
Speaker 1: than something about how he should know by now that
Speaker 1: if he says something and against a bunch of laughs
Speaker 1: in the room, that won't necessarily translate to this lousy
Speaker 1: website which he owns and has made lousy. There was
Speaker 1: something that obscured or was obscured by Elon Musk that
Speaker 1: was even worse and more directly addresses this issue of
Speaker 1: when I say it, it's political commentary, When you say it,
Speaker 1: it's a threat against Trump, and you should be shot, arrested, jailed, castrated,
Speaker 1: whatever it is they feel like doing that day, or
Speaker 1: have your town turned into the focal point of every
Speaker 1: idiot and every racist and every backdoor bomber in the world.
Speaker 1: This is from the Libertarian part of New Hampshire. At
Speaker 1: least it's their account they claim to be the Libertarian
Speaker 1: Party of New Hampshire. Libertarian is just another word for
Speaker 1: trumpest of course, somebody wrote I disagree with the assault
Speaker 1: weapons band, but maybe save the threatening rhetoric a and
Speaker 1: they retweeted that with this message quote anyone who murders
Speaker 1: Kamala Harris would be an American hero at LPNH Libertarian
Speaker 1: Party of New Hampshire. If they're not the Libertarian Party
Speaker 1: of New Hampshire, they probably should have denied the existence
Speaker 1: of this and gotten the blue check mark removed from
Speaker 1: the account using that name. Anyone who murders Kamala Harris
Speaker 1: would be an American hero. Well, I'm sure they just
Speaker 1: meant that as a metaphor it well, pray maybe not.
Speaker 1: Later on that tweet vanished. We deleted a tweet read
Speaker 1: a subsequent tweet because we don't want to break the
Speaker 1: terms of this website we agreed to. It's a shame that,
Speaker 1: even on a free speech website, that libertarians cannot speak freely.
Speaker 1: Libertarians are truly the most oppressed minority. Yes, when you
Speaker 1: advocate in a stochastic manner, the murder of the Vice
Speaker 1: President of the United States, that is somehow a violation
Speaker 1: of your rights. What's the distance between what Elon Musk
Speaker 1: wrote and what this Libertarian Party of New Hampshire wrote.
Speaker 1: And no one is even trying to assassinate Biden Kamala
Speaker 1: Anyone who murders Kamala Harris would be an American hero.
Speaker 1: My argument would be these are adjacent and somebody from
Speaker 1: the Libertarian Party of New Hampshire who's responsible for their
Speaker 1: social media should be in jail next to Elon Musk.
Speaker 1: Musk minimally needs to have his security clearance revoked. It
Speaker 1: would be nice if we could get him out of
Speaker 1: this country. I don't think we can do that. Apparently
Speaker 1: we have people in space who need his cyber truck
Speaker 1: or something to get home because we went to use
Speaker 1: a Boeing Craft to get them home, and the Boeing
Speaker 1: craft apparently cannot get out of the hangar. There's more
Speaker 1: than this, of course, it's not just the tech pros
Speaker 1: and the Libertarians who are doing this. Scott Perry, who
Speaker 1: I believe has his phone back finally after January sixth,
Speaker 1: then whatever his role was in the attempted coup said
Speaker 1: yesterday that nobody is trying to assassinate Joe Biden. They
Speaker 1: can't get to his bedroom to find him sleeping. But
Speaker 1: President Trump is out there and they're actively trying to
Speaker 1: assassinate him. The Secret Service needs to take actions that
Speaker 1: are concurrent with the risk on the ground. Scott Perry,
Speaker 1: Congressman of Pennsylvania. In other words, he's saying, takes security
Speaker 1: from Joe Biden and assign it to Donald Trump so
Speaker 1: he can golf whenever he wants to and not have
Speaker 1: the risk of having somebody from four hundred feet away
Speaker 1: try to shoot him from a public street. Representative Laurel
Speaker 1: Lee of Florida basically insisted that Democrats must stop campaigning
Speaker 1: on all the bad things Trump does and says and threatens,
Speaker 1: because when the truth like that is revealed, it makes
Speaker 1: people mad might try to take a shot at Trump.
Speaker 1: One might suggest Representative Lee that perhaps it is mister
Speaker 1: Trump who should not be saying these things, mister Trump
Speaker 1: who should not have been invoking the question of violence
Speaker 1: and politically violent activity and rhetoric. But of course that
Speaker 1: ship sailed literally in a previous decade, and the average
Speaker 1: congress person representing the Republican Party is a flaming idiot
Speaker 1: like Laurel Lee. And of course, again I'll circle back
Speaker 1: to the Trump quote himself. Their rhetoric is causing me
Speaker 1: to be shot at. In short, the one through line
Speaker 1: in all of this, from Elon Musk to the Libertarians,
Speaker 1: to Scott Perry to Laurel Lee is I never thought
Speaker 1: the leopard would eat my face. See, I'm gonna let
Speaker 1: you in on two secrets, one of which you already
Speaker 1: know and the other which you probably don't. About political violence.
Speaker 1: Number one, we have talked about the peaceful transfer of
Speaker 1: power in this country as if it were built into
Speaker 1: the Constitute, and it had been observed for every one
Speaker 1: of our presidential transfers since the first of them, and
Speaker 1: obviously it has not. The Civil War is a strong
Speaker 1: argument against the idea that we have had peaceful transfers
Speaker 1: of power. The name Kennedy would be the same thing.
Speaker 1: In any event, You cannot open Pandora's box as Trump
Speaker 1: has and then pick the bock up, shaken it, and
Speaker 1: let its contents spill out everywhere, and direct the evils
Speaker 1: contained within the mythological Pandora's box. Direct those evils to
Speaker 1: leave you alone. Once you open the box, it can
Speaker 1: go anywhere. I have no desire to see politicians killed.
Speaker 1: I have no desire to see anyone killed, and particularly
Speaker 1: have no desire for any gun violence in this country.
Speaker 1: But guess what happens. Leopards box, open box, leopards everywhere.
Speaker 1: Leopards eat faces. Trump has a face under all the makeup.
Speaker 1: Now the secret that you probably are not aware of.
Speaker 1: You cannot ultimately stop political violence. You can try, you
Speaker 1: can minimize it. We have done an excellent job, in fact,
Speaker 1: certainly since well let's see how many times was the
Speaker 1: Clinton White House shot at? How many times the threats
Speaker 1: against Obama and Bush and Biden and Trump? And well, okay,
Speaker 1: we haven't done that good a job of it. But
Speaker 1: on the other hand, we haven't had one killed since
Speaker 1: nineteen sixty three, sixty one years without a fatality. But
Speaker 1: you cannot stop it ultimately. As has been said many times,
Speaker 1: if a madman wants to surrender their own life in
Speaker 1: the attempt to take that of a politicians, it will
Speaker 1: probably happen, not always, and there are ways to minimize
Speaker 1: that too. But I had a harrowing experience with this,
Speaker 1: and I've been dealing with violence or the threat of
Speaker 1: it now for literally twenty six years. My first experience
Speaker 1: with it dates back to nineteen ninety eight. Minor threats, letters,
Speaker 1: anonymous letters, warnings, threats, et cetera, none of which was
Speaker 1: ever dealt with very seriously because it wasn't that kind
Speaker 1: of threat. And you cannot live your life that way.
Speaker 1: You cannot live your life inside a bubble. If you
Speaker 1: cannot run the risk, get out of the risk area.
Speaker 1: But I've dealt with this as recently as twenty nineteen,
Speaker 1: and I've had the simple ones, idiots in public telling
Speaker 1: me to kill myself, and people leaving threatening notes and
Speaker 1: sending notes to old addresses. But in twenty nineteen, I
Speaker 1: got one of those serious ones where the FBI called
Speaker 1: me up and said, you're in Saysar Saox computer. We've
Speaker 1: finally done unloading everything in Saysar Sayox computer. And you
Speaker 1: apparently were in his second wave Sezar Sayak, the magabomber,
Speaker 1: the guy with the drawn on hair and the van
Speaker 1: in which every inch of the outside of this van
Speaker 1: was covered in a trump sticker or something like it,
Speaker 1: who sent pipe bombs to a dozen Democrats and legislators
Speaker 1: and all kinds of liberals. Well, if he had not
Speaker 1: gotten caught and been sent to prison, I was on
Speaker 1: the second list. But principally, and this is back to
Speaker 1: the point of the secret you probably are not aware of,
Speaker 1: there was two thousand and six. I've told many times
Speaker 1: the story of the guy who lived in his mother's
Speaker 1: basement in southern California who kept sending me threatening letters
Speaker 1: filled with fake anthrax. And obviously it was fake anthrax.
Speaker 1: The experts who deal with real anthrax in the mail,
Speaker 1: the one we know of, apparently killed himself because he
Speaker 1: didn't do it right. It's not an easy fix. It's
Speaker 1: not a self addressed, stamped envelope full of anthras, so
Speaker 1: it probably was not anthrax. But I could not make
Speaker 1: that decision on behalf of everybody else who lived in
Speaker 1: my apartment building, especially the surprisingly large number of ninety
Speaker 1: five year old women who lived in that building. So
Speaker 1: I got the authorities involved, and by the time of
Speaker 1: the fourth letter, I knew them all by their first names,
Speaker 1: and I used to make them call me up with updates,
Speaker 1: and I would call them with updates, And then came
Speaker 1: finally a letter to my office at MSNBC, and the
Speaker 1: giveaway was the return address was J Leno, NBC Burbank, California,
Speaker 1: J period Leno. Well, that's not how Jay Leno writes
Speaker 1: his name. Why would you abbreviate your name Jay as
Speaker 1: a J period. If your name is J, it's J. Also,
Speaker 1: there was postage on this. I knew Jay Leno for
Speaker 1: nearly the whole run of his career at NBC on
Speaker 1: the Tonight Show, and I know very well that Jay
Speaker 1: Leno would never spend a dollar twenty five to send
Speaker 1: me a letter, not when he could put it in
Speaker 1: an interoffice pouch and save himself a dollar twenty five
Speaker 1: in anyay event. When I saw this, I knew immediately
Speaker 1: that it probably was from my correspondent in southern California
Speaker 1: sending me the fake anthrax. And so I called one
Speaker 1: of the agents at the FBI. I went, hey, I
Speaker 1: got another one, but it's here in secaucas Oh, okay,
Speaker 1: we'll be right over. What do I do here? We
Speaker 1: had never gotten one here before? Well, tell whoever is
Speaker 1: in charge of the plant of the building. And if
Speaker 1: the small chance that it's actually anthrax, NBC irradiates all
Speaker 1: the mail. Remember from getting the antrax two thousand and
Speaker 1: one it's only five years ago. They're still irradiating all
Speaker 1: the mail. There's no danger. Well, of course I called
Speaker 1: the guy who was running secaucus for NBC News for MSNBC,
Speaker 1: and when I told him what had happened, he went
Speaker 1: into a screaming panic. His solution to this was to
Speaker 1: insist that I stay in my office, in my little
Speaker 1: cubicle and not leave. And I said, well, what's the
Speaker 1: danger here? You you irradiated all of this. The mail's
Speaker 1: taken to separate facility, and everything is checked, and there's
Speaker 1: no threat whatsoever. I just wanted you to know that
Speaker 1: this was here, and the FBI guys are coming over,
Speaker 1: so nobody should be surprised. There's no threat to this.
Speaker 1: He looked like, I don't know quite how to describe it.
Speaker 1: He looked like he had just eaten some anthras. Is
Speaker 1: the only way I can possibly describe it to you.
Speaker 1: Sure Enough, guess what I found out that day. They
Speaker 1: did not irradiate every letter in coming to MSNBC or
Speaker 1: for that matter, NBC News. They simply said that, thinking
Speaker 1: that that would discourage people from sending actual anthrax. Thinking
Speaker 1: while I went to all this trouble of mailing anthrax
Speaker 1: and not killing myself, And here it is going to
Speaker 1: be of no damaging value to me. By the time
Speaker 1: it gets there, it will have spoiled or NBC will
Speaker 1: have spoiled it through its irradiation machines. I don't know
Speaker 1: how universal this is, but I don't even know if
Speaker 1: there are irradiation machines that could neutralize anthrax or any
Speaker 1: other biological weapon, let alone something like a pipe bomb.
Speaker 1: But the look on the guy who was running the
Speaker 1: Secaucus plan for NBC told me all I needed to know.
Speaker 1: The problem with political violence is not just that it
Speaker 1: is a tool to change history, not that it risks
Speaker 1: the lives of the people who are the potential victims,
Speaker 1: both the targets and the ones who are stochastically urged
Speaker 1: to take political violence into their own hands, as Trump
Speaker 1: has been doing NonStop since twenty fifteen. It's not just that.
Speaker 1: On a bigger level, it is what I mentioned before,
Speaker 1: the Pandora's box effect. You never know what the next
Speaker 1: step is going to be or what will happen. The
Speaker 1: unintended consequences rule comes into play immediately. There was, in fact,
Speaker 1: nothing to protect any of us at NBC News except
Speaker 1: the illusion. I don't know to what degree this is
Speaker 1: true of the Secret Service. I think we found out
Speaker 1: around January sixth. Then in my commentaries of twenty twenty
Speaker 1: two and twenty twenty three, you may recall I urge
Speaker 1: President Biden to fire the Secret Service and start all
Speaker 1: over again, because they were not doing a very good
Speaker 1: job of protecting him. This might be the only thing
Speaker 1: we all agree on. The Secret Service has not been
Speaker 1: doing its job, perhaps for several different presidencies. But this
Speaker 1: rages the larger question exactly what can they do? If
Speaker 1: you own the golf course, and the golf course is
Speaker 1: out there in public in Florida, how much of it
Speaker 1: can you protect? How much of it can you ring
Speaker 1: with agents? How many agents would you need thirty thousand
Speaker 1: to completely cover a place like a golf course. And
Speaker 1: here's the end part of this story. Hopefully the laugh
Speaker 1: you can take with you, A dark and bitter laugh,
Speaker 1: I assure you, but it is a laugh. The response
Speaker 1: in two thousand and six, when the letter which did
Speaker 1: not actually contain fake anthrax, but did contain the means
Speaker 1: by which we finally identified this guy and he wound
Speaker 1: up going to prison as a result, the envelope itself
Speaker 1: with a barcode on it. That envelope produced this response
Speaker 1: from MSNBC to protect all of us. The guy told
Speaker 1: me to stay in my office and close the door
Speaker 1: and he would be right back with a protective device.
Speaker 1: Within ninety seconds, he was back outside my clear sea
Speaker 1: through door and there was his protective device, bright orange,
Speaker 1: extra large traffic cone. We all felt safe after that.
Speaker 1: Also of interest, here the good news. Democratic presidential nomine
Speaker 1: Kamala Harris, according to USA Today, narrowly leads Trump in
Speaker 1: the critical battleground state of Pennsylvania and in two of
Speaker 1: the state's key bell Weather counties. According to a trio
Speaker 1: of exclusive USA Today Suffolk University polls taken after the debate,
Speaker 1: the bounce is here and strong Harris leads Trump the
Speaker 1: Republican nominee forty nine forty six, five hundred likely Pennsylvania
Speaker 1: voters say that is, however, within the margin of era
Speaker 1: four point four forty ninety six, and thank goodness, built
Speaker 1: into the stupidity of the Trump cult, there's always comic relief.
Speaker 1: One of Trump's guys thinks Trump was threatened with a riffle.
Speaker 1: There is clear evidence Trump is suffering from some kind
Speaker 1: of thumb irrectile dysfunction, and Trump may have just lost
Speaker 1: his most valuable endorsement, that life of the quarterback of
Speaker 1: the Kansas City Chiefs football team. Worst Person's next this Discountdown.
Speaker 1: This is Countdown with Keith Olberman stell ahead of us
Speaker 1: on this Editiontive Countdown, mixing up the format a little bit. Today,
Speaker 1: I'm going to tell the sad story of the financial
Speaker 1: and esthetic suicide of Major League Baseball. The postseason will
Speaker 1: feature advertisements five inches wide each on the sides of
Speaker 1: every batting helmet, on every player in every game. Now,
Speaker 1: they're is a good news here. There is a silver lining,
Speaker 1: and that is that baseball's postseason ratings have collapsed so
Speaker 1: much almost nobody will see these I sores coming up
Speaker 1: in sports. First, there are still more new idiots to
Speaker 1: talk about. The daily roundup of the misgrints, morons and
Speaker 1: Dunning Kruger effects specimens who constitute two days worst persons
Speaker 1: in the world. The Bronze Worse Brilind Holly Hand. That's
Speaker 1: the name. I don't make them up. Pally Brilin Holly Hand,
Speaker 1: chairman of a youth group for Trump. I'm not your
Speaker 1: embryos for Trump, Brilin writes, camping outside the president's golf
Speaker 1: course without being detected until the gun barrel aims at
Speaker 1: the president. That's not true, another failure by the Secret Service.
Speaker 1: Swift action once detected. But he never should have been
Speaker 1: allowed to camp by the fence with a riffle. Lots
Speaker 1: of questions, writes Brilin. Hollyhand. Yeah, I got a question.
Speaker 1: This kid is eighteen years old. Certainly, even being a
Speaker 1: Trump supporter, certainly he should know by now the difference
Speaker 1: between rifle, you know, a gun usually used to shoot
Speaker 1: school kids with, and riffle, which is a verb meaning
Speaker 1: to leave through pages. Then again, if his parents, mister
Speaker 1: and Missus Holly Hand really named him Brilin b r
Speaker 1: I l y N, what chance did he ever have?
Speaker 1: The Runner is Up worser speaker Mike Johnson and Trump.
Speaker 1: Johnson visited Trump, still shaken and disturbed by not being
Speaker 1: allowed to finish his golf game Sunday. They took the
Speaker 1: thumbs up picture. Johnson's thumb is fully erect vertically pointed
Speaker 1: up as ordered by godd This Johnson works, but something
Speaker 1: is clearly wrong with Trump's thumb. Trump's thumb is horizontal
Speaker 1: in the picture. It's pointing towards the camera. Trump just
Speaker 1: can't get it up. His thumb is thumb. He can't
Speaker 1: get up his thumb. What were you thinking? But our
Speaker 1: winner the worst Trump himself. He has cost himself a
Speaker 1: surprisingly useful endorsement. Taylor Swift, of course, endorsed Vice President
Speaker 1: Harris after the debate. Among other things, Miss Swift is
Speaker 1: the girlfriend of Travis Kelcey of the Kansas City Chiefs.
Speaker 1: I believe she has a day job as well. But
Speaker 1: Trump had been endorsed by the wife of the quarterback
Speaker 1: of the Kansas City Chiefs, Pat Mahomes. Then Trump decided
Speaker 1: he had to tell the world on Sunday quote I
Speaker 1: hate Taylor Swift from the British tabloids. Quote that prompted
Speaker 1: Britney Mahomes to quote question if she will continue to
Speaker 1: endorse Trump's campaign. She is questioning her support for Donald
Speaker 1: Trump after he lashed out at Taylor saying he hates her.
Speaker 1: A source exclusively revealed to dillymail dot com. This deeply
Speaker 1: bothered Brittany because Taylor is like a sister to her
Speaker 1: and she has done absolutely nothing wrong. Quote. She didn't
Speaker 1: mention Trump in her post and is allowed to speak
Speaker 1: her mind. The source added, the Trump's decision to react
Speaker 1: in such a hateful manner upset Brittany quote. She does
Speaker 1: not believe in hate in any form and loves Taylor
Speaker 1: so much. The insider continued, this shook her to the core.
Speaker 1: Trump Yeah, saying he hated her friend shook Missus Mahomes
Speaker 1: to her core. All the racism, sexism, criminality, the attempt
Speaker 1: to overthrow the government, the new attempt to overthrow the government,
Speaker 1: and by the way, all the hate in every form
Speaker 1: that he's already expressed. All that was dandy with her,
Speaker 1: all right, missus Mahomes. We take all people who see
Speaker 1: the light. All right, fine, and you just you redeem
Speaker 1: yourself easily, just withdraw your endorsement in public. Of course,
Speaker 1: prepare yourself if you do that. Trump will then issue
Speaker 1: a fatoa against you, like he does everybody else who
Speaker 1: thwarts him. Donald domestic j terrorist, two days, worst Pyson
Speaker 1: in the world.
Speaker 2: This is Sports Center Wait, check that not anymore. This
Speaker 2: is Countdown with Keith.
Speaker 1: Alberman in Sports Central Center up date tonight. Kind of
Speaker 1: breaking with the format here, but what the hell? Dateline
Speaker 1: New York. I have theorized for some time that the
Speaker 1: man running the National Hockey League, Gary Bettman, is actually
Speaker 1: an agent of the National Basketball Association, sent to the
Speaker 1: National Hockey League to make sure it is in no
Speaker 1: way as successful as the National Basketball Association. Just pet
Speaker 1: theory of mine during my more delusional days or more
Speaker 1: insightful days. However, there is a concombinant theory that relates
Speaker 1: to Major League Baseball. Rob Manfred, who I did not know,
Speaker 1: but was a contemporary of mine at Corneill University in
Speaker 1: the year nineteen seventy eight seventy nine. And if you
Speaker 1: told anybody on campus there is one guy here who
Speaker 1: will wind up being Commissioner of Baseball, they all would
Speaker 1: have pointed at me. Rob Manfred is working for somebody
Speaker 1: who is trying to destroy baseball. There is no other
Speaker 1: possible explanation. I'll just read part of this press release.
Speaker 1: Major League Baseball has announced a multi year partnership with
Speaker 1: a German workware company called Strauss. The deal, we'll see
Speaker 1: the Strauss logo added to both sides of all twelve
Speaker 1: team batting helmets during every Baseball postseason and World Series
Speaker 1: game starting this year next month through the end of
Speaker 1: the season of twenty twenty seven. It will also apply
Speaker 1: to all baseball regular season games held in Europe, as
Speaker 1: well as all minor league baseball games regular and postseason
Speaker 1: from twenty twenty five forward. The strous logo will appear
Speaker 1: in two different color ways, depending on the helmet on
Speaker 1: which it's being worn. For teams with red helmets, the
Speaker 1: decal will feature a transparent version of Strauss's Ostridge logo
Speaker 1: placed inside a white box. Helmets of any other color,
Speaker 1: we'll have the ostrichen white inside a red box. Both
Speaker 1: feature the company named to the right of the ostrichen
Speaker 1: white letters five inch wide on both sides of every
Speaker 1: batting helmet in every baseball Playoff and World Series game,
Speaker 1: in addition to the ads on the uniforms. In addition
Speaker 1: to the patches that say World Series, they'll all look
Speaker 1: like racing car drivers or like a little league team
Speaker 1: five inches wide advertising a company selling a product. Nobody
Speaker 1: buys Strauss German Workwear. They were the high bidder. I
Speaker 1: assume Strauss German Workware, so Commissioner Manfred is working for
Speaker 1: the Bundesliga. The German soccer outfit is that it because
Speaker 1: there aren't that many things left for rob manfre to
Speaker 1: do to destroy baseball's postseason and World Series. I have
Speaker 1: not gone to a Major League Baseball game in this
Speaker 1: season of twenty twenty four. I believe there were two
Speaker 1: years in the nineties where, mostly because of logistics, I
Speaker 1: was out in the middle of nowhere in Connecticut, I
Speaker 1: couldn't easily get to one, and I didn't. I know
Speaker 1: at least one year I did not go at all.
Speaker 1: This year, I have not gone, even though the subway
Speaker 1: that goes to the Mets home stadium literally runs under
Speaker 1: my house. It just has not been worth it. I
Speaker 1: miss my friends, I'd go to see them, but the
Speaker 1: games I know I'm watching have no relevance to the postseason.
Speaker 1: The teams that do well immediately get eliminated, or if
Speaker 1: they don't get eliminated and go on to play in
Speaker 1: the World Series, they'll meet a team so much better
Speaker 1: than they are that they'll be like the Phillies from
Speaker 1: a couple of years ago. Leading the series two games
Speaker 1: to one, then they got no hit and never led
Speaker 1: again in the entirety of the series and got blown out.
Speaker 1: It was an embarrassment. I felt sorry for the players.
Speaker 1: I'm sixty five years old. There are no athletes I
Speaker 1: should feel sorry for. Baseball has destroyed itself and now
Speaker 1: it's going to stick a big ad on the side.
Speaker 1: The big words Strauss and an Ostriche if there's anything
Speaker 1: more appropriate to describe the commissionership of Robert Manfred, who
Speaker 1: transferred from some local school into Cornell University in nineteen
Speaker 1: seventy eight, it's an Ostridge. In June of this year,
Speaker 1: the infielder Justin Turner, now of the Mariners and generally
Speaker 1: one of the most thoughtful of all baseball players in
Speaker 1: the last two decades, had one of the worst ideas
Speaker 1: of all time. This is how bad things are getting.
Speaker 1: Appearing on a streaming show called Foul Territory, Turner was
Speaker 1: asked what he would do if they let him be
Speaker 1: commissioner for a day. Please God, let's try it anyway.
Speaker 1: He suggested expanding from thirty to thirty two different teams,
Speaker 1: completely eliminating the current format of American League and National League,
Speaker 1: and rearranging things so that the World Series is always
Speaker 1: East versus West, with a big Strauss logo on it
Speaker 1: at an ostrich. The television audience for the World Series
Speaker 1: reached its peak in nineteen seventy eight, coincidentally, the year
Speaker 1: Manfred and I were both at Cornell. Forty four million
Speaker 1: viewers on average watched the World Series games the six
Speaker 1: games between the Los Angeles Dodgers and the New York Yankees.
Speaker 1: Last year, the average was I believe eight million viewers
Speaker 1: per game nine. So the audience is about one tenth
Speaker 1: one ninth what it was in nineteen seventy eight. Even
Speaker 1: though the population is one third greater than it was
Speaker 1: in nineteen seventy eight, the net loss here is spectacular.
Speaker 1: It's more than ninety percent against the growth of the country.
Speaker 1: Why did the World Series die? There are a thousand reasons,
Speaker 1: one of which is an ostrich, but the easiest one
Speaker 1: to comprehend is this. In nineteen seventy eight, the average
Speaker 1: television viewer had four channels to choose from, maybe five,
Speaker 1: maybe six. Some people had cable, but not many. There
Speaker 1: weren't a lot of choices. The World Series was live.
Speaker 1: Baseball was much more popular, but you know, if you're
Speaker 1: watching TV, there aren't a lot of choices. Necessarily, many
Speaker 1: more would be watching the baseball Who are now watching,
Speaker 1: I don't know, streaming something, watching mad Men for the
Speaker 1: seven hundredth time. But one of the other reasons that
Speaker 1: the decline reached epidemic proportions. And I mean, if the
Speaker 1: audience was half what it was in nineteen seventy eight,
Speaker 1: that would make sense. It's it's realistically eight or nine
Speaker 1: percent of what it was. And the earliest signs of this,
Speaker 1: the earliest signs show up with the earliest actions that
Speaker 1: would go into the Justin Turner idea of eliminating the
Speaker 1: American and National Leagues. In nineteen ninety six, the Braves
Speaker 1: and the Yankees played in the World Series. Even though
Speaker 1: the Braves won the first game by a huge amount,
Speaker 1: blew the Yankees out, and again in the second game
Speaker 1: looked like a runaway, they still averaged twenty five million
Speaker 1: viewers per game that year. And I remember going on
Speaker 1: Sports Center and saying, yeah, the ratings are in decline.
Speaker 1: Nobody is willing to say this, But what happens twenty
Speaker 1: five years from now, Well we find out nineteen ninety seven.
Speaker 1: The next year, they began interleague play. Until nineteen ninety seven,
Speaker 1: teams from the American League and the National League had
Speaker 1: never played each other except in spring training or exhibition
Speaker 1: games or in the World Series never played each other
Speaker 1: when it counted. Since the American League opened for business
Speaker 1: in nineteen oh one. The World Series was an utterly
Speaker 1: novel event, and it was also that thing that all
Speaker 1: sports leagues try to fabricate today create artificially. This was
Speaker 1: an actual but organic rivalry because most American League fans
Speaker 1: up till nineteen ninety seven hated the National League or
Speaker 1: at least disrespected it, and vice versa. There used to
Speaker 1: be endless arguments, scholarly articles, research in the Society for
Speaker 1: American Baseball Research, annual guide research into which league was
Speaker 1: better than the other league. And this was true because
Speaker 1: while I'll use the example of my grandfather, Victor Charbineer,
Speaker 1: he died in nineteen eighty seven, and he died in
Speaker 1: nineteen eighty seven hating the American League. He would watch
Speaker 1: the World Series, he would watch the All Star Game.
Speaker 1: He would root against the American League. He didn't know
Speaker 1: most of the play He didn't know many of the teams.
Speaker 1: He didn't know that the Washington Senators that he saw
Speaker 1: play in nineteen sixty one were an entirely different franchise
Speaker 1: than the ones he'd seen as the Washington Senators in
Speaker 1: nineteen sixty. He wasn't that sophisticated a fan, but he
Speaker 1: hated the American League. He knew that much. He would
Speaker 1: mock the New York Yankees of the American League. He
Speaker 1: insisted they played in the weaker league than did the
Speaker 1: National League New York Mets. He was loyal to the
Speaker 1: National League. Even though his team, the New York Giants,
Speaker 1: had moved out of New York in nineteen fifty seven,
Speaker 1: he still preferred the National League because it was a rivalry,
Speaker 1: and his hatred in nineteen eighty seven owed to something
Speaker 1: that had happened in July nineteen oh three. My grandfather
Speaker 1: was a little boy when the star shortstop of his
Speaker 1: National League, New York Giants, a man named George Stacy Davis,
Speaker 1: jumped his contract and went and signed with the Chicago
Speaker 1: White Sox of the New American League. That had happened
Speaker 1: actually in nineteen oh two. In nineteen oh three, Davis
Speaker 1: had jumped back to New York Giants, but as part
Speaker 1: of the peace settlement between these two leagues that were
Speaker 1: at war, and war in baseball means driving up salaries.
Speaker 1: Owners don't like that. When they settled it and drove
Speaker 1: salaries down. Davis was ordered back to Chicago as part
Speaker 1: of the settlement. Grandpa, even though he was a little
Speaker 1: boy who really didn't understand any of this stuff, and
Speaker 1: I don't know that he heard it firsthand. It may
Speaker 1: have been his older relatives who were angry, and he
Speaker 1: just inherited that. Grandpa was still angry about George Stacey
Speaker 1: Davis eighty four years later. You can't possibly buy that
Speaker 1: kind of rivalry. Hatreds like that were inherited, cultivated, maintained, cherished, enjoyed.
Speaker 1: My mother became a New York Yankees fan entirely because
Speaker 1: she knew it would piss off her father, my grandfather.
Speaker 1: That's why I had become a Yankee fan when I
Speaker 1: was a kid, because I went with the games to
Speaker 1: her see her team. You may try to create rivalries
Speaker 1: like that, in fact, they form only from true hatred,
Speaker 1: true division. It was Coke versus Pepsi. It was Republican
Speaker 1: versus Democrat for profit. And when Baseball stopped keeping the
Speaker 1: league separate, stopped making the World Series the battle the
Speaker 1: only battle between the leagues, it suddenly didn't mean that much.
Speaker 1: The New York Mets versus the New York Yankees was
Speaker 1: something I dreamed of seeing as a kid. Oh what
Speaker 1: my grandfather would have made of that they finally faced
Speaker 1: each other in the World Series of two thousand. I
Speaker 1: was the host for Fox. Seemingly this would have been
Speaker 1: the epitome of my sports career. The ratings the lowest
Speaker 1: the World Series it ever had. That was the big sign.
Speaker 1: Interleague play began in nineteen ninety seven. The nineteen ninety
Speaker 1: six World audience had been twenty five million viewers a game.
Speaker 1: Within four years, they were down to eighteen million since
Speaker 1: two thousand and four, when the Red Sox won their
Speaker 1: first World Series. Since nineteen eighteen, the average has been
Speaker 1: more than twenty million a game only once. It was
Speaker 1: last as high as fourteen million per game six years ago.
Speaker 1: If you want to make the World Series live again,
Speaker 1: you have to make it interesting to fans whose teams
Speaker 1: are not playing in it. That used to be everybody
Speaker 1: because you were also a fan, not just of a team,
Speaker 1: but of a league. It may not be salvageable, it
Speaker 1: may be too late, it may be dead forever, it
Speaker 1: may be extinct. But what Baseball should do is eliminate
Speaker 1: all inter league play and see if it can bring
Speaker 1: the league versus league rivalry back to life. Rather than saying,
Speaker 1: you know, I think we could put a second ad
Speaker 1: on the helmets next to the ostrich like in the
Speaker 1: back of the helmet or on the front where that
Speaker 1: Why does the Texas Ranger helmet had that tea? We're
Speaker 1: not getting any money off that. It's the team logo, sir, Wow,
Speaker 1: we're not making any money off of it. How about
Speaker 1: we put a little like a miner's light on top
Speaker 1: of each helmet and put an advertisement on each side
Speaker 1: of that. Think of all the different birds we can
Speaker 1: put up there. Grandpa wasn't just still angry about George
Speaker 1: sta C. Davis eighty four years later. He was also
Speaker 1: convinced that the National League played real baseball and the
Speaker 1: American League was not only weak and bad, but that
Speaker 1: the American League was fixed, fixed so that the Yankees
Speaker 1: would win the pennant. Nearly every year he had to
Speaker 1: watch the World Series because it was It was existential
Speaker 1: to him and two millions of others forty four million
Speaker 1: TV viewers a night. They won't get forty four million
Speaker 1: viewers for the World Series in its entirety if it
Speaker 1: goes seven games. Next month. You cannot buy that kind
Speaker 1: of devotion from customers. You cannot forge it. The crazy
Speaker 1: has to be organic, and Baseball has been steadily eliminating
Speaker 1: the crazy, and it has made its World Series small
Speaker 1: and smaller and smallest. And now it's putting ads for
Speaker 1: a company nobody's ever heard of before on both sides
Speaker 1: of every helmet in every playoff and World Series games,
Speaker 1: stals all the helmets. Not even mind you an ad
Speaker 1: for a company people have heard of. I mean you
Speaker 1: could probably gain an audience if instead of the ads
Speaker 1: reading Strauss, they read Chico's bail bonds. I've done all
Speaker 1: the damage I can do here. And no, I'm not
Speaker 1: arguing against advertising on sports uniforms. You get used to
Speaker 1: it as long as it's small and not like standing
Speaker 1: out on top of every helmet only in the postseason. Here,
Speaker 1: here's our marquee item. Let's punish you with more advertising.
Speaker 1: What do you mean nobody watched the game last night?
Speaker 1: I mean you're saying the ratings were down from but
Speaker 1: literally nobody watched. They're not even going to put all
Speaker 1: the lights on tonight to save some money. Look, the
Speaker 1: World Series once in eighteen ninety was so unpopular baseball
Speaker 1: so alienated its audience that the World Series of eighteen
Speaker 1: ninety was tied, three games for Brooklyn, three games for Louisville,
Speaker 1: one game tied. The attendance had dropped to about four
Speaker 1: hundred fans, The weather was bad, and when it came
Speaker 1: time to play the decisive game, they said, nobody's here.
Speaker 1: Why bother? The World Series was abandoned in eighteen ninety.
Speaker 1: It could happen again, but at least Strauss will get
Speaker 1: its ads on the helmets as they knocked down the
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Speaker 1: was my friend Stevie van Zant. Else it's pretty much
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Speaker 1: the twenty twenty fourth presidential election. That counts to day
Speaker 1: and election day, the three and forty fourth day since
Speaker 1: convicted felon dementia j Trump's first attempted coup against the
Speaker 1: democratically elected government of the United States. Use the election,
Speaker 1: use the mental health system, use presidential immunity if we
Speaker 1: have to, to keep him from doing it again legally
Speaker 1: while we still can. The next scheduled countdown is tomorrow. Boltons,
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