1 00:00:04,795 --> 00:00:25,555 Speaker 1: Countdown with Keith Olderman is a production of iHeartRadio. If 2 00:00:25,595 --> 00:00:29,875 Speaker 1: Trump didn't have much time left as president? How would 3 00:00:29,875 --> 00:00:33,555 Speaker 1: his cabinet behave? If Trump didn't have much time left 4 00:00:33,555 --> 00:00:37,675 Speaker 1: as president? How would his henchmen behave? If Trump didn't 5 00:00:37,675 --> 00:00:39,875 Speaker 1: have much time left as president? How would his Stephen 6 00:00:39,955 --> 00:00:45,995 Speaker 1: Millers behave? If Trump didn't have much time left as president? 7 00:00:47,195 --> 00:00:52,915 Speaker 1: How would he behave? Hallucinations about Watergate being a hoax? 8 00:00:53,435 --> 00:00:56,635 Speaker 1: The straight up delusion that one four and forty eight 9 00:00:56,715 --> 00:01:00,355 Speaker 1: days into his first presidency. It was Joe Biden's FBI 10 00:01:00,795 --> 00:01:05,555 Speaker 1: on January sixth, even though Joe Biden hadn't been president yet. 11 00:01:07,035 --> 00:01:10,995 Speaker 1: I'm not saying he's dying. I'm not saying he's irretrievably sick. 12 00:01:11,075 --> 00:01:14,715 Speaker 1: I'm not saying he's being raptured. I'm not saying he's resigning. 13 00:01:14,755 --> 00:01:18,515 Speaker 1: I'm not saying he's fleeing. I'm not talking about cause 14 00:01:19,515 --> 00:01:23,955 Speaker 1: just effect. If Trump didn't have much time left as 15 00:01:24,035 --> 00:01:29,035 Speaker 1: president because he was getting a promotion to something, how 16 00:01:29,035 --> 00:01:35,595 Speaker 1: would they all behave? I think the answer is they'd 17 00:01:35,635 --> 00:01:43,075 Speaker 1: all behave as they are behaving right now. They'd panic. 18 00:01:44,715 --> 00:01:48,315 Speaker 1: They'd panic because if Trump didn't have much time left 19 00:01:48,315 --> 00:01:50,995 Speaker 1: as president, None of them, None of them would have 20 00:01:51,115 --> 00:01:55,595 Speaker 1: much left time in power, because the dirty little secret 21 00:01:55,675 --> 00:01:58,315 Speaker 1: is that Trump and Maga and this administration and any 22 00:01:58,355 --> 00:02:03,715 Speaker 1: future for any of them depends on Trump, on Trump alone, 23 00:02:03,795 --> 00:02:07,395 Speaker 1: and on the weapon Trump alone has mastered, which keeps 24 00:02:07,475 --> 00:02:12,035 Speaker 1: Maga alive. The implicit and often explicit threat of violence, 25 00:02:12,635 --> 00:02:16,715 Speaker 1: the cherished fantasy of the authoritarians to be able to 26 00:02:16,835 --> 00:02:23,635 Speaker 1: physically hurt their perceived enemies by the millions, hurt and worse, 27 00:02:26,635 --> 00:02:29,755 Speaker 1: if Trump didn't have much time left as president, who 28 00:02:29,795 --> 00:02:34,595 Speaker 1: would become the embodiment of their evil? You think in 29 00:02:34,795 --> 00:02:40,395 Speaker 1: vance after George Stephanopolis stuffed him into a locker yesterday, 30 00:02:41,355 --> 00:02:49,395 Speaker 1: Vance JV, how many els in JD do you think 31 00:02:49,435 --> 00:02:56,115 Speaker 1: it's going to be? Junior eWiC Stephen Miller, who sometimes 32 00:02:56,115 --> 00:03:00,075 Speaker 1: looks like Doctor Evil's mini me and sometimes looks like Anasparatu, 33 00:03:00,275 --> 00:03:01,595 Speaker 1: and the rest of the time just looks like a 34 00:03:01,595 --> 00:03:06,195 Speaker 1: flaccid penis in a tie. Stephen Miller, who made the 35 00:03:06,195 --> 00:03:09,835 Speaker 1: fatal mistake of using the first person pronoun to claim 36 00:03:09,955 --> 00:03:13,755 Speaker 1: credit for something Trump did. Quote if I put federal 37 00:03:13,835 --> 00:03:16,715 Speaker 1: law enforcement on the National Guard into a nice, sleepy 38 00:03:16,795 --> 00:03:21,995 Speaker 1: Southern entire, if who did that mini me? So who 39 00:03:22,035 --> 00:03:29,715 Speaker 1: do you see as the next feure? Tim Scott? If 40 00:03:29,755 --> 00:03:33,195 Speaker 1: Trump didn't have much time left as president, how would 41 00:03:33,235 --> 00:03:37,635 Speaker 1: Stephen Miller be behaving? How often and how thoroughly? Is 42 00:03:37,675 --> 00:03:43,555 Speaker 1: Steven Miller panicking? How often and how thoroughlier Pam Bondi 43 00:03:43,595 --> 00:03:48,315 Speaker 1: and Christy Noman, Mike fake Calm, Johnson panicking, Johnson panicking 44 00:03:48,315 --> 00:03:51,155 Speaker 1: over Jeffrey Epstein. I'll get to the answer to that 45 00:03:51,235 --> 00:03:53,155 Speaker 1: question in a moment. Some of them, of course, are 46 00:03:53,195 --> 00:03:57,595 Speaker 1: not panicking. Some of them are just behaving desperately and chaotically. 47 00:03:59,475 --> 00:04:03,155 Speaker 1: The three hour and seventeen minute ultra fawning Cabinet meeting 48 00:04:03,235 --> 00:04:07,555 Speaker 1: of August twenty sixth. This whole nonsense about the Nobel 49 00:04:07,675 --> 00:04:12,195 Speaker 1: Peace Prize, as was pointed out in countless quarters, What 50 00:04:12,315 --> 00:04:15,795 Speaker 1: could be more nonsensical than demanding the Nobel Peace Prize 51 00:04:15,875 --> 00:04:18,395 Speaker 1: for a man who renamed the Department of Defense the 52 00:04:18,435 --> 00:04:23,115 Speaker 1: Department of War, the man who threatened to invade and 53 00:04:23,155 --> 00:04:28,515 Speaker 1: take over his nation's two geographically adjacent allies, who is 54 00:04:28,595 --> 00:04:34,875 Speaker 1: sending the army into his own cities. But a campaign 55 00:04:34,955 --> 00:04:38,235 Speaker 1: to get the Nobel Peace Prize for him, an international campaign, 56 00:04:38,435 --> 00:04:40,875 Speaker 1: and then a sour grapes campaign when he didn't get 57 00:04:41,115 --> 00:04:44,915 Speaker 1: another international campaign that's capped off with a commiserating video 58 00:04:44,955 --> 00:04:49,275 Speaker 1: from Vladimir Putin, You should have gotten the award, Donald 59 00:04:49,315 --> 00:04:54,315 Speaker 1: Love Vladdie, who's your daddy? A Vladimir Putin consolation prize 60 00:04:54,395 --> 00:04:58,835 Speaker 1: video like, Oh, we're sorry you didn't win, Donald, But 61 00:04:58,915 --> 00:05:01,195 Speaker 1: here's Johnny Olsen to tell you more about the home 62 00:05:01,315 --> 00:05:08,555 Speaker 1: version of the Nobel Peace Prize board game. No, the 63 00:05:08,595 --> 00:05:11,555 Speaker 1: others aren't panicking. They're just doing the usual fawning and 64 00:05:11,635 --> 00:05:16,475 Speaker 1: flattering and pellating only a much higher speed. Trump announcing 65 00:05:16,515 --> 00:05:20,515 Speaker 1: Friday that there are almost no stores still standing in Portland, 66 00:05:20,795 --> 00:05:24,195 Speaker 1: and those stores that are still there now being built 67 00:05:24,195 --> 00:05:28,595 Speaker 1: out of plywood, and RFK Junior standing behind him nodding 68 00:05:28,635 --> 00:05:32,315 Speaker 1: as if Trump weren't insane because I guess Kennedy thought, well, hell, 69 00:05:32,875 --> 00:05:36,795 Speaker 1: this makes me sound less crazy when I link autism 70 00:05:36,875 --> 00:05:42,675 Speaker 1: and circumcision when he says a woman carries her unborn 71 00:05:42,795 --> 00:05:47,155 Speaker 1: child in her placenta, Trump insisting he can bring down 72 00:05:47,235 --> 00:05:51,955 Speaker 1: drug prices five thousand percent, a literal numerical impossibility, and 73 00:05:52,035 --> 00:05:55,555 Speaker 1: mem at Oz nodding as he stood behind him as 74 00:05:55,595 --> 00:05:57,915 Speaker 1: if Trump weren't insane because I guess that makes sure 75 00:05:57,915 --> 00:06:02,115 Speaker 1: that nobody remembers Oz's s cruditay video, and maybe Oz 76 00:06:02,235 --> 00:06:06,195 Speaker 1: was promised there would be no math. Now there are 77 00:06:06,275 --> 00:06:08,915 Speaker 1: lots of them still out there demanding cuts and invasions 78 00:06:08,915 --> 00:06:13,315 Speaker 1: and insurrection declarations and indictments while they still can manipulate 79 00:06:13,355 --> 00:06:16,715 Speaker 1: Trump into doing them, because Trump declared quote the Biden 80 00:06:16,915 --> 00:06:19,555 Speaker 1: FBI placed two hundred and seventy four agents into the 81 00:06:19,595 --> 00:06:22,835 Speaker 1: crowd on January sixth. If this is so, which it is, 82 00:06:23,635 --> 00:06:26,115 Speaker 1: a lot of very good people will be owed big apologies. 83 00:06:26,115 --> 00:06:33,075 Speaker 1: What a scam? Do something, President DJT. Now there is 84 00:06:33,355 --> 00:06:36,915 Speaker 1: a lot to unpack, as the kids say in those 85 00:06:36,955 --> 00:06:43,155 Speaker 1: few sentences, because it's it's all all wrong. It's not 86 00:06:43,275 --> 00:06:47,075 Speaker 1: of this earth. There are only a couple of possible explanations. 87 00:06:47,115 --> 00:06:49,395 Speaker 1: It's got to be one or a couple of these things, 88 00:06:49,435 --> 00:06:52,435 Speaker 1: and they're all bad. He's forgotten who was president on 89 00:06:52,515 --> 00:06:56,115 Speaker 1: January sixth, twenty twenty one. He's trying to pretend he 90 00:06:56,235 --> 00:06:59,475 Speaker 1: wasn't president on January sixth, twenty twenty one. He's completely 91 00:06:59,555 --> 00:07:04,395 Speaker 1: mentally unbalanced. He is lying poorly. He believes his cult 92 00:07:04,395 --> 00:07:07,555 Speaker 1: will be believe that. One and forty eight days into 93 00:07:07,595 --> 00:07:10,595 Speaker 1: his presidency. It was somehow Biden's FBI, even though Biden 94 00:07:10,635 --> 00:07:13,235 Speaker 1: hadn't been president yet and he hadn't been vice president 95 00:07:13,315 --> 00:07:17,395 Speaker 1: in two week shy of four years. The the maybe the 96 00:07:17,475 --> 00:07:20,915 Speaker 1: Biden FBI sabotaged his umbrella yesterday. That's the cause of this. 97 00:07:21,355 --> 00:07:24,315 Speaker 1: And the last explanation is his cheese has slid fully 98 00:07:24,395 --> 00:07:28,955 Speaker 1: off his ritz cracker or eh, what if he's not 99 00:07:29,075 --> 00:07:34,915 Speaker 1: going to be president much longer? That's where Trump is. 100 00:07:35,715 --> 00:07:39,995 Speaker 1: Plus there was that signature President DJT thing yesterday, one 101 00:07:39,995 --> 00:07:42,595 Speaker 1: of the only other times he used that. It was 102 00:07:42,595 --> 00:07:45,075 Speaker 1: the message to Pam Bondy that he didn't realize he 103 00:07:45,155 --> 00:07:49,155 Speaker 1: was broadcasting. Maybe this was another message intended for Pam Bondy, 104 00:07:49,195 --> 00:07:53,835 Speaker 1: which would explain the panic. Do something help meet jeebus. 105 00:07:55,115 --> 00:08:01,795 Speaker 1: Even Trump is panicking. The others surely are panicking. You've 106 00:08:01,835 --> 00:08:07,435 Speaker 1: seen this, haven't you felt happier recently? Panicking? They're all 107 00:08:07,475 --> 00:08:09,875 Speaker 1: panicking as if somebody told them that Trump won't be 108 00:08:09,915 --> 00:08:14,955 Speaker 1: president much longer, or they told themselves that A judge 109 00:08:15,035 --> 00:08:19,395 Speaker 1: stops illegal use of military for law enforcement, and Steven 110 00:08:19,435 --> 00:08:24,675 Speaker 1: Miller calls it quote legal insurrection and quote relentless terrorst assault, 111 00:08:25,515 --> 00:08:29,475 Speaker 1: quote oralized terrorsts to tackle the federal government quote left 112 00:08:29,515 --> 00:08:34,075 Speaker 1: wing terrorism quote well organized and funded urar networks quote 113 00:08:34,115 --> 00:08:36,715 Speaker 1: a party that openly aids and encourages in full Van's 114 00:08:36,835 --> 00:08:40,115 Speaker 1: violence quote. I do not look like a flaccid penis, 115 00:08:41,995 --> 00:08:43,635 Speaker 1: all right. I made the last one up, but I 116 00:08:43,675 --> 00:08:46,875 Speaker 1: didn't make the other ones up. He wrote all those 117 00:08:47,595 --> 00:08:51,235 Speaker 1: in panic, where he goes and screeches it on television. 118 00:08:51,315 --> 00:08:54,035 Speaker 1: In panic, he insists that what he says is the 119 00:08:54,075 --> 00:08:56,755 Speaker 1: only truth. And if you disagree with him, you are 120 00:08:56,795 --> 00:09:03,755 Speaker 1: being willfully blind to what he can see. For all 121 00:09:03,875 --> 00:09:06,755 Speaker 1: of the bluster and the rage and the mental illness 122 00:09:06,795 --> 00:09:12,635 Speaker 1: that Steven Miller sprinkles, we're missing the biggest thing here. 123 00:09:13,555 --> 00:09:18,835 Speaker 1: He's out of control. Why well, what's likeliest? What if 124 00:09:18,875 --> 00:09:23,595 Speaker 1: he knew his meal ticket who not only enables him, 125 00:09:23,635 --> 00:09:25,995 Speaker 1: but is the only thing standing between him and a 126 00:09:26,035 --> 00:09:29,555 Speaker 1: series of prosecutions? What if he knew his meal ticket 127 00:09:29,595 --> 00:09:31,155 Speaker 1: was not going to be his meal ticket much longer? 128 00:09:33,835 --> 00:09:37,835 Speaker 1: So then there are these panicked indictments, prosecutions of Comy 129 00:09:38,315 --> 00:09:42,715 Speaker 1: James Bolton, the first indictments in American history, so thin 130 00:09:43,195 --> 00:09:46,235 Speaker 1: that they have been handed down printed on toilet paper. 131 00:09:47,995 --> 00:09:52,075 Speaker 1: But what does this matter? If the indictments suck if 132 00:09:52,115 --> 00:09:56,155 Speaker 1: those who indicted them only care about the indictments because 133 00:09:56,515 --> 00:10:02,235 Speaker 1: he wouldn't be president when each case got dismissed. And 134 00:10:02,275 --> 00:10:08,635 Speaker 1: now Adam Schiff should be indicted over Watergate, the Ukraine 135 00:10:08,675 --> 00:10:12,755 Speaker 1: impeachment of me, Oh my god, that sounds so bad. 136 00:10:12,995 --> 00:10:17,915 Speaker 1: Scam was a far bigger illegal hoax than Watergate. I 137 00:10:17,955 --> 00:10:23,715 Speaker 1: sincerely hope the necessary authorities, including Congress, are looking into this. 138 00:10:25,235 --> 00:10:28,155 Speaker 1: Congress is shut down, sir, you shut Congress down. Remember, 139 00:10:29,115 --> 00:10:33,715 Speaker 1: Adam Schiff was su dishonest. It's so with three o's 140 00:10:34,515 --> 00:10:40,275 Speaker 1: and corrupt. So many laws and protocols were violated, protocols 141 00:10:41,715 --> 00:10:47,635 Speaker 1: and just plain broken President DJT. As an aside, many 142 00:10:47,675 --> 00:10:50,635 Speaker 1: conservatives do think Watergate was some kind of scam. I 143 00:10:50,795 --> 00:10:53,515 Speaker 1: first heard this at ESPN in the nineties, and I 144 00:10:53,555 --> 00:10:56,635 Speaker 1: started laughing at the guy, thinking this conservative who otherwise 145 00:10:56,635 --> 00:10:58,755 Speaker 1: seemed to be a functioning human being, was kidding. And 146 00:10:58,795 --> 00:11:02,675 Speaker 1: then he wasn't laughing back because he really believed Watergate 147 00:11:02,755 --> 00:11:05,595 Speaker 1: was just a conspiracy to run a palace against Nixon 148 00:11:05,875 --> 00:11:08,875 Speaker 1: that gerald Ford had cooked up with the Democrats and 149 00:11:08,955 --> 00:11:12,795 Speaker 1: the Supreme Court and Woodward and Bernstein and and and 150 00:11:12,795 --> 00:11:16,755 Speaker 1: and and and but regardless, what does it have to 151 00:11:16,755 --> 00:11:18,515 Speaker 1: do with Adam Ship What does Watergate have to do 152 00:11:18,555 --> 00:11:22,755 Speaker 1: with Adam Schiff? What did this watergate have to do 153 00:11:22,795 --> 00:11:26,355 Speaker 1: with Ukraine? It's like he just remembered Ukraine and Watergate 154 00:11:26,395 --> 00:11:29,275 Speaker 1: on the same day and he put them together because 155 00:11:29,355 --> 00:11:31,915 Speaker 1: I don't know, like maybe because there wasn't enough blood 156 00:11:31,955 --> 00:11:37,395 Speaker 1: in his brain. Which brings us back to the most 157 00:11:37,395 --> 00:11:41,355 Speaker 1: important document of the Trump presidency thus far, that rarest 158 00:11:41,395 --> 00:11:46,835 Speaker 1: of glimpses. We saw what they all see. We saw 159 00:11:47,955 --> 00:11:55,075 Speaker 1: the Bondie direct message. The Bondy direct message, as confirmed 160 00:11:55,355 --> 00:12:00,315 Speaker 1: by a Murdoch newspaper, told you that once that was 161 00:12:00,355 --> 00:12:06,275 Speaker 1: what that was. Even Trump has never written a social 162 00:12:06,275 --> 00:12:08,915 Speaker 1: media post that starts with somebody's first name in a 163 00:12:08,955 --> 00:12:12,515 Speaker 1: comma and addresses that person directly throughout and puts what 164 00:12:12,595 --> 00:12:15,675 Speaker 1: was in essence an E signature at the bottom President 165 00:12:15,715 --> 00:12:21,235 Speaker 1: DJT never before that not ones the Bondi direct message 166 00:12:21,595 --> 00:12:24,555 Speaker 1: might be reasonably assumed to reflect how he is acting 167 00:12:24,675 --> 00:12:28,675 Speaker 1: when we don't see him. One of the frightening realities 168 00:12:28,675 --> 00:12:31,795 Speaker 1: about Trump that gets lost is that when you ask 169 00:12:31,875 --> 00:12:36,235 Speaker 1: why can't he control himself? This is him controlling himself. 170 00:12:37,235 --> 00:12:41,915 Speaker 1: This is him recognizing the cameras are rolling. This is 171 00:12:42,355 --> 00:12:48,355 Speaker 1: the best take. This is the sanest he gets, not 172 00:12:48,515 --> 00:12:54,195 Speaker 1: the craziest. The craziest is the private stuff he inadvertently 173 00:12:54,435 --> 00:12:58,995 Speaker 1: leaks after writing it to Pam Bondi, the private stuff 174 00:12:59,035 --> 00:13:03,315 Speaker 1: that indicates how crazy he really is. Oh good, they're 175 00:13:03,355 --> 00:13:05,715 Speaker 1: all gone. Now I can let my hair down, so 176 00:13:05,875 --> 00:13:13,035 Speaker 1: to speak. The mask is off here and it is 177 00:13:13,075 --> 00:13:16,155 Speaker 1: important to listen to what he wrote to her in 178 00:13:16,355 --> 00:13:19,715 Speaker 1: the paranoid urgent, threatening you are failing me. I am 179 00:13:19,755 --> 00:13:23,435 Speaker 1: losing because of you style that they must hear daily, 180 00:13:23,675 --> 00:13:27,155 Speaker 1: and something about it has changed, and they all act 181 00:13:27,315 --> 00:13:30,075 Speaker 1: like they believe he's not going to be president much 182 00:13:30,115 --> 00:13:34,355 Speaker 1: longer because it's coming off the rails. And there is 183 00:13:34,515 --> 00:13:38,315 Speaker 1: one word in this as we understand it now, private 184 00:13:38,795 --> 00:13:43,035 Speaker 1: memo to Pam Bondy that must have cut through Bondi's 185 00:13:43,235 --> 00:13:48,755 Speaker 1: rage and her hair dye and her botox and made 186 00:13:48,795 --> 00:13:53,075 Speaker 1: what's left of her blood run cold. Pam I have 187 00:13:53,155 --> 00:13:56,395 Speaker 1: reviewed over thirty statements and posts, say, oh god, he's 188 00:13:56,435 --> 00:14:00,515 Speaker 1: reading posts again. So let's say essentially same old story 189 00:14:00,515 --> 00:14:03,155 Speaker 1: as last time. All talk, no action, nothing is being done. 190 00:14:03,155 --> 00:14:06,555 Speaker 1: What about komy Adam shift? He shifted Letitia they're all 191 00:14:06,595 --> 00:14:11,435 Speaker 1: guilty as hell, but nothing's going to be done. Then 192 00:14:11,475 --> 00:14:14,275 Speaker 1: we almost put in a Democrat supported US attorney in 193 00:14:14,355 --> 00:14:17,835 Speaker 1: Virginia with a really bad Republican past, awoke rhino who 194 00:14:17,875 --> 00:14:21,835 Speaker 1: was never going to do his job. That's why two 195 00:14:21,835 --> 00:14:24,435 Speaker 1: of the worst dem senators pushed him so hard. He 196 00:14:24,475 --> 00:14:26,595 Speaker 1: even lied to the media and said he quit and 197 00:14:26,595 --> 00:14:28,675 Speaker 1: that we had no case. No I fired him, and 198 00:14:28,715 --> 00:14:31,795 Speaker 1: there's a great case, and many lawyers in legal pundit says, 199 00:14:33,155 --> 00:14:40,915 Speaker 1: and then comes the sudden emotional Oh that Cap Larry's 200 00:14:40,955 --> 00:14:44,155 Speaker 1: working again. CAPI Larry number three, four eight seven, two 201 00:14:44,235 --> 00:14:48,235 Speaker 1: six is working again. Blood frow has been increased. There's 202 00:14:48,275 --> 00:14:54,035 Speaker 1: this sudden switch from rage to Lindsey Halligan is a 203 00:14:54,035 --> 00:14:59,275 Speaker 1: really good lawyer and likes you a lot. Oh that 204 00:14:59,435 --> 00:15:02,235 Speaker 1: Cap Larry broke again. Send a crew over clean up 205 00:15:02,275 --> 00:15:04,675 Speaker 1: on Aisle three million, two hundred and seventy two thousand, 206 00:15:04,715 --> 00:15:08,555 Speaker 1: one hundred and sixteen. We can't delay any longer. It's 207 00:15:08,635 --> 00:15:11,835 Speaker 1: killing our reputation and credibility. They impeach me twice and 208 00:15:11,875 --> 00:15:18,275 Speaker 1: indicted me parentheses five times over. Nothing. Justice must be 209 00:15:18,355 --> 00:15:23,795 Speaker 1: served now. Exclamation point, exclamation point, exclamation point. President DJT, 210 00:15:27,435 --> 00:15:37,675 Speaker 1: It's killing, our reputation, killing and now with three exclamation points, 211 00:15:42,195 --> 00:15:45,035 Speaker 1: the paranoia is evergreen. It's not the paranoia, it's the 212 00:15:45,075 --> 00:15:46,915 Speaker 1: panic as if he thinks he's not going to be 213 00:15:46,915 --> 00:15:51,795 Speaker 1: president much longer, which is of course what Speaker Johnson 214 00:15:51,875 --> 00:15:57,915 Speaker 1: is doing to suppress the Epstein files, seemingly recognizing maybe 215 00:15:57,955 --> 00:16:01,195 Speaker 1: that's that's the way out of this, because otherwise, what 216 00:16:01,275 --> 00:16:04,435 Speaker 1: kind of endgame does Johnson have here. He's never gonna 217 00:16:04,435 --> 00:16:07,755 Speaker 1: bring House back into session, he's never gonna end the 218 00:16:07,755 --> 00:16:10,235 Speaker 1: Trump shut down. He's never gonna have the vote. He's 219 00:16:10,235 --> 00:16:13,355 Speaker 1: never gonna swear in Adalitea Grijalva, so she can't be 220 00:16:13,395 --> 00:16:15,635 Speaker 1: the last vote to force the vote on the Epstein files. 221 00:16:15,675 --> 00:16:17,955 Speaker 1: So they can't release the Epstein files because Johnson knows 222 00:16:17,995 --> 00:16:20,195 Speaker 1: whatever there is about Trump in the Epstein files, it 223 00:16:20,235 --> 00:16:30,715 Speaker 1: is in the Epstein files. Just no more Congress ever, whatever, 224 00:16:31,715 --> 00:16:37,355 Speaker 1: No ever, Mike, to paraphrase my friend Bill Daniels in 225 00:16:37,395 --> 00:16:45,275 Speaker 1: the Graduate, Mike, this whole idea sounds pretty half baked. No, 226 00:16:45,355 --> 00:16:48,315 Speaker 1: it's not. It's completely baked. If Johnson thinks there's a 227 00:16:48,395 --> 00:16:55,675 Speaker 1: chance Trump won't be president much longer. Again, I'm not 228 00:16:55,715 --> 00:16:58,115 Speaker 1: saying something bad is going to happen. I'm just saying, 229 00:16:58,675 --> 00:17:03,515 Speaker 1: why are they behaving like this? So why might they 230 00:17:03,555 --> 00:17:07,915 Speaker 1: think Trump be president much longer? Well, sir, he has 231 00:17:08,035 --> 00:17:11,555 Speaker 1: disappeared twice for five day stretches since the end of 232 00:17:11,595 --> 00:17:14,475 Speaker 1: August and the trip to Walter read Friday. That was 233 00:17:14,515 --> 00:17:18,195 Speaker 1: originally dismissed as his annual physical, and they went for 234 00:17:18,275 --> 00:17:21,915 Speaker 1: that for days annual physical. Annual physical. Oh, it's just 235 00:17:21,915 --> 00:17:24,835 Speaker 1: his annual physical. And so somebody realized, oh, wait a minute, 236 00:17:24,995 --> 00:17:27,315 Speaker 1: and we already used that one six months ago when 237 00:17:27,315 --> 00:17:29,395 Speaker 1: he went in, or is annual physical. He can't have 238 00:17:29,435 --> 00:17:31,715 Speaker 1: an annual physical every six months. That would make it 239 00:17:31,755 --> 00:17:34,235 Speaker 1: something else. What's the word? And then they changed it 240 00:17:34,275 --> 00:17:37,515 Speaker 1: and insisted they never said annual physical. And then they 241 00:17:37,595 --> 00:17:42,635 Speaker 1: changed it again to pre trip vaccinations and semi annual physical. 242 00:17:42,755 --> 00:17:44,635 Speaker 1: And perhaps in a few weeks when he goes back 243 00:17:44,675 --> 00:17:47,715 Speaker 1: in for another time, it'll be the last of his 244 00:17:47,795 --> 00:17:51,675 Speaker 1: annual three part physical. What we always said, he did 245 00:17:51,715 --> 00:17:55,955 Speaker 1: it in three parts. And then when it becomes a 246 00:17:56,035 --> 00:17:58,715 Speaker 1: weekly physical, Oh no, no, he has a weekly physical, 247 00:17:58,955 --> 00:18:02,355 Speaker 1: a fifty two part annual physical. Weekly physicals of course. 248 00:18:02,795 --> 00:18:05,835 Speaker 1: Oh no, no, no, no, no, he liked Walter read hospital. 249 00:18:05,955 --> 00:18:08,115 Speaker 1: He just wants the Oval Office to be in Walter 250 00:18:08,195 --> 00:18:16,395 Speaker 1: Reid next question, Oh, who we have the stormer Ulfson. 251 00:18:19,835 --> 00:18:24,835 Speaker 1: There's one last and far more serious tentacle to this 252 00:18:24,995 --> 00:18:28,395 Speaker 1: tale of panic and succession and people acting like they 253 00:18:28,475 --> 00:18:33,475 Speaker 1: know the money printing machine is throwing out sparks and 254 00:18:33,515 --> 00:18:38,115 Speaker 1: they better grab all the twenties before it blows. And 255 00:18:38,235 --> 00:18:42,435 Speaker 1: this other part certainly would explain yet another element of 256 00:18:42,515 --> 00:18:45,275 Speaker 1: right wing panic that still goes full blazes every once 257 00:18:45,275 --> 00:18:48,555 Speaker 1: in a while, because well, the because has been a 258 00:18:48,595 --> 00:18:52,275 Speaker 1: mystery doesn't resonate with us normies, isn't apparent here in 259 00:18:52,315 --> 00:18:56,675 Speaker 1: the actual, you know, plane of human existence in this 260 00:18:56,875 --> 00:19:00,835 Speaker 1: sort of real world. But it was the undercurrent on 261 00:19:00,955 --> 00:19:03,195 Speaker 1: the far right, and I don't think many of us 262 00:19:03,235 --> 00:19:07,315 Speaker 1: knew unter Charlie Kirk was killed. I noted that in 263 00:19:07,355 --> 00:19:11,075 Speaker 1: a total shock to me anyway. They didn't think of 264 00:19:11,155 --> 00:19:14,355 Speaker 1: him as some kind of run of the mill lunatic 265 00:19:14,835 --> 00:19:19,595 Speaker 1: manipulating audiences with the traditional right wing mix of religious 266 00:19:19,635 --> 00:19:23,235 Speaker 1: bullshit and sadistic fantasies of executing Joe Biden in public, 267 00:19:23,595 --> 00:19:27,235 Speaker 1: maybe with a guillotine and forcing everybody over twelve to watch, 268 00:19:27,395 --> 00:19:29,355 Speaker 1: and selling the thing as a pay per view TV 269 00:19:29,435 --> 00:19:33,235 Speaker 1: event with sponsors mixed in with racism and white supremacists 270 00:19:33,675 --> 00:19:36,715 Speaker 1: and trying to undo every law in the book that 271 00:19:36,995 --> 00:19:40,555 Speaker 1: protects anybody against anything. They didn't see him for what 272 00:19:40,635 --> 00:19:46,275 Speaker 1: he was. They wilfully ignoring half of Charlie Kirk's comments, 273 00:19:46,475 --> 00:19:50,075 Speaker 1: half of Charlie Kirk's videos, half of Charlie Kirk's quotes, 274 00:19:50,355 --> 00:19:54,915 Speaker 1: the Alex Jones, Steve Bannon, Stu Peters, pol Pot Hitler, 275 00:19:55,075 --> 00:19:58,675 Speaker 1: end of Charlie Kirk's comments. They didn't see him as 276 00:19:58,715 --> 00:20:02,075 Speaker 1: the danger to real American people that he was. They 277 00:20:02,155 --> 00:20:13,275 Speaker 1: saw him as a future president in a void. I'm 278 00:20:13,315 --> 00:20:16,235 Speaker 1: beginning to think that even that does not sufficiently explain 279 00:20:16,315 --> 00:20:19,755 Speaker 1: their rage and their panic in the wake of Charlie 280 00:20:19,835 --> 00:20:26,755 Speaker 1: Kirk's indefensible assassination and never added this up before. I mean, 281 00:20:26,955 --> 00:20:31,995 Speaker 1: you know, you graduated third grade. You have to be 282 00:20:32,075 --> 00:20:35,995 Speaker 1: thirty five to be sworn in as president, right. My 283 00:20:36,155 --> 00:20:40,915 Speaker 1: contention is there is nobody, nobody to take over for 284 00:20:41,035 --> 00:20:47,555 Speaker 1: Trump now or January twentieth, twenty twenty nine. And that's 285 00:20:47,715 --> 00:20:51,435 Speaker 1: why they're all panicking, because they all think that date 286 00:20:51,595 --> 00:20:55,435 Speaker 1: when a new fudor must rise is suddenly a lot sooner. 287 00:20:55,475 --> 00:20:59,715 Speaker 1: Than they were led to believe. And here's the thing 288 00:20:59,715 --> 00:21:03,715 Speaker 1: that ties it all together. Had he not been killed 289 00:21:04,755 --> 00:21:12,275 Speaker 1: on October fourteenth, twenty twenty eight, Charlie Kirk would have 290 00:21:12,355 --> 00:21:20,035 Speaker 1: turned thirty five years old. They didn't think he was 291 00:21:20,355 --> 00:21:53,115 Speaker 1: a future president. They thought he was the next president. Well, 292 00:21:53,395 --> 00:21:58,475 Speaker 1: Politico needs a new White House Bureau chief. Politico has 293 00:21:58,555 --> 00:22:03,435 Speaker 1: been periodically insightful and even brave in some of its 294 00:22:03,475 --> 00:22:06,395 Speaker 1: coverage of Trump, but it's day to day stuff has 295 00:22:06,435 --> 00:22:12,755 Speaker 1: been horrific, enabling, stenographic, and now a rubicon has been crossed. 296 00:22:13,235 --> 00:22:15,955 Speaker 1: Trump on Air Force one on the way to the 297 00:22:15,955 --> 00:22:20,515 Speaker 1: Middle East yesterday dissing the Politico White House Bureau Chief. 298 00:22:20,875 --> 00:22:23,315 Speaker 1: So what, that's the way it goes. He only dis 299 00:22:23,355 --> 00:22:26,995 Speaker 1: is people who ask actual questions. She asked about rolling 300 00:22:27,035 --> 00:22:30,195 Speaker 1: back Chinese tariffs after he crashed the market and his 301 00:22:30,195 --> 00:22:34,755 Speaker 1: friends made money off that. He only insults people who 302 00:22:34,795 --> 00:22:37,835 Speaker 1: get it right. That's the way it goes. If he 303 00:22:37,875 --> 00:22:40,955 Speaker 1: insults you and demeans you, especially in front of people, 304 00:22:41,195 --> 00:22:44,355 Speaker 1: it means you're a woman, probably, and he's terrified of 305 00:22:44,395 --> 00:22:47,475 Speaker 1: you certainly. And this is another part of that. Why 306 00:22:47,555 --> 00:22:50,155 Speaker 1: is he acting like he's not got much time left 307 00:22:50,195 --> 00:22:55,395 Speaker 1: as president? Thing, Dasha Burns, What you do not do 308 00:22:55,595 --> 00:23:00,435 Speaker 1: in response to that is plead with him while people 309 00:23:00,475 --> 00:23:02,915 Speaker 1: are recording it. And what you really do not do 310 00:23:03,195 --> 00:23:06,275 Speaker 1: while people are recording it is plead with him that 311 00:23:06,475 --> 00:23:12,475 Speaker 1: Caroline Levitt will vouch for you. Firstport Harris on China, 312 00:23:12,515 --> 00:23:16,475 Speaker 1: are you considering talking about a question? Who are you with? Political? 313 00:23:16,635 --> 00:23:22,355 Speaker 1: Dashah Burns, Sir, Political politico has gone mad. They've been 314 00:23:22,435 --> 00:23:26,715 Speaker 1: so wrong about everything. Political political has been so wrong 315 00:23:26,755 --> 00:23:29,635 Speaker 1: about everything. Let's get somebody else to ask us a 316 00:23:29,755 --> 00:23:33,235 Speaker 1: question you mind? Is that all right? This Politico's fake 317 00:23:33,435 --> 00:23:37,155 Speaker 1: is thank you very much, tell them to be honest 318 00:23:37,155 --> 00:23:43,075 Speaker 1: andous Hey, sir, talk to Caroline schilbouswor thank you. That 319 00:23:43,235 --> 00:23:46,515 Speaker 1: is called obeying in advance. It is disqualifying, It is 320 00:23:46,595 --> 00:23:52,555 Speaker 1: career ending. It is worst of all, not going to work. Eventually, somebody, 321 00:23:52,875 --> 00:23:58,555 Speaker 1: either carolinan or Trump, they will sell you out, dashah Burns. 322 00:23:58,835 --> 00:24:04,155 Speaker 1: They sell everybody out. ABC learned in time and swerved, 323 00:24:04,195 --> 00:24:07,635 Speaker 1: and now Tiger has ignored Trump, and Stephanopoulos has hung 324 00:24:07,715 --> 00:24:11,755 Speaker 1: up on vance Mit and Harvard learned Columbia did not. 325 00:24:12,355 --> 00:24:15,235 Speaker 1: Politico needs to learn, but not with somebody who claims 326 00:24:15,235 --> 00:24:18,155 Speaker 1: to be a reporter, but insists that the corrupt Secretary 327 00:24:18,235 --> 00:24:22,595 Speaker 1: of Propaganda, the bubble headed bleach Bond at the press podium, 328 00:24:22,915 --> 00:24:29,035 Speaker 1: will vouch for her. This is not quite Barry Weiss's territory. 329 00:24:29,155 --> 00:24:31,635 Speaker 1: More on her in a moment, But Dasha Burns has 330 00:24:31,675 --> 00:24:38,995 Speaker 1: got to quit or Politico has got to fire her now. 331 00:24:39,035 --> 00:24:43,195 Speaker 1: A second take, and a goddamned brilliant one from Elizabeth 332 00:24:43,315 --> 00:24:46,955 Speaker 1: Lopato of The Verge, a totally different viewpoint on the 333 00:24:46,995 --> 00:24:51,155 Speaker 1: appointment of Barry Weiss as the Lord High Executioner at 334 00:24:51,155 --> 00:24:55,715 Speaker 1: CBS News. You will have heard that Ms Weiss, upon 335 00:24:55,795 --> 00:24:59,155 Speaker 1: her appointment, wrote to every CBS News employee to ask 336 00:24:59,235 --> 00:25:01,795 Speaker 1: them to reply with a tell me what it is 337 00:25:01,915 --> 00:25:05,635 Speaker 1: you're doing here and are so proud of thing, which, 338 00:25:05,715 --> 00:25:08,715 Speaker 1: based on the Elon Musk experience, is in fact asking 339 00:25:08,755 --> 00:25:12,555 Speaker 1: every CBS News employee to give her enough rope with 340 00:25:12,595 --> 00:25:17,315 Speaker 1: which to hang themselves or have her hang them. Their 341 00:25:17,395 --> 00:25:21,395 Speaker 1: union has advised them not to reply. But Miss Lopato's 342 00:25:21,475 --> 00:25:24,555 Speaker 1: point of view on this is completely the opposite of mine, 343 00:25:24,675 --> 00:25:28,835 Speaker 1: and she's right and I'm wrong. Barry Weiss is not 344 00:25:29,155 --> 00:25:33,035 Speaker 1: there at CBS News to try to convert CBS News 345 00:25:33,595 --> 00:25:36,475 Speaker 1: into a right wing rag or to become a real 346 00:25:36,555 --> 00:25:39,235 Speaker 1: journalist for the first time in her life, or something 347 00:25:39,275 --> 00:25:44,435 Speaker 1: to please Trump, or she's there because good evening, and 348 00:25:44,515 --> 00:25:48,915 Speaker 1: welcome to the end of her career. The title of 349 00:25:48,955 --> 00:25:53,955 Speaker 1: miss Lopato's piece explains it all. Quote memo to Barry 350 00:25:53,955 --> 00:26:01,475 Speaker 1: Weiss Rea CBS News, You're doomed. That's the start. I'd 351 00:26:01,475 --> 00:26:03,395 Speaker 1: love to read the whole thing, but you know there 352 00:26:03,395 --> 00:26:07,875 Speaker 1: are limits copyrights. You should read the whole thing at 353 00:26:07,955 --> 00:26:11,235 Speaker 1: the verge. Here are a couple of highlights. I'll try 354 00:26:11,275 --> 00:26:15,835 Speaker 1: to limit myself to four hundred words to Barry Weiss Ree, 355 00:26:15,995 --> 00:26:20,675 Speaker 1: good luck, babe. Quote. I honestly cannot believe you've willingly 356 00:26:20,755 --> 00:26:24,075 Speaker 1: decided to go into the worst kind of job that exists, 357 00:26:25,035 --> 00:26:30,395 Speaker 1: management at a dying company. This is the glass cliff 358 00:26:30,795 --> 00:26:36,275 Speaker 1: to end all glass cliffs. Managing sucks. It sucks even 359 00:26:36,315 --> 00:26:38,475 Speaker 1: when you like the people you're managing. And it's a 360 00:26:38,515 --> 00:26:41,075 Speaker 1: low stress position. And I'm sure I don't have to 361 00:26:41,075 --> 00:26:44,355 Speaker 1: tell you running CBS News is not a low stress position. 362 00:26:45,035 --> 00:26:47,515 Speaker 1: You are going to get blamed by everyone above you 363 00:26:47,795 --> 00:26:50,675 Speaker 1: for decisions that are made by people below you, and 364 00:26:50,755 --> 00:26:53,275 Speaker 1: you're going to get blamed by people below you for 365 00:26:53,355 --> 00:26:55,915 Speaker 1: the decisions that are made by people above you. You're 366 00:26:55,995 --> 00:26:58,555 Speaker 1: also going to get blamed for your own decisions, just 367 00:26:58,635 --> 00:27:02,395 Speaker 1: for kicks. You have elected to take a job where 368 00:27:02,395 --> 00:27:06,435 Speaker 1: the primary purpose is for you to eat shit and 369 00:27:06,635 --> 00:27:10,115 Speaker 1: own the death of broadcast TV news, a thing that 370 00:27:10,235 --> 00:27:14,675 Speaker 1: is going to die no matter what you do. Nice work. 371 00:27:15,875 --> 00:27:19,595 Speaker 1: This is the glass cliff to end all glass cliffs. 372 00:27:20,155 --> 00:27:22,795 Speaker 1: You have been hired as a stop to a Trump 373 00:27:22,835 --> 00:27:27,355 Speaker 1: administration that is actively hostile to the actual free press, 374 00:27:27,675 --> 00:27:30,355 Speaker 1: and you will be made to oversee wave after wave 375 00:27:30,395 --> 00:27:33,475 Speaker 1: of layoffs until you quit or get fired, and the 376 00:27:33,635 --> 00:27:36,715 Speaker 1: entire news division is shut down in a final spasm 377 00:27:36,795 --> 00:27:41,315 Speaker 1: of cost cutting after the next inescapable media merger. No 378 00:27:41,355 --> 00:27:44,515 Speaker 1: one can save CBS News because it was made for 379 00:27:44,595 --> 00:27:48,795 Speaker 1: a media ecosystem that is now dead. Broadcast television is 380 00:27:48,835 --> 00:27:53,115 Speaker 1: slowly circling the drain, its aging audience, drifting towards the 381 00:27:53,155 --> 00:27:57,395 Speaker 1: great inevitable. Younger people are getting their news from TikTok 382 00:27:57,435 --> 00:28:01,195 Speaker 1: and Instagram and ever increasing numbers, and they trust institutional 383 00:28:01,235 --> 00:28:06,715 Speaker 1: media less than ever. CBS, in particular, that's your new company, 384 00:28:06,795 --> 00:28:12,075 Speaker 1: now has the oldest audience in primetime TV. These folks 385 00:28:12,115 --> 00:28:17,915 Speaker 1: aren't the free presses assiduously courted classical liberals. Either it's 386 00:28:18,075 --> 00:28:21,275 Speaker 1: normy grandparents, a bunch of whom are planning to appear 387 00:28:21,395 --> 00:28:25,515 Speaker 1: at the next No King's rally. I might invoke Edward Rmurow, 388 00:28:25,915 --> 00:28:31,075 Speaker 1: but they remember him. They don't have any goodwill towards you. 389 00:28:31,275 --> 00:28:33,435 Speaker 1: They don't know who you are at all, and they're 390 00:28:33,475 --> 00:28:36,435 Speaker 1: not going to defend you when you screw up. You 391 00:28:36,515 --> 00:28:39,515 Speaker 1: are now stuck claiming your goal is to win back 392 00:28:39,595 --> 00:28:43,715 Speaker 1: younger audiences, which you cannot do, while your real job 393 00:28:44,035 --> 00:28:47,875 Speaker 1: is to manage decline. There is no way to win here, 394 00:28:48,275 --> 00:28:53,915 Speaker 1: only slightly better ways to lose. It's actually even worse 395 00:28:53,955 --> 00:28:57,795 Speaker 1: than that, Miss Lopetto continues. You also have to manage talent, 396 00:28:58,475 --> 00:29:02,715 Speaker 1: famous TV talent, the people your audience actually knows and likes, 397 00:29:02,955 --> 00:29:07,075 Speaker 1: who will eat you all if they think you've screwed 398 00:29:07,075 --> 00:29:12,715 Speaker 1: them over. And there I will leave Miss Lopado's masterpiece 399 00:29:12,835 --> 00:29:16,395 Speaker 1: to the right owner herself and again implore you to 400 00:29:16,555 --> 00:29:20,035 Speaker 1: go to the Verge and read the whole thing. Try 401 00:29:20,075 --> 00:29:22,915 Speaker 1: reading it aloud. You'll get the flavor of it much 402 00:29:22,955 --> 00:29:26,395 Speaker 1: better that way, and you'll really enjoy thinking about what 403 00:29:26,515 --> 00:29:31,275 Speaker 1: Barry Weiss has assigned herself to which living hell she 404 00:29:31,435 --> 00:29:35,875 Speaker 1: has the choice among. The whole thing is five times 405 00:29:35,875 --> 00:29:38,555 Speaker 1: as long as the excerpt I just read, and it 406 00:29:38,595 --> 00:29:41,795 Speaker 1: gets better and better and better, which means for mis Weiss, 407 00:29:41,795 --> 00:29:44,995 Speaker 1: it gets worse and worse and worse. If I read 408 00:29:45,035 --> 00:29:48,115 Speaker 1: something like that about a job I had just taken, 409 00:29:48,315 --> 00:29:52,035 Speaker 1: I wouldn't just quit that new job. I would flee 410 00:29:52,675 --> 00:30:00,435 Speaker 1: the country. One last quote, one last sentence, one last dart, 411 00:30:00,715 --> 00:30:05,315 Speaker 1: sticking mis Weiss forever to the bull's eye. Miss Lapato's 412 00:30:05,475 --> 00:30:09,875 Speaker 1: final sentence quote, congrats on that one hundred and fifty 413 00:30:09,915 --> 00:30:14,595 Speaker 1: million dollars payout for the free press. Someone else owns 414 00:30:14,675 --> 00:30:22,115 Speaker 1: it now, Elizabeth Lapato at the verge on Barry Weiss 415 00:30:22,715 --> 00:30:27,155 Speaker 1: on the verge of the end at CBS. And also 416 00:30:27,315 --> 00:30:34,195 Speaker 1: remind me not to get on miss Lopato's bad side. 417 00:30:35,515 --> 00:30:39,355 Speaker 1: Also of interest here Christy Nomes double penetration of the 418 00:30:39,395 --> 00:30:42,795 Speaker 1: worst persons in the World Championship List, and speaking of 419 00:30:42,875 --> 00:30:47,395 Speaker 1: champions how the Milwaukee Brewers shamed themselves and made people 420 00:30:47,595 --> 00:30:52,555 Speaker 1: actually feel sorry for the Ricketts family of fascists owned 421 00:30:52,715 --> 00:30:57,035 Speaker 1: Chicago Cubs. The Milwaukee Brewers, who have never won a 422 00:30:57,075 --> 00:31:01,395 Speaker 1: World Series in fifty five years In existence, eliminate the Cubs, 423 00:31:01,675 --> 00:31:05,275 Speaker 1: then taunt them on social media. As the cliche goes, 424 00:31:05,835 --> 00:31:10,155 Speaker 1: act like you've been there before, even if, like the Brewers, 425 00:31:10,995 --> 00:31:18,315 Speaker 1: you haven't. That's next. This is Countdown. This is Countdown 426 00:31:18,755 --> 00:31:42,355 Speaker 1: with Keith Elberman still ahead. On this all new episode 427 00:31:42,395 --> 00:31:45,515 Speaker 1: of Countdown, the death of the man who actually wrote 428 00:31:46,515 --> 00:31:50,835 Speaker 1: the first story, the first Washington Post story about what was, 429 00:31:51,715 --> 00:31:55,035 Speaker 1: at least till recently, the biggest scandal in American history 430 00:31:55,915 --> 00:32:01,315 Speaker 1: in nineteen seventy two. His name was Bart Barnes, and 431 00:32:01,395 --> 00:32:05,875 Speaker 1: I worked on another story with him for months a 432 00:32:05,955 --> 00:32:09,355 Speaker 1: decade later. First, believe it or not, there's still more 433 00:32:09,395 --> 00:32:11,955 Speaker 1: new idiots to talk about. The roundup of the mis grants, morons, 434 00:32:12,035 --> 00:32:17,115 Speaker 1: Undunn Kruger effects specimens who constitute today's other worst persons 435 00:32:17,955 --> 00:32:23,115 Speaker 1: in the world. A tie at bronze. We start with 436 00:32:23,275 --> 00:32:27,475 Speaker 1: Baseball's Milwaukee Brewers. Yes, it's nice that they beat the 437 00:32:27,515 --> 00:32:30,995 Speaker 1: Tom Ricketts family of fascists owned Chicago Cubs in the 438 00:32:31,115 --> 00:32:36,835 Speaker 1: NL Championship Series, and the Cubs can pound sand So 439 00:32:37,075 --> 00:32:39,195 Speaker 1: also that means there's the chance that the Brewers, who 440 00:32:39,195 --> 00:32:42,555 Speaker 1: have never won the World Series, might play the Seattle Mariners, 441 00:32:42,875 --> 00:32:45,475 Speaker 1: who have never won the World Series in the World Series, 442 00:32:45,715 --> 00:32:49,555 Speaker 1: which also would mean that because the Brewers started history 443 00:32:49,595 --> 00:32:53,035 Speaker 1: as the infamous one year expansion team that my late 444 00:32:53,075 --> 00:32:56,915 Speaker 1: friend Jim Boughten immortalized in his book Ball four, the 445 00:32:56,955 --> 00:33:05,115 Speaker 1: World Series could pit the Seattle Mariners versus the Seattle Pilots. However, 446 00:33:05,595 --> 00:33:08,635 Speaker 1: the Brewers owe the Cubs and the baseball world before 447 00:33:08,675 --> 00:33:11,475 Speaker 1: any of that, and they owe their late guiding light 448 00:33:11,595 --> 00:33:16,675 Speaker 1: Bob Ucker, a big apology. The Cubs have this annoying 449 00:33:16,875 --> 00:33:20,035 Speaker 1: victory song, Hey hey, Chicago wonny thing times you going 450 00:33:20,075 --> 00:33:23,795 Speaker 1: to win, And they put up a flag on the 451 00:33:23,835 --> 00:33:26,915 Speaker 1: flagpole with a big W on it when they win, 452 00:33:27,715 --> 00:33:29,795 Speaker 1: which curly was not as often as they should have 453 00:33:29,875 --> 00:33:33,155 Speaker 1: this year. And they've been doing that for like a century, 454 00:33:33,715 --> 00:33:37,795 Speaker 1: during which they've won one World Series. But after the 455 00:33:37,795 --> 00:33:40,955 Speaker 1: Brewers eliminated the cub Saturday night, the Breweries posted on 456 00:33:41,035 --> 00:33:45,195 Speaker 1: social media an AI video of the cloud Gates statue, 457 00:33:45,595 --> 00:33:49,075 Speaker 1: that big shiny metallic thing. Listen to a giant computer 458 00:33:49,235 --> 00:33:52,515 Speaker 1: mouse in Millennium Park in Chicago with a flag with 459 00:33:52,595 --> 00:33:56,995 Speaker 1: a giant L on it. They show this mouse, well 460 00:33:56,995 --> 00:34:01,715 Speaker 1: a cloud Gate statue and this giant Cubs w kind 461 00:34:01,715 --> 00:34:04,555 Speaker 1: of flag, only it has a big l on it 462 00:34:04,835 --> 00:34:09,675 Speaker 1: and it lands and the Brewers captioned this video, Hey Chicago, 463 00:34:09,835 --> 00:34:14,115 Speaker 1: what do you say? Bob Bucher, though as fierce a 464 00:34:14,155 --> 00:34:17,235 Speaker 1: competitor as there was, and I know from a year 465 00:34:17,275 --> 00:34:20,155 Speaker 1: working with him, as salty a guy as there was, 466 00:34:20,835 --> 00:34:23,675 Speaker 1: he knew about the when and the wear of things. 467 00:34:24,875 --> 00:34:27,635 Speaker 1: And if you do that in public right after you won, 468 00:34:28,315 --> 00:34:33,075 Speaker 1: guess what Brewers you actually lost? Bob Buker would slap 469 00:34:33,155 --> 00:34:36,875 Speaker 1: you all silly. Come on, Brewers, act like you've been 470 00:34:36,915 --> 00:34:41,755 Speaker 1: there before, even though you haven't. The Brewers are tied 471 00:34:41,795 --> 00:34:45,115 Speaker 1: with Greg Abbott, Governor Greg Abbott of Texas, who was 472 00:34:45,195 --> 00:34:48,435 Speaker 1: on with Will Cain on Fox. Have I ever told 473 00:34:48,475 --> 00:34:52,435 Speaker 1: you about working with Will Cain at ESPN? We used 474 00:34:52,475 --> 00:34:56,355 Speaker 1: to wonder who guided him to the office every day, 475 00:34:56,435 --> 00:34:59,155 Speaker 1: or who tied his ties for him, or how he 476 00:34:59,195 --> 00:35:03,875 Speaker 1: got the left shoe on the left foot. God just 477 00:35:04,075 --> 00:35:09,435 Speaker 1: dumb azo rock. Anyway. Abbott says this to Governor JB. 478 00:35:09,515 --> 00:35:14,195 Speaker 1: Pritzker of Illinois, who like me, is a plus sized gentleman. 479 00:35:15,435 --> 00:35:17,715 Speaker 1: And you may remember some things about Greg Abbott that 480 00:35:18,075 --> 00:35:25,235 Speaker 1: apply physically here. No ridicule intended, just reality. However, Greg 481 00:35:25,235 --> 00:35:30,715 Speaker 1: Abbott said this Pritzker should quote, stop complaining and do 482 00:35:30,835 --> 00:35:42,195 Speaker 1: some push ups, governor really physical jokes. Governor push ups? 483 00:35:42,995 --> 00:35:44,275 Speaker 1: Do you think I'm going to say it? The hell 484 00:35:44,355 --> 00:35:46,635 Speaker 1: I'm going to say it. Shame on you. What an 485 00:35:46,675 --> 00:35:53,715 Speaker 1: embarrassment you are to humanity. I mean, seriously, at the 486 00:35:53,795 --> 00:35:57,115 Speaker 1: current rate. In about three months or so, if things 487 00:35:57,155 --> 00:35:59,955 Speaker 1: don't change in this country, something like this will be 488 00:35:59,995 --> 00:36:04,395 Speaker 1: responded to by a string of five hundred thousand jokes 489 00:36:04,715 --> 00:36:07,275 Speaker 1: about Greg Abbott, where all of us who would have 490 00:36:07,395 --> 00:36:10,875 Speaker 1: restraint in this situation will go now f him. I'll 491 00:36:10,915 --> 00:36:13,995 Speaker 1: just say the FM part, F Greg Abbott. He's an asshole. 492 00:36:14,435 --> 00:36:19,195 Speaker 1: He's a fascist asshole. Stop complaining and do some pushups. 493 00:36:19,435 --> 00:36:25,235 Speaker 1: Jesus Christ, Greg Abbott, stopped complaining and do some democracy. 494 00:36:25,875 --> 00:36:29,515 Speaker 1: The runner up Trump paralegal, Lindsay Halligan, the beauty pageant 495 00:36:29,515 --> 00:36:34,635 Speaker 1: Miss Uncongeniality winner, has screwed up yet again. Yes, we've learned. 496 00:36:34,675 --> 00:36:39,595 Speaker 1: She apparently indicted Letitia James independently of Pam Bondy just 497 00:36:39,635 --> 00:36:42,235 Speaker 1: because she's a big girl now or something and has 498 00:36:42,315 --> 00:36:45,435 Speaker 1: bigger hair and is trying to get Trump to fire 499 00:36:46,755 --> 00:36:51,315 Speaker 1: probably Pam Bondy and replace her with younger Pam Bondy 500 00:36:51,555 --> 00:36:55,715 Speaker 1: Lindsay Halligan beauty pageant contestant. Then I would think that 501 00:36:55,835 --> 00:36:59,915 Speaker 1: in the IRAQ. But in the filing against Letitia James, 502 00:37:00,835 --> 00:37:05,435 Speaker 1: she put in defendant information juvenile. Yes, no, she got no, 503 00:37:05,555 --> 00:37:08,435 Speaker 1: she marked no, she got that right. So the FBI 504 00:37:08,595 --> 00:37:12,195 Speaker 1: number place is left blank. Appropriately defendant named Letitia A. 505 00:37:12,355 --> 00:37:21,635 Speaker 1: James address, Brooklyn, New Jersey. Ma'am, I'm gonna need to 506 00:37:21,635 --> 00:37:24,995 Speaker 1: see your license. No no, no, no no, not your 507 00:37:25,075 --> 00:37:31,915 Speaker 1: driver's license. No no, that's your No, that's your dozen card. 508 00:37:32,075 --> 00:37:36,395 Speaker 1: At the hairstylists you get the thirteenth boufont free No, no, 509 00:37:36,435 --> 00:37:40,395 Speaker 1: the other the law license. But the winner, we've got 510 00:37:40,395 --> 00:37:45,835 Speaker 1: a Christie Nome twofer, a fountain of worst person material 511 00:37:46,075 --> 00:37:51,115 Speaker 1: turns out to be Christy Nome's destiny. There is a 512 00:37:51,235 --> 00:37:55,875 Speaker 1: video of Christy Nome blaming Democrats for the shutdown of 513 00:37:55,915 --> 00:38:00,675 Speaker 1: the government, which is playing at TSA security checkpoints at 514 00:38:00,715 --> 00:38:04,355 Speaker 1: airports across the country. Apparently it is the choice of 515 00:38:04,435 --> 00:38:07,555 Speaker 1: law officials at the local airports to run it. So 516 00:38:07,635 --> 00:38:10,875 Speaker 1: if you see it, don't complain to the TSA. Don't 517 00:38:10,875 --> 00:38:16,875 Speaker 1: complain to Christy Nome, don't complain to Corey Lewandowski, Complain 518 00:38:16,955 --> 00:38:19,555 Speaker 1: to the local airport, complained to the local governing authority, 519 00:38:19,595 --> 00:38:23,795 Speaker 1: complained to the local Democrats. I have one question about 520 00:38:23,795 --> 00:38:27,315 Speaker 1: this video. It's a video of Christy Nome. Is Lewandowski 521 00:38:27,355 --> 00:38:31,595 Speaker 1: in the video with her. Oh wait, there's more Christy 522 00:38:31,675 --> 00:38:37,755 Speaker 1: Nome in the twofer told the latest cabinet meeting, the 523 00:38:37,835 --> 00:38:40,875 Speaker 1: mayor said that Portland was perfectly safe. I'm you on 524 00:38:40,915 --> 00:38:43,635 Speaker 1: a fault, Fanny, and I said, why did you clear 525 00:38:43,715 --> 00:38:46,155 Speaker 1: the strength from me to yay and build out a 526 00:38:46,235 --> 00:38:48,635 Speaker 1: four block radius to make sure I can get in 527 00:38:48,715 --> 00:38:53,155 Speaker 1: and out of here? Well, clearly Portland was just protecting 528 00:38:53,195 --> 00:38:59,075 Speaker 1: its pets from you. Which secondly, so they built out 529 00:38:59,075 --> 00:39:00,955 Speaker 1: a four block radius and you were able to get 530 00:39:00,955 --> 00:39:02,835 Speaker 1: in and out of there in a hurry and nothing back. 531 00:39:02,915 --> 00:39:08,075 Speaker 1: So you're saying your experience in Portland was totally safe. Also, 532 00:39:09,155 --> 00:39:11,955 Speaker 1: as if we needed more Christy Nome material, there is 533 00:39:12,115 --> 00:39:17,075 Speaker 1: video of those violent Antifa protesters, the ones dressed up 534 00:39:17,075 --> 00:39:22,715 Speaker 1: in the various animal costumes, catching Christin Nome making one 535 00:39:22,755 --> 00:39:25,715 Speaker 1: of her fascist porn videos on the roof of the 536 00:39:25,755 --> 00:39:29,595 Speaker 1: Ice headquarters of the DHS headquarters in Portland or the 537 00:39:30,515 --> 00:39:35,355 Speaker 1: I don't know Discount Shoe Center in Portland or whatever, 538 00:39:36,595 --> 00:39:39,715 Speaker 1: and the protesters are in front of the building playing 539 00:39:39,835 --> 00:39:43,515 Speaker 1: over loud speakers the theme from the Benny Hill Show, 540 00:39:44,595 --> 00:39:49,595 Speaker 1: and I thank yakty sacks Boots Randolph, and she and 541 00:39:49,715 --> 00:39:53,315 Speaker 1: the other members of American Ices have no idea what 542 00:39:53,395 --> 00:39:55,955 Speaker 1: to do that. She keep walking around on the roof, like, 543 00:39:56,195 --> 00:39:59,795 Speaker 1: can anybody make that song stop? Because on top of 544 00:39:59,835 --> 00:40:03,835 Speaker 1: everything else, Christinome and Lewandowski and the others are bumbling 545 00:40:03,875 --> 00:40:07,875 Speaker 1: morons and this ends up with them in jail. So Gnome, 546 00:40:08,835 --> 00:40:12,515 Speaker 1: next time they play yackety sacks by Boots Randolph the 547 00:40:12,555 --> 00:40:15,675 Speaker 1: Beny Hill theme, we need to start calling it the 548 00:40:15,795 --> 00:40:20,595 Speaker 1: Christy Gnome theme. You know, there is a theory, by 549 00:40:20,635 --> 00:40:24,675 Speaker 1: the way, Christy, about injecting fluids like steroids or like 550 00:40:24,755 --> 00:40:30,475 Speaker 1: botox into a confined space in the body, something self contained, 551 00:40:30,555 --> 00:40:34,275 Speaker 1: like the hip or the skull, and eventually, if you 552 00:40:34,315 --> 00:40:37,595 Speaker 1: do it enough, you will squeeze out whatever is supposed 553 00:40:37,635 --> 00:40:40,795 Speaker 1: to be inside that closed space, inside the skull, inside 554 00:40:40,835 --> 00:40:45,875 Speaker 1: the hips, like veins or other blood vessels, or if 555 00:40:45,875 --> 00:40:49,835 Speaker 1: it's botox, eventually your skull will be empty of brains 556 00:40:49,875 --> 00:40:56,075 Speaker 1: and filled with nothing but botox. Christy, no brains, just botox. 557 00:40:56,235 --> 00:41:30,315 Speaker 1: Yacketty Sacks Gnome two days other worst person in that. 558 00:41:37,475 --> 00:41:41,355 Speaker 1: The Washington Post reports that Bart Barnes has died eight 559 00:41:41,435 --> 00:41:45,755 Speaker 1: days ago. He was eighty seven years old. Bart Barnes 560 00:41:45,835 --> 00:41:48,915 Speaker 1: worked for the Washington Post for fifty years, and it 561 00:41:48,995 --> 00:41:51,955 Speaker 1: is impossible to describe simply what he did there, but 562 00:41:52,075 --> 00:41:54,355 Speaker 1: the range of his career was such that he was 563 00:41:54,435 --> 00:41:58,355 Speaker 1: the rewrite man on the Post desk on Saturday, June seventeenth, 564 00:41:58,435 --> 00:42:02,515 Speaker 1: nineteen seventy two, the man who put together, who literally 565 00:42:02,755 --> 00:42:06,315 Speaker 1: cut and pasted and typed and re wrote an article 566 00:42:06,635 --> 00:42:08,795 Speaker 1: out of the various stuff that had been written by 567 00:42:08,795 --> 00:42:13,155 Speaker 1: three different reporters about an almost inexplicable break in the 568 00:42:13,235 --> 00:42:17,235 Speaker 1: night before the Friday the sixteenth at a local office complex. 569 00:42:18,435 --> 00:42:20,355 Speaker 1: One of the reporters who sent in his stuff was 570 00:42:20,435 --> 00:42:25,835 Speaker 1: named Woodward, another was called Bernstein. The third was the 571 00:42:25,835 --> 00:42:32,635 Speaker 1: Post's crime reporter, Alfred Lewis. The article was bylined Alfred Lewis, 572 00:42:32,635 --> 00:42:35,195 Speaker 1: and it carried a note of contribution at the bottom 573 00:42:35,235 --> 00:42:37,755 Speaker 1: by Bart Barnes. He, in fact, was the man who 574 00:42:37,795 --> 00:42:42,555 Speaker 1: wrote the first story, the first Washington Post story, and 575 00:42:42,595 --> 00:42:48,195 Speaker 1: the first story anywhere about the Watergate break in. That 576 00:42:48,395 --> 00:42:51,435 Speaker 1: was a high mark for bart Or when he broke 577 00:42:51,475 --> 00:42:53,435 Speaker 1: in in nineteen sixty three with the Post as part 578 00:42:53,475 --> 00:42:56,195 Speaker 1: of the Post's crew at Martin Luther King's I Have 579 00:42:56,235 --> 00:42:59,995 Speaker 1: a Dream Speech and the March on Washington. He contributed 580 00:43:00,035 --> 00:43:03,595 Speaker 1: to their coverage of that or later writing the obituaries. 581 00:43:03,635 --> 00:43:06,075 Speaker 1: And this is a legendary on the Post of Orson 582 00:43:06,155 --> 00:43:09,635 Speaker 1: Wells and Yule Brenner in nineteen eighty five on deadline 583 00:43:09,915 --> 00:43:15,515 Speaker 1: on the same day. From the Sublime to the Ridiculous. However, 584 00:43:15,555 --> 00:43:18,555 Speaker 1: he also once found himself somehow assigned to cover the 585 00:43:18,635 --> 00:43:22,435 Speaker 1: nineteen eighty two National Football League players strike. He was 586 00:43:22,475 --> 00:43:25,595 Speaker 1: an experienced sports writer, especially on the business of sports, 587 00:43:25,675 --> 00:43:27,995 Speaker 1: and they sent him to do this. At the start 588 00:43:27,995 --> 00:43:31,955 Speaker 1: of it early spring, there were four reporters, Bart, an 589 00:43:32,035 --> 00:43:35,035 Speaker 1: ap sports and business guy, somebody from the Times, and 590 00:43:35,115 --> 00:43:39,475 Speaker 1: a CNN rookie who was, as they say, expendable. Me. 591 00:43:40,875 --> 00:43:43,595 Speaker 1: We Bart, Barnes and I and the other two we 592 00:43:43,715 --> 00:43:46,275 Speaker 1: worked on the same story, if not every day, then 593 00:43:46,315 --> 00:43:48,955 Speaker 1: at least once a week until Thanksgiving of that year. 594 00:43:50,235 --> 00:43:55,155 Speaker 1: He was quiet, wry, supportive, delight, often suggesting things you 595 00:43:55,195 --> 00:43:58,275 Speaker 1: should follow up on, which was the way of him 596 00:43:58,275 --> 00:44:02,115 Speaker 1: slipping me information or commenting that I had correctly or 597 00:44:02,115 --> 00:44:05,355 Speaker 1: incorrectly emphasized something in one of my reports he had seen. 598 00:44:06,155 --> 00:44:09,435 Speaker 1: He also, as I will mention shortly in greater detail, 599 00:44:09,515 --> 00:44:12,955 Speaker 1: played a role in the greatest practical joke of our times, 600 00:44:14,115 --> 00:44:18,035 Speaker 1: well my times, well about the New York Times. It 601 00:44:18,155 --> 00:44:20,435 Speaker 1: was on a reporter from the New York Times whom 602 00:44:20,475 --> 00:44:24,595 Speaker 1: we didn't dislike. He was a nice enough guy when 603 00:44:25,475 --> 00:44:28,875 Speaker 1: not frantically on deadline, but when he was on deadline, 604 00:44:28,915 --> 00:44:32,075 Speaker 1: none of us could stand him. I only found out 605 00:44:32,155 --> 00:44:35,915 Speaker 1: later that Bart Barnes was the Sun and the grandson 606 00:44:36,755 --> 00:44:43,755 Speaker 1: of two publishers of the Bristol Press. He was from Bristol, Connecticut. 607 00:44:44,475 --> 00:44:49,915 Speaker 1: You know ESPN land before there was an ESPN, and 608 00:44:49,995 --> 00:44:52,275 Speaker 1: I knew him a decade before I was at ESPN 609 00:44:52,555 --> 00:44:56,475 Speaker 1: Small World. Only found that out in reading his obituary. 610 00:44:57,075 --> 00:44:58,835 Speaker 1: And I only found out that he eventually became the 611 00:44:58,875 --> 00:45:02,155 Speaker 1: Post's obituary factory. He wrote hundreds of them, and that 612 00:45:02,275 --> 00:45:04,995 Speaker 1: was a role I occasionally filled from my first at 613 00:45:05,075 --> 00:45:09,315 Speaker 1: UPI right through my last stint at ESPN. I noted 614 00:45:09,355 --> 00:45:11,915 Speaker 1: this line in Bart's obituary, something a lot of us 615 00:45:11,955 --> 00:45:14,195 Speaker 1: who have done this kind of work have wondered. Will 616 00:45:14,235 --> 00:45:18,275 Speaker 1: the obituary we just finished only be seen or read 617 00:45:18,635 --> 00:45:21,915 Speaker 1: after the guy we wrote about is dead, and after 618 00:45:22,035 --> 00:45:27,715 Speaker 1: we're dead too. Here's what The Post's obituary guy wrote 619 00:45:27,715 --> 00:45:31,595 Speaker 1: about The Post's former obituary guy quote his byline will 620 00:45:31,635 --> 00:45:35,115 Speaker 1: continue to appear in the Post long after his death. 621 00:45:35,555 --> 00:45:39,475 Speaker 1: Seventeen of his pre written obituaries are still waiting to 622 00:45:39,515 --> 00:45:45,315 Speaker 1: be published. You're all out there, right. I retired from 623 00:45:45,515 --> 00:45:49,875 Speaker 1: ESPN in twenty twenty. Literally, I'm a Disney retiree. I 624 00:45:49,915 --> 00:45:52,635 Speaker 1: think they have at least one of my baseball obituaries 625 00:45:52,715 --> 00:45:57,115 Speaker 1: left ready to go. No, I don't feel it's right 626 00:45:57,115 --> 00:45:59,275 Speaker 1: for me to tell you who it is. Yes, it 627 00:45:59,315 --> 00:46:03,635 Speaker 1: does feel really strange, but this is about Bart Barnes, 628 00:46:04,995 --> 00:46:10,995 Speaker 1: a great, helpful, all purpose held the Washington Post together 629 00:46:11,955 --> 00:46:16,275 Speaker 1: until it collapsed kind of guy and his role. And 630 00:46:16,355 --> 00:46:20,075 Speaker 1: he was the perfect legit, calm, straight laced guy who 631 00:46:20,195 --> 00:46:25,395 Speaker 1: helped sell the scam that we played on. The guy 632 00:46:25,395 --> 00:46:28,235 Speaker 1: from the Times, the last person, the guy from the Times, 633 00:46:28,315 --> 00:46:32,475 Speaker 1: the victim here, the mark, the target, the last person. 634 00:46:33,435 --> 00:46:37,795 Speaker 1: That guy would suspect, his last line of defense in 635 00:46:37,835 --> 00:46:42,635 Speaker 1: a world gone mad before his eyes, as you will 636 00:46:42,675 --> 00:46:47,035 Speaker 1: hear in March of nineteen eighty two, I went from 637 00:46:47,155 --> 00:46:52,955 Speaker 1: scheduled freelancer to full time as CNN's national sports correspondent 638 00:46:52,995 --> 00:46:55,995 Speaker 1: based in New York. I have mentioned previously that they 639 00:46:56,195 --> 00:46:58,755 Speaker 1: rewarded me by offering me one thousand dollars less a 640 00:46:58,835 --> 00:47:00,995 Speaker 1: year than they were giving me freelance, which tells you 641 00:47:01,035 --> 00:47:04,715 Speaker 1: everything you need to know about working in televisionn It 642 00:47:04,795 --> 00:47:07,715 Speaker 1: also rewarded me by sending me to the first meeting 643 00:47:07,755 --> 00:47:11,595 Speaker 1: of the NFL Players Association and the NFL Management Council 644 00:47:12,075 --> 00:47:16,155 Speaker 1: to negotiate a new contract and avert a strike that year. 645 00:47:17,195 --> 00:47:20,515 Speaker 1: Kind of miss that target, But while I did lots 646 00:47:20,515 --> 00:47:22,955 Speaker 1: of other stories in my first full year at CNN, 647 00:47:23,355 --> 00:47:27,515 Speaker 1: I was the football strike guy until that strike was 648 00:47:27,555 --> 00:47:29,835 Speaker 1: settled and a new deal was approved at a mass 649 00:47:29,875 --> 00:47:32,315 Speaker 1: meeting in Washington. And the mass meeting in Washington curR 650 00:47:32,515 --> 00:47:36,275 Speaker 1: just before Thanksgiving like forty years ago today, and the 651 00:47:36,355 --> 00:47:40,635 Speaker 1: damn story had started forty years ago last March. There 652 00:47:40,635 --> 00:47:44,675 Speaker 1: are probably fifty seven hundred stories worth telling you of 653 00:47:44,715 --> 00:47:48,075 Speaker 1: covering this thing nearly every day one way or the 654 00:47:48,115 --> 00:47:52,435 Speaker 1: other for eight months, but this one might be my favorite. 655 00:47:52,515 --> 00:47:56,075 Speaker 1: There were I think three other reporters at that first 656 00:47:56,155 --> 00:47:59,315 Speaker 1: bargaining session in New York in March of nineteen eighty two, 657 00:47:59,395 --> 00:48:01,835 Speaker 1: and if these are not the three guys I'm thinking of, 658 00:48:02,155 --> 00:48:05,355 Speaker 1: they became the three guys in the subsequent meetings later 659 00:48:05,435 --> 00:48:07,275 Speaker 1: in March, and then in April when we had some 660 00:48:07,435 --> 00:48:10,915 Speaker 1: in Washington, and throughout the early summer. They were Bart 661 00:48:10,915 --> 00:48:14,635 Speaker 1: Barnes of the Washington Post, Ira Rosenfeld of the Associated Press, 662 00:48:14,875 --> 00:48:18,715 Speaker 1: and Michael Janofski of the New York Times. By October, 663 00:48:18,995 --> 00:48:21,995 Speaker 1: the four of us had been joined by whom maybe 664 00:48:22,435 --> 00:48:27,435 Speaker 1: one hundred other reporters two hundred. The problem with covering 665 00:48:27,475 --> 00:48:30,035 Speaker 1: any strike, inside sports or outside of it is you 666 00:48:30,075 --> 00:48:32,875 Speaker 1: don't have a lot of news to cover, and the 667 00:48:32,915 --> 00:48:35,715 Speaker 1: only news story your editors or producers or readers or 668 00:48:35,795 --> 00:48:39,795 Speaker 1: viewers want anyway is this one is the damn thing 669 00:48:39,955 --> 00:48:43,315 Speaker 1: over yet. So there was a lot of competition among 670 00:48:43,355 --> 00:48:46,315 Speaker 1: all of us for those few news nuggets and sources 671 00:48:46,675 --> 00:48:50,395 Speaker 1: available to an ever increasing supply of reporters. Though I 672 00:48:50,475 --> 00:48:52,555 Speaker 1: have to say the others, at least the originals were 673 00:48:52,595 --> 00:48:55,115 Speaker 1: all great to me and I to them, to the 674 00:48:55,115 --> 00:48:57,435 Speaker 1: point that when they moved the talks to the Hunt 675 00:48:57,515 --> 00:49:01,315 Speaker 1: Valley Resort Complex in Maryland, United Press International and the 676 00:49:01,355 --> 00:49:06,395 Speaker 1: networks like US called our location Hunt Valley, Maryland. But 677 00:49:06,475 --> 00:49:08,795 Speaker 1: there was such a dearth of news that the Associated 678 00:49:08,835 --> 00:49:11,995 Speaker 1: Press insisted there was no such place as Hunt Valley, Maryland, 679 00:49:12,155 --> 00:49:15,515 Speaker 1: and we were all really in Cockeysville, Maryland. The same 680 00:49:15,555 --> 00:49:19,355 Speaker 1: story would come across the UPI wire dateline Hunt Valley, Maryland, 681 00:49:19,475 --> 00:49:22,635 Speaker 1: and the same story on the AP wire Cockysville, Maryland. 682 00:49:23,675 --> 00:49:27,235 Speaker 1: Then the Associated pressed to a story on the dispute 683 00:49:27,355 --> 00:49:31,115 Speaker 1: over the location name. I remember asking Ira Rosenfeld of 684 00:49:31,155 --> 00:49:34,355 Speaker 1: the AP if they had used the dateline Cockysville, just 685 00:49:34,435 --> 00:49:36,795 Speaker 1: so there'd be a dispute, just so he had something 686 00:49:36,795 --> 00:49:43,395 Speaker 1: to write about. He started laughing and walked away anyway. Janofsky, 687 00:49:43,515 --> 00:49:46,035 Speaker 1: the guy from the Times, was the most anxious of 688 00:49:46,075 --> 00:49:51,835 Speaker 1: the bunch. Michael Janofski was a little abrasive, like literally 689 00:49:51,875 --> 00:49:54,595 Speaker 1: elbowing you out of the way in the scrums with 690 00:49:54,715 --> 00:49:58,275 Speaker 1: media spokesman, or trying to walk those spokesmen out of 691 00:49:58,315 --> 00:50:00,835 Speaker 1: those gaggles and scrums in order to get a one 692 00:50:00,875 --> 00:50:03,755 Speaker 1: on one. I'm from the New York Times, And the 693 00:50:03,795 --> 00:50:05,715 Speaker 1: only thing the owner and the players and the rest 694 00:50:05,755 --> 00:50:08,555 Speaker 1: of US reporters all agreed on was, oh God, here 695 00:50:08,555 --> 00:50:12,475 Speaker 1: comes Danovsky again. So one long night in the resort 696 00:50:12,515 --> 00:50:15,235 Speaker 1: they were using in Kackysville and or Hunt Valley, Maryland, 697 00:50:15,595 --> 00:50:17,355 Speaker 1: one of the Union guys was having a drink with 698 00:50:17,355 --> 00:50:20,035 Speaker 1: a bunch of us media types and we started complaining 699 00:50:20,075 --> 00:50:23,635 Speaker 1: about Jenofsky. And I don't think the prank that was 700 00:50:23,715 --> 00:50:28,755 Speaker 1: hatched was my idea, but I know I was the choreographer. 701 00:50:29,555 --> 00:50:31,995 Speaker 1: The area I had to work with in the hotel 702 00:50:32,075 --> 00:50:35,075 Speaker 1: in which we were permitted to roam ran from a 703 00:50:35,115 --> 00:50:38,355 Speaker 1: swimming pool around a corner, down a one hundred foot 704 00:50:38,395 --> 00:50:41,635 Speaker 1: hallway into the lobby, which was the press room and 705 00:50:41,715 --> 00:50:46,315 Speaker 1: press conference venue. So we waited until we saw Jenofski 706 00:50:46,435 --> 00:50:49,275 Speaker 1: go down that hall away from the main lobby and 707 00:50:49,315 --> 00:50:52,555 Speaker 1: around the corner towards the hotel rooms themselves, and then 708 00:50:52,595 --> 00:50:56,155 Speaker 1: at least a dozen of us waited like evil school 709 00:50:56,275 --> 00:50:59,395 Speaker 1: kids in the main part of that hallway between the 710 00:50:59,395 --> 00:51:02,515 Speaker 1: swimming pool and the lobby. We sent a spotter to 711 00:51:02,515 --> 00:51:05,715 Speaker 1: stand near the pool to alert us. So as Michael 712 00:51:05,755 --> 00:51:08,635 Speaker 1: Janofski of The New York Times turned the corner one 713 00:51:08,675 --> 00:51:12,875 Speaker 1: hundred feet away, he saw the NFLPA press aide literally 714 00:51:13,155 --> 00:51:16,995 Speaker 1: pushing some of us, and everybody yelling and him saying fine, 715 00:51:17,115 --> 00:51:20,115 Speaker 1: it's true. It's true. It's over. Now I can't say 716 00:51:20,115 --> 00:51:23,795 Speaker 1: another goddamn thing. I quit. He's trying to get away 717 00:51:23,795 --> 00:51:27,635 Speaker 1: from us. There are arms flailing through the air, voices raised, 718 00:51:27,715 --> 00:51:31,435 Speaker 1: a lot of oaths and swear words. In short, we 719 00:51:31,515 --> 00:51:35,595 Speaker 1: have convinced mister Danofsky of the Times that he has 720 00:51:35,755 --> 00:51:41,875 Speaker 1: just missed the end of the football strike. Djanofsky sprints 721 00:51:41,955 --> 00:51:45,595 Speaker 1: the hundred feet, grabs the union guy and says, tell me, 722 00:51:45,715 --> 00:51:48,995 Speaker 1: it's settled, it's over. Tell me and this man. Dave 723 00:51:49,795 --> 00:51:52,675 Speaker 1: had also been a press staffer in the Kennedy administration, 724 00:51:53,435 --> 00:51:56,155 Speaker 1: and this was not his first prank against the reporter. 725 00:51:56,795 --> 00:51:59,195 Speaker 1: He says, I'm sorry, Mike, I don't work for the 726 00:51:59,315 --> 00:52:03,355 Speaker 1: NFLPA anymore. I just quit. If you want this story, 727 00:52:03,395 --> 00:52:05,675 Speaker 1: you better get it from the executive director Ed Garvey 728 00:52:05,915 --> 00:52:10,235 Speaker 1: or the president Gene Upshaw. So now Janofski grabs Bart 729 00:52:10,315 --> 00:52:14,075 Speaker 1: Barnes of the WAHPO, who had to have been I 730 00:52:14,075 --> 00:52:17,035 Speaker 1: don't know, ten years older than Janosky was, and he says, 731 00:52:17,275 --> 00:52:21,195 Speaker 1: you have to tell me, Bart, I'll pay you, at 732 00:52:21,195 --> 00:52:24,875 Speaker 1: which point all of us lose it. I mean me 733 00:52:24,955 --> 00:52:28,355 Speaker 1: and the AP guy, Ira. We broke character. We doubled 734 00:52:28,355 --> 00:52:33,835 Speaker 1: over with laughter. Now Janofsky froze, Dave from the Union 735 00:52:33,955 --> 00:52:37,635 Speaker 1: laughed so hard he turned red, and Jenofsky marched off, 736 00:52:37,675 --> 00:52:41,755 Speaker 1: announcing he would get us and get us soon. I 737 00:52:41,755 --> 00:52:44,075 Speaker 1: don't think he ever did. Though. If I had to 738 00:52:44,115 --> 00:52:46,875 Speaker 1: do a phoner for CNN when Jenofsky was around that 739 00:52:47,035 --> 00:52:49,555 Speaker 1: lobby or any other other places we did this story, 740 00:52:49,835 --> 00:52:52,835 Speaker 1: I always made sure I guarded the phone disconnect button 741 00:52:52,875 --> 00:52:56,955 Speaker 1: with my free hand, just in case. But what he 742 00:52:56,995 --> 00:53:02,035 Speaker 1: did do was leaves sports all together for safer and 743 00:53:02,195 --> 00:53:06,995 Speaker 1: more fun topics like covering the Environmental Protection Agency and 744 00:53:07,075 --> 00:53:26,075 Speaker 1: getting writing stories about pesticides and recycling mercury. I've done 745 00:53:26,075 --> 00:53:28,355 Speaker 1: all the damage I can do here. Thank you for listening, 746 00:53:28,435 --> 00:53:34,595 Speaker 1: and Rip Bart Barnes, thanks for everything. Most of our 747 00:53:34,635 --> 00:53:37,555 Speaker 1: Countdown music was arranged, produced and performed by Brian Ray 748 00:53:37,555 --> 00:53:41,875 Speaker 1: and John Phillip Schanel. Our musical directors have Countdown. I 749 00:53:41,915 --> 00:53:44,755 Speaker 1: don't think. I don't think Bart Barnes wrote a no 750 00:53:44,875 --> 00:53:48,475 Speaker 1: bit of me. He's writing the until two thousand and 751 00:53:48,555 --> 00:53:52,875 Speaker 1: five or six, though? Am I one of the seventeen? 752 00:53:53,595 --> 00:53:58,515 Speaker 1: Are you you know what? We'll never know? Will we? 753 00:54:01,795 --> 00:54:04,355 Speaker 1: Our musical directors have Countdown Brian Ray and John Phillip 754 00:54:04,355 --> 00:54:07,555 Speaker 1: Shannel and the work produced by Tko Brothers with mister 755 00:54:07,675 --> 00:54:10,395 Speaker 1: Rand guitars, bass and drums, mister shaneil On handling the 756 00:54:10,475 --> 00:54:13,915 Speaker 1: orchestration and the keyboards. Our satirical and pithy musical comments 757 00:54:13,915 --> 00:54:16,715 Speaker 1: here by the best baseball stadium organist ever, Nancy Faust. 758 00:54:17,075 --> 00:54:19,955 Speaker 1: The Olderman theme from ESPN two, written by Mitch Warren 759 00:54:20,035 --> 00:54:23,675 Speaker 1: Davis courtesy of ESPN, Inc. Is the sports music. Other 760 00:54:23,755 --> 00:54:26,355 Speaker 1: music arranged and performed by the group No Horns Allowed. 761 00:54:26,835 --> 00:54:29,955 Speaker 1: MI anouncer today is my friend in continuing the Watergate theme, 762 00:54:31,515 --> 00:54:35,995 Speaker 1: John Dean, everything else was as always my fault. That's 763 00:54:36,035 --> 00:54:38,675 Speaker 1: countdown for today. Day two hundred and sixty seven of 764 00:54:38,755 --> 00:54:43,395 Speaker 1: America held hostage yet again, at just ninety six days 765 00:54:43,675 --> 00:54:45,875 Speaker 1: until the scheduled end of Trump's lane duck and lame 766 00:54:45,915 --> 00:54:49,915 Speaker 1: brained term unless he is removed sooner by MAGA and 767 00:54:49,995 --> 00:54:52,675 Speaker 1: Jeffrey Epstein, or the pavement on his hand, or a 768 00:54:52,675 --> 00:54:56,595 Speaker 1: stuck escalator or the psychopathy test, or the judge guy 769 00:54:56,755 --> 00:55:00,155 Speaker 1: doesn't like or the judge girl he doesn't like, or 770 00:55:00,235 --> 00:55:03,995 Speaker 1: by Joe Biden's FBI. They're still out there. I can 771 00:55:04,035 --> 00:55:08,435 Speaker 1: see them. The next scheduled countdown is Thursday. Till then, 772 00:55:08,475 --> 00:55:12,275 Speaker 1: I'm Keith Olberman. Good morning, good afternoon, good night, and 773 00:55:12,715 --> 00:55:36,675 Speaker 1: good luck. 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