WEBVTT - BOULDER TERROR ATTACK: TRUMP HAS BLOOD ON HIS HANDS - 6.3.25 0:00:04.795 --> 0:00:25.195 Countdown with Keith Olderman is a production of iHeartRadio. He 0:00:25.275 --> 0:00:30.875 came in through Biden's ridiculous open border policy, Trump writes 0:00:31.115 --> 0:00:35.315 of the man who has purportedly confessed in the Bolder 0:00:35.435 --> 0:00:38.995 flamethrower attack, which has hurt our country so badly he 0:00:39.075 --> 0:00:43.675 must go out under Trump policy. Yeah great, well he didn't. Trump, 0:00:43.995 --> 0:00:49.475 You have blood on your hands for Boulder, Colorado. The 0:00:49.595 --> 0:00:53.115 attack on the weekly march of those remembering the Gaza 0:00:53.155 --> 0:00:57.235 hostages was carried out by a man here illegally, whom 0:00:57.315 --> 0:01:01.675 Trump and his big talking crowd of bullies, losers and 0:01:01.875 --> 0:01:05.195 cowards have had four months to find and removed, and 0:01:05.275 --> 0:01:08.635 have criminally failed to do so because they under phony 0:01:08.715 --> 0:01:12.475 tough guy Tom Homan and dress up Barbie Christinome. We're 0:01:12.515 --> 0:01:16.635 too busy kidnapping mothers and gay hairdressers and kids at 0:01:16.635 --> 0:01:20.435 their high school graduations, and people here legally and immigrants 0:01:20.515 --> 0:01:23.995 dutifully showing up for their hearings the way law abiding 0:01:24.075 --> 0:01:29.035 people law abiding means not like Trump. Law abiding people 0:01:29.115 --> 0:01:34.675 do that. The suspect Mohammad Sabri Solomon was still here 0:01:35.355 --> 0:01:40.515 is the fault of Donald Trump, because the entire Maga 0:01:40.715 --> 0:01:45.875 immigration stunt is a show put on for the racists 0:01:45.995 --> 0:01:49.875 and the xenophobes. It goes after only the soft targets. 0:01:50.115 --> 0:01:54.435 It uses only brutality and force when neither is necessary. 0:01:54.675 --> 0:01:57.395 It is there to terrify one part of this country 0:01:57.595 --> 0:02:01.955 and satiate the sadism of the other part of this country. 0:02:02.515 --> 0:02:06.155 It is the opposite of securing the borders. It is 0:02:06.195 --> 0:02:11.195 a prelude to something called remigration, a term I will 0:02:11.195 --> 0:02:14.915 get to in a moment. And remigration is itself the 0:02:14.995 --> 0:02:22.075 prelude to ethnic cleansing. And the guy here illegally actually 0:02:22.115 --> 0:02:27.235 doing something terroristic does not fit in to the scheme 0:02:27.755 --> 0:02:34.355 of Trump and his henchman, Stephen Miller, the champion of remigration, 0:02:34.715 --> 0:02:40.395 the demented, warped, soulless bastard behind it, Stephen Miller, who 0:02:40.435 --> 0:02:43.795 couldn't wait to turn the Sunday attack into a sword 0:02:44.075 --> 0:02:47.995 with which to again try to butcher this nation's humanity. 0:02:48.115 --> 0:02:51.915 And I mean he couldn't wait, literally, he couldn't wait. 0:02:52.115 --> 0:02:55.795 If he had waited, more people would have realized Miller 0:02:56.035 --> 0:02:59.595 and his gestapo are not the solution to this problem. 0:02:59.875 --> 0:03:05.515 They are its cause. Miller writes, a error attack was 0:03:05.555 --> 0:03:09.675 committed in Boulder, Colorado, by an illegal alien. He was 0:03:09.755 --> 0:03:13.115 granted a tourist visa by the Biden administration, and then 0:03:13.155 --> 0:03:17.515 he illegally overstayed that visa. In response, the Biden administration 0:03:17.875 --> 0:03:22.635 gave him a work permit. Suicidal migration must be fully reversed. 0:03:24.395 --> 0:03:30.675 That's remigration. Incidentally, everything else in there is factually inaccurate. 0:03:31.235 --> 0:03:35.595 Visa was overstayed in twenty thirteen, meaning Trump and Miller 0:03:35.875 --> 0:03:38.395 have not just had the last four months to find 0:03:38.715 --> 0:03:42.115 and remove this creature, but they had the entirety of 0:03:42.115 --> 0:03:45.995 twenty seventeen through the beginning of twenty twenty one to 0:03:46.035 --> 0:03:49.275 do so. They did not act against this man because 0:03:49.275 --> 0:03:52.675 he doesn't fit the profile. He was not a sitting duck. 0:03:53.395 --> 0:03:56.715 He was a real danger. And Miller and Nome and 0:03:56.795 --> 0:04:00.275 Homan and the ice dickwads who are too terrified to 0:04:00.275 --> 0:04:04.035 show their faces in public, let alone pursue a real danger, 0:04:04.355 --> 0:04:08.115 don't want to take any chances with anybody who might 0:04:08.275 --> 0:04:15.435 cause a problem. Miller, blood on your hands, scumbag. There 0:04:15.515 --> 0:04:19.115 are people in this country who should not be There 0:04:19.195 --> 0:04:23.075 are people who should be deported or repatriated or detained. 0:04:23.675 --> 0:04:28.075 Every administration has acknowledged this. Every administration has done this. 0:04:28.395 --> 0:04:32.035 The Obama administration did this at a rate higher than 0:04:32.035 --> 0:04:36.555 the Trump one has, largely because they looked for threats, 0:04:36.555 --> 0:04:41.315 not scapegoats, because they were fairly good at finding them. 0:04:41.475 --> 0:04:47.875 The Boulder, Colorado flamethrower terror attack was hard work to 0:04:48.035 --> 0:04:50.915 find who did it. It would have been harder work 0:04:51.155 --> 0:04:54.435 to find who was going to do it. That they 0:04:54.475 --> 0:05:01.235 didn't try is Donald Trump's fault. And what is to 0:05:01.315 --> 0:05:04.675 come after this is even worse and even more per 0:05:04.795 --> 0:05:07.915 formative and even more confirmational of the fact that Trump 0:05:08.115 --> 0:05:12.395 and Miller and Marco Rubio are not looking for criminals 0:05:12.435 --> 0:05:15.515 to remove. They are looking for innocent people and those 0:05:15.555 --> 0:05:20.795 guilty of misdemeanors or things less than misdemeanors to purge, 0:05:21.555 --> 0:05:28.275 to remove, to cleanse. Got little notice last week, but Rubio, 0:05:28.435 --> 0:05:32.115 rapidly rising to the top of the hypocrisy charts to 0:05:32.235 --> 0:05:36.595 replace even Lindsey Graham for largest percentage of soul sold, 0:05:37.475 --> 0:05:41.195 announced a reorganization of the State Department that would in essence, 0:05:41.235 --> 0:05:45.315 eliminate all efforts inside that department to provide a haven 0:05:45.435 --> 0:05:48.915 here for foreign nationals who have helped this country, like 0:05:48.955 --> 0:05:52.435 the thousands of people in Afghanistan who fought the Taliban 0:05:52.515 --> 0:05:56.995 with us. Before Trump surrendered to the Taliban, it would 0:05:57.035 --> 0:06:00.955 eliminate that department and replace it with quote the Office 0:06:01.275 --> 0:06:09.395 of Remigration. Go look up that word remigration on social media. 0:06:10.195 --> 0:06:13.955 Nearly everything you will find on Twitter x will be 0:06:15.195 --> 0:06:20.115 in German. Sometimes it will have been translated from German 0:06:20.435 --> 0:06:25.515 by some pasty white Englishmen with bad teeth associated with 0:06:25.675 --> 0:06:30.915 Nigel Farage. It is the nice way to say ethnic cleansing. 0:06:31.155 --> 0:06:34.435 It is the word of the decade among the far right, 0:06:34.515 --> 0:06:38.395 Neo Nazis and the Nordic Arians. It is what they 0:06:38.435 --> 0:06:43.075 say is their answer to their great paranoid, lunatic fear, 0:06:43.995 --> 0:06:48.515 the great replacement, the theory that white people are to 0:06:48.635 --> 0:06:56.155 be removed and succeeded by everybody else, by everybody who 0:06:56.235 --> 0:07:02.355 isn't white at the moment. Remigration. It is what Nazis 0:07:02.435 --> 0:07:07.795 do in the twenty first century. Marco Rubio wants to 0:07:07.915 --> 0:07:11.755 introduce it into our country, and he is trying to 0:07:11.875 --> 0:07:17.515 do so. Now, let's just pass on the irony that 0:07:17.635 --> 0:07:21.635 most of the European Arians would look at Marco Rubio 0:07:21.715 --> 0:07:25.435 and say he needs to be remigrated. They haven't told 0:07:25.475 --> 0:07:31.115 Marco that part yet. The whole twisted inside out perverted 0:07:31.515 --> 0:07:36.915 anti American, anti democracy, anti humanity approach of Rubio and 0:07:36.955 --> 0:07:40.955 Miller and Holman and Gnome and Ice and Trump was 0:07:41.035 --> 0:07:44.315 summarized in an exchange printed last week by the news 0:07:44.315 --> 0:07:48.915 site Axios, in which an anonymous current Rubio flunky at 0:07:48.995 --> 0:07:53.315 State claimed that we've had remigration before in this country 0:07:54.195 --> 0:07:59.915 because a bureau doing exactly the opposite thing had the 0:07:59.955 --> 0:08:05.195 same name, quote the way that it worked before. Population 0:08:05.395 --> 0:08:10.355 refugee migration was basically an entire bureau dedicated to bringing 0:08:10.395 --> 0:08:14.235 people into the United States, said the State Department official, 0:08:14.235 --> 0:08:18.275 who spoke on condition of anonymity. It had the migration function, 0:08:18.555 --> 0:08:22.475 it's in the name. We're just reversing the flow of 0:08:22.635 --> 0:08:26.155 migrants who shouldn't be here to go out of the country. 0:08:28.035 --> 0:08:32.715 Consider that for a moment, remigration is fine according to 0:08:32.795 --> 0:08:38.155 Marco Rubio's stooges, because we used to call saving people 0:08:38.195 --> 0:08:42.355 from bad countries and bringing them here is the same 0:08:42.595 --> 0:08:45.995 to the Trump criminal gang as taking people from this 0:08:46.155 --> 0:08:52.395 country and sending them into danger into bad countries. This 0:08:52.715 --> 0:08:57.275 is exactly the same as saying a blood transfusion is 0:08:57.355 --> 0:09:02.875 identical to letting somebody bleed to death because blood keeps 0:09:02.955 --> 0:09:06.355 moving through a little hole in you. In both cases, 0:09:06.515 --> 0:09:12.555 we're just quibbling over which direction it's flowing. It would 0:09:12.595 --> 0:09:16.875 be patently monstrous if it were not first so patently stupid. 0:09:17.475 --> 0:09:21.035 But that is the entire existence of Donald Trump in 0:09:21.115 --> 0:09:26.955 one sentence, isn't it? And this isn't new. They sneaked 0:09:26.995 --> 0:09:30.075 it through amid the other ten tons of shit that 0:09:30.155 --> 0:09:33.835 comes out of Trump's mouth every day. In September of 0:09:33.915 --> 0:09:37.275 last year, in the middle of the usual racist hate 0:09:37.595 --> 0:09:42.035 dressed up as border issues, as Trump escalated it towards 0:09:42.035 --> 0:09:45.315 his neo Nazi rally at Madison Square Garden just before 0:09:45.355 --> 0:09:49.435 the election, Trump wrote of his vow to quote return 0:09:49.635 --> 0:09:55.235 Kamala's illegal migrants to their home countries parentheses, also known 0:09:55.995 --> 0:10:02.675 as remigration. Remigration is farther right than even those Trump 0:10:02.715 --> 0:10:07.235 cultists cheering on the day disappearing of the innocence Advocate, 0:10:07.995 --> 0:10:12.515 and Trump is at its forefront, and Trump is bringing 0:10:12.555 --> 0:10:19.115 it here with his little horror Marco Rubio at the helm. 0:10:19.515 --> 0:10:22.715 And the key thing to remember is, like all good 0:10:22.875 --> 0:10:26.835 ethnic cleansing, it is not about finding people who are 0:10:26.955 --> 0:10:30.595 actual threats, like the man who admitted to creating his 0:10:30.715 --> 0:10:35.075 own flamethrowers, and trying to burn Jews to death in Colorado. 0:10:36.275 --> 0:10:39.715 Those people are too much trouble for the ethnic cleansers. 0:10:39.995 --> 0:10:45.195 Ethnic cleansing remigration is about convincing all the white people 0:10:45.675 --> 0:10:49.115 that you don't actually have to search for threats, or 0:10:49.275 --> 0:10:53.875 investigate for threats, or prepare for threats, or separate those 0:10:53.915 --> 0:10:56.235 people who are threats from those people who are not. 0:10:56.955 --> 0:11:00.115 You just round up all the people who you think 0:11:00.275 --> 0:11:07.515 look like threats. That is remigration, that is ethnic cleansing. 0:11:08.075 --> 0:11:13.475 That is Donald Trump's presidency. And that because you no 0:11:13.555 --> 0:11:16.475 longer bothered to look for people who are guilty or 0:11:16.515 --> 0:11:19.795 who might be planning heinous acts. You just look for 0:11:19.875 --> 0:11:25.035 their skin tone and their names. That is why the 0:11:25.115 --> 0:11:30.835 blood of Boulder, Colorado is on the hands of Donald Trump. 0:12:01.795 --> 0:12:04.915 I said this would be a headline based format for 0:12:04.955 --> 0:12:08.715 this special experimental Tuesday edition of the Countdown podcast. So 0:12:09.475 --> 0:12:12.515 here are some headlines. Good news, big surprise in big 0:12:12.635 --> 0:12:16.715 law at big at least the big vshy law. Wall 0:12:16.755 --> 0:12:21.075 Street Journal reports that Oracle, Morgan, Stanley, McDonald's, and at 0:12:21.195 --> 0:12:26.275 least eight other gigantic American corporations have moved at least 0:12:26.435 --> 0:12:32.035 some of their legal representation away from the cowardly collaborators, 0:12:32.035 --> 0:12:34.635 the ones who folded to Trump and agreed to do 0:12:34.755 --> 0:12:37.755 his bidding for him, if only he would spare them, 0:12:38.235 --> 0:12:43.835 collaborators like Paul Weiss and Scadden Arps now known as 0:12:44.075 --> 0:12:51.515 Scadden Arps scumbag. McDonald's dropped its Paul Weiss litigator on 0:12:51.595 --> 0:12:55.515 the eve of trial. Its litigator was Loretta Lynch, the 0:12:55.555 --> 0:12:59.915 Obama Attorney General, who has not yet had the intestinal 0:12:59.955 --> 0:13:04.915 fortitude to resign from Paul Weiss. Finally, somebody showing some 0:13:05.035 --> 0:13:14.675 guts McDonald's, Morgan Stanley Oracle please note Columbia University. It's 0:13:14.675 --> 0:13:16.755 not just the big money bailing out of those who 0:13:17.035 --> 0:13:20.835 hoared themselves for Trump. Tesla sales in Europe have crashed 0:13:20.875 --> 0:13:26.555 faster than well than a musk rocket. Down nineteen percent 0:13:26.595 --> 0:13:30.235 in Spain, down thirty percent in Denmark, down thirty six 0:13:30.275 --> 0:13:33.635 percent in Holland, down fifty four percent in Sweden, down 0:13:33.715 --> 0:13:37.595 sixty seven percent in France, down sixty eight percent in Portugal. 0:13:39.275 --> 0:13:43.195 But who will pay for Ewon's drugs? Hasn't anybody thought 0:13:43.195 --> 0:13:49.715 about Ewon's drugs? What about Elon's drugs? The price of 0:13:49.795 --> 0:13:53.195 depends will go down as a result of this, and 0:13:53.275 --> 0:13:56.675 while most leading Democrats are still trying to throw everything 0:13:56.755 --> 0:13:59.995 into reverse, looking at you, Gavin Newsom, because they think 0:14:00.115 --> 0:14:04.555 all democracy needs is its own Trump, its own Joe Rogan, 0:14:04.835 --> 0:14:09.355 its own Adolf Hitler. Wes Moore may at least be 0:14:09.515 --> 0:14:15.315 driving in the right direction forward more, according to Politico, 0:14:15.475 --> 0:14:19.115 got the real message out of Trump's success. The real 0:14:19.235 --> 0:14:24.195 lesson cut to the chase with the voters. Quoting the 0:14:24.235 --> 0:14:28.875 Maryland governor from last week, urgency is the instrument of change. 0:14:28.915 --> 0:14:32.075 And do you know who understands that really well? Donald Trump? 0:14:33.195 --> 0:14:35.035 Wes Moore went on. I want to be clear. We 0:14:35.115 --> 0:14:38.835 can and we must condemn Donald Trump's reckless actions, but 0:14:38.955 --> 0:14:43.315 we would also be foolish not to learn from his impatience. 0:14:45.315 --> 0:14:50.515 He's right. The point is to promise change as quickly 0:14:50.555 --> 0:14:53.395 as possible, and then do as much of it as 0:14:53.435 --> 0:14:57.835 you can before they try to stop you. What is 0:14:57.875 --> 0:15:02.195 the lesson of twenty twenty five? Have a game plan, 0:15:02.875 --> 0:15:07.955 don't have a party. Have a game plan. Map out 0:15:07.995 --> 0:15:11.315 your first hundred days down to who you are going 0:15:11.355 --> 0:15:14.635 to indict. We saw what happened when Joe Biden thought 0:15:14.675 --> 0:15:17.675 we could just go back to normal, not understanding that 0:15:17.795 --> 0:15:21.675 normal had been destroyed by Trump. We saw what happened 0:15:21.915 --> 0:15:25.475 when he appointed Merrick Garland, who's still thinking about it. 0:15:27.275 --> 0:15:30.635 We saw what happened when Biden dithered on putting them 0:15:30.755 --> 0:15:37.235 all in jail forever. They didn't go to jail. Democratic 0:15:37.315 --> 0:15:41.475 candidates preparing for twenty twenty eight must now vow to 0:15:41.715 --> 0:15:49.155 prosecute everybody and override any and all Trump pardons immediately 0:15:49.555 --> 0:15:55.275 by whatever means are necessary. You want change, do you maga? 0:15:56.035 --> 0:16:03.115 You want remigration? How about packing up Tom Holman, Christy Nome, 0:16:03.395 --> 0:16:07.675 Marco Rubio and Trump at twelve oh one pm January twentieth, 0:16:07.955 --> 0:16:11.395 twenty twenty nine, and putting them on a cargo flight 0:16:11.475 --> 0:16:20.435 to El Salvador before anybody can stop you. Also of 0:16:20.475 --> 0:16:22.995 interest here on this special edition, I have been challenged 0:16:23.035 --> 0:16:27.035 by professional complainer and America's favorite eighty fifth place swimmer 0:16:27.155 --> 0:16:32.155 Riley Gains to a swimming race of some kind to 0:16:32.435 --> 0:16:39.155 prove she is right about everything she whinds about, which 0:16:39.195 --> 0:16:45.435 is everything. Here is my advice, as a veteran of 0:16:45.475 --> 0:16:54.315 fifty years in sports broadcasting. Bet on her, because I'm 0:16:54.835 --> 0:17:00.795 sixty six and Riley Gains is what fifty fifty five 0:17:01.355 --> 0:17:07.995 something like that. That's next This is Countdown. This is 0:17:08.075 --> 0:17:23.675 Countdown with Keith Oberman, my crazy friend host scripts to 0:17:23.835 --> 0:17:29.675 the news, some headlines, some updates, some snark, and sometimes, 0:17:29.795 --> 0:17:32.915 like in this edition, some stories that are actually just 0:17:33.035 --> 0:17:41.555 about me, some of them like perhaps all This is 0:17:41.595 --> 0:17:45.195 the Countdown podcast and these are the places where there's news. 0:17:46.595 --> 0:17:52.915 Dateline Brazil. So you heard about that Glenn Greenwald video. Yeah, 0:17:52.915 --> 0:17:55.275 that's all I'm going to say about it, except it 0:17:55.355 --> 0:18:00.435 was hardly the worst Glenn Greenwald video of recent date. 0:18:01.275 --> 0:18:03.755 Just over the last week, in fact, just over the 0:18:03.795 --> 0:18:08.355 past weekend. Yesterday, Glenn Greenwald also did a videotaped interview 0:18:08.395 --> 0:18:14.035 with Tucker Carlson which had far more foot worship and sucking, 0:18:15.475 --> 0:18:19.795 not necessarily of feat. He claimed Biden had been sick 0:18:19.875 --> 0:18:22.595 for a five years, ten years, five hundred years, I 0:18:22.635 --> 0:18:26.435 don't know. And let me tell you a story about 0:18:26.475 --> 0:18:30.875 who Glenn Greenwald is. This is from twenty ten, when 0:18:30.955 --> 0:18:35.035 Glenn Greenwald was with Salon and he was not totally 0:18:35.155 --> 0:18:38.995 nuts yet. Joan Walsh was the editor in chief and 0:18:39.075 --> 0:18:42.955 an occasional guest on Countdown, and I mentioned to Joan 0:18:43.035 --> 0:18:48.755 that Joe Scarborough had gotten our contributor to the Countdown 0:18:48.795 --> 0:18:57.315 program on MSNBC coas Marcos Mulitsis, the hosts of the 0:18:57.355 --> 0:19:02.035 proprietor of the Daily Coast website. He'd gotten Marco's band 0:19:02.395 --> 0:19:05.635 because Marcos had made a vague reference on Twitter to 0:19:05.715 --> 0:19:08.835 the death of the assistant, the woman assistant in Joe 0:19:08.875 --> 0:19:12.835 Scarborough's congressional office. There was a valid point in making 0:19:12.875 --> 0:19:17.315 this reference because Joe had insisted that the Democrats would 0:19:17.395 --> 0:19:20.715 never investigate something bad that had happened to somebody, and 0:19:20.755 --> 0:19:23.555 Marcos was pointing out, Oh, an investigation like what happened 0:19:23.595 --> 0:19:27.315 to your assistant in your office when she died? Well, 0:19:27.395 --> 0:19:31.315 Scarborough accused Marcos of accusing him of murder, went to 0:19:31.395 --> 0:19:33.955 our bosses, and because he and one of my bosses 0:19:34.035 --> 0:19:36.915 used to like to go drinking together, he got him 0:19:36.995 --> 0:19:41.675 to ban Marcos Militsus from my show. So somebody else 0:19:42.275 --> 0:19:45.715 getting one of my regulars banned from my show, which 0:19:45.755 --> 0:19:48.235 made the company one hundred million dollars a year, some 0:19:48.315 --> 0:19:52.555 of which was spent on backstopping the money losing Jaw 0:19:52.715 --> 0:19:55.995 Scarborough program, which has now proved to be what it 0:19:56.075 --> 0:20:00.555 always was at heart, a conservative blowing with the wind. 0:20:01.115 --> 0:20:04.315 He's back to blowing with the Trump wind and you 0:20:04.355 --> 0:20:06.955 can make the next stage of that joke for yourself 0:20:07.315 --> 0:20:09.675 in any event. I mentioned this to Joan Walsh in 0:20:09.755 --> 0:20:12.795 a conversation before or after she was on the show 0:20:12.835 --> 0:20:15.355 one night, and she said, you know, Glenn Greenwald is 0:20:15.435 --> 0:20:18.595 really upset. He'd heard something about this and would love 0:20:18.635 --> 0:20:20.515 to be able to write something, even if you have 0:20:20.595 --> 0:20:23.835 to do it anonymously with him. And I said, well, 0:20:23.835 --> 0:20:25.435 have him give me a call or shoot me an 0:20:25.435 --> 0:20:28.595 email or whatever. And I can't remember if he emailed 0:20:28.635 --> 0:20:30.595 me or shot me a call or what he did. 0:20:31.355 --> 0:20:33.515 I don't remember which way it was, and I don't 0:20:33.555 --> 0:20:35.835 have the records of this anymore, but I do remember 0:20:35.875 --> 0:20:40.475 the conversation, whether it was written or actually oral au 0:20:40.635 --> 0:20:45.355 are al. Glenn wanted to know if this was true, 0:20:45.435 --> 0:20:49.475 if Scarborough had connived to get Malitsus thrown off MSNBC 0:20:49.675 --> 0:20:52.155 on a permanent basis, and I told him what I 0:20:52.235 --> 0:20:53.995 knew about it, and I said, now it has to 0:20:54.035 --> 0:20:57.435 be completely off the record, because I can't I can't 0:20:57.475 --> 0:20:59.995 talk to you about this. I can't reveal this information. 0:21:00.115 --> 0:21:02.395 They could fire me, and I don't want them to 0:21:02.435 --> 0:21:05.195 fire me because I am preparing to quit the place. 0:21:05.755 --> 0:21:09.195 He said, I agree completely I will always keep your confidence. 0:21:09.355 --> 0:21:11.435 I have never given up a source. I have that 0:21:11.515 --> 0:21:14.475 same journalistic standard that you do. I have great respect 0:21:14.475 --> 0:21:16.635 for your work. Blah blah blah blah blah. And he 0:21:16.715 --> 0:21:21.075 published some kind of story about it, citing an anonymous 0:21:21.435 --> 0:21:25.115 NBC source. He didn't even point me out as the 0:21:25.155 --> 0:21:27.795 person who had talked to him, And apparently he had 0:21:27.875 --> 0:21:31.235 many other sources for this story. Not exactly a secret, 0:21:31.395 --> 0:21:34.435 but obviously I would have been the definitive one. Marcos 0:21:34.515 --> 0:21:36.555 knew about it. Obviously too, he'd got in the phone 0:21:36.555 --> 0:21:40.115 call from the MSNBC executive who did this act on 0:21:40.195 --> 0:21:45.075 behalf of his pet, Joe Scarborough. So something happened in 0:21:45.115 --> 0:21:47.715 the ensuing couple of days. And I don't even remember 0:21:47.715 --> 0:21:50.955 what this was, but I was critical of some detail, 0:21:51.195 --> 0:21:55.675 some minor conclusion in a Glenn Greenwald article and said 0:21:55.715 --> 0:21:59.915 so on countdown, and the next thing I knew, Glenn Greenwald, 0:22:00.035 --> 0:22:03.115 I believe, again, was on the phone telling me that 0:22:03.195 --> 0:22:06.395 if I did not rich tacked to my criticism of him, 0:22:06.955 --> 0:22:09.955 he would announce that I was the source for his 0:22:10.035 --> 0:22:16.555 story about Marcos Malitsus being banned in effect by Joe Scarborough. Theoretically, 0:22:16.555 --> 0:22:20.795 at least jeopardizing my employment at NBC and theoretically setting 0:22:20.795 --> 0:22:23.475 me up to be fired for cause for speaking to 0:22:23.555 --> 0:22:30.315 him without permission. That is who Glenn Greenwald was in 0:22:30.395 --> 0:22:35.355 twenty ten. So if you saw what I saw in 0:22:35.435 --> 0:22:38.635 the six or seven seconds I watched of that other video, 0:22:38.835 --> 0:22:41.955 not the Tucker Carlson one. The Tucker Carlson stuff doesn't 0:22:41.955 --> 0:22:45.235 surprise me in the least. Glenn Greenwald has no standards, 0:22:45.395 --> 0:22:49.115 and certainly no standards that are relied upon to exist 0:22:49.275 --> 0:22:51.995 in the same way six months from now, at alone, 0:22:52.035 --> 0:22:58.235 fifteen years from now, Glenn Greenwald dressed up in like 0:22:58.315 --> 0:23:04.915 a sexy French woman maids costume doesn't surprise you. Know. 0:23:05.515 --> 0:23:07.995 It's like, oh, I knew he must have had one 0:23:08.035 --> 0:23:14.435 of those Glenn Greenwald dateline eighty fifth place in some 0:23:14.675 --> 0:23:18.795 swimming pool somewhere. Riley Gaines is back. I happen to 0:23:18.835 --> 0:23:21.795 think this might be the greatest self own of the 0:23:21.795 --> 0:23:26.235 modern social media era. I pointed out once again. I 0:23:26.275 --> 0:23:29.275 think it was this time after Lynda McMahon, the secretary 0:23:29.315 --> 0:23:32.075 of I Don't Have an Education, claimed that one of 0:23:32.075 --> 0:23:35.315 our great Olympic swimmers, Riley Gaines, had had her career 0:23:35.395 --> 0:23:38.875 ruined and something like her Olympic medals denied because she 0:23:38.955 --> 0:23:42.075 had once had to face or she was beaten by 0:23:42.355 --> 0:23:46.595 a transgendered swimmer. In point of fact, Riley Gaines never 0:23:46.635 --> 0:23:50.235 participated in the Olympics because she was a mediocrity. She 0:23:50.355 --> 0:23:54.115 finished fifth, tied for fifth in the race one by 0:23:54.195 --> 0:23:57.635 Leah Thomas, the former male who was swimming as a 0:23:57.675 --> 0:24:00.875 woman for Penn State. Whenever this was in like the 0:24:00.995 --> 0:24:04.955 last known incident of a major sporting event in solving 0:24:04.995 --> 0:24:08.155 a transgender athlete. Because all the time we spend talking 0:24:08.155 --> 0:24:10.915 about this and the Republicans wringing their hands because of 0:24:10.915 --> 0:24:13.635 their secret fear that one day they'll wake up wanting 0:24:13.675 --> 0:24:16.595 to become transgendered, because that's what this is all about, 0:24:16.835 --> 0:24:19.355 just as their hatred of gaye is all about their 0:24:19.395 --> 0:24:22.995 secret desire to be gay. Look it up. In any event, 0:24:23.555 --> 0:24:29.315 the whole thing behind this is they would rather spend months, years, 0:24:29.755 --> 0:24:34.195 decades debating and of course demonizing the people involved, rather 0:24:34.275 --> 0:24:37.275 than spending the same amount of time looking at each 0:24:37.435 --> 0:24:41.675 case individually of there being a transgendered athlete competing against 0:24:42.435 --> 0:24:45.875 women who were born women and saying, well, what kind 0:24:45.915 --> 0:24:48.115 of balance can we make here? It's like the horse 0:24:48.195 --> 0:24:51.315 races if the jockeys are different weights. In a horse race, 0:24:51.555 --> 0:24:53.675 if all the jockeys are one hundred and thirty five 0:24:53.795 --> 0:24:55.715 except for that one guy who weighs only one hundred 0:24:55.715 --> 0:24:58.075 and thirty two pounds, they give him three pounds of 0:24:58.075 --> 0:25:00.435 weights to put in his shoes so he weighs the 0:25:00.475 --> 0:25:03.275 same as the other jockeys. Otherwise, you'd win the race 0:25:03.315 --> 0:25:06.155 based on how light the jockey was, and someday somebody 0:25:06.195 --> 0:25:08.715 would win a race with a forty seven pound kid 0:25:09.075 --> 0:25:12.155 running the race on behalf of the horse owner. So 0:25:12.355 --> 0:25:14.995 you could just do that by I don't know. In swimming, 0:25:15.715 --> 0:25:18.675 add a second to the athlete who had the longer, 0:25:19.155 --> 0:25:22.555 long bones, who had the male physique or part of 0:25:22.595 --> 0:25:26.435 it before they were transgendered. It's not impossible. My friend 0:25:26.435 --> 0:25:30.155 Renee Richards, who happens to be a transgender athlete who 0:25:30.235 --> 0:25:32.795 won a title at the US Open as a woman 0:25:33.155 --> 0:25:35.915 and did not destroy women's tennis in the process, and 0:25:35.955 --> 0:25:39.035 did not beat Martina Navratilova and was accepted in the 0:25:39.075 --> 0:25:41.915 community and did not destroy things, she has suggested that 0:25:41.955 --> 0:25:44.995 perhaps this is the solution. You play a game in 0:25:44.995 --> 0:25:48.315 tennis or a match in tennis, and the transgender athlete 0:25:48.355 --> 0:25:52.075 starts having lost the first game, so that the other athlete, 0:25:52.075 --> 0:25:56.115 the woman in the race, in the game, in the match, 0:25:56.675 --> 0:25:59.235 is already ahead one nothing, and then you start something. 0:25:59.475 --> 0:26:03.155 You could spend a lot of time examining each case 0:26:04.195 --> 0:26:08.075 and reside of it equitably to everybody's belief. In one 0:26:08.435 --> 0:26:11.075 millions of the time that has been wasted, turning this 0:26:11.235 --> 0:26:15.035 into a debate as if the world is filled with 0:26:15.195 --> 0:26:19.075 male athletes who decided to cut off their penises so 0:26:19.115 --> 0:26:23.595 they could win a fricking tennis match. I've said it 0:26:23.635 --> 0:26:26.035 before and I'll say it again. You will find lots 0:26:26.075 --> 0:26:28.635 of male athletes who will joke that they'd cut off 0:26:28.675 --> 0:26:32.195 a testicle to win. You've never heard one say they'd 0:26:32.195 --> 0:26:34.835 cut off something a little bit more important in the 0:26:34.875 --> 0:26:40.915 same general physiological area. In any event, Riley Gaines believes 0:26:40.915 --> 0:26:44.475 her life was ruined by a transgender swimmer. She would 0:26:44.515 --> 0:26:47.275 have finished I don't know, eighty fourth in the Olympic 0:26:47.355 --> 0:26:50.155 trials rather than eighty fifth. She would be a little 0:26:50.235 --> 0:26:53.955 less mediocre without transgendered athletes. Therefore, she has become a 0:26:53.995 --> 0:26:57.835 campaigner against them. Her latest big thing was complaining about 0:26:57.835 --> 0:27:01.235 the University of Maryland selecting as its speaker for its 0:27:01.275 --> 0:27:06.155 commencement address Kermit the Frog. Then, I don't know just 0:27:06.715 --> 0:27:10.435 to throw out a name, Riley Gaines. I think you 0:27:10.475 --> 0:27:13.395 can make the comparison there and understand that Riley Gaines 0:27:13.475 --> 0:27:15.955 is not considered to be as smart as Kermit the Frog. 0:27:17.035 --> 0:27:20.555 Certainly she doesn't sound as unusual as Kermitt the Frog, 0:27:21.315 --> 0:27:25.635 and she has more broad human intelligence than Kermit the Frog. 0:27:26.235 --> 0:27:27.955 In any event, that was the latest thing. And of 0:27:27.955 --> 0:27:31.235 course Kermit the Frog and the creator of the Uppets, 0:27:31.315 --> 0:27:35.075 Jim Henson, have a long standing connection to the University 0:27:35.115 --> 0:27:38.315 of Maryland. There's a statue of them there. There is 0:27:38.555 --> 0:27:42.715 history there. But I digress the self own I promised you. 0:27:43.635 --> 0:27:46.635 I wrote about Linda McMahon making a big deal and 0:27:46.675 --> 0:27:49.195 pointing out that she finished eighty fifth in the Olympic Trials. 0:27:49.235 --> 0:27:51.755 She finished tied for fifth the only race. If there 0:27:51.755 --> 0:27:54.555 had been no transgendered athlete, she might have finished tied 0:27:54.595 --> 0:27:59.195 for fourth. Riley Gaines responded, I'm literally one of the 0:27:59.275 --> 0:28:05.235 fastest Americans of all time. But okay, l lol. If 0:28:05.275 --> 0:28:07.195 you're one of the fastest Americans of all time, how 0:28:07.195 --> 0:28:11.515 come you finished eighty fifth? I'd challenge Keith Olderman to 0:28:11.555 --> 0:28:13.835 a race where the loser puts up money to the 0:28:13.915 --> 0:28:16.515 charity of the winner's choice, but no one wants to 0:28:16.515 --> 0:28:23.715 see him in a speedo. Yeah, deh, this is a 0:28:23.715 --> 0:28:28.355 brilliant idea, though, Riley Gaines. I accept your challenge to 0:28:28.475 --> 0:28:32.155 a race, a swimming race. A sixty six year old 0:28:32.195 --> 0:28:36.315 man who has not been in a swimming pool to 0:28:36.595 --> 0:28:41.515 swim in the swimming sense of the term since nineteen 0:28:41.595 --> 0:28:45.395 seventy one, who has an arthritic left knee with enough 0:28:45.435 --> 0:28:48.395 empty space in it that he could keep his keys 0:28:48.675 --> 0:28:53.075 in it, who has chronic stress fractures in his right foot. Me, 0:28:53.595 --> 0:29:00.635 sixty six year old guy, somebody you could finally beat 0:29:01.035 --> 0:29:05.555 Dateline Tarrytown, New York yesterday, Hackley School, my alma mater 0:29:06.075 --> 0:29:10.035 fifty years ago, which was the last time I actually 0:29:10.035 --> 0:29:14.395 got into a pool to swim competitively. Dear members of 0:29:14.435 --> 0:29:17.435 the Hackley kum Lauday Society, you are cordially invited to 0:29:17.475 --> 0:29:21.395 the twenty twenty five Kum Loudi Society Induction Ceremony Jude 0:29:21.395 --> 0:29:24.035