1 00:00:04,795 --> 00:00:22,675 Speaker 1: Countdown with Keith Olderman is a production of iHeartRadio. Trump 2 00:00:22,915 --> 00:00:25,995 Speaker 1: is in contempt of court and has been threatened with 3 00:00:26,115 --> 00:00:28,635 Speaker 1: jail time if he again violates the gag order, and 4 00:00:28,795 --> 00:00:32,275 Speaker 1: testimony from the stand continues to bury him alive, just 5 00:00:32,315 --> 00:00:35,235 Speaker 1: as he buried the Stormy Daniel's scandal. And none of 6 00:00:35,275 --> 00:00:40,155 Speaker 1: that is close to being as important as his new 7 00:00:40,755 --> 00:00:44,515 Speaker 1: and most virulent threat yet to destroy this country via 8 00:00:44,675 --> 00:00:50,955 Speaker 1: political violence, and it underscores why we loyal Americans must 9 00:00:50,955 --> 00:00:56,915 Speaker 1: destroy his cult. First cover story Time Magazine all of 10 00:00:56,955 --> 00:01:00,915 Speaker 1: the nightmares of Trump becoming dictator, but laid out with 11 00:01:01,075 --> 00:01:05,075 Speaker 1: unusual clarity for someone as insane and demented as Trump. 12 00:01:05,515 --> 00:01:10,035 Speaker 1: Quoting the interviewer Eric Cordalessa, Trump does not dismiss the 13 00:01:10,075 --> 00:01:15,315 Speaker 1: possibility of political violence around the election, quoting Trump, if 14 00:01:15,315 --> 00:01:18,955 Speaker 1: we don't win, you know, it depends. It always depends 15 00:01:19,155 --> 00:01:22,915 Speaker 1: on the fairness of the election. The author asks him 16 00:01:22,915 --> 00:01:25,435 Speaker 1: about his social media post in which Trump claimed a 17 00:01:25,475 --> 00:01:29,915 Speaker 1: stolen election allows for the termination of all rules, regulations, 18 00:01:29,915 --> 00:01:34,195 Speaker 1: and articles, even those found in the Constitution. Trump then 19 00:01:34,235 --> 00:01:37,315 Speaker 1: denies he said it, quoting Trump, I never said that 20 00:01:37,355 --> 00:01:40,635 Speaker 1: at all. I never said that at all. Within moments 21 00:01:40,635 --> 00:01:43,715 Speaker 1: of that lie. No, not a lie, A distinction without 22 00:01:43,715 --> 00:01:46,675 Speaker 1: a difference in that he never said it. He merely 23 00:01:46,715 --> 00:01:50,475 Speaker 1: wrote it on truth Social on December third, twenty twenty two. 24 00:01:50,675 --> 00:01:54,715 Speaker 1: Within moments of that, he declares that the current administration 25 00:01:54,835 --> 00:01:58,955 Speaker 1: has quote broken the constitution. They have gotten very far 26 00:01:59,075 --> 00:02:02,715 Speaker 1: astray from our constitution. I'm talking about the fascists and 27 00:02:02,755 --> 00:02:05,795 Speaker 1: the people in our government right now because I consider 28 00:02:05,875 --> 00:02:10,635 Speaker 1: them the enemy within. I think the enemy within in 29 00:02:10,675 --> 00:02:14,155 Speaker 1: many cases is much more dangerous for our country than 30 00:02:14,195 --> 00:02:18,475 Speaker 1: the outside enemies of China, Russia, and various others that 31 00:02:18,515 --> 00:02:22,355 Speaker 1: would be called enemies depending on who the president is. 32 00:02:22,915 --> 00:02:26,555 Speaker 1: Unquote what about his remarks about becoming a dictator, but 33 00:02:26,635 --> 00:02:29,795 Speaker 1: only on day one he says he was kidding. Doesn't 34 00:02:29,835 --> 00:02:33,195 Speaker 1: he realize it horrifies those who see dictatorship as the 35 00:02:33,235 --> 00:02:36,955 Speaker 1: opposite of America. Quote. I think a lot of people 36 00:02:37,355 --> 00:02:41,915 Speaker 1: like it about that. He is clearly not kidding. He 37 00:02:41,995 --> 00:02:46,115 Speaker 1: is ready to give his imaginary slaves what he insists 38 00:02:46,275 --> 00:02:49,595 Speaker 1: they want. He has now told Time magazine that he 39 00:02:49,675 --> 00:02:53,035 Speaker 1: is ready to use the National Guard in effect as 40 00:02:53,075 --> 00:02:56,315 Speaker 1: his personal police force, and the rest of the military 41 00:02:56,875 --> 00:03:01,395 Speaker 1: as his personal police force, and your local police force 42 00:03:01,995 --> 00:03:05,795 Speaker 1: as his personal police force, and to build migrant detention 43 00:03:05,955 --> 00:03:09,515 Speaker 1: camps to hold millions rounded up by the National Guard. Quote. 44 00:03:09,595 --> 00:03:12,515 Speaker 1: If they weren't able to, then I'd use the military. 45 00:03:13,315 --> 00:03:16,635 Speaker 1: The interviewer adds. Quote. He would also seek help from 46 00:03:16,675 --> 00:03:20,795 Speaker 1: local police and says he would deny funding for jurisdictions 47 00:03:21,155 --> 00:03:25,795 Speaker 1: that decline to adopt his policies. Trump would send the 48 00:03:25,875 --> 00:03:28,795 Speaker 1: National Guard into cities to fight crime without the required 49 00:03:28,795 --> 00:03:33,595 Speaker 1: request of governors, because that FBI data showing homicides dropping 50 00:03:33,675 --> 00:03:36,835 Speaker 1: six percent in twenty twenty two and thirteen percent more 51 00:03:36,915 --> 00:03:41,355 Speaker 1: last year. Quote it's a lie. He would approve Department 52 00:03:41,395 --> 00:03:44,835 Speaker 1: of Justice funds only for use in those cities that 53 00:03:45,035 --> 00:03:49,235 Speaker 1: use police strong arm tactics that he designates, like stop 54 00:03:49,235 --> 00:03:57,435 Speaker 1: and frisk. This is how Hitler talked before he seized power. 55 00:03:57,475 --> 00:04:02,115 Speaker 1: It is how Mao talked. It is how Mussolini talked. 56 00:04:03,675 --> 00:04:06,915 Speaker 1: It is how all of them have talked. It is 57 00:04:06,955 --> 00:04:12,355 Speaker 1: how Trump is talking the cops for his interview with Time. 58 00:04:13,355 --> 00:04:16,875 Speaker 1: Would then be free to help monitor pregnancies and arrest 59 00:04:16,995 --> 00:04:21,515 Speaker 1: and prosecute women and physicians and nurses and hospitals, women 60 00:04:22,075 --> 00:04:26,915 Speaker 1: and the others who violate abortion bands. And he'll blame 61 00:04:27,395 --> 00:04:32,115 Speaker 1: any draconian abortion bands on others, quote Trump, It's irrelevant 62 00:04:32,195 --> 00:04:36,235 Speaker 1: whether I'm comfortable or not. It's totally irrelevant, because the 63 00:04:36,395 --> 00:04:42,435 Speaker 1: States are going to make those decisions. The military will 64 00:04:42,435 --> 00:04:46,075 Speaker 1: be available for suppression of descent and civilian rights because well, 65 00:04:46,715 --> 00:04:50,115 Speaker 1: to hell with Ukraine and Taiwan, and now add to 66 00:04:50,195 --> 00:04:53,675 Speaker 1: that list, to hell with South Korea. Quoting Trump, we 67 00:04:53,755 --> 00:04:56,635 Speaker 1: have forty thousand troops that are in a precarious position, 68 00:04:56,835 --> 00:05:00,755 Speaker 1: which doesn't make any sense. Why would we defend somebody? 69 00:05:01,035 --> 00:05:06,555 Speaker 1: And we're talking about a very wealthy country. And while 70 00:05:06,595 --> 00:05:09,915 Speaker 1: we already know about the January sixth pardons and his 71 00:05:09,995 --> 00:05:15,035 Speaker 1: belief that protests in Portland were far more perilous, and 72 00:05:15,115 --> 00:05:18,715 Speaker 1: the prosecutions and the schedule F firings of the bureaucratically 73 00:05:18,715 --> 00:05:22,515 Speaker 1: confident to be replaced by Trump whores. While we've known 74 00:05:22,555 --> 00:05:25,315 Speaker 1: about all of that for a long time, we have 75 00:05:25,475 --> 00:05:30,595 Speaker 1: two new weapons on the horizon that Trump has revealed 76 00:05:30,755 --> 00:05:34,875 Speaker 1: in this time interview. If he ordered a US attorney 77 00:05:34,915 --> 00:05:40,115 Speaker 1: to prosecute you, and the US attorney refused, he would 78 00:05:40,155 --> 00:05:42,795 Speaker 1: break more than two hundred and fifty years of American 79 00:05:42,795 --> 00:05:47,035 Speaker 1: tradition and fire the US attorney and replace him with 80 00:05:47,075 --> 00:05:51,475 Speaker 1: somebody who would prosecute you. And if none of that 81 00:05:51,635 --> 00:05:56,195 Speaker 1: democracy stuff matters to you, he doubled down on a 82 00:05:56,275 --> 00:06:03,715 Speaker 1: ten percent tariff on all imported goods, all a tariff, 83 00:06:03,995 --> 00:06:07,915 Speaker 1: A ten percent tax on you, quoting Trump, it may 84 00:06:07,955 --> 00:06:11,115 Speaker 1: be more than that. It may be a derivative of that. Look, 85 00:06:11,155 --> 00:06:13,395 Speaker 1: when they come in and they steal our jobs, and 86 00:06:13,435 --> 00:06:17,355 Speaker 1: they steal our wealth, they steal our country more than 87 00:06:17,435 --> 00:06:22,275 Speaker 1: ten percent. Yeah, I call it a ring around the country. 88 00:06:23,075 --> 00:06:28,595 Speaker 1: And most subtly, perhaps most damagingly, as the interviewer writes, quote, 89 00:06:28,875 --> 00:06:34,555 Speaker 1: he would, at his personal discretion, withhold funds appropriated by 90 00:06:34,595 --> 00:06:39,955 Speaker 1: Congress according to top advisors, restoring the power of impoundment, 91 00:06:40,755 --> 00:06:47,635 Speaker 1: which allowed presidents to withhold congressionally appropriated funds. Trump and 92 00:06:47,715 --> 00:06:51,035 Speaker 1: his allies planned to challenge a nineteen seventy four law 93 00:06:51,395 --> 00:06:57,315 Speaker 1: that prohibits the use of the measure. So the police 94 00:06:57,355 --> 00:07:02,355 Speaker 1: become militarized, and the military becomes Trump's personal gestapo, and 95 00:07:02,395 --> 00:07:05,155 Speaker 1: the states and the cities that don't promise fear to 96 00:07:05,235 --> 00:07:09,235 Speaker 1: him don't get federal allocations, and the federal government becomes 97 00:07:09,235 --> 00:07:12,595 Speaker 1: his personal staff. And if he doesn't win all the elections, 98 00:07:12,635 --> 00:07:15,995 Speaker 1: they are unfair elections, and violence is fine, and most 99 00:07:15,995 --> 00:07:19,955 Speaker 1: people want a dictator anyway. And he chooses who gets prosecuted, 100 00:07:20,115 --> 00:07:23,795 Speaker 1: and he chooses which budgeted money gets spent and where, 101 00:07:23,875 --> 00:07:28,035 Speaker 1: because he'll give himself a line item veto, and he'll 102 00:07:28,035 --> 00:07:34,515 Speaker 1: put anybody here illegally into concentration camps, or anybody he 103 00:07:34,755 --> 00:07:42,715 Speaker 1: says is here illegally. And if that is you, exactly 104 00:07:42,795 --> 00:07:49,155 Speaker 1: who are you going to get to stop him? Heard enough, yet, 105 00:07:51,235 --> 00:08:23,155 Speaker 1: stop him now while we still can. The gist of 106 00:08:23,195 --> 00:08:27,075 Speaker 1: the testimony yesterday at the trial, or as Trump calls it, 107 00:08:27,315 --> 00:08:31,315 Speaker 1: nap time, was that the former attorney for Stormy Daniels 108 00:08:31,355 --> 00:08:34,715 Speaker 1: and Karen McDougall never had a doubt that when he 109 00:08:34,915 --> 00:08:38,715 Speaker 1: was selling their stories to the National Inquirer via Michael 110 00:08:38,755 --> 00:08:41,835 Speaker 1: Cohen in twenty sixteen, that Cohen and the rest of 111 00:08:41,875 --> 00:08:47,155 Speaker 1: them were all acting on behalf of Trump. It was 112 00:08:47,315 --> 00:08:51,035 Speaker 1: so obvious who the money was from and the influence 113 00:08:51,155 --> 00:08:54,595 Speaker 1: was for, said Keith Davidson, that in twenty sixteen he 114 00:08:54,635 --> 00:09:00,075 Speaker 1: texted the publication's editor quote, throw in an ambassadorship for me. 115 00:09:01,955 --> 00:09:05,155 Speaker 1: But most importantly in court, Justice Van Merschan did it fast, 116 00:09:05,315 --> 00:09:07,875 Speaker 1: and he glossed over the highlights. But he found Trump 117 00:09:07,915 --> 00:09:10,715 Speaker 1: guilty of contempt of court for violating the gag order 118 00:09:10,955 --> 00:09:13,715 Speaker 1: in nine of the ten cases submitted by the prosecution. 119 00:09:13,955 --> 00:09:17,395 Speaker 1: He find him the max per one thousand dollars each 120 00:09:17,835 --> 00:09:21,675 Speaker 1: nine thousand in total, and the justice matter of fact. 121 00:09:21,755 --> 00:09:24,915 Speaker 1: He writes that for a Trump, the money means nothing, 122 00:09:24,995 --> 00:09:29,715 Speaker 1: because the money is nothing, quoting it would be preferable 123 00:09:29,795 --> 00:09:33,435 Speaker 1: if the court could impose a fine more commensurate with 124 00:09:33,555 --> 00:09:37,795 Speaker 1: the wealth of the contemnar. In some cases that might 125 00:09:37,835 --> 00:09:40,595 Speaker 1: be a twenty five hundred dollars fine. In other cases 126 00:09:40,635 --> 00:09:42,475 Speaker 1: it might be a fine of one hundred and fifty 127 00:09:42,555 --> 00:09:47,995 Speaker 1: thousand dollars. Because this court is not cloaked with such discretion, 128 00:09:48,755 --> 00:09:55,035 Speaker 1: it must therefore consider whether in some instances jail may 129 00:09:55,115 --> 00:10:01,955 Speaker 1: be a necessary punishment. If you wonder if Trump actually 130 00:10:01,995 --> 00:10:05,955 Speaker 1: felt the impact there of Mehrshah hitting him in the 131 00:10:06,035 --> 00:10:10,875 Speaker 1: crotch with the jail stick, jail may be a necessary punishment. 132 00:10:11,595 --> 00:10:15,875 Speaker 1: Please note that while after court adjourned, Trump continued to 133 00:10:15,915 --> 00:10:18,755 Speaker 1: attack the judge and call the trial rigged. His next 134 00:10:18,875 --> 00:10:25,835 Speaker 1: most controversial social media post was quoting Harris Faulkner, Happy 135 00:10:26,115 --> 00:10:34,475 Speaker 1: tenth year anniversary, Nobody does it better than you. Congratulations 136 00:10:36,115 --> 00:10:38,675 Speaker 1: while he was in the courtroom, Trump got some really 137 00:10:38,715 --> 00:10:41,875 Speaker 1: bad electoral news if somebody read it to him. Aaron 138 00:10:42,075 --> 00:10:45,595 Speaker 1: Blake of The Washington Post found it inside a Monmouth 139 00:10:45,675 --> 00:10:50,595 Speaker 1: University poll released on Monday. It asked voters if they'd 140 00:10:50,635 --> 00:10:54,915 Speaker 1: consider voting for Robert F. Kennedy Junior. Democrats were slightly 141 00:10:55,035 --> 00:10:59,795 Speaker 1: more likely to say yes than were Republicans. But then 142 00:11:00,595 --> 00:11:04,355 Speaker 1: the pollsters asked the same people if they knew that 143 00:11:04,515 --> 00:11:09,355 Speaker 1: cay quote claims that autism is linked to vaccines and 144 00:11:09,395 --> 00:11:12,675 Speaker 1: that he has floated a conspiracy theory that COVID was 145 00:11:12,795 --> 00:11:18,315 Speaker 1: targeted at certain racial groups. And then it asked those 146 00:11:18,315 --> 00:11:22,555 Speaker 1: same people if, knowing his vaccine beliefs, they would now 147 00:11:22,755 --> 00:11:28,115 Speaker 1: consider voting for him. The number of Republicans who said 148 00:11:28,155 --> 00:11:32,515 Speaker 1: they now would consider voting for RFK Junior instantly rose dramatically. 149 00:11:32,635 --> 00:11:35,435 Speaker 1: In fact, it nearly doubled. It went up eight percentage 150 00:11:35,475 --> 00:11:39,555 Speaker 1: points to nearly one out of five, and the number 151 00:11:39,555 --> 00:11:45,355 Speaker 1: of Democrats that dropped by seven points down to one 152 00:11:45,555 --> 00:11:52,195 Speaker 1: in ten. Seems like a campaign, add to me back 153 00:11:52,195 --> 00:11:55,475 Speaker 1: at the ranch. Also of note, Trump was hoisted twice 154 00:11:55,555 --> 00:11:58,675 Speaker 1: upon his own petards as the judge said he would. 155 00:11:58,795 --> 00:12:00,875 Speaker 1: He ruled on whether or not Trump could go to 156 00:12:00,915 --> 00:12:03,795 Speaker 1: his son Baron's high school graduation as soon as the 157 00:12:03,795 --> 00:12:07,515 Speaker 1: trial schedule be came clear. It has he can go 158 00:12:07,835 --> 00:12:11,875 Speaker 1: on May seventeenth. Now let's see if he goes or 159 00:12:12,115 --> 00:12:16,755 Speaker 1: if the school's commencement is by an incredible coincidence a 160 00:12:16,795 --> 00:12:22,395 Speaker 1: golf tournament. And he whined on the way in again 161 00:12:22,995 --> 00:12:27,115 Speaker 1: about how cold it was in that courtroom, and then surprise, 162 00:12:27,315 --> 00:12:32,715 Speaker 1: yesterday it was too warm. The New York Times reported 163 00:12:32,795 --> 00:12:35,235 Speaker 1: at first quote Trump has been sitting with his eyes 164 00:12:35,315 --> 00:12:39,635 Speaker 1: closed for significant portions of testimony this morning. Then at 165 00:12:39,635 --> 00:12:43,075 Speaker 1: twelve twenty six pm, NBC News reported Trump appeared to 166 00:12:43,115 --> 00:12:46,875 Speaker 1: have fallen asleep while listening to testimony, at times appearing 167 00:12:46,875 --> 00:12:50,075 Speaker 1: to stir and then falling back to sleep. Trump's eyes 168 00:12:50,115 --> 00:12:53,195 Speaker 1: were closed for extended periods, and his head at times 169 00:12:53,395 --> 00:13:00,235 Speaker 1: jerked in a way consistent with sleeping jerk. After the 170 00:13:00,315 --> 00:13:03,715 Speaker 1: break at two thirty nine pm, the Times again quote, 171 00:13:03,795 --> 00:13:07,675 Speaker 1: Trump is exactly as he was for much of this morning, 172 00:13:08,035 --> 00:13:15,595 Speaker 1: eyes closed, leaning back in his seat. And that was 173 00:13:15,715 --> 00:13:24,115 Speaker 1: when it finally hit me. Ever seen the Geico commercial, 174 00:13:24,315 --> 00:13:29,395 Speaker 1: The hockey commercial where the hockey coach has had the 175 00:13:29,435 --> 00:13:36,395 Speaker 1: brainstorm of all brainstorms to replace his goaltender with a 176 00:13:36,555 --> 00:13:42,395 Speaker 1: twelve foot tall, three thousand pound walrus. It's not just easy, 177 00:13:43,115 --> 00:13:52,995 Speaker 1: it's having a wallus and goal easy to waus ridiculous. Yes, nice, 178 00:13:53,475 --> 00:14:01,475 Speaker 1: then go and job duncan we go? Duncan say up, 179 00:14:01,715 --> 00:14:09,515 Speaker 1: no sleepies, Donald stay up, no sleepies. Hell even the 180 00:14:09,555 --> 00:14:21,955 Speaker 1: walrus part fits. Also of interest here on this all 181 00:14:21,995 --> 00:14:25,395 Speaker 1: new edition of Countdown, Jesse Waters of Fox insists the 182 00:14:25,395 --> 00:14:30,755 Speaker 1: gag order on Trump is unconstitutional and then boasts boasts 183 00:14:31,635 --> 00:14:36,275 Speaker 1: that he's not a lawyer. If this lack of functioning 184 00:14:36,355 --> 00:14:42,075 Speaker 1: brain cells or awareness of hypocrisy and self contradiction, If 185 00:14:42,115 --> 00:14:45,435 Speaker 1: that sounds familiar to you, let me remind you. Jesse 186 00:14:45,595 --> 00:14:49,355 Speaker 1: Wanners used to be the guy that Bill O'Reilly sent 187 00:14:49,475 --> 00:14:54,515 Speaker 1: out to stalk women reporters who wrote bad things about 188 00:14:54,555 --> 00:15:01,675 Speaker 1: Bill O'Reilly and women tales of billow and water sports. 189 00:15:03,115 --> 00:15:08,955 Speaker 1: That's next. This is counting. This is countdown, with Keith 190 00:15:09,035 --> 00:15:33,275 Speaker 1: Olberman still ahead of us. On this all new edition 191 00:15:33,355 --> 00:15:37,955 Speaker 1: of Countdown. This thing yesterday where the worst person segment 192 00:15:37,995 --> 00:15:41,875 Speaker 1: flowed seamlessly into things I promised not to tell, starring 193 00:15:41,915 --> 00:15:45,755 Speaker 1: the same people I liked that. So now I'm gonna 194 00:15:45,755 --> 00:15:47,875 Speaker 1: try it again. I'm gonna go from Jesse Waters, the 195 00:15:47,915 --> 00:15:51,875 Speaker 1: new chief moron at Fox doing something moronic, even dumber 196 00:15:51,915 --> 00:15:58,635 Speaker 1: than Hannity, to his old boss and mentor, Bill O'Reilly Billow, 197 00:15:58,915 --> 00:16:03,595 Speaker 1: the big giant head. Tales of Waters and O'Reilly and 198 00:16:03,715 --> 00:16:07,755 Speaker 1: tails and women and stalking. Next in things I promised 199 00:16:07,755 --> 00:16:10,795 Speaker 1: not to tell, and there will be out of mothballs, 200 00:16:11,595 --> 00:16:15,675 Speaker 1: the bidd O'Reilly impression first, still more new idiots to 201 00:16:15,715 --> 00:16:17,875 Speaker 1: talk about. The daily roundup of the miscrants, morons and 202 00:16:17,955 --> 00:16:22,195 Speaker 1: Dunning Kruger effects specimens who constitute two days worst persons 203 00:16:22,195 --> 00:16:27,795 Speaker 1: in the world, the bronze worse. The New York Mets 204 00:16:28,675 --> 00:16:34,155 Speaker 1: baseball's most elaborate merchandized marketing scheme, the City Connect Uniforms, 205 00:16:34,675 --> 00:16:38,475 Speaker 1: has been kind of up and down. While down with 206 00:16:38,555 --> 00:16:42,755 Speaker 1: occasional ups, maybe one or two ups, okay, a rumor 207 00:16:43,195 --> 00:16:47,835 Speaker 1: of one up. The premise is to create new uniforms 208 00:16:47,835 --> 00:16:52,075 Speaker 1: and hats and coats and hoodies that bear no resemblance 209 00:16:52,115 --> 00:16:55,835 Speaker 1: to the team's traditional colors or logos, but have some 210 00:16:55,995 --> 00:16:58,995 Speaker 1: vague connection to its city or region or whatever else, 211 00:16:58,995 --> 00:17:03,355 Speaker 1: can be sold at a huge markup. The San Francisco 212 00:17:03,435 --> 00:17:07,515 Speaker 1: Giants have an orange fog on their City Connect uniforms 213 00:17:07,555 --> 00:17:10,515 Speaker 1: of Boston Red Sox black and red since the nineteen 214 00:17:10,595 --> 00:17:13,755 Speaker 1: thirties are dressed in the light blue and yellow of 215 00:17:13,795 --> 00:17:17,795 Speaker 1: the Boston Marathon and also, unfortunately, the light blue and 216 00:17:17,875 --> 00:17:22,115 Speaker 1: yellow of the old Boston Yellow Page's phone book. The 217 00:17:22,155 --> 00:17:25,435 Speaker 1: whole thing was complicated by this year's baseball uniform crisis, 218 00:17:25,675 --> 00:17:28,715 Speaker 1: in which the industry and the fanatics and Nike companies 219 00:17:28,955 --> 00:17:33,995 Speaker 1: decided to redesign all the uniforms to fit worse, look worse, 220 00:17:34,515 --> 00:17:38,715 Speaker 1: tear more, easily, retain more sweat, have smaller and more 221 00:17:38,755 --> 00:17:44,075 Speaker 1: amateurish numbers and letters, and be delivered late. Several teams 222 00:17:44,115 --> 00:17:47,555 Speaker 1: still don't have their City Connect uniforms, which may be 223 00:17:47,555 --> 00:17:50,795 Speaker 1: a blessing in disguise anyway. Finally, we come to the Mets. 224 00:17:51,355 --> 00:17:56,475 Speaker 1: Their City connects came in on time and are innovative 225 00:17:56,875 --> 00:18:00,955 Speaker 1: and went over well. Kind of thick black pin stripe 226 00:18:00,955 --> 00:18:04,675 Speaker 1: on a metallic gray with all kinds of purple acts 227 00:18:04,715 --> 00:18:08,035 Speaker 1: vents to represent the colors of the seven Line subway 228 00:18:08,075 --> 00:18:11,435 Speaker 1: that goes to their stadium, And unexpectedly there was a 229 00:18:11,555 --> 00:18:16,035 Speaker 1: huge response to the Mets' batting helmets. They're a matt 230 00:18:16,275 --> 00:18:19,395 Speaker 1: gray with a raised Mets logo in the middle, and, 231 00:18:19,595 --> 00:18:25,195 Speaker 1: in an unprecedented innovation, an embossed raised representation of the 232 00:18:25,235 --> 00:18:28,875 Speaker 1: fifty ninth Street Bridge, or if you're from queens the 233 00:18:28,955 --> 00:18:31,835 Speaker 1: Queensboro Bridge, or if you're from the nineteen eighties, the 234 00:18:31,995 --> 00:18:37,355 Speaker 1: Edcoch Bridge. This miniature bridge goes from one side of 235 00:18:37,395 --> 00:18:39,995 Speaker 1: the helmet to the other. It's as wide as the 236 00:18:39,995 --> 00:18:41,795 Speaker 1: brim of the helmet, looks like you could drive a 237 00:18:41,795 --> 00:18:45,115 Speaker 1: little toy car across it. There's the tall Manhattan Tower 238 00:18:45,115 --> 00:18:47,435 Speaker 1: of the bridge on the left and the tall Queen's 239 00:18:47,515 --> 00:18:50,915 Speaker 1: Tower of the bridge on the right. The Mets wore 240 00:18:50,995 --> 00:18:53,555 Speaker 1: the City Connect uniforms and the helmets for the second 241 00:18:53,595 --> 00:18:57,035 Speaker 1: time the other night. Somewhere along the way of that 242 00:18:57,235 --> 00:18:59,795 Speaker 1: second game, it became apparent to a bunch of us 243 00:19:00,315 --> 00:19:04,275 Speaker 1: that as dramatic and innovative as that raised model of 244 00:19:04,275 --> 00:19:08,355 Speaker 1: the bridge on the helmet was the stadium lights reflecting 245 00:19:08,395 --> 00:19:11,755 Speaker 1: off the glittering surface of the little bridge. The shadows 246 00:19:11,795 --> 00:19:16,075 Speaker 1: it casts the suspended deck sweeping from one tower on 247 00:19:16,115 --> 00:19:17,835 Speaker 1: the left side of the helmet to the other tower 248 00:19:17,875 --> 00:19:20,115 Speaker 1: on the right side of the helmet. It also looked 249 00:19:20,355 --> 00:19:26,595 Speaker 1: kind of like something else, a tiara the bridge. Sitting 250 00:19:26,595 --> 00:19:30,115 Speaker 1: there on the Mets players batting helmets kind of looks 251 00:19:30,235 --> 00:19:34,795 Speaker 1: like a tiara. I mean a well done and very 252 00:19:34,955 --> 00:19:42,515 Speaker 1: artistic tiara, but still a tiara. The Mets are wearing tiaras. 253 00:19:43,715 --> 00:19:48,155 Speaker 1: The silver worser Kaylee mcananey, who segued seamlessly from Trump's 254 00:19:48,195 --> 00:19:53,315 Speaker 1: worst press secretary to Fox's worst host. Well, it's a tie, 255 00:19:53,355 --> 00:19:55,395 Speaker 1: but you know what I mean. If you ask Ms 256 00:19:55,515 --> 00:19:59,075 Speaker 1: mcananney to handle math, she's in trouble. If you ask 257 00:19:59,075 --> 00:20:01,915 Speaker 1: her to handle truth, she's in more trouble. If you 258 00:20:01,955 --> 00:20:04,555 Speaker 1: ask her to try both at the same time, she's 259 00:20:04,715 --> 00:20:08,875 Speaker 1: cooked people, she says on the Jesse Waters Show, which 260 00:20:08,955 --> 00:20:12,635 Speaker 1: is I believe titled are you Smarter than the fifth grader? People, 261 00:20:12,835 --> 00:20:15,195 Speaker 1: they think back to three years ago and they remember 262 00:20:15,235 --> 00:20:19,315 Speaker 1: the good old days of President Trump. Three years ago 263 00:20:19,395 --> 00:20:24,355 Speaker 1: would be May first, twenty twenty one, which would have 264 00:20:24,355 --> 00:20:26,715 Speaker 1: been one hundred and two days into the administration of 265 00:20:26,755 --> 00:20:30,435 Speaker 1: President Biden. In fact, it was ten days after the 266 00:20:30,475 --> 00:20:34,275 Speaker 1: confirmation that Biden had fulfilled his promise of getting Americans 267 00:20:34,395 --> 00:20:38,395 Speaker 1: two hundred million doses of the COVID vaccine before his 268 00:20:38,515 --> 00:20:43,235 Speaker 1: one hundredth day in office. But Kaylee has a problem 269 00:20:43,315 --> 00:20:47,515 Speaker 1: doing those complicated math problems of history. Twenty four minus 270 00:20:47,555 --> 00:20:55,315 Speaker 1: three equals twenty twenty one, two hundred and six. Amazingly, though, 271 00:20:55,715 --> 00:20:58,315 Speaker 1: she was not the dumbest person on that Fox program 272 00:20:58,355 --> 00:21:01,915 Speaker 1: that day, because in terms of stupidity and density, the 273 00:21:01,995 --> 00:21:06,195 Speaker 1: host is head and shoulder above the rest of them there. 274 00:21:06,235 --> 00:21:09,475 Speaker 1: And by that I mean he's head and shoulders. He's 275 00:21:09,555 --> 00:21:12,075 Speaker 1: just a stack of hair with some shampoo in it 276 00:21:12,195 --> 00:21:15,995 Speaker 1: that has achieved sentience. He's not just the head and 277 00:21:15,995 --> 00:21:19,435 Speaker 1: shoulders of Fox, though. He's the Paul Mitchell, the propagandists, 278 00:21:19,435 --> 00:21:23,835 Speaker 1: and the L'Oreal of the white supremacists, our winner the worst. 279 00:21:24,395 --> 00:21:29,475 Speaker 1: Jesse Waters. Jesse Waters says the Trump gag order is 280 00:21:29,515 --> 00:21:32,755 Speaker 1: not constitutional. He said, if one of the jurors was 281 00:21:32,795 --> 00:21:36,035 Speaker 1: the locked ness Monster, this would deny Trump the right 282 00:21:36,075 --> 00:21:39,675 Speaker 1: to say the locked ness monster is real, and that's 283 00:21:39,755 --> 00:21:45,755 Speaker 1: not constitutional. The locked ness Monster is real. It's not 284 00:21:46,635 --> 00:21:48,715 Speaker 1: just for the record, let me acknowledge that this is 285 00:21:48,795 --> 00:21:54,235 Speaker 1: the smartest and most creative thing Jesse Waters has ever thought, 286 00:21:54,835 --> 00:21:59,035 Speaker 1: let alone said out loud the rest of his quote. 287 00:21:59,195 --> 00:22:01,755 Speaker 1: He's threatening to throw the Republican nominee for president in 288 00:22:01,835 --> 00:22:05,195 Speaker 1: jail for talking for talking during the election, I am 289 00:22:05,235 --> 00:22:10,155 Speaker 1: not a lawyer unquote. Well, to be honest, you're also 290 00:22:10,195 --> 00:22:12,635 Speaker 1: not a newscaster, and you're not a functioning adult. But 291 00:22:12,835 --> 00:22:16,875 Speaker 1: about this not a lawyer part. Honestly, you're not a lawyer, 292 00:22:16,915 --> 00:22:20,675 Speaker 1: but you still think it's unconstitutional. Doesn't that make you 293 00:22:20,715 --> 00:22:23,955 Speaker 1: fit to be a member of the Supreme Court? Jesse? 294 00:22:24,595 --> 00:22:27,915 Speaker 1: What if the lockness Monster was Trump's running mate? Waters 295 00:22:28,315 --> 00:22:32,595 Speaker 1: very possibly the dumbest man in America? More on him 296 00:22:32,595 --> 00:22:36,795 Speaker 1: in a moment emphasis of the moron and he is 297 00:22:36,835 --> 00:23:12,315 Speaker 1: today's worst part, said dead see the number one story 298 00:23:12,355 --> 00:23:14,795 Speaker 1: on the Countdown and my favorite topic, me and things 299 00:23:14,835 --> 00:23:18,435 Speaker 1: I promised not to tell, although I've already told this 300 00:23:18,555 --> 00:23:23,595 Speaker 1: one years ago. When Bill O'Reilly was still a thing 301 00:23:24,435 --> 00:23:28,435 Speaker 1: rather than an occasional guest on an unwatched show on 302 00:23:28,555 --> 00:23:31,235 Speaker 1: an unknown television network that usually does not get a 303 00:23:31,315 --> 00:23:35,635 Speaker 1: larger audience than does this podcast, Bill O'Reilly used to 304 00:23:35,755 --> 00:23:39,955 Speaker 1: send out one of his junior producers to bluntley stalk people. 305 00:23:40,595 --> 00:23:43,795 Speaker 1: This guy would wait around corners and behind bushes, and 306 00:23:43,875 --> 00:23:48,755 Speaker 1: he just spring out the cameraman already rolling and confront 307 00:23:48,835 --> 00:23:53,355 Speaker 1: the people O'Reilly wanted to scare or humiliate or embarrass 308 00:23:54,355 --> 00:23:57,755 Speaker 1: or all the above. He tried it with the chairman 309 00:23:57,795 --> 00:24:01,155 Speaker 1: of GE and thus of NBC, Jeff Immelt, and famously 310 00:24:02,075 --> 00:24:04,835 Speaker 1: he almost got himself arrested for following the car of 311 00:24:04,955 --> 00:24:09,155 Speaker 1: reporter Amanda Turkele for two hours while she was driving 312 00:24:09,515 --> 00:24:12,915 Speaker 1: at the start of her vacation, and then cameraman rolling 313 00:24:13,155 --> 00:24:16,355 Speaker 1: they sprung out and confronted her about an article she 314 00:24:16,435 --> 00:24:21,235 Speaker 1: had written about Bill O'Reilly. At the next White House 315 00:24:21,275 --> 00:24:25,875 Speaker 1: Correspondent's dinner, another journalist confronted this O'Reilly flack. His name 316 00:24:26,115 --> 00:24:31,555 Speaker 1: was Jesse Waters. The other correspondent, using only a phone, 317 00:24:31,955 --> 00:24:35,475 Speaker 1: demanded that Jesse Waters apologized to the woman he had chased, 318 00:24:35,835 --> 00:24:40,275 Speaker 1: Amanda Turkle. Instead, Waters swatted the phone out of the 319 00:24:40,355 --> 00:24:43,875 Speaker 1: reporter's hand and then went on O'Reilly's show to complain 320 00:24:44,475 --> 00:24:46,275 Speaker 1: that he didn't understand what the problem was. He was 321 00:24:46,315 --> 00:24:49,275 Speaker 1: at the party just to have a good time. As 322 00:24:49,355 --> 00:24:54,835 Speaker 1: that suggests, Jesse Waters has always been a deeply stupid man, 323 00:24:55,715 --> 00:24:58,635 Speaker 1: so stupid that he has no concept of how stupid 324 00:24:58,715 --> 00:25:01,755 Speaker 1: he is. On Countdown we kind of did a piece 325 00:25:01,915 --> 00:25:06,115 Speaker 1: about him. Advice from me on video on your options 326 00:25:06,195 --> 00:25:09,395 Speaker 1: if you too were to be ambushed by an O'Reilly 327 00:25:09,475 --> 00:25:13,395 Speaker 1: stalker chasing you with his car. Can't really rerun it here, 328 00:25:13,635 --> 00:25:17,555 Speaker 1: too many sight gags, but it reminded me that one 329 00:25:17,635 --> 00:25:21,595 Speaker 1: of Waters's main jobs was to protect Bill O'Reilly from 330 00:25:21,675 --> 00:25:27,675 Speaker 1: critical articles that mentioned Bill's little problem with women, the 331 00:25:27,755 --> 00:25:30,235 Speaker 1: one he would wind up paying at least fifty million 332 00:25:30,315 --> 00:25:34,275 Speaker 1: dollars to settle with the women involved and losing his 333 00:25:34,355 --> 00:25:37,435 Speaker 1: eight pm slot on Fox as well, the slot now 334 00:25:37,515 --> 00:25:41,195 Speaker 1: occupied by Jesse Waters, who may be stupid, but who's 335 00:25:41,275 --> 00:25:46,595 Speaker 1: no dummy, and who might add who you calling a slot? Anyway, 336 00:25:47,115 --> 00:25:49,635 Speaker 1: This has inspired me to revisit my files and offer 337 00:25:49,715 --> 00:25:51,475 Speaker 1: you something that has not seen the light of day 338 00:25:51,875 --> 00:25:54,795 Speaker 1: since the spring of two thousand and eight, a countdown 339 00:25:54,835 --> 00:26:00,955 Speaker 1: analysis of Jesse's old boss, Bill O'Reilly, virtually word for 340 00:26:01,115 --> 00:26:05,795 Speaker 1: word as it aired, and it sounded something like this. 341 00:26:08,075 --> 00:26:10,995 Speaker 1: After years of talking out of his seat, Bill O'Reilly 342 00:26:11,075 --> 00:26:14,035 Speaker 1: has finally found a subject to pontificate about in which 343 00:26:14,115 --> 00:26:17,875 Speaker 1: his personal knowledge actually reaches to the level of expertise, 344 00:26:18,515 --> 00:26:22,115 Speaker 1: a topic in which he is not just hypocritical scold, 345 00:26:22,515 --> 00:26:29,075 Speaker 1: but rather battle scarred veteran. Bill oh analyzes Elliot Spitzer, 346 00:26:29,915 --> 00:26:33,915 Speaker 1: the New York Governor's resignation only just became official after 347 00:26:33,995 --> 00:26:36,155 Speaker 1: he was caught up in the federal investigation into a 348 00:26:36,235 --> 00:26:40,195 Speaker 1: prostitution ring. Spitzer, as you doubtless know, has been accused 349 00:26:40,235 --> 00:26:44,355 Speaker 1: of financial shenanigans, possibly employing state funds to pay for 350 00:26:44,435 --> 00:26:48,395 Speaker 1: the services of Kristen, the singing prostitute with the Heart 351 00:26:48,435 --> 00:26:51,595 Speaker 1: of Gold or at hundreds of dollars an hour, the 352 00:26:51,755 --> 00:26:55,075 Speaker 1: Something of Gold, And for reasons known only to our 353 00:26:55,195 --> 00:26:59,955 Speaker 1: Fox friend, Billy decided to deconstruct the Spitzer saga in 354 00:27:00,035 --> 00:27:04,355 Speaker 1: the latest edition of his not so widely read newspaper column. Again, 355 00:27:04,435 --> 00:27:07,355 Speaker 1: when it comes to having your pockets drained and your 356 00:27:07,475 --> 00:27:10,395 Speaker 1: name turned into a punchline by your pursuit of a woman, 357 00:27:11,115 --> 00:27:16,355 Speaker 1: O'Reilly knows his material. Why he would write this column 358 00:27:16,635 --> 00:27:22,035 Speaker 1: and remind everybody of all this all over again. Well, 359 00:27:22,235 --> 00:27:25,555 Speaker 1: maybe in trying to explain Spitzer, perhaps Billow wound up 360 00:27:25,635 --> 00:27:29,875 Speaker 1: explaining Billow. We take you back to October thirteenth, two 361 00:27:29,915 --> 00:27:33,475 Speaker 1: thousand and four, also known around the news business as 362 00:27:34,395 --> 00:27:40,355 Speaker 1: Cable Christmas. His former producer at Fox, Andrea Macris, filed 363 00:27:40,475 --> 00:27:43,515 Speaker 1: suit against O'Reilly and Fox on that day in two 364 00:27:43,555 --> 00:27:47,875 Speaker 1: thousand and four for sixty million dollars, claiming he had 365 00:27:47,915 --> 00:27:51,675 Speaker 1: repeatedly harassed her by telling her lurid stories of his 366 00:27:51,755 --> 00:27:55,675 Speaker 1: own sexual history, describing his fantasies, trying to corral her 367 00:27:55,795 --> 00:28:01,195 Speaker 1: into sexual liaisons by phone, in person with others, with loofahs, 368 00:28:01,795 --> 00:28:06,755 Speaker 1: and with a falafel. The case was settled just over 369 00:28:06,875 --> 00:28:10,315 Speaker 1: two weeks later, with Billow shelling out a reported ten 370 00:28:10,555 --> 00:28:17,435 Speaker 1: million dollars. So Billy decided to write about Spitzer. Leave 371 00:28:17,515 --> 00:28:20,275 Speaker 1: us quote from the writings of the Bard of Babology, 372 00:28:20,635 --> 00:28:24,075 Speaker 1: the Frank Burns of news, the fallowful king himself, and 373 00:28:24,195 --> 00:28:27,355 Speaker 1: then translate for you back into what he really meant. 374 00:28:28,315 --> 00:28:32,195 Speaker 1: Let's analyze this Elliot Spitzer situation without emotion, because there 375 00:28:32,275 --> 00:28:38,955 Speaker 1: are lessons to be learned here, expensive lessons, embarrassing lessons, 376 00:28:39,355 --> 00:28:42,435 Speaker 1: lessons which, even if they cost you ten million dollars, 377 00:28:42,875 --> 00:28:47,195 Speaker 1: you might forget and bring the topic up again. Anyway, 378 00:28:47,595 --> 00:28:50,355 Speaker 1: if you watch cable TV news, you will hear the 379 00:28:50,435 --> 00:28:55,155 Speaker 1: brain pack talk about Spitzer's arrogances I'm above it all mentality. 380 00:28:55,235 --> 00:29:01,715 Speaker 1: But if you examine the facts, this shallow analysis doesn't wash. Hey, pal, 381 00:29:02,475 --> 00:29:05,675 Speaker 1: if you're gonna call Greta van Sustrin, Sean Hannity and 382 00:29:05,875 --> 00:29:09,835 Speaker 1: John Gibson, the Braying Pack of cable TV News. I'm 383 00:29:09,875 --> 00:29:13,875 Speaker 1: gonna have to ask you to step outside. Nover know. 384 00:29:14,075 --> 00:29:17,355 Speaker 1: Spitzer had to know that repeated visits with people breaking 385 00:29:17,395 --> 00:29:22,355 Speaker 1: the law prostitutes put him at enormous risk. At any time, 386 00:29:22,475 --> 00:29:24,875 Speaker 1: any one of those ladies might have been arrested and 387 00:29:25,115 --> 00:29:30,075 Speaker 1: facing prosecution. Could have easily offered authorities Spitzer's name in 388 00:29:30,195 --> 00:29:34,995 Speaker 1: return for having all charges dropped. Translation. If you're going 389 00:29:35,075 --> 00:29:39,075 Speaker 1: to associate yourself with prostitutes, strippers, porn stars, or other 390 00:29:39,755 --> 00:29:42,675 Speaker 1: ladies who might be arrested, make sure you do it 391 00:29:43,155 --> 00:29:48,035 Speaker 1: like Billow does. Defendant Bill O'Reilly reads Item forty two 392 00:29:48,155 --> 00:29:52,195 Speaker 1: in the Andrea Macris lawsuit without solicitation or invite regaled 393 00:29:52,275 --> 00:29:55,795 Speaker 1: plaintiff and her friend with stories of a girl at 394 00:29:55,835 --> 00:29:59,155 Speaker 1: a sex show in Thailand who had shown him things 395 00:29:59,195 --> 00:30:02,795 Speaker 1: in a back room that had quote blown his mind 396 00:30:03,235 --> 00:30:07,795 Speaker 1: unquote Yes, if you're going to visit with sex workers, 397 00:30:08,075 --> 00:30:11,235 Speaker 1: make sure you do it like Billo does. In a 398 00:30:11,475 --> 00:30:16,875 Speaker 1: foreign country with weak extradition laws. The ladies also could 399 00:30:16,915 --> 00:30:20,235 Speaker 1: have blackmailed Spitzer, could have sold their stories about him 400 00:30:20,235 --> 00:30:22,995 Speaker 1: to the tabloid media, could have done many things to 401 00:30:23,115 --> 00:30:28,355 Speaker 1: destroy his life. Translation here Bill is saying, trust me, 402 00:30:28,515 --> 00:30:31,875 Speaker 1: I know, and for a change he sure does know. 403 00:30:32,835 --> 00:30:36,235 Speaker 1: And none there's the money. Spitzer well knew that wired 404 00:30:36,355 --> 00:30:41,435 Speaker 1: transfers to offshore facilities are closely monitored because of terrorist surveillance. 405 00:30:42,835 --> 00:30:46,835 Speaker 1: Translation Billo is here in a roundabout way tipping his 406 00:30:47,035 --> 00:30:51,315 Speaker 1: hat to the former governor. Mister Spitzer. Paide reported eighty 407 00:30:51,515 --> 00:30:55,595 Speaker 1: thousand dollars for a variety of activities. Mister O'Reilly paid 408 00:30:55,715 --> 00:30:59,715 Speaker 1: reported ten million dollars to Andrew mackris, and he didn't 409 00:30:59,755 --> 00:31:03,275 Speaker 1: even get her into the sack. Spitzer also knew that 410 00:31:03,595 --> 00:31:07,035 Speaker 1: talking on the telephone the pimps people setting up liaisons 411 00:31:07,075 --> 00:31:12,955 Speaker 1: with prostitutes left him open to being tapped. There are 412 00:31:13,555 --> 00:31:19,235 Speaker 1: many psychoanalytic geniuses insist no coincidences in speech or in writing. 413 00:31:19,395 --> 00:31:24,875 Speaker 1: The word tapped is used, it's very close to taped 414 00:31:25,795 --> 00:31:28,915 Speaker 1: and just as close to the phrase tapped out. And 415 00:31:29,075 --> 00:31:32,235 Speaker 1: by the way, the word tapped also has another meaning, 416 00:31:32,315 --> 00:31:36,275 Speaker 1: doesn't it. Item thirty six in the Macris suit defended 417 00:31:36,355 --> 00:31:39,315 Speaker 1: Bill O'Reilly proceeded to inform defendant Andrea Macris that he 418 00:31:39,395 --> 00:31:41,875 Speaker 1: advised another woman to purchase a vibrator and had taught 419 00:31:41,915 --> 00:31:44,875 Speaker 1: that woman how to masturbate while telling her sexual stories 420 00:31:44,915 --> 00:31:48,235 Speaker 1: over the telephone. So you're telling me that Elliott Spitzer 421 00:31:48,275 --> 00:31:52,395 Speaker 1: thought he wouldn't get caught. Sure, and I'm Paris Hilton. 422 00:31:54,195 --> 00:31:57,955 Speaker 1: Now we have that image. No, what's in play. Here's 423 00:31:57,995 --> 00:32:01,435 Speaker 1: what I call the Belushi syndrome. That's when a famous 424 00:32:01,475 --> 00:32:04,635 Speaker 1: person who has money and success subconsciously tries to destroy 425 00:32:04,715 --> 00:32:08,875 Speaker 1: roy himself. You're seeing all the time movie stars, athletes, 426 00:32:09,155 --> 00:32:14,955 Speaker 1: then politicians doing incredibly stupid stuff, the blushy syndrome. You say, 427 00:32:15,595 --> 00:32:22,355 Speaker 1: this is not some dime stores psychoanalysis, unless by dime 428 00:32:22,555 --> 00:32:26,595 Speaker 1: you mean ten million. There are many people walking around 429 00:32:26,595 --> 00:32:29,475 Speaker 1: who are deeply self destructive and who will hurt themselves 430 00:32:29,515 --> 00:32:32,475 Speaker 1: and others around them. That's a fact. A self destructive, 431 00:32:32,555 --> 00:32:36,035 Speaker 1: self loathing personality. We'll find a way to blow everything up. 432 00:32:36,115 --> 00:32:39,395 Speaker 1: And it doesn't matter what kind of career the person has, 433 00:32:42,275 --> 00:32:48,075 Speaker 1: either kind of career, Bill broadcast or cable television. We 434 00:32:48,195 --> 00:32:53,915 Speaker 1: all no people like this stay away from them. And 435 00:32:54,155 --> 00:32:57,035 Speaker 1: as we digest your analysis of what makes Bill o, 436 00:32:57,315 --> 00:33:01,155 Speaker 1: I'm sorry, what makes Spitzer tick? We'd be happy to 437 00:33:01,195 --> 00:33:04,595 Speaker 1: stay away from people like this. Bill O'Reilly, you only 438 00:33:05,315 --> 00:33:23,835 Speaker 1: you would stay away from us. You can't buy memories 439 00:33:23,995 --> 00:33:30,155 Speaker 1: like those. Huh. Only I had other bill O'Reilly scripts 440 00:33:30,155 --> 00:33:33,075 Speaker 1: still in my computer. Oh look, there's only thirty eight 441 00:33:33,115 --> 00:33:35,595 Speaker 1: of them. I've done all the damage I can do 442 00:33:35,715 --> 00:33:39,795 Speaker 1: here for now, Thank you for listening. Countdown. 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My 452 00:34:10,515 --> 00:34:13,355 Speaker 1: announcer today was my friend Larry David, and everything else 453 00:34:13,475 --> 00:34:17,075 Speaker 1: was pretty much my fault. So that's countdown for this, 454 00:34:17,195 --> 00:34:20,395 Speaker 1: the one hundred and eighty ninth day until the twenty 455 00:34:20,555 --> 00:34:23,955 Speaker 1: twenty four presidential election, and the one thy two hundred 456 00:34:23,955 --> 00:34:28,715 Speaker 1: and twelfth day since Diamond J. Trump's first attempted coup 457 00:34:28,755 --> 00:34:32,555 Speaker 1: against the democratically elected government of the United States. Use 458 00:34:32,635 --> 00:34:35,715 Speaker 1: the justice system, use the mental health system, use the 459 00:34:35,795 --> 00:34:39,555 Speaker 1: not regularly given elector objection option, Use the Donald the 460 00:34:39,635 --> 00:34:43,155 Speaker 1: Walrus no sleepies bit to stop him from doing it 461 00:34:43,275 --> 00:34:48,595 Speaker 1: again while we still can. By the way, did I 462 00:34:48,675 --> 00:34:51,555 Speaker 1: ever tell you whose idea it was? When I returned 463 00:34:51,595 --> 00:34:54,475 Speaker 1: to MSNBC in two thousand and three to do a 464 00:34:54,595 --> 00:34:57,915 Speaker 1: regular feature on what Bill O'Reilly said on Fox that 465 00:34:58,195 --> 00:35:00,715 Speaker 1: wasn't true? Do you know who called me up the 466 00:35:00,835 --> 00:35:03,875 Speaker 1: day my New then show started in two thousand and 467 00:35:03,955 --> 00:35:06,115 Speaker 1: three and said, you've got to do something about him. 468 00:35:06,195 --> 00:35:08,795 Speaker 1: He makes up up every night. You've got to use it. 469 00:35:08,915 --> 00:35:11,115 Speaker 1: You know you can, You must do it. It was 470 00:35:11,115 --> 00:35:17,595 Speaker 1: an NBC News Washington correspondent named Norah O'Donnell, now the 471 00:35:17,755 --> 00:35:22,595 Speaker 1: anchor of the CBS Evening News. It's her idea. The 472 00:35:22,715 --> 00:35:25,555 Speaker 1: next scheduled countdown is tomorrow. Bulletins is the news warrants 473 00:35:25,595 --> 00:35:28,995 Speaker 1: till then. I'm Keith Olderman. Good morning, good afternoon, good night, 474 00:35:29,555 --> 00:35:39,955 Speaker 1: and good luck don again Saya No Sleepies. 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